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(Attached: Various Syndromes of the Mouth and Tongue)
For cases of sore throat and swelling, or sores arising in the throat, or obstruction, or redness, swelling, nodular hardness with distending pain, or throat closure preventing speech, these are all due to Wind-Heat, Phlegm, and Fire. Use Qingliang San (Cooling Powder) with modifications. In acute cases of throat closure (Hou Bi), urgently prick the Shaoshang (LU11) acupoint, located on the lateral side of the big toenail, using a three-edged needle to release toxic blood, and expel phlegm and saliva; this is essential.

Throat Closure (Hou Bi) (Two days prior, tightness in the chest and diaphragm, shortness of breath, sudden throat pain, cold extremities, Qi obstruction, life hanging by a thread for an instant)
Quickly use a chicken feather or goose quill dipped in tung oil to stir and probe the throat to induce vomiting of phlegm, which will immediately open the airway. Alternatively, chew Dougen (Vine Bean Root) and swallow its juice, which will also open the airway. Strictly avoid Niuhuang (Calculus Bovis); if ingested, it is incurable.

If no medicine is available or if medicine cannot be swallowed, quickly squeeze both arms with hands dozens of times, tie the thumb tightly with a greasy hair rope, and prick the side of the fingernail (i.e., Shaoshang).

Acute Locked Throat Wind (Ji Suo Hou Feng) (Also treats Single Goose and Double Goose tonsillitis)
Use Shengma (Cimicifugae Rhizoma) four taels, crushed, boiled in four bowls of water until one bowl remains, and administer by force-feeding. Or, crush Zaojia (Gleditsiae Fructus), mix with water, and administer by force-feeding to induce vomiting; even if vomiting does not occur, the patient will stabilize. If this prescription is not used, remove the shell from Badou (Crotonis Fructus), wrap slightly in cotton paper, and insert into either nostril to immediately clear the passage; or, take Bai Fan (Alumen) three qian, melt slowly over low fire, add two pieces of Badou flesh, grind into a paste, wait until dry, remove the Badou, grind the alum into powder, apply a small amount into the throat to expel stubborn phlegm, resulting in immediate cure. Another method: hold a piece of Danfan (Chalcanthite) in the mouth, causing phlegm and saliva to rise naturally; vomiting them all out leads to cure. (From *Danfang Zongji*)

Acute Sudden Sore Throat (Ji Hou Bi) (Sound like snoring, rattling of phlegm in the throat, this is a sign of Lung Exhaustion)
Urgently save with Renshen Gao (Ginseng Paste). Mix with Zhuru (Bambusae Caulis in Taenia) and Jiangzhi (Zingiberis Recens Juice) and swallow. Dushen Tang (Single Ginseng Decoction) is also acceptable. If taken early, seven or eight out of ten recover; later, ten out of ten...

Entangling Throat Wind (Chan Hou Feng) (In Entangling Throat Wind, Heat binds in the throat, swelling surrounds externally, accompanied by numbness and itching)
Burn Qian Niu Bi Sheng (the string used to tie the nose of the Morning Glory plant) to ash and blow it into the throat; very effective. (Prescription of Li Shizhen)

Another method: Take one pale white plum, remove the pit, embed one land slug inside the plum, and hold it in the mouth for immediate recovery. Another method: Grind Bai Jiangcan (Bombyx Batryticatus) two qian into fine powder, mix with a little fresh Ginger Juice and water, and administer by force-feeding for immediate cure. Another method: Chop the root tip of Wannianqing (Rohdea Japonica), mash and squeeze out the juice, administer by force-feeding; vomiting the phlegm leads to improvement. If the mouth is closed, pry it open with a toothbrush to administer. If vomiting does not occur, advance a hair tip into the throat to induce vomiting, leading to cure. (Empirical Prescription)

Double Goose (Single Goose appears round like a sinew head, growing at the upper gate of the throat, on either the left or right. Double Goose grows on both sides. If growing on the wall below the throat [referring to spider webs], take one hair from the back of the patient's head to wrap around the spider web, pierce it with a silver hairpin, burn it over a lamp, preserve the charred nature, grind into powder, and blow into the throat for immediate effect. (Recorded in various departments))

Throat Tinea (Hou Xuan)
Take feces from a first-born yellow cow, cover the feces with a clean new tile, smoke around it with moderate and gentle heat until the smoke ceases, preserve the charred nature, take out and grind into powder. Slowly inhale through a reed tube for self-healing. Another formula: Bingpian (Borneolum Syntheticum) and Niuhuang (Calculus Bovis) each one fen, Danfan (Chalcanthite) three fen, Da Pengsha (Borax) eight fen, Shandougen (Sophorae Tonkinensis Radix et Rhizoma) two qian, Xionghuang (Realgar) and Ercha (Catechu) each eight fen, Chen... (From *Mifang Jiyuan*)

Obstruction and Blockage
On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, take five or six pig gallbladders of any size, fill with Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma), Qingdai (Indigo Naturalis), Bohe (Menthae Haplocalycis Herba), Jiangcan (Bombyx Batryticatus), Baifan (Alumen), and Puxiao (Natrii Sulfas) each five qian. Pack into the gallbladder, wrap well in green paper, dig a small hole in the ground one foot deep, suspend the gallbladder horizontally inside with bamboo, cover firmly, wait until the beginning of Spring to retrieve. Let the wind blow away the gallbladder skin and green paper, grind into powder, store with honey. Blow a small amount for pain; miraculous efficacy. This is a secret formula worth ten thousand gold (Empirical Formula of Master Shao Zhenren)

Bailing Wan (Treats masses in the throat blocking water and food intake)
Mix Baicaoshuang (Fuligo Silicea) with honey into pills the size of Euryale seeds. Dissolve one pill in water and administer by force-feeding. For severe cases, no more than two pills. (From *Jianbian Fang*)

Throat Blowing Medicine
Pengsha (Borax) two taels and half, Xionghuang (Realgar) three taels, Ercha (Catechu) one tael, Bingpian (Borneolum Syntheticum) three fen, Bohe (Menthae Haplocalycis Herba) three taels (separately ground into extremely fine powder).
Grind all into fine powder together, mix evenly with the mint powder. Store in a jar ensuring airtightness. Blow a small amount into the throat using a reed tube, or pick up with a tea spoon onto the tongue, hold for a while and swallow, eight or nine times a day. If Locked Throat Wind with dry mouth, mix with well water and administer to open the orifices and generate fluids; if Spleen deficiency and Stomach weakness...

Throat Ulceration (Hou Lan)
Huaihua (Sophorae Flos) three qian, Niuxi (Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix), Ercha (Catechu), Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma) each one qian.
Grind into powder. In summer, take with watermelon juice; in winter, take with raw pear juice. Form pills the size of mung beans, take three pills per dose. (From *Mifang Lu*)

Pharyngeal Abscess (Yanyou Xuanyong) (Swollen tongue blocking and painful)
Wubeizi (Myrobalani Fructus), Jiangcan (Bombyx Batryticatus), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma)
Grind into equal parts powder. Remove the pit from a white plum, mash into pills the size of a marble. Hold in the mouth to suck, the abscess will rupture spontaneously. (From *Waike Mibao*)

Polyps in the Throat
First puncture to bleed, then apply fermented soybeans mixed with salt; miraculous effect. (Single Prescription)

When All Throat Medicines Fail
Danjxi said: "This is not a throat disease, but rather a red line like hair growing in the nose, suspending a black blister the size of a cherry pit, hanging down to the throat gate. Food and drink cannot enter the mouth." Use Tu Niuxi Gen (Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae) (single thick and large root), crush it, add three or five drops of good vinegar, grind finely together, drip two or three drops into the nose, the suspended bead breaks, vomiting stasis blood leads to immediate relief. (From *Chishui Xuanzhu*)

Song for Hard Bones in the Throat
Sha Ren (Amomi Fructus), Cao Guo (Tsao-ko Fructus), Weilingxian (Saposhnikoviae Radix), clear water and brown sugar jointly prepared and decocted. Consecutively drinking two or three bowls turns all kinds of hard bones into saliva. (Ancient Immortal Prescription)

Oral Thrush (Kou Gan)
Ten red dates (burned to preserve nature), Meihua Bingpian (Plum Blossom Borneol) two fen.
Blow onto the affected area for immediate cure. Another method: Grind Sha Ren shell, rub on the area for immediate cure. Another method: Burn chicken gizzard lining to ash and apply, also immediate effect. (From *Huoyou Xinshu*)

Dry Cracking of Lips and Mouth
Take olives, soak in hot water and drink. Grind the kernel inside the olive and apply to the affected area. Or apply rouge for immediate effect.

Mouth Ulcers (Also treats Dental Gangrene and鹅口/Goose Mouth thrush)
Mouth ulcers strictly prohibit rinsing with water. Huashi (Talcum) one qian, Chensha (Cinnabar) three qian, Bingpian (Borneolum Syntheticum) two fen, grind into powder and sprinkle onto the affected area. (From *Jiyuan Fang*)

Heavy Tongue with Saliva Flow (Cannot swallow water or grain)
Xuanjingshi (Calcitum) two taels, Niuhuang (Calculus Bovis), Zhusha (Cinnabar), Longnao (Camphora) each one fen.
Grind into powder. Prick the tongue with a needle to remove blood, rinse with salt water. Sprinkle powder and swallow saliva; efficacy is divine. (From *Shenghui Fang*)

Wooden Tongue (Mouth and tongue both stiff, unable to open as if covered)
Bohe (Menthae Haplocalycis Herba) and fine tea jointly decocted, exposed overnight, wrapped on chopsticks with blue silk, dip in medicine and slowly smear on; cures. (From *Mifang Lu*)

Heavy Tongue, Wooden Tongue, Purple Tongue (Both adults and children caused by Heart Fire accumulation)
Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma), Shanzhi (Gardeniae Fructus), Jingjie (Schizonepetae Spica), Huangqin (Scutellariae Radix), Lianqiao (Forsythiae Fructus), Mutong (Akebiae Caulis), Bohe (Menthae Haplocalycis Herba) each one qian, Niubangzi (Arctii Fructus) one qian, Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma) five fen.
Decoct with Dengxin (Junci Medullia) and take orally.

Tongue Swelling Filling the Mouth
Simply use Puhuang (Typhae Pollen) powder sprinkled on; cures. (From *Qingpu Xu's Manuscript*)