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The symptom of tight lips. Its root cause is similar to that of lip sores. When the sore has not yet healed, heat accumulates in the stomach, and it is further attacked by wind-dampness, causing the lips to swell and develop sores, becoming tight and painful.

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Apply Lv Pao San (Green Robe Powder). If there is no improvement, apply Fu Yan San (Feast-Attending Powder); if still ineffective, apply Qian Bai Shuang San (Lead White Frost Powder), and then recovery will be achieved.

Formulas:
Jia Jian Chun Zhi (Shell-Lac Lip Balm)
Treats cracked lips and bad breath.
First, pound hemp into a paste and apply it to the rims of two containers, about half an inch thick. Select good porcelain bottles with a capacity of over one *dou* (approx. 10 liters), and dry the applied areas in the sun.
Gan Song Xiang (Nardostachys Rhizome, 5 liang), Ai Na Xiang (Eucalyptus Leaf Oil/Resin), Mu Xu Xiang (Medicago Sativa Fragrance), Mao Xiang (Imperata Cylindrica Root, each 1 liang), Huo Xiang (Pogostemon Cablin, 3 liang), Ling Ling Xiang (Lingzhi/Lycoris Fragrance, 4 liang). The above six ingredients are first placed in water (text missing, inferred as soaking or boiling process), then Shang Se Chen Xiang (Aged Agarwood, 3 jin), Que Tou Xiang (Bird Head Fragrance), Su He Xiang (Styrax Resin, each 3 liang), Bai Jiao Xiang (White Dragon's Blood Resin), Bai Tan Xiang (White Sandalwood, each 5 liang), She Xiang (Musk), Jia Xiang (Shell Lac), Ding Xiang (Clove) and other spices are added. Place the container mouth level with the ground. Invert the fragrance bottle over the oil bottle so the mouths align. Seal the junction of the two bottles firmly with hemp paste, about half an inch thick. Cover the bottles with bran, five inches thick, and start burning. Add more bran as the fire diminishes. Burn continuously for three days and nights without letting the fire go out. After consuming twelve *shi* (approx. 600 kg) of bran, stop burning for two days until cool, then retrieve. Separately refine eight *jin* of beeswax, boil several times, add Zi Cao (Arnebiae Radix/Radix Lithospermi, 12 liang), and decoct for dozens of boils. Take one stem of Zi Cao and grind it against a fingernail; when the center turns white, remove it. Filter through cotton cloth and mix with the previous liquid. Then add Liu Sha Fen (Cinnabar Powder, 6 liang) and stir until uniform. While slightly cooled but not solidified, pour into bamboo tubes, wrap with paper and bind with hemp cord. Once solidified and cooled, unwrap and use as needed. This yields fifty cakes.

Jia Jian Kou Zhi (Shell-Lac Mouth Lip Balm) (From *Qian Jin Fang*)
Treats pale lips lacking blood color and bad breath. Uses the method of burning incense.
Chen Xiang (Agarwood), Jia Xiang (Shell Lac), Ding Xiang (Clove), She Xiang (Musk), Tan Xiang (Sandalwood), Su He Xiang (Styrax), Xun Lu Xiang (Frankincense), Ling Ling Xiang (Lycoris), Bai Jiao Xiang (White Dragon's Blood), Huo Xiang (Patchouli), Gan Song Xiang (Nardostachys), Ze Lan (Leonuri Herba).
Filter through cotton cloth and place in a porcelain jar. Pound the remaining eight fragrances into powder, mix with honey (not too wet), and fill a small porcelain jar. Wrap the mouth with cotton cloth and secure in a cross pattern. Invert the small jar over a large jar, seal the mouths tightly with mud. Bury the oil jar in the ground so the mouth is level with the surface. Burn using dried cow dung (or bran). Burn for seven days and nights without haste; twelve days is better. Retrieve after cooling. The jars must be coated evenly with hot mud, one inch thick, and dried before use.

Shun Pi Yang Ji San (Spleen-Soothing Muscle-Nourishing Powder)
Treats tight lips.
Shan Yu (Dioscorea Rhizome), Gui (Cinnamon Twig, bark removed), Bai Zhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix), Gan Cao (Licorice Root), Bai Zhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma, each 1 liang), Ren Shen (Ginseng Radix), He Zi Rou (Terminalia Chebula Fruit Flesh), Bai Fu Ling (Poria), Huang Qin (Scutellariae Radix), Mu Xiang (Vladimiriae Radix, each 5 qian? Text implies dosage).

Wu Fu Hua Du Wan (Five-Fortune Detoxifying Pill) (From *Wei Shi Fang*)
Treats swelling and ulceration of lips and tongue, restlessness, and thirst.
Xuan Shen (Scrophulariae Radix, washed and dried), Bei Jing (Platycodonis Radix, each 2 liang), Fu Ling (Poria, 2.5 liang), Ren Shen (Ginseng Radix, 0.5 liang), Ma Ya Xiao (Natrii Sulfas Calcined), Qing Dai (Indigo Naturalis, each 1 liang), Gan Cao (Licorice Root, prepared).
Refine honey and form pills the size of soap beans. Take with Mint Decoction.

Xie Huang Yin Zi (Drain Yellow Decoction) (From *Wei Shi Fang*)
Treats wind-heat accumulating in the Spleen meridian, causing dry, deeply cracked, and colorless lips.

Shui Yin Gao (Mercury Ointment) Treats Tight Lips. *Bing Yuan* states: The Spleen and Stomach are exterior-interior related. The Stomach belongs to the Foot-Yangming Meridian, which originates beside the nose, circles the lips, and its branch enters the collaterals. Affected by cold or heat, recurring intermittently over months and years, it is called Tight Lips. This formula treats both.
Shui Yin (Mercury), Liu Huang (Sulfur), Qing Fan (Melanterite, each finely ground), Ku Shen (Sophorae Flavescentis Radix, each 2 liang powder), Jiang Fei (Red Silk, 3 cun square), Luan Fa (Disordered Hair, egg-sized), Xi Xin (Asari Radix et Rhizoma, 3 liang).
Add mineral drugs and wax, simmer into an ointment. Apply to the affected area on the lips for excellent effect. Another version adds Ru Xiang (Frankincense).

Qing Pi Tang (Clear Spleen Decoction) (From *San Yin Fang*)
Treats excessive thinking leading to heat accumulation in the Spleen, causing dry mouth and lips, deep cracks, and loss of color.

Shi Liu Huang Gao (Rock Sulfur Ointment) (From *Sheng Hui Fang*)
Treats Tight Lips Sores that do not heal for a long time.
Shi Liu Huang (Rock Sulfur, ground), Bai Fan (Alumen, calcined), Zhu Sha (Cinnabar, ground), Shui Yin (Mercury), She Xiang (Musk), Huang Bo (Phellodendri Cortex, each 1 fen). Grind these with Mercury in a porcelain mortar.

Ju Hua Wan (Chrysanthemum Pill) (From *San Yin Fang*)
Treats deficiency of Qi and Lung/Spleen, excessive worry and thought, depletion of Ying and Wei (Nutritive and Defensive Qi), deep tight lips, or sores at the corners of the mouth, with a withered and haggard complexion.
Also treats men with scanty essence and women with blood deficiency.
Gan Ju Hua (Chrysanthemum Flower), Gou Qi Zi (Lycii Fructus), Rou Cong Rong (Cistanche Caulis, soaked in wine, washed and sliced), Ba Ji (Morinda Officinalis Radix, heart removed, equal parts). Grind into powder, make pills with honey the size of paulownia seeds. Take 3 pills per dose.

Hu Fen Gao (Lead Carbonate Ointment) (From *Sheng Hui Fang*)
Treats Tight Lips Sores with unbearable pain.
Hu Fen (Lead Carbonate, 3 fen), Huang Lian (Coptidis Rhizoma, 3 fen, remove roots), Gan Cao (Licorice Root, 1 fen, roasted until slightly red and cut), She Xiang (Musk, 1 qian, finely ground). Grind into powder, mix with pig fat from the twelfth lunar month.

Qiang Huo San (Notopterygii Radix Powder) (From *San Yin Fang*)
Treats wind-dampness invading the Spleen, causing trembling and peeling of the lips, headache, dizziness, and edema of the four limbs, resembling Wind-Water disease.
Qiang Huo (Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix, 3 fen/liang), Fu Ling (Poria), Yi Yi Ren (Coicis Semen, each 1 liang). Grind into powder. Take 2 qian per dose, decoct in one *jian* of water until reduced to 0.7 *jian*. Add Dan Zhu Ye (Lophatheri Folium) and decoct together.

Lian La He Jia Jian Fa (Refined Wax and Shell-Lac Method) (From *Qian Jin Fang*)
Treats pale lips lacking blood color.
La (Beeswax), Zi Cao (Arnebiae Radix/Radix Lithospermi, each 1 liang). First melt the wax, add Zi Cao and boil briefly. Check by grinding Zi Cao against a fingernail; when the center turns white, remove. It is ready.

Bai Deng San (White Lamp Powder) (From *Qian Jin Fang*)
Treats tight lips.
Wrap white cloth around to make a large lamp pillar like a finger. Place on an axe blade. Ignite the pillar to let the blade sweat (condense oil). Wipe and collect, apply to lips 2-3 times daily.

Qi Lao San (Ground Beetle Larvae Powder) (From *Sheng Hui Fang*)
Treats Deep Lips (Tight Lips). Burn dry Qi Lao (Ground Beetle Larvae) to powder, mix with pig fat, and apply before sleep. Another method uses water to mix. Treats tight lips.

Gan Lan San (Olive Powder) (From *Hai Shang Fang*)
Treats tight, dry lips with sores.
Take olives in any quantity, burn to ash, grind to fine powder, mix with pig fat, and apply to the lesion. Another method grinds the kernel finely and applies.

Li Xiao San (Immediate Effect Powder) (From *Wei Sheng Bao Jian Fang*)
Treats tight lips with sore pain.
He Zi Rou (Terminalia Chebula Fruit Flesh), Wu Bei Zi (Galla Chinensis, each 0.5 liang). Grind to fine powder, apply dry to lips for immediate effect.

Xing Ren Gao (Apricot Kernel Ointment)
Treats cracked lips and oral sores.
Chew apricot kernels finely, mix with pig fat, and apply to cracked lips.

Another Formula
Treats tight lips.
Burn dead moles to ash and apply.

Another Formula
Treats tight lips.
Heat pine resin and paste it on; cure when healed.

Another Formula
Treats tight lips.
Clean snake skin, burn to ash, and apply. Another method mixes with raw oil and applies.

Another Formula
Treats tight lips.
Roast wax with fire, paste on lips until cured.

Another Formula
Treats tight lips.
Burn turtle shell and head until smoke ceases, grind to powder, apply 3 times daily.

Another Formula
Treats winter tight lips cracking and bleeding.
Pound peach kernels, mix with pig fat, and apply.

Another Formula
Treats facial cracking due to long travel.
Use cooked pig fat. Apply to face nightly before traveling. Even after traveling ten thousand *li*, sleeping in the wild will not damage the skin.

Another Formula
Treats tight lips.
Boil Portulaca Oleracea juice, wash tight lips.

Another Formula
Treats tight lips, dry cracking with sores.
Wrap An Shen Wan (Calming Kidney Pills) in pig kidney, fix with paper, bake until cooked, take with good wine before bed. If An Shen Wan is unavailable, Ba Wei Wan (Eight-Ingredient Pill) is a wonderful substitute.

Another Formula
Treats tight lips sores.
Burn urine scum to powder, apply.

Another Formula
Treats sudden sores on lips and tongue.
Burn chicken droppings white part to powder, wrap in cloth, hold against sore.

Another Formula
Treats sudden sores on lips and tongue.
Grind Ji She Xiang (Galanga) to powder, wrap in cotton, hold in mouth to cure.

Another Formula
Treats tight lips.
Ci Ji (Thistle, 1 liang). Pound to juice, sun-dry to concentrate. Pinch lips to draw blood, then apply juice. Also very effective for thorn-wind.

Another Formula
Treats tight lips.
Zao Jia Mo (Soap Pod Powder). Mix a small amount with water and apply.

Another Formula
Treats tight lips.
Da Huang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma, 1 fen). Grind to powder, take a small amount, mix with vinegar and apply.

Another Formula
Treats tight lips.
Take dirt from butcher's meat block, burn and apply.

Another Formula
Treats Deep Lips, Tight Lips, dry cracking with sores, and pallor. (Also known as Qing Hui San/Grey Ash Powder).
Roll green cloth into a stick, burn on an axe, collect the juice to apply. Another method takes with wine. Or mix with pig fat. Or burn to ash, mix with water, and take orally.

Another Formula
Treats tight lips.
Take Lü Fan (Green Vitriol), roast in an ironing pan until juice evaporates, grind to powder, mix with vinegar, apply to nose. Leave overnight, remove medicine, place scallion white skin on sore, roast with an oiled wooden comb. Cured within three applications.

Another Formula
Treats tight lips.
Take disordered hair, bee hive, and fur of six domestic animals in equal parts, burn to ash, grind to powder, apply to sore. Mixing with pig fat for application is also good.

Whenever lips are split open, apply medicine sealing both ends, then cover horizontally and vertically with silk strips to secure the medicine firmly, preventing it from falling off.

Whenever upper/lower cheeks, lips, or teeth are injured, or torn internally/externally with foul pus unable to drain, speak little. If teeth are injured, first stabilize teeth to relieve pain.
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