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Green Flies (49 pieces) Musk (amount equivalent to 100 wen coins, indicating a specific weight/measure here)
For the above ingredients, take the green flies, break them, and discard the two wings. Dry the remaining parts, add musk, and grind into a fine powder. If urgent use is required, place the flies in one's bosom until dry, then apply directly; or if the sore is dry, mix with oil for external application. (Another prescription uses one snail and one olive pit, calcined until carbonized, ground together into a fine powder, mixed with calomel), or yellow lead oxide mixed with oil for application, however (this prescription is superior).

Fennel from Shipboard (1 jin)
Take 4 liang of fresh ginger, crush it finely, and mix it with its juice and pulp to combine with the fennel. Leave it overnight, then sun-dry and bake until dry, grinding it into a fine powder. Next, take 2 liang of green salt, grind it separately, and incorporate it into the medicine. Use wine paste to form pills, sized like paulownia seeds. Take 30-50 pills per dose, administered with salted water or warm wine, on an empty stomach before meals. Guo Tinggui, the Magistrate, stated that he previously suffered from this ailment, experiencing attacks no less than five to seven times a year. After taking one course of this medicine, the root cause of the disease was eliminated, and he has not had a recurrence for fifteen or sixteen years.

Women and Children

Treating various postpartum diseases in women (Transmitted by the Peng family of Raozhou. There are eighteen verses of songs, but due to excessive text, they are not recorded).
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(When calcining, strictly avoid letting women, chickens, or dogs see the process; if seen, the medicine will be ineffective. This must be strictly observed. Dig a pit according to this method, determine the four sides, erect brick molds on each side to form a circle. Place the human hair and carp skin respectively into separate storage bottles with the bottoms removed, fill with the medicine, cover with tiles, seal tightly with good paper fiber and salt mud, place moistly on the character 'Tu' (Earth), and burn with 5 jin of charcoal fire until red hot. Remove the storage bottle, let it cool, open it, and retrieve the medicine.)
Hair Charcoal (Ban liang, calcined according to the previous method) Carp Skin (1 liang, calcined according to the previous method) Myrrh (Ban liang) Safflower (1 fen, used raw) Longtan Earth (1 fen, taken from under the stove, the soil that has been burned red is used) Chinese Trumpet Creeper Flower (Ban liang, those with bright color, dried by baking) Good Fragrant Ink (Ban liang, used raw) Dried Cypress Wood (1 fen, finely ground and added, those with good fragrance can be used) Angelica Sinensis (Ban liang, remove tips and soil, slightly stir-fry until fragrant, then use)
The above nine ingredients are all ground into a fine powder. This is indicated for postpartum heat diseases in mother and child followed by fetal death in utero, difficult labor, retained placenta, blood stasis causing dizziness preventing sitting up, visual hallucinations of strange flowers, dry mouth and chest oppression, alternating chills and fever, edema of limbs, delirious speech, seeing spirits and ghosts, mutism, diarrhea and dysentery, pain in waist and knees, hematuria with painful difficulty, metrorrhagia, vomiting and restlessness, coughing with sputum, sounds in the throat like a cat meowing, blackening of the face and whole body, emergence of red spots, dry eyes and swollen waist, muscle spasms of the body. It treats all kinds of postpartum ailments. Use one cup of wine, decoct until reduced to eight-tenths, mix with two qian of the powder, and take frequently on an empty stomach. Using non-ash wine is highly recommended.