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Treatment for accidentally swallowing a needle: Take a piece of lodestone (magnetite), apply breath to the affected area, and the needle will be extracted.
Another prescription: Consume large amounts of fatty pork or mutton so that it is naturally expelled through defecation.
Treatment for rice or wheat awns stuck in the throat: Administer saliva from a goose; or chew and swallow *Lolium arundinaceum* (Reed Canary Grass).
Treatment for accidentally swallowing a copper coin: Drink the juice of fresh *Polygonum multiflorum* (He Shou Wu) slowly; the coin will naturally digest.
Another prescription: Soak 4 liang of *Stemona root* (Bai Bu) in 1 sheng of wine overnight, take warm, twice daily.
Another prescription: Boil *Abelmoschus manihot* root (Dong Kui Gen) to extract juice and drink it; the foreign body will be expelled with miraculous effect. Note: If one consumes okra during an epidemic disease (Tian Xing Bing), sudden blindness may occur.
Treatment for accidentally swallowing coins, gold, silver, or hairpins: Consume 1 jin of maltose (Yi Tang) gradually; the foreign body will be completely expelled.
Another prescription: Burn several goose feathers to ash, mix with rice water, and take orally.
Another prescription: Grind equal parts of calcined iron sulfate (Duan Shi, size of an apricot kernel) and sulfur (size of a soap pod) into powder, take with wine.
Another prescription: Dry *Allium macrostemon* (Xie Bai) until yellow, cook thoroughly without chopping, eat a large bundle, and the hairpin will be expelled along with it.
Another prescription: Red-hot charcoal, quickly pounded into powder, decocted in water and sipped; immediate effect.
Treatment for critically dangerous cases of accidentally swallowing iron stones or bone splinters: Grind *Vaccaria seed* (Wang Bu Liu Xing) and *Phellodendron bark* (Huang Bo) in equal proportions into powder, moisten and steam steamed bread dough to form pills the size of a bullet, coated with Indigo Naturalis (Qing Dai).
Treatment for abdominal pain caused by accidentally swallowing leeches: Form pills using mud from fields, swallow with water; the leeches will certainly be expelled with the earth via defecation.

Treatment for all types of fish bones stuck in the throat: Decoct roots of *Celosia cristata* (Jin Feng Hua Gen) with concentrated vinegar, instill into the throat using a bamboo tube; or grind seeds and instill; or instill into the nose, ensuring teeth are not touched.
Another prescription: Grind 2 qian of Frankincense (Ru Xiang) finely, mix with water, and swallow slowly.
Another prescription: Hold rock sugar in the mouth to dissolve; the bone will descend naturally.
Another prescription: Hold Mirabilite (Pu Xiao) in the mouth to dissolve.
Another prescription: Mix *Elsholtzia* (Ji Su) and Mirabilite (Pu Xiao) in equal proportions, form pills the size of a bullet. Lie supine, hold 3-5 pills in the mouth to dissolve; cure follows.
Another prescription: Wash wild ramie roots (*Boehmeria nivea*), pound into paste, use amount the size of a longan. If injured by chicken bone, dissolve with chicken soup before ingestion; if injured by fish bone, dissolve with fish soup.
Another prescription: Grind cardamom (Suo Sha) and licorice (Gan Cao) in equal proportions into powder, wrap a small amount in cotton, hold in mouth, swallow saliva slowly over time; the foreign body will be expelled with phlegm.
Another prescription: Boil several sheng of fresh mugwort (Ai Hao) in 1 dou of water and 1 dou of wine, reduce to 4 sheng, drink slowly.
Treatment for globus hystericus (sensation of obstruction): Burn various fishes to ash, mix and take orally.
Treatment for fish bone stuck: Scratch the neck area with the feet of a badger (Ta Zu); or decoct and drink.
Another prescription: Crush *Oenanthe javanica* (Yu Wei Cao, also known as Zui Yu Er Cao), extract juice, mix with cold water, gargle, and swallow a small amount; the bone will naturally turn to water. Do not plant this herb near ponds.
Another prescription: Mix with *Persicaria* (Qu Mai) into powder, take one cun bi (measure) mixed with water.
Treatment for fish bone stuck horizontally in the throat for 6-7 days: Burn carp scales and skin to ash, mix with water and take; expelled. If not expelled, take again.
Treatment for fish bones and miscellaneous objects stuck: Take honey slowly to facilitate descent.
Treatment for thorns stuck and not coming out: Grind rose root (Qiang Wei Gen) into powder, mix with water, take one cun bi, three times daily.
Treatment for sharp pain in the abdomen due to fish bone: Boil 1 he of cornelian cherry (Zhu Yu) in water to obtain one zhan of juice, take orally. If the bone is stuck in flesh and cannot exit, chew cornelian cherry and apply topically; the bone should rot and exit.
Treatment for fish bone stuck: Grind cormorant bone into powder and take, or decoct and drink.
Treatment for fish bone stuck horizontally in the throat: Thread a piece of amber bead onto a rope, push it down to the site of the blockage, then pull back and forth to extract it.
Another prescription: Swallow maltose pills the size of a chicken egg yolk; if not expelled, make larger pills and combine doses.
Treatment for fish bone stuck: Chew olive and swallow the juice.
Another prescription: Pound tender bark of paper mulberry (Chu Shu) into pills, or crush paper mulberry fruits, take 20-30 pills with water.
Treatment for fish bones or bamboo/wood objects stuck in the throat, unable to swallow: Grind ivory into powder, mix with water, take 1 qian.
Another prescription: Decoct *Cyathula officinalis* (Guan Zhong), frequently gargle and sip.