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In the regions of Xiliang and Lingnan, such cases are common. This is an extremely critical condition where poison enters the throat, causing imminent death.

*Adenophorae Herba* (Radix et Rhizoma Adenophorae) seedlings (2 liang), ground into powder, taken with warm water leads to recovery.

**Fungal Poison**: Manifests as uncontrollable laughter and abdominal pain.
Drinking *Di Jiang Shui* (water from deep soil) leads to recovery. Alternatively, chewing *Jinyinhua* (Lonicerae Japonicae Flos) stops vomiting and leads to self-healing. Or, decoct dried flowers into a concentrated juice and drink it.

Commonly known as *Duanchang Cao* (Gelsemii Radix / Gelsemium elegans).
Take human fecal juice, or slaughter a white duck or goose, cut off the head, and drip blood into the mouth.灌ing sheep blood is also effective. Alternatively, use scallion juice, *Gan Ge* juice (Puerariae Lobatae Radix juice), or egg white, all of which can detoxify.

**Arsenic Poison**: Severe cramping pain in the heart and abdomen, desire to vomit but unable to do so, cyanotic complexion, cold limbs.
*Fangfeng* (Saposhnikoviae Radix) (4 liang), decocted in water and taken, resolves the toxicity. *Baiye* (Cupressi Cacumen) leaves mashed and mixed with raw baijiu (Chinese liquor) and drunk resolves the toxicity. Decoct *Yangmei* bark (Myrti Fructus Cortex) and drink two to three bowls. *Gan Ge* powder (Puerariae Lobatae Radix powder) mixed well water and taken.

For those poisoned by this substance: Thirst, red face, five-palm heat (heat in palms, soles, and chest), continuous diarrhea and dysentery.
Drink one bowl of cold porridge; symptoms stop immediately after ingestion.

Half a cup of condensed steam from the pot lid, poured down, restores consciousness.

*Xingren* (Armeniacae Semen Amarum) (2 liang), ground fine with skin, mixed evenly with hot water, taken in three doses. Recovery occurs after purgation.

*Huanglian Gancao Tang* (Coptidis and Glycyrrhizae Decoction), or using only large *Gancao* (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma) decocted and taken is also effective. If thirsty, do not drink water. (Drinking makes it difficult to treat).

*Sheng Dahuang* (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma) (2 liang), crushed, mixed with one bowl of raw soybean milk and pounded dozens of times. After taking, defecate several times, then drink one bowl of raw *Gancao* juice cold to resolve residual toxins.

Pour in raw tofu slurry. Or crush soybeans in water to make juice and pour in. Or pour in soap water. Or pour in sheep blood for immediate recovery.

*Yanxi* root (Coriandri Sativi Radix) mashed to make half a sheng of juice, mixed with wine and taken works instantly.

*Daimao* (Echinoplacenta) ground into thick juice, one cup taken dissolves the toxin.

For anyone poisoned, taste with *Baifan* (Alumen); if sweet and not astringent, and chewing black beans does not taste fishy, it confirms poisoning. Immediately take pomegranate bark from roots facing east, decoct into a concentrated liquid.

Immediately take fresh duck blood and pour into the throat to revive. (This formula also antidotes Pufferfish poison).

(1 Hanging 2 Crushed by wall 3 Drowning 4 Sleep paralysis/Spirit attack 5 Postpartum syncope)
All treated by grinding *Banxia* (Pinelliae Rhizoma) into fine powder, mixing with cold water to form pills the size of small beans, inserting into the nostrils. Also blow dry powder into the ears. If the heart area is still warm, even if dead for one day, there is still hope for life.
Moxibustion can also be used.

Another formula:
Anyone whose heart remains warm can be rescued.
Raw *Banxia* powder blown into the nose can bring back life. Another method uses *Zaojiao* (Gleditsiae Sinensis Spina) powder blown into the nose and ears to revive.