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Caused by the accidental ingestion of snake semen, the patient often feels hungry but vomits immediately after eating.

Take one red-headed centipede (Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans), roast it until dry, grind into powder, and take with wine.

Thirst with incessant drinking is termed Upper Xiao (Upper Wasting-Thirst); excessive drinking accompanied by diarrhea is termed Lower Xiao; excessive eating with easy hunger is termed Middle Xiao.

Boil mung bean juice for drinking, or cook mung bean porridge.

Another prescription: Eat plenty of good pears or radishes daily, or decoct Chinese gallnut (Galla Chinensis) to drink, or make pills. Long-term use generates fluids and stops thirst.

For those who drink up to one shi (a unit of volume) per day.

Pound duckweed (Lemna minor) to extract juice and take. If there is excessive drinking and difficulty in urination, take five liang of sunflower root (Radix Helianthi Tuberosi), decoct in water, and take in the morning.

Eat boiled taro cooked with sugar as much as possible, or decoct seven silkworm cocoons (silk floss is also acceptable) and drink as tea. (Treats all three types of Xiao simultaneously).

Another prescription: Drink silk-reeling water, one to two bowls. (Treats all three types of Xiao simultaneously).

Decoct stinging horn trema (Spicula Gleditsiae Sinensis) in wine, take one bowl warm; decocting in water is also acceptable.

Take two tiles from an old house roof, wash clean, crush, decoct in water to obtain a thick liquid, and take a small cup warm after meals.

Take two liang of damp smoke from underground passages, mix with one bowl of white rice, pound together for a hundred strokes, divide into four cakes, wrap in wet grass paper, and bake in stove fire until the medicinal nature is preserved.

Grind into powder, divide into four doses. When liver qi flares up, mix with rock sugar and aged yellow wine to swallow; for severe cases, four doses can eradicate the root cause.

Drinking horse urine is effective.

Four liang of white rock sugar, taken with diluted wine will stop the symptoms immediately.

Three qian of Corydalis Rhizome (Rhizoma Corydalis) powder, taken with wine. (Effective for cases where all medicines are vomited immediately upon entry; also treats dysentery with abdominal pain).

Extract juice from fresh Rehmannia Root (Radix Rehmanniae Freshae), take cold; the parasites will be vomited out, otherwise expelled via stool. Alternatively, take half a cup of scallion juice and half a cup of vegetable oil on an empty stomach.

Take a pinch of salt, place it on the blade of a knife, heat red-hot over charcoal, quench in water, and drink while hot.

Take a tuft of infant hair, dry-roast until charred but preserving medicinal properties, grind into fine powder, and take with aged wine. Alternatively, drink two to three he of black donkey urine (drink warm in multiple times).

Burn rush stem (Herba Junci Effusi) to ash, preserve medicinal nature, and take with boiling water.

Seven grains of pepper (Fructus Piperis Nigris), grind into powder, take with good wine.

This is caused by wind pathogen invasion.

Boil and eat many scallion heads, and stir-fry scallions and ginger until hot, then apply as a compress.

Stir-fry rapeseed (Semen Brassicae Napae) into powder, take with ginger soup. Alternatively, decoct aged bergamot fruit (Fructus Citri Reticulatae Viridis) and mandarin orange to drink.