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Treatment for preventing warts on hands and feet (from *Zisheng Jing*). Make moxa cones the size of the wart. Apply three moxibustion sessions (*zhuang*) to remove it.

Treatment for growing warts
*Zisheng Jing* states: Although warts can be treated with moxibustion, *Qianjin Fang* also mentions using almonds burned until black, ground into powder, and applied with bone splints; or mixing pine and cypress seeds for application. Some fall off after one night. Others use saliva from a cow's mouth, applied multiple times until they fall off naturally. Another method involves soaking calcined stone (*duanshi*) in vinegar for six to seven days, then dripping the juice onto the wart, causing small warts to fall off. Using lard to rub the affected area until slight bleeding occurs leads to recovery, which is miraculous and unsurpassed. One need not strictly adhere to moxibustion.

Treatment method: Apply three moxibustion sessions above the tip of the little toe on the sole. Recovery is indicated by discharge from areas soaked in wine, rice, meat, or vegetables, all emerging from the moxibustion sore.

Treating Gu Poison (蛊毒). Acupoint: Juque (CV14).

Indicated for sudden stiffness and collapse upon rising, aversion to wind and cold (from *Zisheng Jing*). Acupoints: Baihui (GV20), Yuzhen (GV15).

Indicated for temporary stiffness and collapse upon rising. Acupoints: Tongtian (BL31), Luoque (BL8).

Indicated for stiffness and collapse unable to stand for long, irritability and fullness, abdominal urgency, restlessness in bed. Acupoint: Dazhu (BL11).

Indicated for sudden Shijue (尸厥 - Corpse-like coma) with loss of consciousness but pulse remaining normal. Acupoints: Yinbai (SP1), Dadun (LR1).

Indicated for sudden death due to Shijue. Acupoint: Jinmen (BL63).

Indicated for恍惚 (trance-like) Shijue with irritability and pain. Acupoints: Zhongji (CV3), Puxen (BL60).

Indicated for pathogenic factors lodging in the collaterals of Hand Shaoyin, Hand Taiyin, Foot Shaoyin, Foot Taiyin, and Foot Yangming Gallbladder. These five collaterals converge in the ear and connect to the left corner of the head. When all five are exhausted, the body's pulses beat normally, but the person is unconscious, resembling a corpse. Needle the medial side of the big toe, at a distance from the nail edge like the width of a leek leaf. Then needle the center of the foot. Then take one session on the nail of the middle toe. Then take the medial side of the hand big toe, at a distance from the nail like a leek leaf. Then needle the Heart Pericardium and the end of the Hand Shaoyin sharp bone, one session each. Indicated for blowing into both ears with a bamboo tube for immediate recovery. If not recovered, pull a square inch of hair from the left corner of the head, burn it to ash, and drink with a cup of pure wine. If unable to drink, force-feed; recovery is immediate.

Indicated for Jue Ni (厥逆 - Rebellious Qi/Cold limbs), sudden cyanosis of feet, stabbing pain, abdomen feeling like being cut by a knife, difficult defecation, irritability, mania seeing ghosts, excessive laughter. Acupoint: Fenglong (ST40).

Indicated for sudden attack by evil qi, Feishi (Flying Corpse), chest and hypochondriac fullness, frequent upward rushing to the heart and chest, vomiting, wheezing, dry throat, hypochondriac pain, stabbing pain in the sides. Needle 0.5 cun, apply fifty moxibustion sessions. Located in the fourth intercostal space under the armpit, directly opposite two cun behind the nipple, found by raising the arm (commonly known as Zhushi).

Indicated for aversion to wind-evil qi Dunshi (Lurking Corpse) with blood stasis inside. Zhongfu (LU1) needle 0.5 cun, apply thirty moxibustion sessions. Also said to be fifty sessions. This method is miraculous.

Indicated for sudden attack by evil wind-qi, Feishi, Evil Zhu (Infectious Corpse), ghostly speech, Dunshi. Acupoint: Tianfu (LU3).

Treating sudden Shijue with loss of consciousness and cold feet that cannot warm up. Acupoint: Yinbai (SP1).

Treating trance-like Shijue with loss of consciousness. Acupoint: Zhongji (CV3).

Treating vigorous Shijue resembling death. Acupoint: Dadun (LR1).

Treating Shijue resembling Zhong'e (Sudden Evil Attack), Huoluan (Cholera-like disorder), epilepsy, mania seeing ghosts. Acupoint: Puxen (BL60).

Treating Shijue with locked jaw and absent breath, vigorous like Zhong'e, abdominal distension, Shijue resembling death with loss of consciousness. Acupoint: Lidui (ST45).

Treating epilepsy, Shijue, sudden hernia. Acupoint: Jinmen (BL63).

Treating axillary swelling, loss of spirit, fever, Feishi, Dunzhu, flaccidity and numbness. Acupoint: Weiyang (BL39).

Treating Shijue moving through meridians, pain connecting chest and back. Acupoint: Hunmen (BL47).

Treating epilepsy and Shijue, Huoluan, Ma Xian (Horse Epilepsy). Acupoint: Puxen (BL60).

Treating sudden attack by evil ghost Zhu, inability to sleep peacefully. Acupoint: Tianfu (LU3).

Treating Shijue. Acupoints: Cuanzhu (BL2), Heliao (SI19).

Generally, if Shijue results in death but the pulse beats normally, this is due to Yang meridians sinking and Yin meridians struggling upward, causing Qi closure. Needle Baihui (GV20) to a depth of 0.3 cun using the tonification method. Moxa-warm both hands and both hypochondria. Also, take soot from the chimney stove, size of a pill, mix with water and drink. Also, needle the tip of the middle toe, removing nail width like a leek leaf. Also, needle the medial side under the big toenail, 0.3 cun from the nail. One version says apply one hundred sessions to Baihui.

Treating sudden Zhong'e. Acupoint: Shuigou (GV26).

The Five Corpses are: Feishi (Flying Corpse), Dunshi (Lurking Corpse), Fengshi (Wind Corpse), Chen Shi (Sunken Corpse), and Shizhu (Corpse Transmission). Now, one formula treats all. Symptoms include urgent abdominal pain and distension, Qi rushing up to the heart and chest, attacking both hypochondria, or masses bulging up, or pulling pain in the waist and back. Treatment: Moxibustion three cun behind the nipple, left for men and right for women, fourteen sessions. If ineffective, increase sessions until cured. Also, seven sessions on the tips of both thumb fingers. Also, sixty sessions three cun below the heart. Also, one cun below the nipple, increasing sessions based on the side of the illness. Also, measure the distance between the patient's nipples with a thin string, cut it in half, bend it, and measure outward from the nipple to align with the rib gap. Apply three or seven sessions, left for men and right for women.

Treating sudden Zhu Wu attacking the heart and chest. Moxibustion on the seventh thoracic vertebra, sessions according to age. Also, three sessions one cun below the heart. Also, at the elbow crease, sessions according to age.

Treating Five Poisons Zhu, inability to eat, various diseases. Moxibustion three cun below the heart, ten sessions on the stomach cavity.

Treating Water Zhu, spitting water. The classics state: Lung attacks Kidney after eating, causing water spitting. Moxibustion on Feishu (BL13). Also, Sanyinjiao (SP6). Also, Qimen (LR14). Drain Lung, Tonify Kidney, sessions according to age.

Treating all Zhu diseases regardless of new or old, and treating various Qi disorders, miraculous. First lie supine, moxibustion three cun obliquely down from the sides of both nipples, in the third intercostal space, sessions according to age, up to three hundred sessions. Also known as Zhushi.

Treating Ghost and Spirit Evil. Acupoint: Jianshi (PC5).

Treating sudden death from Ghost and Spirit Evil. Fourteen sessions in the first finger space below the scrotum.

Wang Shi said: A noblewoman died suddenly postpartum. Her mother was called to arrange funeral affairs. Upon arrival, she moxaed Huiyin (CV1) and Sanyinjiao (SP6), several sessions each, and the patient revived. She was the daughter of a famous doctor.

Treating drowning, recoverable even after one night. Undress the deceased, moxa the umbilicus for revival. Apply fourteen sessions in the second intercostal space at the lateral costal margin. Also, seven sessions on Renzhong (GV26) below the nose.

Also, moxa one cun below the scrotum at the lower part, one hundred sessions. For women, moxa between the two nipples. After a long time, press Renzhong with fingernails, then needle Renzhong; when the teeth clench, the patient rises. This method is entirely passed down from Dr. Wei to Bian Que, regarding the case of the Prince of Zhao. Zhang Zhongjing also stated: Shijue has a beating pulse but no Qi; Qi blockage causes silent death. Also, moxa Tanzhong (CV17) twenty-eight sessions.

Treating Shijue, needle Baihui (GV20), five cun from the hairline in the midline of the nose, needle 0.3 cun, tonification method. Needle the medial side under the big toenail, 0.3 cun from the nail. Also, needle the top of the middle toenail, 0.3 cun each. Medial side of the big toe, distance from the end like a leek leaf. Also, needle the end of the Sharp Bone of Hand Shaoyin, 0.1 cun each.

Treating Shijue, needle Yuquan (CV15) of the Ren Mai, four cun below the umbilicus, needle 0.3 cun. Next, needle Yinbai (SP1) of the Foot Taiyin Meridian, two acupoints, at the medial end of the big toe, distance from the nail corner like a leek leaf, needle 0.3 cun. Additionally, warm both hypochondria with moxa-warming.

Treating sudden attack of Five Corpses, press the painful spot with four fingertips, moxa the lower boundary of the finger for several sessions. Press Renzhong painfully. Also, press one cun below the heart, increase sessions until recovery.

Treating Shijue, moxa Baihui (GV20) on the head, forty-nine sessions. Also, Qihai (CV6) and Dantian (CV4) below the umbilicus, three hundred sessions. Stop when the body feels warm.

Treating all diseases, Food Zhu, moxa the little finger, sessions according to age, left for men and right for women.

Treating Shijue, point belongs to Dui, moxa three sessions, cone size like a wheat grain.

Treating sudden death, mouth open, eyes staring, and limb flexion (from *Zhouhou Beiji Fang*). Moxa behind the nails of hands and feet, fourteen sessions. Still drink Wudu paste powder. Those containing Croton seed (Badou) are good.

Treating sudden death with limbs not curling and loss of bowel/bladder control. Moxa one cun below the heart, three cun below the umbilicus, three cun above the umbilicus, one hundred sessions each.

Treating Zhong'e (from *Zhouhou Beiji Fang*). Moxa the stomach cavity fifty sessions. Also, place a string horizontally across the mouth as a measure, measure from the umbilicus to four directions, moxa three sessions at each point, ensuring fire starts simultaneously (also moxa below the heart, five sessions).

Treating Shijue, wrap the wrist with a string, left for men and right for women. From the back of the string, measure up to Dazhui (GV14) and down along the spine, moxa the end of the string five sessions. Also, Tanzhong (CV17) fourteen sessions.

Treating sudden attack by evil spirits causing trance and tremors. Moxa Renzhong (GV26) below the nose, and the nails of both big toes. Place the moxa cone half on the nail and half on the flesh, seven sessions each. If not effective, increase to fourteen sessions. Cone size like a sparrow droppings.

Treating Zhong'e with shortness of breath and near death (from *Zhouhou Beiji Fang*). Moxa the聚毛 (hair cluster) behind the nail on both big toes, fourteen sessions each, immediate recovery. If not cured, moxa another fourteen sessions. Previously moxa twenty-one sessions.

Treating rescue from sudden Ke Wu and Zhong'e types. Often contracted outside on roads or gates. Causes abdominal distension, colicky pain, Qi rushing to heart and chest. If not treated immediately, it kills (from *Zhouhou Beiji Fang*). Moxa Renzhong (GV26) below the nose thirty sessions, pressing against the nasal column. Drink one to two sheng of juice extracted from soaking rice in water. If the mouth is locked, force it open.

Treating sudden Ke Wu death and sudden death with staring eyes and limb extension (from *Zhouhou Beiji Fang*). Moxa under the nails of all ten fingers, three sessions each. Also, moxa Renzhong (GV26) below the nose three sessions. Also, Jianjing (GB21) one hundred sessions. Also, Jianshi (PC5) seven sessions. Also, Juque (CV14) one hundred sessions.

Another method: Press Renzhong painfully to wake up. If not waking, roll the hands, moxa the lower Wen Tou, sessions according to age.

Treating sudden death without pulse, and treating Shijue. Needle Jianshi (PC5) for over one hundred breaths. Also, moxa Renzhong (GV26) below the nose. Also, use a warming iron to warm both hypochondria. Also, insert green onion into the ears. Also, moxa the depression below the lip, Chengjiang (CV24), very effective. Also, wrap a thin string around the elbow depression, left for men and right for women, extend the string from Dazhui (GV14) down the back along the spine, moxa the end of the string. One version says fifty sessions. Also, moxa horizontally from here, half the length of the string on each side.

These are three moxibustions, each three sessions, and the patient rises.

Treating sudden death, and treating sudden Ke Wu death (from *Zhouhou Beiji Fang*). Moxa Juque (CV14) one cun below the heart, Lianli (CV12) three cun above the umbilicus, Zhongji (CV3) four cun below the umbilicus, one hundred sessions each.

Treating sudden death with locked jaw unable to open. Bind both thumbs, moxa the white flesh between them twenty sessions.

Treating hanging death, moxa the depression at the base of the four fingers, and Dizhou (local name) at the base of the big toe, seven sessions each.

Treating drowning death, moxa method. Quickly undress the patient, moxa the umbilicus one hundred sessions. Or hang the patient upside down, pick dirt from above the umbilicus. Or push into both ears. Or wrap soap bean powder in cotton and insert into the lower orifice. Waitai states: Even if drowned for one night, wrap soap bean powder in cotton and insert into the lower orifice; the patient will revive quickly after water comes out.

Treating Zhong'e with shortness of breath and near death. Place the person on the ground, take a sharp knife, draw from the shoulder, left for men and right for women, drawing a circle around the perimeter. Pierce Renzhong (GV26) below the nose with the knife tip, 0.1 cun deep, do not move the person. When the ghost asks to leave, ask fully why it came. It will naturally leave. Then extinguish the drawn line with your finger at the top of the shoulder, allowing it to depart. Do not interrogate fully.

Treating Gui Ji (Ghost Strike) sudden death and various sudden obstruction syndromes. Moxa inside the nose one session for immediate recovery. If not cured, moxa one cun above the umbilicus seven sessions, and the white flesh margins of both feet. For recovery. Also, moxa one cun below the umbilicus three sessions, and the inner side of both big toes, one leek-leaf width from the nail, moxa three to five sessions each for revival. Moxa the umbilicus one hundred sessions is also effective.

Treating fear and crying from ghosts and spirits. Shangxing (GV23), one cun from the hairline straight above the nose, moxa five sessions. Also, in the center of the central line of the upper lip, moxa three sessions. Also indicates ghostly delirium.

Treating Gui Ji. Needle Zusanli (ST36) two points on Foot Yangming, and Zhigou (TE6) two points on Hand Shaoyang/San Jiao, immediate recovery. If not, repeat needle and moxa.

Ling Shu states: If Qi does not arrive during needling, do not count the number. If Qi arrives, do not needle again.

Treating Zhong'e sudden death and shortness of breath. Weiwuan (CV12). Jiayi Jing states: Taicang is the Front-Mu point of the Stomach, one cun below Shangwan, or below the xiphoid process to the umbilicus, intersection of Hand Taiyang, Hand Shaoyang, Foot Yangming, and Ren Mai. Suitable for three sessions of moxa. Also states: Moxa the transverse crease of the big toe, sessions according to age, left and right. Also states: Needle Shuigou (GV26) one point of Du Mai, and Zhongwan (CV12) and Qihai (CV6) two points of Ren Mai. When needling the chest and abdomen, must cover with cloth, then needle through the single layer of cloth. Also moxa the hair clusters under the big toenails seven sessions, this is Hua Tuo's method. Also states twenty-one sessions. Also moxa the umbilicus one hundred sessions.