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Treats nine types of heart pain, five types of dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing), pi accumulation (masses in the hypochondrium or abdomen), and piercing pain caused by cold qi; as well as cold stagnation in the spleen and stomach, chest fullness and distension, abdominal pain with borborygmus, vomiting of sour fluid, male small intestine hernia (xiao chang qi), female blood qi pain, etc.

Asafoetida (Arwei) (2.5 qian, soaked in wine overnight, made into a paste with flour) Piperis Longi Fructus (Hujiao) (2.5 qian) Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gancao) Foeniculi Fructus (Huixiang) (stir-fried) Chuanxiong Rhizoma (Chuanxiong) Aurantii Fructus Immaturus (Qingpi) Aurantii Fructus Ripenus (Chenpi) Lonicerae Flos (Dingxiangpi) (stir-fried) Curcuma Zedoaria Rhizoma (Pengzhu) (each 1 liang, stir-fried) Amomi Fructus Rotundus (Suosharen) Cinnamomi Cortex (Guixin) Angelicae Dahuricae Radix (Baizhi) (stir-fried, each 0.5 liang) Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens (Shengjiang) (4 liang, sliced, marinated overnight with 1 liang salt, stir-fried until black)

Grind the above ingredients into fine powder. Use the Asafoetida paste to bind the powder into pills, sized like a chicken head. For every 1 jin of medicine, coat it with 7 qian of Cinnabar (Zhusha). For male qi pain, take 2–3 pills with decoction of stir-fried ginger and salt water; for female blood qi disorders, take with vinegar water. For daily maintenance, take 2 pills with tea or wine as desired, chew thoroughly and swallow, before meals.

Treats qi stagnation originating from the waist and abdomen, causing spasmodic and urgent pain, inability to bend or stretch, cold heaviness in the abdomen feeling like a stone, unbearable pain, profuse sweating like bathing, cold hands and feet, chronic non-healing conditions, and critical states near death.

Gardenia Fruit (Shanzhizi) (49 pods, burnt with skin until half-cooked) Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata (Fuzi) (one piece, processed, skin and umbilicus removed)

Grind the above ingredients into fine powder. Take 2 qian per dose. Add a small cup of wine and a little salt, decoct until reduced to 70%, and take warm. This formula also treats severe chest oppression and cutting pain. Shixiao San (See previous section on Hernia)

Conditions such as bone-steaming fever, labor heat, recurrent infections, corpse transmission (shizhu), labor transmission (laozhu), insect transmission (chongzhu), toxic transmission (duzhu), hot transmission (rezhu), cold transmission (lengzhu), food transmission (shizhu), ghost transmission (guizhu), etc., are all referred to as "Chuanshen" (transmitting corpse disease). The term "Zhu" is synonymous with "Zhu" (infusion/pouring), meaning the disease infuses from top to bottom and resembles illnesses previously suffered by others, hence called Zhu. There are variations including twenty-two types, thirty-six types, or ninety-nine types. Generally, it causes alternating chills and fever, night sweats, dreams of sexual intercourse with ghosts, seminal emission and turbid urine, dry and erect hair, abdominal masses, or small tubercles on both sides of the back of the head appearing in clusters or scattered groups, lethargy, cough with phlegm, hemoptysis of pus and blood, resembling lung atrophy (feiwai) or lung abscess (feiyong); or recurrent diarrhea, emaciation, exhaustion, inability to support oneself, progressing over months and years to death. After death, the pathogen may transmit to others, potentially wiping out an entire family. Additionally, there are Feishi, Dunshi, Hanshi, Sishi, and Shizhu, collectively known as the Five Corpses, along with various other attachment syndromes. Knowing their suffering, they find everything repulsive, harming people by carrying various evil spirits. Classified under the Three Causes, these diseases are neither caused internally by the Seven Emotions nor externally by the Four Qi climatic factors. Although they seem to belong to the "neither internal nor external" cause, their manifestations are manifold, transmitting and migrating unpredictably, making them difficult to forecast. Thus, from ancient times to the present, fewer than one in ten patients recover. Methods involving Lynx Bone, Otter Liver, Human Skull Cap (Tianlinggai), and Bronze Mirror Nose have only theoretical claims but no proven efficacy. Only moxibustion on the Gaohuangshu acupoint and Cuishi acupoint, if performed early upon hearing of the condition, might offer a fifty percent chance of recovery; if delayed, it is futile. Recently, effective classical formulas were collected, which some found quite effective. They are recorded below. Remaining gaps await supplementation by wise scholars.