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The blood of all domestic animals can be drunk raw to detoxify. Juice from Isatis root (Lan), bean juice, or hemp seed juice can also detoxify.

Fresh Honeysuckle leaves (Jinyinhua) can be chewed and swallowed to cure, or decocted strongly and drunk.
During the Chongning era, five monks from Baiyun Temple on Tianping Mountain in Suzhou were walking in the mountains when they found a large cluster of mushrooms. After picking and eating them, they developed vomiting. Three of them urgently sought out "Mandarin Duck Grass" (Yuanyang Cao), chewed it raw, and recovered immediately; the other two vomited less severely but died. This vine grows against water and mountains, bearing opposite yellow and white flowers. It is commonly known as Gold and Silver Flower (Jinyin), also called Egret Flower (Lu Hua). Its root is named Old Man's Beard (Laoren Xu), and in the *Bencao* (Compendium of Materia Medica), it is called Honeysuckle (Rendong), because it can expel wind-cold-damp-heat pathogens.

Realgar (Xionghuang) ground into powder, mixed with warm water and taken (1 qian); another method is to boil onion juice and drink it.

Han Fangji (Stephania tetrandra) decocted and drunk. Realgar can also be applied topically to the wound, or the wound fumigated. For poisoning of the scrotum, washing several times with Fangji decoction cures it.

For those who suffocate due to eating Sichuan peppercorn (Huajiao), drinking cool water resolves it; earth slurry water (Dijiangshui) is even better.

Fangfeng (Saposhnikovia root) and Fangji decocted and drunk, or Licorice (Gancao) decoction, can all detoxify.

Avoid Licorice (Gancao). Acorus (Changpu) decocted strongly and drunk.

Strongly boiled soybean (Dadou) juice resolves it.

Almond (Xingren) crushed into juice, Isatis root (Langen) and Isatis seed (Lanzi) crushed into juice can all detoxify.

Isatis seed (Lanzi) ground and mixed with water to drink resolves it.

White rice porridge can detoxify.

In the Jiaozhou and Guangzhou regions, locals use burnt copper for arrowheads; if this pierces the skin, death follows instantly. Drinking urine (Fenqing) provides immediate relief; the affected area should be washed and smeared with feces/urine mixture.
To resolve all kinds of drug poison, juice from Shepherd's purse and scallion (Qicong), white bean juice, mung bean juice, Licorice juice, maltose juice, rice sugar juice, or ash from silkworm pupal cases (Cantui zhi) burned to ash, used arbitrarily, can all detoxify.
Decoctions for detoxification should not be taken hot; they should be drunk cool. This is because toxins become more potent when heated.

Drinking a bowl of sesame oil is harmless. Wash the wound with Pueraria root (Gegen) decoction, wipe dry with cotton, apply sesame oil, roll blue cloth into strips, ignite them, place in a bamboo tube, and fumigate the wound. If thirsty, drink water mixed with rock sugar.

*Rumen Shiqin* records: A person bitten by a dog had calves swollen like jars, hard as pillars. The toxin entered the abdomen, causing vomiting and inability to eat, heavy headache, fever, and aversion to cold. Dairen treated him with Zhouche Wan (Boat and Cart Pill) 100 pills and Tongjing San (Meridian-Penetrating Powder) 2 qian. After half an hour, he had over ten bowel movements, the swelling subsided, and the disease condition slightly improved. Only after foul fluid flowed for five to six days did he apply plasters and Shengji San (Flesh-Generating Powder) to heal. Alas! When livestock bite hands or feet, and toxins enter the meridians, presenting such symptoms, those who encounter this suddenly without knowing the treatment will suffer and die. Is this a trivial matter?
(Zihe) Zhouche Wan (see Edema section) treats dog bites. Do not immediately apply plasters or flesh-generating agents, as this traps the toxin inside. One should first use Zhouche Wan, Yugong San, Tongjing San, etc., taken as appropriate, until there are over ten bowel movements, swelling decreases, and pain stops, before applying dressings. Muxiang Binglang Wan, Sousun Fengqi Wan, and Shenxiong Wan can also be used for purging.
(*Baojian*) Dingfeng San treats various dog bite toxins.
Arisaema (Nanxing, raw) and Saposhnikovia root (Fangfeng) in equal parts.
Grind into powder. For any dog bite, first wash the wound with saliva-water from the mouth, or urine, or salt water. Wipe dry with cotton, then apply the two powders. This prevents infection. If processed Arisaema is used, take 1-2 qian internally, mixed with child's urine (Tongbian), which can also treat wind-strike injuries.
For treating dog bites, if no medicine is available in an emergency, wash with urine, apply soot (Baicaoshuang) mixed with sesame oil, or paste crushed scallions, cow dung, earthworm dung, or chewed almonds. These provide emergency aid. Delay allows the toxin to enter the meridians, making treatment difficult.
Glutinous Rice Powder
Large Mylabris (Banmao, 21 pieces), remove head, feet, and wings. Take a pinch of glutinous rice. First, stir-fry seven cats slowly in the rice until not burnt. Remove cats. Add seven more, fry until charred. Remove cats. Add seven more, fry until red smoke appears. Remove cats. Grind the rice into powder. Mix with cold water and a little sesame oil. Take on an empty stomach. Shortly after, take another dose. Continue until foul matter is expelled via urination and defecation. If acute abdominal pain occurs, mix Qingdian (Indigo) with cool water to relieve it, or decoct Coptis (Huanglian) and Licorice (Gancao), let cool, and drink. Do not eat hot food.
Mixing Yi Yuan San with cool water is also excellent. Severe cases must ban dog meat for life. I have seen relapses after eating dog meat, which are incurable. I have also seen people die from taking Mylabris.
Mylabris is extremely toxic. Although it uses toxicity to attack toxicity, it should only be used in small amounts. Here, roasted rice is used to neutralize its qi, and Indigo/Coptis are prepared to mitigate its ferocity. How could one survive taking Mylabris alone? My clan brother, Xuliu Xu Xueru, was intelligent and loved medicine. One day, his son was bitten by a mad dog and had high fever. He used seven Mylabris fried with glutinous rice, but instead of rice, he used cats, and gave it to his son immediately. The son soon screamed in agony, saying his abdomen felt like it was being cut. They tried to antidote him in vain, and he died within an hour. My brother saw the prescription written thus, failing to examine the fierce nature of the poison. How could seven doses be taken at once? Ancient prescriptions passed down errors unnoticed. Modern books often transmit the error of using cats instead of rice for single doses. Only the *Yilin Jiyao* prescription removes cats and uses rice. I highlight this to prove the error in medical texts. Furthermore, pediatric formulas often use one drug for both acute and chronic convulsions, such as *Cuisheng Nao Wan*, claiming a newborn holds the pill when born. This ignores that acute/chronic convulsions are excess/deficiency syndromes, and fetal membranes block entry; drugs must enter the stomach to gather qi and open meridians. How can a pill be held in the hand? Texts pass down errors. Gentlemen should judge by reason and value investigation of things. Can texts be fully trusted? Mencius said, "To believe everything in books is worse than having no books." This is truly true.
One formula: Treat mad dog bites. In a windless place, suck out bad blood from the wound. If no blood flows, prick with a needle to bleed. Wash with urine. Apply powder made from real tiger bone soaked in ghee (Su You). If dry, mix with ghee or sesame oil with a little musk.
One formula: Use [missing character] juice mixed with ginger juice. Take on an empty stomach. Expulsion of foul matter resembling grape pulp indicates efficacy.
One formula: Angelica dahurica (Baizhi) and Cicada slough (Chantui) in equal parts, 2 qian, taken with wine. Yellow fluid oozing from the wound indicates resolution.
One formula: For dog bites where flesh swells, turns yellow, and rots. Remove shells from 50 Castor seeds (Bimazi), grind with water into a paste. Wash wound with salt water first, then apply this medicine repeatedly. Human bites are also treated with this.
One formula: Wash with rice wash water, apply rock sugar.
One formula: Stir-fry almonds until black, crush into paste, and apply.
One formula: Pluck red hairs from the patient's crown, then moxa the wound 3-5 moxibustions to cure.
Dog Repelling Method (*Suipilu*): When encountering a vicious dog on the road, use the left thumb to press starting from Yin hour, blow air once, rotate to Xu hour and press again. The dog will retreat and crouch.
One formula: Treat horse bites where toxin enters the heart. Crush Purslane (Machixian), decoct and drink. Chew chestnuts and apply to the site.
One formula: Cut and crush Motherwort (Yimucao), mix with vinegar and seal the wound. Another formula: Burn horse whip tips to ash and apply.