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Pain from Migrating Wind-Toxin: Grind mustard seeds into powder, mix with egg white, and apply to the affected area. (From *Cao's Empirical Prescriptions*)

Pain from Migrating Qi: Spray bran with sour vinegar, stir-fry until hot, and apply as a warm compress to the affected area. (From *Cao's Empirical Prescriptions*)

Pain from Migrating Qi: The disease of Qi pain suddenly presents as if bruised in one spot, unbearable, with the pain migrating unpredictably. When still, the area feels cold as frost and snow; this is caused by sudden invasion of cold pathogen. Boil the inner bark of willow branches in white wine, apply warm as a compress to the affected area; if there are red spots, removing blood stasis is excellent. For all sudden swelling and acute pain, warming compresses stop it immediately. (From *Yao Shengtan's Verified Prescriptions*)

Erysipelas (Liu Huo): Take one Strychnos nux-vomica seed (Ma Qian Zi), grind it with water on the bottom of a coarse bowl, sweep the mixture over the body with a feather brush. Repeat grinding and sweeping every few hours, three to five times a day. Pain stops immediately, and complete resolution occurs after three days. (From *Empirical Secret Formula*)

Another method: Grind raw coal into an extremely fine powder, mix with vinegar, and apply to the affected area for resolution. (From *Convenient Good Prescriptions*)

Pain from Wind Pathogen: Mash old ginger, balsam pear leaves, sesame oil, and ground Sichuan pepper together, and rub onto the painful area. Alternatively, decoct balsam pear seeds for washing is also effective. (From *Medical Integration*)

Pain from Dampness: Take one bundle of balsam herb and one bundle of green onion, mash them; take eight taels of Atractylodes rhizome (Cang Zhu), five taels each of Saposhnikovia root (Fang Feng) and Schizonepeta spike (Jing Jie). Decoct in water and pour into a tub. Let the patient sit in the bath, soaking old clothes in the hot decoction and placing them on the painful area; add more hot decoction when it cools. Three or four treatments suffice for cure. Bathing the whole body with this decoction is especially good. (From *Mirror of Medicine*)

Onychocryptosis/Foot Inflammation Attack (Xiang Gang Jiao Fa): Redness and swelling of feet and knees indicate damp-heat stagnating in muscles. If not treated early, the pathogenic qi rising to the heart causes death. Urgently use Niter (Pu Xiao), Rhubarb (Da Huang), Calcitum (Han Shui Shi), and Gleditsia sinensis pod (Ya Zao) ground into powder. Mix with egg white for application is excellent. Alternatively, human excrement cake (Ren Zhong Huang) ground into powder mixed with banana juice applied topically is also effective. (Same source)

Foot Inflammation Rising Causing Abdominal Distension and Fullness: Steam and mash Pericarpium Ricini (Bi Ma Ye), wrap around the affected area, changing two to three times a day resolves it. Alternatively, moxibustion at Fengshi (GB31), Jianyu (LI15), and Quchi (LI11) acupoints, seven or fifty moxa cones, is very effective. (From *Hui Bu*)

Migratory Pain from Foot Inflammation: Wash with decoction of radish; dry radish, grind into powder, and place inside socks. (From *Sheng Ji Zong Lu*)

Chronic Leg Swelling from Foot Inflammation Not Healing: Take one raw black Aconite tuber (Hei Fu Zi), remove skin and umbilicus, grind into powder. Mix with ginger juice to form a paste for application. Reapply when dry until swelling subsides. (From *Jian Yao Ji Zhong Fang*)

Foot Inflammation Forming Fistula: A hole exists on the heel, about half cun deep, with abnormal pain. Use Human calcined bone (Ren Zhong Bai); allow moisture to exude and drip into the wound. (From *Zheng Zhi Yao Jue*)

Severe Foot Inflammation Pain Causing Facial Paralysis, Convulsions, Unconsciousness, and Coma: Stir-fry two jin of tobacco (Huang Jian Yan) until hot, place in a sitting tub. Remove footwear, insert feet into the smoke to induce sweating; reheat when cool. Fumigate every other day; seven sessions eradicate the root cause. (From *Tong Shou Lu*)

Hernia with Scrotal Drooping and Intestinal Qi Pain: Stir-fried burnt stone (Chen Duan Shi), Chinese gallnut (Wu Bei Zi), and Gardenia fruit (Shan Zhi Zi) in equal parts, grind into powder. Mix with dough and vinegar for overnight application resolves it. (From *Da Quan Liang Fang*)

Another method: Wash with decoction of cottonseed. (From *Dou Men Fang*)

Hernia with Scrotum Swollen like a Bucket: Seven Semen Momordicae (Mu Bie Zi), two roasted Gleditsia sinensis pods (Sao Jiao), five qian of Corydalis rhizome (Yan Hu Suo), and one he of Sichuan pepper (Chuan Jiao). Stir-fry together, grind into powder. Mix with high-proof liquor to a porridge-like consistency, apply to the scrotum, wrap with cotton paper, then bind with cloth. As it shrinks, adjust binding; heals instantly. (From *Li Yun'an's Prescriptions*)

Persistent Hernial Sac Swelling: One fen of Borax (Peng Sha), grind with water, apply for resolution. (From *Gui Xuan Sui Xi Lu*)

Another method: Apply frog skin from fields; self-heals. (From *Xiu Zhen Fang*)

Scrotal Dermatitis (Shen Nang Feng): Fry eggs to extract oil, apply for efficacy. (From *Qi Fang Lei Bian*)

Zao Nang San (For Scrotal Damp Itch, Oozing upon Scratching): One liang of Oyster shell (Mu Li) calcined with vinegar; two qian each of Realgar (Liu Huang), Sophora root (Ku Shen), Cnidium fruit (She Chuang Zi), and Alum (Ku Fan); one qian of Realgar (Xiong Huang). Grind all into fine powder. First wash the wet area with decoction of Atractylodes, pepper, and salt; then sprinkle this powder. (From *Jing Yue Quan Shu*)