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The occurrence of carbuncles, sores, ulcers, and swellings is caused by the accumulation of toxic pathogens in the five zang organs and six fu organs that fail to circulate freely; thus, these conditions are ubiquitous. They are not solely triggered by the stagnation and obstruction of Ying (Nutritive) Qi and Wei (Defensive) Qi.

Tenghuang Yinzi (Cortex Meliae Decoction): Treats all types of carbuncles, sores, ulcers, and swellings.
Herbs: Honeysuckle Flower (Jinyinhua), Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng), Sichuan Aconite Root (Chuanwu), Notopterygium Rhizome (Qianghuo), Rhubarb (Dahuang), Red Peony Root (Chishaoyao), Mint (Bohe), Forsythia Fruit (Lianqiao), Ephedra Stem (Mahuang), Angelica Sinensis Root (Danggui), Gypsum (Shigao), Scutellaria Root (Huangqin) (each half qian), Talcum (Huashi) (appropriate amount).
Usage: Decoct and take orally.

Da Neisai Paimon San (Great Internal Obstruction-Expelling Pus Powder): Treats back carbuncles. If they recur after a year of healing, it is due to wind-fire or stagnant qi trapped internally, causing meridian obstruction. By summer...
Herbs: Cornus Fruit (Shanzhuyu), Schisandra Berry (Wuweizi), Poria (Fuling), Dried Ginger (Ganjiang) (each 6 fen), Licorice Root (Gancao), Dendrobium Stem (Shihu), Ginseng (Renshen), Cinnamon Twig (Guixin), White Peony Root (Shaoyao) (each 5 fen), Morinda Root (Bajitian) (appropriate amount), Kochia Seed ( Difuzi) etc. (Original text here is fragmented, mentioning "no earth" and "earth", implying missing Earth-related herbs like Rehmannia, but extracted as per visible text).
Usage: Specific decoction method not clearly recorded, only herbs listed.

Gan Dihuang Wan (Rehmannia Pill): For those with intense heat, regular consumption ensures lifelong immunity from carbuncles and sores, promotes physical plumpness and vitality, and enhances endurance.
Herbs: Prepared Rehmannia Root (Gan Dihuang) (5 liang), White Peony Root (Shaoyao), Licorice Root (Gancao), Cinnamon Twig (Guixin), Phellodendron Bark (Huangbai), Scutellaria Root (Huangqin), Morinda Root (Bajitian), Trichosanthes Root (Gualougen), Polygala Root (Yuanzhi) (each 2 liang), Dendrobium Stem (Shihu) (appropriate amount), Zi (fragmentary, possibly referring to a seed herb, but text reads "Zi Da", likely a typo or missing context; omitted for clarity or treated as fragment).
Usage: Form pills the size of Chinese honey locust seeds, taken with wine.

Ligenpi San (Li Root Bark Powder): Treats back carbuncles and large/small scrofula (Luoli). There was a case where bone protruded from an ulcer, accompanied by over thirty boils and furuncles; the patient recovered after taking this powder.
Herbs: Li Root Bark (Ligenpi) (1 jin), Trichosanthes Root (Gualougen), Pinellia Tuber (Banxia) (each 5 liang), Tetrapanax Pith (Tongcao), Ampelopsis Rhizome (Bailian), Platycodon Root (Jiegeng), Magnolia Bark (Nongpu), Scutellaria Root (Huangqin), Aconite Root (Fuzi) (each 1 liang).
Usage: Grind into fine powder, take with wine.

Goubao Wan (Dog Bezoar Pill): Also known as Cunjin Wan, Fanhun Dan, Zaisheng Wan, Zhuiming Dan, Yanshou Wan, Laisu Wan.
Symptoms: Lockjaw requiring forced mouth opening; pain throughout the body, deep-seated bone swelling; initial symptoms include excessive thirst, oral irritability, chills and fever, heavy limbs, high fever, scrofula, and carbuncles; all are treated.
Herbs: Toad Venom (Chansu) (2 qian), Dog Bezoar (Goubao) (1 liang), Centipede with Golden Head (Jintou Wugong) (7 whole centipedes, heads and tails intact, fried in mutton fat until yellow), Calomelas (Nifen), Realgar (Xionghuang), Myrrh (Moyao), Southern Milk Stone (Nanru Jinshi) (1 qian).
Preparation: Except for beeswax and milk which are boiled into a paste, grind seven white civet cat droppings (Baodingxiang) finely and mix.
Usage: Specific dosage not clearly recorded, text mentions "Effective. Afterwards only eat white porridge. Often..."

Paimai Neisai San (Pus-Expelling Internal-Reinforcing Powder), also known as Neibu Fangfeng San: Treats large ulcers where heat has subsided but pus and blood continue to flow, with weak and painful flesh in the wound. Yang's Family Prescriptions states it is named... (text fragmented).
Efficacy: Causes foul tissue to fall off naturally, relieves pain... (text fragmented).
Herbs: Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng), Poria (Fuling), Angelica Dahurica Root (Baizhi), Platycodon Root (Jiegeng), Polygala Root (Yuanzhi), Licorice Root (Gancao), Ginseng (Renshen), Ligusticum Rhizome (Xiong), Angelica Sinensis Root (Danggui), Astragalus Root (Huangqi) (each 1 liang), Magnolia Bark (Nongpu) (2 liang).
Usage: Take once every three nights, with warm wine.

Muxiang Tuozhong Tang (Aucklandia Swelling-Expanding Decoction): Treats early-stage carbuncles and sores characterized by swelling, growth, heat, and pain.
Herbs: Aucklandia Root (Muxiang), Rhino Horn (Xijiao), Rhubarb (Dahuang), Gardenia Seed (Zhizi Ren), Cimicifuga Rhizome (Shengma), Scutellaria Root (Huangqin), Coptis Rhizome (Huanglian), Belamcanda Rhizome (Shegan), Phellodendron Bark (Huangbai), Ampelopsis Rhizome (Bailian), Licorice Root (Gancao) (roasted), Mirabilite (Puxiao), Zi (fragmentary, likely part of Zicao or similar, text ends abruptly).
Usage: Use appropriate amount... (text fragmented).

Jingjie San (Schizonepeta Powder): Treats all carbuncles and sores, regardless of location on shoulders or back, relieving pain. Consumption leads to resolution, with miraculous efficacy.
Herbs: Schizonepeta Spike (Jingjie), Mint (Bohe), Mountain Centipede (Shanwugong), Old Man Hair (Laowengfa), Trichosanthes Root (Tianhuafen), Walnut Seed Husk (Wuyi), Ru Pian (likely Trichosanthes peel or similar), Lotus Heart (Baihexin), Sichuan Angelica Dahurica Root (Chuan Baizhi), Red Peony Root (Chishaoyao), Pig Tooth Soap Pod (Zhuya Zaojiao).
Preparation: Grind the above into powder.
Usage: Add Angelica Sinensis Root, Xin (heart/core of some herb, text incomplete), decoct in water and take.

External Application Medicine: For various carbuncles and swellings with unbearable redness and pain. Use Jiaos San if unformed; use this if formed and ruptured, until the wound heals.
Herbs: Schizonepeta (with roots, crushed), Red Peony Root (Chishaoyao), Large Phellodendron Bark (Dabaipi), Wild Angelica (Tu Danggui), Wild Rhubarb (Shan Dahuang), Bletilla Rhizome (Baiji), Red Ampelopsis (Chilian), Ampelopsis Rhizome (Bailian), Aragonite (Hanshuishi) (roasted or stir-fried).
Usage: Grind into powder, Raw Rehmannia Root... (text fragmented), then leave the wound... (text fragmented).

Wanjing Gao (Ten-Thousand Gold Ointment): Treats carbuncles, back carbuncles, Wu Fa (five types of emissions), scrofula, Yin Du (Yin toxicity), unbearable pain. Also treats deep-seated toxic swellings penetrating inward, drawing out toxins... (text fragmented).
Herbs: Sichuan Aconite Root (Chuanwu), Grass Aconite Root (Caowu), Angelica Dahurica Root (Baizhi), Phellodendron Bark (Huangbo Pi), Ligusticum Wallichii Rhizome (Ben), Schizonepeta Spike (Jingjie), Cicada Slough (Chantui), Cinnamon Bark (Rougui), White Silkworm (Bai Jiangcan), Adzuki Bean (Chixiaodou), Frankincense (Ruxiang), Myrrh (Moyao), Silkworm... (text fragmented, likely Can Sha).
Usage: Like... (text fragmented).

Mutong San (Akebia Decoction): Used first for internal resolution to reduce tidal fever, stop thirst, and clear heat. Follow with Shengma Gegen Tang to release the exterior, then take this medicine.
Herbs: Akebia Stem (Mutong), Knotweed Herb (Qumai), Schizonepeta Spike (Jingjie), Mint (Bohe), Angelica Dahurica Root (Baizhi), Trichosanthes Root (Tianhuafen), Licorice Root (Gancao), Red Peony Root (Chishaoyao), Ophiopogon Tuber (Maidong) (core removed), Prepared Rehmannia Root (Sheng Gan Dihuang), Gardenia (Shanzhi - text flows into next section).
Usage: Take warm.

Li Sili Wuxiang Lianqiao Tang (Li Sili's Five-Aroma Forsythia Decoction): Treats various accumulated heat, malignant nodules, scrofula, carbuncles, malignant sores, brain carbuncles, and back carbuncles.
Herbs: Frankincense (Ruxiang), Licorice Root (Gancao), Aucklandia Root (Muxiang), Agarwood Wood (Chenxiang) (each 7.5 qian), Forsythia Fruit (Lianqiao) (pedicels removed), Belamcanda Rhizome (Shegan, i.e., Smilax root or one theory says Moschus), Cimicifuga Rhizome (Shengma), Saussurea Root (Duhuo - inferred from context "Huo (above each seven") (text fragmented).
Usage: Similar decoction method. Intermittently take Loulu Tang. (Text fragmented: "Among them no... Loulu Tang taken alternately. Those who know will understand...").

Wuxiang Lianqiao Tang (Five-Aroma Forsythia Decoction): For gangrene starting two days prior, take this medicine. It effectively removes toxic gases from the five zang organs.
Herbs: Mulberry Root Bark (Sangbaipi) (omit if poor quality), Aucklandia Root (Muxiang), Forsythia Fruit (Lianqiao), Agarwood Wood (Chenxiang), Phellodendron Bark (Huangbai), Cimicifuga Rhizome (Shengma), Akebia Stem (Mutong) (each 7.5 qian), Musk (Shexiang), Saussurea Root (Duhuo) (text fragmented regarding quantity).
Usage: Qian, Water Yi... (text fragmented).

Gan Dihuang Wan (Rehmannia Pill): Treats deficiency heat, eliminates boils and furuncles.
Herbs: Prepared Rehmannia Root (Gan Dihuang) (4 liang), Rhubarb (Dahuang) (6 fen), White Peony Root (Shaoyao), Lady's Slipper (Wangbuliuxing), Poria (Fuling), Licorice Root (Gancao), Polygala Root (Yuanzhi), Ophiopogon Tuber (Maidong), Ginseng (Renshen), Cimicifuga Rhizome (Shengma).
Usage: Ten pills, Yi... (text fragmented).

Shenmi Xianmai San (Mysterious Meridian-Sinking Powder):
Herbs: Astragalus Root (Huangqi), Ginseng (Renshen) (both remove rhizomes), Sichuan Angelica Sinensis Root (Chuan Danggui) (wine-washed, remove rhizomes), Ligusticum Rhizome (Chuanxiong), Red Peony Root (Chishaoyao), Licorice Root (Fengcao), Ground Tree Peony Root (Digupi), Eleutherococcus Root (Wujia Pi), Honeysuckle Leaf (Ren Dong Ye).
Usage: Half cup, decoct... (text fragmented).

Paimai Neibu San (Pus-Expelling Internal-Reinforcing Powder): Treats back carbuncles that have ulcerated, followed by persistent fever due to dietary injury and improper care, used to reduce fever. (Also known as Zhizi Huang...)
Herbs: Rhapontic Rhizome (Loulu), Forsythia Fruit (Lianqiao), Gardenia Seed (Shanzhizi Ren), Scutellaria Root (Huangqin) (remove heart), Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng), Pyrola Root (Shiwei) (use Mulberry Root Bark if unavailable), Raw Licorice Root (Sheng Gancao), Raw Rhino Horn Shavings (Sheng Xijiao), Ren... (text fragmented).
Preparation: Coarse powder. Take 4 qian per dose.

Zhuye Huang... Tang (Bamboo Leaf Huang... Decoction - Title Fragmented): Treats irritability and thirst from back carbuncles, and all malignant sores.
Herbs: Light Bamboo Leaves (Dan Zhuye) (2 liang), Raw Rehmannia Root (Sheng Dihuang) (8 liang), Astragalus Root (Huangqi), Angelica Sinensis Root (Danggui), Ligusticum Rhizome (Chuanxiong), Licorice Root (Gancao), Scutellaria Root (Huangqin) (remove heart), White Peony Root (Shaoyao), Ginseng (Renshen), Ophiopogon Tuber (Maidong).
Usage: Five bamboo leaves, Ginger... (text fragmented).

Wuxiang Lianqiao Tang (Five-Aroma Forsythia Decoction): If the five aromas are not used, it is called Seven-Ingredient Forsythia Decoction.
Herbs: Agarwood Wood (Chenxiang), Litsea Leaf (Huoxiang Ye), Aucklandia Root (Muxiang), Clove Bud (Dingxiang) (each 1 liang), Musk (Shexiang) (1 zi, separately ground), Forsythia Fruit (Lianqiao), Belamcanda Rhizome (Shegan), Saussurea Root (Duhuo), Mistletoe (Jisheng), Cimicifuga Rhizome (Shengma).
Usage: Take 5 qian, Water Yi... (text fragmented).
Separately ground.