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Non-toxic: Yin Snake (Silver Snake), Jin Xing Di Shan (Venus Earth Eel). Oviparous.

Jin Snake (Golden Snake): Can resolve the toxicity of raw metal and human poisoning from metallic medicines. Take a four-cun long snake, roast it until yellow, decoct in water to drink, take frequently, with recovery as the limit. The method to determine if a person is poisoned by metallic medicine: Close eyes and lie still. In Taizhou, Darao County, Lingshan Township, there is a kind of snake that closely resembles this one, locally called "Jin Xing Di Shan". Caught in winter, it can also resolve various toxins, stop diarrhea, and clear pathogenic heat. However, its usage is not recorded in medical formularies. [Time] [Growth] No fixed growth season, [Harvest] No fixed harvest season, [Color] Yellow, [Flavor] Salty, [Nature] Neutral, [Qi] Flavor is strong and yin in nature, [Odor] Fishy.

Toxic: Hua Sheng.

Scarab Beetle (Chang Lang) (From *Shennong Ben Cao Jing*): Mainly treats infantile convulsions and spasms, abdominal distension with alternating cold and fever, and adult mania and epilepsy (sound 'yang', above Zhu characters from *Shennong Ben Cao Jing*). Cold extremities. Currently used in pill prescriptions. It is said: A small kind appears where household lights are seen, body dark, flies only during the day, not at night. Now, Hu Chang Lang (Foreign Scarab Beetle) should be used. Grind thirty small ones, soak in water, and administer to cattle or horses; excellent for treating abdominal distension and stagnation. Foxes will inevitably eat them all. [Time] [Growth] No fixed growth season, [Harvest] Harvest on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, [Storage] Steam before storing, [Color] Black, [Flavor] Salty, [Nature] Cold, [Qi] Flavor is strong and yin in nature, [Odor] Fishy, [Antagonism] Averse to mutton, sheep horn, and Gypsum Fibrosum, [Preparation] (*Tu Jing Ben Cao* states): When using, remove legs and claws. ... Nature discussion ... Pound into a paste, apply hot, seal overnight for cure. Also treats sudden onset of unknown malignant sores in adults and children; pound and squeeze juice to apply externally is good. [Combined Treatments]: Combined with Dried Ginger to apply to malignant sores and extract arrowheads. ○ Mix lightly fried and ground Croton Seed Ba Dou evenly, apply to arrowhead embedded in bone that cannot be extracted. Pain at the injury site will stabilize shortly, then slight itching occurs; endure it. Wait until the itching is unbearable, then shake the arrowhead to pull it out immediately. ○ Burn self-dead beetles to powder, mix with vinegar to apply for bee stings. ○ On Dragon Boat Festival, collect ten dried ones, pound to powder, mix with oil to apply to all malignant sores, sand lice, water弩 (water-borne ulcers), and severe carbuncles. ○ Use seven mixed with rotten barley, pounded and applied to treat deep-rooted abscesses. ○ Burn to powder, mix with saliva to apply to children's tongues to treat double tongue. [Contraindications] Do not use during pregnancy. Do not place in water to drink; drinking it causes vomiting.