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Equisetum hiemale (Tuizei, 木贼) [ground into powder] 4 fen, taken orally with boiled water on an empty stomach; for chronic cases, continue taking for ten days to be cured. For severe cases, take 5 fen per dose. Alternatively, mix scallion white (Congbai, 葱白) with honey, spread it on cloth, apply to the affected area, and iron it with a hot iron.

Craving raw rice indicates White Worms: Take 3 qian of white chicken feces and 3 qian of white rice, stir-fry until scorched, grind into powder, decoct in water, and take orally. Cure is achieved when rice juice is vomited out.

Craving meat indicates Red Worms: Drink 2-3 bowls of white horse urine. Cure is achieved when meat is vomited out.

Craving clear oil or feeling worms moving up and down in the throat indicates Black Worms: Take realgar powder, or drink 1-2 bowls of white horse urine; the worms will dissolve.

Biting lice leading to infection indicates Green Worms: Take one old comb and one old hairpick, break each into two halves. Grind one half into powder, boil the other half in water. Mix and take orally; the parasites will be expelled.

Symptoms resembling dysphagia (Yige, 噎隔): Drink vinegar-soaked garlic juice (aged is better), 2-3 bowls, and consume plenty of garlic.

Abdominal pain with hardness resembling turtles or tortoises indicates Yellow Worms: Take 1 qian of Bombyx Batryticatus (Jiangcan, 僵蚕) powder, mix with 1 bowl of white horse urine, take orally, and apply externally to the painful area.

Drink hot wine quickly. Crush scallion whites, stir-fry until hot, and apply to the umbilicus, or wrap in cloth and iron the umbilicus until sweating occurs, which stops the pain.

Crush Phytolaccae Radix (Shanglu, 商陆) root, steam until cooked, wrap in new cloth, and iron the painful area. Replace when cool.

Artemisia argyi (Aiye, 艾叶) and Cyperi Rhizoma (Xiangfu, 香附) in equal parts, decoct in vinegar to make pills, and take orally.

Old loofah with stem, burnt until carbonized, ground into powder, taken with wine. Sudden onset of heart and abdominal pain with locked jaw: Take 5 scallion whites (peeled and mashed into paste), insert into the throat with a spoon, pour down 4 liang of sesame oil; consciousness returns immediately.

Cases of cold extremities, cyanotic lips, retracted testicles, and six pulses nearly imperceptible: Take a bundle of scallions (remove green tops and roots, keep only the white part, 2 cun long). Heat it and place on the umbilicus, iron it with a hot iron. Replace scallions when damaged. After a while, when heat penetrates, extremities become warm and sweating occurs, indicating recovery. If extremities remain cold after ironing, it is incurable.

Refer to the above formulas for treating louse-related conditions.

Drinking white horse urine dissolves them.

Take 20-30 Torreyas seeds (Feishi, 榧实) on an empty stomach before the 15th day of the lunar month. Consuming over one jin will kill all worms (because before the 15th, worm heads face upward). Alternatively, decoct one Myrobalan (Wumei, 乌梅), three slices of old ginger, fourteen Sichuan peppercorns (Huajiao, 花椒), ten Torreyas seeds, and a little brown sugar, then take orally.