丝瓜连子,烧存性研末。每服二钱,因面得病面汤下,因酒得病温酒下,连进数服即愈
治黄胆痧。猪胆一个,将胆汁冲入白酒娘内,每日空心温服,连服五胆,其病即愈。或
嫌胆苦,用米粉和胆汁为丸,白酒送下。务要每日服一胆,五日服完,其病如失。
治黄病极效。猪胆一个,鸡蛋一个,共调匀,不拘时服。如嫌苦难下,用干糕咽之,连
服三次,即愈。
治黄胆眼与周身黄如金色。丝瓜根用五、六根,捣烂,水一碗煎八分,黄酒冲服,极效。
治黄胆、黄汗,温热不清。淡豆豉五合、茵陈二两、猪苓五钱、生姜皮五钱、用水煎,
徐徐温服。
此方治黄病,兼治食积腹痛及手足瘫痪无力,并小儿好食砖炭、泥土、茶叶等物,效验
如神,慎勿轻视!针砂,用好醋浸三宿,炒红色二两,糯米炒略枯一两,二味共研细末,用
河、井水各半调和为丸如梧子大。大人每服二钱,小儿一钱,清晨米汤送下,有病者三服即
效,无病者亦可常服。
广木香钱半,小面馒头五个,黑枣二十一枚,将面馒头底下剜一小孔,每个填入广木香
三分,仍将原剜下面填补孔处,文武火 成炭存性研末,将黑枣汤泡去皮核,捣如泥,和
馒头末,分作五丸。每早用茵陈三钱,煎汤化服。
又方∶马鞭草煎汤常饮,亦效。
Loofah fruit with seeds, burnt to retain its medicinal properties and ground into powder. Take two qian per dose; if the disease was caused by consuming wheat products, take it with noodle soup; if caused by alcohol consumption, take it with warm wine. Continuous administration for several doses will result in recovery.
Use raw Vitex trifolia L. (Manjingzi) powder decocted in water as a tea, taken multiple times a day until recovery.
Treating jaundice sha syndrome. Take one pig gallbladder, mix the bile into fermented rice wine (jiuniang). Take warm on an empty stomach daily. Consume the equivalent of five pig gallbladders continuously, and the illness will be cured. If the bitter taste of the bile is objectionable, mix the bile with rice flour to make pills, and swallow them with white wine. It is essential to consume the amount of one gallbladder daily, completing the course in five days, after which the disease will vanish as if it never existed.
Highly effective for treating jaundice. Take one pig gallbladder and one chicken egg, mix well together, and take at any time. If the bitter taste makes it difficult to swallow, use dry cake to help swallow it. Taking this three times consecutively leads to recovery.
Treating jaundice affecting the eyes and the whole body turning yellow like gold. Take five or six loofah roots, crush them thoroughly, decoct in one bowl of water until reduced to eight-tenths, and take with yellow wine. Extremely effective.
Treating jaundice, yellow sweat, and turbid heat-dampness. Take 5 he of Fermented Soybean (Danshichu), 2 liang of Yinchen Hao (Artemisiae Scopariae Herba), 5 qian of Polyporus (Zuling), and 5 qian of Ginger Peel (Shengjiangpi). Decoct in water and take slowly while warm.
This prescription treats jaundice, and also addresses abdominal pain due to food stagnation, paralysis and weakness of the limbs, as well as pica in children (craving for bricks, charcoal, mud, tea leaves, etc.). Its efficacy is miraculous; do not underestimate it! Iron filings (Zhensha), soaked in good vinegar for three nights, then stir-fried until red, 2 liang; glutinous rice stir-fried until slightly scorched, 1 liang. Grind both ingredients into fine powder. Mix with half river water and half well water to form pills the size of sophora seeds. Adults take 2 qian per dose, children take 1 qian per dose, taken early in the morning with rice gruel. Those with illness see effects after three doses; those without illness may also take it regularly for prevention.
Costus root (Guomuxiang) 1.5 qian, five small steamed buns, twenty-one black dates. Dig a small hole in the bottom of each steamed bun, insert 0.3 fen of Costus root into each, and replace the cut dough to seal the hole. Charcoalize over mild and strong fire while retaining medicinal properties, then grind into powder. Soak the black dates in broth, remove skin and pits, mash into a paste, and mix with the bun powder. Divide into five pills. Each morning, dissolve one pill using a decoction of 3 qian of Yinchen Hao (Artemisiae Scopariae Herba).
Another prescription: Decoct Verbena officinalis L. (Mabiancao) and drink as tea regularly; also effective.