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Baicao Jing records: Produced in Guangdong, its processing method is the same as that of Shiyanshi (Swallow Stone).
Treats blindness and eye diseases.
Note: Shiluosisi (Stone Snail) resembles a snail in shape, but its texture is stone. It belongs to the category of Shixieshi (Stone Crab) and Shishe (Stone Snake), so its therapeutic indications are roughly similar.

Mozhuang Manlu records: During the Xuanhe era, foreign tributaries presented local specialties, including a stone round like a longan fruit, colored like a green grape, known as "Cat's Eye," which can extinguish fire.
When burning charcoal with intense flames, throwing this stone in extinguishes it immediately. Note: This is a type of cat's eye gemstone. It is now found in gem mines in Yunnan and Myanmar regions.
Resolves insect venom.

Also named Bijingfengshi (Stone Averting Convulsions). Bencao Bu supplements: In a certain place in the Kingdom of Sibania, stones are produced in the soil, black in color and glossy/smooth, extracted and carved. Varying in size, worn on the chest of children, when they encounter evil wind causing slow or acute convulsions, this stone takes on the affliction in their stead, absorbing all evil qi into itself until it naturally cracks, leaving the child unharmed. It must be worn constantly forever to ensure safety; truly a precious object.
Treats acute and slow convulsions, and all cases of Tiandiao disease (pediatric convulsions/tetany) and Shizhu disease (chronic wasting infectious disease).

Originating from the Atlantic Ocean, its shape cannot be verified. Bencao Bu supplements: This stone can treat difficult childbirth in women. Whenever difficult childbirth occurs, use one cup of sesame oil, place this stone in the oil, soak overnight, then use this oil to rub the woman's abdomen, preventing difficult childbirth; alternatively, tie this stone to the woman's thigh for delivery, removing it at any time postpartum. Whenever encountering chills and fever (malaria), known in China as Nue (Malaria), body heat, chest distension/stuffiness, stomach qi pain, phlegm stagnation, or poisoning from ingesting toxic substances, take the stone with either one bowl of wine or one bowl of water, soak overnight, squeeze the stone by hand to release its essence into the liquid, and drink this mixture on an empty stomach to recover. For blood-heat sores and scabies, drinking this mixture and applying it topically heals the condition. For eye ailments, drinking or washing with this mixture is excellent.

Bencao Bu records: Born in the deer's abdomen, where the deer consumes various detoxifying herbs, its essence accumulates over time and condenses into a stone. Also called Baoishi (Precious Stone). There are two types: one is naturally formed by deer beasts, the other is crafted by Western doctors using rare medicines collected from the Lesser West; taking it prevents toxic vapors from attacking the heart, hence the name Baoxinsbi (Heart-Protecting Stone). Usage: Scrape off six grains the size of wheat with a knife, grind into powder, and mix for oral administration; excessive use is harmless and further enhances spirit. Regular consumption allows wine/water intake according to preference, reduces intestinal roundworms, strengthens the body, and boosts vitality.
Treats severe heat and dry thirst, urinary obstruction, watery diarrhea (mix for administration); chest injury with depression without fever (mix with wine or water); if fever is present, mix with half wine and half water. Post-illness weakness (mix with half wine and half water). Chest flesh heart pain, wind-cold qi pain, vomiting roundworms, hemoptysis, and hematemesis (all mix with cold water). For snake or insect bites, administer with wine or water regardless of preference; for wounds from knives, arrows, or mad dogs/poisonous creatures, apply powder to the wound and cover with cloth to heal. All recorded in Bencao Bu.