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This is known as "Brain Leakage" (Nao Lou). Dry old lablab beans (Lablab purpureus) slowly over low heat, grind into powder, take 3 qian dissolved in wine; it will heal within no more than three doses. Alternatively, take the part of the loofah vine near the root, about 1-2 cun long, grind into powder, and take with wine; or take an old loofah, remove skin and seeds, grind the fibers into powder, and take with wine; or grind lychee shells into powder and insufflate into the nose (there are other prescriptions for diseases of the head and face).

Mix equal parts of melon seed (Cucumis melo var. conomon fruit stalk end) and Asarum (Xi Xin) into powder. Wrap a amount the size of a bean in cotton wool to wash the nasal cavity. After three to four days, when yellow fluid stops dripping, it heals.

The nasal discharge flows day and night up to two or three chi long, gradually becoming thick and round like a rope, unbearable pain, growing back after removal. This is caused by excessive consumption of pig and sheep blood. Take one liang each of raw Frankincense (Ruxiang) and Borax (Pengsha), grind into powder, make pills the size of wutong seeds, take ten pills morning and evening with warm water; they will naturally fall off and stop.

Burn old paper from screens to ash, take 1 qian with wine to stop immediately. Or fold toilet paper more than ten layers, soak thoroughly well water, distribute and apply to the top of the head (Baihui area), iron with a hot iron until slightly warm to heal. Or place green moss on the fontanelle, press the head against the wall to stop immediately.

Dip a strip of paper in true sesame oil and insert into the nose to induce sneezing, or mix the discharged blood with Angelica dahurica (Baizhi) powder and apply to the root of the nose (Shangen) to stop immediately.

Another prescription: Roast the inner skin of raw chestnuts on a yin-yang tile until charred, grind into powder, insufflate into the nose to stop; for chronic cases, this removes the root. If chronic and unresponsive to other medicines, take two sheets of large white paper, fold ten-plus layers, soak in cold water, apply to the center of the top of the head, iron with a hot iron until one or two layers dry out, then stop. Or squeeze breast milk directly from the nipple into the nostril to stop immediately; or tie a thread around the base of the middle finger (tie left hand for left side, right hand for right side).

Take 2 qian of soot from the bottom of the cooking pot mixed with cold water. Or insufflate Powder of Scrophularia (Xuanshen).

Grind dried ginger into powder, mix with honey, and pack into the nose.

This is named "Nasal Ulcer" (Bi Gan). Burn Chinese gallnut (Wubeizi) until carbonized but retaining properties, grind into powder, mix with beeswax and lard, and apply externally.

Burn chive seeds to produce smoke, fumigate the nose to draw out parasites completely, then it heals. Or grind real Realgar (Xionghuang) into powder and fumigate the nose occasionally.

Take four to five jin of raw peanuts, put them in a pot, have the patient stir-fry them with sand by hand; after several times, it stops.

Nasal congestion with fluid discharge, long-term loss of smell: Grind iron lock whiskers on a stone to obtain powder, mix with raw pork fat, and pack into the nose; healing occurs when flesh worms come out.