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It may also be drunk. (From *Waitai Miyao*)
Halter Rope of Horse
【Indications】Decoct in water to wash pediatric epilepsy (Su Gong). Burn to ash and apply to sores on the nose (Shizhen).
Soil under the hooves of a horse walking eastward Tao Hongjing said:
Used in magical arts, it can reveal if a woman is having an affair.
Shizhen said: *Huainan Wanshi Shu* records: Soil from the hooves of a white horse walking east, mixed with mud from three households' wells, placed under the navel of a person, will cause them to lie down unable to rise.

(From *Tang Bencao*)
【Etymology】Shizhen said: Donkey is "Lu". Lu refers to the front of the abdomen. The strength of a horse lies in its shoulders, while the strength of a donkey lies in its abdomen.
【Collected Explanations】Shizhen said: The donkey has long cheeks, a broad forehead, erect ears, and a long tail; it neighs at night to mark the hours; its nature is good for carrying loads. For medicinal use, black ones are superior. Wild donkeys are produced in Nüzhi and Liaodong; they resemble donkeys but have mottled fur, long manes and tails, and large bones. Their dietary efficacy is the same as that of domestic donkeys. Mountain donkeys are produced in the Western regions; they have horns like antelopes, detailed under the Antelope entry. Sea donkeys are produced in islands in the East China Sea; they can enter water without getting wet. There are also sea horses, sea cows, sea pigs, sea badgers, etc., whose skins are all used medicinally.
Zang Qi said: The fur of sea donkeys, sea horses, and sea cows stands up when exposed to wind and tide on land. This is their natural property.
Meat (Black donkey meat is generally preferred below).
【Flavor and Properties】Sweet, cool, non-toxic.
Simiao said: Sour, neutral.
Rui said: Eating donkey meat and drinking Schizonepeta tea can kill. Pregnant women who eat it will experience difficult labor. Eating it with Eleocharis tubers causes muscle stiffness. Meat from a dead animal is toxic.
【Indications】Relieves mental restlessness, stops wind-induced madness. Made into wine, treats all wind syndromes (*Ri Hua*).
Boiled with five flavors or made into porridge with its juice (Meng Shen). Tonifies blood and qi, treats chronic exhaustion; drink the decoction on an empty stomach. Treats hemorrhoids (Shizhen).
Wild donkey meat has the same efficacy (*Yao Zheng*).
【Elucidation】Zong Ang said: Donkey meat induces wind; fatty meat is especially severe, verified repeatedly. *Ri Hua Zi*'s claim that it stops all wind-induced madness cannot be relied upon.
Head Meat
【Indications】Decoct and drink 2-3 sheng to treat chronic polydipsia (xiao ke), which invariably heals. Also soak in yeast to brew wine and drink to remove severe wind causing constant shaking (Meng Shen). Also treats head wind and dandruff (*Ri Hua*). Boil with ginger and vinegar juice and drink daily to treat jaundice refractory to all medicines (Shizhen. From Zhang Wenzhong's formula).
【Attached Formulas】One old formula.
Cooked with soybean paste juice. (*Xin Jing*)
Fat
【Indications】Apply to malignant sores, scabies, tinea, and wind-induced swelling (*Ri Hua*). Mix with wine to make pills to treat chronic malaria; take 30 pills before onset. Also mix raw fat with raw Sichuan pepper, pound until cooked, wrap in cotton, and insert into the ear to treat chronic deafness. Take equal parts with wine to treat sudden cough. Mix with salt and apply to wind-induced swelling of the body, hands, and feet (Shizhen. From...).
【Attached Formulas】One old formula.
Drip ear to treat deafness: A little black donkey fat, one crucian carp gallbladder, half liang of raw oil. Mix evenly, place in a green onion tube, wait seven days, then drip into the ear twice a day. (*Sheng Hui*) (Repeated)
Polyp in the eye: Donkey fat and white salt in equal parts. Mix evenly, apply to both eyes... [Text incomplete] head, daily... [Text incomplete]
Marrow
【Flavor and Properties】Sweet, warm, non-toxic.
【Indications】Deafness (Shizhen).
【Attached Formulas】Two new formulas.
Chronic deafness: For severe cases, use two or three times; for recent onset, once is effective. Break the shin bone of the donkey's front leg, drain the marrow by facing the sun, and store in a porcelain box. Each time use cotton... [Text incomplete]
Another formula: Soak one he of needle sand and two he of water in donkey marrow for ten days. Take a small amount of clear water, mix with marrow, and drip a few drops into the ear. Externally, heat half a new brick red, sprinkle vinegar, spread one liang of magnetite powder on the brick, and sleep on it until evening. Do this three times, and hearing will return. (All from *Pu Ji Fang*)
Blood
Shizhen said: Hot blood, mixed with one zhan of sesame oil, stirred to remove foam, and boiled becomes white. This is strange, mentioned by no one before.
【Flavor and Properties】Salty, cool, non-toxic.
【Indications】Promotes urination and defecation, moistens dryness and constipation, descends heat (Shizhen).
Milk
【Flavor and Properties】Sweet, cold and purgative, non-toxic. Simiao said: Sour, cold.
【Indications】Pediatric acute yellow fever, etc. Overconsumption causes diarrhea (*Tang Bencao*). Treats high fever, stops polydipsia (Sun Simiao). Pediatric heat... [Text incomplete], acute convulsions, dysentery with blood (Xiao Bing). Pediatric epilepsy, external shock, and heaven-dangling wind disease (*Ri Hua*). Sudden heart pain twisting and connecting to waist and umbilicus, drink 3 sheng hot... [Text incomplete]
Qi stagnation, resolves pediatric heat toxins, prevents chickenpox. Steep Coptis chinensis to extract juice and drop into red eyes caused by wind-heat (Shizhen. From *Qian Jin* formulas).
【Attached Formulas】One old, three new.
Donkey milk and pig milk, one sheng each, boil to 1.5 sheng, take an amount like an apricot kernel, heal after 3-4 doses. (*Qian Jin*)
(*Sheng Hui*)
Ten roots, roast over fire, exude juice from one end, wipe clean, soak in milk. Dripping milk into the mouth is very effective.
Penis
【Flavor and Properties】Sweet, warm, non-toxic.
【Indications】Strengthens yin and tendons (Shizhen).
Foal Skin
【Indications】Cures alcoholism. Grind, take with wine using a square-inch spoon (*Waitai Miyao*).
Skin
【Indications】Decoct into gelatin and eat to treat all wind-toxins, joint pain, and incessant groaning. Taking with wine is better. Covering a malaria patient with fresh skin is effective (Meng Shen). Decocting into gelatin and eating treats epistaxis, hematemesis, intestinal wind bloody dysentery, and metrorrhagia/metrostaxis... [Text incomplete]
【Attached Formulas】One old, one new.
Wind-stroke... [Text incomplete] deviation, bone pain and irritability: Use black donkey skin... [Text incomplete] hair, clean and steam as usual, add soybean paste juice... [Text incomplete] Jing>)
Hair
【Indications】All wind diseases of the head. Roast one jin until yellow, steep in one dou of wine for three days. Drink slowly on an empty stomach until drunk, keep warm to induce sweating. Drink again the next day as before. Avoid aged grain and wheat flour (Meng Shen).
【Attached Formulas】Two new formulas.
Pediatric external shock: Cut a walnut-sized spiral hair from the donkey's shoulder, decoct and drink with milk. (*Waitai Miyao*)
Infant wind-stroke: Take thumb-sized hair from the intersection of the spine on the donkey's back, add a bean-sized amount of musk, mix with milk, slow-roast in a copper vessel until powdered. Mix with milk and administer. (*Qian Jin*)
Bone
【Indications】Decoct soup to bathe in for luo jie feng (Meng Shen). Decoct female donkey bone juice and drink... [Text incomplete]
Skull Bone
【Indications】Burn to ash, mix with oil, and apply to pediatric craniolysis (Shizhen).
Suspensory Hoof
【Indications】Burn to ash, apply to carbuncles and sores to disperse pus. Mix with oil, apply to pediatric craniolysis, continue until healed... [Text incomplete]
【Attached Formulas】One old, three new.
Half qian of musk, grind to powder, apply. (*Qi Xiao Fang*)
Tian Zhu toxic sore: Grows on the upper Da Zhui point of the spine, size of a coin, red, weeping fluid. Two donkey hooves, one fen of processed lead carbonate, a little musk... [Text incomplete] grind to powder. Mix with vinegar and apply. If dry, sprinkle powder. (*Sheng Hui*)
Drinking piercing the intestine: Due to excessive drinking, fearing intestinal perforation. Scrape the hard part of the donkey hoof, boil in water to make thick juice, chill and drink. Xiangzhou San Jiang Le Xiao Man found this formula effective. (*Jing Yan Fang*)
Ghost malaria unceasing: Use white donkey hoof (crushed and roasted) and realgar, each 2 fen; rhubarb 4 fen; mung bean 3 fen; realgar 1 fen; cinnabar half... [Text incomplete] fen. Grind, make pills with honey the size of paulownia seeds. Take two pills with cold water at dawn before onset to stop immediately. Avoid oil for seven days. (*Zhou Hou Bei Ji Fang*)
Urine
【Flavor and Properties】Pungent, cold, slightly toxic.
【Indications】Masses, intractable regurgitation, toothache. Treats edema; take 5 he per dose effectively. Urine forming characters on the body indicates dry water retention, use female donkey urine; not forming characters indicates wet water retention, use... [Text incomplete] donkey urine. (*Tang Bencao*). Soaking spider bites is effective (Zang Qi). Treats regurgitation, choking disease, rabies bites, tinea, leprosy, and malignant sores; drink much to heal. Wind-worm toothache, frequently swish and spit, effective (Shizhen. From *Qian Jin* formulas).
【Elucidation】Zhen Heng said: A woman suffering from choking was given Si Wu Tang plus donkey urine to prevent worm generation, dozens... [Text incomplete]
Shizhen said: Zhang Wenzhong's *Bei Ji Fang* states: In youth, suffered from regurgitation, vomiting food and porridge shortly after eating. During Zhenguan era, Emperor's attendants Xu and brothers, along with famous doctors Chai and Jiang, were ordered to treat but failed. Gradually became weak and critical, expecting death day and night. Suddenly a guard said: Drinking donkey urine is very effective. Took 2 he, vomiting stopped halfway. Took another 2 he at dusk, porridge settled. Reported next day, five or six others in the palace with regurgitation took it together and healed instantly. This substance is slightly toxic, do not take too much. Must drink hot. Deep-seated illness should show effect in seven days. Later used repeatedly with success.
【Attached Formulas】Three new formulas.
Fox urine thorn sore: Soak in hot black donkey urine. (*Qian Jin*)
Vitiligo: Equal parts donkey urine and ginger juice, mix and wash frequently. (*Sheng Hui Fang*)
Deafness: One fen of human placenta calcined, one dried earthworm. Grind to powder, mix with one he of black foal urine, store in porcelain. Drip a little into the ear. Heals immediately. (*Sheng Hui*)
Feces
【Indications】Roast and apply to wind-induced swelling and fistulas. Squeeze juice, treats abdominal pain and various transmission illnesses. Burn to ash and blow into nose to stop epistaxis effectively. Mix with oil, apply to malignant sores and damp tinea (Shizhen).
【Attached Formulas】Four new formulas.
Sudden heart qi pain: Squeeze five he of donkey feces juice, drink hot to stop. (*Zhou Hou Fang*)
Unceasing menstruation and blood flooding: Burn black donkey feces to retain character, grind to powder, make pills with flour paste the size of paulownia seeds. Take 50-70 pills with yellow wine on an empty stomach, miraculous. (Gong Yunlin *Yi Jian*)
Carbuncle, wind-stroke, swelling and pain: Stir-fry donkey feces, apply to sore fifty times, extremely effective. (*Pu Ji Fang*)
Pediatric eyebrow sore: Burn black donkey feces, grind, mix with oil and apply, immediate effect. (*Sheng Hui Fang*)
Earwax
【Indications】Scrape and apply to scorpion stings (Cui Shi).
Tail Axis Dirt
【Indications】For new and chronic malaria without regular schedule. Wash with water to get juice, mix with flour to make two pill-sized cakes. Eat one before onset, eat one during onset, effective (Su Gong).
Mud under Urine
【Indications】Apply to spider bites (Zang Qi).
Donkey Trough
【Indications】For infants crying uncontrollably, let women of three surnames hold the child and lie them on it; crying stops after a while, do not let others know (Zang Qi).
【Elucidation】Shizhen said: Brocade Bag Poem says: Hang crab shell on door to remove ghost diseases, draw donkey hanging upside down on wall to stop infant crying. It means people in Guanxi hang crab shells to ward off evil malaria; people in Jiangzuo draw donkeys hanging upside down to stop night crying. This is consistent with the meaning of the donkey trough stopping crying, both are apotropaic methods.