黑须散 乌须发。
官粉 真蛤粉 黄丹 密陀僧 锻石（各等分）
研匀水调，搽上俟干，水洗去药，用核桃油润之。
乌须神方
好京墨（三钱，研末） 麝香（三分） 生漆（一斤，去渣） 雌雄蟹（一对，重八两，霜降后者佳，
对脐扎好）
先将京墨、麝香入瓷瓶内，次将蟹投入，又将生膝倾入瓶内封固，入人行处土
中深理尺许，七七四十九日取起，麻布去渣取贮瓷瓶中。凡用笔涂上，将指头套鱼
胞捏匀，恐染指上难褪。
又方
枯白矾 诃子皮 砂 细辛（各三分） 五倍子（焙黑色，青绵布包裹脚跟，踏成饼子，三钱）
红铜末（银罐内 成灰，六分）
各为细末。对和一处，次用石榴皮一个，乌梅肉三个，细茶一撮，水二盏，煎
七分去渣，用磁盏盛，将前药末汁纳放锅内重汤煮药，至皱面起为度。晚间用抿子
蘸药刷上，次早温水洗净，须发如漆。
七仙丹 乃补心肾、驻容颜、黑髭须之圣药。
天门冬（去心） 麦门冬（去心） 人参（去芦） 熟地黄（酒洗） 生地黄（酒洗） 小茴（炒黄色，
秋冬用） 白茯苓（去皮，春夏用，各二两） 何首乌（甜瓜瓣者九蒸九晒，四两）
为细末。蜜丸弹子大，每服一丸嚼烂，好黄酒送下或盐汤下。或丸如桐子大，每
服五十丸，空心酒送下。忌三白（葱、蒜、萝卜是也。）房事，合时忌犯铁器。
乌须 一月两乌永不见白。
五倍子（炒过一两） 青盐（炒） 胆矾 明矾（各一钱） 铜青（二钱） 飞面（五分）
上用粗六安茶煎浓调稠，重汤炖至起泡，刷须上，干则洗去。
乌须汗巾
荜澄茄（三两） 大黄（四两） 旱莲草（二两） 辽细辛 没石子 黑蜀葵花（阴干，各一两）
黑铅（半斤化开，投水银一两，待冷定）
用白绫三尺，将前药并包一处，好米醋五斤入砂锅内，煮干为度取出，用青布
包绫阴干，做成汗巾，或二三条常放袖中，要占人气方妙。不拘时擦须，半年一换，其
须永不白。所煮之铅打成小梳，梳须甚妙。或用后方亦效。
五倍子不拘多少为末，入铜锅内炒，青烟尽白烟起，用潮湿青布一块铺地上，将
炒倍子倾入包住，以脚 成饼复研细，每用末五钱，铜末入铜锅炒，红醋淬三次，一
钱八分，白芨六分，没石子、青盐、白矾、
食盐各九分，同合一处研细，量须多少，用烧酒调涂。
又方
桑椹子（人家园内或空地上者佳，如坟上栽者不可用） 蛤蟆子
桑椹十个，蛤蟆子亦用十个，彼此相等，共入缸中埋土地下，百日俱化为水，入
好京墨浸化。搽须。
擦牙乌须
青盐 破故纸（炒） 槐角子 熟地（酒浸三日，炒） 地骨皮（各一两） 百药煎 没石子（各
一钱） 北细辛（二钱）
共研细。每早擦牙咽下，不可一日间断。每月擦时摘去白须，再生必黑，永不再白。
乌须 蛤蟆乌不拘多少，洗净入小瓶内，加麝香一分，扎头埋净地下，四十
九日取出，以手蘸水捻须梢，其黑自上。
又方 上好墨以龟尿磨浓，用小抿子将须掀起缓缓涂之，不可近肉，亦不可
用手搽，搽则墨色入骨难褪。
Black Beard Powder (Heixu San) for darkening beard hair.
Guafen (Lead Carbonate), Zhen Gafen (Real Clam Powder), Huangdan (Red Lead), Mituoseng (Litharge) (equal parts).
Grind uniformly, mix with water to apply. Wait until dry, wash off the medicine with water, and moisturize with Walnut Oil (Hetao You).
Divine Formula for Darkening Beards (Wuxu Shenfang)
High-quality Jingmo (Beijing Ink, 3 qian, ground into powder), Shexiang (Musk, 3 fen), Shengqi (Raw Lacquer, 1 jin, filtered to remove dregs), Male and Female Crabs (one pair, weighing 8 liang; those caught after Frost's Descent are best, tied at the umbilicus).
First, place the Beijing Ink and Musk in a porcelain bottle. Then, put the crabs into the bottle, pour in the Raw Lacquer, seal tightly, and bury it deep in the soil of a place where people walk, about one chi deep. After forty-nine days (seven sevens), retrieve it, filter out the dregs using hemp cloth, and store the liquid in a porcelain bottle. When using, apply with a brush. Use a finger cot made from fish bladder to blend evenly, to prevent staining fingers which is difficult to remove.
Another Prescription
Kubaijian (Calcined Alum), Hezipi (Pericarpium Terminaliae), Sha (Sand/Mineral), Xixin (Asarum) (each 3 fen), Wubeizi (Galla Chinensis) (roasted until black, wrapped in green cotton cloth, stepped on by heels into a cake, 3 qian).
Hongtongmo (Red Copper Powder) (burned to ash in a silver pot, 6 fen).
Grind each into fine powder. Mix together. Take one pomegranate peel, three pieces of Wumei (Dried Plum) flesh, a pinch of fine tea, and two zhan of water. Decoct until seven-tenths remain, filter, and store in a magnetic cup. Place the previous powders and juice into a pot and cook over double boiler until the surface wrinkles and bubbles appear. In the evening, use a small brush to apply the medicine to the beard. Wash clean with warm water the next morning; the beard will be as black as lacquer.
Seven Immortals Pill (Qixian Dan) is a sacred medicine for tonifying the Heart and Kidney, preserving youthfulness, and darkening facial hair.
Tianmendong (Asparagi Radix, heart removed), Maimendong (Ophiopogonis Radix, heart removed), Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma, rhizome removed), Shudihuang (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix, washed with wine), Shengdihuang (Rehmanniae Radix, washed with wine), Xiaohui (Foeniculum Fructus, stir-fried until yellow, used in autumn/winter), BaiFuling (Poria, skin removed, used in spring/summer, each 2 liang), Heshouwu (Polygoni Multiflori Radix, sweet melon-seed variety, nine steamed and nine sun-dried, 4 liang).
Grind into fine powder. Make pills the size of bean seeds with honey. Chew one pill per dose, swallow with good yellow wine or salt water. Or make pills the size of paulownia seeds, take fifty pills per dose, swallow with wine on an empty stomach. Avoid "Three Whites" (scallion, garlic, radish). Abstain from sexual intercourse; avoid contact with ironware during coitus.
Darkening Beard: Apply twice a month for one month, and white hair will never return.
Wubeizi (Galla Chinensis) (stir-fried, 1 liang), Qingyan (Green Salt) (stir-fried), Danfan (Chalcanthite), Mingfan (Alumen) (each 1 qian), Tongqing (Malachite) (2 qian), Feimian (Refined Wheat Flour) (5 fen).
Decoct coarse Lu'an tea to a thick consistency, stew over double boiler until bubbling, brush onto beard, wash off when dry.
Beard-Darkening Sweat Towel
Bichengqie (Schisandrae Fructus Chinensis / Schisandraceae Fruit), Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma), Hanliancao (Ecliptae Herba), Liaoxixin (Asari Radix et Rhizoma), Meishi Zi (Myrobalan), Heishukuihua (Black Hibiscus Rosemallow Flower, dried in shade) (each 1 liang).
Heiqian (Black Lead) (half jin melted, add 1 liang of Mercury, wait for cooling and solidification).
Use three chi of white silk to wrap all the above medicines together. Boil in five jin of good rice vinegar in a clay pot until dry. Remove, wrap the silk in green cloth, and dry in the shade to make a sweat towel. Keep two or three in your sleeve; they should absorb body heat/qi to be effective. Rub on the beard whenever desired, replace every half year, and the beard will never turn white. The boiled lead can be hammered into small combs for combing the beard, which is very effective. Alternatively, the following prescription is also effective.
Take Wubeizi (Galla Chinensis) in any amount, grind into powder, stir-fry in a copper pot until blue smoke disappears and white smoke rises. Spread a damp green cloth on the ground, pour the fried powder onto it, wrap it up, step on it to form a cake, then grind finely again. Use 5 qian of this powder per application. Stir-fry copper powder in a copper pot, quench with red vinegar three times, use 1 qian 8 fen. Add Baiji (Bletillae Rhizoma) 6 fen, Meishi Zi (Myrobalan), Qingyan (Green Salt), Mingfan (Alumen), and Yanshi (Sodium Chloride) each 9 fen. Mix and grind finely. Adjust the amount according to the beard volume, mix with burning wine (baijiu) to apply.
Another Prescription
Sangshenzi (Mori Fructus) (those grown in gardens or open fields are best; do not use those grown on graves), Hamazi (Toad Seeds/Ova).
Ten Sangshenzi (Mori Fructus) and ten Hamazi (Toad Seeds/Ova), equal in number. Bury them together in a jar underground for one hundred days until they liquefy. Add high-quality Jingmo (Beijing Ink) to dissolve. Apply to the beard.
Teeth-Rubbing Beard Darkening Method
Qingyan (Green Salt), PoguZhi (Cibotii Rhizoma) (stir-fried), Huaiguoz (Sophorae Fructus), Shudi (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix) (soaked in wine for three days, stir-fried), Digupi (Lycii Cortex) (each 1 liang), Baiyaojian (Pill of Hundred Medicines), Meishi Zi (Myrobalan) (each 1 qian), Beixixin (Asari Radix et Rhizoma) (2 qian).
Grind together finely. Rub teeth every morning and swallow the residue. Do not miss a day. Each time you rub, pluck out white hairs; regrown hairs will definitely be black and never turn white again.
Darkening Beard: Hamawu (Toad preparation) in any amount. Clean, place in a small bottle, add 1 fen of Shexiang (Musk), tie the mouth, and bury in clean soil for forty-nine days. Retrieve, dip fingers in water, and twist the tips of the beard; the blackness will spread from top to bottom.
Another Prescription: Grind high-quality ink with Turtle Urine (Gui Niao) to a thick paste. Use a small brush to lift the beard and apply slowly. Do not get close to the skin, and do not use hands to rub, as the ink color may penetrate the bone and be difficult to remove.