治蛇缠 救生苦海∶用系腰带 存性,研细和好酱涂,或加水龙骨和柿漆水涂。
纲目屐 鼻绳下有草鞋鼻,无取布法,亦不知其有发 之功,今补之。
治儿患 疹不发,取破草鞋鼻上所衮之布七、八条,煎汤服,立效如神(周宝生医通)。
杨春涯验方∶治白蛇缠。此物以陈为好,烧灰存性,麻油调搽。红蛇缠亦治。
纲目故木砧条,列几上屑,止言治 疮、唇耳等疮,干霍乱、虫牙等症。急救方言其治
手
毒如神,因急补之。
治手掌连虎口边肿毒,用猪肉台上刮下木屑如膏,作饼贴患处,即愈。
吐血 慈航活人书∶腌腊肉店中切肉木墩上,刮取肉垢,火上烧枯,勿令成白色,存性
研末,酒冲服。
狗咬 杨春涯验方∶刮取切肉墩上油垢,和沙糖拌敷,神效。
烂箩底
治血臌 杨春涯验方∶用二三十年盛米栲栳一只,击碎煎汤服,一、二次即消。
此乃人家盛米竹器,浙人呼为淘箩,以竹丝织成,用以淅米者。旧者多用以贮柴灰淋水
洗衣
,年久则烂。
截经 同寿录云∶妇人行经不止,服此可截;用头红花、烂箩底、烂八搭草鞋鼻子、莲
房,
此四味俱烧灰存性,共为末,每服一钱,黄酒送下,不过三服,其红立止。
Treatment for Herpes Zoster (Snake Coiling): *Jiusheng Kuhai* records: Use the belt of a waist sash, calcine it to preserve its properties, grind into fine powder, mix with good sauce, and apply. Alternatively, mix with *Shui Long Gu* (Fossilized Bones) and persimmon lacquer water for application.
Treatment for Acute Abdominal Pain due to Evil Qi Invasion (*Zhong E*): *Jiusheng Kuhai* records: Burn the scabbard of a knife to ash, take with water.
Treatment for Centipede Bite: *Jiusheng Kuhai* records: Burn the small head, bury in soil, take a small amount, grind into fine powder, and apply to the affected area; immediate recovery follows.
*Bencao Gangmu* entry on Clogs: There is a straw shoe nose under the nose rope of clogs. There is no method to extract the cloth, nor is its efficacy in promoting eruption known. This is now supplemented.
For children suffering from measles that fail to erupt: Take seven or eight strips of cloth rolled over the nose of broken straw shoes, decoct in water, and drink. The effect is immediate and miraculous (from Zhou Baosheng's *Yitong*).
Yang Chunya's Verified Prescription: For White Snake Coiling (White Herpes Zoster). Old material is preferred. Burn to ash preserving its properties, mix with sesame oil, and apply. Red Snake Coiling (Red Herpes Zoster) is also treated.
*Bencao Gangmu* entry on Old Wooden Anvil: Lists shavings from the anvil, stating only their use for treating sores, lip and ear sores, Dry Huoluan, toothache caused by worms, etc. *Jijiu Fang* states they are miraculous for treating toxic swelling of the hand, thus urgently supplemented here.
For toxic swelling involving the palm and the thenar eminence (tiger's mouth): Scrape wood shavings from the pork cutting block until paste-like, form into a cake, and apply to the affected area; cure follows immediately.
Hematemesis (Vomiting Blood): *Cihang Huoren Shu* records: In a cured meat shop, scrape the meat residue/grease from the chopping block, burn over fire until charred but not white, preserve its properties, grind into powder, and take with wine.
Dog Bite: Yang Chunya's Verified Prescription: Scrape the grease/oil residue from the chopping block, mix with rock sugar, and apply externally; miraculous effect.
Rotten Basket Bottom
Treatment for Blood Distension (Abdominal Ascites with Blood Stasis): Yang Chunya's Verified Prescription: Use one bamboo basket (*Kaolao*) used for storing rice for 20-30 years, crush it, decoct in water, and drink. Resolution occurs after one or two doses.
This is a bamboo vessel used by households for storing rice, called "Tao Luo" in Zhejiang, woven from bamboo strips, used for washing rice. Old ones were often used to store wood ash for leaching lye to wash clothes, and rotted over time.
Stopping Menstruation: *Tongshou Lu* states: For women whose menstruation does not stop, taking this can arrest it; Use *Hong Hua* (Safflower), Rotten Basket Bottom, Rotten Bada Straw Shoe Nose, and Lotus Pod (*Lian Fang*). These four ingredients are all burned to ash preserving their properties, ground together into powder. Take one qian per dose, delivered with yellow wine. Within three doses, the bleeding stops immediately.