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Fresh cotton seeds (i.e., cotton kernels) are stir-fried until yellow and ground into powder. Take 3 qian per dose, delivered with aged yellow wine. Consume three doses consecutively to eradicate the root cause.

Another prescription: Use the intestine of a sea cucumber, bake it until dry, grind into powder, and take with yellow wine.

This is because cold pathogenic factors directly invade the Heart Meridian. After a long duration, the body becomes weak and is further constrained by cold. If the hands and feet turn cyanotic up to the joints, or if coldness reaches an irrecoverable state, death ensues. This is a method to seek life amidst death.

Another prescription: Crush mulberry leaves, and take with boiling water for immediate recovery!

Burn old razor cloth into ash, and take with yellow wine. It also treats all kinds of pain in the heart and epigastrium, proving effective!

It also treats abdominal pain caused by hernia. Extract of Corydalis Yanhusuo (Yan Hu Suo) and Piper Longum (Hu Jiao), mixed in equal parts and ground into powder. Take 2 qian per dose, mixed with warm wine before meals.

Treats heart and abdominal pain, incessant vomiting, or pain caused by insect bites; this prescription yields miraculous effects immediately. Raw Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gan Cao) 3 qian, ground into powder. Decoct Artemisia argyi leaf (Ai Ye) and Mume Fructus (Wu Mei) in water, and take slowly.

Sun Zhaofu stated: Tonifying the Spleen is superior to tonifying the Kidney. When Spleen and Stomach Qi are strong, appetite improves. Once food is ingested, it nourishes Ying and Wei (Defensive and Nutritive Qi), Jing and Blood, and moistens the Marrow. Thus, *Su Wen* states: "For deficiency of Essence, tonify with flavor; for deficiency of Form, warm with Qi." This medicine can tonify Spleen and Stomach deficiency, warm the Middle Jiao to promote appetite, descend Qi and resolve phlegm, and treat symptoms such as those caused by frozen drinks and diarrhea. Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex (Hou Po), 1 jin, stripped of coarse bark and sliced; fresh Ginger (Sheng Jiang), 8 liang, sliced with skin. Boil together in 1 sheng of water until dry, remove the ginger, and bake the Hou Po until dry. Then use Dried Ginger (Gan Jiang) 1 liang and Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gan Cao) 5 qian, boil together with Hou Po in 1 sheng of water until dry, remove the Gan Cao, and bake the Gan Jiang and Hou Po until dry, then grind into fine powder. Additionally, use 1 jin of Jujubae Fructus (Da Zao) and 2 liang of fresh Ginger. Cook until soft, remove the ginger, mash the dates into paste, and mix with the Hou Po powder to form pills the size of Sophora japonica seeds. Take 50 pills per dose, delivered with rice soup early in the morning.

Treats Stomach Qi Pain. Highly effective. Alum (Bai Fan) 5 fen, Trogopteri Dung (Wu Ling Zhi) 1 qian, Frankincense (Ru Xiang - free of oil) 8 fen. The above three ingredients are ground together into fine powder.

Highly effective for Stomach Qi Pain. One aged Citrus reticulata 'Chenpi' fruit (Chen Xiang Yuan). Cut open the lid, remove the pulp. Weigh the fruit with the lid. Match the weight of Atractylodes lancea seed (Yang Chun Sha Ren) to the weight of the fruit. Place the Sha Ren inside the Chen Xiang Yuan, replace the lid, coat with well mud, and roast on a yin-yang tile over fire until blue smoke nearly ceases. Remove from fire, place on the ground, cover with a bowl to prevent turning into white ash. Once cooled completely, remove the mud and grind into fine powder. Take 2-3 qian per dose, delivered with boiled water. Even severe cases can be eradicated; those with weak constitutions take half a dose. After recovery, continue taking Er Xian San to eradicate the root cause.