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Jingui Yaolue · Essentials from the Golden Cabinet
23. Miscellaneous Remedies
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Chaihu Yinzi, varied through the four seasons, for deficient heat of the five viscera.
In winter's three months add Chaihu 8 fen, Baizhu 8 fen, Dafubinglang 4 fruits with husk and seed, Chenpi 5 fen, Shengjiang 5 fen and Jiegeng 7 fen. In spring add Zhishi and reduce Baizhu, six ingredients total. In summer add Shengjiang 3 fen, Zhishi 5 fen and Gancao 3 fen, eight total. In autumn add Chenpi 3 fen, six total. The supplied seasonal counts and additions are retained.
Coarsely pound each combination and divide into three packets. Boil a packet in 3 sheng water to obtain 2 sheng; divide into three warm doses, spaced by the time to walk four or five li. For obstructed limbs add a little Gancao. Each packet may instead be divided into three small packets: boil each in 1 sheng water to obtain 7 he and take warm; combine residues and boil again for a fourth dose.
Edition note: This chapter records historical emergency and other remedies, including unvalidated and hazardous procedures. They are translated as source material, not contemporary resuscitation or treatment instructions.
Helile Wan for prolonged use. The note doubts it is a Zhongjing formula.
Helile roasted in embers, Chenpi and Houpo 3 liang each.
Powder the three and form wutong-seed-sized pills with refined honey. Take twenty with wine or drink, increasing to thirty.
Sanwu Beiji Wan Formula. The note cites Thousand Gold: Minister of Works Pei Xiu also used it as powder, first mixed into liquid and poured into the mouth between teeth, declared effective.
Dahuang 1 liang; Ganjiang 1 liang; Badou 1 liang, peel and core removed, roasted and separately ground to a fatty consistency.
The ingredients must be fresh and fine. First pound Dahuang and Ganjiang, add ground Badou and pound together a thousand times. Use as powder or honey pills, kept sealed without losing potency. The source assigns it to a hundred sudden Heart and abdominal illnesses. For malign strike or visiting offense, distention and awl-like sudden pain, urgent qi, locked mouth and corpse-like sudden death, it directs three or four soybean-sized pills with warm water or wine. If swallowing fails, lift the head and pour into the throat. It claims quick recovery; otherwise three more pills. Abdominal rumbling, vomiting and purging are said to precede recovery. For locked mouth it even directs breaking a tooth to pour it in. These are reported historical directions.
Zishi Hanshi San, to make cold damage recover without relapse, cited from Wings to Thousand Gold.
Zishiying, Baishiying, Chishizhi, Zhongru ground and refined, Gualou root, Fangfeng, Jiegeng, Wenge and Guijiu 10 fen each; Taiyi Yuliang 10 fen, burned; Ganjiang, heat-processed peeled Fuzi and bark-removed Guizhi 4 fen each.
Pound the thirteen to powder and take a fangcunbi with wine.
The source repeats: Pound the above thirteen ingredients to powder and take a fangcunbi with wine.
Formula for sudden death: pound Xie to juice and pour into the nose.
Another: cut a rooster's comb for blood and blow it through a tube into the nose. These are the historical text's procedures.
The historical recipe boils an egg-sized amount of pig fat in 1 sheng bitter wine and pours it into the throat.
The historical recipe smears chicken liver and blood on the face, surrounds all four sides with ash, and claims immediate rising.
The source gives fourteen soybeans mixed with egg white and wine, all swallowed.
For sudden death with strong heat: dissolve Fanshi half a jin in water 1.5 dou and soak feet above ankles.
For sudden death with closed eyes: an unclear ride-an-ox/facing-the-face phrase precedes Xie juice poured into ears and Zaojia powder blown into nose, claimed instantly effective.
For sudden death with open mouth and backward bending: fourteen moxa cones behind the two nail-areas of hands and feet, then Five-Toxin ointments or powders to drink; the note specifies preparations containing Badou.
For sudden death with uncontrolled limbs and incontinence: boil horse dung 1 sheng in water 3 dou to obtain 2 dou for washing; take loose ox dung 1 sheng and warm wine to pour into the mouth. Apply a hundred moxa cones each one cun below Heart, three cun above navel and four cun below it, claimed to recover.
For a child's sudden death with vomiting and diarrhea of unknown illness: squeeze juice from a ball of dog dung and administer it; if none is wet, boil dry dung in water for juice. All procedures are historical claims.
Corpse reversal: pulse moves but there is no breathing; qi is closed, so the person lies still as dead. The note refers to pulses and signs in the upper volume. The source directs Changpu powder blown into both nostrils and Gui powder placed beneath the tongue.
Another procedure cuts a square-cun patch of left-corner hair, burns and powders it, mixes with wine and pours into the throat, claiming immediate rising.
Huanhun Tang governs rescue from sudden death or visiting offense. Thousand Gold Formulas assigns it to sudden ghost strike, flying-corpse affliction and abrupt cessation of breath without awareness, perhaps no pulse and mouth locked. It directs removing a tooth to introduce the decoction. If it remains in the mouth, part the hair left and right, grasp the supplied canopy-or-shoulder wording and pull. After medicine descends, another sheng is given, and immediate revival claimed. The grasping phrase is damaged; these are reported historical procedures.
Mahuang 3 liang with joints removed, one formula 4 liang; Xingren 70 kernels, skins and tips removed; Gancao 1 liang, roasted. Thousand Gold uses Guixin 2 liang. Boil the three in 8 sheng water to obtain 3 sheng, strain and administer in portions, for all visiting offenses.
Another formula: a handful of leek roots, Wumei 14 fruits and Wuzhuyu half a sheng, fried. Boil in 1 dou water with the patient's comb placed inside. After three boils, floating comb predicts life, sinking comb death. Boil to obtain 3 sheng, strain and divide to drink. The comb divination is the source's claim.
The source claims a person apparently dead from hanging can be treated from dawn to dusk even when cold; dusk to dawn is harder, perhaps because yin qi flourishes. Summer nights are shorter and hot, so it still claims treatability. Another statement says slight warmth below Heart permits treatment even after more than a day. These are historical prognoses, not modern survival criteria.
For hanging, the historical text directs supporting and loosening the body slowly without cutting the rope, laying it in bedding, one person pressing both shoulders with feet and gently pulling hair taut, another repeatedly pressing the chest, a third rubbing and bending arms and shins. If rigid, bend gradually by force and press abdomen. After a rice-cooking interval, breath should leave the mouth, breathing resume and eyes open. Continue pulling and pressing without excessive strain, then offer a little Guizhi Tang and clear gruel to moisten the throat and permit gradual swallowing, then stop. It further describes two people blowing through tubes into both ears, with a damaged closing graph, and claims universal revival.
For death from summerheat it forbids cooling. It directs bent grass forming a ring around navel, two or three people urinating into it for warmth. Warm mud and grass, or a pottery bowl with bottom removed and the supplied cart-container term, may hold it while allowing drainage. This is said to be for a road emergency without hot water; many people's urine is to keep it warm. If hot water is available, use it. It then warns mud and cart-container may be cold, yet allows hot summer mud and warmed container.
For drowning, it directs burying the person head to foot in more than 2 shi hearth ash and claims water exits the seven openings and life returns. Every direction here is historical source content, not a validated rescue method.
The source attributes the foregoing hanging, drowning and summerheat methods to Zhang Zhongjing, praising them as beyond ordinary thought and materia medica, great life-saving arts. It distinguishes summerheat in cold-damage cases from this illness after heat exposure. The note cites Outer Terrace and Behind-the-Elbow.
Formula for falling from a horse and all sinew or bone injuries, from Behind-the-Elbow Formulas: Dahuang 1 liang, sliced and soaked in hot water for later addition; a hand-sized piece of crimson silk burned to ash.
Egg-sized tangled hair burned to ash; one chi of long-used cooking cloth burned to ash; spoiled rush mat material a three-cun handful; Taoren 49 kernels, skins and tips removed, roasted; Gancao as long as a middle-finger joint, roasted and chopped.
For the seven ingredients, use a child's urine in a suitable quantity to boil a decoction. Add one large zhan wine, then Dahuang, strain and divide into three warm doses. First chop half a piece of spoiled rush mat and boil bath water from it, bathe and cover with clothes and bedding. Soon several free bowel movements are claimed to relieve pain immediately. If discharge and bath water are red, the source says not to be surprised: it is static blood.
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