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According to *Zhu Bing Yuan Hou Lun* (Treatise on the Pathogenesis and Manifestations of All Diseases): Some people have a strong craving for raw rice. The longer they indulge, the more they desire it. If they cannot obtain rice, clear fluid will gush from their chest; after consuming rice and water, the symptoms cease. However, the rice does not digest in the body, eventually forming a mass (abdominal lump).

*Qianjin Fang* (Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold) provides the "Constant Craving for Rice Formula" to treat this condition:
*Baiji Shi Bai* (White excrement of the chicken, one sheng) and *Baimi* (White rice, five ge). Mix these two ingredients and stir-fry until the rice is scorched, then grind into powder. Take with two sheng of water in one dose. Shortly after ingestion, the patient will vomit fragmented pieces of pathological rice. This method is highly effective.

*Zhu Bing Yuan Hou Lun* states: *Shui Jia* (Water mass, a type of abdominal mass caused by fluid retention) arises from obstruction and stagnation in the meridians, causing water qi to accumulate below the heart. Due to deficiency in the Kidney meridian, the ability to promote urination and defecation is impaired, leading to...

*Fan Wang Fang* offers a treatment for *Shui Jia*: Patients may feel as if several dou-sized oil bags filled with water are located below the heart, making sounds. They drink two or three dou of water daily, refuse food, and only desire water. In chronic cases...
Select twenty ripe, high-quality *Bimamu* (Castor seed, Ricini Semen), remove the husks, and grind them finely in a cup without pounding. Mix with water to obtain three ge of liquid. Fast overnight, and take the entire dose in the morning. After taking the medicine...
One must not drink water at this time.

*Zhu Bing Yuan Hou Lun* states: Some individuals suddenly develop an excessive appetite, far exceeding normal portions. Due to hunger, upon encountering raw green onions, they consume them in large quantities, subsequently vomiting out a meat-like mass with openings around its periphery, after which the illness resolves. This is termed *Shi Jia* (Food mass). It is specifically caused by unfortunate circumstances leading to sudden onset, rather than being a disease resulting from excessive consumption of cold or raw foods.

*Guang Ji Fang* provides a formula for treating *Shi Jia*: An individual consumed seven dou of rice and half a pig cake in one meal, regardless of whether they were roasted or not. Suffering from hunger and eating green onions, due to extreme urgency of hunger...
The object...

*Zhu Bing Yuan Hou Lun* states: Some people have a natural predisposition to crave alcohol. Having consumed much alcohol while eating little grain, they gradually become emaciated over time. Their illness causes them to constantly crave wine; if deprived, they vomit...
Various types of *Jia* (masses)

*Xin Lu Fang* provides formulas for treating various *Jia*:
Moxibustion on *Pangguang Shu* (BL-28, Bladder Shu) for more than three hundred moxa cones.
Another formula: If wine is consumed, take ash from human hair and fingernails.
Another formula: Grind *Qu* (Medicated leaven, Shenqu) into powder and take with wine, twice daily.
Another formula: Stir-fry three sheng of *Tinglizi* (Descurainiae Semen Lepidii Seminis, Tinglizi Seed), soak in two sheng of wine for three days, take half a zhan warm, twice daily.