500 gm of Fructus Aurantii (each cut into two halves, remove the pulp, add seven Mylabris with wings and legs removed, then close the two halves together and tie them tightly with a cross of string. Soak in high-quality vinegar for seven days, then boil in vinegar for three hours, adding more high-quality vinegar if necessary. Cook thoroughly, let cool, untie the string, remove the Mylabris, and only dry the Fructus Aurantii slices in the shade). 500 gm of Gynura bicolor (if unavailable, replace with Peristrophe japonica).

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Grind the above ingredients together into a fine powder. Boil the excess vinegar from frying the Fructus Aurantii (Zhi Ke) to make a paste, then form it into pills as big as a phoenix tree seed. Take 50 pills each time, with either wine or water, once in the morning and once in the evening. For those not yet showing symptoms, the condition will naturally dissipate; for those already showing symptoms, apply a plaster to achieve self-healing.

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Scrofula.