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A rare health-preserving ancient prescription. “Dietary therapy” is an important component of the treasure trove of traditional Chinese medicine. Utilizing food for health and healing has been widely circulated among the people. Food and medicine share the same source; using food for health and healing is simple, effective, safe, non-toxic, and inexpensive, allowing for self-treatment without leaving home.
1. Treating Edema: 30 grams each of watermelon rind, winter melon rind, and adzuki beans, decoct in water and take.
2. Stopping External Bleeding: Dried watermelon leaves, ground into powder, sprinkle on the affected area to stop bleeding immediately.
3. Treating Lumbar Sprain: Dried watermelon rind, ground into powder, add a little salt, mix with wine, take 9 grams each time, twice a day.
4. Treating Burns: 30 grams of dried watermelon rind, ground into powder, mix with sesame oil and apply to the affected area.
5. Treating Hematuria: 6 grams each of grape root and white sugar, decoct in water and take.
6. Treating Cough: One large pear, washed and chopped with skin, add rock sugar and stew, effective quickly.
7. Treating Red Eye Pain: Soak Huanglian (Coptis chinensis) in pear juice, apply pear juice to the eyes several times a day.
8. Treating Conjunctivitis: 15 grams each of mulberry leaves and chrysanthemum, decoct in water, strain, and wash the affected eye with warm liquid twice a day.
9. Treating Asthma: 6 grams each of peach kernel, apricot kernel, and white pepper, 10 grains of glutinous rice, grind together, mix with egg white, apply to the palms and soles.
10. Treating Hemiplegia: Peach kernels (peeled) soaked in wine for a week, dried and ground into powder, mixed with honey to form pills (size of a wutong seed), take twice a day, 15 pills each time, with yellow wine or warm water.
11. Treating Dysentery: 30 grams each of pomegranate peel and hawthorn, decoct in water and take.
12. Treating Otitis Media: Dried pomegranate flowers, ground finely, add a little borneol, blow into the ear.
13. Treating Accidental Ingestion of Metal Objects: Leeks, any amount, washed, not cut, boiled in water until soft, eat to expel the metal with stool.
14. Treating Fishbone Stuck in Throat: Hang a live duck upside down, let it spit saliva, place the fishbone at the affected area, it will dissolve into water.
15. Treating Frostbite: Boil dried chili peppers in water, wash the affected area once in the morning and evening for several days until healed.
16. Treating Frostbite: Boil dried chili pepper water, wash once in the morning and evening for several days until healed.
17. Treating Hair Loss: Soak red chili peppers in wine for a week, apply the wine to the affected area several times a day to promote hair regrowth.
18. Treating Arthritis: Chili powder. Use wine in winter, vinegar in summer to mix and apply to the affected area, effective quickly.
19. Treating Prolapse of the Rectum: Use river snails, remove the shell, sprinkle alum powder on the meat, apply to the affected area, effective.
20. Treating Nosebleeds: Mash garlic into a paste, apply to the soles of both feet, effective quickly, safe and reliable.
21. Treating Urinary Difficulty: 5 heads of garlic, 50 hemp seeds, mash together, apply an appropriate amount to the soles every night, remove in the morning, reapply in the evening until urination improves.
22. Treating Urinary Blockage: 1 head of garlic, 60 grams of salt, 6 grams of gardenia, grind together, mix with water, apply to the navel, effective in a few hours.
23. Treating Joint Sprains: Appropriate amount of green onion leaves, mash and apply to the affected area, effective after several applications.
24. Treating Sores and Boils: Whole green onion, mash, mix with vinegar, heat and apply to the affected area.
25. Treating Acute Purulent Infections: White onion and honey in equal parts, mash and apply to the affected area.
26. Treating Blood in Stool: 15 grams of ginkgo biloba, 15 grams of lotus root, grind together, take in three doses, complete in one day.
27. Treating Numbness in Limbs: 60 grams of fresh ginger, 100 milliliters of aged vinegar, decoct and wash the affected area.
28. Treating Chronic Bronchitis: 7 slices of ginger, 250 grams of white radish, decoct and take.
29. Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis: 9 grams each of ginger, green onion, and chili, cook with noodles, eat while hot until sweating, continue for 10 days, twice a day, effective for back pain and leg pain.
30. Treating Stomach Pain: 30 grams of ginger, 1 egg, 30 milliliters of sesame oil. Chop ginger, beat into egg, fry in oil, take three times a day for 3-5 days. Also treats cough due to wind-cold invasion.
31. Treating Abdominal Pain from Cold: 3 slices of fresh ginger, 7 grains of white pepper, 1.5 grams of brown sugar, decoct and take. Expels cold and relieves pain.
32. Treating Nocturnal Enuresis: 1 piece of old ginger, mash, soak in 1000 milliliters of white wine, rub the skin below the navel before bed until slightly red, continue for 5-7 days.
33. Treating Malaria: Appropriate amount of ginger, mash, apply to both knees 4 hours before a malaria attack to prevent it. If the skin itches, remove it.
34. Treating Dog or Mouse Bites: 1 cup of ginger juice taken internally, and mash ginger with brown sugar to apply to the affected area.
35. Treating Worms in the Ear: Drop 1-2 drops of ginger juice into the ear, the worm will come out immediately.
36. Treating Menstrual Pain: 15 grams of fresh ginger, 30 grams of brown sugar, decoct and take, expels cold and relieves pain.
37. Treating Head Lice: For head lice, wash hair with water mixed with vinegar several times to eliminate.
38. Treating Itchy Scalp and Hair Loss: 130 milliliters of good vinegar, 200 milliliters of hot water, wash hair while hot once a day. Effective for itchy scalp, dandruff, and hair loss.
39. Treating Mumps: Loofah and burnt ash, grind into powder, mix with egg white and apply twice a day.
40. Treating Night Blindness: One beef liver or sheep liver, cut several places with bamboo, add 16 grams of night shining sand and 9 grams of stone decision bright, steam in a bowl and eat in two doses, continue for 3 days to cure.
41. Promoting Lactation: 15 grams of lettuce seeds, 2 pig front hooves, boil together, drink the soup and eat the hooves, effective.
42. Treating Pinworms: Fresh pumpkin seeds, ground, take with hot water, twice a day, one spoon each time, continue for a week.
43. Treating Hookworm Disease: 120 grams each of pumpkin seeds and betel nut, grind together, take 15 grams each morning and evening.
44. Treating Edema, Ascites, and Urinary Difficulty: Burn pumpkin stems to ash, grind into powder, take with warm water. 1.5-2 grams each time, three times a day.
45. Treating Habitual Miscarriage: Take 30 grams of old pumpkin daily, decoct and take for 15 days, has a stabilizing effect on pregnancy.
46. Treating Postpartum Edema: 30 grams of roasted pumpkin seeds, decoct and take once a day.
47. Treating Impotence: 60 grams of fresh shrimp, half a cup of hot yellow wine, after blanching the shrimp, eat and drink the wine once a day for 7 days.
48. Treating Impotence: Fresh shrimp and leeks, appropriate amount, stir-fried with oil and salt, drink wine.
49. Treating Impotence: For impotence or weak erection, or premature ejaculation: 100 grams of fresh shrimp, 20 grams of yangqi stone ground into powder, dip fresh shrimp in yangqi stone and eat, drink white wine, effective.
50. Treating Impotence: Fresh shrimp soaked in wine, stew and eat, appropriate amount twice a day for 7 days.
51. Treating Frequent Urination in the Elderly: 250 grams of turtle meat, 2 grams of earth bone skin, appropriate amount of rooster meat, stew and take.
52. Treating Nocturnal Enuresis in Children: 250 grams of turtle meat, boiled until soft, add a little salt, eat in two doses in one day.
53. Treating Post-Concussion Symptoms, Headache, Dizziness: Dried turtle head ground into fine powder, take twice a day with yellow wine for a week.
54. Treating Chronic Nephritis, Proteinuria: 3 live turtles, cut into small pieces, 1 pig stomach, add water and simmer until thick, do not add salt or add little salt. Take morning and evening. Combine with the Chinese patent medicine “Zhuang Yao Jian Shen Wan” twice a day, one pill each time. Not suitable for pregnant women.
55. Treating Anemia, Jaundice: Shell of the shellfish, calcined to ash, ground into powder, take 6 grams each time, twice a day, with appropriate amount of brown sugar.
56. Treating Otitis Media, Bleeding and Pus: Pig bile and alum. Grind alum into powder, soak in pig bile overnight, dry and grind again, first wipe the ear to dry the pus and blood, then blow the medicine into the ear, twice a day.
57. Treating Schizophrenia: 2 fresh pig hearts, 3 grams of pure vermilion, use bamboo chopsticks to poke several holes in each pig heart, add 1.5 grams of vermilion to each heart, stew in a sand pot. Eat the heart and drink the soup, continue for 20-30 hearts to restore normalcy.
58. Treating Epilepsy: 2 pig trotters, 1 pig heart, 30 grams of fresh earth elm. Boil until soft, remove the medicine, eat the meat and drink the soup for a week.
59. Promoting Lactation: 2 pig trotters, 6 grams of Tongcao, stew and take.
60. Treating Deafness and Tinnitus: 100 grams of fresh pig skin, 100 grams of green onion, chop together, add a little salt, steam hot and eat all at once, continue for 3 days. Effective for deafness and tinnitus caused by fatigue or heat.
61. Treating Elderly Deafness: 250 grams of dog meat, 60 grams of horse beans, stew until soft, eat in two doses morning and evening, continue for several weeks to cure.
62. Treating Lower Back Pain, Weak Legs, Cold Sensitivity: 1 dog kidney, first fry talcum powder in a pot, then put in the dog kidney until it swells, remove the talcum powder, cut and grind into powder. Take 3 grams twice a day with warm water.
63. Treating Bruises and Injuries: 30 grams of sheep blood, grind into powder, take twice a day, 1 gram each time, with wine.
64. Treating Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Bronchitis: 500 grams of lamb, 60 grams of wheat kernels, 9 grams of ginger, simmer into porridge, take morning and evening for a month.
65. Treating Hernia: 2 sheep eggs and 2 chicken eggs, boil and eat the eggs and drink the soup, twice a day for several days, effective for hernia due to qi deficiency.
66. Treating Pediatric Malnutrition: 95 grams of fresh sweet potato leaves, 2 chicken inner golden, decoct and take.
67. Treating Constipation: 250 grams of fresh sweet potato leaves, stir-fried with oil and salt, eat all at once, take once in the morning and evening on an empty stomach.
68. Treating General Edema: Roasted wheat bran (yellow), add appropriate amount of brown sugar, mix well, take with jujube soup. 60 grams each time, twice a day, continue for 15 days.
69. Treating Insomnia: 60 grams of wheat kernels, 15 jujubes, 15 grams of licorice, boil in 3 bowls of water until 1 bowl remains, take before bed.
70. Treating Anemia: 125 grams of lean pork, 15 jujubes (pitted), 60 grams of black alum, chop and fry into a paste, form into pills the size of a wutong seed. Take 9 grams each time, 2-3 times a day, with warm water. This formula is particularly effective for anemia.
71. Treating Persistent Cough: 1 dog lung, 1 white radish, 9 grams of apricot kernel, cut into pieces and stew until soft, eat with the soup, effective.
72. Treating Eczema and Dermatitis: Apply fresh eel blood to the affected area.
73. Treating Facial Nerve Paralysis: 1 live eel, cut to extract blood, apply to the affected side of the face, then use dry straw to burn and dry. If the patient feels normal, wash with warm water, if not, continue treatment.
74. Treating Kidney Deficiency and Lower Back Pain: 250 grams of yellow eel, cut, 100 grams of pork, steam and eat.
75. Treating Stomach Cold Pain: 60 grams of Sichuan pepper, fry until charred and grind into powder, take 3 grams three times a day, with rice soup. Effective for chronic cold stomach pain, pain triggered by cold.
76. Treating Skin Itching: 15 grams each of Sichuan pepper and alum, decoct and wash the affected area.
77. Treating Scrotal Eczema (Ball Wind): Equal parts of Sichuan pepper and alum, grind into powder, mix with egg yolk and apply to the affected area.
78. Treating Hand Fungus: 250 grams of fresh ginger, 500 milliliters of white wine. Cut ginger into pieces and soak in wine, use after 3 days. Apply to the affected area several times in the morning and evening.
79. Treating Gallbladder Ascaris: 30 grams of fresh ginger, extract juice, mix with 200 milliliters of water and take. Take once every 4 hours, if no effect after the first dose, take again after 1 hour.
80. Treating Measles: 500 grams of coriander, boil in water, first steam then wash, effective for rashes not coming out smoothly.
81. Treating Swelling: Mash banana and apply to the affected area twice a day.
82. Treating Cracked Hands and Feet: Heat a banana by the stove, wash hands with hot water, rub the affected area with a little banana, and massage for a while, generally effective after several applications.
83. Treating Burns: Peel banana, mash the flesh into a paste, apply to the affected area twice a day.
84. Treating Indigestion: One pineapple, squeeze juice and drink, 1 cup each time.
85. Treating Bronchitis: 120 grams of pineapple, 30 grams of honey, decoct and take.
86. Treating Jaundice Type Liver Fire: 250 grams of jujubes, 60 grams of yinchen (Artemisia capillaris), decoct and eat jujubes, drink soup, take morning and evening.
87. Treating Dizziness and Pain: 250 grams of small red dates, 150 grams of wintergreen branches, take morning and evening.
88. Treating Persistent Cough: Grind sour jujube seeds into powder, take 5 grams each time, 5 times a day.
89. Treating Loss of Appetite, Indigestion: Dried jujubes, pitted, roast and grind into powder, take 9 grams each time, add 3 grams of ginger when taking, three times a day with warm water.
90. Treating Blood in Stool: 5 grams of ginkgo biloba, 15 grams of lotus root. Grind together and take in one day.
91. Treating Pinworm Disease: Fresh ginkgo, mash into paste, apply to the anus for 5-7 days.
92. Treating Nocturnal Enuresis: Roast ginkgo until fragrant, for children aged 5-10, take 5-7 each time, for adults take 8-10 each time, chew slowly until no enuresis.
93. Treating Cough with Phlegm and Wheezing: 9 grams of ginkgo kernel, 6 grams each of ephedra and licorice, decoct and take, particularly effective.
94. Treating Cough and Wheezing: 1 walnut, 1 slice of ginger. Chew peach kernel and ginger slice on an empty stomach morning and evening, continue for a while.
95. Treating Cough: 9 grams of walnut kernel, mash, mix with appropriate amount of sugar, take with warm water morning and evening.
96. Treating Kidney: 9 grams of walnut kernel, 1 snake skin, roast and grind, take with yellow wine.
97. Treating Urinary Stones: 120 grams of walnut kernel, 120 grams of rock sugar, 50 milliliters of sesame oil, boil together for 15 minutes, cool and take, one dose each morning and evening.
98. Treating Loss of Appetite, Lack of Desire to Eat: 9 grams of raisins, chew before meals, three times a day.
99. Treating Asthma: 10 grams of apricot kernel, 30 grams of ephedra, 125 grams of tofu, boil for 1 hour, remove the dregs, eat tofu and drink soup, twice a day for a week to eliminate.
100. Treating Chronic Bronchitis in the Elderly: 100 grams of bitter apricot kernel, 100 grams of rock sugar, 30 grams of Chuanbei (Fritillaria), grind into powder. Take 9 grams each morning and evening for 10 days as a course of treatment, particularly effective.
101. Eating Persimmons Cannot Drink Alcohol: These two foods conflict, easily forming stones in the stomach.
102. Eating Green Onions Cannot Eat Honey: Mixing these two forms a highly toxic substance.
103. Method to Quit Smoking: Use 1 betel nut, drill a small hole, inject smoke oil, soak in water, carry with you, smell when wanting to smoke, quit in a week.
104. Method to Quit Drinking: Use 50 larvae, dry and grind into powder, take with white wine three times a day, quit in 3 days.
105. Thousand Cups Not Drunk: Use kudzu root or kudzu flower to brew tea, drink this tea while drinking alcohol.
106. Treating Hypertension: (1) 30 grams of banana peel, dry and decoct, three times a day, effective in a month. (2) 15 grams of traditional Chinese medicine Luobuma, take with boiling water, effective in half a month.
107. Treating Hypotension, Coronary Heart Disease: 30 grams each of old tea tree root and elm root, 20 grams of kudzu root, decoct and take once a day, continue for three courses (4 days per course).
108. Treating Hypotension: 20 grams of licorice, 40 grams each of cinnamon twig and cassia, mix and take as tea, continue for a week.
109. Treating Angina Pectoris: Roast and grind gourd seeds, take 10 grams three times a day.
110. Treating High Blood Lipids: (1) 10 grams of goji berries, 15 grams each of he shou wu, grass decision bright, and hawthorn, 20 grams of salvia, decoct and take twice a day, 7 days as a course of treatment, 4 courses to cure. (2) 15 grams each of hawthorn, ginkgo leaves, and jiaogulan, brew tea, half a month as a course of treatment, continue for 4 courses to cure.
111. Treating Prostatitis: (1) 30 grams of fresh pumpkin seeds, shell and take after meals, three times a day. (2) 200 grams of rhubarb, mix with 2000 milliliters of hot water, wash the area.
112. Treating Prostate Enlargement: (1) 100 grams of costus root, decoct and take twice a day, cure in half a month. (2) 30 grams each of fritillaria, codonopsis, and bitter gentian, decoct and take twice a day, 7 days as a course of treatment, two courses to cure.
113. Treating Hepatitis B: 30 grams each of corn silk, yinchen, mung beans, and jujubes, decoct and take three times a day, one month as a course of treatment, 3 courses to cure.
114. Treating Jaundice Type Hepatitis: 30 grams of corn silk, decoct and take 2-3 times a day, cure in one month.
115. Treating Black Spots on the Face (Freckles): Appropriate amount of coriander, decoct and wash three times a day, cure in one month.
116. Treating Sweaty Feet and Foot Odor: Boil radish in water, soak both feet for 30 minutes every night, cure in half a month.
117. Treating Athlete’s Foot: 1 jin of leeks, boil in water and soak feet, add 1 liang of brown sugar, wash once every night, eliminate in three days.
118. Treating Insomnia: Boil half a jin of dried peanuts in water, add 1 liang of brown sugar, take once every night, cure in half a month.
119. Treating Insomnia Disorder: Insomnia lasting 2-3 years is classified as insomnia disorder. Use 10 grams each of persimmon leaves and hawthorn, decoct and take twice a day, cure in one month.
120. Treating Neurasthenia: 50 grams of floating wheat, 24 grams of licorice, 20 grams of jujubes, 30 grams of sour jujube seeds, mix and decoct, take once a day, cure in half a month.
122. Rooting Out Toothache: 1 liang of wasp nest and 1 liang of brown sugar, mix with two bowls of water, boil down to one bowl, let the patient drink, effective for thirty years.
123. Special Effect for Tooth Extraction: 1 fish weighing 4 liang, remove the internal organs, fill with half a qian of red alum, hang in a cool, shady place with wind but no sun, after 5 days a large amount of white frost (also called bone grass) will seep out, apply to the tooth root, pain will disappear in three minutes and it will fall out on its own.
124. Treating Oral Inflammation: Dried watermelon rind, honey fried until charred, add a little borneol, grind into powder, mix with honey and apply to the affected area, particularly effective.
125. Treating Mouth Ulcers: Strong tea water with a little salt, gargle 3-5 times a day, cure in three days.
126. Fishbone Stuck in Throat: Use duck saliva to drop into the mouth, it will dissolve.
127. Treating Pharyngitis: 1 jin of kelp, blanch and remove, marinate with 1 jin of white sugar for 2 days, take 30 grams three times a day, one dose is light, two doses are good, three doses eliminate.
128. Hard Object Stuck in Throat: (1) 200 grams of leeks, eat raw to expel hard objects. (2) Mash water chestnuts, mix juice and take, hard objects will be expelled.
129. Worms in the Ear: Drop cat urine into the ear, the worm will come out, human milk can also be used. (When the cat does not urinate, use garlic to smear the nose.)
130. Treating Otitis Media: 1 liang of leek root, mash and extract juice, add a little borneol, drop into the ear, particularly effective.
131. Treating Elderly Deafness: (1) Use a straw to drop turtle urine into the ear once a day, 2 drops each time, cure in half a month. (Note: Shine a mirror on the turtle head to make it urinate.) (2) Mash crab into paste, extract juice and drop into the ear, three times a day, 7 days as a course of treatment, four courses to cure.
132. Treating Tinnitus and Deafness: 1 male black chicken, 4 jin of sweet wine, cook and eat while hot, continue for 5 chickens, particularly effective.
133. Treating Skin Itching: Equal parts of cypress leaves, locust leaves, willow leaves, and eggplant stems, boil water and wash, twice a day for seven days to cure.
134. Treating Eczema: (1) Mash yam (sweet potato) or potato into paste, apply to the affected area, mix with pig bile, apply to the affected area, effective for stubborn eczema, cure in seven days.
135. Treating Psoriasis: Mash garlic into paste, wrap in cloth, squeeze out juice and apply to the affected area, fresh juice is best. Three times a day, 7 days as a course of treatment, two courses to cure.
136. Treating Burns: 10 earthworms, place in a bowl, add 1 liang of brown sugar to dissolve into water, apply to the affected area, cure in three days without scarring.
137. Treating Frostbite: 500 grams of winter melon rind and eggplant root, boil water and wash the affected area twice a day, heal in three days.
138. Treating Motion Sickness: (1) Chew pine branches while riding, no motion sickness for three minutes; (2) A slice of ginger with warm adhesive tape on the navel, cure in three minutes.
139. Treating Mastitis: 50 grams of leeks, 10 grams of apricot kernels, peel and mash together, apply to the affected area twice a day, cure in seven days.
140. Treating Menstrual Irregularities: Use 10 rose flowers, decoct with 20 grams of brown sugar, take twice a day, cure in half a month.
141. Treating Impotence: Burn and grind wasp nests, take with fresh well water, effective.
142. Treating Premature Ejaculation: 500 grams of leek seeds, lightly fry and grind into powder, take 10 grams before meals, continue for 2 courses.
143. Treating Various Muscle and Joint Pain: 4 liang of impatiens root, soak in 1 jin of white wine, then wash the affected area with the wine.
144. Treating Sciatica: 30 grams each of fresh Chuanwu and Cao Wu, 15 grams of cinnamon twig, grind into powder, add 130 grams of salt, fry until yellow, add a little white wine, immediately wrap in cloth and apply to the painful area, twice a day, 10 days as a course of treatment.
145. Treating Lower Back and Leg Pain: 3 qian each of Duhuo, Niuxi, and Du Zhong, decoct and take once a day, cure in seven days. (Pregnant women should omit Niuxi and add Sangjisheng.)
146. Treating Bone Hyperplasia: 10 live earthworms, 1 liang of brown sugar, wrap in cloth, heat with a hot iron and apply to the affected area. Twice a day, 2 minutes each time, cure in one month.
147. Treating Shoulder Arthritis (Frozen Shoulder): 100 grams of asarum, 35 grams of ginger, soak in 1 jin of 60-degree white wine for seven days, wash the affected area with the wine three times a day, 7 days as a course of treatment, 4 courses to cure.
148. Treating Numbness in Limbs: 20 grams each of fresh ginger and garlic, chop and mix with 100 grams of aged vinegar, add a bowl of water, boil and steam wash the affected area.
149. Method to Kill Mice: 50 grams of cement and flour, 5 roasted peanuts, grind and mix, place in areas with many mice, they will die after eating within 3 days.
150. Treating Snoring: 15 grains of Sichuan pepper, brew in a cup of tea, take before bed for 15 days, do not use a high pillow before sleeping, will never snore.
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