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*Ji Yan Fang*: Treats *bie zhen* (abdominal mass resembling a turtle) and old accumulations in the heart and abdomen, as well as sudden onset of *zhen* disease. Use white feces from a female chicken, in any amount, mix with urine, place in a vessel, and boil over fire until dry. Grind into powder, take one *cun bi* (a square-inch measure), there is no limit to excessive dosage. Feeding rice cooked with fat is even better. Another prescription: Treats enuresis. Take the intestine of a male chicken, burn to ash, grind into powder, take three finger-pinches morning and evening, cured. Another prescription: Treats bedwetting. Cook one female chicken whole including intestines and consume it. [Note: Text "male female female male" appears erroneous or context-specific]. Another prescription: Treats scalds and burns. Use ten yolks of boiled eggs, permanently removes scars.

*Gu Jin Lu Yan*: Treats massive swelling like a bucket. Take feathers from chicken wings; those where one pore produces two feathers are best. For left-side swelling, take left wing feathers; for right-side swelling, take right wing feathers; for bilateral swelling, take both sides' feathers. Burn to ash and grind. Take with water. Also treats worm attacks on the heart and umbilicus causing stabbing pain and spitting clear fluid. Take one egg, open top, remove yolk, fill shell with good lacquer, mix, swallow while tilting head back, worms will exit. Another prescription: Treats urinary calculi. Take chicken feces dried halfway in the sun, roast until fragrant, grind into powder, take one *cun bi* with road runoff water or rice drink. Military Department Hand Prescription: Apply to the bitten/affected area, immediate cure.

*Guang Ji Fang*: Treats throat obstruction, nasal sores with discharge, dry retching, headache, and inability to eat. Take one raw egg, open top, separate white from yolk, mix with rice vinegar, boil over fire, lift off heat to cool, repeat boiling three times to complete.

*Gu Jin Lu Yan*: Treats burns. Place seven eggs in a well water until extremely cold, break and swallow. Another prescription: Treats children's severe chest and abdominal fullness and distress. Burn eggshells, grind into powder, take with wine one *cun bi*. Another prescription: Treats pediatric hematochezia. Take blood from under the wing of a female chicken, consume. Another prescription: Treats various sores on the head and body of children. Crush hatched eggshells, mix with lard for external application. Another prescription: Treats head sores and tinea capitis (white baldness). Another prescription: Treats infant thrush preventing suckling. Burn chicken yolk membrane, grind into powder, mix with breast milk and administer. Another prescription: Treats persistent bleeding during pregnancy, termed *lou tai* (leaking fetus). Take chicken liver, finely chop, mix with one sheng of wine and consume.

*Chan Bao*: Treats postpartum urinary incontinence. Burn chicken feces to ash, take one *cun bi* with wine on an empty stomach. Another prescription: Treats *du ru* (milk stasis) and carbuncles/swellings. Consume chicken feces powder one *cun bi*. The prescription for cracked nipples is the same.

Yang Shi Prescription: States that pregnant women should not eat chicken and glutinous rice together, as this causes the child to develop tapeworms (*cun bai*).

Tan Shi Prescription: Treats sudden fright in children, who seem to have painful areas but cannot describe the condition. Take blood from the comb of a male chicken, drip a few drops near the child's mouth, cured. Another prescription: Treats acute spreading erysipelas in children that does not stop. Mix egg white with powdered red adzuki beans for topical application.

To treat dysentery: Take one raw egg, one piece of paper, and ten fleshy dark plums. Spread egg white over the paper, dry, fold into four layers, wrap the plums, place in an ironing pan, burn with white charcoal until smoke nearly ceases, remove, cover with a bowl to cool, grind to fine powder, add a small amount of calomel (mercurous chloride), mix well. If taken by adults, divide into two doses; if by children, divide into three doses. Regardless of bloody or non-bloody dysentery, take on an empty stomach mixed with spring well water. If slight bowel movement occurs, do not take further.

*Yan Yi* states: Dan Xiong Ji (Red Male Chicken), now referred to as red chickens, is named for its feather color. In the I Ching, Xun represents chicken and wind. Chickens crow at the fifth watch because the sun is approaching the Xun position, stimulating their qi to crow. The chicken body contains wind pathogenic factors, thus humans should not consume it excessively. The *Classic of Materia Medica* details its uses extensively. For postpartum blood fainting, body spasms and rigidity, eyes rolling upward, and sudden loss of consciousness, take one egg, remove shell, clarify the white, mix with two qian of Schizonepeta powder, administer, and the patient stabilizes. Subsequent treatment follows accordingly. If no other diseases exist, further medication is unnecessary. Treatment is very agile; black chicken eggs are especially effective. Neither the *Classic* nor its commentaries state that chicken induces wind. However, currently it is believed chicken contains wind, and consumption invariably triggers symptoms; since chicken corresponds to Xun, this can be verified. Those who eat chicken should exercise caution.