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Shizhu (Corpse Transmission) refers to the transmission of corpse qi to humans. It is one of the Five Corpse diseases, carrying external ghostly and evil toxic qi, which flows and transmits throughout the body. It is often caused by contracting corpse qi while weeping. It causes alternating chills and fever, dripping sensations, a depressed and silent demeanor, uncertainty about specific suffering, yet a sense of aversion all over the body. Some experience abdominal pain and distension, rapid breathing and inability to breathe, with qi rushing upward to strike the heart and chest, and attacking laterally to both hypochondria. Some present with protruding scrofula masses, or tendon spasms pulling on the waist and spine. Some feel heavy throughout the body and lack mental clarity. With each change of solar term, the condition becomes more stagnant and severe. Over years and months, it leads to death. After death, the transmission can spread to others, potentially wiping out an entire family, hence the name Shizhu.

For any kind of heart and abdominal pain, if various hot medicines are taken but remain inactive in the abdomen, and instead exacerbate shortness of breath, this is Shizhu disease. One should first take one sheng of Licorice Juice (Gancao Zhi), observe for a moment, then take one sheng of Epimedium Decoction (Qumai Tang). If bowel movement occurs, relief will be felt. This method is also suitable for sudden hard accumulations, retained food, and fixed blood-qi pain that flares up unpredictably.

Xiong Zhu San (Cinnabar and Realgar Powder, from *Qianjin Fang*): Treats conditions caused by shock, worry, grief, and sorrow during funerals, leading to infection by corpse qi. Symptoms vary constantly, feeling alternately cold and hot, triggered by wind.
Ingredients: Realgar (Xionghuang), Cinnabar (Zhusha), Dragon Teeth (Longchi), Platycodon Root (Jiegeng), Notopterygium Rhizome (Qianghuo), Angelica Sinensis (Danggui), Cimicifuga Rhizome (Shengma), Aconite Root (Chuanwu), Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizome (Chuanxiong), Rhino Horn (Xijiao), Peony Root (Shaoyao), Arisaema with Bile (Guijianyu), White Silkworm (Baijiangcan, stir-fried), Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome (Baizhu), Pinellia Tuber (Nanxing, processed), Gardenia Fruit (Shanzhizi), Tangerine Peel (Chenpi), Costus Root (Muxiang), Scutellaria Root (Huangqin) [all equal parts], Tiger Neck Bone (Hu Jing Gu, vinegar-fried), Perilla Seed (Zisuzi, stir-fried), Polygonum Arthraxon Herb (Mangcao), Bitter Orange (Zhiqiao), Ephedra Stem (Mahuang, 0.5 liang), Centipede (Wugong, two strips, wine-fried), Areca Nut (Binglang, 2 fen), Dried Scorpion (Ganxie, 1 fen, stir-fried).
Preparation and Administration: Grind into fine powder. Take 2 qian each time, mixed with wine. Three times daily.
Case Study: Previously in Zhengcheng, I regularly prepared a batch of Shenjing Dan. In the Gengshen year, a woman in my household dreamed of two dark-skinned servants, one ahead and one behind, holding an object, asking "Have you arrived?" She replied "Arrived," was struck once, making a popping sound, and fell into a nightmare. Upon waking, she had unbearable sharp pain at one point in her heart, fainting for about an hour. I suddenly remembered Shenjing Dan treats this syndrome and gave her three pills. We then traveled to Fucheng. After a short while, the woman was cured; whether she took the medicine or not, the pain stopped and consciousness returned. Now she is normal. Later acquaintances with slight evil qi symptoms were given one or two doses, all effective. This formula in *Qianjin Fang* is a key herb for treating Wind-Stroke. However, true green magnetite is rare nowadays, making preparation difficult.

Da She Xiang Wan (Large Musk Pill): Treats chronic pain lasting years, Shizhu, gu poison, phlegm-fluid retention, masses under the heart and hypochondria, warm miasma, spirit possession, or sadness...
Ingredients: Musk (Shexiang), Cow Bezoar (Niuhuang), Veratrum Root (Lilu, roasted), Cinnabar (Zhusha), Sichuan Angelica (Shu Danggui), Poria (Fuling), Platycodon Root (Jiegeng), Arisaema with Bile (Guijianyu), Gold Tooth (Jinya), Aconite Root (Wutou, processed), Cinnamon Bark (Guixin), Evodia Fruit (Wuzhuyu), Cyathula Root (Guanzhong), Salvia Miltiorrhiza Root (Danshen) [each 1 fen], Centipede (Wugong, feet removed, roasted), Dried Ginger (Ganjiang), Ginseng (Renshen), Tiger Bone (Hugu) [each 3 fen], Podophyllum Rhizome (Guijiu, 0.5 fen), Peony Root (Shaoyao), Realgar (Xionghuang) [each 1.5 fen], Croton Seed (Badou, 20 seeds, dehusked and roasted), Lizard (Xi yi, half piece, roasted).
Preparation and Administration: Crush and sieve. Mix with honey to form pills the size of wutong seeds. Take three pills at dawn with water. By Chen hour (7-9 AM), diarrhea should occur. If not, drink hot liquid to induce it. After two or three loose stools, stop with cold vinegar water. Then eat cooked food, avoiding cold water. Repeat the next day until completely cured. Avoid hot noodles, raw vegetables, persimmons, pears, etc. For snake, scorpion, or bee stings, crush one pill, mix with vinegar, and apply. For spirit possession (foxes, etc.) causing nocturnal disturbances, take two pills daily for two to three days. Burn one pill daily to fumigate the body, clothes, and house. Healthy people can carry three to five pills in a crimson silk bag tied to the left arm to repel tigers, snakes, and spirits. Avoid cat meat, raw blood products, meats, raw green onions, and asparagus. Another version excludes Guijiu and Danshen.

Wu Xiang Wan (Five Fragrances Pill): Treats various toxic transmissions, corpse qi, abdominal distension, constipation, ghost Shizhu heart pain, unbearable pain.
Ingredients: Cow Bezoar (Niuhuang, ground), Rhino Horn (Xijiao xie) [each 3 fen], Cimicifuga Rhizome (Shengma), Agarwood (Chenxiang), Frankincense (Xunlu Xiang), Angelica Sinensis (Danggui), Cinnamon Bark (Guixin), Blue Sandalwood (Qingmuxiang), Musk (Shexiang), Realgar (Xionghuang, ground like powder), Arisaema with Bile (Guijianyu), Croton Seed (Badou, dehusked and roasted), Terminalia Chebula Peel (Helile Pi), Cinnabar (Zhusha, ground), Areca Nut (Binglang Ren), Dried Ginger (Ganjiang), Evodia Fruit (Wuzhuyu), Licorice Root (Gancao, roasted), Cardamom (Doukou), Peach Kernel (Taoren, dehusked and roasted), Aconite Root (Fuzi, processed) [each 5 fen].
Preparation and Administration: Crush and sieve. Mix with honey to form pills the size of wutong seeds. Take 3-5 pills with warm water. If no diarrhea, continue taking until diarrhea occurs. This formula is very effective but rarely transmitted. Avoid seaweed, Chinese cabbage, pork, cold water, raw green onions, asparagus, and raw blood products.

Treatment for stagnation and cold, chronic non-healing (from *Feng Ke Ji Lei*):
Boil and take a pillow from a dead person. Once, an old woman suffered from stagnation and cold for years without cure. Xu Sibao diagnosed it as Shizhu and prescribed boiling a dead person's pillow for her to drink. She went to an ancient grave, retrieved a pillow rotting on one side, and was cured after taking it. Shizhu is ghost qi, latent and unarisen, thus...

Wu Xiang San (Five Fragrances Powder): Treats Shizhu and hostile evil qi, alternating heat and cold, seasonal qi in joints, fluctuating severity. Also treats hundred diseases.
Ingredients: Agarwood (Chenxiang), Clove (Dingxiang), Musk (Shexiang), Frankincense (Xunlu Xiang), Arisaema with Bile (Guijianyu), Angelica Sinensis (Danggui), Cardamom (Doukou) [each 4 fen], Cow Bezoar (Niuhuang), Podophyllum Rhizome (Guijiu), Tangerine Peel (Jupi), Gold Tooth (Jinya, burned) [each 3 fen], Rhino Horn (Xijiao xie), Antelope Horn (Lingyangjiao xie), Rhubarb (Dahuang) [each 6 fen], Cimicifuga Rhizome (Shengma), Platycodon Root (Jiegeng), Peach Kernel (Taoren, dehusked and roasted), Bright Cinnabar (Guangming Zhusha, ground), Benzoin Resin (Anxi Xiang, ground) [each 5 fen].
Preparation and Administration: Grind into powder. Take with decoction or wine, one cun bi per dose according to illness. Twice daily. Stop when cured. Can also be made into honey pills the size of wutong seeds, take ten pills.

Tao Nu Tang (Peach Twig Decoction, from *Qianjin Fang*): Treats sudden evil toxic qi, gu transmission, sudden severe heart and abdominal pain.
Ingredients: Peach Twig (Tao Nu), Angelica Sinensis (Danggui), Ginseng (Renshen), Dried Ginger (Ganjiang) [each 2 liang], Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizome (Xiong), Licorice Root (Gancao) [each 3 liang], Cinnabar (Dansha), Musk (Shexiang), Poria (Fuling), Rhino Horn (Xijiao), Arisaema with Bile (Guijianyu), Cinnamon Bark (Guixin) [each 1 liang].
Preparation and Administration: The above twelve ingredients are chopped. Boil in nine sheng of water to obtain two and a half sheng. Strain. Divide into three doses, taken before meals. If constipation and abdominal fullness exist, add Rhubarb (Dahuang, 3 liang) and Mirabilite (Mangxiao, 2 liang). Another version has 1 liang Realgar, no Cinnabar or Ligusticum.

Jiangnan Dushi Wan (Jiangnan World-Saving Pill, from *Qianjin Fang*): Mainly treats myriad diseases, accumulations, latent corpses, long-term chills and fever, transmission qi circulating in skin, bedridden chronic illness, muscle wasting, limb heat, vomiting, inability to eat, cold damage, seasonal evil transmission, sweating, locked jaw, heart pain, etc.
Ingredients: Sichuan Pepper (Shujiao, 3 liang), Ginseng (Renshen), Asarum (Xixin), Licorice Root (Gancao) [each 2 liang], Poria (Fuling), Pearl (Zhenzhu), Rhubarb (Dahuang), Dried Ginger (Ganjiang), Cinnabar (Dansha, one version uses Zhusha), Wild Kadsura (Yege), Cinnamon Bark (Guixin), Realgar (Xionghuang), Musk (Shexiang), Podophyllum Rhizome (Guijiu) [each 1 liang], Aconite Root (Wutou), Cow Bezoar (Niuhuang) [each 2 fen], Aconite Root (Fuzi), Asterae Radix (Ziwan) [each 6 fen], Croton Seed (Badou, 60 seeds), Centipede (Wugong, 2 pieces).
Preparation and Administration: Grind into powder. Mix with refined honey to form pills the size of small beans. Take two pills with water,可增加 to four pills. Twice daily. Adding one Otter Liver (Tagan) is especially good. Another version lacks Cow Bezoar; warm wine can be used for administration.

Tao Nu Wan (Peach Twig Pill, from *San Yin Fang*): Treats deficiency-heat of Heart Qi, mental confusion, disordered speech, Shizhu, hostile qi, nightmares, pediatric convulsions.
Ingredients: Peach Twig (Tao Nu, 7 pieces, separately ground), Cinnabar (Chensha, 0.5 liang, separately ground), Peach Kernel (Taoren, 14 pieces, dehusked, bran-roasted, separately ground), Borneol (Longnao, 1 fen, separately ground), Raw Trionychodis Carapax (Sheng Daimei, shaved to powder, 1 liang), Cow Bezoar (Niuhuang, 1 fen, separately crushed), Realgar (Xionghuang, 3 fen, washed with peach leaf water), Black Rhino Horn (Hei Xijiao, 0.5 liang, ground with water on stone), Musk (Shexiang, 1 fen, separately ground), Amber (Hupo, 3 fen, separately ground), Benzoin Resin (Anxi Xiang, 1 liang, dissolved in pure wine, filtered, boiled with peach kernel and amber into paste).
Preparation and Administration: Mix all powders with the paste. Form pills the size of Job's tears. Dry in shade. Seal tightly. Store in a quiet room. Decoct Ginseng Soup, dissolve one pill, and take after meals before sleep.

Wu Shi Wan (Five Corpse Pill): Formula for treating various corpse transmissions.
Ingredients: Peony Root (Shaoyao), Cinnamon Bark (Guixin) [each 8 fen], Evodia Fruit (Wuzhuyu, 1 he), Cinnabar (Dansha, ground), Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizome (Xiong), Aconite Root (Wutou, processed), Dried Ginger (Ganjiang) [each 4 fen], Sichuan Pepper (Shujiao, 1 liang, de-eyed and sweat-removed), Gardenia Seed (Zhizi Ren, 5 fen), Croton Seed (Badou, 40 seeds, dehusked, roasted, ground).
Preparation and Administration: Crush and sieve. Mix with honey to form pills the size of beans. One dose, three times daily. Avoid pork, raw green onions, asparagus, and raw blood products.

Chi Fuling San (Red Poria Powder, from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats Shizhu, unpredictable onset, heart and chest pain, rapid breathing, qi rushing upward, attacking hypochondria.
Ingredients: Red Poria (Chi Fuling, 3 fen), Angelica Sinensis (Danggui, 0.5 liang, chopped and lightly fried), Red Peony Root (Chi Shaoyao, 0.5 liang), Arisaema with Bile (Guijianyu, 3 fen), Cinnamon Bark (Guixin, 2 fen), Dried Rehmannia Root (Di Huang, 0.5 liang), Cimicifuga Rhizome (Chuan Shengma, 3 fen), Costus Root (Muxiang), Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizome (Xiong), Peach Kernel (Taoren, 3 fen, soaked in water, dehusked, bran-roasted).
Preparation and Administration: Crush into powder. Each dose... (Original text missing dosage).

Gui Xiang Tang (Cinnamon and Fragrance Decoction): Treats Shizhu, unpredictable onset, severe heart and abdominal pain.
Ingredients: Cinnamon (Gui, bark removed), Peony Root (Shaoyao), Costus Root (Muxiang), Bupleurum Root (Chaihu, roots removed) [each 1 liang], Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizome (Xiong), Softshell Turtle Shell (Biejia, skirt removed, vinegar-fried), Dried Ginger (Ganjiang, processed) [each 3 fen], Evodia Fruit (Wuzhuyu, soaked, dried, roasted), Dichroa Root (Changshan) [each 3 fen].
Preparation and Administration: Coarsely chop. Take 3 qian each time, boil in 1.5 sheng of water to reduce to 0.8 sheng. Strain and take warm. No specific timing.

Hu Zhang Wan (Tiger Palm Pill, from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats Shizhu chills and fever, loss of appetite, stabbing heart and abdominal pain.
Ingredients: Tiger Palm (Hu Zhang), Cinnabar (Dansha, ground) [each 0.5 liang], White Poria (Bai Fuling, black skin removed), Dragon Teeth (Longchi) [each 1 liang], Angelica Sinensis (Danggui, baked), Curcuma Longa Rhizome (Peng Ezhu, baked and chopped) [each 3 fen].
Preparation and Administration: The above six ingredients are crushed and sifted. Use wine to boil Asafoetida (Awei), mix with flour paste to form pills the size of wutong seeds. Take twenty pills each time with ginger and sour plum soup.

Guan Gu Wan (Stork Bone Pill, from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats Shizhu evil qi spreading, sudden fainting, alternating chills and fever, abdominal pain and distension.
Ingredients: Stork Bone (Guan Gu, wine-fried, one version uses stork bone paste), Realgar (Xionghuang, ground) [each 1 liang], Cinnamon (Gui, bark removed, 3 fen), Rhubarb (Dahuang, chopped and fried, 3 fen), Musk (Shexiang, ground, 0.5 liang), Cinnabar (Dansha, ground, 1 fen, one version uses Zhusha), Red-footed Centipede (Chizu Wugong, soaked in wine and fried, 1 strip).
Preparation and Administration: Grind into powder. Mix with refined honey to form pills the size of wutong seeds.

Fang Ji San (Stephania Root Powder): Treats Shizhu and infectious transmission. Tonifies deficiency after using purgatives.
Ingredients: Stephania Root (Fangji), Ginseng (Renshen), White Poria (Bai Fuling, black skin removed), Podophyllum Rhizome (Guijiu), Arisaema with Bile (Guijianyu), Aconite Root (Fuzi, processed, peeled), Fermented Rice Qu (Qu, fried) [each 1 fen].
Preparation and Administration: Grind into powder. Take 2 qian bi each time. Grind peach kernels in rice water (one sheng), boil to 0.6 sheng. Take warm. Five times daily.

Du Heng San (Asarum Leaf Powder, from *Zhouhou Fang*): Treats Shizhu and evil qi invading humans, causing chest fullness and coma. Effective.
Ingredients: Du Heng (Du Heng, 1 liang stems), Fermented Soybeans (Chi, 1 liang), Ginseng (Renshen, 0.5 liang), Bottle Gourd Seeds (Huzi Ren, 20 seeds), Chinese Lovage Seed (Songluo, 6 zhu), Adzuki Bean (Chixiaodou, 2 seeds).
Preparation and Administration: Grind into powder. Take one cun bi with warm wine at dawn. Should vomit various substances. If not complete, take again later.

Zhusha Wan (Cinnabar Pill, from *Zhouhou Fang*): Treats Shizhu, ghost evil toxic qi transmitting through the body, causing chills, fever, abdominal pain, mental confusion.
Ingredients: Cinnabar (Zhusha, 1 liang, finely ground and water-washed, one version uses Dansha), Realgar (Xionghuang, 1 liang, finely ground and water-washed), Podophyllum Rhizome (Guijiu, 0.5 liang), Polygonum Arthraxon Herb (Mangcao, 0.5 liang, lightly fried), Croton Seed (Badou, 14 seeds, dehusked, pressed on paper to remove oil), Centipede (Wugong, 1 piece, lightly fried, feet removed).
Preparation and Administration: Sift into powder. Mix thoroughly with previously ground medicines. Refined honey... (Text cuts off, implies pill formation).

Guan Gu Wan (Stork Bone Pill, from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats Shizhu evil qi, chills, fainting. Also treats hundred diseases.
Ingredients: Stork Bone (Guan Gu, 1 cun roasted, one version uses stork skin 3 cun roasted), Cinnamon (Gui, bark removed, 0.5 liang), Horsefly (Mengchong), Mustard Beetle (Banmao) [each 14 pieces, wings/feet removed, fried], Croton Seed (Badou, 30 seeds, dehusked and roasted).
Preparation and Administration: Grind into fine powder. Mix with refined honey to form pills the size of small beans. Take three pills each time with warm water. Three times daily.

Zhou Yin (Porridge Drink): (Title only, no content in original).

Huan Hun Tang (Soul-Returning Decoction, aka Zhui Hun Tang, from *Fan Shi Fang*): Treats sudden invasion by hostile ghosts, flying corpses, and various transmissions, leading to sudden cessation of breath and unconsciousness. Or if already dead with clenched jaws. Remove teeth and administer decoction. If it doesn't go down, part the hair, hold shoulders, press and pull to facilitate swallowing. Add another sheng. Revive quickly. *Jin Gui* states: Cun pulse deep, large, and slippery. Deep indicates excess, slippery indicates qi. Excess and qi clash; if blood and qi enter the zang organs, death ensues.
Ingredients: Ephedra Stem (Mahuang, 3 liang), Cinnamon Bark (Guixin, 2 liang), Licorice Root (Gancao, 1 liang), Apricot Seed (Xingren, 70 grains).
Preparation and Administration: Sieve evenly. Boil in eight sheng of water to obtain three sheng. Divide into three doses. Another version lacks Cinnamon Bark, using only three ingredients.

Huainan Wan: Treats transmission wiping out families. Women and children are prone to transmission. Various transmission syndromes, chest oppression, headache, vomiting. Those with these symptoms should take this formula.
Ingredients: Plantago Seed (Cheqianzi), Root Bark of Plum Tree under Cart (Chexia Ligen Pi), Lithospermum Erythrorhizon (Shi Changsheng), Polygala Root (Xuchangqing) [equal amounts of several liang].
Preparation and Administration: Coarsely chop. Place half he in a square pouch, tie to belt or head. If the whole family suffers sudden tragedy, share this pouch. Before entering a transmission-infested house, burn this medicine to ash and take with water.

Mituo Seng San (Lead Monoxide Powder): Treats exposure to corpses, weeping, corpse qi entering abdomen, stagnating zang-fu, occasional flare-ups. Highly effective for labor accumulation.
Ingredients: Lead Monoxide (Mituo Seng, 0.5 jin, quenched in vinegar, residue washed, ground, drained, 6 liang obtained), Burreed Tuber (Jing Sanleng, roasted, ground, 2 liang), Chebulic Myrobalan (Helile, unpeeled, raw, ground, 1 liang).
Preparation and Administration: Mix and grind evenly. Take 2 qian each time, mixed with thick noodle broth. Do not eat that night. Take before sleep. Do not take at other times. Take for three nights... (Text cuts off).

Treatment for sudden Shizhu, toxic pain moving around (from *Shenghui Fang*):
Ingredients: Apricot Seed (Xingren), Ash of Human Hair (Luann Fa Hui) [equal parts].
Preparation and Administration: Grind into paste. Form pills the size of wutong seeds. Take three pills with wine each time, three times daily. Another version uses pig fat to form pills.

Treatment for Dunshi and Shizhu, painful areas in heart, abdomen, and body that cannot be touched (from *Qianjin Fang*):
Take a small handful of Mugwort (Ai), crush it. Place it on the painful area, thickness over one cun. Mix hot water with ash to make it strongly hot, place on Mugwort. Replace when cool. Cured within two or three applications.

Treatment for Shizhu evil qi:
Use Cat Bone (Li Gu), skull is best. Burn to ash, take 2 qian with wine. Also treats poisoning from wild bird meat, swelling. Take again to cure. May Pig Manure (May) is extremely effective. Do not eat meat in May to avoid harming spirit.

Treatment for Shizhu Ghost Shizhu abdominal pain:
Use Stork Bone (Guan Gu), very cold. Can be used alone. Roast until yellow, grind to powder. Take one cun bi with warm wine on empty stomach. White Storks nest in trees.

Treatment for Shizhu (from *Zhouhou Fang*):
Burn human hair to the size of a chicken egg, grind to powder, take with water to cure.

Treatment for Shizhu, Sichuan Pepper Ironing Method. Also treats wandering transmission (from *Shenghui Fang*):
Use one jin of Sichuan Pepper (Shujiao), wrap in cloth and place on transmission site. Heat an ironing pan and iron the pepper until hot. Sweating is miraculous.

Siren Xi Tang (Dead Person Mat Decoction): Treats Shizhu damaging nose, smelling foul odors, seeing corpses frequently.
Take mat used by dead person, cut from coffin interior, discard remainder on road. Take a mouthful, length three cun. Boil in three sheng of water to obtain one sheng. One dose brings immediate effect.

Wan Bing Wan (Myriad Disease Pill): Treats five labors and seven injuries, Shizhu invasion, heart and abdominal pain, indigestion, hypochondriac distension, skin contraction.
Ingredients: Polygala Root (Yuanzhi, heart removed), Alisma Rhizome (Zexie), Dendrobium Stem (Shihu, roots removed), Biota Seed (Baizi Ren, separately ground), Cloud Mother (Yunmu, water-ground), Pyrrhosia Leaf (Shiwei, hairs removed), Eucommia Bark (Duzhong, bark removed, roasted), Heaven Male (Tianxiong, processed, peeled), Achyranthes Root (Niuxi, oil removed, wine-soaked, sliced, baked), White Poria (Bai Fuling, black skin removed), Acorus Rhizome (Changpu), Yam (Shanyu), Prepared Rehmannia Root (Shu Dihuang, baked), Teasel Root (Xuduan), Cistanche Stem (Rou Congrong, wine-soaked, sliced, baked), Dried Ginger (Ganjiang, roasted), Chrysanthemum Flower (Gan Juhua), Cinnamon (Gui, bark removed), Schisandra Berry (Wuweizi), Cnidium Fruit (Shechuangzi, fried), Cornelian Cherry Fruit (Shanzhuyu) [each 0.5 liang], Platycodon Root (Jiegeng, fried), Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng), Atractylodes Rhizome (Baizhu) [each 1 liang], Aconite Root (Fuzi, 4 pieces, processed, peeled), Ophiopogon Tuber (Tianmendong, heart removed, baked, 1.5 liang), Asarum Root (Xixin, leaves removed, 3 fen).
Preparation and Administration: Grind into powder. Mix with refined honey, pound 1000 times. Form pills the size of wutong seeds. Take twenty pills each time.

Chi Shaoyao Wan (Red Peony Pill, from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats Five Corpse Transmissions and various ghost transmissions, sudden heart pain.
Ingredients: Red Peony Root (Chi Shaoyao, chopped, 1 liang), Evodia Fruit (Wuzhuyu, soaked, dried, roasted), Cinnabar (Dansha, ground) [each 0.5 liang], Sichuan Pepper (Shujiao, de-eyed, fried, sweat removed), Aconite Root (Wutou, processed, peeled) [each 0.5 liang], Dried Ginger (Ganjiang, roasted, 3 fen), Cinnamon (Gui, bark removed, 1 liang).
Preparation and Administration: Grind into powder. Mix with refined honey to form pills the size of small beans. Take ten pills each time with warm wine on empty stomach. Three times daily.

Dansha Wan (Cinnabar Pill, from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats Five Corpse Transmission emaciation, latent ghost qi, evil transmission, infectious consumption, ghost transmission, emaciated body.
Ingredients: Cinnabar (Dansha, ground, 1 liang), Musk (Shexiang, ground, 3 fen), Peach Kernel (Taoren, soaked, dehusked, roasted, 72 pieces).
Preparation and Administration: Grind each finely. Mix together evenly. Add little honey to form pills the size of small beans. Take ten pills each time with rice drink. Three times daily. Avoid raw sheep blood products.

Treatment for Shizhu abdominal pain and hemorrhoids (from *Bencao*):
Use Lingxiang Wood from Fox (Huli Zhiling Xiangmu), take 2 qian bi with wine. Severe cases, no more than ten doses, later verified.

Treatment for Shizhu heart pain and reverse regurgitation:
Burn River Snail Shell (Tianluo Ke) to ash, take with rice drink.