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Book: Zhongfutang Gongxuan Liangfang (Selected Excellent Prescriptions from Zhongfu Hall)
Author: Ye Gui (Original), Hua Xiuyun (Editor)
Dynasty: Qing Dynasty
Chapter: Traumatic Injuries and Fractures
Category: Formulas

Lidong Dan (黎洞丹): Treats all kinds of unnamed swelling and toxic sores, severe lethargy bordering on death, as well as traumatic injuries, blood stasis rushing to the heart, coma, and unresponsiveness.
Calculus Bovis (Niuhuang) (2.5 qian each), Borneolum Syntheticum (Bingpian) (2.5 qian each), Ferulae Resina (awei), Realgar (Xionghuang) (1 liang each), Moschus (Shexiang) (2.5 qian), Raw Rhubarb (Sheng Dahuang), Catechu (Ercha), Himalayan Beechwood (Tianzhuhuang), Zicao Rong (Purple Grass Root Floss) (mixed with ram blood). All herbs are ground into fine powder. The resin of Toosendan Fruit (Tenghuang) is melted to form pills the size of a water chestnut. If the quantity is small, honey is used as an excipient. The pills are sealed with wax for storage. Take one pill per dose, administered with pure wine (Wu Hui Jiu).

Zijin Jiu (紫金酒): Treats all types of wind-pathogens, traumatic injuries, cold-dampness hernia, fixed pain due to injury, blood stagnation, and qi condensation. This wine effectively unblocks meridians and resolves long-standing pathogens.
Cinnamon Bark (Guangui), Frankincense (Ming Rushiagxiang), Myrrh (Moyao), Costus Root (Guangmuxiang), Daphne Odora (Yangzhizhu), Notopterygium Root (Chuan Qianghuo) (5 qian each), Ligusticum Chuanxiong (Chuanxiong), Corydalis Rhizome (Xuanhusuo), Chinese Privet Bark (Zijingpi), Acanthopanax Bark (Wujiapi).
Grind the above herbs into coarse powder. Decoct in 10 jin of good wine by suspending the container over heat for the duration of three incense sticks. Divide into ten small bottles for consumption.

First Immortal Formula for Military Use in Treating Traumatic Injuries, Knife and Arrow Wounds:
Raw Dog Head (1 piece; scrape off meat, calcine in open air until carbonized, grind to powder), Human Nail Ash (Ren Zhijia Hui), Hair Charcoal (Xueyu Hui) (1 qian each), Aged Pine Rosin (Chen Songxiang) (5 qian).
Grind to extremely fine powder and apply to the wound; fractured bones will knit, and knife wounds will heal. These four ingredients can be taken in equal parts internally with wine.

Washing Prescription:
Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng), Schizonepeta Spike (Jingjie), Licorice Root (Gancao).
Decoct in water and wash the wound in a windless place.

Formula for Arrowhead and Wooden Object Injuries:
Spread mugwort floss (Aimian) into a cake. Spread fine powder of saltpeter (Huoxiao) on top. Then spread powder made from crushed large dung beetles (Danglang) over the saltpeter. Wrap this around the wound. It will heal within one day and night.
Alternative Formula:
Use aged cured pork belly, skin removed, selecting red and fresh pieces. Slice finely including fat. Mix with fresh ivory powder and human nail powder. Mince together thoroughly and apply to the affected area.

Formula for Metal and Arrowhead Wounds:
True Agarwood (Zhen Jiangxiang) (1 liang), Chinese Gall (Wubeizi) (5 qian).
Grind to powder and apply to the lesion. Bandage tightly to promote closure. Adding Elephant Skin (Xiangpi) (1 liang) is even better.

Formula for Metal Wounds:
Asphalt (Qingli) (quantity unspecified), grind to powder. Mix with copper filings (Xiangtong Xie). Apply to the wound for immediate healing.
Alternative Formula:
Calcined Iron Ore (Chen Duanshi), Hairless Mouse (Wumao Xiao Shu), Chinese Chive Root (Jiucai Gen).
Pound into a paste, form into cakes, and stick them to a shady wall. Once dry, scrape off, grind to fine powder, and apply.
Alternative Formula: Also treats severed tendons and bones.
Raw Pinellia Tuber (Sheng Banxia), Agarwood Nodes (Jiangxiang Jie), Red Copper Filings (Hongtong Xie), Chinese Gall (Wubeizi) (stir-fried).
Grind equal parts to powder, apply to the wound, and bandage.
Alternative Formula:
Agarwood Nodes (Jiangxiang Jie), Processed White Pine Rosin (Zhi Bai Songxiang) (1 liang each), Dragon's Blood (Xuexie) (1.5 qian), Myrrh (Moyao) (0.5 qian), Clam Shell (Wenge) (5 qian, stir-fried).
Grind to powder, apply, and bandage.
Alternative Formula:
Chinese Gall (Wubeizi) (calcined), Lead Tetroxide (Huangdan), Dragon's Blood (Xuexie), Large Fritillary Bulb (Da Beimu) (1 qian each), Red Kaolin (Chishizhi) (4 qian), Cuttlebone (Haipiaoxiao) (2 qian, calcined), Fossilized Bones (Longgu) (2 qian).
Grind to extremely fine powder and apply.
Alternative Formula:
Use high-quality chicken bone charcoal that makes a sound when thrown on the ground. Quantity unspecified. Mix equally with good pine rosin. Pound into a mass. Moisten with old chive juice and dry in shade.
Alternative Formula:
Beeswax (Baila) (1 liang), Toosendan Resin (Tenghuang) (3 qian).
Boil 4 liang of sesame oil. Add the two ingredients and boil briefly. Apply to the wound for immediate healing. This formula stops pain and bleeding, and is effective for bruises and scalds/burns.

Formula for Knife and Axe Wounds: Stops bleeding, relieves pain, generates flesh.
True Agarwood (Zhen Jiangxiang) (crushed and stir-fried until carbonized), Chinese Gall (Wubeizi) (lightly stir-fried), Hair Ash (Fatou Hui).
Mix equal parts into powder and apply. Cover with dried bamboo leaf (Ruoye), secure with soft cotton, and change dressing every two days.

Immediate Hemostatic Formula: Also treats redness and bleeding from acupuncture scars, and any uncontrolled vascular bleeding.
Apply hot yellow cow manure immediately to stop bleeding.
Immediate Hemostatic Formula:
Burn old cotton wadding to ash and cover the wound.

Jiling Jiangu Gao (集灵接骨膏 - Jiling Bone-Knitting Ointment):
Rehmannia Root (Shengdi), Angelica Sinensis (Danggui), Rhubarb (Dahuang), Liujiinu (Jinu), Male Rat Droppings (Xiong Shushi) (2 liang each), Datura Flower (Naoyanghua), Safflower (Honghua), Cinnamon Twig (Shang Rougui), Aconite Root (Chuanwu), Aconite Root (Caowu), Euphorbia Root (Daji), Ground Beetle (Biezhe) (3 liang each).
Decoct in 44 liang of hemp seed oil and 24 liang of tung oil until the ointment base is ready. Add Frankincense (Ruxiang), Myrrh (Moyao), Dragon's Blood (Xuexie), and Ferula Resin (awei) (1 liang each). Add peach and willow branches.

Jiegu Dan (接骨丹 - Bone-Knitting Pill):
Clean tiles from a latrine pit that have been there for years. Quench in vinegar nine times and grind to powder. For every 1 liang of powder, add Acanthopanax Bark (Wujiapi) and male hair ash (Nanzifa Hui) (5 qian each). Do not use impurities.
Alternative Formula:
Ancient Copper Coins (Gu Tongqian) (5 qian, quenched in vinegar 49 times), Drynaria Rhizome (Gusuibu) (3 qian, de-haired and baked), Frankincense (Ruxiang), Myrrh (Moyao) (de-oiled), Natural Pyrite (Ziran Tong) (quenched in vinegar).
Grind to powder. Take 1 fen. Grind together with 7 seeds of Trichosanthes Kernel (Gualou Ren). Place on the tongue and swallow with wine. For the first dose, add 1 li of Moschus (Shexiang).
Alternative Formula:
Take one hen weighing about 1 jin. Kill it, chop the feathers and bones into a paste. Mix with chicken blood and chop further. Apply to the affected area and wrap tightly with silk.

Togu Dan (透骨丹 - Bone-Penetrating Pill): Treats falls and trauma penetrating to the bone marrow, dull pain, pain worsened by cloudy weather, or chronic heaviness and weakness in limbs.
Datura Seeds (Naoyang Huazi) (1 liang, soaked in rice wine, stir-fried three times, soaked in child's urine once, baked dry), Frankincense (Ruxiang), Myrrh (Moyao) (not de-oiled), True Dragon's Blood (Xuexie) (3 qian each).
Grind to powder, weigh accurately, mix evenly. Add 1 fen of Moschus (Shexiang) and grind together. Store in a porcelain bottle, sealed. Take 3 qian per dose; robust individuals take 5-6 qian. No need to take at night. Weak patients take half dose.

Taohua San (桃花散 - Peach Blossom Powder): Treats traumatic injuries, knife wounds, dog bites, and rotting feet.
Aged Weathered Calcined Iron Ore (Nianjiu Fenghua Duanshi) (10 sheng, stir-fried until peach-blossom colored and carbonized), Jinwen Rhubarb (Jinwen Dahuang) (1 liang, baked crisp and ground).
Mix with true sesame oil and apply. Applying on the same day is more effective.

Jiawei Shuhui San (加味鼠灰散 - Modified Mouse Ash Powder):
Aged Calcined Iron Ore (Chen Duanshi) (6 liang), Rhubarb (Dahuang) (1 liang), Boy's Hair Ash (Tongzi Fa Hui), Frankincense (Ruxiang), Myrrh (Moyao), Polygonum Knotweed Seed (Puhuang) (lightly stir-fried, 3 qian each).
Stir-fry the calcined iron ore and rhubarb together until the ore turns purple. Grind fine. Take a blind mouse, pound to a paste, mix with the medicine, and pound again into a cake. Wrap in cloth and apply.

Formula for Treating Sprains and Bruises:
At the initial stage of a sprain, in a windless place, touch a paper twist to the nose to induce 20-30 forceful sneezes. This raises qi and relieves pain. Then apply pounded walnut meat.
Alternative Formula:
Juice of Chinese chives mixed equally with child's urine. Drink with hot wine until intoxicated. For fractures or dislocations, wash externally with fermented grain residue soup, endure the pain while massaging, and fix with bamboo/wood splints.
Alternative Formula:
For joint dislocations from trauma, crush one raw crab. Pour boiling hot wine over it and drink several bowls. Apply the crab residue to the affected area. Healing occurs within half a day.
Alternative Formula:
Ground Beetle (Dibie Chong) (wine-fried, 10 pieces), Dried Earthworm (Dilong Gan) (baked, 10 pieces), Natural Pyrite (Ziran Tong) (vinegar-quenched, 2 qian), Drynaria Rhizome (Gusuibu) (3 qian), Frankincense (Ruxiang) (0.5 qian).
Grind to powder. Add Sappan Wood (Sumu) (3 qian). Decoct in wine and drink.
Alternative Formula: Named Qili San (Seven-Cent Powder).
Angelica Tail (Danggui Wei), Safflower (Honghua), Peach Kernel (Taoren), Rhubarb (Dahuang) (soaked in wine, sun-dried), Natural Pyrite (Ziran Tong) (vinegar-quenched >7 times, 1 qian each), Ground Beetle (Tubie Chong) (head and feet removed, fried until scorched, 5 qian), Hemp Root (Huangma Gen) (burned to ash, carbonized), Dragon's Blood (Xuexie), Frankincense (Ruxiang), Myrrh (Moyao), Catechu (Ercha), Cinnabar (Zhusha), Realgar (Xionghuang).
Grind to powder. Adult dose: 1.2 fen; Child dose: 7 li. Swallow with aged wine. Stop when sweating occurs.

He Shang Fang (和伤方 - Harmonizing Injury Formula):
Use sand from an old cellar pit. The pit need not be outdoors but should be ventilated and exposed to sunlight. Sand from the seepage area is best.
Five [units/parts]
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Formula for Blue Swelling (Bruising), whether broken or not, without surgery, resolving overnight without pain: Named Songrou Congbai Gao (Pork and Scallion White Ointment).
Take 2 jin of lean/fat fresh pork, remove skin and bones. Add 1.5 jin of scallion whites. Add 3 liang of clear pine rosin, grind to fine powder, and sieve.

Formula for Whole Body Bruising:
One large raw crab, or 2-3 small ones. Pound to a paste. Chase with large amounts of hot wine until drunk. Rest for one night for relief.
Formula for Facial Bruising from Falls:
Powder of raw Pinellia tuber (Sheng Banxia), mixed with vinegar. Apply for miraculous effect.

Formula for Chronic Broken Wind (Tetanus) with stiff back of hand and locked jaw:
Arisaema (Nanxing) (processed with ginger juice, 1 liang), Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng) (1 liang), Cicada Slough (Chantui) (5 qian).
Grind to fine powder. Take 3 qian per dose, mixed with a bowl of hot yellow wine. Eat 3-4 raw green onions afterwards. Cover head with blanket to induce sweating. Stop when sweat ceases. Avoid smoke.

Sheng San (胜散)
Pre-Dosing Formula Before Caning:
Natural Pyrite (Ziran Tong) (vinegar-quenched 7 times), Angelica Sinensis (Danggui) (wine-washed and pounded), Hematite (Wumingyi) (washed clean), Ground Beetle (Tubie Chong), Frankincense (Ruxiang), Myrrh (Moyao), Earthworm (Dilong) (cleaned).
Grind equal parts to powder. Make pills with refined honey, size of a broad bean. Take 3 pills per dose with warm water.

Formula for Caning Injuries:
During initial caning, severe cases should drink child's urine wine or safflower wine. Wash/massage the wound with hot wine. Whether blood is clean or not, apply hot tofu slices.
Alternative Formula:
5 qian of fine white mineral ash lumps. Dissolve in spring or well water, stir dozens of times, let settle. Use half a small bowl of sesame oil... [text incomplete/corrupted] ...end immediately.
Alternative Formula:
Burn bamboo node sections to ash. Heavy cases: 5 qian. Light cases: 3 qian. Take with good hot wine. Pain stops immediately.

Sheng Gao for Stick Wounds:
Render 1 jin of pork back fat, remove dregs. Add 3 liang of yellow beeswax and melt. Test consistency with water drops. Add de-oiled Frankincense, Myrrh, and Catechu... [text incomplete/corrupted] ...full mouth.

Shenxiao Daban Gao (神效打板膏 - Miraculous Board-Beating Ointment): Treats stagnant blood accumulation, hiccups, loss of appetite, and rotting from torture with clamps.
Frankincense (Ruxiang), Myrrh (Moyao) (de-oiled, 3 liang each), Calomel (Qingfen), Dragon's Blood (Xuexie) (3 qian each), Borneol (Bingpian) (0.3 fen), Moschus (Shexiang) (0.1 fen), Camphor (Zhangnao) (2 qian).
Grind to fine powder. Melt with oil and wax to form ointment. Apply to the lesion. Evil fluids will drain day and night, leading to immediate recovery.

Formula for Unbearable Clamp Torture Pain:
Live Crucian Carp (1 fish, approx. 2-3 liang), Aged Wine Lees (Chen Jiuzao) (1 zhong), Copper Powder (Tongmo) (5 qian), Walnut Meat (Hetao Rou) (4 liang).
Pound together and apply to the affected area.

Preparation Formula for Clamps: Also named Xiaojinlian Fang.
Frankincense (Ruxiang), Myrrh (Moyao) (de-oiled, 1 qian each), Castor Bean (Bimaren) (stir-fried), Aconite Root (Chuanwu), Aconite Root (Caowu) (5 qian each).
Grind to powder. Take 20 bars of soap, remove strings and fascia. Pound with herbs until paste. One day before torture, make 4 cakes. Apply to the two sides of the clamp... [text incomplete/corrupted] ...cotton.
Alternative Formula:
Soap (4-5 bars), Ground Beetles (Dibie Chong) (20 pieces), Copper Powder (Tongmo) (5 qian), Aged Lees (Chenzao) (2 liang).
Pound and apply as before.

Formula for Clamp Sores:
Immediately after clamping, take 4 liang of pork meat. Use pepper grains corresponding to the patient's age (1 grain per year of age). Pound to paste, apply, and bandage. Do not wash or untie. Heals overnight.
Alternative Formula:
Upon leaving the yamen, soak feet in a basin of hot child's urine. If urine cools, quench two red-hot bricks in it to reheat. Continue until surface... [text incomplete/corrupted] ...feet.

Internal Powder Formula:
Human Tooth Stone (Renzhongbai) (1 liang), Natural Pyrite (Ziran Tong) (5 qian), Frankincense (Ruxiang) (de-oiled, 2 qian), Wood Ear Mushroom (Mu'er) (burned to ash, carbonized, 5 qian), Achyranthes Root (Niuxi) (3 qian).
Grind to powder. Decoct 3-5 qian of Niuxi in wine to mix and take.

If powder is unavailable:
Angelica Sinensis (Danggui), Ligusticum Chuanxiong (Chuanxiong), Frankincense (Ruxiang), Angelica Pubescens (Duhuo), Turtle Lice (Bieshi), Sesame (Huma), Ginger Hair (Maojiang), Safflower (Honghua), Acanthopanax Bark (Wujiapi) (1 qian each).
Decoct in a pot of raw white wine, boil briefly. Drink according to tolerance. Avoid wind and cold. Cover with thick blankets to induce sweating for cure. For bone injuries, add one Ground Beetle (Tubie).

Formula for Finger Torture (Za Shang): For indentations on fingers from torture, mix vermilion (Yinzhu) with wine to a thick paste. Trace the indentation circle; it will recover naturally.

Formula for Self-Decapitation: Self-decapitation is rapid; rescue must be early. Delay leads to cold forehead and cessation of breath, making rescue difficult.
At the moment of cutting, if breath remains and body is not cold, urgently apply hot chicken skin to the wound. Lie down comfortably on a pillow. Alternatively, suture the wound with silk thread, apply Taohua San... [text incomplete/corrupted] ...meat paste.

Taohua San (桃花散 - Peach Blossom Powder) Formula:
Calcined Iron Ore (Duanshi) (half sheng), Rhubarb (Dahuang) (1.5 liang, sliced).
Stir-fry both until the ore turns red. Remove rhubarb. Sieve to fine powder. This medicine also effectively treats all knife wounds with uncontrolled bleeding.

Yuliang Wan (余粮丸 - Yuliang Pill): Treats exhaustion from labor.
Alum Stone (Zaofan) (8 liang, calcined with 2 cups of red vinegar until通红, placed on ground to remove fire toxicity), Yuliang Stone (Yuliangshi) (4 liang, quenched in vinegar 7 times), Amomum Fruit (Sharen) (4 qian, processed with ginger juice), Lacquer (Qi) (1 liang, stir-fried until smoke ceases)... [text incomplete/corrupted] ...1 qian), Motherwort Flower (Yimu Hua) (5 qian).
Grind each to powder. Make pills with boiled black dates. Mild cases: 7 fen morning, 8 fen evening. Severe cases: 1-2 qian per dose. Take with good wine. This formula not only treats... [text incomplete/corrupted] ...chronic deficiency.
Alternative Formula:
Yuliang Stone (Yuliangshi) (4 liang, vinegar-quenched), Alum Stone (Zaofan) (4 liang, stir-fried with floating wheat until red), Rehmannia Root (Shengdi) (2 liang, vinegar-fried), Prepared Rehmannia (Shudi) (2 liang, wine-boiled), Angelica Sinensis (Danggui) (1 liang), Aged Citron (Chen Xiangyuan) (stir-fried)... [text incomplete/corrupted] ...Kernel (stir-fried), Angelica Dahurica (Baizhi) (stir-fried), Cyathula Root (Chuan Niuxi), Aurantium (Zhiqiao) (1 liang each), Herb (wine-mixed and sun-dried).
Grind to powder. Make pills with 2 jin of date paste, size of paulownia seeds. Morning dose: 7 fen, Evening dose: 8 fen. Take with aged wine. Avoid buckwheat, beans, wheat products, fish, and萱... [text cuts off]