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Almond (one dou, remove the skin and tips, retain those with two kernels; grind with one dou of water and squeeze to extract juice) Coarse and plump Rehmanniae Radix (ten jin, cook until soft, pound thoroughly, and squeeze to extract one dou of juice) Sesame seeds (one dou, powder them, grind with one dou of water, and squeeze to extract juice)
Combine the juices of these three ingredients to total three dou. Add one jin of yeast starter and three dou of rice. Brew as in making ordinary wine. When fully matured in flavor, remove from the vessel and store in a jar. The butter/oil will congeal on top. Each time for administration, take hot wine to mix with it, allowing the butter/oil to melt completely (this method is superior).

Method for Zhenren (True Person) to consume Apricot Pill, Xuan Yin Gan, and practice Daoist Grain Avoidance to replace rice:
Japonica Oryzae Semen (Three dou, clean and wash away sand, steam into rice, dry in the sun, and sift through fine gauze) Almonds (Three dou, remove tips and non-double-kernel ones, dry in the sun, pound, grind with five sheng of water, squeeze to extract juice until flavor is exhausted)
Take the above two ingredients. First decoct the almond juice until it resembles thin paste. Place in a copper vessel, add Japonica Oryzae Semen flour like cooking thin porridge, and cook over fire. Stir continuously without stopping from morning until late. When all moisture has evaporated, remove it, dry in the shade, and store in paper. To use, place a piece of medicine the size of a chicken egg into two sheng of warm water, let it sit for the duration of one meal. Eat as much as desired until satisfied.

For Asparagi Rhizoma (Tian Dong), if the sprouts grow into vines with hooks and thorns, this indicates authentic harvested material. Boil it in vinegar-water solution, remove dampness, peel, and remove the heart/core. Dry in the sun, pound, and sieve. Mix with half water and half honey, then dry again. Pound into powder, mix with half water and half honey, and dry again. Take one pill to hold in the mouth. Swallow when saliva is produced. Hold it constantly without interruption, even while walking. Over time, one can naturally avoid grains. Prohibit all food except barley.

When harvesting Polygonati Rhizoma (Huang Jing), remove the sprouts and lower nodes. Peel and take only one node. Increase by one node every two days. Take four nodes in ten days, eight nodes in twenty days. Consume on an empty stomach. Do not rinse the mouth after consumption. After one hundred days, regulate diet. After two hundred days, diseases are eliminated. After two years, the four limbs are harmonized. Avoid alcohol, meat, the "Five Pungent Spices," and butter/oil. Consume Japonica Oryzae Semen, millet gruel, and bland food. Nothing else should enter the mouth. When practicing this regimen in uninhabited mountain areas, lie down while eating, do not sit. Sitting causes qi to rise to the head, leading to headache. Rise only after one meal's time has passed after consumption, then there is no fear.
When consuming Black Sesame (Wu Ma), avoid dates, millet, and walnuts. Consume plain flour. Avoid everything else. For travel, carrying loads, labor, and long journeys, sit upright for three hundred days, and all diseases will be eliminated. Within seven days, it is suitable to frequently encounter foul odors; afterwards, one will no longer fear them. (This is to prevent harming others.)

Formula for Raphani Semens (Wu Jing Zi) to treat hundreds of diseases:
Raphani Semen (One dou four sheng) Allii Macrostemonis Bulbus (Xie Bai) (Ten liang)
Boil Raphani Semen, dry it, pound, sieve, and chop. Mix with Allii Macrostemonis Bulbus, steam for half a day, then pound 1,130 times. Shape into cakes, each weighing eight liang. To begin grain avoidance, eat first, then take the medicine. After three days, make three cakes per day the standard routine. Continue preparing and eating them; do not let the body become entirely deprived of nourishment.