Warts on hands and feet: Apply salt to the affected area and lick it with the tongue. It will heal within three applications (from *Zhouhou Fang*).
Heat disease with sores, ulcers in the lower body: Heat salt, wrap it in cotton cloth, and apply as a hot compress. It will heal within three applications (from *Meishi Fang*).
All types of fistula sores: Wrap old cloth around salt, burn until red-hot, and grind into powder. Take one qian per dose (from *Waitai Miyao*).
Chronic sores: Use the black mud from salt, dry it in the sun, grind it, and apply externally (from *Yonglei Fang*).
Urine sores: Soak cotton cloth in salt water and apply as a compress to the sore (from *Shiliao Bencao*).
Centipede bite: Chew salt and apply to the wound, or soak in salt water; this is effective (from *Meishi Fang*).
Earthworm bite toxicity, resembling leprosy with loss of eyebrows and hair: Only strong salt water decoction, immersing the body several times, can cure it. Zhang Shao, a military general in western Zhejiang, suffered from this, feeling earthworms buzzing inside his body every night. A monk cured him with this prescription. Earthworms fear salt (from *Jingyan Fang*).
Bee or scorpion stings: Chew salt and apply to the site (from *Qianjin Fang*).