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Non-toxic.
*Sanluo* (Biomphalaria snail): Used for rectal prolapse. Burn it into ash, mix with lard, and apply externally; the prolapse will immediately retract (Recorded by Famous Physicians). [Habitat] *Tu Jing* states: This snail resembles a garden snail completely but is yellow in color.

Toxic. Note: Loach, Sea Eel.
*Mianli* (Anguilla marmorata / Longfin eel): Mainly treats five types of hemorrhoids and kills various parasites (Recorded by Famous Physicians). [Names] Sea eel, Ci eel, Dog fish. [Habitat] *Tu Jing* states: Produced in coastal areas; people consume its flesh and nose, which taste sweet. [Therapeutics] *Tang Ben Cao Zhu* states: Mianli ointment treats pain caused by insects in the ear. *Ri Hua Zi* states: Sea eel treats skin sores, scabies, tinea, and hemorrhoids. The eel kills "Chuan Shi Zhu Qi" (a contagious chronic wasting disease) and sores, and treats women's genital sores and itching caused by worms. *Meng Shen* states: It treats vitiligo (*Bai Bo Feng*) and leukorrhea in women, as well as various diseases related to wind; frequent consumption is very effective. *Yan Yi* states: Cut fresh, dry it, take a small amount, lightly roast over fire until oil exudes, apply to vitiligo lesions, rub with fingers until color changes; repeat 5-7 times for cure. *Bie Lu* states: Dry specimens burned in an empty room turn into water, dissolving mosquitoes, turtles, lice, etc., into water. Mianli fish fat applied to white patches on the neck and face; if spreading like tinea but without ulceration, first cut to make it dry and painful, then apply; cures within 3-5 applications. [Tonification] *Ri Hua Zi* states: Eel treats consumptive fever, tonifies deficiency, warms the waist and knees, and promotes yang function. [Combined Therapies] Boil eel with Wu Wei Mi (Five-Flavor Rice) and eat on an empty stomach to treat damp-wind bi syndrome in the waist and kidneys, feeling as if washed by cold water; this is highly tonifying for patients with damp Hong Kong foot (tinea pedis) and chronic wasting diseases. Prepare one eel according to culinary methods, slice it, grill with pepper, salt, and sauce to treat five types of hemorrhoids and sores. Prepare two catties of eel, cut into segments, cook with two cups of wine, adding a little salt and vinegar, to treat bone-stealing consumptive emaciation and intestinal wind with bleeding; this yields excellent results. [Detoxification] Resolves toxicity from various herbs and foods, and kills gu poison.

Toxic. Note: Flesh of Yuan (Giant Softshell Turtle), Carapace of Tuo (Chinese Alligator).
*Tuo Jia* (Carapace of Chinese Alligator): From *Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing*. Mainly treats abdominal masses (*Zheng Jia*), fixed hard accumulations, alternating chills and fever, metrorrhagia with bloody discharge in women, five-colored leukorrhea, pulling pain in the lower abdomen and yin region, sores, scabies, and necrotic tissue. (The above red text is from *Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing*). Five evils, tearing, sudden fright, heavy pain in the waist, pediatric qi strangury, and ulceration. (The above black text is from *Ming Yi Bie Lu*). Flesh: Mainly treats shortness of breath, panting, and weakness of the feet preventing standing. (The above black text is from *Ming Yi Bie Lu*). [Habitat] *Tu Jing* states: Lives in the South Sea and ponds; now abundant in rivers and lakes, it is the Tuo (alligator). It resembles a gecko or carp but is 1-2 zhang long, with scales and armor on its back and tail. It attacks banks aggressively and roars at night, frightening boatmen. Its skin can be used for drum covers. The largest is the Yuan. Some in the river are 1-2 zhang wide. Nature: Sweet, neutral, non-toxic. Removes leukorrhea and accumulations, dispels hundred evils and ghosts. [Assistant] *Shu Qi* acts as its assistant. [Antagonist] Feared by dog gallbladder, *Yuan Hua* (Genkwa Flos), and *Gan Sui* (Kansui Radix). [Preparation] Freshly peel the carapace, roast over fire until yellow for use. [Therapeutics] *Tu Jing* states: Tuo carapace treats evil qi in the five zang organs and blood heat in women. *Yao Xing Lun* states: Tuo carapace treats leukorrhea, eliminates intra-abdominal blood accumulations, fixed hard masses, and pulling knotting pain. *Ri Hua Zi* states: Tuo treats dental tinea, loose teeth, evil qi in the five zang organs, and reconnects human sinews and bones. *Chen Cang Qi* states: Flesh treats dampness, evil qi, and various gu poisons. Ointment massage treats wind and severe sores. *Meng Shen* states: Tuo treats fright and stops lower abdominal qi pain. [Tonification] *Tao Yin Ju* states: Flesh tonifies qi. [Combined Therapies] Roast skin and bone to ash, grind to powder, take with rice drink to treat intestinal wind and hemorrhoids; for severe cases, combine with red cockscomb flower powder and alum ash powder, taken on an empty stomach. Roast carapace, soak in wine to treat scrofula, kill parasites, treat wind sores, stubborn scabies, and pruritus. Roast one liver, eat with minced garlic to treat five corpses (five types of parasitic/wasting diseases). [Contraindications] Flesh generates cold qi and aggravates chronic diseases. [Detoxification] Kills hundred insect poisons and hundred drug poisons.