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According to the *Zhubing Yuanhou Lun* (Treatise on the Pathogenesis and Manifestations of All Diseases), the term "Zhu" (Chronic Infectious Disease/Transmission) implies staying or remaining, referring to pathogenic factors residing within the human body; hence it is called Zhu. This condition arises from the loss of balance between Yin and Yang and the emptiness of the meridians.

The *Seng Shen Fang* records: Xi Wangmu Jade Pot Red Pills are used for emergency treatment of Shi Zhu (Corpse Transmission), sudden severe conditions, and various water and land toxic insect bites. The *Wan Bing Fang* records:
Wudu Realgar (Realgar [One tael], red like a rooster's comb), Bagong Da Fuzi (Prepared Aconite Root [One tael], processed and weighed), Lilu (Veratrum [One tael]), Dansha (Cinnabar [One tael], weight not specified. Another version includes...).
There are six ingredients in total, all of which must be selected for high quality. First, crush Ba Dou (Croton Seed) three thousand times with a pestle; then add Shi..., crush three thousand times; then add Lilu (Veratrum), crush three thousand times; then add Xionghuang... use Dansha... Fang Bie... Nai Geng... Wu Yun... Zhi Wan...
For diseases located below the abdomen, do not eat the night before, and take two pills the next morning. If there is no response, drink warm rice water to induce excretion; if diarrhea persists, drink cold water to stop it.
For diseases above the diaphragm causing vomiting, and below the diaphragm causing diarrhea, or simply relieving through belching, or where meat digestion fails leading to abdominal hardness, distension, or pain, taking one pill brings immediate recovery.
For Feng Han (Wind Hernia), Han Han (Cold Hernia), Xin Han (Heart Hernia), and Xian Han (Stringy Hernia), when any hernia attacks causing acute abdominal pain, take two pills.
For Ji Han Re Lao Pi (Accumulated Cold-Heat Old Stagnation) and She Pi (Snake Stagnation), take two pills.
For abdominal distension preventing food and drink intake, take one pill.
For sudden severe alternating chills and fever, take one pill.
For sudden Guan Ge (Obstruction and Rejection syndrome) with inability to urinate or defecate and extreme suffering, take two pills.
For Jia Jie (Masses/Knots), take one pill, three times daily, until cured. For mild cases, using She... pills is very effective. For severe diarrhea, taking one pill again stops it immediately. For epidemic diseases, for Malaria (Nue) before onset take one pill, after onset take two pills to arrest the attack.
For pediatric stagnation involving hundred diseases, cold with heat, for infants aged 100 days to half a year, give one pill the size of a millet grain smeared on the nipple for sucking; for children over one year old, give a pill the size of a hemp seed... also...
For Shang Han (Cold Damage) exhaustion, abnormal complexion, and seasonal qi diseases, take one pill with warm wine. Cover thickly to induce sweating for recovery; if no sweat occurs, take another pill with wine, ensuring... Ku Lin Lu...
For postpartum residual ailments in women, amenorrhea, and irregular menstruation, take two pills, twice daily.
For sudden Huo Luan (Colic with Vomiting and Diarrhea), epigastric and abdominal pain, restlessness, fullness, vomiting and diarrhea, and cold extremities, take two pills.
For Zhu disease and various unnamed illnesses, take two pills, twice daily.
If it feels as if insects are trying to drill out of the hypochondrium with acute, intermittent pain, this is due to Wind Qi; take two pills.
For unnamed malignant sores, scabies, and carbuncles, mix the medicine with ointment or good vinegar. First wash the sore with salt water to remove crusts, dry thoroughly, then apply the medicine for cure.
For Wei Feng You Xin (Malignant Wind Wandering Heart) causing breathlessness, take one pill for cure.
For ear discharge of pus and blood and sudden deafness, wrap two pills in Chi KT and insert into the ear canal for cure.
For abscesses, acne, boils, and scrofula about to erupt, mix medicine with bitter wine (vinegar) and apply.
For toothache, wrap a small pill in cotton and place it in the tooth cavity to chew.
For alternating chills and fever, take two pills.
For injuries from snake, viper, bee, scorpion, or limpet, and bites from mad dogs or horses, mix with vinegar and apply to the wound, and take two pills internally for cure.
For sudden Zhong E (Evil Invasion) leading to near death and unconsciousness, mix two pills with wine or warm water, force open the mouth, pour into the throat, and support the patient to swallow.
If lodging alone in forests, swamps, or graveyards, burn one pill to drive away evil spirits and ghosts who will dare not approach.
For Pi Yin (Partial Fluid Retention), Liu Yin (Retained Fluids), and Tan Yin (Phlegm-Rheum), take one pill. Mix with腊月 (December) lard to make pills the size of an egg. Hang in a crimson bag tied to the arm, left for men, right for women. Mountain spirits and ghosts...
For poisoning from stream water, take two pills.
For existing sores on the body, mix three or four pills with vinegar and apply to the sore.
For Qi of worry and grief knotting in the chest, causing frequent belching, coughing, and stabbing chest pain, take three pills the size of hemp seeds, three times daily for cure.
For women with stagnant Qi in the chest, difficult breathing, hard and urgent lower abdomen, and colicky pain around the navel, take one pill the size of a hemp seed with liquid, gradually increasing to the size of a soybean.
For constant cutting pain in the heart and abdomen and internal heat, take one pill the size of a hemp seed, three times daily, curing in five days.
For evil Qi and ghost intercourse in men and women, causing erratic weeping and laughing; or abdominal enlargement with cessation of menstruation resembling pregnancy, take three pills the size of a broad bean, three times daily and once at night.
Also...
For three worms in the abdomen, fast the night before, eat beef or mutton the next morning, roast three pieces, and shortly after take three pills the size of broad beans; worms will pass at noon. After noon...
For pediatric chills and fever, headache, body heat, and vomiting..., take one pill the size of hemp seeds. For emaciated children unable to eat, Ding Xi syndrome, indigestion, take two pills...
Also mix with vinegar to resemble maltose and apply to the child's abdomen for benefit.
For wind-induced red or itchy eyes, blurred vision, tearing, and rotting..., dissolve honey to resemble maltose, apply and instill into the eyes...
For sudden wind swelling of the head, mix with vinegar or ointment and apply for cure.
For head wind swelling, mix with ointment and apply, wrapping with cotton wool.
If poisoned by Gu Du, causing hematemesis and stabbing abdominal pain, take one pill the size of hemp seeds, gradually increasing to broad bean size; also apply to nostrils; mix with ointment and apply generally...
To treat Rat Chu..., mix with fat and apply to the sore, having a spotted-tongued puppy lick it for cure.

The *Qianjin Fang* treats all Zhu diseases regardless of new or old duration:
First lie supine, moxa the second intercostal space three cun obliquely downward from both sides of the nipples, based on age, up to three hundred moxibustions.
Additionally, moxa sixty units three cun below the heart.
Additionally, moxa seven units on each thumb tip.
It is also said: Shi Zhu Wan (Ten Zhu Pills) treats ten types of Zhu: Qi Zhu, Lao Zhu, Gui Zhu, Leng Zhu, Sheng Ren Zhu, Si Ren Zhu, Shi Zhu, Shui Zhu, Shi Zhu...
Realgar (One tael), Ba Dou (Two taels), Renshen (One tael), Gancao (One tael), Ben Cao (One tael), Jiegeng (One tael), Fuzi (One...
Ten ingredients, take one pill the size of a small bean on an empty stomach, twice daily, stopping when effective. Verified formula.

The *Ge Shi Fang* states: Zhu disease is Shi Zhu among the Five Corpse pathogens, and also refers to harm caused by various evil spirits. Generally causing chills, fever, dripping sensations, lethargy... This illness...
Peach kernel fifty grains, crushed. Boil in one dou of water to obtain four sheng. Take all at once to vomit the pathogen; if not fully expelled, repeat in two or three days. If not vomiting...

The *Ji Yan Fang* treats Zhu disease:
Take two dou of cut white bark from mulberry roots, dry them, burn to ash, leach with hot water to extract juice, soak two dou of adzuki beans in this ash juice until exhausted, steam the beans until cooked, form into... sheep/deer...
It is also said: To treat Gui Zhu (Ghost Transmission) contagious disease completely:
Dry one raccoon dog liver, sift into powder, take one cun cube with water, three times daily. Divine prescription. (Same as *Qianjin Fang*.)

The *Ji Yao Fang* treats E Zhu (Malignant Transmission) entering the heart causing near death, curing regardless of duration:
Half a tael of Benzoin resin powdered, taken with wine for cure. (Same as *Jiuji Danyan Fang*.)
It is also said: Prescription for Zhu Qi attacking without fixed pattern:
White mustard seed, pounded into pills and taken; or mixed with vinegar and applied, effective immediately.

The *Long Men Fang* treats E Zhu entering the heart causing near death:
One bulb of single-clove garlic, add ink the size of a jujube, pound together with a small he of soy sauce, take all at once for immediate recovery.
Another prescription: Take salt the size of a chicken egg, wrap in cloth, burn red, powder, take with wine to induce vomiting for effect.
Another prescription: Take Sichuan pepper, wrap in cloth, place thin cloth over the Zhu area, iron with a hot iron to induce sweating for effect.

The *Xin Lu Fang* states: E Zhu prescription:
Five he of salt, three he of chimney soot, boil in three sheng of water until salt dissolves, strain, take all at once; vomiting leads to recovery.
Another prescription: Cut three sheng of peach branches, boil in four sheng of water to obtain one sheng six tou, divide into two doses.

The *Fan Wang Fang* treats Shi Zhu toxic pain coming and going:
Ash from burned hair, Apricot kernels (fried until purple).
These two ingredients in equal parts, mixed with ointment, take three pills the size of a wutong seed with wine, three times daily.

The *Jiuji Danyan Fang* treats E Zhu:
Take two fen of Asafoetida, mix with wine for immediate recovery.
Another prescription: Three taels of Guixin (Cinnamon Twig Heart), boil in three sheng of wine to obtain one sheng, divide into two doses for recovery.