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Huanjing Bugan Wan (Restore Vision and Tonify Liver Pill): Treats dim vision in both eyes due to Liver deficiency, with tearing upon exposure to wind.
Ingredients: Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma (Baizhu), Asari Radix (Xixin, remove seedlings), Ligustici Chuanxiong Rhizoma (Chuanxiong), Cassiae Semen (Juemingzi, lightly stir-fried), Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma (Renshen), Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix (Qianghuo, remove rhizome base), Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Danggui, sliced and dried), Poria (Baifuling, remove skin), Sophorae Flavescentis Radix (Kushen), Saposhnikoviae Radix (Fangfeng, remove branches), Cinnamomi Cortex (Guangui, remove rough bark), Lycii Cortex (Digupi), Scrophulariae Radix (Xuanshen), Scutellariae Radix (Huangqin, remove black heart), Schisandrae Fructus (Wuweizi), Plantaginis Semen (Cheqianzi, lightly stir-fried), Chrysanthemi Flos (Juhua), Celosiae Semen (Qingxiangzi), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gancao, honey-fried). All ingredients in equal proportions.
Preparation and Administration: Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Form pills using refined honey, sized like wu zi (Cocculus trilobus seeds). Take 30 pills per dose, increasing to 40 if necessary, at any time, washed down with rice water.

Zhen Gan Wan (Sedate Liver Pill): Treats insufficiency of the Liver Meridian, internal invasion by wind-heat, which attacks upward to the eyes, causing dim vision, itching and pain, heaviness and difficulty opening the eyes, excessive discharge and tearing, photophobia, frequent redness and swelling, or formation of nebulae (corneal opacities).
Ingredients: Polygalae Radix (Yuanzhi, remove heart), Kochiae Fructus (Difuzi), Leonuri Fructus (Chongweizi), Poria (Baifuling, remove skin), Saposhnikoviae Radix (Fangfeng, remove rhizome base), Cassiae Semen (Juemingzi), Viticis Fructus (Manjingzi), Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma (Renshen, each 1 liang), Dioscoreae Rhizoma (Shanyao), Celosiae Semen (Qingxiangzi), Bupleuri Radix (Chaihu, remove seedlings), Platycodi Semen (Baiziren, stir-fried), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gancao, honey-fried), Lycii Cortex (Digupi), Scrophulariae Radix (Xuanshen), Plantaginis Semen (Cheqianzi), Chrysanthemi Indici Flos (Gan Juhua, each half liang), Asari Radix (Xixin, remove seedlings).
Preparation and Administration: Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Boil honey in water to form a paste, then make pills sized like tong zi (Toona sinensis seeds). Take 30 pills per dose after meals, washed down with rice soup, three times daily.

Zhenzhu Jian (Pearl Decoction): Treats cold deficiency of the Liver, resulting in a blank visual field where objects cannot be seen.
Ingredients: Pearl (Zhenzhu, 2.5 qian, finely ground), Cyprini Carassii Bilis (Liyu Dan, two pieces), Apis Mellifera Mel (Baimi, 2 liang).
Preparation and Administration: Mix the ingredients together. Simmer gently in a copper vessel until half the liquid remains. Filter through new cotton cloth and store in a porcelain bottle. Dip a copper stick into the liquid as small as a millet grain and apply to the eye. Tears will flow immediately. Apply frequently until recovery.

Another Prescription: Take a piece of Phellodendri Cortex (Huangbai) the size of a fingernail. Hold it in the mouth every morning, allowing saliva to collect in the palm. Use this saliva to wipe the eyes, then rinse with water. Continue for one hundred days to restore clear vision. Practicing this throughout life can permanently eliminate eye diseases.

For eye dryness, grittiness, and sticky discharge during summer months or while walking: Take five to seven leaves of fresh Mentha Haplocalyx (Longnao Bohe), wash them clean, crush them by hand, wring out the juice using raw silk, and drip into the eyes. This is excellent.

Treatment for Dim Vision:
Burn old bark from cultivated mulberry trees (Yuansang Laopi) to ash. Add one cup of water, decoct until reduced to 7/10 parts. Remove dregs and clarify. Wash the eyes for one year, and vision will become as bright as that of a child. The auspicious days for washing the eyes are listed below:
January 8th, February 10th, March 5th, April 8th, May 8th, June 7th, July 7th, August 3rd, September 10th, October 9th, November 10th, December 22nd.

Another Prescription: Use six qian of Natrii Sulfas (Puxiao). Add one cup of water, decoct until reduced to 8/10 parts. Allow to cool and settle, then clarify. Divide into doses for subsequent use. Wash the eyes on the first day of each month. Within one year, vision will become as bright as that of a child.
Dates: January 1st, February 8th, March 4th, April 5th, May 5th, June 4th, July 5th, August 1st, September 13th, October 13th, November 16th, December 5th.

Qingyu Dan Fang (Green Fish Gallbladder Prescription): Treats dim vision.
Usage: Drip the bile from the green fish gallbladder into the eyes.

Another Prescription: Take one pair of eagle eyes, roast until dry, grind into powder, and refine to extreme fineness. Grind again with human breast milk. Dip a small amount on a copper stick and apply to the pupil three times a day (day and night). This enables night vision. Alternatively, take starling eyes collected in the twelfth lunar month and use according to the above method; it is effective, allowing one to see objects in the blue sky within three days. Avoid smoke exposure.

Jinsi Gao (Golden Thread Ointment): Treats all eye diseases, including dim vision as if obscured by gauze, or pain.
Ingredients: Scutellariae Radix (Xuan Huanglian, 0.5 liang, crushed, soaked in one cup of water overnight to extract juice; add half a cup of water to soak the dregs for half a day, then wring out juice and combine with the previous juice; set aside dregs and soak separately in half a cup of water), Honey (Mi, 1 liang), Alum (Baifan, one character measure), Well Salt (Jingyan, 1 fen; substitute with Qingyan/Green Salt if unavailable), Gardenia Fruit (Shanzhizi, 2 qian of good quality, crushed, boiled together with Huanglian dregs for 50-70 boils, knead thoroughly, filter to remove dregs, and combine with the Huanglian juice before adding remaining ingredients).
Preparation and Administration: Boil the mixture in a silver or porcelain vessel for more than ten boils. Filter multiple layers through fine paper placed on raw silk. Apply frequently to the eyes as needed.

Dian Yan Fa (Salt Pointing Method): Brightens the eyes, removes nebulae, greatly benefits presbyopia, and provides beneficial nourishment.
Preparation and Usage: Select sea salt (Haiyan) appropriately. Cleanse thoroughly. Soak in boiling water to remove impurities, filter to obtain clear liquid, and boil in a silver or earthenware vessel until snow-white salt crystals form. Store in a new tile vessel. Each morning, take one large coin's worth, use it as a toothpaste to brush teeth, rinse with water, and alternately dip the backs of left and right fingers into the mouth to collect salty saliva. Use this saline saliva to wash the inner and outer corners of both eyes. Keep eyes closed for a long time, then wash face with water. This is named "Dongshi Qianli" (Seeing Clearly for a Thousand Li), which brightens the eyes and strengthens teeth, truly an excellent method. Recorded by Dongpo: When eyes are red, do not bathe in hot water, and avoid soaking feet in hot water, as heat drives bodily warmth to accumulate in the head and eyes, inevitably leading to blindness.