Old brooms (Chen Sao Zhou) retained for their medicinal properties, ground into powder. Take 3 qian per dose, administered with yellow wine. Alternatively, consume a mixture of broad beans and Chinese chives; the needle will naturally pass out through the stool. Alternatively, consume one jin of sticky rice sugar. Alternatively, peel the outer layer of fresh charcoal, grind it into powder, and consume it in large quantities mixed with porridge (the charcoal dust wraps around the needle, facilitating its passage through the stool). (Refer to Emergency Care and Pediatrics sections.)
First, prick the affected area to induce bleeding, then apply a mixture of fermented soybeans (Douchi) and salt to the site.
Burn white alum (Bai Fan) and croton seed (Ba Dou) to ash, and insufflate the powder into the lesion.
Burn tangled hair (Luan Fa) to ash, mix with boiling water, and take orally (hair from oneself is particularly effective).
Another prescription: Burn an old wooden comb until charred, grind into powder, and take with wine.
Decoct Mirabilite (Puxiao) and drink the soup, or use Clematis root (Weilingxian). Alternatively, decoct mugwort leaves (Aiye) in wine and take, or burn the inner coat of chestnut (Lizhi) to ash and take.
Stir-fried sophora flower (Huaihua), chew and swallow while lying supine at night.
Decoct tangerine peel (Jupi) and drink the water, or crush fresh ginger (Shengjiang) and drink frequently, or drink pear juice frequently, or warm-mix human milk (Ruzhi) with bamboo sap (Zhuli) and take.
Four liang of Guang Chenpi (Aged Tangerine Peel), decoct in water and drink frequently.
Mix radish juice (Luobo Zhi) and ginger juice (Jiang Zhi) and take.
Mie Duo Seng (Litharge) powder, processed by levigation (water flying), mix with tea, take 1 qian per dose.
Heat an old saw until red-hot, soak in one zhong of wine, drink while hot, or scrape rust from an iron knife and take with water.
Swelling of throat and tongue
Take one stalk of green hemp stem (Lv Ma Gan), burn one end thoroughly, and inhale the smoke as if using a pipe; the swelling will subside spontaneously. Alternatively, consume plenty of cooked Chinese chives.
Wrap several stems of rush (Dengcao) around fingernails, hold near fire to smolder until yellow and dry. Grind these two materials finely, add ten bedbugs (Chouchong), pound together into powder, and insufflate onto the affected area several times.
Another prescription: If a blister-like sensation is felt in the throat, immediately rub salt on the palm of the hand. When the salt dries, replace with fresh salt and rub again; effect is seen within moments.
Mix vinegar with Baicao Shuang (soot from cooking pots) and apply to the upper and lower surfaces of the tongue. Reapply if it falls off.
Heat an iron lock until red-hot, scrape off the rust, grind into powder, mix with water, take 1 qian, and hold/swallow. Alternatively, take seven tips of eggplant vines (Qieyang Jian), add salt, pound into paste, and apply externally.
Gargle frequently with sugar-vinegar solution, or prick both sides under the tongue to induce bleeding, which resolves the swelling (Do not prick the center, as bleeding may be uncontrollable; applying soot mixed with vinegar stops the bleeding).
Grind Puhuang (Polygonatum pollen) into powder and sprinkle.
1 qian of borneol (Bingpian), 1.5 qian of cinnabar (Zhusha), grind into powder, mix with pig gallbladder bile (Zhudan) and apply. Alternatively, steep the tongue in a strong decoction of four parts Coptis chinensis (Chuanlian).
Stir-fried sunflower (Kuihua), grind into powder and apply. Alternatively, take one sheng of adzuki beans (Chixiaodou), pound into paste, boil in water, and take one zhan per dose.