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Treating deficiency of the Kidney channel, resulting in the inability to turn or bend the waist.

Milu velvet antler (1 liang, fried with butter until yellow, singed to remove hair; if unavailable, Deer Antler Lu Rong may be substituted) Bo Shang Fennel (Ban Liang, stir-fried until fragrant) Cuscuta Seed Tu Si Zi (soaked in wine, sun-dried, ground together with paper strips to obtain powder, 1 liang)

The above ingredients are ground into fine powder. Two pairs of Sheep Kidneys Yang Shen are boiled thoroughly with wine according to method, the membrane is removed, and they are ground into a paste. This paste is mixed with the powder to form pills the size of a wu zi (Cocculus fruit). They are dried in the shade. If the kidney paste is insufficient, wine paste may be added as an auxiliary binder. Take 30-50 pills each time, administered with warm wine or salt water.

In August of the Wuxu year, there was a major flood in Huainan. The area below the city walls was submerged for months. I suddenly experienced dysfunction of the internal organs, with roaring water-like sounds in my abdomen lasting for several days. After adjustment and treatment, I recovered. Since then, I suffered from severe lower back pain that prevented flexion and extension, which even affected my facial expression due to pain referral. Various medicines were taken without effect. This condition persisted for three months. Later, I reflected that this must have been caused by excessive Yin pathogenic water qi invading the Kidney channel. Therefore, I moxa-ed the Shenshu KI23 acupoint for 27 moxibustion cones, and took this medicine, after which the illness subsided.

Shenshu KI23 is located bilaterally 1.5 cun lateral to the lower border of the spinous process of the 14th thoracic vertebra, level with the umbilicus. It treats consumptive fever with emaciation, deafness, Kidney deficiency, chronic cold of the Water Organ (Kidney), abdominal distension and fullness, fullness and pulling sensation in the hypochondrium, acute pain in the lower abdomen, blurred vision, shortness of breath, hematuria, turbid urine with seminal emission, pain in the genitalia, extreme debility from the Five Exhaustions and Seven Injuries, stiffness and urgency of the legs and knees, cold feet like ice, heavy head with body heat and tremors, soreness and weakness of the waist and limbs, profuse diarrhea with undigested food, edema resembling water, and moxibustion dosage is determined by the patient's age in number of cones. (According to the *Zhen Jiu Jing*: Needle insertion depth is 3 fen, retain needle for seven respiratory cycles, moxa 3 cones.)

Treating Kidney deficiency or occasional swelling of the feet, also regulating the Spleen Yuan (Spleen primary Qi).

Prepared Rehmannia Root Shu Di Huang (sprinkled with wine, steamed nine times and sun-dried nine times, baked dry, weighed, 2.5 liang) Cistanche Stem Rou Cong Rong (soaked in wine, washed, baked dry) Poria White Fu Ling (peeled) Alisma Rhizome Ze Xie (each 3 liang) Cinnamon Twig Gui Zhi (avoid direct fire) Prepared Aconite Root Fu Zi (processed, skin and navel removed, each 0.5 liang) Schisandra Fruit Wu Wei Zi (3 liang, selected) Astragalus Root Huang Qi (single-stem variety, coated with honey water, roasted, 1 liang)

The above ingredients are ground into a fine powder. Honey is refined and used to pound the mixture into pills the size of a wu zi. Take 40-50 pills each time on an empty stomach with wine, and take another dose before meals.