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Indicated for various insects entering the flesh, corroding pruritic scabies (pruritic skin lesions with scaling), and insect sores on cattle and horses; mountain newts or leeches entering the flesh; and toxicity from bites by mosquitoes and other insects. Collect it beneath salt silkworm cocoons, store the brine in a bamboo tube to soak the sores. When traveling in mountains, one may carry a tube in advance; place a leech in the center and bring a piece of dried seaweed to repel various leeches. Su Gong, annotating the entry on leeches in *Shennong Bencao Jing* (Divine Farmer's Materia Medica), stated: "Mountain people have their own remedies; is this not it?" It can also be used to boil water for bathing infants to remove sores and scabies. This juice is the fluid from pupae within the cocoon, hence its ability to kill insects, not because it is salty brine.

Non-toxic. Indicated for epistaxis (nosebleed) and traumatic wounds from metal weapons with continuous bleeding. Press to extract the insect juice and apply to the sores and inside the nostrils. Also treats lower bleeding caused by "wild pheasant disease." This insect climbs onto money curtains; indicated for infant vomiting and reflux. Boil seven specimens in water and drink the decoction. The insect resembles a spider, spinning a white web like a coin in dark corners of walls; locals call it "wall cocoon."

Indicated for unbearable itching in the intestines after childbirth. Place it in a bag under the sleeping mat without the patient's knowledge.

Indicated for hot sores in children's mouths. Grind into ash/powder and apply to the oral ulcers. Decoction taken orally treats gu poison (parasitic disease). In Lingnan, there is a "brocade-eating insect," curved like a finger ring, which eats old crimson silk and brocade, similar to silkworms eating leaves.

Indicated for malignant sores, carbuncles, toxic swellings, and all sores with deep roots. Used to make plasters. Take a piece of silk the size of a hand, along with seven pieces each of dew honeycomb, bent heads, thorns, and rotten grass nodes, plus tangled hair. Burn to ash, take orally on an empty stomach with a dose of one cun bi (square-inch measure) using warm water. Highly effective for toxic swellings. Crimson silk is also added to various plasters; superior for treating carbuncles. Also treats swelling, pain, and discharge when an infant's umbilical cord has not yet fallen off. Burn to powder, grind finely, and apply externally. Additionally, five-colored silk treats night sweats; after wiping, discard at a five-way intersection.

Indicated for prisoners released after an amnesty. On the day of the amnesty, collect material from the shackles they wore, use it to sew clothes for prisoners, so that those convicted may also receive grace.

Also known as Gou Juice. Apply the ointment to the ear canal to improve hearing in both ears. Produced in Chaozhou. Resembles a snake with four legs. Primarily treats deafness.

Wear its horn to treat "stream poison" and "archer insects" found in mountainous areas with such toxins. Size like a chicken egg, resembling a dung beetle, with a single horn over an inch long on its head. The horn has four branches. Black shell with wings underneath, capable of flight. Harvest in June and July. *Bai Yi Fang*: Archer insects have horns near their mouths; wearing them repels stream poison. *Rites of Zhou*: The official Huzhuoshi was responsible for eliminating water insects. Drive them away with drums made of baked earth and throw burning stones at them. Annotation states: "Throwing stones is to startle them away." Nowadays, when crossing streams, people first throw stones into the water; the insects flee before contact occurs. Zhang Sikong said: In Jiangnan, there are archer insects, a type of armored beetle. They have a bow-like structure near their mouth and shoot air at humans. *Xuan Zhong Ji* states: Water fox is an insect, four inches long, black in color, with a shell on its back and a horn-like projection at the mouth pointing forward like a crossbow, shooting air at humans. Known as "short fox" or "archer insect" in the Jianghuai region, collectively causing "stream disease." Since this is the insect itself, it can suppress/repel others.