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Treats men with Five Exhaustions (Wu Lao), Seven Injuries (Qi Shang), and Six Extremes (Liu Ji). Lower back pain. Difficulty in defecation. Dribbling urination. Abdominal distension with diarrhea and food-induced diarrhea (from *Zisheng Jing*). Acupoint: Zhongwan (CV12, Middle Elixir).

Treats Five Exhaustions leading to emaciation and weakness. Seven Injuries leading to fatigue (*Mingtang Jing* records: Five Exhaustions cause deficiency and fatigue, with emaciated limbs). Acupoint: Zusanli (ST36, Leg Three Li).

Treats Five Exhaustions and Seven Injuries. Acupoint: Jianjing (GB21, Shoulder Well).

Treats Five Exhaustions, Seven Injuries, Warm Malaria (Wen Nue), Malaria (Nue), and Zhu Disease (Zhu Zhu) causing stiffness in the back and shoulders, rigidity of the calves and neck, Wind-Lao (Feng Lao), and Food-Qi disease. Acupoint: Dazhui (GV14, Great Vertebra).

Treats alternating chills and fever, wheezing and chest fullness, deficiency vexation and dry mouth, Transmitted Corpse (Chuan Shi) consumption, Bone-steaming Consumption (Gu Zheng Lao Re), Lung Atrophy (Fei Wei), and cough. Acupoint: Feishu (BL13, Lung Shu).

Treats Deficiency Consumption (Xu Lao) and Lung Atrophy, damage from exhaustion leading to sallow complexion, Five Corpses (Wu Shi) migrating and striking, neck rigidity, and treating damage from exhaustion and deficiency. Acupoint: Pohu (BL42, Soul Mansion).

Treats Five Exhaustions, weakness and deficiency in the four limbs (Qin Chengzu's method). Acupoint: Zhengzheng (SI7, Correctly Upright).

Treats damage from exhaustion and deficiency causing insomnia. Acupoint: [Original text missing].

Treats back pain and body heat. Acupoint: Xiajiaoshu (BL27, Lower Jiao Shu).

For cases of deficiency, fatigue, and extreme cold, moxa Qubian (KI7, Curved Spring).

Treats cold diseases with dark facial complexion, emaciated body, weak limbs, accumulation of Qi in the lower abdomen, Ben Tun (Rushing Pig) with weak abdomen, pain winding around the intestines leading to unconsciousness, and counterflow attack of Qi from the five zang organs. Acupoint: Qihai (CV6, Sea of Qi).

Treats emaciation and deficiency, nocturnal emission during dreams, curing all ailments. Acupoint: Gaohuangshu (BL43, Supreme Humility Shu).

Treats deficiency consumption and emaciation, deafness due to Kidney deficiency, long-standing cold in the Water Organ (Kidney), lower back pain, abdominal distension, hypochondriac fullness radiating to lower abdominal pain, blurred vision, shortness of breath, hematuria, turbid urine with sperm leakage, genital pain, Five Exhaustions and Seven Injuries, extreme debility, spasticity of legs and knees, preference for lying alone, cold feet like ice, heavy head with body heat, tremors, soreness and weakness in waist and limbs, profuse diarrhea, undigested food, edema like water, also treats alternating chills and fever, eating much but remaining emaciated, sallow and dark face, blurred vision, and women suffering from labor caused by long-standing accumulation of cold Qi. Acupoint: Shenshu (BL23, Kidney Shu).

Treats consumption diseases with emaciation and body heat, neck rigidity. Acupoint: Naokong (GB15, Brain Empty).

Treats overeating injury, yellow skin and emaciation. Acupoint: Zhangmen (LR13, Gate of the Rib).

Treats food failing to nourish the flesh. Acupoint: Lougu (SP9, Leaking Valley).

Treats progressive emaciation. Acupoint: Xiawan (CV10, Lower Stomach).

Treats emaciation. Acupoints: Xiawan (CV10), Weishu (BL21, Stomach Shu), Pishu (BL20, Spleen Shu), Xialian (ST38, Lower Li).

Treats chronic consumption weakness, intense heat in palms and soles, frequent night sweats, mental fatigue, cold pain in bone joints, gradual expectoration of pus and blood with cough, muscle wasting and sallow face, reduced appetite and strength.
Have the patient stand upright. Use a stalk of grass. For men, use the left side; for women, the right. Measure from the middle fingertip of the foot, across the sole, upwards to the popliteal crease, and cut the grass at this length. Then, using this grass, measure from the tip of the nose, over the midline of the head, parting the hair to touch the skin, down to the spine. Mark the end of the grass with ink. Take another stalk of grass, have the patient pinch their mouth width, cut it to that width. Place this grass on the ink mark on the spine, fold it flat so both ends meet; the ends indicate the acupoints. Moxa one additional unit (zhuang) for each year of age (e.g., if 30 years old, moxa 31 units; repeatedly effective).

When people suffer from emaciation, it is indeed due to consumption diseases presenting with chills and fever, etc., which should be treated according to symptoms. If someone was naturally thin, they are not ill. But if after illness, they remain emaciated for a long time without returning to normal, it is called "Form Depletion" (Xing Tuo). Similarly, if someone previously plump suddenly becomes emaciated with reduced diet, other diseases may have attacked, making them difficult to save. Early differentiation and application of moxibustion are necessary. However, Zhang Zhongjing discusses the Six Extremes, stating: "Jing Extreme causes lack of Qi and strength, gradually leading to internal deficiency, lack of luster, slight emaciation, and dull eyes." He also states that Bawei Shenqi Wan can treat five of the six extremes and five exhaustions; thus, Bawei Wan should be taken, and acupoints such as Shenshu should especially be moxaed.

Treats abdominal Qi distension radiating to back pain, eating much but becoming emaciated, named "Shi Hui" (Food Obscurity). First select Pishu, then select the costal margin. Acupoints: Pishu (BL20), Dachangshu (BL25, Large Intestine Shu).

Treats fullness in the heart and abdomen of the five zang and six fu organs, lower back and back pain, vomiting and regurgitation of food, alternating chills and fever, difficulty in urination, emaciation and shortness of breath. Acupoint: Sanjiaoshu (BL22, Triple Energizer Shu). Moxa according to age units (Sui Nian Zhuang).

Treats consumption (Lao Zhai). During the Gui Hai night watch when the six spirits gather, remove upper body clothing. Locate the slight depressions on both sides of the lower back, called Yaoyan (Waist Eyes). Stand upright and mark with a pen. Then lie prone on the bed. Moxa seven small moxa cones per point. Relief occurs upon expulsion of parasites via vomiting or defecation. Another method: Moxa Gaohuang and Feishu points, nine units per point. This follows the previous "Parasite Drunken Day" method; moxa more at these points is excellent. Afterward, avoid fried, roasted, raw, cold, and toxic foods for 100 days. Abstain from sexual activity, avoid wind and cold, reduce anger and joy, stay calm and quiet, and recuperate. If still unwell after one month, re-moxa the initial points.

Treats Transmitted Corpse (Chuan Shi), Fu Lian (Connected Corpse), Bone-steaming (Gu Zheng), Pi Mass (Pi Ke), Ghost Qi with aversion to cold, or malaria-like symptoms. Moxa one point above Dazhui. Also moxa two points slightly below on both sides of Dazhui, aligned with vertebral segments, 1.5 cun apart. Also moxa two points under both hypochondria, named Zhangmen. Also moxa two points on both sides of the spine directly behind the heart, 1 cun apart. Total seven points. Moxa separately each day, preferably at noon, seven units each. Gradual recovery after 100 units; disease eradicated after 500 units.

Treats Bone-steaming and Pi Mass. Moxa both Jianjing points (GB21). If the face has a red hue, moxa leads to cure. To locate: Sit, place three fingers in the clavicular gap, press towards the neck tendons; the point is below the middle joint of the middle finger. Shanglian (Upper Li) points are 3 cun below the lateral knee. One source says 3 cun below Zusanli. The lower two points are 3 cun below Shanglian. Stand upright behind the heart on the spine, prop with an object, mark the center, measure back up the spine to find the point. Total seven points. Moxa as before.

Treats Bone-steaming and Pi Mass. Have the patient stand upright on a board. Prop a stick upward against the board, mark the navel level. Measure back to the midpoint of the spine. Have the patient close their mouth and place an object horizontally between the lips, fold it at the center, and mark the moxa point. Also moxa two points in the intercostal space between the nipples. Total six points. Moxa as before. All measurements use the patient's male-left/female-right ring finger middle phalanx flexion as 1 cun. Another method: Measure the middle finger from base to tip for males (left) or females (right). Apply this measurement horizontally on the dorsum of the foot at the shoelace cross-line on the tibial surface; this distance indicates the point.

Treats Transmitted Corpse, nightmare susceptibility. Acupoint: Shangqiu (SP5, Market Mound). Two points, moxa seven units until cured. Lidui (ST45, Corner of the Mouth). Two points, moxa one unit, highly effective. Erjian (LI2, Second Gap). Two points, moxa three units. Total six points. Shangqiu treats excessive sleepiness; Lidui treats lethargy and laziness; Zhangmen treats Ben Tun Qi distension.

Treats twenty types of Bone-steaming. Cui Zhitì said: Bone-steaming is also called Transmitted Corpse, also called Lao Zhai, also called Fu Lian, also called Wugu. Men root in essence; women root in blood. Regardless of age, many contract this disease. To locate the Four Flowers points (Sihua Xue): Measure the mouth width with a rice straw core, cut to that length. Cut paper into squares of that size, punch a small hole in the center. Step on a long rice straw with the foot, measuring from the big toe to the heel crease. Hang this straw from the Adam's apple down the back. Where it stops, place the paper with the hole, dividing it into four flowers, moxaing the four corners of the paper. Another doctor's method: Horizontally measure the mouth width with grass. From the third vertebra below the back, measure straight down to the end of the grass. Mark both ends. Measure the middle finger length. Use this grass to measure horizontally and vertically from the marks, circling four corners with a pen. The circled points are the acupoints; uncircled are not. Moxa 49 units (7x7). Wang Shi said: In thirty days, thirteen were saved; over two hundred recovered overall. It treats not only bone-steaming but also Qi-Wind, miasma, labor, evil pathogens, and masses. The conditions are broad, and survivors cannot be fully recorded. After moxa, take Di Huang Wan for Consumption.

*Weisheng Baojian* records: The son of Vice-Inspector Aotun Zhouqing, aged 23, in March of the Wuyin year of Zhiyuan, suffered fever, muscle wasting, limb fatigue, somnolence, night sweats, loose stools, borborygmus, loss of appetite, loss of taste, reluctance to speak, intermittent symptoms for over half a year. I treated him. Pulse was floating and rapid, weak upon pressure, matching Wang Shuhe's Floating Pulse Song: "Cold accumulates in the zang, heat in the ying; to generate essence, tonify deficiency is key." First moxa Zhongwan (CV12), the hub of the Stomach, to guide clear Qi upward to fatten the collaterals. Then moxa Qihai (CV6) to generate primal Qi, nourish the hundred vessels, and grow muscles. Then moxa Zusanli (ST36), the He-Sea point of the Stomach, to assist Stomach Qi, scatter upper heat downward to the Yin divisions. Use sweet-cold agents to drain fire, assisted by sweet-warm agents to nourish middle Qi. Eat millet and mutton to consolidate Stomach Qi. Advise caution in speech, moderation in diet, restraining anger, and blocking desires. Disease qi decreased daily; within months, Qi recovered. Two years later, weight doubled. Someone asked: Worldly doctors use bitter-cold agents for deficiency consumption; you use sweet-cold medicine and mutton for fever, which people usually avoid. Please explain. I said: *Neijing* states: "For Fire dominance, drain with sweet." *Zangqi Fashi Lun* says: "The Heart dislikes flaccidity; quickly eat sour to astringe, sweet to drain." Draining heat and tonifying Qi requires sweet-cold. If bitter-cold is used to drain Earth, the Spleen Earth becomes weaker, and Fire pathogen stronger. Also: "For insufficient form, warm with Qi; for insufficient essence, tonify with flavor." For labor, warm it; for damage, benefit it. *Shi Ji* states: "Tonification removes weakness," exemplified by Ginseng and Mutton. My master also said: Ginseng tonifies Qi deficiency; Mutton tonifies Blood deficiency. For deficiency-damage diseases, eating mutton is acceptable. The person sighed: Jiegu's learning has its origins.

Treats Five Exhaustions and Seven Injuries, mountain miasma, heaviness in back and shoulders, heart pain with Qi invasion and emaciation, food failing to nourish flesh, chills and fever from evil Qi, neck rigidity, dark-yellow face, mental fatigue, chronic dribbling, accumulated masses and Ghost Qi, Transmitted Corpse and Bone-steaming. Acupoint: Weishu (BL21). Two points, moxa seven units, or up to 100 units depending on severity. Also Shenshu (BL23), two points, moxa 49 units; for deep disease, moxa seven units daily up to 100 units. Also Zhangmen (LR13), two points, moxa seven units, gradually increasing to 49 units daily, same method. Also Taichong (LR3), two points, moxa five units, gradually increasing daily as before.

To locate Gaohuang (BL43): Have patient sit, bend back, extend arms touching knees, thumb reaching knee. Prop elbow with object to prevent movement. Massage from upper angle of scapula to lower head. There are four ribs and three spaces in between; moxa the middle. Inside the rotating scapula, about the width of a side finger away from the bone, massage the surface of the erector spinae muscle at the intercostal moxa site; sensation pulls to chest and shoulder. Moxa one spot inside each scapula, 500 units, up to 1000. Qi descends like water; if no retained phlegm or old fluid, there will be discharge. Moxa cures all. If critically ill, lie on side, pull arm forward to locate. Or sit upright, extend arm, have someone pull to separate scapular bones; otherwise, scapula covers the point, making it hard to locate. Point is near the fifth thoracic vertebra. Also Ganshu (BL18, Liver Shu), two points, below sixth vertebra, 1.5 cun lateral. Moxa seven units daily, up to 100 for deep disease. Also Shentang (BL44, Spirit Hall), below fifth vertebra, 3 cun lateral in depression. Sit upright to locate. Moxa seven units, up to 49. Total four points among these seven names. If unable to moxa all, prioritize the "tight" ones: Gaohuang, Weishu, Zhangmen, Shenshu, Taichong. If possible, moxa in order, 100 units each, is best. Measurement method: Ignore patient's fat/thin or height. Use male-left/female-right middle finger two transverse creases as 1 cun, known as "Same Body Cun". Moxa best at noon. Moxa on empty stomach early morning damages Qi and causes Blood deficiency. Moxa after evening meal makes pathogen Qi hard to expel. Exception: acute Wind diseases do not follow this rule.