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Taoren Chengqi Decoction (See Blood Stasis Syndrome).

Dihuang Wan (Rehmannia Pill)
Poria Cocos (with skin removed), Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma, Dioscoreae Hypoglaucae Rhizoma (each 4 liang), Lycii Cortex Radicis (3 liang), Rehmanniae Radix Recens (5 jin, extract juice), Honey (1 jin), Butter (a small amount).
The first four herbs are ground into powder. Boil in one dou of good wine until reduced to three sheng, filter out the dregs, add Rehmanniae Radix Recens juice, honey, and butter, and continue boiling until the mixture can be formed into pills. Shape into pills the size of small beans. Take 20 pills each time, washed down with warm wine, three times a day, gradually increasing to five times a day.

Ganlu Yin (Sweet Dew Drink) (from *Heji Jufang*) Treats guest-heat in the stomach of men, women, and children; bleeding gums and bad breath; swelling and ulceration of the gingiva; frequent discharge of pus and blood; heavy, drooping eyelids that wish to close; hunger and irritability without desire for food; red, swollen, and painful eyes intolerant to cooling medicines; sores in the mouth and tongue; swelling and pain in the throat; eruptions whether erupted or not erupting—all may take this. It also treats dampness affecting the spleen and stomach, stagnant heat within, or damp-heat clashing due to drunkenness, overeating, or sexual exhaustion, leading to jaundice disease: yellowing of the body and face, slight swelling of limbs, chest fullness and shortness of breath, irregular bowel movements, yellow and obstructed urination, or occasional fever—all are treated by this.
Loquat Leaf (brush off hairs), Prepared Rehmanniae Radix (remove soil), Asparagi Radix (remove heart, bake), Aurantii Fructus (remove pith, stir-fry with bran), Artemisiae Scopariae Herba (remove stems), Dried Rehmanniae Radix, Ophiopogonis Radix (remove heart, bake), Dendrobii Caulis (remove roots), Licorice Root (roasted with honey), Scutellariae Radix.
Equal parts of the above herbs are ground into powder. Take 2 qian each time, boil in one cup of water until reduced to 7/10, filter and take warm after meals and before bed. For children, divide the dose into two servings, adjusting according to age.

Wuling Gao (Five Spirits Ointment) Treats loose teeth.
Trogopteri Excrement (ban liang), Pine Resin, Beeswax (each 1 liang), Minium (2.5 qian), Toad Venom (half zi).
Boil the above in a porcelain vessel over slow fire until forming an ointment. Spread on white silk, let cool, and cut into pieces. Apply to the gums every night. Spit out saliva if produced; accidental swallowing is harmless. Use once before bed, applying inside and outside the root of a tooth sensitive to hard objects; it will not feel too stuffy. If the teeth are firm, they will naturally become strong and resistant to hard foods.

Treatment for Loose Teeth and Pain
Myrobalan Fruit, Poria Cocos, Asarum Root (each 5 qian), Green Salt (3 qian).
Grind into fine powder. Brush teeth morning and evening; long-term use yields great efficacy.

Xuya Toothpaste (Gum-Stabilizing Toothpaste) Treats loose and unstable teeth with unceasing pain.
Calamina, Dragon Bone (each 2.5 qian), Moschus (one zi), Beeswax (1 liang).
Grind into fine powder and mix evenly. Melt beeswax and mix with the powder, cool, and remove. Heat an ironing board, place paper, spread the medicine thinly and evenly. Cut into strips each time. Before bed, apply between the gums at the affected tooth site overnight. Remove the medicine the next morning. Use nightly; after half a month, swelling and stuffiness subside, gum tissue regenerates, treat mouth ulcers, dispel wind pathogen, and stabilize teeth with great efficacy.

Wubeizi San (Myrobalan Powder) Treats loose teeth, trauma from external objects where other medicines fail, and teeth about to fall out.
Sichuan Myrobalan, Dry Earthworm (remove soil, slightly stir-fry. Each ban liang).
Grind into fine powder. First wipe tooth roots with fresh ginger, then apply the powder. Do not bite hard objects for five days. If a tooth has just fractured or fallen out, apply while hot into the alveolus; the tooth will become firm as before.

Treatment for Loose Teeth, Red/Yellow Beard and Hair: One dose blackens beard and stabilizes teeth.
Fresh Ginger (ban jin, extract juice), Rehmanniae Radix (1 jin, wash clean, grind fine, extract natural juice, retain dregs).
Take ten stalks of non-boring soap pod, scrape off black skin and strings. Dip the previous juices into the soap pods, roast slowly over low fire until dry, dip again and roast until the medicine is exhausted. Put all together with the dregs into a porcelain bottle. Roast over fire until carbonized (preserve nature) and grind into powder. For loose teeth, rub onto gums. For yellow beard, take 3 qian of powder in an iron container, mix with soup water. After three days, dip and rub the beard/hair with the liquid before bed. By early morning next day, it turns black. Three nights, three applications; the blackness is like lacquer, very excellent.

Treatment for Mobile Tooth Roots About to Fall Out
Use fresh Rehmanniae Radix wrapped in cotton, suck against the teeth. Alternatively, chew and soak tooth roots in the juice, 4-5 times daily, apply at night and swallow the juice. After ten days, results are excellent. If teeth protrude, chewing is also acceptable.

Tu Jili San (Earth Tribulus Powder) Treats toothache, swollen and mobile gums, and disturbed teeth.
Use raw Earth Tribulus (remove spines), quantity unspecified, grind into coarse powder. Take 5 qian each time, boil in half bowl of light fermented grain water for 7-8 boils, filter, add a pinch of salt powder, rinse mouth frequently while warm. No dietary restrictions. Alternatively, burn roots to ash and apply to loose teeth to stabilize them. Treatment for loose teeth:
Use half jin of lead, melt in a large pot, immediately add mulberry branch ash, hammer and grind with willow wood until sandy, sieve through fine silk into powder. Brush teeth normally every morning, then rinse with warm water into a basin, and wash eyes with the water. Brightens eyes, darkens hair/beard, and treats various eye diseases.

Shexiang Fanxiong San (Musk, Alum, Realgar Powder) Treats loose teeth in adults and children, receding gums exposing bone, alveolar abscess toxicity, gum erosion and ulceration, inability to eat.
Moschus, Dragon Bone, Vitriolum (Alumen Crudum), Realgar.
Grind into fine powder. Use one zi each time, dip goose feather in medicine and sweep the affected area. Alternatively, take 3 qian, boil in 7 fen water until reduced to 5 fen, hold hot in mouth, spit out when cool; or brush teeth daily and rinse with warm water.

Shutong Mo San (Calcined Copper Powder) Treats premature tooth loss, making them firm.
Calcined Copper Powder (1 liang), Angelicae Sinensis Radix, Asarum Root, Phellodendri Cortex, Saposhnikoviae Radix (each 2.5 qian).
Grind into fine powder. Apply to affected area, seal with wax paper, 2-3 times day and night. Firm within 3-5 days. Avoid chewing hard foods for one day.

Lufengfang San (Honeycomb Powder) Treats failure of teeth to grow, and wind-toothache.
Roasted Honeycomb, Schizonepetae Spica, Sichuan Pepper (remove eyes and closed ones, stir-fry until sweat appears), Phellodendri Cortex, Pine Joint, Green Salt, Alum (calcined. Each 1 liang).
Grind into fine powder. Take half qian each time, wrap in cotton, bite at affected area, spit out saliva.

Chuan Shengma San (Sichuan Corydalis Powder) Treats failure of teeth to grow, wind-tooth and receding gums.
Sichuan Corydalis Rhizome, Typhonii Rhizoma (processed. Each 1 liang).
Grind into fine powder and mix evenly. In August, take 4 jin of fresh Rehmanniae Radix, wash clean, squeeze to obtain two large cups of juice, add the powder and mix well, store in porcelain vessel. Each time, wrap one end of a willow twig in cotton, dip in medicine, heat, and cauterize the gap under the tooth root. Apply a little more ointment for effect.