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process three times, and then add a peck of white salt and 

 pack all well together. Pour on hot water and percolate 

 three or four gallons. Put into a clean caldron and add 

 pepper, ginger, onion, and shredded orange peel, and boil all 

 together until it is evaporated one-third. Then put into a 

 whole vessel and let stand, and it will develop an exceed- 

 ingly fine flavor." In addition to the beau relish several 

 other kinds are made, such as bran relish, melou relish, 

 and soy relish ; but these are for food and are not used in 

 medicine. 



These salted beans and their derivatives are used medic- 

 iually in various ways. The insipid relish is used in the 

 treatment of colds, headache, chills and fever, malaria, noxious 

 efflnvia, irritability, melancholy, decline, difficult breathing, 

 painful and cold feet, and for the destruction of poisons in 

 pregnant domestic animals. In the treatment of fevers and 

 perspirations, it should be cooked into a paste. For driving 

 away melancholy, the uncooked article should be made up 

 into pills and taken. For chills and fever, colds on the chest, 

 and for ulcers, it is boiled and eaten, as it also is in the 

 case of dysentery and colic. It may also be used for the 

 treatment of ague, bone disease, poisons, marasmus, and dog 

 bite. It is useful in expelling gas, benefiting the internal 

 organs, treating colds and cold poisons, and for nausea. 



The Puchou relish has a very salty aud cooling taste. 

 It corrects irritability, fever, poison, cold, and decline. It 

 benefits all of the internal organs, is diaphoretic, opens up 

 the passages, destroys astral influences, and clears the breath- 

 ing ("opens up the nose"). The Shenchou liquid relish 

 also allays irritability and feverishness. These are employed 

 medicinally in obstinate dysentery, hematuria, locomotor ataxia, 

 (^ SH ^ jE) Shou-chio-pu-sui), excessive hemorrhage in abor- 

 tion, threatened abortion, difficult labor, tinea, venereal sores, 

 stings of insects, scorpion bites, horse bites (anthrax ?,), wiue 

 drinkers' diseases, foreign objects in the eye, and thorns in 

 the flesh. 



Bean Ferment. — ^ ^ (Tou-huang). This is the 

 fermentation pellicle {Mycodcrjua) which forms on the top 

 of fermenting beans, as the mother-of- vinegar forms on the 



