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For conditions such as carbuncles and sores (Yong Ju), abdominal abscesses, back carbuncles (Fa Bei), visceral toxins, horse-riding carbuncles, and fish-mouth sores, if taken once according to this prescription within the first three days of onset, they will immediately dissipate. If the toxic pathogenic factor is vigorous, taking it for three consecutive doses will ensure complete resolution. Take one egg, pour it into a bowl and beat evenly, add 2 qian of Mangxiao (Natrii Sulfas), steam it in hot water until cooked, and take with good wine. Drink the wine according to tolerance, and finish eating the egg.

For early-stage back carbuncles, carbuncles, sores, and toxins, applying this externally causes immediate dissipation; for those already formed, applying it three times reduces the swelling, expels the toxin, and leads to healing, achieving results quickly. Ingredients: 5 liang of fresh raw Chinese yam (Shanyao, Dioscoreae Rhizoma) (not heated by fire), 1 liang of Zhusha (Cinnabar), 1 liang of Songxiang (Pini Resina), 10 Quanxie (Scorpio), and 1 liang of white sugar. Pound them together into a paste. Apply around the periphery of the lesion, leaving the top of the sore exposed without application. Cover the medicine with oil paper and change it every two hours (one shichen). It has miraculous effects in detoxification and has been tested repeatedly with success.

Jinyinhua (Lonicerae Japonicae Flos) 1 liang, Pugongying (Taraxaci Herba) 5 qian, Zaojiaoci (Gleditsiae Spina) 8 fen, Baizhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix), Tianhuafen (Trichosanthis Radix), Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma), Ruxiang (Olibanum), Mubiezi (Strychni Semen), Moyao (Myrrha), Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix), Chishao (Paeoniae Radix Rubra), and Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma) each 1 qian. Decoct in water and take orally.

To treat all types of swollen toxins, it has miraculous pain-relieving effects. Xionghuang (Realgar) 1 liang (finely ground), Dixiang (Frankincense) 1 liang (finely ground), Chansu (Toad Venom) 2 fen. Dissolve in wine and mix.

Another prescription: To treat all carbuncles, back carbuncles, scrofula (Luoli), carbuncles (Dingchuang), and fistulas, it protects the heart membrane and dispels various toxins, allowing natural internal resolution. Use 2 liang of raw Mingfan (Alumen) ground into powder, and 1 liang 2 qian of Huangla (Beeswax) melted. Mix the alum into the wax over the stove. While still hot, quickly shape into pills the size of wu zi (loquat seeds). Take 15 pills per dose with warm water or cold wine. Pain stops after several doses. For fistulas, grind the yellow skin from inside a chicken gizzard into powder and insert it into the hole.

Pugongying (Taraxaci Herba), Danggui Shen (Angelicae Sinensis Radix body), Sheng Huangqi (Astragali Radix), and Gancao Jie (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma node) each 5 qian. Decoct with half water and half wine, and take orally. Sweating indicates recovery.

Take a large handful of Huaihuazi (Sophorae Flos), stir-fry in a clay pot until brown, pour in one bowl of good wine, drink while hot to induce sweating, which leads to recovery. If not resolved, take again.

Additionally, an empirical prescription for treating all major sores and nameless swollen toxins: Stir-fry tofu dregs in a clay pot until hot. Make a cake according to the size of the red and swollen area and apply it as a patch. Replace when cool. Continue until healed.

Another prescription: Tiannanxing (Arisaematis Rhizoma), Sheng Beimu (Fritillariae Thunbergii Bulbus), Furongye (Hibisci Sabdariffae Folium), and Yelangdu (Euphorbiae Pekinensis Radix) in equal parts. Grind all into powder. In spring and summer, mix with honey and egg white; in winter, mix with aged vinegar for external application. Leave a hole in the center of the affected area for best effect.