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To treat various diseases, use a single herb: *Clematis chinensis* (Weilingxian). Harvest the roots in winter months corresponding to Bing-Ding and Wu-Ji days, dry them in the shade for over a month, crush and sieve into powder. Mix with warm wine and administer two *qianbi* (an ancient unit of measurement) orally. Those who take it will not suffer from epidemics in summer, nor malaria and dysentery in autumn. It promotes the free flow of the Five Viscera, expels various wind pathogens, treats abdominal masses (*Zhengjia Jiju*), fixed lumps (*Pi Qi Kuai*), phlegm and saliva, chronic pus in the bladder, cough and asthma with swelling, numbness and stiffness of limbs, pain in the waist and umbilicus, vitiligo, jaundice, sores, tinea, scabies, leprosy, dizziness, vertigo, aversion to cold with high fever, deficiency injuries, and decay. It is highly effective for all these diseases. Its nature is very gentle and does not conflict with other herbs. The only contraindication is tea; one may decoct licorice root (*Gancao*) and garden balsam seed (*Zhizi*) as a substitute beverage. It is best prepared in a quiet place where no water sounds are heard, and compounded in a clean room.

Another prescription: Use peach gum (*Taojiao*) in any amount. Soak it in ash juice from mulberry branches overnight. Dry it in the sun, grind into powder, and make pills with refined honey the size of paulownia seeds. Take five to seven pills per dose.

Another prescription: Use halite (*Shizhongru*), grind and sift into fine powder. Administer with wine or spring water. After taking it for 100 days, vision and hearing will become clear. Long-term use eliminates hundred diseases, provides resistance to cold and heat, and suppresses hunger.

Another prescription: Use one *jin* of good alum (*Fanshi*). Soak in one *dou* two *sheng* of water overnight until dissolved. Collect the liquid in a copper vessel, place on charcoal fire, and wait for it to solidify.

Another prescription: Grind good alum into powder, place it in a new mulberry wood container, cover with a new mulberry plate for three nights. The alum will sublimate and adhere to the plate. Collect it, process into powder... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Use three *jin* of alum. Add five *dou* of water and boil in a copper vessel until liquefied. Filter through silk cloth three times to remove sand, stones, grass, and soil. Add three *liang* of pork fat... [Text incomplete].

To treat all deficiency-cold conditions in humans, eliminate hundred diseases, generate spirit, strengthen memory, benefit ears and eyes, lighten the body, and prolong life: Use white poria (*Baifuling*), peel off the skin, soak in wine for fifteen days... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Dry *Polygonatum sibiricum* (Huangjing) in the shade, grind into powder. Mix with clean water and take orally daily, in any desired amount. One year of use can reverse aging.

Another prescription: Use three *he* of Euryale seed (Jitou Shi/Shiqian). Boil thoroughly, remove shells, grind into a paste. Add one *he* of japonica rice (*Jingmi*) and cook into porridge. Eat on an empty stomach. Frequent consumption greatly benefits essence and qi.

Another prescription: Collect mulberry fruits (*Sangshenzi*) when ripe, dry in the sun, grind into powder. Make pills with refined honey the size of paulownia seeds. Take forty to fifty pills with wine on an empty stomach. Long-term use is beneficial.

Another prescription: Soak one *jin* of Dodder seed (*Tusizi*) in wine for ten days. Wash with water, dry by baking, and grind into powder. Process half a *jin* of Eucommia bark (*Duzhong*) with honey until yellow, then crush. Mix with powder of Dioscorea (*Shuyu*) boiled in wine... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Roast walnuts (*Hetao*) until cooked, remove shell and membrane. Mix with equal parts Psoralea fruit (*Poguozhi/Buguzhi*). Grind into powder, make pills with refined honey the size of paulownia seeds. Take thirty pills with wine on an empty stomach to strongly tonify the lower jiao... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Boil Jin dates (*Jinzao*), remove skin and pits. Mix with cinnamon heart (*Guixin*), white melon kernel (*Baiguaren*), and pine tree bark. Grind together into powder, make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take twenty to thirty pills per dose... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Use three *sheng* of sesame (*Huma*). Steam until cooked, dry in the sun, grind into powder. Mix with three *jin* of honey, simmer appropriately, and form pills. Regular consumption harmonizes the five viscera and moistens lung qi.

Another prescription: Mix equal parts Perilla seed (*Zisuzi*), Galangal (*Gaoliangjiang*), and tangerine peel (*Chenpi*). Grind into powder, make pills with refined honey the size of paulownia seeds. Take ten to twenty pills on an empty stomach to promote fleshiness and complexion... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Use one *sheng* of dried lotus seed (*Lianrou*). Stir-fry slowly until crisp, grind and sift into powder. Take four *liang* of licorice root (*Fengcao*), peel, stir-fry until scorched, grind into powder. Mix evenly. Take mixed with water early every morning... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Remove skin and heart of lotus seed. Peel white poria (*Fuling*), grind finely. Rinse with water to remove starch... [Text incomplete]. Mix each with good wine, steam, grind finely again. Make pills with refined honey the size of a bullet... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Use two *jin* of white poria (*Baifuling*), one *jin* of Polygonum multiflorum (*Heshouwu*, processed without copper/iron), one *liang* of Sichuan pepper (*Chuanjiao*, de-veined and stir-fried), and four *liang* of licorice root (*Gancao*, roasted). All should be ground into powder, refined... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Use three *jin* of bull marrow (*Jianniu Sui*) and refined honey. Fifty walnuts (*Hetao*), de-membraned. Four *liang* each of apricot kernel (*Xingren*, de-skin and de-seed), ginseng (*Renshen*), and schisandra berry (*Wuweizi*, one *liang*)... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Use Goji berry seedling, leaf, bark, and fruit (Spring: Hejing Miao; Summer:quelao Ye; Autumn: Gouqi Zi; Winter: Digupi, harvested according to season). Honey... [Text incomplete]. Do not let it get wet. Use solar and lunar energy to dry/decoct until dry, take out, grind into powder, mix with refined honey to make pills the size of bullets. Take one pill per dose, chew carefully, swallow with warm wine on an empty stomach.

After two years, one will feel warm in winter and cool in summer; hundred diseases will be eliminated, immune to cold and heat. If suffering from blindness, taking this for two years will restore vision to normal. If suffering from leprosy (*Dafeng Ji*), taking this for one year will restore body luster and strength, doubling spirit.

Another prescription: In spring on Jia/Yi days, harvest Goji leaves; in summer on Bing/Ding days, harvest flowers; in autumn on Geng/Xin days, harvest fruits; in winter on Ren/Gui days, harvest root bark. Grind all into fine powder, mix with mulberry juice... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Use four *jin* of Atractylodes (*Cangzhu*). Soak in rice wash water until soft. Scrape off skin with a bamboo knife, slice. For one *jin*, stir-fry with three *liang* of pepper until yellow, remove pepper. For another *jin*, use salt... [Text incomplete]. Scrape... Cover with cloth... Use... Wait... Note... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Use pine and cypress. Usually in March/April, collect fresh pine needles about three to four inches long, along with flower buds. Dry in shade, grind into powder. Take cypress leaves from deep... [Text incomplete]. Before sunrise... To grow... Brightness... However... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Soak Atractylodes (*Cangzhu*) in wine, bake dry, five *liang*. De-vein Sichuan pepper (*Chuanjiao*) and remove closed-mouth ones, stir-fry, obtain four *liang* of powder. White poria (*Baifuling*), peeled, three *liang*. Prepared Aconite (*Chuanwu*)... Take per dose... Strengthen... People... Rise... No... Or... Effective... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Use four *liang* of Atractylodes (*Cangzhu*). One *liang* soaked in wine, one *liang* in vinegar, one *liang* in rice wash, one *liang* in salt water, each soaked overnight. Epimedium (*Luhuba*), Psoralea (*Poguozhi*)... Calcined pangolin scales (*Shanjia*) with butter, earthworms (*Dilong*) cleaned of soil, peeled poria (*Fuling*), goji berries (*Gouqizi*), achyranthes (*Niuxi*) soaked in wine overnight, each three *qian*. Dry and grind into powder. Use non-ashy wine to make paste and form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take thirty to fifty pills per dose, send down with warm wine; salt water is also acceptable. Take on an empty stomach, press with dry food, walk one hundred steps to facilitate drug circulation. Take twice daily. This medicine does not use mineral drugs, its nature is not drying or hot, does not damage the five viscera. It relies entirely on proper processing to achieve the balance of water and fire, surpassing the effects of cinnabar calcination. It opens the spleen and stomach, promoting appetite. Since the spleen belongs to Earth and is the master of the five elements, if nutrition and care are neglected, all five viscera become deficient, and hundred diseases arise from this. This medicine benefits essence and marrow, tonifies the kidney meridian, secures primordial yang, lightens the waist and legs, calms the five viscera, unblocks the five orifices, makes ears and eyes bright, beautifies the face, blackens hair and temples, strengthens teeth. Even in old age, one can write small characters. It prolongs life and health. It is an excellent formula of immortals, providing mild tonification with great efficacy.

Another prescription: Peel white poria (*Baifuling*), remove heart of polygala root (*Yuanzhi*), remove coarse bark of cassia twig (*Guangui*), soak achyranthes (*Niuxi*) in wine for three days, steam large jujubes (*Dazao*), steam polygonatum (*Huangjing*), each three *liang*. Snake... Dried... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Use half a *liang* each of angelica dahurica (*Baizhi*), cinnamon heart (*Guixin*), chrysanthemum (*Ganju*), black sesame (*Jushengzi*), white poria (*Baifuling*), and inula flower (*Xuanjinhua*). Biota orientalis seed (*Bichengqie*), achyranthes (*Niuxi*) soaked in wine, raspberry (*Fupenzi*)... Monthly onset... Seven injuries... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Use five *qian* of costus root (*Muxiang*), angelica sinensis (*Danggui*), calcined tiger bone (*Hugu*), duzhong stir-fried to remove fibers (*Duzhong*), cistanche (*Roucongrou*) soaked in wine, epimedium (*Luhuba*) stir-fried, schisandra (*Wuweizi*), angelica dahurica (*Baizhi*)... Insufficiency... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Common toothpaste: Green salt (*Qingyan*), asarum (*Xixin*), nardostachys (*Gansong*), dalbergia bean (*Zhuyazaojiao*), sanrae (*Sanshan*), equisetum (*Muzei*), sophora angle (*Huaijiaozi*), gypsum (*Shigao*), each one *qian*. Decoct... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Dalbergia bean (*Zhuyazaojiao*) and ginger (*Shengjiang*), western cimicifuga (*Xiguo Shengma*), rehmannia (*Dihuang*), lawsonia (*Mulu*), echinochloa (*Hanlian*), sophora angle (*Huaijiaozi*), asarum (*Xixin*), lotus petiole base (*Hedi*), in appropriate proportions... Green salt... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Alas, beard and temples white as frost. To turn black, there is a special method. No need for toothpaste or hair dye; combine five flavors to match yin and yang. Red kaolin (*Chishizhi*) and Chuan... Ten *sheng* of wine... One *liang*... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Dry shampoo: Mix equal parts angelica dahurica (*Xiangbaizhi*), lingzhi fragrant (*Linglingxiang*), nardostachys (*Gansong*), and talc (*Huashi*) into powder. Sprinkle into hair and comb.