共入铁铫内，慢火炒焦研细，出火毒，再研细，用水调敷四围，中留顶出毒瓦斯，或用醋调。
宣毒散 敷初起及灸后，肿消晕聚。
露蜂房（炒焦三两） 天南星 赤小豆（各一两） 小米（一合） 生草乌（一钱） 生白矾（五分）
研细末，淡醋调涂四畔，干即再上。
清凉膏（《启玄》） 敷痈肿 痛。生大黄（研末） 醋调敷。
金蟾膏（《启玄》） 敷发背疔毒。活蛤蟆一个去骨，捣如膏，敷患上留头；如无
头，都敷上，大有神效。一二日揭去，不过换敷二个全好。
火龙膏（《启玄》） 敷阴发背，出黑水不知痛。新火姜六月六日晒干研末，瓷瓶
收贮，每用以鲜猪胆汁调敷周遭，皮纸遮盖，干则热水润之。知痛时黑水自出为妙，
如不知痛，虽出黑水难治。
隔皮取脓散（窦太师）
驴蹄（细末） 五倍子（各一两） 白盐（五钱） 草乌（去皮，四钱） 荞麦面（炒，二两）
共研，水调作饼，慢火炙黄，去火毒，研细醋调成膏摊贴，其肿渐退。
铁箍散（《青囊》）
芙蓉叶 生大黄 牛蒡子 白芨 雄黄（各等分）
共研细。看疮势大小，或称三钱或五钱，以鸡翎搅入鸡蛋清内调敷四围，束毒
不致走散开大。
神草膏 专敷发背对口，一切无名肿毒，立时消散。蜈蚣节草一大把，入盐
少许，捣烂如膏敷患上。（胡公弼曰∶按蜈蚣节草乃柔草也。其色青白，节节生细叶，沿漫田墁，如蜈蚣
形，二三月采取阴干备用，恐夏时草深难寻）
寸金散 患痈疽肿毒。
天花粉（三两） 赤芍 白芷 姜黄 白芨 芙蓉叶（各一两）
上研细，每用姜汁三分，凉茶七分，未破敷头，已破敷四傍留顶，经验神效。
黄蓉散（胡言爵） 敷手足肿毒，已成未成并效。
生大黄（五钱） 芙蓉叶（一两）
研细，苦茶调敷。
蜗牛涎敷痈疽解毒止痛 蜗牛一百个，纳瓶内，入新汲水一盏浸之，封至次
早，将蜗牛放去，其水如涎，入蛤粉调稀，鸡翎扫疮上，日十余次。
乳香止痛散 一切痈疽 痛，搽之立止。
乳香（去油） 没药（去油，各二钱） 寒水石（ ） 滑石（各四钱） 冰片（五厘）
上为末。以葱汁调搽，其痛立即止矣。
乌龙膏
臭小粉 五倍子（各等分）
同炒黑研细，醋调敷，干则以醋调润之，消毒甚效。
止痛麻药
川乌尖 草乌尖 生南星 生半夏 荜茇 胡椒（各五钱） 蟾酥（一钱五分）
上为末。用鱼胶烊化，入药拌匀，阴干，临用水磨涂于肉上，药力麻住刀割不痛。
赤小豆散 治一切无名大毒，敷之初起即消，已成立溃。赤小豆一斗，略焙
磨细，用黄蜜调敷，或葱汁、好醋、酒、菊花根叶捣汁、靛汁，俱可调敷，中留一孔透气。
敷一切无名大毒（孙真君）生猪脑摊纸上贴之，一日三换。
痈疽提脓（孙真君）飞面以人乳调敷，一宿脓出。
发背初起（孙真君）新鹿角烧灰，研细，醋调敷之，一日四五次，以消为度。
痈疽久不收口（孙真君）老鼠皮烧灰，敷口上即收。
敷肿毒（《刘秘》）鼻涕虫同银朱捣敷留顶，立消。
一切白色阴毒以及对口初起者。（钱青抡）
活鲫鱼（一尾） 生山药（一段，与鱼一般长） 白洋糖（二钱）
同捣极烂，敷上立消即去。更治瘰 如神。如妇人乳痈，初起用蜡、糟同捣敷上，立散。
冬瓜痈及四肢痈毒肿满 新锻石先以水一润，即用醋一碗化开敷上，再加醋
调敷上，立消。惟身上肿毒忌用。
发背初起未成（《医林集效》）用活蟾一只，系于疮上半日必昏愦，置水中救其命。
再易一只必踉跄，再易其蟾如旧，则毒散矣，屡试极效。
又方（《灵秘丹药》）凡患痈疽疮毒者，用土中大蛤蟆一个，剥全身癞皮，盖贴疮口，
于蟆皮上以针将皮刺数孔以出毒瓦斯，自觉安静，且能抓住疮口，不令长大，又可免
蜈蚣闻脓味来侵，神妙。
痈疽初起。（申一斋）
干姜（一两，泡，炒紫色。）
研末。醋调敷四围留头，愈。
肿毒（抄本）凡毒初起及经十日以上，热肿疼痛，用鸡蛋一个打开，入新狗粪如
蛋大搅匀，微火熬令稀稠得所，捻作饼子，于肿头上贴之，以帛包抹，时时看视，觉
饼热则易，勿令转动及歇气，经一宿自愈。如日多者一日一易。至瘥乃止。一切诸方皆不及此。
铁箍散（《医方解》）一切初起肿毒，敷之立消，已成毒不走散。未溃有脓即溃，已
溃脓即追出。
九月九日取芙蓉叶（阴干） 五倍子 白芨 白蔹 姜黄（各五钱） 大黄（一两） 陈小粉
（炒黑、二两） 蟹壳（五个） 研细末。醋调敷。
肿毒及指上痈肿。（《卫生备要》）独蒜一颗，百合数瓣，腊糟同捣烂敷。
定痛散（单方）
山药（一两） 白糖霜 大黄（各四钱）
捣烂敷上，即止疼。
或手搭发背破烂者，只用糖霜、山药捣烂，塞入毒内不臭，烂肉自去，新肉自
生。初时日换三次，三日后每日换一次，换时以甘草煎汤或猪蹄汤洗用，软鹅毛数根
扎之，洗去再敷，待肉长满方止。
消毒神方（周惠南） 凡初起一切肿毒，用杏核半边，入干人粪填满，合疮顶
上扎之。如毒盛其核即炸碎，另换一核填粪合上，至重不过易二三核，自消。
敷方
天南星 生大黄（各等分）
研细，烧酒调涂，露顶即消。
又方 尿缸底刮下，研细，浓敷四围露顶，干则再敷再润，即消，极效。
又方 芙蓉叶或根皮或花，或生捣或干研，和白蜜调敷四围，中留一孔透气，
干则频易，初起者消，已成者脓出易敛。加赤小豆末，其效更速。
又方 连须葱同白蜜捣极烂敷之露顶，如重换敷二三次即消。如已有脓将破，不可用此法。
又方 芥菜子研末，同扁柏叶捣敷，即消。
一笔描（周鹤仙） 治一切肿毒神效。四月间于田中收取蝌蚪数升，滤干水，装
入瓦罐内，加入冰片三四分，紧封罐口，再用泥糊，勿令泄气，埋于不见天日土内六
十四天，取出尽成水矣。凡遇无名肿毒之人，以笔蘸水在于患处画一大圈围之，逐
渐收小，中间留头，其毒即散，神验。
敷肿毒一切恶疮。（黄洞阳）
糯米 稷米 米（各二升）
五月五日上午时将米入于坛内，用滚水冲入，要通过米，浸至次年六月六日磨
成浆，再将原水和入，晒干收贮，临用时取粉一两，加明雄末二钱和匀，醋调如稀
糊样，周遭敷扫，中留一孔透气，如干以醋润之，每用药不过一钱二三分为率。
刘氏敷药秘方
人中黄（ ，乃多年粪坑内者是人中黄，马桶内者亦是） 土子（即无名异） 生大黄 白芨 五倍
子（生研） 榆皮面（各四两）
上磨细。用鸡蛋清或葱汁、黄蜜、醋调敷，俱可。
金箍散（丁振宇）
胆矾 硼砂 水银 明雄 黑铅（各二钱）
端午日修合，敷一切大毒。研为细末，火酒调敷，如不粘，加飞面六钱。
敷一切毒 五爪龙藤熬稠膏敷之。
又方（吴鲁南）香肥皂一圆，毒大用三圆，同生山药捣化敷上，中留一孔透气，未
成即消，已成自溃。
治发背痈疽，不问已溃未溃，并杖疮诸蛇伤 白凤仙花连根、茎、叶捣烂听
用，先以陈米醋洗净，然后敷上，一日一换。如冬月无鲜的，秋间采取，阴干为末，
水调敷之，立消，止痛如神。疮将好，用桑叶醋煮，一滚即捞起，贴疮上，便能生肌收口。
水云膏（阐传） 治发背
皂角（炙，去皮弦） 五倍子（炒） 川芎 干姜（各一两） 乳香 儿茶 没药（各三钱） 枯矾
槐花（各一钱）
上研细末，犍猪胆汁调涂，神效。
敷痈疽 五倍子醋炙为末。疮在左用猪左脑，疮在右用猪右脑，同捣匀敷。
芙蓉膏（张秀峰） 发背痈疽，痛如锥挖不可忍者，立时止痛。
芙蓉叶 黄荆子（各等分）
研细末。鸡子清调搽，四围留顶。中间如烟雾起，立效。用于未溃之先，将溃之际并效。
消肿止痛散
芙蓉叶（一两） 陈小粉（一两五钱） 五倍子 生南星 生半夏 生草乌（各三钱）
共研末。醋调敷。
肿毒皮色不变，敷上实时红肿。
陈小粉（四两） 葱白（一两）
同炒黑，研末，醋调敷。
龙虎膏 敷一切无名痈疽大毒。
陈小粉（一斤） 土木鳖（连壳整炒，二两） 川草乌 干姜 白芨 花椒（各五钱）
共研细末。凡疮未成者，漫头敷，已成者，中留一孔，已溃烂者，敷于四围，俱
以醋调炖温敷上，外用绵纸贴，干则温醋鸡毛扫上。
铁箍丹（何龙泉） 敷一切肿毒。
五倍子（炒枯黑，四两） 陈小粉（炒黄） 赤小豆（炒，各二两） 乳香（五钱）
研细末。醋调敷四围。
神仙驱毒一扫丹 专治大小男妇一切痈疽发背，无名肿毒，赤紫丹瘤，缠喉
风证。初起扫之即消，已溃扫之即愈。
雄黄 朱砂（各二钱） 牛黄 麝香（各二分）
共研极细，用猪胆汁调敷毒上，其毒自散，疼痛即止，外用桐油纸捻点着，近
毒处照之，须令冷气透出毒外，自愈。
神仙敷毒失笑饼 初起一切痈疽大毒。
黄泥（一大块，煨熟） 连须葱（一大把） 蜂蜜（一盅） 雄黄（三分）
共杵烂，作一饼，乘热敷毒上，如干了再敷，一二次自愈。
铁箍散 痈疽发背疔毒初起。
雄黄 熊胆 朱砂（各二钱） 京墨（五钱） 麝香（三分）
共研细，醋调敷。已成只用京墨磨汁调敷四围。
金箍散（吴近宸） 敷一切火毒及无名肿毒，痈疽初起者即消，已成者即轻。
生大黄 三柰 生南星 姜黄 生半夏（各四两） 白芨 人中白 白芷 天花粉（各三两）
草河车（一两）
共为细末。用黄蜜调敷，如红白色者，用米醋调敷。
白敷药（吴近宸） 敷一切流痰湿痰，寒痰喉痰，腮痈腋痈，及妇人乳痈乳疽乳
吹，瘰 等证，如神。
陈小粉 白蔹 生半夏 白芷 生南星 白芨 五倍子 三亲 人中白（各三两）
共为细末，瓷瓶密贮。火痰用黄蜜调；流痰、湿痰用鸡蛋清调；瘰 、腮痈、腋
痈、喉痰用米醋调。惟乳证用活鲫鱼一尾，捣烂去骨，和药末捣敷。
敷发背
车前草 草 巴山虎草 金银花（各等分）
共研细末。陈小粉浆打糊调敷。
铁箍散
芙蓉叶（阴干） 姜黄 五倍子（炒去虫） 白蔹 白芨 蟹壳（各五钱） 生大黄 陈小粉（各一两）
共研细末。用热米醋调如稀糊，敷围中留一孔透气。
麻药 此药敷于毒上，麻木任割不痛。
川乌尖 草乌尖 生半夏 生南星（各五钱） 胡椒（一两） 蟾酥（四钱）
研细末。烧酒调敷。（一方加荜茇五钱。一方加细辛一两。）
疮口冷难收口 干姜研末掺之，患处搅热如烘，生肌最速。
消肿毒 土三七根捣烂，醋调敷，留顶出气，敷之立消。如脓已熟，敷之立溃。
一笔勾
蚰蜒虫（三四十条） 冰片（四分）
同入罐内，即化为水，入麻油半斤，封口收藏，勿令泄气。初起用笔圈涂毒外，四
围频频圈之，即消。已成敷满留顶透气。
敷肿毒未成即消，已成即溃。
黄狗下颏（一具， ） 白蔹 蚕豆（各一两）
研细末。醋调敷，留顶透气。
消对口 白牵牛茎叶一把，生姜三片，同捣敷，留顶透气。
敷诸肿毒并瘰 棒疮。
川倍子（八两炒黑色，取末四两） 川贝母（去心，五钱） 海粉（要绿色者四两，炒黑色，约有二两重）
生半夏 川乌（甘草煮过） 生南星 草乌（各
一钱）
各研极细末，和为一处。凡用以熟蜜茶汁和匀，贴患上，油纸护之。瘰 初起，
以熟蜜茶汁调敷，如久成硬核者，单用陈米醋调敷，亦消。
Put the herbs together into an iron pot, stir-fry over slow fire until charred, then grind into fine powder. Remove the "fire toxicity" (heat generated during processing), and grind again until fine. Mix with water to apply around the lesion, leaving the apex open to allow toxic gases to discharge; alternatively, mix with vinegar.
Xuan Du San (Disperse Toxicity Powder): Applied at the initial stage of carbuncles and sores, and after moxibustion, to reduce swelling and consolidate the areola.
Dried Honeycomb (炒焦三两 - stir-fried until charred, 3 liang) Arisaema Cum Bile (Tian Nan Xing) Adzuki Bean (Chi Xiao Dou, each 1 liang) Millet (Yi Mi, 1 he) Raw Aconitum Carmichaelii (Sheng Cao Wu, 1 qian) Raw Alum (Sheng Bai Fan, 5 fen)
Grind into fine powder, mix with light vinegar, and apply to the periphery. Reapply immediately when dry.
Qing Liang Gao (Cooling Ointment) (from *Qi Xuan*): Applied for carbuncle swelling and pain. Raw Rhubarb (Sheng Da Huang, ground into powder), mixed with vinegar for external application.
Jin Chan Gao (Golden Toad Ointment) (from *Qi Xuan*): Applied for back carbuncles and ding poison. Take one live toad, remove bones, pound into a paste-like ointment, and apply to the affected area, leaving the head exposed; if no head remains, apply entirely. This is highly effective. Remove after one or two days; replacing it twice will result in complete recovery.
Huo Long Gao (Fire Dragon Ointment) (from *Qi Xuan*): Applied for yin-type back carbuncles characterized by black fluid discharge and loss of sensation. Take fresh dried ginger sun-dried on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, grind into powder, and store in a porcelain bottle. For use, mix with fresh pig bile to apply around the area, cover with skin paper, and moisten with hot water if dry. It is ideal when pain returns and black fluid discharges spontaneously; if sensation remains absent despite discharge, treatment is difficult.
Ge Pi Qu Nong San (Powder to Extract Pus Through the Skin) (Master Dou's Formula)
Donkey Hoof (fine powder) Chinese Gallnut (Wu Bei Zi, each 1 liang) White Salt (Bai Yan, 5 qian) Aconitum (Cao Wu, peeled, 4 qian) Buckwheat Flour (Qiao Mai Mian, stir-fried, 2 liang)
Grind together, mix with water to form a cake, bake slowly over low fire until yellow, remove fire toxicity, grind fine, mix with vinegar to form a paste for application. Swelling will gradually subside.
Tie Gu San (Iron Hoop Powder) (from *Qing Nang*)
Chinese Hibiscus Leaf (Fu Rong Ye) Raw Rhubarb (Sheng Da Huang) Burdock Fruit (Niu Bang Zi) Bletilla Rhizome (Bai Ji) Realgar (Xiong Huang, equal parts)
Grind into fine powder. Depending on the size of the sore, weigh out 3 qian or 5 qian. Stir into egg white using a chicken feather, and apply around the perimeter to bind the toxin and prevent spread.
Shen Cao Gao (Divine Herb Ointment): Specifically applied for back carbuncles, neck carbuncles, and all unnamed swellings and toxins, causing immediate resolution. Take a large handful of Centipede Joint Grass (Wu Gong Jie Cao), add a little salt, pound into a paste, and apply to the lesion. (Hu Gongbi notes: Centipede Joint Grass is a soft herb, greenish-white in color, with small leaves growing at each joint, spreading across fields like a centipede. Collect in February or March, dry in shade for later use. In summer, deep grass makes it hard to find.)
Cun Jin San (Inch Gold Powder): Treats carbuncles, sores, swellings, and toxins.
Trichosanthes Root (Tian Hua Fen, 3 liang) Red Peony Root (Chi Shao) Angelica Dahurica (Bai Zhi) Turmeric (Jiang Huang) Bletilla Rhizome (Bai Ji) Chinese Hibiscus Leaf (Fu Rong Ye, each 1 liang)
Grind fine. For each use, mix 3 fen of ginger juice with 7 fen of cool tea water. Apply to the apex if unbroken; apply to the periphery leaving the apex open if broken. Proven highly effective.
Huang Rong San (Yellow Phoenix Powder) (Hu Yanjue's Formula): Applied for swellings and toxins on hands and feet; effective whether formed or unformed.
Raw Rhubarb (Sheng Da Huang, 5 qian) Chinese Hibiscus Leaf (Fu Rong Ye, 1 liang)
Grind fine, mix with bitter tea water for application.
Snail Mucus Application for Carbuncles and Sores to Detoxify and Relieve Pain: Take 100 snails, place in a bottle, add one zhan of fresh well water, seal, and leave until next morning. Remove snails; the liquid resembles mucus. Mix with clam powder to thin, and sweep onto the sore with a chicken feather, more than ten times daily.
Ruxiang Zhitong San (Frankincense Pain-Relieving Powder): For all carbuncles and sores with pain; applying stops pain immediately.
Frankincense (Ruxiang, de-oiled) Myrrh (Moyao, de-oiled, each 2 qian) Calcite (Han Shui Shi) Talcum (Hua Shi, each 4 qian) Borneol (Bing Pian, 5 li)
Grind into powder. Mix with scallion juice and apply; pain stops immediately.
Wu Long Gao (Black Dragon Ointment)
Prunella Vulgaris Powder (Chou Xiao Fen) Chinese Gallnut (Wu Bei Zi, equal parts)
Stir-fry together until black, grind fine, mix with vinegar for application. Moisten with vinegar when dry; highly effective for detoxification.
Zhitong Mayao (Pain-Relieving Anesthetic)
Sichuan Aconite Tip (Chuan Wu Jian) Aconitum Tip (Cao Wu Jian) Raw Arisaema (Sheng Nan Xing) Raw Pinellia (Sheng Ban Xia) Long Pepper (Bi Bo) Black Pepper (Hu Jiao, each 5 qian) Toad Venom (Chan Su, 1.5 qian)
Grind into powder. Melt fish glue, mix with herbs, dry in shade. Before use, grind with water and apply to skin; the drug causes numbness, preventing pain even from knife cuts.
Chi Xiao Dou San (Adzuki Bean Powder): Treats all unnamed major toxins. Resolves at onset, induces suppuration if formed. One dou of adzuki beans, lightly roasted and ground fine. Mix with yellow honey for application, or with scallion juice, good vinegar, wine, chrysanthemum root/leaf juice, or indigo juice. Leave a hole in the center for ventilation.
Application for All Unnamed Major Toxins (Sun Zhijun's Formula): Spread raw pig brain on paper and apply; change three times daily.
Carbuncle and Sore Pus Extraction (Sun Zhijun's Formula): Mix sifted flour with human milk for application; pus discharges overnight.
Initial Back Carbuncle (Sun Zhijun's Formula): Burn new deer horn to ash, grind fine, mix with vinegar for application, 4-5 times daily, until resolved.
Carbuncle/Sore Not Healing for Long (Sun Zhijun's Formula): Burn rat skin to ash, apply to wound to promote healing.
Application for Swelling and Toxin (*Liu Mi* Formula): Slime mold (snail/slug) mixed with vermilion, applied leaving the apex open; resolves immediately.
All White Yin Toxins and Initial Neck Carbuncles (Qian Qinglun's Formula)
Live Crucian Carp (one tail) Raw Yam (Sheng Shan Yao, one piece same length as fish) White Rock Sugar (Bai Yang Tang, 2 qian)
Pound extremely fine, apply immediately; resolves instantly. Also miraculous for scrofula. For women's breast abscess at onset, mix with wax and dregs, pound fine, apply; resolves instantly.
Winter Melon Carbuncle and Limb Toxins with Full Swelling: Moisten newly smelted lime with water, dissolve in one bowl of vinegar, apply, then reapply with vinegar mixture; resolves instantly. Contraindicated for general body swellings.
Initial Unformed Back Carbuncle (*Yi Lin Ji Xiao* Formula): Tie a live toad to the sore for half a day until it becomes lethargic; rescue it by placing in water. Replace with another toad until it staggers; replace again until normal. The toxin disperses. Highly effective through repeated trials.
Another Formula (*Ling Mi Dan Yao* Formula): For carbuncles and sores, take a large earth toad, peel off all warty skin, and cover the wound. Pierce several holes in the toad skin with a needle to release toxic gas. Patient feels calm; the skin adheres to the wound, preventing expansion, and protects against centipedes attracted by pus odor. Divine effect.
Initial Carbuncle/Sore (Shen Yizhai's Formula)
Dried Ginger (Gan Jiang, 1 liang, soaked, stir-fried until purple)
Grind into powder. Mix with vinegar, apply around periphery leaving apex open; promotes healing.
Swelling and Toxin (Manuscript): For toxins at onset or after ten days, with hot swelling and pain. Crack one egg, add dog feces equal to egg size, mix well, simmer over low fire to desired consistency, shape into a cake. Apply to swollen head, wrap with cloth. Monitor frequently; replace when hot. Do not let it shift or lose heat. Heals overnight. If prolonged, change once daily. Stop when healed. Superior to all other formulas.
Tie Gu San (*Yi Fang Jie* Formula): For all initial swellings; resolves instantly. Prevents spread in formed cases. Induces suppuration in unruptured cases with pus; draws out pus in ruptured cases.
Collect Chinese Hibiscus Leaf on Ninth Day of Ninth Month (shade-dried) Chinese Gallnut (Wu Bei Zi) Bletilla Rhizome (Bai Ji) Ampelopsis Rhizome (Bai Lian) Turmeric (Jiang Huang, each 5 qian) Rhubarb (Da Huang, 1 liang) Prunella Vulgaris Powder (Chen Xiao Fen, stir-fried black, 2 liang) Crab Shell (Xie Ke, five shells)
Grind fine, mix with vinegar for application.
Swelling and Finger Abscess (*Wei Sheng Bei Yao* Formula): One single garlic clove, several lily bulbs, and aged rice dregs pounded fine for application.
Dingtong San (Pain-Stopping Powder) (Single Formula)
Chinese Yam (Shan Yao, 1 liang) White Sugar Frost (Bai Tang Shuang) Rhubarb (Da Huang, each 4 qian)
Pound fine, apply; stops pain immediately.
For hand-spread back carbuncles with ulceration: Use only sugar frost and Chinese Yam, pound fine, stuff into wound. Odor disappears, necrotic tissue falls off, new flesh grows. Change three times daily initially, then once daily after three days. Wash with licorice decoction or pork trotter soup before reapplying. Use soft goose feathers to clean, then apply until flesh fills the wound.
Xiaodu Shenfang (Divine Detoxifying Recipe) (Zhou Huinan's Formula): For all initial swellings, take half an apricot pit, fill with dry human feces, tie securely over the wound apex. If toxin is strong, the pit cracks; replace with another filled pit. At most change two or three pits; toxin resolves spontaneously.
Application Formulas
Arisaema Cum Bile (Tian Nan Xing) Raw Rhubarb (Sheng Da Huang, equal parts)
Grind fine, mix with distilled liquor for application, leaving apex open; resolves instantly.
Another Formula: Scrape bottom of urine jar, grind fine, apply thickly around periphery leaving apex open. Reapply and moisten when dry; resolves instantly, highly effective.
Another Formula: Chinese Hibiscus leaf, root bark, or flower, either fresh pounded or dry ground, mixed with white honey for application around periphery, leaving a central hole for ventilation. Change frequently when dry. Resolves initial cases; promotes pus discharge and healing in formed cases. Adding adzuki bean powder increases efficacy.
Another Formula: Green onion with roots mixed with white honey, pounded extremely fine, applied leaving apex open. Reapply 2-3 times for severe cases; resolves. Do not use if pus is about to rupture.
Another Formula: Mustard seed powder mixed with biota leaf, pounded for application; resolves instantly.
Yi Bi Miao (One Stroke Drawing) (Zhou Hexian's Formula): Miraculous for all swellings. In April, collect several sheng of tadpoles from fields, drain water, put in earthen jar, add 3-4 fen of borneol, seal tightly, mud-seal, bury underground away from sunlight for 64 days. Takes out as liquid. For unnamed swellings, dip brush in liquid, draw a large circle around lesion, gradually shrinking inward, leaving apex open. Toxin disperses. Highly verified.
Application for Swelling and All Malignant Sores (Huang Dongyang's Formula)
Glutinous Rice (Nuo Mi) Foxtail Millet (Ji Mi) Japonica Rice (Mi, each 2 sheng)
On morning of Fifth Day of Fifth Month, put rice in jar, pour boiling water through rice, soak until Sixth Day of Sixth Month next year. Grind into slurry, mix with original water, dry in sun, store. For use, take 1 liang powder, mix with 2 qian realgar powder, blend well. Mix with vinegar to thin paste, apply around, leave central hole for ventilation. Moisten with vinegar if dry. Dosage usually 1-2 qian.
Liu's Secret Application Formula
Human Urine Sediment (Ren Zhong Huang, from old cesspits or toilets) Earth Son (Tu Zi, i.e., Pyrolusite) Raw Rhubarb (Sheng Da Huang) Bletilla Rhizome (Bai Ji) Chinese Gallnut (Wu Bei Zi, raw ground) Elm Bark Flour (Yu Pi Mian, each 4 liang)
Grind fine. Mix with egg white, scallion juice, yellow honey, or vinegar for application.
Jin Gu San (Golden Hoop Powder) (Ding Zhenyu's Formula)
Alum (Dan Fan) Borax (Peng Sha) Mercury (Shui Yin) Realgar (Ming Xiong) Black Lead (Hei Qian, each 2 qian)
Prepare on Dragon Boat Festival day, apply for all major toxins. Grind fine, mix with high-proof alcohol for application. If not sticky, add 6 qian sifted flour.
Application for All Toxins: Decoct Five-Finger Dragon Vine into thick paste for application.
Another Formula (Wu Lunan's Formula): One round fragrant soap (three rounds for large toxins), mix with raw Chinese Yam, pound to dissolve, apply leaving central hole for ventilation. Resolves unformed cases; induces rupture in formed cases.
Treating Back Carbuncles/Sores, Whether Ruptured or Not, Plus Stick Wounds and Snake Bites: Pounded white balsam apple flower including root, stem, and leaves. Clean with aged rice vinegar first, then apply. Change once daily. In winter without fresh material, collect in autumn, dry in shade, grind to powder, mix with water for application; resolves instantly, relieves pain miraculously. As wound heals, boil mulberry leaf in vinegar, blanch, apply to wound to generate flesh and close wound.
Shui Yun Gao (Water Cloud Ointment) (Chan Chuan's Formula): Treating Back Carbuncle
Gleditsia Sinensis Fruit (Zao Jiao, roasted, remove skin and seeds) Chinese Gallnut (Wu Bei Zi, stir-fried) Sichuan Lovage Rhizome (Chuan Xiong) Dried Ginger (Gan Jiang, each 1 liang) Frankincense (Ruxiang) Catechu (Er Cha) Myrrh (Moyao, each 3 qian) Calcined Alum (Ku Fan) Sophora Flower (Huai Hua, each 1 qian)
Grind fine, mix with male pig bile for application; divine effect.
Application for Carbuncles/Sores: Roast Chinese Gallnut in vinegar, grind to powder. If sore is on left, use left pig brain; if on right, use right pig brain. Pound together and apply.
Fu Rong Gao (Hibiscus Ointment) (Zhang Xiufeng's Formula): For back carbuncles/sore with piercing pain unbearable; stops pain instantly.
Chinese Hibiscus Leaf (Fu Rong Ye) Vitex Negundo Seed (Huang Jing Zi, equal parts)
Grind fine, mix with egg white, apply around periphery leaving apex open. Smoke-like vapor rising from center indicates instant effect. Effective before rupture and at verge of rupture.
Xiaozhong Zhitong San (Swelling-Reducing Pain-Relieving Powder)
Chinese Hibiscus Leaf (Fu Rong Ye, 1 liang) Prunella Vulgaris Powder (Chen Xiao Fen, 1.5 liang) Chinese Gallnut (Wu Bei Zi) Raw Arisaema (Sheng Nan Xing) Raw Pinellia (Sheng Ban Xia) Raw Aconitum (Sheng Cao Wu, each 3 qian)
Grind together, mix with vinegar for application.
Swelling with unchanged skin color becomes red and swollen immediately upon application.
Prunella Vulgaris Powder (Chen Xiao Fen, 4 liang) Scallion White (Cong Bai, 1 liang)
Stir-fry together until black, grind fine, mix with vinegar for application.
Long Hu Gao (Dragon-Tiger Ointment): Applied for all unnamed carbuncles and major toxins.
Prunella Vulvaris Powder (Chen Xiao Fen, 1 jin) Elsholtzia Spicata (Tu Mu Bie, stir-fried whole with shell, 2 liang) Sichuan Aconitum (Chuan Cao Wu) Dried Ginger (Gan Jiang) Bletilla Rhizome (Bai Ji) Sichuan Pepper (Hua Jiao, each 5 qian)
Grind fine. For unformed sores, apply over entire surface; for formed, leave central hole; for ulcerated, apply around periphery. Mix with vinegar, warm, and apply. Cover with cotton paper externally; if dry, sweep with warm vinegar using chicken feather.
Tie Gu Dan (Iron Hoop Pill) (He Longquan's Formula): Applied for all swellings.
Chinese Gallnut (Wu Bei Zi, stir-fried until dark black, 4 liang) Prunella Vulgaris Powder (Chen Xiao Fen, stir-fried yellow) Adzuki Bean (Chi Xiao Dou, stir-fried, each 2 liang) Frankincense (Ruxiang, 5 qian)
Grind fine, mix with vinegar, apply around periphery.
Shen Xian Qu Du Yi Sao Dan (Divine Expulsion of Toxin One-Sweep Pill): Specifically treats carbuncles, back carbuncles, unnamed swellings, erysipelas, and wind-wrapping throat in men and women. Sweeping at onset resolves; sweeping after rupture heals.
Realgar (Xiong Huang) Cinnabar (Zhu Sha, each 2 qian) Cow Bezoar (Niu Huang) Musk (She Xiang, each 2 fen)
Grind extremely fine, mix with pig bile for application. Toxin disperses, pain stops. Externally, light tung oil paper twist near toxin to shine cold air outward; heals spontaneously.
Shen Xian Fu Du Shi Xiao Bing (Divine Toxin Application Laughing Cake): For initial major carbuncles and toxins.
Yellow Mud (large piece, baked熟) Green Onion with Roots (Lian Xu Cong, large bunch) Honey (Yi Zhong) Realgar (Xiong Huang, 3 fen)
Pound together into a cake, apply warm to toxin. Reapply if dry; heals in one or two applications.
Tie Gu San (Iron Hoop Powder): For initial carbuncles, back carbuncles, and ding toxins.
Realgar (Xiong Huang) Bear Bile (Xiong Dan) Cinnabar (Zhu Sha, each 2 qian) Beijing Ink (Jing Mo, 5 qian) Musk (She Xiang, 3 fen)
Grind fine, mix with vinegar for application. For formed cases, use only Beijing ink juice mixed for application around periphery.
Jin Gu San (Golden Hoop Powder) (Wu Jinchen's Formula): Applied for all fire toxins and unnamed swellings; resolves initial carbuncles, alleviates formed ones.
Raw Rhubarb (Sheng Da Huang) Sand Ginger (San Nai) Raw Arisaema (Sheng Nan Xing) Turmeric (Jiang Huang) Raw Pinellia (Sheng Ban Xia, each 4 liang) Bletilla Rhizome (Bai Ji) Human Ash (Ren Zhong Bai) Angelica Dahurica (Bai Zhi) Trichosanthes Root (Tian Hua Fen, each 3 liang) Polygonum Multiflorum Vine (Cao He Che, 1 liang)
Grind fine. Mix with yellow honey for application; if red/white, mix with rice vinegar.
Bai Fu Yao (White Application Medicine) (Wu Jinchen's Formula): Applied for flowing phlegm, damp-phlegm, cold-phlegm, throat-phlegm, cheek abscess, axillary abscess, and women's breast abscess/mastitis/lactation issues, scrofula, etc. Divine effect.
Prunella Vulgaris Powder (Chen Xiao Fen) Ampelopsis Rhizome (Bai Lian) Raw Pinellia (Sheng Ban Xia) Angelica Dahurica (Bai Zhi) Raw Arisaema (Sheng Nan Xing) Bletilla Rhizome (Bai Ji) Chinese Gallnut (Wu Bei Zi) San Qin (Three Relatives) Human Ash (Ren Zhong Bai, each 3 liang)
Grind fine, store tightly in porcelain bottle. Fire-phlegm: mix with yellow honey. Flowing/damp-phlegm: mix with egg white. Scrofula, cheek/axillary abscess, throat-phlegm: mix with rice vinegar. For breast conditions: use one live crucian carp, pound fine removing bones, mix with powder and apply.
Application for Back Carbuncle
Plantago Asiatica (Che Qian Cao) Cao (Grass) Bashan Tiger Grass (Ba Shan Hu Cao) Honeysuckle (Jin Yin Hua, equal parts)
Grind fine, mix with Prunella Vulgaris powder slurry for application.
Tie Gu San (Iron Hoop Powder)
Chinese Hibiscus Leaf (Fu Rong Ye, shade-dried) Turmeric (Jiang Huang) Chinese Gallnut (Wu Bei Zi, stir-fried to remove insects) Ampelopsis Rhizome (Bai Lian) Bletilla Rhizome (Bai Ji) Crab Shell (Xie Ke, each 5 qian) Raw Rhubarb (Sheng Da Huang) Prunella Vulgaris Powder (Chen Xiao Fen, each 1 liang)
Grind fine, mix with hot rice vinegar to thin paste, apply around leaving central hole for ventilation.
Mayo (Anesthetic): Applied to toxin, causes numbness allowing cutting without pain.
Sichuan Aconite Tip (Chuan Wu Jian) Aconitum Tip (Cao Wu Jian) Raw Pinellia (Sheng Ban Xia) Raw Arisaema (Sheng Nan Xing, each 5 qian) Black Pepper (Hu Jiao, 1 liang) Toad Venom (Chan Su, 4 qian)
Grind fine, mix with distilled liquor for application. (Alternative: add Long Pepper 5 qian; or Add Asarum 1 liang).
Cold Wound Not Healing: Dry ginger powder sprinkled; rubbing generates heat like baking, fastest for generating flesh.
Reduce Swelling Toxin: Pounded Kochia Root (Tu San Qi), mixed with vinegar for application, leaving apex open for air. Resolves instantly. If pus ripe, induces rupture instantly.
Yi Bi Gou (One Stroke Cross-out)
House Centipede (You Yan Chong, 30-40 pieces) Borneol (Bing Pian, 4 fen)
Put in jar, turns to water. Add 0.5 jin sesame oil, seal, store avoiding air leakage. For onset, draw circle around toxin with brush, repeatedly encircling; resolves. For formed, apply fully leaving apex open.
Application for Swelling: Resolves unformed, induces rupture in formed.
Yellow Dog Jawbone (one piece, processed) Ampelopsis Rhizome (Bai Lian) Fava Bean (Can Dou, each 1 liang)
Grind fine, mix with vinegar for application, leaving apex open.
Resolve Neck Carbuncle: White Morning Glory Stem/Leaf (Bai Qian Niu) one bunch, Ginger (Sheng Jiang) three slices, pound together for application, leaving apex open.
Application for Various Swellings and Scrofula/Bang Chuang.
Sichuan Gallnut (Chuan Bei Zi, 8 liang stir-fried black, take 4 liang powder) Sichuan Fritillaria (Chuan Bei Mu, removed heart, 5 qian) Sea Powder (Hai Fen, green variety 4 liang, stir-fried black approx 2 liang weight) Raw Pinellia (Sheng Ban Xia) Sichuan Aconitum (Chuan Wu, boiled with licorice) Raw Arisaema (Sheng Nan Xing) Aconitum (Cao Wu, each 1 qian)
Grind each extremely fine, mix together. For use, mix with cooked honey-tea juice, apply to lesion, protect with oil paper. For initial scrofula, mix with cooked honey-tea juice; for long-standing hard nodules, use aged rice vinegar alone; also resolves.