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(Use the roe of carp, green fish, or crucian carp)

Indications: Opacities in the eyes. Jueming San (Cassia Seed Powder): Yuzi (Fish Roe, obtained from those born in living water and washed with sulfur water) 5 qian, Shijueming (Haliotidis Concha), Caojueming (Cassiae Semen), Qingxiangzi (Celosiae Semen), Gouqizi (Lycii Fructus), Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma, honey-fried), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Zhike (Aurantii Fructus, bran-fried), Muli (Ostreae Concha, calcined to powder), Shutui (Bombyx Batryticatus, burnt to ash), Baizhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix), Longgu (Fossilia Ossis Mastodi et Scapulae), Huangbai (Phellodendri Cortex) each 1 liang; Baifuzi (Typhonii Rhizoma, processed), Bijieli (Tribuli Fructus, stir-fried), Huangqin (Scutellariae Radix, stir-fried), Qianghuo (Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix) each 5 qian; Huqing (Tigris Oculi, one pair of tiger eyes sliced into seven pieces, dried over gentle then strong heat, only one piece used per prescription) 1 piece. Grind into fine powder. Take 3 qian per dose, administered with tea at the fifth watch (early morning), and again at midnight. Treats all chronic opacities, redness, swelling, and pain of the eyelids. Avoid pork, fish, alcohol, wheat products, spicy foods, and sexual indulgence.

Indications: Tonifies the Heart and Kidney, benefits Essence and Blood, nourishes Yin, assists Yang, dispels blood stasis, reconnects sinews and bones, breaks up masses and five types of hemorrhoids, treats damp-bi syndrome, heaviness and weakness of the four limbs, cold and heat sensations in the bones, recurrence of febrile disease due to overexertion after recovery (Laofu), stops chronic diarrhea and dysentery, resolves carbuncles and swellings. Burnt to ash for treating rectal prolapse. For difficult-to-dry head sores in children, and vaginal sores with foul odor in women. Meat: Treats chronic cold cough, severe wind conditions (soaked in wine), wind-bi and damp-bi causing body swelling. Shell: (Boiled and eaten) Treats pain in sinews and bones, contracture of the four limbs, paralysis with loss of motor control, bloody dysentery. Buyin Wan (Yin-Nourishing Pill): Guijiaban (Testudinis Carapax et Plastrum, wine-processed), Shudi (Rehmanniae Radix Preparata) each 6 liang; Huangbai (Phellodendri Cortex, salt-water soaked and stir-fried), Zhimu (Anemarrhenae Rhizoma, wine-processed) each 4 liang. Grind in a stone mortar into powder. Mix with vinegar and marrow to form pills the size of wutong seeds. Take 100 pills per dose with warm wine. Treats conditions where Yin fails to control Fire. Note: This medicine is currently available as prepared gelatin, which is superior to raw turtle shell for treating Yin deficiency with Yang hyperactivity.

Shell Indications: Breaks up masses, dissipates nodules, treats carbuncle toxins, stops convulsions and epilepsy, treats heart-wind, relieves irritability and heat, promotes Qi and Blood circulation, unblocks the Large and Small Intestines, treats febrile disease with internal heat accumulation, delirious speech, wards off gu poison, and detoxifies various poisons of Lingnan. (Stabbing to draw blood and soaking is especially effective). Daimao Wan (Hawksbill Turtle Shield Pill): Daimao (Eretmochelys Carapax), Xuduan (Dipsaci Radix) each 1 liang; Anshixiang (Benzoin), Xuejie (Sanguis Draconis), Ruxiang (Olibanum), Moyao (Myrrha) each 5 qian; Gujinhui (Ash of old brocade) 7.5 qian. Grind into powder. Mix with honey and benzoin resin to form pills the size of mung beans. Take 20 pills per dose before meals with warm wine. Treats leukorrhea (red and white discharge). Another formula: Fresh Daimao (Hawksbill Turtle Shield) and Shengxijiao (Rhinocerotis Cornu, now typically substituted with Buffalo Horn) are ground in cold water to make thick juice (2 he). Mix well. Take 5 shao per dose, slightly warm, 4-5 times a month. Treats plague, gu-zhang (miasma), carbuncles, and measles. It can unblock blood vessels and detoxify all poisons.