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Decree: Taboos (Recite the Big Dipper Mantra, write talismans with cinnabar.)

Human skull cap (One male specimen; if the color is not red, it can be used. Female specimens are red and must not be used. Wash with a decoction of sandalwood, waiting for it to cool. The mantra states: "The Lightning Lord is spiritual, the Thunder Lord is holy. Upon encountering the 'Chuan Shi' [wasting disease], one must respond immediately. Act swiftly according to the law." Recite seven times. Afterward, roast with clarified butter until yellow.) Raw Turtle Carapace (One piece, remove internal impurities, roast with clarified butter until yellow.) Tiger's long canine tooth (Two pieces, roast with vinegar and clarified butter. If unavailable, use half an ounce of the bone from the jaw joint.) Benzoin Amyris (Anxi Xiang) Peach Kernel (Soak in water, remove skin and tips, bake.) Areca Seed (Binglang) (Those shaped like a chicken heart, half an ounce each.) Raw Rhinoceros Horn (Sheng Xi Jiao) Costus Root (Muxiang) Kansui Root (Gansui) Liquidambar Resin (Jiangzhen Xiang) Dried Lacquer (Gan Qi) (Pound into fragments, stir-fry until smoke almost ceases but retain its nature.) Asafoetida (Awei) (Soak in wine, grind, three qian each.) Omphalia Fungus (Leiwan) (Two qian.) Pangolin Scales (Chuanshanjia) (Take four toes, roast with vinegar until scorched.) Full Scorpion (Quanxie) (Three pieces.) Earthworm (Qiuyin) (Ten pieces, grind raw and mix with the medicine.) Grind all the above ingredients into powder. Take half an liang per dose. First, take forty-nine hearts of fermented soybean (Dixin), two twigs each of peach, plum, mulberry, and plum trees growing towards the east (seven cun long), seven fresh leaves of Isatis tinctoria (Lanqing), a small handful of Artemisia annua (Qinghao), and five stalks of green onion white part with roots washed clean. Pound them together in a stone mortar. Use one and a half bowls of well water, decoct to obtain one bowl. Add one bowl of urine from an uncircumcised boy (Tongzi Niao). Add the herbal powder, decoct again to obtain seven-tenths of a bowl. Add one zi amount of Musk (Shexiang). On the fifth day of the lunar month, during the wu geng period (1-3 AM), take warm on an empty stomach. Immediately cover with a blanket to induce sweating. Fear that fine worms may be in the sweat; wipe with soft silk, then burn the silk. Soon, worms will surely be expelled. Collect them in a clean bucket, quickly clamp the worms and throw them into fierce fire to burn them. Also collect them in a porcelain vessel, cover with realgar (Xionghuang) under a tile, seal with mud mixed with ash, and bury in deep mountains where no humans walk.

Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome (Baizhu) (Stir-fried) Poria (Fuling) Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma (Renshen) Astragali Membranacei Radix (Huangqi) (Roasted) Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Danggui) Paeoniae Radix Alba (Shaoyao) (Stir-fried) Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizoma (Chuanxiong) Rehmanniae Radix (Dihuang) Grind the above into a powder. Take five qian per dose. With two zhan of water, decoct to one zhan. Remove dregs, take warm after meals.

Artemisia Annua Herba (Qinghao) Rheum Palmatum Rhizoma (Dahuang) Porcine Bile (Zhudan Zhi) Urine from an uncircumcised boy (Tongbian)

Ophiopogon Japonicus Tuber (Maimendong) (Remove heart) Polygalae Radix (Yuanzhi) (Boil with Licorice, remove heart) Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma (Renshen) Scutellariae Radix (Huangqin) Raw Rehmanniae Radix (Sheng Dihuang) (Wash) God's Spirit (Fushen) Gypsum Fibrosum (Shigao) (Calcined, one liang each) Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gancao) (Roasted, half an liang)