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For treating deficiency consumptive disease (Xu Lao), stuff yellow glutinous rice into a pig's stomach, steam until cooked, pound into pills, and take with plain water. This also treats pediatric gan accumulation (Gan Ji), ascariasis, and jaundice.

Another prescription: Finely cut Artemisia annua Qinghao, decoct with three bowls of water and five bowls of child's urine until one and a half bowls remain. Strain the dregs and simmer to a paste. Mix with licorice root powder to form pills the size of sophora seeds. Swallow twenty pills on an empty stomach with warm wine.

Another prescription: Take half a sheng of goji leaf, finely cut, and cook with two he of japonica rice in a clay vessel to make porridge. Season with the five flavors and eat.

Another prescription: Take lotus seeds peeled and with the plumule retained, in any quantity. Soak in wine overnight, place inside a pig's stomach, and boil in water until dry. Remove, chop, bake until dry, and grind into powder. Form pills with wine paste, the size of a chestnut. Take 50-70 pills per dose before meals with warm wine.

Another prescription: Store two cups of child's urine and two cups of unadulterated wine in a clay bottle. Place a pair of whole pig kidneys inside. Seal the bottle mouth with mud. Simmer over low fire from evening to night, stopping at midnight. At the beginning of the fifth watch, heat again. Open the bottle, drink the wine, and eat the kidneys. For severe cases, efficacy is seen within one month. Those who are thin and weak may also take this.

Another prescription: For treating bone-steaming consumptive fever, five types of hemorrhoids, intestinal wind with bleeding, corpse-transmission qi consumption, and heart pain caused by insect bites, use eel. Boil and eat with wine, vinegar, and five flavors.

To treat various forms of corpse-transmission qi consumption, kill parasites, and remove toxins, use two jin of Sichuan pepper. Select and remove seeds and closed pods, stir-fry until sweat appears, grind into powder, and form pills with wine paste, the size of sophora seeds. Take fifty pills on an empty stomach. Effective.

Another prescription: Decoct and drink the juice from a dead person's pillow.

To treat spontaneous sweating and night sweats, apply mulberry gall powder mixed with saliva to fill the umbilicus, and bind securely. Sweating stops after one night.

Another prescription: Stir-float wheat until fine powder. Take two qian per dose with rice drink.

Another prescription: Use aged rice in any quantity, stir-fry with bran until yellow, grind into fine powder, and take with rice drink at any time. Alternatively, dip fried pork in it and eat.

To treat yang collapse syndrome, characterized by cold limbs after severe vomiting or diarrhea, exhaustion of primordial qi, unconsciousness; or after recovery from cold damage, engaging in sexual intercourse leading to lower abdominal tightness and pain, retraction of the external genitalia, black complexion, panting, and cold sweat, which leads to death if not rescued immediately. Use thirty-seven scallion whites with roots, finely cut, and pounded in a mortar. Add two bowls of wine, boil down to one bowl, divide into three doses, and administer via gavage. Yang qi will return.

Another prescription: Use two liang of fresh ginger, chopped, decocted in wine and taken. Additionally, stir-fry scallion whites or apply salt-warmed compresses to the Qihai acupoint below the umbilicus, ensuring the area does not become cold.