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Shi's Daily Tea for Head Wind (Tou Feng)
Rhizoma Aconiti Kusnezoffii (Chuanwu, one piece, raw, skin removed), Asari Radix et Rhizoma (Gao Li Xixin, two qian), Camellia sinensis buds (Cha ya, two qian).
The above are chopped and divided into three doses. Each dose is decocted with two large bowls of water and ten slices of ginger until reduced to seven-tenths. Take continuously after the onset of headache; recovery occurs if phlegm is vomited. Recently, in Liu Xinpu's published *Shi Zheng Fang*, there are Musk Powder (Shexiang San) and Tea Bud Decoction (Chaya Tang), which are roughly similar, differing only in the use of Chuanwu versus Caowu. Since Chuanwu is now difficult to obtain, this formula is recorded here for quick identification.

Musk Powder (Shexiang San)
Indications: Head wind, lateral or frontal headache, brain-wind extending to the eyebrows, severe pain from the neck to the cheek and vertex that is unbearable. It has shown miraculous effects repeatedly.
Rhizoma Aconiti Karakolicum (Caowu, two liang, select large pieces, process until cracked, remove skin and tip, chop to bean size, stir-fry with salt until yellow), Asari Radix et Rhizoma (Gao Li Xixin, two liang, chopped), Grass Tea (Caocha, four liang, slightly ground).
Grind the above three ingredients into a fine powder. Take one da qian per dose, add a small amount of Moschus (Shexiang), and take with clear wax tea liquid.

Tea Bud Decoction (Chaya Tang)
Indications: Lateral or frontal headache, persistent nausea and vomiting.
Raw Rhizoma Aconiti Karakolicum (Caowu, half liang, skin and tip removed), Asari Radix et Rhizoma (Gao Li Xixin, half liang), Camellia sinensis buds (Cha ya, one liang).
Grind into powder. Take four qian per dose, decoct with two bowls of water over slow fire until reduced to six-tenths. Strain and take warm. One dose brings effect.

Small Tuo Li San (Supporting Interior Powder)
Actions: Promotes qi circulation and appetite, drains pus and removes toxicity.
Angelicae Dahuricae Radix (Xiang Baizhi), Dioscoreae Rhizoma (Shanyao), Tribuli Fructus (Bai Jili), Platycodonis Radix (Jiegeng), Trichosanthis Radix (Gualou Gen), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gancao).
Equal parts, stir-fried together and ground into powder. Take two da qian per dose with one northern date and three slices of ginger, decocted in one bowl of water until reduced to six-tenths. Take on an empty stomach.
For patients with carbuncles and sores, Shibu Tuo Li San is often considered the premier medicine. However, in recent years, the price of Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma (Renshen) equals that of silver, and Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Danggui) is several times more expensive, making it inaccessible to non-wealthy families. This convenient formula for the poor originates from Liu Juanzi's *Gui Yi Lun*. My youngest son, at age eight or nine, developed pus in his right leg due to sprain. Without acupuncture or cupping, he took this formula with good effect.

Trichosanthes Wine (Gualou Jiu)
Indications: All carbuncles and sores.
Large Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gancao, half liang, ground into powder, raw), Myrrha (Moyao, two and a half qian, ground), Large Trichosanthis Fructus (Gualou, one ripe yellow fruit, skin removed, chopped with seeds, commonly known as Du Gua).
Decoct the above three items in three sheng of unadulterated wine until reduced to half a bowl. Take warm. Repeated doses are acceptable. If bowel movement is desired, add seven spikes of Gleditsiae Sinensis Spina (Zaojiaoci) to decoct.
This formula is most effective for sudden hard lumps in the armpit causing swelling that prevents arm movement, which may suppurate over time, as well as breast abscesses in women and inguinal abscesses in men. Trichosanthis Fructus best unblocks milk channels; women with lactation obstruction will experience milk flow like a spring after taking it.

Treatment for Swelling Toxicity in the Groin, Named Bian Du (Inguinal Abscess)
Large Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gancao), Sanguisorbae Radix (Diyu), Cortex Lycii (Digupi, also known as Gouqi, using the root, raw, washed clean of mud, especially effective).
Equal parts, chopped and mixed evenly, divided into three doses. Each dose is decocted in one bowl of water until reduced to seven-tenths. First, chew a handful of raw soybeans finely and place them around the sore, leaving the center open. Flatten a large green onion white, matching the length of the sore, and place it on the sore. Immediately cover the soybeans and onion with the hot herbal dregs. Hold firmly to prevent spilling. Simultaneously, take the hot herbal decoction. For the second dose, discard the previous dregs and onion/soybeans, chew new beans, and repeat the application. For the third dose, bind the dregs with cloth and sit or lie down as comfortable. Unformed sores dissipate immediately; formed sores rupture easily; ruptured sores heal quickly. Take three consecutive doses on an empty stomach for miraculous results.

Treatment for Beard Carbuncle (Zi Yong)
Accidental severing of beard roots during plucking causes redness, swelling, and suppuration, which can be fatal in severe cases.
Take fungus growing on mulberry trees (Sang'er), chew thoroughly, and apply to the site. The root emerges overnight, and swelling subsides.

Treatment for Purple Pox (Zidian Feng)
Burn Ulmus macrocarpa bark (Yupishu) until carbonized but retaining properties, grind into fine powder. Apply with fermented eggplant juice once or twice for removal.

Treatment for Scrotal Sloughing (Tuo Nang)
A child once had fever, convulsions, and incessant crying. Examination showed redness and swelling of the external genitalia with sloughing of the scrotal skin. This formula proved miraculous.
Zhuling Earth (Zhulingtu): Red earth from where human corpses were burned, specifically where the waist rested. Grind into fine powder.
Mix with water, apply with a goose feather brush. When dry, healthy flesh regenerates underneath.

Treatment for Throat Closure (Hou Bi) with Pus and Blood Obstruction, Inability to Speak, Life in Danger
Use real duck bill and Chalcanthite (Danfan) ground into fine powder. Wrap a small amount of cotton on the tip of a chopstick, wet it in rice vinegar, dip into the powder, have someone hold the patient's mouth open, and apply the medicated chopstick to the swollen area in the throat. Pus and blood are expelled immediately, and the condition resolves. If the mouth cannot be opened, take a piece of fresh ginger the size of a chestnut, carve a small hole, insert one kernel of Croton seed (Badou), add a small half bowl of sesame oil, and grind the ginger in a clay pot until fully processed. Pour the ginger oil into the throat. If pus and blood are expelled immediately, the effect is even faster. If no toxin has formed yet but eating is difficult, mix Hongye leaf with a little Gancao and honey, pound into a paste, wrap in cotton like a longan nut, tie with a long thread, insert into the throat until wind-phlegm is exhausted.
Real Danfan is rare; use a handful of Mentha haplocalyx (Bohe) and one pod of Gleditsia sinensis (Zaojiao), pound to extract juice, and drip into the affected area to break up the blockage, which is simpler.

Treatment for Scalds and Burns
Strong rice vinegar: Soak old window paper in vinegar, gently apply to the burn. Swelling naturally subsides.

Treatment for Snake Bites
Fern fronds from mountains, burn until carbonized but retaining properties, grind into fine powder. Apply with Qingfen (Calomelas) and sesame oil.

Treatment for All Venomous Snake Bites
Tie the injured limb tightly with hair rope immediately to prevent venom spread. Quickly use Angelicae Dahuricae Radix (Baizhi, half liang), grind into powder. Decoct Ophiopogonis Radix (Mendong) with roots and leaves in thick soup, mix with the powder, and take orally. Rapidly gather a small basket of Badiophyllum leaves, pound thoroughly. Add twenty coins worth of fresh ginger, pound into a paste. Mix with about one bowl of wine, strain to get two bowls of juice. Take one bowl mixed with half a bowl of heated wine. Apply the dregs to the wound and bind with silk. If not improved after one or two hours, repeat the oral dose. Three to four doses cure it; repeated use is effective.

Treatment for Sudden Eye Swelling, Pain, and Bleeding
In spring and summer, this is called "Heaven Silk Poison" (Tiansi Du). Treatment must be careful. I lived south of the river where a child suddenly had swollen eyes with pain and bleeding. Using eye drops from a pharmacy caused blindness. Another person was taught by a farmer: "I have herbs to treat this." He used them, and toxic saliva flowed from the mouth; the next day, recovery was complete.
Leaves of the Lac Tree (Jianqi Shuye): Pound into a glue-like consistency, mix with dough to wash the eyes, and apply the residue juice over the eyes.
Birds such as hawks and storks eat venomous snakes in spring and summer, excreting waste that hangs on tree branches. Wind blows it like fine silk dust. Contact causes Heaven Silk Poison. This formula was previously passed down, and now I believe it to be miraculous.

Treatment for Kidney Wind (Shen Zhi Feng)
Symptoms: Damp itching of the scrotum, sores between fingers, elbows, and beside the thighs/humerus, scratching produces white flakes uncontrollably.
Jingde Caowu (Rhizoma Aconiti Karakolicum, four liang, skin on).
Divide into four piles, adding one liang of salt to each. Take one bowl of river water (not well or stream water). Boil the first pile with water in a pot until dry. Add another bowl of river water to the second pile and boil until dry. Repeat for the third and fourth piles (sequential boiling ensures proper processing). Remove, slice, coat the pot with a little sesame oil, stir-fry the Caowu slices until yellow, and bury in the ground to remove fire toxicity. Grind into powder. Add one liang of good Zhuzhu (Vermilion), form pills with rice vinegar paste, sized like wu zi (walnut seeds). Take forty pills on an empty stomach before meals with wine. If numbness occurs, reduce the dose; if not, increase. One course cures the disease.

Treatment for Children Accidentally Swallowing Copper Coins
Yangjing Tan (Sheep Tibia Charcoal): Very small, hard charcoal pieces that make sound when thrown.
Grind into fine powder, take with rice drink. Soon, the charcoal wraps the coin and it passes with feces. Miraculous effect. Also treats various swallowed objects and children swallowing chess pieces.

Treatment for Chronic Spleen Cold with Persistent Alternating Fever and Chills, Occurring Daily, Every Few Days, or Over Months/Years
Polar Nitrum (Puxiao, two qian, dissolve in a black bowl over fire).
Take one bowl of hot wine, pour in the dissolved Puxiao while hot. Take when chills occur on that day. One dose stops recurrence.

Treatment for Sudden Urinary Retention in Men and Women, Including Pregnant Women Near Term
Guocha (Wrapped Tea, one liang, burnt to ash but retaining properties, ground), Talcum (Huashi, half liang, finely ground).
Grind together uniformly. Take one to two qian per dose with a little wax tea, boiled water, and two to three drops of raw sesame oil.

Treatment for Back Carbuncles and Sores Spreading Widely, Needing Encirclement Formula
Taiwu (Rhizoma Aconiti Kusnezoffii, ground into powder).
Mix with honey water, apply to the four sides of the sore. Change morning and evening. Prevents spreading, gathers toxicity inward, very fast acting.

Treatment for All Red Swelling Furuncles and Toxins, Apply Early, Never Fails to Disperse
Huangtou Jiangfen (Stir-fried until dark black, one liang), Phellodendri Cortex (Huangbaipi, half liang, roasted).
Grind into powder, mix with banana peel oil to apply (Dongyang Chen family specializes in this).

Treatment for All Sores and Furuncles, Applicable Whether Ulcerated or Not
Galla Chinensis (Wubeizi, one liang), Alumen (Baifan, two qian).
Grind into powder, mix with well water to apply.

Treatment for Continuous Lower Bleeding and Intestinal Wind/Visceral Toxicity Malignant Conditions, Moxibustion Method
Measure from umbilicus to spine, moxa on the spine level with the umbilicus for seven moxa cones. Stop. If it recurs, moxa seven cones again to eradicate the root.

Treatment for Dysphagia, Moxibustion Method
Moxa seven cones on the middle joint of the middle toe of the foot, left for men, right for women.

Treatment for Male Seminal Emission and White Turbid Urine, Moxibustion Method
First mark Dantian point, then slightly above, moxa seven small cones (Dantian is one cun below the umbilicus).

Treatment for Scalds and Burns, Even More Effective Than Before
Use yellow earth from the bottom of the stove or Wumingyi (Limonite), grind into powder, mix with cold water to apply. Pain stops immediately. Easy to obtain for those without scars.

Treatment for All Coughs, Old or New, Throat Fumigation Method
Farfoliae Flos (Kuandonghua, approx. one fen), Calamitis Lapis (Eguanshi, approx. one fen), Realgar (Xionghuang, approx. half a fen).
Grind into extremely fine powder. Mix with albumen of a black hen egg (from the first-laid egg, which is unfertilized/male-less). Paint half of a square of white paper with the mixture, let dry, roll into a small tube, twist the drug-free end. Burn over smokeless fire to produce dense smoke. Insert near the throat, close mouth to inhale smoke. If cough reflex arises, suppress it slightly. Then sip cold tea (prepared beforehand). Phlegm will be expectorated; all recover. (Remember to pinch nose shut during fumigation to prevent smoke escape).

Treatment for Charley Horse with Wind-Damp Qi Penetration, Limb Pain
Siwei Lizhong Tang minus Renshen, add Hongqu, grind into powder, take with hot wine.

Treatment for Arm Pain and Weak Fingers, Due to Hidden Phlegm Stagnation in Zhongwan, Four Limbs Belong to Spleen, Spleen Blood Conflict, Poria Pill (Fuling Wan)
Red Poria (Chifuling, one liang), Pinelliae Rhizoma (Banxia, three liang), Aurantii Fructus Immaturus (Zhishi, half liang), Weathered Polar Nitrum (Fenghua Puxiao, one fen).
Grind into powder, form pills with ginger juice paste, sized like paulownia seeds. Take thirty pills with ginger decoction. Taking along with the previous Hongqu Lizhong Tang speeds effect.
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Plants born in late autumn have thick leaves with slight hairs, resembling persimmon leaves, similar to fence beans or cat beans but distinct; do not confuse.

Treatment for Swelling in the Thigh/Groin Area
Due to stale essence and stagnant qi combined with yin dampness, named Bitu (Thigh Toxicity). Also treats undissipated kidney abscesses and all swelling/toxicity below the waist.
Saltpeter (Yanxiao, one qian weight, buy from Lin'an basin saltpeter with sharp edges; avoid salty ones from grass shops).
Grind into powder, take with hot wine on an extremely empty stomach. Let cool slightly, do not take too warm, do not eat hot food immediately to avoid vomiting. When slight pain in urination is felt, toxicity exits via urine; relief follows one urination. If not resolved, take another dose; always effective. Even if swelling is large like a steamed bun, it drains without rupture and does not damage Yuan Qi. Scholars have taken it with repeated success.

Treatment for Falls from Height, Sprains, Specializing in Dispelling Blood Stasis and Regulating Qi
Yellow ripe eggplant seeds with thin skin and flesh, dried on red tiles, stored in sugar jars. Grind into powder when needed, add a little Frankincense (Ruxiang), take with wine. Drinkers should reach intoxication level. (Even if breath is faint, force feed through teeth).

Treatment for Knife Cuts and Bamboo/Wood Splinters, Specializing in Stopping Bleeding and Pain
Sanye Dou (Three-leaf Bean), also known as Weikelong. Harvest in May-June, dry and grind into powder. Apply to wound.
These two formulas were taught personally by Zhang Sicheng of Taoyuan; tested effective repeatedly, do not ignore.
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Find the midpoint between the two tendons in the crease of the inner knee. Moxa three cones on both legs simultaneously for cure. Stand leaning against an object to locate points and moxa. Moxa during pain attack is especially effective.

Treatment for Red Eyes, Eye Pain, Excessive Tearing, Sudden Red Swelling, Comprehensive Formula
Internal Medicine: Xionghuang Jiedu Wan, dose according to deficiency/excess. External Paste: She Mei Cao (Snake Berry Grass, produces red moldy berries in spring, inedible), wash clean, pound, spread on green gauze, apply to eyes like ice. Or soak real northern dates, extract pulp, mix with Borneol (Naozi), or decoct mint and apply to Taiyang point. Also use green gauze padding, size of three qian. Nasal Insufflation: Curcumae Radix (Yujin) and real Yanxiao, slight amount of Borneol. Washing: Siwu Tang plus Fangfeng, Huanglian, Xingren, Chi Shaoyao. Oral: Sanhuang San, equal parts Huangqin, Huanglian, Chi Shaoyao, Longdancao, Dahuang, Han Fangji, Muxiang, grind into powder, take with warm wine after meals. Drip: Piece of ginger with skin, hollow out small穴 with chopstick, mix with honey, drip. Note: Blood disperses with heat; pure Borneol is contraindicated by physicians. Deficiency patterns require tonifying Kidney first, different method.

Paste for All Swelling Toxicities, Especially Pre-Abscess Formation
One bowl of sour rice vinegar, one pod of Zaojiao, smashed and decocted until seven-tenths remain. Form into cake, soak Niupijiao (Cowhide Glue) in bowl until soft, apply to red swelling according to size.

Treatment for Severe Lower Back Pain, Unable to Lift Body
Treatment for Wind-Carbuncled Teeth
Vines of Euonymus fortunei (Quemeiteng) on fences, collect on knife, extract oil, mix with small white ant nests moistened into pills, insert into affected tooth, fixes immediately.

Treatment for Breast Abscess (Nai Yong)
Cockle Shell (Che'ao Ke)
Burn to powder, take with rice drink. Raw use is better.