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Treatment of malaria: Take four liang of fresh ginger, retain the skin, crush to extract juice, leave exposed to the night air until dawn, and take cold on an empty stomach.

Another prescription: Take one dog fly, remove wings and legs, wrap in wax into a pill. On the day of onset, swallow with cold wine.

Another prescription: Take the root of Achyranthes bidentata (Niuxi), boil in water, and take as needed.

Another prescription, named "Jie Nue Dan" (Malaria-Cutting Pill): On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, take single-clove garlic, quantity unrestricted, pound into a paste, add high-quality red lead oxide (Huangdan) and pound again until uniformly mixed with appropriate moisture. Form pills the size of longan seeds, dry in the sun, and store. After the malaria has attacked two or three times, on the day of the next attack at cockcrow time, slightly crush one pill, take well-water drawn early in the morning, face east, and swallow; the attack will cease and not recur.

Another prescription: Take five qian each of Realgar (Xionghuang), Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma (Renshen), and Massamedica Fermentata (Shenqu). Grind these three ingredients into powder. At noon on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, mix with seven tips of palm fiber to form pills the size of red beans. Before the disease manifests, face east and take seven pills, delivered with unrooted water (e.g., rainwater).

Treatment for fever with dry mouth and reddish urine: Crush sugarcane to extract juice and drink.

Another prescription: Take three chicken eggs and one he of honey, mix and consume.

Another prescription: Take five he of Gastrodia elata seeds (Tianmazǐ), grind finely, add two sheng of water, boil down to half volume, and take. Four or five doses will result in recovery.

Another prescription: For treatment of irritability, heat, and insomnia, cook wheat into rice and eat.

Another prescription: For treatment of irritability and oppression, crush wild safflower seedlings and roots to extract juice and drink, or decoct in water and take.

Another prescription: Crush Pueraria lobata root (Gegen) to extract juice and drink; this also treats heart oppression caused by febrile diseases in pregnant women.

Another prescription: Take half sheng of soybeans (Dadou), add two sheng of water, boil to a thick decoction, and take after meals.

Treatment for jaundice, black jaundice, alcoholic jaundice, and food-stagnation jaundice: Take eight liang of lard (Zhuzhi) and a piece of tangled hair the size of a chicken egg. Boil together, strain out the hair before taking, divide into two doses; the pathogen exits via urination.

Another prescription: For treatment of jaundice, burn loofah fruit including seeds to ash, grind into powder. If the disease originated from facial exposure, deliver with noodle soup; if from alcohol consumption, deliver with wine. Several doses can cure it.

Another prescription: For treatment of black jaundice, urgently use one jin of Trichosanthes kirilowii root (Tugua gen), crush and extract juice, take warm. Yellow fluid should exit via urination; if not discharged, continue taking.

Another prescription: For treatment of generalized jaundice, bake dried loofah pedicels (Sigua di) to 3–4 qian, grind into fine powder. Blow a small amount into the nostrils once daily for three consecutive days. If ineffective, decoct Scutellaria baicalensis root (Huangqin) powder and take five qian with the decoction.

Another prescription: For treatment of jaundice where the body and eyes are yellow like gold, take one handful of peach tree roots growing towards the east, cut into pieces the thickness of chopsticks, add one bowl of water, decoct to half a bowl, and take warm on an empty stomach. Within three days, the jaundice will gradually dissipate. Avoid pork, fish, meat, and bran/wheat products.

Another prescription: For treatment of food-labor jaundice, yellow eyes, and yellow body, take any amount of Vitriol (Zaofan), place in a clay pot, roast over charcoal until red-hot, quench with rice vinegar, grind into powder, and bind with jujube flesh to form pills the size of maple seeds. Take 20–30 pills per dose, delivered with ginger tea after meals. Alternatively, for treating yellow eyes, place Xanthium sibiricum seeds (Cangerzi) on the tongue to induce salivation.

Another prescription: For treatment of alcoholic jaundice, take seven river snails, raise in water to clean soil, crush, separate the head/snail meat, cut finely, soak in hot wine, and take. Alternatively, boil and take the snails.

For treatment of yellowing and weakness caused by long-term tea drinking and consumption of dry tea leaves: Remove pits from Sichuan pepper (Huajiao), grind into powder, bind with paste to form pills the size of maple seeds, deliver with tea water, ten pills per dose.

Another prescription: Grind bitter herbs (Kucǎo) into powder, mix with roasted sesame seeds, and take dry as needed.