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The *Lingqi Fang* (Spiritual Wondrous Formulas) methods for avoiding seasonal epidemic diseases:
On the night of the Wei day in the first lunar month, illuminate the well and the mortars in the latrine with reed torches, so that a hundred ghosts will flee and not enter.
Another method: On the first day of the first lunar month at Yin hour, apply yellow earth to the door leaves, covering an area two inches square.
Another method: Apply cow dung to the doors and gates, covering an area two inches square.
Another method: On the first or fifteenth day of the first lunar month, throw fourteen hemp seeds and fourteen adzuki beans into the well to avoid warm diseases (warm-type febrile diseases) throughout the year.
Another method: Swallow fourteen hemp seeds and fourteen adzuki beans on the first day of the first lunar month to repel warm disease evil spirits.
Another method: On a Geng-Chen day, take chicken and dog hair and burn them slightly outside the door to produce smoke, thereby avoiding warm epidemics.
Another method: On the fifteenth day of the fifth lunar month at noon, bathe with well water to avoid evil ghosts.
Another method: Bathe on Wu-Ji days in the fifth lunar month to avoid illness.
It is also said: The method to prevent the transmission of warm diseases among people: Measure the length of the house with a rope, bend the rope, and burn it until it breaks.

The *Yimen Fang* (Medical Gate Formulas) method for avoiding warm epidemics:
Take five he of adzuki beans, wrap them in five cun of new cloth, place them in the well without touching the bottom, and soak them for three days. In the early morning, face east; men swallow fourteen pills, women swallow fourteen pills.
It is also said: To treat warm diseases that transmit from person to person, even leading to the extinction of the family and affecting outsiders, the following formula ensures no infection occurs if taken:
*Saussureae Radix* (Guijianyu, 鬼箭羽) (2 liang), *Podophylli Fructus* (Guijiu, 鬼臼) (2 liang), *Phaseoli Adzuki Semen* (Chixiaodou, 赤小豆) (2 liang), *Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix* (Danshen, 丹参) (2 liang), *Realgar* (Xionghuang, 雄黄) (2 liang, ground, selecting the red color resembling a rooster's comb).
Pound and sieve into powder, mix with honey to make pills the size of wutong seeds. Take one pill per dose, two to three times daily. Even sleeping in the same bed and sharing clothes with patients will not result in infection; this is highly effective.

According to the *Qianjin Fang* (Thousand Gold Formulas), the formula to prevent the spread of warm seasonal diseases:
On a Geng-Zi day after Lichun (Start of Spring), prepare pickled turnip juice. The entire family, old and young, should consume it without limit on quantity. (This is identical to the *Jiyao Fang*).
Another formula: On every full moon day (Wang day), finely chop peach branches growing towards the east, boil them to make a decoction, and use it for bathing.
Another formula: On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the whole family swallows adzuki beans, facing the sun and swallowing two beans.
Another formula: Take the feces of peach tree borers, grind into powder, and take with water using a fangcun bi (a measure approx. one inch cube).

The *Jiyan Fang* (Collected Proven Formulas) formula to cut off warm diseases:
On the first day of the second lunar month, take mulberry roots growing towards the east, about the thickness of a finger, hang them above the door, and have everyone carry them.

According to the *Defugui Fang*: When visiting a patient's home, form the character "Ghost" (Gui) with your hand.

According to the *Yuxiang Fang*, the Tusu Wine formula for treating malignant warm epidemics:
*Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma* (Baizhu, 白术), *Platycodonis Radix* (Jiegeng, 桔梗), *Zanthoxyli Pericarpium* (Shujiao, 蜀椒), *Cinnamomi Cortex* (Guixin, 桂心), *Rhei Radix et Rhizoma* (Dahuang, 大黄), *Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata* (Wutou, 乌头), *Smilacis Glabrae Rhizoma* (Baqian, 菝葜), *Saposhnikoviae Radix* (Fangfeng, 防风) (each 2 fen).
These eight herbs are finely chopped, placed in a crimson bag, suspended in a well at noon on the last day of the twelfth lunar month, ensuring they do not touch the mud. On the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, remove the medicine and place it in three sheng of water to boil and drink.

According to the *Ge Shi Fang*, the Laojun Shenming San (Old Lord Divine White Powder) formula for avoiding warm epidemics:
*Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma* (Baizhu, 白术) (2 liang), *Platycodonis Radix* (Jiegeng, 桔梗) (2.5 liang), *Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata* (Wutou, 乌头) (1 liang), *Aconiti Radix Praeparata* (Fuzi, 附子) (1 liang), *Asari Radix et Rhizoma* (Xixin, 细辛) (2 liang).
These five herbs are pounded and sieved. On New Year's Day, take half a qianbi with warm wine. If one household has this medicine, the entire village remains free of disease. Carrying this powder while traveling disperses the pathogenic qi of the places passed through.
It is also said: Du Zhang San (Passing Through Mountains Powder) dispels the malignant qi of mountain ranges and cures illnesses. If there is dense black fog or warm winds from the southwest, these are signs of epidemics. The formula is:
*Ephedrae Herba* (Mahuang, 麻黄) (5 fen), *Zanthoxyli Pericarpium* (Shujiao, 蜀椒) (5 fen), *Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata* (Wutou, 乌头) (2 fen), *Asari Radix et Rhizoma* (Xixin, 细辛) (1 fen), *Saposhnikoviae Radix* (Fangfeng, 防风) (1 fen), *Platycodonis Radix* (Jiegeng, 桔梗) (1 fen), *Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens* (Ganjiang, 干姜) (1 fen).
These nine herbs are pounded and sieved. In the early morning, take one qianbi with warm wine.
It is also said: Methods to cut off warm diseases and prevent mutual infection:
Cut the rope used for drawing water, cut it into seven-cun lengths, and secretly place them under the bedding of the patient. (Identical to *Jiyan Fang*).
Another formula: Secretly moxibustion the four corners of the patient's bed, one moxa cone at each corner, without letting the patient know.
Another formula: Secretly place a crucian carp under the patient's bedding, without letting the patient know.
Another formula: Have a woman throw three Fuzi (Prepared Aconite Lateral Root) and seven adzuki beans into the well.