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Fang to Blacken Beard and Sideburns and Restore Appearance
Human life is primarily governed by Blood and Qi. After the age of forty, Blood and Qi gradually weaken, leading to graying of the beard and sideburns. Formulations for blackening the beard and sideburns often employ coarse and toxic herbs such as Calcined Iron Ore (Duanshi) and Pomegranate Peel (Shiliupi).

Prescription: Dried Cattail Rhizome (Ganpu), Bamboo Shoots from the Previous Year (Sujiangzhu), Star Anise Fruit (Xiangzi), Patchouli Leaf (Huoxiang), Oyster Shell (Muli), High-Quality Ink (Haomo), Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng) (each 1 liang).
First, take five walnuts, peel them, and pound into a paste. Then add Almond Oil (Xingren mian you) to achieve an appropriate consistency. Add the aforementioned seven herbs and pound into a paste. Then add the following: Musk (Shexiang), Raw Borneol (Sheng Longnao), and Powdered Labdanum (Linglingxiang mo).
Each of the above three ingredients is 1 qian. Pound over a thousand times more, form into cakes, and store sealed with oil paper.

Herbs to Blacken Beard
Fresh Gleditsia Sinensis Fruit (Xin Zaojiao), Tender Banana Leaves (Nen Bajiaoye), Tender Locust Branches (Nen Huaizhi), Fresh Ginger (Shengjiang), Tender Sour Pomegranate Peel (Nen Suan Shiliupi) (all dried in shade).
Equal parts of the above herbs are finely chopped and placed in a jar. Seal the jar mouth with salt mud without covering it. Burn until smoke ceases, preserving the nature of the herbs. Remove the jar from the fire and bury it in a dug pit. Repeat this process three times.
[Method of] Inverting and Hanging (Daoxuan)

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To Blacken Beard and Sideburns
Southern Starch (Nanfen), Red Lead (Huangdan) (each 0.5 fen), Mirabilite (Puxiao) (1 fen), Weathered Calcined Iron Ore (Fenghua Duanshi) (0.5 qian, finely ground).
Grind the above into a fine powder. Mix with the liquid used for making Hu Bing (flatbread) to form a paste. Warm gently in a cup over low fire. When slightly warm, dip a bamboo stick into the medicine and test on a fingernail. The desired effect is indicated by blackening.

Another Prescription
To Blacken Beard
Weathered Calcined Iron Ore (Fenghua Duanshi) (0.5 jin), Black Tin (Heixi), Red Lead (Huangdan), Southern Starch (Nanfen) (each 2 liang).
In an iron pot, first roast the Calcined Iron Ore. Stir with a branch of Star Anise wood (1 chi 5 cun long, 1 cun diameter). Roast until the branch chars back 4 cun. Then sequentially add Black Tin, Red Lead, and Southern Starch.

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To Blacken Beard
Cinnabar (Sha) (1 liang), Iron Powder (Tiefen) (4 liang), Green Walnut Peel (Qing Hetaopi) (0.5 jin), Sour Pomegranate (large one).
First, pound the pomegranate and walnut peel together into a mud-like paste. Decoct the medicine. Place everything in a jar, seal with oiled cloth, and bury in horse manure for 49 days. Take out and use with human hair (text implies mixing or application with hair).

Prescription for Ingrown Toenail (Qianjia Fang)
Chalcanthite (Danfan), Frankincense (Ruxiang) (each 1 fen), Human Cut Nails (burned to preserve nature), Tangled Hair (burned to preserve nature), Cuttlefish Bone (Wuyu Gu), Dry Cinnabar Paste (Gan Yanzhi Pi), Litharge (Miduoseng) [dosage missing in text].
First, burn the first four ingredients to preserve their nature. Then add the remaining herbs and grind extremely fine. Boil Lettuce (Woju) in water to wash the feet. Have a person with clear vision trim the ingrown toenail spike. Apply the medicine paste. Change once every day and night.

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Wrap Fructus Chebulae (Hezi) in flour and roast. Remove the kernel. Pound the peel into a fine powder. Apply dry powder to the sore. Wrap with paper. Pain will cease naturally.

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Chicken Dropping Alum (Jisifen) [ground fine after burning in crucible, stored in box], Frankincense (Ruxiang) (2 fen), Musk (Shexiang) (0.5 fen).
Mix the three ingredients evenly and store in a box. Before use, moisten the swollen and painful ingrown nail area with saliva. Sprinkle the medicine on top. Once dry, peel off. Repeat three times until cured.

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For Ingrown Toenails; also cleans grease stains from clothes.
Aged Tangerine Peel (Chen Jupi) (do not remove the white pith).
Chew thoroughly and apply to the nail. Replace when dry. After several applications, the diseased nail will fall off naturally.

Treatment for Goiter (Zhi Ying)
Alum (Bai Fan), Dried Scorpion (Gan Xie) (equal parts).
Burn in a crucible over charcoal fire until the nature is preserved. Grind into powder. Take 1 zi per dose. Place the powder on a piece of pig or sheep thyroid gland (Yanye). Roast over a sesame oil lamp until cooked. Hold in the mouth before sleep and swallow.

Treatment for Various Erysipelas and Flowing Sores (Zhi Zhu Dan Liu)
Grind old materials from swallow nests into powder. Mix with water and apply. Relief follows.

Treatment for Dislocated Joints and Wrists (Zhi Jie Wan Tuo)
Mix Rice Flour (KT Mi Fen) and Semen Momordicae (Mubiezi Ren) into a fine powder. Decoct Su Mu (Sappan Wood) juice with wine. Mix with the powder to form a paste. Apply to the affected area. Cure follows.

Treatment for Snake Entering Seven Orifices Due to Cooling Off After Heat
Take 7 grains of Sichuan Pepper (Chuanjiao). Break the snake's tail and wrap it inside the pepper. It will exit shortly.

Treatment for Ear Pain and Blocked Ear Canal (Zhi Er Tong Tong Er)
Place one Cricket (Ququ) on a silk cloth. Sprinkle Powder of Amomum Villosum (Suosha Mo) on it. The cricket will liquefy. Use the resulting juice to drip into the ear. Pain stops immediately.

Treatment for Sudden Evil (Zhong'e) Causing Near Death
Chewing large feces is excellent.

Baoming Dan (Life-Preserving Pill)
Twenty-four ingredients bestowed by Emperor Renzong to Prime Minister Di for detoxification during campaigns in the South.
Talcum (Huashi), Cardamom (Suosha), Indigo Naturalis (Qingdai), Gardenia Fruit (Shanzhizi), Poria (Baifuling), Gentian Root (Longdancao), Aragonite (Hanshuishi), Licorice Root (Gancao), Cyathula Root (Guanzhong), Scutellaria Root (Huangqin), Kudzu Root (Gange), Soybean (Dadou) [text incomplete], Buguzhi (Pibo) [text likely erroneous], Mint (Bohe), Curcuma Aromatica (Huangyaozi), Pink Flower (Fenhua) [likely specific local herb], Panax Notoginseng Tea (Baiyaojian), Isatis Root (Langen) (the above twelve herbs, each raw, 0.5 liang).
Select and clean the above, grind into powder. Mix with raw honey to form pills the size of a chicken head. Coat with Indigo Naturalis (Qingdai). Take one pill per dose, chew finely, and swallow with fresh water. Greatly treats all [acute conditions/poisons].

Shenxiao Jiuming Dan (Miraculous Life-Saving Pill) (Formula 4 of 30)
Detoxifies various snake venoms, Gu poison, and all drug poisons.
Cinnabar (Zhusha) (1 liang), Musk (Shexiang) (0.5 liang), Realgar (Xionghuang), Red Lead (Huangdan) (each 2.5 fen), Croton Seed (Badou) (2 fen, peeled and oil removed), Mylabris (Banmao) (2.5 fen, head and wings removed).
The above seven ingredients are each finely ground.
Ku Yao Zi (2.5 fen), Sophora Root (Shandougen) (1 liang), Spurge Seed (Xuisui Zi) (2.5 fen, peeled, raw).
The above three ingredients are pounded together into powder.
Combine all in a mortar, mix evenly, and sun-dry. Use glutinous rice paste to form pills the size of fish eyes (approx. 10 jin scale reference). Each pill can save five men or three women. Avoid alcohol, meat, and toxic foods for one month; only eat garlic chives. Horse sweat is considered optimal [context unclear, possibly related to administration or antidote synergy].

Another Prescription
Fermented Soybeans (Douchi) (300 grains), Croton Seed (Badou) (14 grains, peeled, core removed, oil not released), soot from the bottom of the cauldron (Baicaoshuang) (3 he).
Grind Douchi and Badou finely. Add Baicaoshuang and grind again until uniform. Drop water to form pills the size of marbles. One pill, ground in cold well water, and administered. If the poison is in the diaphragm, it induces vomiting; if [in the intestines], it induces purging.

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Croton Seed (Badou) (peeled, core removed, oil not released), Mirabilite (Mayaxiao) (each 4 fen).
Sun-dry and grind extremely fine. Form pills the size of marbles with raw honey. Swallow with cold water. Very rapid effect.

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Polygonum Multiflorum Stem (Changshan) (4 liang), White Salt (Ba Yan) (4 fen).
Soak in one dou of water overnight. At dawn the next day, boil down to two sheng. Divide into two doses. Vomiting occurs shortly after. Collect the vomit in a copper vessel. If the color is green, lift a staff five chi high without breaking it [test for purity/toxicity].

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Take bricks from a latrine used for many years. Wash in water, dry in the hot sun, and scrape off the white frost. Store. Mix 1 qian bi with cold water. Highly effective. Do not give to those without poisoning; it is very cold and detoxifies poisons miraculously.

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Fresh Radix Glehniae (Qini) pounded raw for juice. Drink several cups for major detoxification. Also, decoct Qini (1-2 sheng) and drink. Detoxifies. Also, grind Qini into powder, mix with water, and drink. Effectively resolves various drug poisons.

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Slice Licorice Root (Gancao), roast lightly over fire, chew finely, and swallow the juice. If poisoned by food/drugs, induce vomiting, then seek other prescriptions to treat. Ancient texts say to always carry ten cun of Licorice Root in a bag for self-protection.

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Take a rooster, prick the comb with a knife, collect the blood, and mix with good wine to drink. If unavailable, use a hen. Alternatively, take a live duck, cut off the head, let the blood drip into the mouth, and swallow. Immediately detoxified. If the mouth is closed, pour in using a bamboo tube. Very effective.

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Equal parts Licorice Root (Gancao) and Radix Glehniae (Qini). Decoct strongly. Drink as much as possible. Detoxifies.

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Dulin Vine (Dulin Teng) (10 liang, known by locals in the northern slopes of Lingnan mountains).
Decoct with one dou of water and two sheng of wine until three sheng remain. Divide into three doses. After drinking, toxins are expelled through urine. Avoid toxic foods for one month. If not cured, repeat the prescription.

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Yellow Vine (Huang Teng) (10 liang, also found in Lingnan, known by locals).
Prepare according to the method for Dulin Vine above.

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Juice of Isatis Root (Langen) and Soybean (Dadou) mixed with pig blood. Drink to detoxify. Repeat if necessary.

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Dry leaves of Isatis (Lanye) ground into powder, mixed with water and taken. Greatly resolves various poisons. Roots may also be used.

Resolving Poisons in the Abdomen and Generating Gu Poison
Sheep Skin (square 3 cun), Lotus Leaf (Heye), Sophora Root (Kushen), Coptis Rhizome (Huanglian), Angelica Sinensis (Danggui) (each 1 liang).
Decoct in seven sheng of water until two sheng remain. Divide into three doses. Vomiting occurs after completion. Repeat if not cured.

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Sheep Skin (square 3 cun), Lotus Leaf (Heye) (4 liang), Sophora Root (Kushen), Coptis Rhizome (Huanglian), Angelica Sinensis (Danggui), Rhinoceros Horn (Xijiao), Cimicifuga Rhizome (Shengma) (each 3 liang).
Finely chop. Decoct in nine sheng of water until three sheng remain. Divide into three doses. Clinical reports state that patients vomited several sheng of bee Gu poison immediately after taking it. This formula is called Baijie San.

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Realgar (Xionghuang), Cinnabar (Zhusha), Veratrum Root (Lilu) (each 4 fen).
Grind into powder. Take on an empty stomach with morning well water (Jinghua Shui). Dosage: Dao Gui (small amount). Purges and vomits up the Gu poison.

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Mylabris (Banmao) (1 fen, legs and wings removed, separately ground), Peach Bark (Taopi), Large Spurge (Daji) (each 1 fen).
Grind into fine powder. Mix with water to form a pill the size of a jujube pit. Swallow with rice water. Induces vomiting. If not cured, wait ten days and take another dose. Must cure.

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Qian Cao Gen (Qian Gen), Lotus Root Base (Heye Gen) (each 2 liang).
Finely chop. Decoct in four sheng of water until two sheng remain. Strain, warm, and take at once. Good result.

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Take 14 earthworms, soak in three sheng of vinegar (Ku Jiu) until dead. Consume all the juice. Can treat even near-death cases.

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Finely chop one hu of Mul Heartwood (Sangmuxin). Put in a pot, cover with three cun of water. Boil down to two dou. Clarify. Simmer gently until five sheng remain. Take five he on an empty stomach. Also, chew and swallow the juice of Mulberry Root Bark (Sangbaipi). Shortly after, Gu poison is vomited out and cured.

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Iron Essence (Tiejing) ground fine. Mix with Black Hen Liver to form pills the size of Sophora seeds. Take three pills per dose. Severe cases: no more than ten days. Mild cases: cure quickly.

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One sheng of salt mixed with pure vinegar (Ku Jiu) as one dose. Induces vomiting and immediate cure. Alternatively, dissolve salt in vinegar and drink. Also good.

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One liver of pig boiled with one sheng of honey until hot. Divide into twenty doses. Can also be formed into pills.

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Juice of Platycodon Root Seedlings (Jiegeng Miao) (1-2 sheng) drunk. Greatly detoxifies.

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One bitter gourd (Kuhu) or bitter bottle gourd. Decoct in four sheng of water until one sheng remains. Take at once. Immediate cure via vomiting. Alternatively, dissolve in one sheng of vinegar and drink. Effective.

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Three pieces of Soap Pod (Zaojiao), roasted, skin and seeds removed. Soak in five sheng of wine overnight. Strain. Divide into three doses. Very effective.

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Good Realgar (Xionghuang) (1-2 qian), ground fine in cold water and drunk. Kills hundred insects and poisons in the abdomen. Excellent.

Resolving Poisons from Various Foods
Vegetables, wild taro, etc.
Burn chicken droppings to ash, mix with water, and take one fang bi. If not resolved, take more. Very good.

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Artemisia Root (Aogen) in any amount. Decoct 1-2 sheng and drink. Detoxifies.

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Licorice Root (Gancao) decoction drinks to detoxify. Radix Glehniae (Qini) decoction works similarly.

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Fresh Ginger (Shengjiang) (4 liang), Licorice Root (Gancao) (3 liang, roasted).
Decoct in six sheng of water until two sheng remain. Strain. Take on an empty stomach, divided into three doses. Mild cases resolve; severe cases require different treatment.

Another Prescription
Human feces stirred in water (one sheng) and drunk. Resolves all drug poisonings better than anything else. People usually dislike the filth, but if unavoidable, this is the best.

Resolving Poisons from Fish, Turtle, and Meat
Orange peel (yellow part) strong juice drunk. If not resolved, take more. Highly effective.

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Winter Melon (Donggua) in any amount. Strong decoction drunk. Most beneficial.

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Reed Rhizome (Lugen) chopped and decocted. Drink 1-2 sheng. Extremely good.

Resolving Poisons from Poultry and Beast Meat
Head scurf (Tougou) one qian bi, mixed with water and drunk. If not cured, take more.

Another Prescription
Fermented Soybeans (Douchi) and Licorice Root (Gancao) decoction (several sheng) drunk. Detoxifies.

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Garlic Chive (Jiu) pounded for juice (1-2 sheng), mixed with water and drunk completely. Cures.

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Phellodendron Bark (Huangbai) ground into powder, mixed with water and taken. Repeat if not cured.

Treatment for Consumption Disease (Chuan Shi) and Bone Steaming Labor
Black Tin (Heixi) roasted and ground fine. Cook two liang of lean meat. Dip 1-2 qian of the powder in the meat and eat on an empty stomach. Taken in the morning, worms pass in the evening; taken in the evening, worms pass the next day. Repeat if worms do not pass.

Another Prescription
Swallowing leeches into the abdomen. Drink one sheng of hot blood from cattle or sheep. Then drink one sheng of pork lard. Expels immediately.

Treatment for Poisonous Snake Bites and Others
Six Prescriptions
Shenxiao Michuan Lisheng San
Treats poisonous snake bites, centipedes, scorpions, bees, wasps (spiders, water bugs, sand fleas, etc.).
Sichuan Pepper (Chuanjiao), Fermented Soybeans (Douchi) (each 10 grains).
Chew these two ingredients thoroughly in the mouth, spit into the palm. Mix with Powder of Pinellia Ternata (Tiannanxing Mo) evenly. Apply to the wound. Rub with hand until slightly warm. Yellow fluid will drain out completely. If not cured, continue treatment.

Another Prescription
Fresh Mint (Sheng Bohe) pounded for juice, mixed with Alum (Bai Fan) powder to eat. Apply the dregs to the wound. Immediate effect. Wild mint is better.

Resolving Poison Causing Unconsciousness and Confusion
Licorice Root (Gancao) in any amount, sliced. Place at the bottom of dry human feces, cover thinly with soil, and cover with feces pellets. After two rainy seasons followed by sunny days, take out, dry in shade, grind into powder. Mix with water and take 1-2 fen.

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Dry human feces burned to ash, mixed with water and taken (1-2 fen). Instantly resolves various poisons.

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Dig a pit one chi deep underground. Pour one dou of new well water in. Stir a hundred times. Wait for slight clarification. Drink the sediment and water together. Vomiting indicates resolution. This is called Earth Slurry (Di Jiang), which resolves many poisons.

Another Prescription
Powder of Pinellia Ternata (Banxia Mo), about one zi, blown into the patient's nose. Immediate effect. Powder of Gleditsia Sinensis Fruit (Zaojiao Mo) is also good.