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To treat cold qi accumulation in various zang and fu organs, irritability and fullness, caused by consuming hot food, poisoning by gu (a traditional concept of venomous parasites or toxins), eating raw meat, or gu eggs from water hatching into worms and snakes within the abdomen; also for retention of cold fluids and undigested food due to fish and turtles; postpartum masses (zhijia) in women, leukorrhea and myriad diseases, obstruction of yin and yang qi, incontinence of urine and feces, severe trauma from falls, intermingling of cold and heat pathogens, scorched and black lips and mouth, emaciation, lethargy with poor appetite, frequent nightmares, residual conditions after childbirth and lactation, heat in the inner thighs, urgency and knotting in the heart and abdomen, pain radiating to the center of the yin region.

Tugua Gen (Root of Trichosanthes kirilowii, powdered) Jiegeng (Radix Platycodonis, powdered, each half sheng) Dahuang (Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, one jin, steamed with two sheng of rice then dried) Xingren (Semen Pruni Armeniacae, one sheng)

Grind the above four herbs into powder, mix with honey to form pills the size of wutong seeds. Take three pills with warm wine on an empty stomach, three times a day. If ineffective, increase the dose gradually until therapeutic effect is achieved.

Formula for treating indigestion of any food

Burn remaining similar food items into powder, take one fangcun bi (a measure approx. 1 cubic inch) with wine. Vomiting out the retained food will lead to recovery. For those ill from undigested peaches, if fresh peaches are unavailable, burn dry peaches found near the tree and ingest them; immediate vomiting occurs, expelling the pathogen, which is very effective.

Formula for sudden indigestion threatening to form zhiji (accumulations)

Boil mugwort juice until thick like maltose syrup, take half a sheng in one dose. Stimulate vomiting to expel retained food; this is miraculous (from *Jingu Luyuan Fang*: bundle white mugwort five chi around, take a large handful of Coix Root Radix, boil these two ingredients).

Formula for abdominal masses formed by eating fish/meat and various toxic vapors

Five sheng of dog feces, burned to ash, wrapped in silk, soaked in one dou of wine for two nights. Filter to obtain clear liquid, divide into ten doses, take three times a day, finish within three days. The accumulated mass will be expelled along with the ingested matter.

Formula for mixed poisoning, stagnant blood, solid food retention not digesting, and hard painful abdomen

Boil one sheng of white salt in three sheng of water until dissolved. Divide into three doses. Stimulate vomiting to expel food; also treats acute zhengji.

Formula for hard zhengji, a mass the size of a cup under the heart, inability to eat, abdominal fullness and绞痛 (cramping pain) upon eating

Tinglizi (Semen Lepidii seu Descurainiae) Dahuang (Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, each two liang) Zeqi (Herba Euphorbiae Helioscopiae, four liang)

Grind the three herbs into powder. Separately grind Tinglizi into a paste. Add the other two powders and pound five hundred times. Add honey and pound another thousand times. Take five pills the size of wutong seeds. Increase dose if necessary, three times a day.

Formula for lower abdomen hard and enlarged like a plate, chest distension, indigestion, and emaciated women

Take one fangcun bi of cinder (burnt hair) with warm water, twice a day. Also moxa the rib end acupoints.

Another formula: Drink one fangcun bi of fine Qu (fermented grain) powder, three times a day until cured. Also moxa Sanjiaoshu (BL22), with moxa cone count based on age.

Formula for Fuliang Qi (Fuliang syndrome/qi)

Collect urine from a white horse in a copper vessel. Take one sheng every morning.

Formula for Zhengjia (masses)

Decoct the white bark of the Oak tree (Hu Shu Bai Pi) until it can be formed into pills. Ingest them until the disease moves or reduces downward.

Formula for treating zhengjie masses and "Zhao" disease resembling claws or sun/moon shapes, located left or right of the umbilicus, above or below, or under the hypochondrium like a turtle, or at the heart area box-sized with limbs. Treatment method: First needle the foot, then apply moxibustion with Sichuan pepper.

Take a new basin holding one dou, drill 120 holes in the bottom. Place three he of Sichuan pepper on the holes, cover with a layer of paper, add one sheng of cold ash, then half a sheng of hot ash, and finally one jin of red-hot charcoal on top. After one meal's time, the basin bottom is thoroughly heated. Place it over the lesion. Initially lay one layer of felt, then place the hot basin. As it gets hotter, add layers up to three. If too hot to bear, pause briefly, consume a bite of frozen beverage, then resume heating. Stop when symptoms reduce by two fen. Do not apply heat for three days. By the seventh day, expect complete cure. Then nourish yourself with good food. If slightly uncured, take Luxu Wan (formula in Volume 16).

Formula for abdominal accumulations

One sheng of Tinglizi (roasted), soaked in five sheng of wine for seven days. Take three he per dose, three times a day.

Formula for Snake Zheng (parasitic condition)

Cut tail hairs of a white horse into five-fen lengths. Take one fangcun bi with wine; larger parasites will exit. Take another fangcun bi of two-fen length; medium ones will exit. Take another fangcun bi of three-fen length; small ones will exit again. Do not take all at once as it may cause death. (Note: Some texts read "horse hair" instead of "tail").