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To treat difficult urination.
Talcum (2 fen), human hair (2 fen, burnt), and white fish (2 fen).
The above three ingredients are pounded into a powder. Take half a *qianbi* with water, three times daily.

Use Puli Ash (7 parts) and Talcum (3 parts), pound into a powder. Take one *fangcunbi* with water, three times daily. Treats difficult urination; also treats patients with cold extremities accompanied by *Pi Shui* (edema of the skin).

Also known as *Tianshui San*, *Taibai San*, or *Liuyi San*. Treats heatstroke, cold damage, epidemics, disorders due to hunger and fullness, fatigue and injury, worry and overthinking, fright and anxiety, grief and anger, infectious diseases, residual heat after illness, relapse, and other ailments; also treats simultaneous cold damage of exterior and interior (*Lianggan Shanghan*), toxins from various medicines, alcohol, and food; treats five labors and seven injuries, all deficiencies and internal injuries, impotence, palpitations, forgetfulness, convulsions and epilepsy, chest tightness and shortness of breath, phlegm cough, muscle pain, abdominal distension and pain, stranguria, turbid urine, lithiasis stranguria; treats fever, vomiting, diarrhea, intestinal rumbling with dysentery, red and white dysentery; clears irritability and heat, resolves cold-heat accumulation in the chest; quenches thirst, eliminates retained fluid; for postpartum women with damaged fluids, blood deficiency, yin deficiency, and excessive heat; promotes labor and lactation; treats blocked milk, breast abscess, dental sores, and gingival caries. This medicine greatly nourishes the Qi of the Spleen and Kidney, unblocks the nine orifices and six fu organs, removes stagnation and accumulation, benefits essence and qi, strengthens sinews and bones, harmonizes qi and blood, unblocks meridians, resolves food and fluid retention, preserves true yuan, brightens eyes and ears, calms the soul and spirit, strengthens willpower, lightens the body, prolongs life, enables endurance of hard work, hunger, and thirst. It is a miraculous immortal medicine. Use white Talcum processed by water flotation (6 liang) and Powdered Licorice Root (1 liang), grind into fine powder. Each dose is 3 qian, mixed with a little honey, and taken with warm water. For excess heat, take with newly drawn well water; for resolving exterior and promoting diuresis, take with Scallion and Fermented Soybean Decoction; for promoting lactation, take with pork and noodle soup; for inducing labor, take with sesame oil slurry. All cases of dystocia or retained dead fetus are caused by wind-heat, dryness, astringency, stagnation, and tight contraction preventing relaxation. When the power of this medicine arrives, the stagnation instantly opens and the disease heals.

Use Talcum (1 liang) and Sulfur (4 qian), grind into powder, make pills with paste the size of mung beans. Take with weak ginger decoction. Treats watery diarrhea caused by latent summerheat.

This is Liuyi San added with Red Yeast Rice (5 qian). Treats bloody dysentery.

This is Liuyi San added with Dried Ginger (5 qian), made into pills with ginger juice. Treats non-bloody dysentery.

This is Liuyi San added with Evodia Fruit (1 liang, soaked in decoction). This is also a formula for treating acid regurgitation due to damp-heat.

Use fresh juice from Biye Leaf (Cacumen Platycladi), Lotus Node (Rhizoma Nelumbinis), and Plantago Seed (Plantaginis Semen) (one cup each), mixed with Yiyuan San (3 qian). This is the main formula for treating bloody stranguria.
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