[Formula] Calamine 60g, Vinegar 660ml, Buckwheat Flour 24g [Usage] Place the first two ingredients in an iron pan and simmer together for over 10 boils (after the water boils, let it roll for a dozen or so times). Add 24g of buckwheat flour to make a paste with an appropriate consistency. Apply it to the … Read more
[Formula] Pomegranate (both peel and seeds are used), fresh walnut (used with green peel), fresh green persimmon, equal parts of each. [Usage] Pound the above herbs in an iron mortar until they become a paste. Take a small-mouthed porcelain jar, place 1500g of well-prepared black tin inside, and pound it into leaf-shaped pieces the size … Read more
[Formula] Baiyao Jian 30g, Wubeizi (Galla Chinensis) 15g, Hezipi (Terminaliae Chebulae Pericarpium) 30g, Langba 30g, Heye (Folium Nelumbinis) 30g, Dingfen (starch) 9g, Lvfan (Melanteritum) 15g [Usage] Grind the above into fine powder. Take a bowl of iron filings decoction, boil it down to half a bowl, filter it through cotton, and then simmer it over … Read more
[Formula] Liqing (Castanea mollissima Blume leaf) and Colla Corii Asini 30g each [Usage] Grind the above ingredients into powder, use paper to twist into a wick for smoking a tile basin, collect the soot, and grind it together with walnut kernel into a paste to apply to the beard and hair. [Efficacy] Blackens the beard … Read more
[Formula] Chalcanthitum, Galla Chinensis, Indigo Confectio, Chebulae Fructus, Walnut Peel, Pomegranate Rind (vinegar-processed), Chaenomelis Fructus Cortex, Chinese Honeylocust Spine, Polygoni Multiflori Radix, Asari Radix et Rhizoma in equal parts [Usage] Grind the above into an extremely fine powder, refine honey to make pills as large as small coins. Always nurture them in charcoal ash and … Read more
[Formula] Galla Chinensis 30g, Pomegranate Rind 30g, Dried Lotus Leaf (pounded separately) 30g, Chinese Gallnut (stir-fried) 15g, Chebulic Myrobalan Rind 15g, Chinese Gallnut Extract 15g, Copperas (ground separately) 15g [Usage] Grind the above into fine powder, add 5 – 6 spoons of stir-fried flour, and make it into a paste with good-quality vinegar. Mix the … Read more
[Formula] 250 g each of fine needle sand (not a traditional herb, possibly a local or specific ingredient, keep as is if it’s a specific term in a certain context) and buckwheat flour, 500 g of concentrated vinegar [Usage] Mix the above two medicinals with concentrated vinegar into a paste. First, wash the hair with … Read more
[Formula] 3 fresh walnuts [Usage] Grind the above herbs with their skins into a fine powder. Add an appropriate amount of breast milk and place in a silver vessel. Simmer over gentle to moderate heat to form a paste, stirring with a bamboo spatula during the process. When using, wash the beard and hair, then … Read more
[Formula] Heidoudou (Black Soybean), Cujiang (Vinegar) [Usage] Soak black soybeans in vinegar for 24 to 48 hours, then heat and boil them until they are thoroughly cooked and mushy. Filter to remove the dregs and concentrate the liquid over low heat until it forms a thick paste. First, wash the hair and wait for it … Read more
[Formula] Morus Fructus [Usage] Collect in large quantities, dry in the sun, pound into powder, process with refined honey into pills. Take 60 pills daily. [Efficacy] Blackens hair. [Indications] Premature graying of beard and hair. [Commentary] Fructus Mori has the functions of nourishing the Liver and Kidney, replenishing blood and nourishing body fluid, relieving constipation … Read more
