邑东境褚姓，因夫妻反目，其妻怒吞砒石。其夫出门未归，夜间砒毒发作，觉心中热渴异常。其锅中有泡
干胡莱菔英之水若干，犹微温，遂尽量饮之，热渴顿止，迨其夫归犹未知也。隔
旬，其夫之妹，在婆家亦吞砒石，急遣人来送信，其夫仓猝将往视之。其妻谓，将干胡莱菔英携一筐去，开水
浸透，多饮其水必愈，万无一失。其夫问何以知之，其妻始明言前事。其夫果亦用此方，将其妹救愈。然所用
者，是秋末所晒之干胡莱菔英，在房顶迭次经霜，其能解砒毒或亦借严霜之力欤？至鲜胡莱菔英亦能解砒毒否，
则犹未知也。
枸杞子∶味甘多液，性微凉。为滋补肝肾最良之药，故其性善明目，退虚热，壮筋骨，除腰疼，久服有
益，此皆滋补肝肾之功也。乃因古有隔家千里，勿食枸杞之谚，遂疑其能助阳道，性或偏于温热。而愚则谓其
性决不热，且确有退热之功效，此从细心体验而得，原非凭空拟议也。
愚自五旬后，脏腑间阳分偏盛，每夜眠时，无论冬夏床头置凉水一壶，每醒一次，觉心中发热，即饮凉
水数口，至明则壶中水已所余无几。惟临睡时，嚼服枸杞子一两，凉水即可少饮一半，且晨起后觉心中格外镇
静，精神格外充足。即此以论枸杞，则枸杞为滋补良药，性未必凉而确有退热之功效，不可断言乎？
或问∶枸杞为善滋阴故能退虚热，今先生因睡醒而觉热，则此热果虚热乎？抑实热乎？答曰∶余生平胖
壮，阴分不亏，此非虚热明矣。然白昼不觉热，即夜间彻夜不睡，亦不觉热，惟睡初醒时觉心中发热，是热生
于睡中也，其不同于泛泛之实热又明矣。此乃因睡时心肾自然交感而生热，乃先天元阳壮旺之现象，惟枸杞能
补益元阴，与先天元阳相济，是以有此功效。若谓其仅能退虚热，犹浅之乎视枸杞矣。
【附方】金髓煎
枸杞子，逐日择红熟者，以无灰酒浸之，蜡纸封固，勿令泄
气，两月足，取入砂盆中，研烂滤取汁，同原浸之酒入银锅内，慢火熬之，不住箸搅，恐粘住不匀，候成饧，
净瓶密贮。每早温酒服二大匙，夜卧再服，百日身轻气壮。
地骨皮∶即枸杞根上之皮也。其根下行直达黄泉，禀地之阴气最浓，是以性凉长于退热。为其力优于下行
有收敛之力，是以治有汗骨蒸，能止吐血、衄血，更能下清肾热，通利二便，并治二便因热下血。且其收敛下
行之力，能使上焦浮游之热因之清肃，而肺为热伤作嗽者，服之可愈。是以诸家本草，多谓其能治嗽也。惟肺
有风邪作嗽者忌用，以其性能敛也。
【背景信息】
书名：医学衷中参西录 作者：张锡纯 朝代：清 章节：附∶胡莱菔英能解砒石毒 / 49．枸杞子、地骨皮解 类别：医论
【待处理原文翻译】
县东境有一位姓褚的人家，因为夫妻吵架，他的妻子愤怒之下吞服了砒石（arsenic）。丈夫出门未归，夜间砒毒发作，感觉心中异常燥热口渴。他家的锅里有泡过干胡萝卜叶的水若干，还微微温热，于是妻子尽量喝下这些水，心中的燥热和口渴立刻停止，等到丈夫回来时，她还不知道自己已经解毒了。过了十天，丈夫的妹妹在婆家也吞服了砒石，急忙派人送信来，丈夫匆忙准备前往探望。妻子说，带一筐干胡萝卜叶去，用开水浸透，多喝那些水必定痊愈，万无一失。丈夫问怎么知道的，妻子才说明前事。丈夫果然也用这个方子，将妹妹救愈。然而所用的，是秋末晒制的干胡萝卜叶，在房顶上多次经过霜冻，其能解砒毒或许也是借助严霜的力量吧？至于新鲜的胡萝卜叶是否也能解砒毒，则还未知晓。
枸杞子：味甘多液，性微凉。是滋补肝肾（Liver and Kidney）最优良的药物，所以它的性质善于明目，退虚热（Deficiency Heat），壮筋骨，除腰疼，久服有益，这些都是滋补肝肾的功效。然而因为古语有“隔家千里，勿食枸杞”的谚语，于是怀疑它能助阳道（Sexual Function），性质可能偏于温热。而我则认为它的性质决不会热，且确有退热的功效，这是从细心体验中得来的，原本不是凭空臆测。
我自从五十岁以后，脏腑间阳气偏盛，每晚睡觉时，无论冬夏床头都放一壶凉水，每次醒来，觉得心中发热，就喝几口凉水，到天亮时壶中的水已所剩无几。只有临睡时，嚼服枸杞子一两，凉水就可以少喝一半，而且晨起后觉得心中格外镇静，精神格外充足。仅凭这一点来论述枸杞，那么枸杞作为滋补良药，性质未必凉而确有退热的功效，难道不能断定吗？
有人问：枸杞善于滋阴故能退虚热，现在先生因为睡醒而觉得热，那么这个热果真是虚热吗？还是实热（Excess Heat）？回答说：我生平胖壮，阴分不亏，这显然不是虚热。然而白天不觉热，即使夜间彻夜不睡，也不觉得热，只有刚睡醒时觉得心中发热，这说明热产生于睡眠中，这与一般的实热又很明显不同。这是因为睡觉时心肾自然交感而生热，这是先天元阳（Congenital Primordial Yang）壮旺的现象，只有枸杞能补益元阴（Congenital Primordial Yin），与先天元阳相济，所以有此功效。如果说它仅能退虚热，那就太浅薄地看待枸杞了。
【附方】金髓煎（Jin Sui Decoction）
枸杞子，每日挑选红熟的，用无灰酒（Clear Wine）浸泡，蜡纸封固，不让漏气，两个月足，取入砂盆中，研烂滤取汁，同原浸之酒入银锅内，慢火熬之，不住筷子搅动，恐怕粘住不均匀，候成饧状（Thick Syrup），净瓶密贮。每早温酒服两大匙，夜卧再服，百日身轻气壮。
地骨皮（Cortex Lycii）：即枸杞根上的皮。它的根下行直达黄泉（Deep Earth/Yellow Springs），禀受地的阴气最浓，所以性质凉长于退热。因为其力优于下行且有收敛之力，所以治疗有汗骨蒸（Bone-steaming with sweating），能止吐血、衄血（Epistaxis），更能下清肾热，通利二便（Urination and Defecation），并治二便因热下血。而且其收敛下行之力，能使上焦浮游之热因之清肃，而肺为热伤作嗽者，服之可愈。所以各家本草，多谓其能治嗽。惟肺有风邪作嗽者忌用，因为其性能敛也。
[Background Information]
Book: *Yixue Zhongzhong Canxi Lu* (Record of Chinese Medicine with Reference to Western Medicine)
Author: Zhang Xichun
Dynasty: Qing
Chapter: Appendix: Hu Laifu Ying Can Detoxify Arsenic / 49. Gouqizi, Digupi Explanation
Category: Medical Theory
[English Translation]
In the eastern boundary of the county, there was a family surnamed Chu. Due to a marital dispute, his wife, in anger, swallowed arsenic (Pishi). Her husband had not yet returned from being out. At night, the arsenic poison took effect; she felt extreme heat and thirst in the heart. There was some water in her pot in which dried carrot leaves (Hu Laifu Ying) had been soaked, still slightly warm. She drank it to the fullest extent, and the heat and thirst in the heart stopped immediately. When her husband returned, she was unaware of what had happened. Ten days later, her husband's sister also swallowed arsenic at her mother-in-law's house. Messengers were urgently sent to notify them, and the husband hurriedly prepared to visit her. His wife said, "Take a basket of dried carrot leaves. Soak them thoroughly in boiling water, and drink plenty of that water; she will surely recover, without any risk." The husband asked how she knew this, and only then did his wife reveal the previous incident. The husband indeed used this prescription and saved his sister. However, what they used was dried carrot leaves sun-dried at the end of autumn, which had undergone frost multiple times on the roof. Perhaps its ability to detoxify arsenic also borrowed the power of severe frost? As for whether fresh carrot leaves can also detoxify arsenic, this remains unknown.
Gouqizi (Lycii Fructus): Sweet in taste, rich in fluid, slightly cool in nature. It is the best medicine for nourishing the Liver and Kidneys. Therefore, its nature is good at improving vision, clearing deficiency heat, strengthening sinews and bones, relieving lower back pain, and benefiting health when taken for a long time. These are all merits of nourishing the Liver and Kidneys. However, because there is an ancient proverb saying "Do not eat Gouqizi if living more than a thousand li away," people suspect it may enhance sexual function (Yang Dao), and its nature might be biased towards warmth. But I assert that its nature is definitely not hot, and it indeed has the efficacy of reducing fever. This is derived from careful personal experience, not from empty speculation.
Since I was over fifty years old, my visceral organs have had an excess of Yang energy. Every night before sleeping, regardless of winter or summer, I place a pot of cold water by the bedhead. Each time I wake up, feeling heat in the heart, I drink a few mouthfuls of cold water. By dawn, almost no water remains in the pot. Only when chewing and swallowing one liang of Gouqizi before sleep can I reduce the intake of cold water by half. Moreover, upon waking in the morning, I feel exceptionally calm in the heart and abundant in spirit. Based on this alone to discuss Gouqizi, can we not conclude that although Gouqizi is a fine nourishing medicine whose nature may not necessarily be cool, it indeed possesses the efficacy of reducing fever?
Someone asked: "Since Gouqizi is good at nourishing Yin and thus clears deficiency heat, now that you feel heat upon waking from sleep, is this heat truly deficiency heat or excess heat?" I replied: "I have always been stout and robust, with no deficiency in Yin. It is clear that this is not deficiency heat. However, I do not feel heat during the day; even if I stay awake all night, I do not feel heat. I only feel heat in the heart when first waking from sleep. This indicates that the heat arises during sleep, which is clearly different from general excess heat. This heat is generated by the natural interaction between the Heart and Kidneys during sleep, which is a phenomenon of vigorous congenital primordial Yang. Only Gouqizi can tonify primordial Yin, harmonizing with congenital primordial Yang, hence this efficacy. To say that it only clears deficiency heat is to view Gouqizi superficially."
[Attached Prescription] Jin Sui Decoction (Golden Marrow Decoction)
Select ripe red Gouqizi daily, soak them in clear wine (Wu Hui Jiu), seal tightly with wax paper to prevent leakage of air. After two months, take them out, crush them in a mortar, filter to extract the juice, mix with the original soaking wine, and put into a silver pot. Simmer slowly over low fire, stirring constantly with chopsticks to prevent sticking and unevenness. When it becomes like thick syrup, store it in a clean bottle tightly sealed. Take two large spoons with warm wine every morning, and another dose before bed. After one hundred days, the body feels light and Qi becomes strong.
Digupi (Cortex Lycii): This is the bark of the Goji berry root. Its roots grow downward directly to the yellow springs (deep earth), imbued with the strongest Yin energy of the earth. Therefore, its nature is cool and excels at reducing fever. Because its force is superior in descending and has astringent properties, it treats bone-steaming with sweating, stops hematemesis and epistaxis, further clears Kidney heat downwards, promotes urination and defecation, and treats bleeding from the bowels or urine due to heat. Furthermore, its astringent and descending force can clear and purify the floating heat in the Upper Jiao. For those suffering from cough due to lung injury by heat, taking it can lead to recovery. Thus, most materia medica texts state that it can treat cough. However, it is contraindicated for cough caused by wind pathogen in the Lung, because its nature is astringent.