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Zhongru Wan (Calcitriol Pill): Treats various diseases of the face. Men taking it at age fifty will have a complexion like that of a fifteen-year-old; those taking it at age forty will have a complexion like a young girl.

Zhongru Fen (Calcite Powder) (1 liang), Jin Xie (Gold Leaf), Zhenzhu (Pearl), Shanhu (Coral), Shuijing (Rock Crystal), Hupo (Amber), Mituosen (Litharge), Baitanxiang (White Sandalwood), Qiansui Zao (Thousand-Year Date) (each 0.5 liang), Ruxiang (Frankincense), [missing text], Guang [missing text]. Formed into pills with refined honey.

Baifuzi Wan (Aconitum Carmichaelii Root Pill): Treats and makes the complexion fair, white, and attractive.

Baifuzi (Radix Aconiti Carmichaelis Preparata), Baizhi (Radix Angelicae Dahuricae), Duoruo (Iris Tectorii Rhizome) (each 3 fen), Chishizhi (Halloysitum Rubrum), Taohua (Peach Blossom) (each 3 liang), Xingren (Apricot Seed), Tianguazi (Bitter Melon Seed), Niuxi (Achyranthes Root) (each 1 liang). [Preparation and administration methods missing in original text].

Taohua Wan (Peach Blossom Pill): Treats dark facial complexion, making it fair, bright, and pleasing.

Taohua (Peach Blossom), Guixin (Cinnamon Twig Heart), Wuhei (Aconitum Carleilii Lateral Root Preparata), Gancao (Licorice Root) (each 2 liang), Baifuzi (Radix Aconiti Carmichaelis Preparata), Tianguazi Ren (Bitter Melon Seed Kernel), Xingren (Apricot Seed) (each 1 liang). Pound all ingredients into powder. Mix with refined honey to form pills.

Formula for treating a jade-like lustrous and moist facial complexion.

Yangzhi (Mutton Fat) (1 sheng), Gouzhi (Dog Fat) (1 sheng), Baizhi (Radix Angelicae Dahuricae) (0.5 sheng), Wuhei (Aconitum Carleilii Lateral Root Preparata) (2 liang), Gancao (Licorice Root) (1 liang), Banxia (Pinellia Tuber) (0.5 liang). Finely chop the above ingredients. [Preparation and administration methods missing in original text].

Shexiang Mian Gao (Musk Facial Cream): Treats dark, dull facial complexion, making it fair, smooth, and radiant.

Shexiang (Musk), Zhu [Zhi/You] (Pig Fat/Oil), Manjingzi (Vitex Fruit), Su (Butter/Ghee), Tiangua Rang (Bitter Melon Pulp), Taoren (Peach Seed). (Note: The original text lacks preparation and usage instructions for this formula.)

Formula for treating a fair, clean, and lustrous facial complexion.

Bailian (Belamcanda Rhizome), Baizhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome), Baifuzi (Radix Aconiti Carmichaelis Preparata), Baizhi (Radix Angelicae Dahuricae) (each 2 liang), Bencao (Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizome) (3 liang), Zhu [Zhi/You] (Pig Fat/Oil) (3 units). Pound into powder. First use [Wujingszi? Radish Seed] 0.5 sheng. [Usage instructions missing in original text].

Formula for treating a fair, moist, rosy, and red facial complexion.

Zhu [Zhi/You] (Pig Fat/Oil), Wujingszi (Radish Seed), Gualouzi (Trichosanthes Seed), Taoren (Peach Seed). Mix equal parts of these ingredients, pound with wine, and apply to the face. Avoid wind and sun. Another method uses Xingren (Apricot Seed). Yet another method states... [Text truncated].

Baiyangpi San (Poplar Bark Powder): Treats blackness of the face, hands, and feet, making them lustrous and fair.

Baiyangpi (Poplar Bark) (0.5 sheng), Taohua (Peach Blossom), Baiguazi Ren (Winter Melon Seed Kernel) (each 1 sheng). Pound and sieve the above. Take one fangcun bi (square-inch spoonful) with warm wine, three times daily. To achieve whiteness, add Guazi (Melon Seeds). [Remaining text truncated].

Formula for treating a pleasing and lustrous facial complexion.

Baizhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome), Tugua (Wild Melon), Dazao (Jujube) (7 pieces). Pound and mix into a paste. Wash face with decoction water, then apply the medicine. After four or five days, the skin will become lustrous.

Qiandan San (Lead Tetroxide Powder): [Indication missing, likely for whitening].

Qiandan (Lead Tetroxide), Zhen Nüwan (True Female Fern Rhizome) (60 zhu). Grind and sieve the above. Take approximately one daogui with wine, three times daily. Visible results in men after ten days, in women after twenty days. Stop when effective.

Hei Shui Fu Fang (Black Water Application Formula).

Formula for treating a fair, clean, lustrous, rosy, and red facial complexion.

Soak Taohua (Peach Blossom) in wine and consume it. It improves complexion and treats hundred diseases. Harvest on the third day of the third lunar month. Another method is to harvest peach blossoms from three trees, dry them in the shade, grind into powder, and take one fangcun bi with empty stomach, three times daily. It also slims the waist.

Formula for treating a face as lovely as fresh flowers.

Use Dongkuizi (Okra Seed). Steam it, dry it under strong sunlight, remove the skin, take the kernel, grind finely, and mix with honey. Apply to the face; it is very effective. If bitten by a dog after consuming this vegetable, the wound will not heal.

Formula for treating a fair, fine, smooth, and moist complexion, removing facial wrinkles.

Baifuzi (Radix Aconiti Carmichaelis Preparata), Xingren (Apricot Seed), Xiangfuzi (Cyperi Rhizoma), Baitanxiang (White Sandalwood), Zitanxiang (Red Sandalwood), Maqi (Horse Musk?/Specific Herb) (each 0.5 liang). Pound and sieve into powder. Mix evenly with white honey. Use at night.

Formula for treating dark, dull complexion, transforming it into fair, smooth, and radiant skin.

Xionghuang (Realgar), Zhusha (Cinnabar), Baijiangcan (Bombyx Batryticatus), Zhenzhu Mo (Pearl Powder) (equal parts). Grind uniformly. Mix with Mianzhi (Facial Fat) to form pills. Add 1 qian of Fenhua (Lead Carbonate) to 2 qian of the medicinal powder.

Chonghe Shunqi Tang (Harmonizing and Qi-Regulating Decoction): Treats dark facial complexion. A thirty-year-old woman suffered from endless worry and thought, irregular diet, and spleen-stomach injury, resulting in a dark, dull complexion. [Pathogenesis analysis text is garbled/disordered in source: ...external manifestation... should be harmonious and not depleted... yin qi overflows upward and insults earth... color appears on lips... dryness... knowing yangming qi deficiency... non-assisting yangming generation].

Shengma (Cimicifugae Rhizoma), Baizhi (Radix Angelicae Dahuricae), Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix) (each 1 qian), Gancao (Licorice Root), Shaoyao (Peony Root), Cangzhu (Atractylodis Rhizoma) (each 3 fen), Huang [Qin] (Scutellariae Radix) (8 fen), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Gegen (Puerariae Lobatae Radix) (each 1.5 qian).

The *Neijing* states: "When upper qi is insufficient, push and elevate it." Shengma is bitter and neutral, Gegen is sweet and warm; they rise from earth to heaven, unblocking the qi of the Yangming channel, serving as the sovereign herb. [Text regarding Taiyin weakness and Zhizhen Dayao Lun seems misplaced or erroneous in source].

Chop the above ingredients. Prepare as one dose. Add two zhan of water, three slices of Shengjiang (Fresh Ginger), and two dates. Decoct until one zhan remains. Strain and take warm. Take after morning meal, and after noon meal [text truncated].

Treats blue-black discoloration of the face and eyes due to injury.

Apply Huang [Lian?] powder mixed with hot wine to the affected area. If it does not dissipate, apply Gui (Cinnamon Bark) powder mixed with wine. When warm, apply tea-mixed powder.

Makes the face fair and white.

Take immature earth wasps (without formed heads and legs), stir-fry and eat them. Alternatively, soak in wine and apply to the face; this is beneficial.

Promotes longevity and beautifies complexion, reducing hunger.

Consume during the weather of the sixth lunar month.

Skin becomes lustrous and jade-like.

Take 3-5 sheng of Dongguazi (Winter Melon Seed), remove skin, pound into pills. Take 30 pills on an empty stomach. Makes the person fair and pure as jade.

Makes the face clean and skin fine.

Consume Laifu Gen (Radish Root).