DONGUIBOGAM; External Bodily Elements-2. Face 面 얼굴 (3) 35 Simple Prescriptions for the Face

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There are 35 kinds in total. It includes Verdigris Powder like Clouds.

∙ Salt water 鹽湯: It treats five kinds of sores in different colors. Soak cotton in warm salt water and cover the sores. Apply 5~6 times a day and it will heal naturally.

∙ Alumen 白礬: ① It treats acne. Mix Alumen (白礬) powder in alcohol and cover the area.
② When there are red-purple zits or rashes, mix the same amounts of Alumen (白礬), Sulfur (硫黃) with Minium (黃丹) added. Grind into powder and mix in saliva. Cover the area with this mixture.

∙ Lithargyrum 密佗僧: It treats freckles or spots on the face. Grind into powder thoroughly and mix in the milk of a human. Cover the area with this mixture. Cover the area overnight and the face will shine on its own. Also, it treats red smallpox on the face or on the nose.

∙ Calx 石灰: ① It removes warts, extra flesh, or acne on the face. ② A method for removing black warts is as follows. Mix Calx (石灰) powder in water and make a thick paste. Add glutinous rice. On the next day, the rice turns clear like crystals. Poke the wart with the end of an acupuncture needle and cover the rice on the area. When the liquid from the wart comes out, remove the rice and keep away from water.

∙ Setariae Puls Fermenti Concoctio 漿水: ① This water that tastes sour makes skin as white as silk and removes freckles and warts. Heat this water and wash the face. Rub the wart with a cotton cloth until it hurts. Grind Santali Albi Lignum (白檀) in water and cover the area with this liquid. ② It is the water floating above millet porridge that has been stored for some time until the taste turns sour.

∙ Cinnabaris 朱砂: It improves facial complexion. Levigate it in water, grind into powder and take it with clean water.

∙ Chenopodii Cineres 藜灰: It removes warts on the face. Mix this ash in water, decoct and use a small amount at a time.

∙ Sprout of Cuscuta chinensis LAM 兎絲子苗: It removes freckles, acne and spots. Pound the bud and extract the juice; rub this juice on the area.

∙ Leonuri Herba 益母草: When this is added to the medicine for the face, it adds sheen to the face. Harvest the root and leaves on May 5th of the lunar calendar, dry it under the sunlight and grind it into powder. Mix this powder in water and make it into a mass to the size of an egg. Roast over a strong fire for the time for cooking rice, store it for one day and take it out. Put it in china, grind it into powder again, sift it well and cover the area with this powder like powder soap. Then acne and pimples will be removed with an improved complexion.

∙ Trichosanthis Radix 瓜蔞根: It adds sheen on the face and removes wrinkles on the hands and face. Apply the powder all the time, and it will show great effect.

∙ Angelicae Dahuricae Radix 白芷: It removes freckles and scars, and adds sheen to the face. Make face soap with this and use it all the time.

∙ Juice of Zingiberis Rhizoma Crudus 生薑汁: When this is applied with Calomelas (輕粉) to the area on the face that was scratched with fingernails, it will not leave any scars.

∙ Angelicae Tenuissimae Radix 藁本: It removes freckles, red nose due to alcoholism, and acne. It adds sheen to the face. It can be used in medicine for washing the face or as face soap.

∙ Trichosanthis Cucumeroidis Radix 土瓜根: It removes boils on the face. Grind into powder and mix it with Setariae Puls Fermenti Concoctio (漿水). At night, wash the face with Setariae Puls Fermenti Concoctio (漿水) and spread this on the face. Wash it off in the morning. It adds sheen on the face and provides the skin with elasticity. If this is done for a hundred days, it gives sheen on the face so great that the person who sees it will be dazzled.

∙ Aconiti Koreani Tuber 白附子: It is applied for all kinds of diseases on the face and removes freckles and scars. It can be added to soaps, and it can be used as a powdered soap.

∙ Poria Sclerotium 白茯苓: It removes freckles and black pimples that look like an egg of a sparrow in the pregnant women. Grind into powder thoroughly, mix with honey and apply to the face all the time. It is very effective.

∙ Pulvis Fumi Mori Albae 桑柴灰: It removes scars and warts on the face. Soak in water with Chenopodii Cineres (藜灰), extract the juice and decoct it; apply in small amounts, and it will be very effective.

∙ Mori Folium 桑葉: It treats sores from toxin in the lungs, such as leprosy. Wash the leaves clean, steam them and dry under the shade. Grind into powder and mix it in water 2 don at the time and three times a day. It is called Nok-oon-san (綠雲散).

∙ Honey 蜜: Taking this all the time adds smoothness to the face. Taking doses for a long time is beneficial.

∙ Margaritum 眞珠: It removes freckles and spots and adds sheen to the face. It improves facial complexion. Grind into powder, mix in milk and apply all the time.

∙ Batryticatus Bombyx 白殭蠶: It removes freckles and scars, and adds sheen to the face. Grind into powder and apply all the time. Also, add the same amounts of cloth moth and Accipiti Excrementum (鷹屎白), grind into powder and mix in milk. Apply it and it will remove scars.

∙ Rubi Fructus 覆盆子: It improves facial complexion. It is good to take this for a long time. It has the same effect as Rubus idaeus var. Microphyllus.

∙ Mume Fructus Praeparatum 烏梅肉: ① It treats black spots, warts, and rotten flesh. Add to different kinds of medicine before applying to the area. ② When there are freckles on the face, grind herbs such as Mume Fructus Praeparatum (烏梅肉), a branch of a cherry tree, Gleditsiae Spina (猪牙皂角), and duckweed with purple backs. Wash the face with this powder, and the freckles will be removed naturally. ③ It has the same effect as Mume Fructus Praeparatum Alba (白梅).

∙ Endocarpium Castaneae Mollissimae 栗皮: It is a thin covering of a chestnut. It is also called bu (扶). Grind into powder, mix in honey and apply to the face; it makes the skin tighter and removes the wrinkles even from an old man.

∙ Persicae Flos 桃花: ① It improves facial complexion and adds sheen. Soak in alcohol before drinking. ② When a yellow liquid comes out from sores of the face, grind Persicae Flos (桃花) into powder and take 1 don of it three times a day with water.

∙ Armeniacae Semen 杏仁: ① It removes freckles on the face. Grind into powder, mix it with the white of an egg and apply on the face before going to sleep at night. Wash it off with warm alcohol the next morning. ② If the face swells due to damage from wind, grind Armeniacae Semen (杏仁) and apply it on the area.

∙ Brassicae Rapae Semen 蔓菁子: Extract the oil and add in soap before use, and the freckles will be removed. Also, grind it into soft powder, add into soap and use it all the time; it removes wrinkles on the face.

∙ Benincasae Semen 冬瓜仁: ① It adds sheen to the face, improves the complexion, and removes black spots and freckles. Make soap with this and use it all the time. ② Prepare three to five doe of Benincasae Semen (冬瓜仁), take the peels off and grind into powder. Make pills with honey, take 30 pills at a time on an empty stomach. Take it for a long time and it will turn the face white and clean as jade.

∙ Allii Fistulosi Bulbus 葱白: It is usually used for swelling of the face and eyes due to damage from wind. Drink the decoction and wash the face with it.

∙ Excrement of Phalacrocorax Carbo Sinensis 盧鶿屎: It removes freckles, black warts, scars, black pimples and freckles. Mix excrement of Phalacrocorax Carbo Sinensis (盧鶿屎) with pig oil and apply to the area.

∙ Adeps Selenarcti et Ursi 熊脂: It is usually used in freckles on the face and black spots. It adds sheen to the face, and it is either applied to the face or taken orally.

∙ Caprae seu Ovis Fel 羖羊膽: It is used for freckles that cover the face so much like on an egg of a sparrow. Decoct the gallbladder in alcohol, apply it on the face, and then wash it off. Repeat this three times a day, and the disease will be healed.

∙ Suis Pedis 大猪蹄: It adds sheen to the face of the age. Prepare one Suis Pedis (大猪蹄) as if for cooking, put in Setariae Puls Fermenti Concoctio (漿水) and decoct until it is as thick as Asini Corii Colla (阿膠). Apply at night and wash off the next morning, and the skin of the face will become tight.

∙ Cervi Cornu 鹿角: ① Roast it and grind into powder; take twice a day with wine. Take it for a long time and it will make the facial skin smoother. ② Grind it in Setariae Puls Fermenti Concoctio (漿水) into a thick paste, and apply on the face; it removes wrinkles, sores and pimples, and adds sheen to the face. ③ If qi is strong at a young age which causes pimples or sores on the face, apply the oil of a moose or a deer, and it will be healed.

∙ Another prescription 一方 또 다른 처방: If the face is bruised and swollen, roast lamb meat, beef, or pork, make it hot and spread it on the area. The face will be healed.