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Treatment for hemicephalic wind (hemiplegic headache), where the pain is unbearable.
*Frankincense* (Lu Xiang, *Olibanum*, ground separately), *Corydalis Rhizome* (Yan Hu Suo, *Rhizoma Corydalis*), *Potassium Nitrate* (Pen Xiao, *Natrii Nitras*, ground separately; each of the above three ingredients: 1 qian). *Ligusticum Rhizome* (Chuan Xiong, *Rhizoma Ligustici Wallichii*: 2 qian). *Realgar* (Xiong Huang, *Realgar*: 3 qian, ground separately).
Grind the above ingredients into powder. For each use, take a small amount and insufflate it into the left nostril if the pain is on the left side, or into the right nostril if the pain is on the right side.

Treatment for severe cephalalgia caused by head wind.
*Phellodendron Bark* (Huang Bo, *Cortex Phellodendri Amurensis*: 0.5 liang, preferably thick pieces), *Natural Pyrite* (Zi Ran Tong, *Pyritum*: 0.5 liang), *Asarum Root* (Xi Xin, *Radix Asari*), cleaned of leaves and soil: 1 fen. *Pepper* (Hu Jiao, *Fructus Piperis Nigris*: 49 grains).
Grind the above ingredients raw into a fine powder. Whenever cephalalgia or head wind attacks, first hold a mouthful of water in the mouth, then insufflate an amount of medicine equivalent to "one character" (approx. 0.5-1g) into the nose. If the pain is on the left, insufflate the left nostril; if on the right, insufflate the right nostril. After insufflation, spit out the water, bite the end of a chopstick with your teeth, and continue until saliva is discharged.

Treatment for unbearable unilateral headache.
*Asarum Root* (Xi Xin, *Radix Asari*): 1 liang, cleaned of leaves and soil. *Realgar* (Xiong Huang, *Realgar*): 0.5 liang, ground separately.
Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder and mix evenly. For each use, take an amount equivalent to "one character". If the headache is on the left side, insufflate the right nostril; if on the right side, insufflate the left nostril.

Treatment for cold damage (Shang Han) with chest binding (Jie Xiong), mental restlessness as if burning with fire, cholera with vomiting and diarrhea, regurgitation and hiccups, spleen and stomach cold injury, and abdominal fullness with obstruction.
*Venus Stone* (Jin Xing Shi), *Silver Star Stone* (Yin Xing Shi), *Magnetite Hematite* (Dai Zhe Shi), *Yu Yu Liang* (Yu Yu Liang), *Yuan Jing Stone* (Yuan Jing Shi), *Mica* (Yun Mu Shi), *Ashless Wood* (Bu Hui Mu), *Talc* (Hua Shi) (each of the above: 1 liang). *Cold Water Stone* (Han Shui Shi, *Alumen Rubrum*: 1.5 liang).
Place the above ingredients in a porcelain bottle and calcine over charcoal fire for one night. Once the fire has cooled, remove the contents and grind into a fine powder. Form pills using rice gruel, making ten pills per liang of powder. Take one pill at a time. Heat the pill until red-hot, remove after a while, grind into an extremely fine powder, add one cup of rice drink, decoct until reduced to 70%, and take warm. Repeat the dose after half an hour to achieve efficacy. No restrictions apply.

Treatment for cold damage and wind strike, causing vexing pain in limbs and joints, aversion to cold with high fever; or fever with aversion to cold, symptoms resembling miasma but not being miasma, restlessness and confusion, red face, and pain as if bursting. Taking this will induce slight sweating and lead to immediate recovery.
*Arisaema Tuber* (Tian Nan Xing, *Rhizoma Arisaematis*): 4 liang, chopped, stir-fried until red, do not let it burn. *Gypsum Fibrosum* (Shi Gao, *Gypsum Fibrosum*): 4 liang. *Kudzu Root* (Gan Ge, *Radix Puerariae Lobatae*), extract the starch, weigh 3.5 liang. *Peucedani Radix* (Qian Hu, *Radix Peucedani*). *Ligusticum Rhizome* (Chuan Xiong, *Rhizoma Ligustici Wallichii*) [Note: Text incomplete in source, inferred from context]: 1 liang.
Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Use fresh ginger juice to boil wheat paste and mix with the powder to form pills, making ten pills per liang of powder. Dry in the shade. Take one pill at a time, chew thoroughly, and [consume with] white part of green onion [or rinse with].