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[Background Information]
Book: Jiangnang Cuoyao (Excerpts from the Crimson Bag)
Author: Yunchuan Daoren (Daoist of Yunchuan)
Dynasty: Qing
Chapter: Lanjiao Ya Fang (Recipe for Rotten Feet) / ... / Taiyi Zijin Dan (Great One Purple Gold Pill) (Total 4 sections)
Category: Comprehensive

[English Translation]

Cardamom Seed, Amomum Fruit, and Alisma Rhizome (each 3 qian), ground into an extremely fine powder. Sprinkle onto the affected area to cure. Prior to use, wash the affected area with a decoction of Licorice Root.

Another prescription: For severe ulceration accompanied by swelling and suppuration, rendering walking impossible.
Atractylodes Rhizome (1 qian), Calcined Alum (0.5 qian), Coptis Rhizome (Xiaochuanlian, 0.5 qian), and Raw Licorice Root (0.3 qian).
Bake until dry and grind into an extremely fine powder. Add Borneol (0.1 qian). First, wash the affected area with a Licorice Root decoction. Dip a small amount of fresh cotton wool into the powder and apply it to the wound.

Urgently extract the foul blood in a windless place. If no blood flows, prick the area with a needle to induce bleeding. Cleanse the wound with urine. Externally, mix a small amount of Realgar and Musk with Sesame Oil and apply. Or directly use... [Text is corrupted/illegible here, referring to unclear instructions or ratios].

Another prescription:
Use seven Mylabris (Blister Beetle), removing heads, wings, and legs. Stir-fry together with forty-nine grains of glutinous rice. Remove the Mylabris, and grind the rice into a powder. Take with yellow wine. The toxin will be expelled through urination.
Contraindications: ... [Text is fragmented, likely referring to dietary or behavioral restrictions such as avoiding broken skin contact].
Zhang Jingyue stated: "I often see cases where violating various contraindications leads to recurrence, which are incurable; I have also seen deaths caused by taking Mylabris. This is because Mylabris is highly toxic; using only glutinous rice for stir-frying..." [Text cuts off, implying specific processing methods or compatibility requirements are necessary]. All should be suitable... [Text incomplete].

Lindera Root, Saposhnikovia Root, Notopterygium Rhizome, Peucedanum Root, Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizome, Amomum Fruit, Magnolia Bark, Agastache Herb, Pinellia Tuber, Aucklandia Root, Perilla Leaf, Mint, Atractylodes Rhizome, Fragrant... [Text incomplete, possibly missing character like Chenxiang], Ren (1... liang) [Text incomplete regarding dosage and herb name].
Grind into powder. Separately, use Medicated Leaven (24 liang), mash thoroughly with ginger juice to form a paste for making pills. Coat with Water-processed Cinnabar (2 liang). Each pill weighs 1 qian 2 fen.
Treats stroke, cold invasion, and heatstroke in men, women, old, and young. For facial paralysis (deviation of mouth and eyes) and trismus (lockjaw), take with ginger soup. For typhoid fever and epidemic diseases, presenting with headache, stiff spine, aversion to cold, fever, and abdominal pain, take with water.

Resolves all toxins, treats all sores. Counteracts mountain miasma, smog, and pestilential qi. Opens orifices and treats hundred diseases.
Cremastra Handlebar Bulb (2 liang; if hairy, roots may be used; requires washing 4 liang, removing hairs, slicing, drying, baking, and grinding to obtain 2 liang of pure powder). Croton Seed Pure Frost (... one piece dried... baked and ground... qian) [Text incomplete regarding dosage and processing]. Musk (selected... measured with Chinese Gall... 1 qian, dried... Peach Root decoction...) [Text severely fragmented at the end].