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Treats *Chuan Shi Lao* (a contagious, consumptive chronic deficiency disease) and *Shi Zhu* disease, with symptoms including *Gu Zheng* (bone-steaming fever, a sensation of heat radiating from the bones), dry and blurred vision, dark blue-black complexion, sensation of blockage in the throat, excessive phlegm and nasal discharge with cough, or stabbing pain caused by attacking masses in the hypochondrium, fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, frequent anger and irritability, susceptibility to external pathogens or internal emotional injury, depression and unhappiness, false fright dreams during sleep, seminal emission due to kidney essence insecurity, aggravated aversion to cold following blood loss, stiffness and tension in the shoulders and back, vexing pain in the waist, arms, and joints, weakness in the four limbs, anorexia, yellow-red urine, occasional diarrhea, alternating periods of improvement and worsening. It is suitable to take this medicine.

*Fuzi* (prepared, skin and navel removed), *Huanglian* (stamens removed, each 1 liang), *Chaihu* (sprouts removed), *Baifuzi* (raw), *Danggui* (sliced and dried over fire), *Qinjiao* (each 1 liang), *Xuduan* (each 1 liang), *Ruxiang*, *Ganjiang* (prepared, each 1 fen).

Pulverize the above herbs into an extremely fine powder. First, raise one black hen. Mix 3 liang of sulfur powder into thirty portions, mixing it with rice feed daily for one month, consuming one sheng of hemp seeds daily. Slaughter and prepare the chicken, removing feathers, beak, claws, and intestines, but retaining the heart and liver. Place the aforementioned herb powder inside the chicken's abdomen, securing it tightly with hemp thread. Add one dou of unadulterated wine, and boil the chicken until cooked using moderate heat in a silver stone pot. Remove and discard coarse bones. Grind the chicken meat together with the herb powder. Dry-roast the chicken bones until dry, grind them into powder, and mix them into the mortar. Pound more than a thousand times. Form pills the size of sophora seeds. Take twenty pills per dose, administered with warm wine, once on an empty stomach, once at noon, and once before bed.

For treating *Chuan Shi Lao*, three months of administration leads to recovery; other types of *Lao* diseases are cured after just a few doses.

*Ziheche* (one unit, specifically the placenta of the firstborn child, soaked in rice washing water overnight, washed clean, and dried over fire), *Biejia* (roasted with suet), *Huhuanglian*, *Jiegeng*, *Shaoyao*, *Dahuang*, *Longdancao*, *Huangyaozi*, *Beimu*, *Baigupi Xin* (the heart of the drum skin, roasted with suet), *Zhimu* (each 2 qian 5 fen).

Grind the above herbs into a fine powder. Blend with refined honey to form pills the size of sophora seeds. Coat with *Zhusha* (Cinnabar). Take twenty pills per dose, administered with warm wine on an empty stomach.