一人服水银僵死。微有喘息。肢体如冰。闻葛可久能治奇疾。求之。可久视之。曰。
得白金二百两。可治。病家谢以贫不能重酬。可久笑曰。欲得白金煮汤。热浴其体耳。因向
富家借得之。且嘱之曰。浴时如手足动。当来告我。有顷。手足引动。往告之。复谓曰。眼
动及能起坐。悉来告我。一如其言。乃取川椒二斤。置溲桶中。坐病患于椒上。久之病脱去
其水银已入椒矣。盖银汤能动水银而不滞。川椒能来水银而聚之。酉阳杂俎云。椒可以来
水银。葛公之学博矣。
〔附〕甲志云。绍兴中。英州僧希赐。见有客船自番禺来。舟中士人携一仆。脚弱不能
行。舟师悯之。曰。吾有一药。治此病如神。饵之而瘥者。不可胜计。乃入山求草。时已薄
暮。且微醉。得草即渍酒。授病者。令天未明服之。如其言。药入口。即呻吟云。肠胃如刀
割截痛。迟明而死。士人已咎舟师。舟师恚曰。何有此。即取昨夕所余药。自渍酒服之。不
超时亦死。盖此山多断肠草。人误食之辄死。舟师所取药。为根蔓所缠。醉不暇择。径投酒
中以此致祸。因知草药不可妄用也。
又歙客经潜山。见蛇腹胀甚。啮一草。以腹磨。顷之胀消。蛇去。容念此草。必消胀毒
取置筐中。夜宿旅邸。邻房有过客。为腹胀所苦。客取药就釜煎一杯饮之。顷间。其人血
肉俱化为水。独遗骸骨。急挈装而逃。至明。主人不测何为。及洁釜炊饭。则釜遍体成金。
乃密瘗其骸。既久。客至。语其事。
震按金匮要略二十四卷二十五卷载诸中毒。治法甚详。如水银入人耳及六畜等皆死。以
金
银着耳边。水银即吐。葛公之法。原有所本。而更参他书以广其法。故不可及。金匮又云。
煮荠 甘草汁饮。通除诸毒药。若舟师歙客之药。其毒太急。圣人亦不能预防也。
有一个病人服用了水银，导致假死状态。仅有微弱的呼吸，肢体冰冷如冰。听说葛可久能治疗疑难杂症，便去求治。葛可久观察后说：“需要白金二百两，才能治愈。”病家以贫穷为由，感谢并请求不要重酬。葛可久笑着说：“我想要用白金煮成汤，用来热敷病人的身体罢了。”于是向富人家借得白金，并且嘱咐道：“洗澡时如果手脚有动静，应当来告诉我。”过了一会儿，手脚开始牵引抽动，病人家属前去告知。葛可久又说：“眼睛转动以及能够坐起，都要立刻来告诉我。”病人完全按照他的嘱咐行事。于是取川椒二斤，放入溺桶中，让病患坐在花椒上。过了很久，病邪脱去，水银已经进入花椒中了。大概是因为银汤能推动水银而不使其停滞，川椒能吸引水银并将其聚集。《酉阳杂俎》记载：花椒可以吸引水银。葛公的学问真是渊博啊。
〔附〕《甲志》记载：绍兴年间，英州僧人希赐，看见有一艘客船从番禺开来。船上有一位士人带着一个仆人，双腿软弱无法行走。船夫怜悯他们，说：“我有一种药，治疗这种病神效。”服用后痊愈的人，数不胜数。于是进山寻找草药。当时天色已晚，且船夫有些微醉，得到草后立即浸泡在酒中，交给病人，命令在天亮前服用。按照他的说法，药入口后，病人立即呻吟说：“肠胃像被刀割截一样疼痛。”天亮时死亡。士人已经责怪船夫，船夫愤怒地说：“怎么会有这种事？”于是取昨晚剩下的药，自己浸泡在酒中服用。不超过一时辰也死了。大概这座山上多断肠草，人误食就会死亡。船夫所取的药，被根蔓缠绕，醉酒无暇选择，直接投入酒中，因此招致祸患。由此可知草药不可随意使用。
又有一位歙县客商经过潜山，看见蛇腹部肿胀严重，咬住一株草，用腹部摩擦。一会儿之后肿胀消退，蛇离去。客商心想这株草必定能消除腹胀毒，便采摘放入筐中。夜晚住宿旅店，隔壁房间有过路客人，正受腹胀之苦。客商取药放在锅中煎煮一杯给客人喝。片刻之间，那人血肉都化为水，只留下骸骨。客商急忙收拾行李逃跑。到了天明，主人不知道发生了什么。等到清洗锅具做饭时，发现锅全身变成金子。于是秘密埋葬了骸骨。很久以后，客商回来，讲述了这件事。
俞震按语：《金匮要略》第二十四卷、第二十五卷记载各种中毒，治疗方法非常详细。如水银进入人耳及六畜等都会致死，将金银放在耳边，水银就会吐出。葛公的方法，原本就有依据，并且参考其他书籍以扩充方法，所以难以企及。《金匮》又说：煮荠菜和甘草汁饮用，可以通除各种毒药。至于船夫和歙县客商的药，毒性太急，即使是圣人也不能预先预防。
A patient ingested quicksilver (mercury) and fell into a state of apparent death. There was only faint respiration, and the limbs were as cold as ice. Hearing that Ge Kejiu could treat unusual diseases, they sought his help. Ge examined the patient and said, "You need two hundred taels of white gold (silver) to cure this." The family thanked him but pleaded poverty, unable to offer heavy compensation. Ge smiled and said, "I intend to use the silver to boil water for a hot bath for the body." He then borrowed the silver from wealthy families and instructed them: "If the hands and feet move during the bath, come and tell me immediately." After a while, the hands and feet began to twitch and pull. The family went to inform him. Ge added, "When the eyes move and the patient can sit up, report it to me at once." Everything proceeded exactly as he instructed. He then took two jin of Sichuan pepper (Zanthoxylum bungeanum), placed it in a urinal tub, and had the patient sit on top of the pepper. After a long time, the disease departed, and the quicksilver had entered the pepper. This is because the silver-infused water can mobilize quicksilver without letting it stagnate, and Sichuan pepper can attract and gather quicksilver. *Youyang Zazu* states that pepper can attract quicksilver. Master Ge's learning was indeed profound.
[Appendix] *Jia Zhi* records: During the Shaoxing era, Monk Xici of Yingzhou saw a passenger ship arriving from Panyu. On board was a scholar with a servant whose legs were weak and unable to walk. The boatman pitied them and said, "I have a medicine that cures this condition miraculously." Countless people recovered after taking it. He then went into the mountains to find herbs. It was already late evening, and he was slightly drunk. Upon finding the herb, he immediately soaked it in wine and gave it to the patient, instructing them to take it before dawn. As instructed, upon entering the mouth, the patient groaned, saying, "My intestines and stomach feel like they are being cut by knives." By early morning, the patient died. The scholar blamed the boatman, who angrily retorted, "How could this happen?" He then took the remaining medicine from the previous night, soaked it in wine, and drank it himself. Within an hour, he also died. It appears this mountain abounds with *Douchangcao* (Intestine-Cutting Herb); humans die if they mistakenly ingest it. The herb the boatman collected was entangled with roots and vines; due to drunkenness, he failed to select carefully and threw it directly into the wine, causing disaster. Thus, one knows that herbal medicines should not be used recklessly.
Another merchant from She passed through Qianshan and saw a snake with severe abdominal swelling. The snake bit a certain herb and rubbed its abdomen against it. Soon, the swelling subsided, and the snake left. The merchant thought this herb must eliminate abdominal swelling and toxicity, so he picked it and put it in a basket. That night, staying at an inn, a passing guest in the neighboring room suffered from severe abdominal swelling. The merchant took the herb, boiled a cup of decoction in a pot, and gave it to the guest to drink. In a moment, the person's flesh and blood turned into water, leaving only bones behind. The merchant hastily packed and fled. At dawn, the owner did not know what had happened. When cleaning the pot to cook rice later, they found the entire pot had turned to gold. They secretly buried the remains. Long afterward, the merchant returned and recounted the story.
Yu Zhen notes: Volumes 24 and 25 of *Jin Gui Yao Lue* (Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet) detail various poisoning cases and treatments very thoroughly. For instance, if quicksilver enters the ear or affects livestock, it causes death; placing gold or silver near the ear causes the quicksilver to be expelled. Master Ge's method originally had a basis, and he further expanded it by consulting other texts, making it unsurpassable. *Jin Gui* also states: Boiling shepherd's purse (*Shepherdia canadensis*) and licorice root (*Glycyrrhiza uralensis*) juice and drinking it can detoxify various poisons. However, the medicines used by the boatman and the She merchant were too rapidly toxic; even sages could not have prevented such outcomes.