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(6 Treatises, 127 Prescriptions, 2 Moxibustion Methods)

Prescription for treating a snake entering the mouth and unable to be pulled out after sleeping soundly due to cooling off while overheated:
Cut open the tail of the snake with a knife, insert two or three raw Sichuan peppercorns (Zanthoxyli Pericarpium), wrap it, and the snake will come out shortly. (*Zhouhou Beiji Fang* states: Moxibustion on the snake's tail will cause it to exit. If fire is unavailable, cut around the snake's tail with a knife until the skin is severed, then peel the skin backward to extract the snake.)

Prescription for treating a snake entering the mouth and the seven orifices (eyes, ears, nose, mouth):
Cut the tail and head of a sow, collect the dripping blood, and place it in the patient's mouth; the snake will exit.
Another prescription: Cut a pig's tail about three years old and as thick as the patient's middle finger, collect the blood in a vessel, pour the blood beside the snake into the patient's mouth, and then pull the snake out.

Prescription for treating sudden entanglement by a snake that cannot be untied:
Pour hot water over it; if no hot water is available, urinate on it.

Prescription for treating snake and scorpion stings:
Take juice from small garlic (Allium tuberosum); apply the dregs to the wound. (*Zhouhou Beiji Fang* states: For pit viper bites.)
Another prescription: Cook and crush Malva verticillata seeds (Malvae Semen), take the juice orally.

Prescription for treating snake bites:
Apply thick human feces to the affected area and wrap with silk; swelling will subside.

Prescription for treating snake venom:
Melt beeswax (Cera Flava) and inject it into the wound; if not healed, repeat.
Another prescription: Apply earwax from a sow's ear to the lesion. (*Zhouhou Beiji Fang* states: Cow earwax can also be used.)

Prescription for treating pit viper venom:
Apply Ye Wang (Aconitum carmichaelii deherain preparation, a toxic plant extract) to the swollen area; healing occurs upon bleeding.
Another prescription: Crush fresh Ephedrae Herba (Ephedrae Herba) and Broussonetiae Folium (Broussonetiae Leaf) together, wring out the juice with water, and soak the affected area.
Another prescription: Urinate on the wound.
Another prescription: Apply ginger powder to the site; change when dry.
Another prescription: Burn fourteen chicken droppings to ash, mix with wine, and ingest.
Another prescription: Form a ring of flour around the wound, have a prepubertal boy urinate in the center, insert a red-hot iron piece, let it cool, reheat, and repeat two or three times until healed.
Another prescription: Apply realgar powder to the lesion; change once daily.
Another prescription: Boil four liang of salt in one dou of water for ten boils; soak the wound in the hot liquid, changing when cool.
Another prescription: Crush Amaranthus tricolor leaves (Amaranthi Folia), drink one sheng of juice, and apply the dregs to seal the wound, adding a little water.
Another prescription: Take comb dirt about one cun long and as thick as a finger, mix with urine, and apply.
Another prescription: Mix equal parts of Alpinia oxyphylla fruit (Alpiniae Oxyphyllii Fructus) and Coriandri Sativi Herba (Coriander Herb), crush, and apply; all cases heal.
Another prescription: Apply Cupri Acetas (Chalcitis).
Another prescription: Crush garlic and mix with lead carbonate (Hufen) to apply.
Another prescription: Chew soybean leaves and apply; effective.
Another prescription: Mix pig fat with Cervus Nippon Cornu Deinervatum (Deer Horn Ash) and apply.
Another prescription: Heat a comb until sweat appears and use it to compress the area.

Prescription for various snake venoms:
Realgar (equal parts) and Dried Ginger (Sheng Jiang).
Grind these two ingredients into powder, mix with Ye Wang, store in a bamboo tube for carrying, and use in emergencies.

Prescription for entering mountain grasslands to repel snakes:
Realgar, Dried Ginger, and Moschus (She Xiang) (equal parts).
Grind these three ingredients into coarse powder, store in a small crimson bag, wear on the left for men and right for women; can also apply snake venom paste to wounds. (*Jiyan Fang* states: If Moschus is unavailable, substitute with Ye Wang. *Jiuji Fang* states: Mix with honey to make a paste, apply to sting sites; effective.)
Another prescription: Constantly burn sheep horns to produce smoke; snakes will depart.

Prescription for lingering pain and itching in muscles after a snake bite wound has healed:
Garlic and Small Garlic (one sheng each).
Crush both ingredients together, pour hot water over them to extract juice, and irrigate the wound; highly effective.

Prescription for poison pain caused by snake bone spines piercing the skin:
Take Iron Essence (Tie Jing) the size of a soybean, place in a tube, and blow into the wound; effective.
Another prescription: Burn dead mice to powder and apply.

Prescription for multiple snake bites:
Moxibustion: Apply thirty-seven moxa cones (or twenty-one) to the site. If mugwort is unavailable, use the tip of a fire to cauterize according to the size of the wound.

Prescription for tiger bites:
Boil Kudzu Root (Puerariae Lobatae Radix) juice concentrated, wash the wound more than ten times; or crush into powder, take one cun-bi dose mixed with Kudzu Root juice five times daily, twice at night for severe cases.
Another prescription: Roll blue cloth tightly into a rope, ignite one end, place in a bamboo tube, and fumigate the wound; miraculous effect.
Another prescription: Boil iron water to a thick consistency and wash the wound.
Another prescription: Chew raw chestnuts and apply; effective.

Method to ward off tigers:
When entering mountains, burn water buffalo horns or sheep horns; tigers, wild wolves, and snakes will flee.

Treatise states: When encountering any venomous creature capable of biting or stinging, one must not harbor ill intent nor kill it. If killed, one may subsequently suffer a bite/sting with difficult-to-treat poisoning. Exercise extreme caution.

Prescription for scorpion venom:
Scorpions have males and females. Male scorpion stings cause localized pain; female scorpion stings cause radiating pain throughout the body. For male stings, apply mud from the bottom of a well; replace when warm. For female stings, apply mud from under the eaves of tiled roofs. If no rain has fallen, pour fresh water from the roof to collect the mud.
Another prescription: Apply leftover rice from teeth, seal with pig fat, seal with Ye Wang, or apply Nahuo (Nao Sha) mixed with water for immediate cure.

Prescription for scorpion stings:
If on hands or feet, soak in cold water; change when slightly warm. If elsewhere, soak in cold water, cover with old cloth, and change when slightly warm.
Another prescription: Grind Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata (Sheng Wu Tou) into powder, mix with saliva, and apply.

Prescription for bee sting toxicity:
Rub the affected area with a tile, spit twenty-one times, and return the tile to its original position.

Prescription for bee stings:
Pig Fat (half sheng), Honey (half sheng), Beeswax (two liang).
Simmer these three ingredients into a paste, cool, and apply.
Another prescription: Burn honeycomb to powder, mix with pig lard, and apply. (*Zhouhou Beiji Fang* states: First boil honeycomb to wash, then burn and apply.)
Another prescription: Apply butter/lard for immediate cure.
Another prescription: Burn cow dung to ash, mix with vinegar, and apply.
Another prescription: Apply dental calculus.
Another prescription: Pour strong vinegar on the ground, take the mud, and apply.
Another prescription: Chew salt and apply.
Another prescription: Wash with fresh human urine.
Another prescription: Apply mud mixed with urine.

Treatise states: The urine of the "Qu Sou" insect (Dermoptera/Earwig-like creature) falling on a person's shadow causes sores. Symptoms include sudden sharp pain like thorns in the body, similar to insect stings, followed by fever. Severe cases extend to the waist, ribs, and chest. Treatment: Initially, grind Rhinoceros Horn (Rhinocerotis Cornu) and apply to stop toxicity; treat as for Fire Dan (erysipelas). In the sixth month of the Wude era, I contracted this illness. After five or six days of heart palpitations and malaise, other treatments failed. Someone advised drawing a Qu Sou shape on the ground, carefully digging up the soil from its abdomen with a knife, mixing with saliva to form mud, and applying. Two applications cured me. This reveals mutual resonance among all things, though the mechanism remains unknown.

Prescription for Qu Sou urine injury:
Burn sheep whiskers to ash, mix with pig fat from the twelfth lunar month, and seal the wound.
Another prescription: Crush fermented soybeans (Dou Chi) and apply.
Another prescription: Mix lead carbonate (Hufen) with vinegar and apply.

Prescription for Qu Sou urine sores:
Burn deer horn to powder, mix with vinegar, and apply to the sore. If exudate is present, burn worn rush mats and apply.
Another prescription: Cut half a jin of Phellodendron bark (Huaibai Pi), soak in two sheng of vinegar for half a day, scrape off and wash the sore with the liquid five to six times daily, then apply Azuki Bean (Xiao Dou) powder mixed with vinegar; change when dry. For children, mix with water.
Another prescription: Chew large barley and apply, three times daily.
Another prescription: Take soil from swallow nests, mix with pig fat, and apply.
Another prescription: Chew pear leaves thoroughly, mix with water, apply, and change when dry.
Another prescription: Crush Persicae Causae (Ma Bian Cao / Verbena officinalis) thoroughly and apply; change when dry.
Another prescription: Take soil from beneath the eastward-growing roots of Evodiae Fructus (Wu Zhu Yu), mix with vinegar, and apply.

Prescription for three types of "She Gong" (Archer Bug) venom:
Treatise states: In the Jiangnan region, there is a venomous insect called "She Gong," also known as "Duan Hu" or "Yu." It resembles a beetle (according to *Waitai Miyao*: black, shaped like a large flying insect), has no eyes but keen hearing, and possesses a long horn before its mouth like a crossbow, shooting air as arrows via water currents. Humans hear a "bi bi" sound in the water; when the water covers its mouth, it shoots venom. It fears geese, which eat it. Initial symptoms resemble Taiyang disease (Exterior Syndrome): chills, rigors, alternating fever, muscle stiffness, resembling "Zhong Shi" (possession/collapse) with locked jaw and inability to speak. Slight improvement in the morning, worsening in the afternoon/evening, with fever and confusion. Urgent treatment within three to four days is required; delay beyond seven days leads to death. Those shot by the bug's shadow do not immediately develop sores but experience chills and rigors. Non-locals often misdiagnose this as Taiyang disease, leading to erroneous treatment. Later sores resemble Qu Sou injuries or Bao Ju (carbuncle/furuncle). There are three types of She Gong sores: one is black like a bean with red surrounding skin, causing sharp pain like thorns upon contact with clothing; another persists and ulcerates over time, with evening fevers; the third resembles burns/blistering, which is most urgent and fatal within days. Head/face involvement is critical; above-waist involvement near the heart is often fatal; below-waist is slower but still fatal if untreated.

Prescription for She Gong-induced fever/chills or unusual localized sores:
Take a handful of Aristolochiae Radix (Gui Jiu) leaves, soak in vinegar, and crush thoroughly.
Another prescription: Take a handful of fresh Evodiae Ramulus et Folium (Wu Zhu Yu stem/leaves), remove ends, keep the middle, crush, boil in two sheng of water to obtain seven he, and ingest at once.
Another prescription: Cut Coriandri Sativi Herba (Hu Sui), apply to the sore, and moxibustion seven cones.
Another prescription: Take one large centipede, roast, grind to powder, mix with vinegar, and apply to the sore.
Another prescription: Crush Amaranthus tricolor (Chi Xian Cai), wring out juice, take one sheng per dose, four to five times daily.
Another prescription: Take three white chicken droppings, mix with water, and apply to the poisoned area.
Another prescription: Cimicifugae Rhizoma (Sheng Ma, three liang), Belamcandae Rhizoma (Wu Shan Gen), and Rhinocerotis Cornu (Xi Jiao, two liang each).
Chop these three ingredients, boil in four sheng of water to obtain one and a half sheng, strain, divide into two doses taken one meal-time apart; prepare again if necessary.

Prescription for three types of sores caused by She Gong:
Cimicifugae Rhizoma (Sheng Ma, three liang), Belamcandae Rhizoma (Wu Shan Gen, three liang).
Chop these two ingredients, boil in three sheng of water to obtain one sheng, drink when temperature is suitable, and apply the dregs to the sore.

Prescription for She Gong sores already formed:
Crush mustard seeds, mix with vinegar, apply thickly to the sore; pain stops within half a day.
Another prescription: Take leaves of "Ye Lang Ya" (likely a local herb), dig up roots in winter, crush thoroughly, apply to the affected area, and drink four to five he of juice.