癞病方。
初觉皮肤不仁，或淫淫苦痒，如虫行，或眼前见物如垂丝，或瘾疹赤黑。此即急疗。
蛮夷酒，佳善。
疗白癞。
苦参五斤，酒三斗，渍，饮勿绝。并取皮根，末，服，效验。
又方，艾千茎，浓煮，以汁渍曲作酒，常饮使醺醺，姚同。
姚方，大蝮蛇一枚，切勿令伤，以酒渍之。大者一斗，小者五升。以糠火温，令下寻取
蛇一寸许，以腊月猪膏和，敷疮，瘥。
亦疗鼠 ，诸恶疮。
苦参二斤，露蜂房二两，曲二斤，水三斗，渍药二宿，去滓。黍米二升，酿熟，
稍饮。日三，一方加 皮，更佳。
附方
《圣惠方》，治大风，癞疾，骨肉疽败，百节疼酸，眉鬓堕落，身体习习痒痛。
以马先蒿，细锉，炒为末，每空心及晚食前。温酒调下二钱匕。
又方，治大风疾，令眉鬓再生。
用侧柏叶，九蒸九曝，捣，罗为末，炼蜜和，丸如梧桐子大。日三服，夜一服。熟水下
五丸，十丸，百日即生。
又方，治大风，头面髭发脱落。
以桑柴灰，热汤淋取汁洗面，以大豆水，研取浆，解泽灰，味弥佳。次用熟水入绿豆
，去皮取净，不过十度，良。二日一沐头，一日一洗面。
又方，治白癞。
用马鞭草，不限多少，为末，每服食前，用荆芥薄荷汤，调下一钱匕。
《食疗》，治癞。
可取白蜜一斤，生姜二斤，捣取汁。先称铜铛，令知斤两，即下蜜于铛中，消之。又秤
五斤两，下姜汁于蜜中。微火煎令姜汁尽，秤蜜斤两。在即休，药已成矣。患三十年癞者，
平旦服枣许大一丸，一日三服。酒饮任下，忌生冷，醋，滑臭物。功用甚多，活人众矣，不
能一一具之。
《外台秘要》，治恶风疾。
松脂，炼投冷水中二十次，蜜丸服二两，饥即服之。日三，鼻柱断离者二。百日瘥。断
盐及房室抱朴子云。
赵瞿病癞，历年医，不瘥。家乃 粮弃送于山穴中。瞿自怨不幸，悲叹涕泣。经月，有
仙人经穴见之，哀之，具问其详。瞿知其异人也，叩头自陈乞命。于是仙人取囊中药，赐之
，教其服，百余日。疮愈，颜色悦，肌肤润，仙人再过视之，瞿谢活命之恩，乞遗其方，仙
人曰，此是松脂，彼中极多，汝可炼服之，长服身转轻力百倍，登危涉险，终日不困。年百
岁，齿不堕，发不白，夜卧常见有光，大如镜。
感应神仙传云，崔言者，职隶左亲骑军。一旦得疾，双眼昏，咫尺不辨人物，眉发自落
，鼻梁崩倒。肌肤有疮如癣，皆谓恶疾，势不可救。因为洋州骆谷子，归寨使遇一道流。自
谷中出，不言名姓，授其方曰。
皂角刺一二斤，为灰，蒸久晒研为末，食上浓煎大黄汤，调一钱匕。服一旬，鬓发再生，
肌肤悦润，愈，眼目倍常明，得此方后，却入山不知所之。
《朝野佥载》云。
商州有人患大风，家人恶之。山中为起茅屋，有乌蛇坠酒罂中。病患不知，饮酒渐瘥，
罂底尚有蛇骨。方知其由也，用道谨按李肇国史补云。李舟之弟，患风，或说蛇酒治风。乃
求黑蛇，生置瓮中，酝以曲 ，数日蛇声不绝。及熟，香气酷烈，引满而饮之。斯须，悉化
为水，唯毛发存焉，佥载之说，恐不可轻用。
Formulas for Treating Leprosy (Lai Bing).
Initially, one may feel numbness and insensitivity of the skin, or suffer from unbearable itching as if insects were crawling on it. One might also see objects in front of the eyes resembling hanging threads, or develop urticaria (urticarial rash) that is red and black. This condition requires immediate treatment.
Man Yi Jiu (Barbarian Wine), which is excellent.
For treating White Leprosy (Bai Lai):
Take five jin of Sophora flavescens root (Kushen), soak it in three dou of wine, and drink continuously without interruption. Additionally, take the bark and roots, powder them, and ingest the powder; this yields effective results.
Another formula: Take a thousand stalks of Artemisia argyi (Ai Ye), boil them strongly to extract the juice, use this juice to ferment yeast into wine, and drink regularly until slightly intoxicated. Yao Sengyuan also used this method.
Yao's Formula: Take one large Agkistrodon (Da Fu She), ensuring it is not injured. Soak it in wine: use one dou of wine for a large snake, or five sheng for a small one. Warm it over chaff fire until the snake sinks about one cun deep. Remove the snake, mix it with lard collected in the twelfth lunar month (Zha Lu Pig Fat), and apply to the sores; the disease will heal.
This formula also treats scrofula (Shu Li, lymph node tuberculosis) and various malignant sores.
Take two jin of Sophora flavescens root (Kushen), two liang of Vespa nest (Lu Feng Fang), two jin of yeast (Qu), and three dou of water. Soak the herbs for two nights, then strain off the dregs. Add two sheng of broomcorn millet (Shu Mi), brew until ripe, and drink slowly. Take three times daily. Another version adds Pangolin scales (Chuan Shan Jia), which is better.
Attached Formulas
*Bencao Tuiyuan* (Holy Essential Prescriptions): Treats severe wind diseases, leprosy, causing bone and flesh decay, pain and soreness in all joints, loss of eyebrows and hair, and generalized itching and pain.
Use Pedicularis (Ma Xian Hao), finely chopped, stir-fried into powder. Take two qian bi (measurements) mixed with warm wine before fasting and before evening meals.
Another formula: Treats severe wind diseases to promote regrowth of eyebrows and hair.
Use leaves of Platycladus orientalis (Ce Bai Ye), steamed and sun-dried nine times, pounded, sifted into powder. Mix with refined honey to make pills the size of Chinese quince seeds (Wu Tong Zi). Take three times daily and once at night. Swallow five or ten pills with warm water; hair will grow back within one hundred days.
Another formula: Treats severe wind disease causing loss of facial hair and scalp hair.
Use ash from mulberry branches (Sang Chai Hui), leach with hot water to obtain juice for washing the face. Use soybean water slurry to dissolve Zelu (Phytolacca acinosa) ash; this is superior. Next, use cooked water to soak mung beans (Lu Dou), peel them clean, repeating no more than ten times, which is good. Wash head every two days, wash face daily.
Another formula: Treats White Leprosy (Bai Lai).
Use Veronica officinalis (Ma Bian Cao), quantity unlimited, powdered. Before each meal, take one qian bi mixed with a decoction of Schizonepeta (Jing Jie) and Mentha (Bo He).
*Shi Liao* (Food Therapy): Treats leprosy.
Take one jin of white honey and two jin of fresh ginger, pound and extract juice. First weigh a copper pot to know its weight, then add honey to melt it. Weigh five jin of ginger juice and add it to the honey. Simmer gently until the ginger juice is fully absorbed. Weigh the honey again; if the weight has not decreased, the medicine is ready. For those who have suffered from leprosy for thirty years, take one pill the size of a jujube in the early morning, three times a day. Drink with wine freely. Avoid raw/cold foods, vinegar, slippery foods, and pungent odors. The efficacy is manifold, saving many lives, too numerous to list.
*Waitai Miyao* (Secret Essentials of the Outer Cabinet): Treats malignant wind diseases.
Resin of Pinus (Song Zhi), refined by dipping twenty times in cold water. Make into honey pills, take two liang when hungry. Take three times daily. For those whose nasal bridge has collapsed, take two liang; heal within one hundred days. Abstain from salt and sexual activity. *Baopuzi* records:
Zhao Qu suffered from leprosy for years; physicians could not cure him. His family left food and abandoned him in a mountain cave. Zhao Qu lamented his misfortune, weeping bitterly. After a month, an immortal passed by the cave, saw him, pitied him, and asked for details. Knowing he was extraordinary, Zhao Qu kowtowed and begged for life. The immortal took medicine from his bag, gave it to him, and instructed him to take it. After over a hundred days, the sores healed, complexion improved, and skin became moist. When the immortal visited again, Zhao Qu thanked him for saving his life and requested the prescription. The immortal said, "This is pine resin, abundant here. You can refine and take it. Long-term use makes the body light and strength increase a hundredfold; you can climb heights and traverse dangers without fatigue for a whole day. Living to a hundred years, teeth do not fall out, hair does not turn white, and at night while sleeping, you often see light shining from your body, large as a mirror."
*Ganying Shenxian Zhuan* (Biographies of Spirits and Immortals Responding to Feelings) records:
Cui Yan served in the Left Personal Cavalry. One day he fell ill; his eyes were dim, unable to distinguish people even at close range. Eyebrows and hair fell out, and the nasal bridge collapsed. Skin had sores like tinea. All considered it a malignant disease incurable. Later, serving as a minor official in Luogu Valley, Yangzhou, on his way back to the garrison, he met a Daoist priest emerging from the valley. The priest did not state his name but gave him a formula:
One to two jin of Gleditsia sinensis thorn (Zao Jiao Ci), burn to ash, steam for a long time, dry, and grind into powder. After meals, take one qian bi mixed with a strong decoction of Rheum palmatum (Da Huang) prepared with tea/water. After ten days of taking it, eyebrows and hair regrow, skin becomes smooth and moist, the disease heals, and vision becomes twice as sharp. After obtaining this formula, he returned to the mountains and disappeared.
*Chaoye Qianzai* (Miscellaneous Records from the Court and the Wild) records:
A person in Shangzhou suffered from severe wind disease; his family despised him. They built a thatched hut for him in the mountains. A black snake fell into a wine jar. Unaware, the patient drank the wine and gradually recovered. There was still snake bone at the bottom of the jar. Only then did he understand the cause. Dao Jin notes according to Li Zhao's *Guoshi Bu* (Supplement to Official History): Li Zhou's younger brother suffered from wind disease. Someone suggested snake wine could treat wind. Thus, he sought a black snake, placed it alive in a jar, and fermented it with yeast. After several days, snake sounds continued. When the wine matured, the aroma was intense. He drank a full cup. Suddenly, his body turned into water, leaving only hair. The account in *Chaoye Qianzai* should probably not be lightly adopted.