治霍乱吐下不已,举体转筋,入腹则闷绝。
木瓜干(一两) 吴茱萸(半两,汤七次) 茴香(一分) 甘草(炙,一钱)
上为锉散。每服四大钱,水一盏半,姜三片,紫苏十叶,煎七分,去滓,食前服。
烦渴者,以阴阳反戾,清浊相干,清气干浊,水与谷并,小便秘涩,既走津液,肾必枯燥,引水
自救,烦渴必矣。
治霍乱吐利后,烦渴欲饮水。
茯苓(八两) 泽泻(四两) 甘草(炙,二两) 桂心(二两) 白术(三两)
上为锉散。每服四大钱,水一盏,姜三片,煎七分,去滓,食前服。一方有小麦五两。
治伏暑伤冷,冷热不调,霍乱吐利,口干烦渴。
黄丹(一两一分,炒) 巴豆(二十五个,去皮心)
上同研匀,用黄蜡熔作汁和为丸,如梧子大。每服五丸,以水浸少顷,别以新汲水吞下,不以时候。
干霍乱者,忽然心腹胀满,绞刺痛疼,蛊毒烦冤,欲吐不吐,欲利不利,状若神灵所附
,顷刻之间,便致闷绝。亦涉三因,或脏虚,或肠胃素实,故吐利不行。
治干霍乱及蛊毒,宿食不消,积冷,心腹烦满,鬼气。
至咸盐汤三升,热饮一升,刺口,令吐宿食使尽;不吐更服,吐讫复饮,三吐乃止。
此法大胜诸治,俗人以为田舍浅近,鄙而不用,守死而已,凡有此病,即先用之。
Treats Huoluan (colic with vomiting and diarrhea) where vomiting and diarrhea persist incessantly, causing spasms and twitching of the entire body; if the pathogen enters the abdomen, it leads to chest tightness and suffocation.
Dry Papaya Fruit (1 liang) Evodia Fruit (0.5 liang, rinsed seven times with boiling water) Fennel Seed (1 fen) Licorice Root (roasted, 1 qian)
Crush the above ingredients into a coarse powder. For each dose, take 4 da qian, add 1.5 zhan of water, 3 slices of fresh ginger, and 10 leaves of Perilla Leaf, decoct until reduced to 7/10 volume, strain, and take before meals.
When irritability and thirst occur, it is due to the reversal of Yin and Yang Qi, where clear and turbid Qi interfere with each other. Clear Qi invades Turbid Qi, food and fluids mix, urination becomes scanty and difficult, body fluids are depleted, leading to dryness and exhaustion of the Kidney. The body draws in water for self-rescue, inevitably resulting in irritability and thirst.
Treats irritability and thirst desiring water after Huoluan vomiting and diarrhea.
Poria (8 liang) Alisma Rhizome (4 liang) Licorice Root (roasted, 2 liang) Cinnamon Twig Bark (2 liang) Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome (3 liang)
Crush the above ingredients into a coarse powder. For each dose, take 4 da qian, add 1 zhan of water, 3 slices of fresh ginger, decoct until reduced to 7/10 volume, strain, and take before meals. Another prescription includes Wheat 5 liang.
Treats latent summerheat combined with cold injury, imbalance of cold and heat, Huoluan vomiting and diarrhea, dry mouth, irritability, and thirst.
Lead Oxide (1 liang 1 fen, stir-fried) Croton Seed (25 seeds, skin and heart removed)
Grind the above ingredients together uniformly. Melt Beeswax into liquid and mix with the powder to form pills the size of Sophora Seeds. Take 5 pills per dose. Soak the pills briefly in water, then swallow with newly drawn cool water, at any time.
Gan Huoluan (dry Huoluan) presents as sudden abdominal distension and fullness, twisting and stabbing pain, resembling the grievance caused by Gu poison (parasitic disease), with inability to vomit or defecate. The condition resembles possession by spirits, leading to suffocation within moments. This also involves the Three Causes of disease: either Zang organ deficiency or inherent excess in the intestines and stomach, thus preventing vomiting and diarrhea.
Treats Gan Huoluan (dry Huoluan) and Gu poison, undigested retained food, accumulated cold, chest and abdominal irritability and fullness, and Gui Qi (ghost qi/sudden acute conditions).
Drink 3 sheng of extremely salty brine; first drink 1 sheng hot, stimulate the throat to induce vomiting of all retained food; if not vomited, continue taking it. After vomiting, drink again, repeating until three episodes of vomiting cease.
This method surpasses all other treatments. However, common people consider it a rustic and shallow practice, despise it, and refuse to use it, preferring to die rather than try it. For anyone suffering from this condition, this method should be used first.