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Wash the affected area several times with water decocted from radish.

If the pain is unbearable, this method is also effective: Take one dried papaya (Chaenomeles speciosa) and one tael of alum (Alumen), decoct in water, and fumigate and wash the affected area while hot, several times.

Mix white sugar with wine and take orally.

Wash with decoction of radish leaves, then burn crab shells to ash, grind into fine powder, mix with oil, and apply topically.

Dry narcissus bulb root, grind into powder. If the lesion is moist, sprinkle directly; if dry, mix with sesame oil and apply.

Take one tael of Eucommia bark (Duzhong), decoct with half water and half wine, and take for several doses.

This formula is passed down by the Yi family of Kuaiji: Take 1.5 taels of prepared Calamine (Zhigan Shi), 3 taels each of Lead powder (Qianfen) and Red lead (Guang Dan), and 4.5 qian of Verdigris (Tonglv). Grind all together into an extremely fine powder. Take one sheet of thin oiled paper, fold it into three layers. On both the upper and lower surfaces, spread a mixture of real sesame oil and the powder. Pierce more than a hundred holes with a needle. Apply one plaster on one side for three days. The wound must be cleaned with boiling water brewed from aged tea leaves. Avoid sexual intercourse, and avoid eating stimulating foods such as green onions, leeks, and goose meat. For chronic cases, five or six applications will result in cure.

Take one qian of raw Gypsum Fibrosum (Shigu), one qian of Indigo Naturalis (Qingdai), one qian of Red Halloysite (Chishizhi), and a small amount of Borneol (Bingpian). Grind into fine powder and mix with sesame oil.

Take half a zhong of Chinese chive juice (Jiucai Zhi); taking it will result in immediate cure.

Take one zhong of pear juice, half a zhong each of ginger juice and white honey, and three qian of mint (Bohe, ground into fine powder). Boil the mixture together for more than ten boils and take orally (to resolve phlegm vigorously).

Mix glutinous rice flour with saliva from a cow's mouth to make pills, cook thoroughly, and eat. (Avoid eating mutton.)

Another prescription: Soak radish in honey and decoct, chew finely and swallow.

Another prescription: Cook persimmon cakes with dry rice together, without adding water or any other medicinal substances. Cure within ten days.

Burn Qianchuihua (i.e., wood of the handle of a chisel) to ash, and take with wine. Or take three dried persimmons, mash them including the calyx, and take with wine. Or take 5 qian of sheep feces and one large gu of urine from an uncircumcised boy, decoct until only 6 fen remains, remove dregs, and divide into three doses for oral administration.

Another prescription: Take soil from the bottom of a cooking stove that has been there for many years, and take 3 qian with rice water. Or burn white goose feathers to ash while preserving their nature, and take with rice soup, 1 qian per dose. Or take Dandelion root (Pugongying Gen) (preferably those as large as a fist with human-like shapes embracing them), crush to extract juice, and take with wine.

Another prescription: Take Indigofera tinctoria water (Dianshui) and take orally, or mix white honey with boiled water and take. One tael per dose, several doses will result in cure.

Or take one bowl of Yin-Yang water every morning; long-term use will result in cure.