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[Appendix Discussion]
Whenever people trek through mountains and rivers, unfamiliar with the local water and soil conditions. Humans or livestock ingest food or drink carelessly, accidentally poisoning themselves. If they do not know the antidotes in advance, they often suffer harm. Is this not an unjust and premature death?
However, the Great Sages long ago established methods to save lives. It is precisely because some people crave life and love medicine but neglect to learn these skills. When they encounter poisoning, they resign themselves to fate, ultimately failing to understand the principles of detoxification.

Prescriptions
**Antidote for All Poisons**: Stops epistaxis (nosebleed) and hematemesis (vomiting blood). Relieves irritability.
Crush the herb *Yao Wang Cao* (Medicine King Grass) and drink the juice. Verified effective. The stems and leaves are green; harvest them together with leaves; milky sap flows out when broken.

**Treating Sand Leeches and Stream Poison**:
Decoct bark of chestnut tree (*Castanea mollissima*) and drink the juice.

**Repelling Stream Poison**:
Raise white geese to prevent stream poison.

**Treating Yellow Poison and Removing Subcardiac Knots**:
Make pickled cabbage from *Brassica oleracea* var. *capitata* f. *albocapitata* (Green Cabbage), soak it overnight until yellow, add salt, and eat.

**Treating Stream Poison**:
Crush *Tian Luo Le* (a type of plant) and apply externally to the affected area.

**Resolving Miasmic Toxic Qi** (from *Sheng Hui Fang*):
Grind rhinoceros horn (*Rhinocerotis Cornu*), antelope horn (*Saiga Tataricae Cornu*), realgar (*Realgar*), and musk (*Moschus*) with water into a liquid and ingest to resolve toxicity.

**Jiedu Wan (Detoxification Pill)**: Treats all kinds of poisons in adults and children, such as vomiting and diarrhea, delirium bordering on death, seasonal epidemic heat accumulation causing convulsions, and mountain miasma toxins.
Ingredients: *Guan Zhong* (Polygala tenuifolia), *Fu Ling* (Poria cocos), *Huang Yao Zi* (Dioscorea bulbifera), *Ge Gen* (Puerariae Lobatae Radix), *Sheng Di Huang* (Rehmanniae Radix), *Gan Cao* (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), *Da Dou* (Sojae Semen Nigrum), *Hua Shi* (Talcum), *Bo He* (Menthae Haplocalycis Herba), *Suo Sha Ren* (Amomi Fructus Rotundus), *Yin Di Jue* (Matteuccii Rhizoma), *Xiong* (Ligustici Chuanxiong Rhizoma), *Tu Ma Zong* (Euphorbiae Pekinensis Radix), *Ren Shen* (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma), *Lu Dou Fen* (Phaseoli Radiati Amylum), *Han Shui Shi* (Aragonitum), *Zi He Che* (Placentae Humanae), *Yin Chen* (Artemisiae Scopariae Herba), *Yi Zhi Ren* (Alpiniae Oxyphyllae Fructus), *Ma Bo* (Bombyx Batryticatus), *Cao Long Dan* (Gentianae Macrophytae Radix), *Shan Dou Gen* (Sophorae Tonkinensis Radix), *Chuan Bai Yao Zi* (unknown specific herb, likely *Bai Yang Zi* or similar), *Bai Jiang Can* (Bombyx Batryticatus), *Xiong Huang* (Realgar), *Bai Fan* (Alumen), *Da Huang* (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma), *Qing Dai* (Indigo Naturalis). Each half liang, used raw. Grind into fine powder, form pills with raw honey, size of a bullet. Take one pill per dose, dissolve in fresh water. Children take half a pill.

**Another Jiedu Wan** (from *Jisheng Baci*): Specifically treats stagnation turning into toxin in men, women, and children. Symptoms include upper jiao heat congestion, throat discomfort, dry mouth and thirst, summer-heat oppression, cholera-like restlessness, mountain miasma, food or alcohol poisoning, persistent vomiting, wandering wind toxin confusion, coma, false heat irritability, red eyes, mouth ulcers. It effectively resolves four-season cold damage, disperses plague toxic qi, and resolves all poisons caused by acclimatization issues. Regular use tonifies true qi, transforms toxins, and expels wind.
Ingredients: *Hua Shi*, *Huang Qin*, *Guan Zhong*, *Fu Ling*, *Shan Zhi Zi*, *Gan Jiang* (or *Gan Ge*), *Cao Long Dan*, *Da Dou*, *Qing Dai*, *Gan Cao*, *Bo He*, *Han Shui Shi* (each 1 liang), *Yi Zhi Ren*, *Suo Sha Ren*, *Da Huang*, *Shan Dou Gen*, *Sheng Di*, *Jie Geng*, *Bai Yao Jian*, *Zi He Che*, *Fen Hua* (soybean starch), *Ma Bo*, *Ban Lan Gen*, *Huang Yao Zi* (each half liang). Grind into fine powder, form pills with refined honey, size of a bullet. Take one pill per dose, chew slowly after dissolving in fresh water, or hold in mouth to dissolve. Children take half a pill. For women with blood syncope and coma, grind one pill with ginger juice and water. Another version excludes *Hua Shi* and coats with *Qing Dai*. Emperor Renzong sent officials to obtain Li Hanchen's submitted *Jiedu Baoming Dan* from Liu Yuanji and bestowed it upon Di Qing.

**Baoming Dan** (also known as Huadu Dan, from *Yuyao Yuan Fang*): Specifically resolves various toxins including alcohol, mountain miasma, fruit, meat, flour, fish, and vegetable poisons.
Ingredients: *Guan Zhong*, *Fu Ling*, *Huang Yao Zi*, *Lan Gen*, *Gan Ge*, *Di Huang*, *Xiong Da Dou*, *Gan Cao*, *Hua Shi*, *Suo Sha*, *Yin Di Jue*, *Bo He*. Grind into powder, form pills with honey.

**Shenxian Jiedu Wan** (from *Jingyan Liangfang*): Specifically treats all kinds of poisons.
Ingredients: *Qing Dian Hua* (1.5 jin), *Da Huang*, *Shan Dou Gen*, *Ziran Tong*, *Huang Yao*, *Bai Yao*, *Guan Zhong*, *Chu Shi Zi* (Cudrania fructus), *Shan Zhi Zi*. Grind into extremely fine powder. Also grind 5 jin of bricks from the bottom of a latrine pit (washed clean, not fired) into fine powder, mix with the above herbs to form pills.

**Taiyi Zhuming Wan** (also known as Duoming Wan, from *Sheng Hui Fang*): Specifically treats hundred diseases. If poisoned by evil qi causing abdominal distension, inability to breathe, heart pain, and accumulations.
Ingredients: Centipede (1 piece), *Dan Sha* (Cinnabar), *Fu Zi* (processed Aconite lateral root), *Fan Shi* (Alum), *Xiong Huang*, *Li Lu*, *Gui Jiu* (each 1 fen), *Ba Dou* (Croton seed). Grind into powder. If toxin enters the ear, blow powder into ear to expel toxin.

**Jichangcao San** (from *Qianjin Fang*): Specifically resolves all poisons.
Ingredients: *Ji Chang Cao* (3 fen), Shepherd's Purse (*She Chuang Zi* or similar context implies *Ji Xu*?), *Sheng Ma* (4 fen), *Shao Yao*, *Dang Gui*, *Fen Cao* (2 fen), *Fen Gui* (1 fen), *Lan Zi*. Apply powder to wound depth. If bleeding occurs, stop. To internalize detoxification, take 1 cun bi of powder with water; pain stops when toxin is resolved.

**Shenxian Jiedu Wanbing Wan** (from *Bai Yi Xuan Fang*): Resolves drug poisons, mushroom/toadstool poisons, mineral poisons, self-dead horse meat, pufferfish toxin.
Usage: For summer heat toxin attacking upward, or accidental ingestion of toxic substances, grind one pill with east-flowing water and administer. Vomiting or diarrhea will occur shortly, stopping when toxin is exhausted. Historical case: A woman expelled over a thousand small worms, one large worm split in two; later cured by this pill alone.
Ingredients: *Wen Ge* (3 liang, light red, crushed and washed; also known as *Wu Bei Zi*), *Hong Ya Da Ji* (1 liang, washed), *Shan Ci Gu* (2 liang, washed). Prepare during Dragon Boat Festival. For carbuncles/back sores not yet ruptured, grind with cold water and apply to painful area; itching subsides immediately. For yin/yang dual toxins, cold damage with chest oppression, delirium, coma, decoct and drink.

**Jiedu Wan** (from *San Yin Fang*): Specifically treats accidental ingestion of toxic herbs and hundred other toxins, saving lives from certain death.
Ingredients: *Ban Lan* (4 liang, dried, washed, sun-dried), *Guan Zhong* (1 liang, trimmed), *Qing Dai* (ground), *Gan Cao* (raw, each 1 liang). Grind into powder, form pills with honey.

**Gancao Yin** (from *Qianjin Fang*): Specifically resolves zhen (poisonous bird) toxin and all drug poisons, relieving persistent oppression.
Ingredients: *Gan Cao*, Honey (each 4 fen), *Liang Mi Fen* (1 sheng). Decoct *Gan Cao* in 5 sheng of water to reduce to 2 sheng, strain, mix with starch paste, stir well.

**Jiedu San** (from *Yu Jushi Xuanqi Fang*): Effective for any poison, expels worms.
Ingredients: *Shi Chang Pu*, *Bai Fan*, equal parts ground. Mix 2 qian with fresh water. Effective within two doses. Alternative: mix with licorice decoction.

**Qing Dai Xiong Huang San** (from *Yifang Dacheng*): For early signs of poisoning, snake/insect bites, or initial abscesses. Prevents toxin aggregation.
Ingredients: High-quality *Qing Dai*, *Xiong Huang* (equal parts). Grind fine, mix 2 qian with fresh water.

**Shacao You Fang**: Treats ingested toxins and malignant sores.
Ingredients: *Peng Sha* (4 liang), *Gan Cao* (4 liang). Soak in 1 jin of pure sesame oil in a porcelain jar. In emergencies, drink a small cup of oil for immediate effect.

**Er Teng Jiu** (from *Sheng Hui Fang*): Specifically resolves abdominal toxins and all poisons.
Ingredients: *Du Lin Teng*, *Huang Teng* (cut into 3-cun pieces). Steep in 3 sheng of wine in a sealed jar, slow fire...

Prefect Bian often said: Lingnan locals use common items for detoxification. Fearing others would learn the method, they claimed it required "three hundred oxen." After staying long and befriending locals, Bian learned the truth. Before eating, chew one inch of roasted licorice to induce vomiting if necessary. Then decoct *Du Lin Teng* and *Huang Teng* in wine and drink warm. Regular use expels toxins via urine. These vines are very fine, known as "three hundred taels of silver medicine." People also carry licorice for emergencies.

**Formula for Rapid Vomiting in Acute Poisoning** (from *Sheng Hui Fang*): For poisoning causing chest oppression, stabbing pain.
Ingredients: Raw *Xi Jiao* (Rhinoceros Horn), Raw *Dai Mao* (Trionycis Carapax) (each 1 fen). Grind fine, mix 1 qian with fresh water. Drink frequently until vomiting occurs.

**Treating Abdominal Poisoning Incurable by Other Means** (and Horse Sweat Formula):
Stir-fry and grind 1 liang of fresh *Ting Li Zi* (Lepidii Semen). Soak in 1 sheng of hot water and drink to expel bad blood.

**Antidote for All Poisons** (from *Qianjin Fang*):
Ingest pig feces mixed with water. Alternative: mix rice flour with 3 sheng 2 he of water and drink. Both effective.

**Treating Fever and Oppression from Various Poisons, and Heat Flour Poison**:
Decoct goji leaf (*Gou Qi Ye*) juice to resolve.

**Antidote for Various Poisons**:
Eat raw olives (*Gan Lan*) or decoct and drink. Effective for olive poisoning. If confused by eating mackerel liver, drink its juice for immediate cure.

**Treating All Poisons** (from *Sheng Hui Fang*):
Decoct 4 liang of *Liao Lan Shi* (Polygoni Tinctorii Fructus) and 4 liang of *Bai Hua Teng* (or wild ginseng *Ye Ge*) in 7 sheng water and 1 sheng wine. Drink on empty stomach. Mild dizziness is normal. Alternatively, grind dry indigo (*Gan Lan*) powder and take.

**Acute "Ghost Strike" Poison**:
Mix millet flour with water and drink. Also treats heat, abdominal pain, epistaxis; decoct and drink.

**Treating Toxin Swelling/Pain in Hands/Feet and Lower Body Sores** (from *Zhou Hou Fang*):
Decoct zelkova bark (*Ju Pi*) and oak bark (*Hu Pi*) to syrup consistency. Decoct birch bark (*Hua Pi*) strongly, squeeze juice, and drink.

**Treating Insect/Snake Poison**:
Drink juice of *Nu Qing* seedling (also called *Que Piao Bai*). Alternative: ingest white goose manure.

**Treating Cold Wind-Toxin in Lower Body**:
Take one single-clove garlic (*Hu*), grind with realgar and almond, form pills. Take 3 pills on empty stomach with water. Sit quietly; sweating indicates cure for ghost qi.

**Treating Poison from Horse Skin/Bone Splinters** (from *De Sheng Tang*):
Apply horse abdominal feces/manure to wound after washing. Juice extracted and drunk is also effective.

**Treating Lacquer Poison**:
Drink iron slurry (*Tie Jiang*), *Huang Lu* juice, or *Gan Dou Tang*. Eating crab can also treat it.

**Alternative Formula**:
Dry and powder *Chi Bai Di Jin Cao* (Alternanthera philoxeroides). Take 1 qian with rice water. Immediate effect.

**Treating Zhen Poison with Approaching Death** (from *Shi Bian Liang Fang*):
Mix 3 he of kudzu starch (*Ge Fen*) with 3 cups of water and drink. If jaw is clenched, pry open and pour in. Ge's formula uses only starch.

**Treating Epidemic Toxic Disease with Epistaxis and Hematochezia** (from *Yifang Dacheng*):
Grind good ink into powder, bind with egg white into pills size of wu seeds. Take 30 pills with *Sheng Di Huang* juice. Repeat after walking five li.

**Antidote Formulas** (from *Wei Shi Fang*):
**Dusheng San** (from *Wei Shi Fang*): Specifically resolves drug, gu, and snake poisons.
Soak large licorice root in pure sesame oil for many years. Chew節licorice finely or decoct. Divine effect.

**Can Tui San** (from *Jingyan Liangfang*): Specifically treats all poisons.
Burn silkworm pupal cases (*Can Tui Zhi*) in sesame oil to char, grind to powder. Mix 1 qian with fresh water. Drink frequently. For poisoning with blue face and absent pulse...

**Treating Bleeding and Wild Poison**:
Decoct duck neck and drink.

**Resolving Mountain Miasma/Stream Poison**:
Grind sheep horn into powder, decoct and drink. Alternative: burn horn to repel snake venom.

**Treating Poison and "Pick-a-Life" Condition** (from *Chuan Xin Shi Yong Fang*):
Day 1 toxin causes instant madness, internal tearing sensation, death within an hour. Most urgent, easy to treat. Use human head dirt...
Day 2 toxin manifests in half a day, mental confusion, intestinal stabbing, cholera/vomiting/diarrhea, death by night. Use yellow mud from distant mugwort roots...
Day 3 toxin is slower, often used by malicious people, hard to detect. Initial nausea, reduced appetite. Before sleep, crush several field crabs (*Peng Qi*), throw in cold water. Defecate at dawn to resolve soup toxins.

**Alternative Formula**:
Administer 1 cup of warm *Sheng Di Huang* juice.

**Treating Critical Acute Poisoning** (from *De Sheng Tang*):
Tie a bundle of licorice (~1 chi long) tightly with hemp rope three times, place at the bottom of a latrine pit. Hang in bamboo tube while traveling; apply to wounds in emergencies. Prevents smallpox eruption if taken in small amounts.

**Treating Hundred Poisons**:
Crush black taro (*Wu Yu*) to extract 1 sheng of juice.

**Alternative for Leg Root Swelling/Pain**:
Roast soap nut (*Du He Fei Zao*), remove seed, mash with calcined alum (*Duan Shi*), apply.

**Alternative**:
Crush *Wu Ye Cao* (Five-leaf grass), soak in ginger-salt-wine mixture. Also called *Wu Dui Cao*.

**Alternative**:
Grind *Gu Sui Bu*, raw radish, ginger, apply to armpit toxin.

**Alternative for Horseshoe Crab Poison**:
Straight growth on leg root is "Lu Qi"; horizontal is "Hou". Mash bitter vegetables and apply.

**Alternative for Iron Snake Poison** (on fingertips):
Grind large-leaf *Xiang Ru* (Elsholtzia) and thorny claws, apply.

**Alternative (from Bao's Formula)**:
Apply *Shan Su* (Peperomia pellucida) mixed with vinegar.

**Alternative (from Bao's Formula)**:
Apply *Lan Qing* (Indigo) juice with realgar and musk.

**Alternative (from Bao's Formula)**:
Apply juice of crow's meal grass.

**Treating Heat Toxin**:
Mix 1 he white sesame oil, 2 eggs, 1 liang *Mang Xiao* (Mirabilite). Stir and drink. Diarrhea follows shortly.

**Alternative (from Bao's Formula)**:
Fireband toxin (smaller than dragon band): Grind *Long Ya Cao* (Agrimonia) with 1-2 drops of wine, apply.

**Alternative (from Bao's Formula)**:
Hive toxin: Burn hive to ash, mix with sesame oil. Alternative: mugwort juice.

**Alternative (from Bao's Formula)**:
Slug toxin: Grind *Shi Chang Pu*, *Di Wu Gong*, or *Chi Ye Di Jin*, apply.

**Alternative (from Bao's Formula)**:
Fox thorn toxin: Grind *Wu Ye She Cao* and radish, apply. Add inverted thorn flesh or tangerine pits. Decoct licorice thick and drink much juice.

**Xiong Huang San**: Treats poisoning and snake bites.
Grind realgar, add little musk, take with Ophiopogon (*Mai Men Dong*) decoction. Even if tongue protrudes inches, it works.

**Niu Bang Antidote**: Cooling wind detoxification.
Grind fried burdock seed (*Niu Bang Zi*), decoct 1 qian in water.

**Crab Resolving Lacquer Poison**:
In 1068 AD, a robber in Xiangyang was spared death but tattooed/painted with lacquer on eyes by order. He went blind. A village elder in jail advised him...

**Raw Lacquer Poison**:
Wash with pepper leaf decoction, apply chicken yolk. White pine vegetable resolves it.

**Toasted Oil Poison**:
Drink hot wine. Dried persimmon and licorice also work.

**Treating Poison Refractory to Common Drugs**:
Immediately grind wild man's liver, mix with water, and administer for immediate resolution.

**Alternative (from Ben Cao)**:
Grind Taipingzhou *Bai Zhi* (Angelica dahurica), take with Ophiopogon decoction.

**Alternative (from Ben Cao)**:
Decoct *Qin Pi* (Fraxinus bark) strongly. Or apply shell powder, talc, and fritillaria powder.

**Formula for Drinking Water Contaminated by Centipedes in Jiao/Guang Regions**:
Chen Zhai Lang from Anji drank stream water due to thirst. Days later felt abdominal pain. Doctor... [Text describes a legend from Ming Huang Za Lu about a eunuch drinking water containing a "dragon" which grew after being treated with nitre and realgar].

**Jiedu Wan**: Resolves unpredictable poisons.
Ingredients: *Shan Dou Gen* (3 liang), *Ban Lan Gen* (2 liang), *Gan Cao* (roasted, 4 liang), *Shan Ci Gu* (3 liang), *Tu Ma Zong* (2 liang), *Xu Sui Zi* (seed), *Wu Wei Zi*, *Gan Ge*, Musk. Dissolve in honey water. Resolves evil substances, gu poison, arsenic, mushroom, and pufferfish toxins.

**Alternative**:
Decoct shepherd's purse (*Ji Xu*) thick, drink 1-2 sheng. If unable to cook, chew raw or make powder. Effective in all formulas.

**Alternative**:
When decocting herbal juices for detoxification, do not drink hot. Heat intensifies toxins. Let cool slightly before drinking.

**Alternative**:
Use indigo leaves/fruits to generally resolve poisons. Store in advance. Do not drink hot.

**Yushuang Yuan** (from *Hua Tuo Zhong Zang Jing*): Specifically resolves all poisons.
Ingredients: *Ya Xiao* (Saltpeter), *Pu Xiao* (Niter), *Peng Sha* (Borax), *Bai Fan* (Alum). Melt these four ingredients by fire, pour into a pit in the ground... form pills... *Lan Shi* (Indigo fruit).