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Injury to the vertex of the head, with bleeding from the mouth and nose and immobility of the hands and feet: Immediately administer one bowl of *Tongbian* (urine of a healthy child). If the patient can perceive pain and the hands and feet can move, it is treatable; if the hands and feet are difficult to move and speech is unclear, it is untreatable. If there is panting and hiccups blocking the throat, death will occur within seven days. If the wound on the vertex is broken but the bone has not sunk in, it is treatable; if the bone is shattered and sunk in, or if Qi escapes and cannot be retained, it is untreatable. If marrow flows out from the fontanelle (*Xinmen*), death occurs immediately. Injury after eating: if the patient survives seven days, it is treatable; if the eyes are closed, it is untreatable.

Injury to the Taiyang region (temples), causing fainting and falling to the ground: Immediately administer one bowl of *Tongbian*. If the patient can perceive pain, it is treatable; if they cannot perceive pain, death will occur within seven days. If they perceive pain but faint again shortly after, death will occur within twenty-one days.

Injury behind the ears: if blood enters internally, it is untreatable. Injury to both eyes: treatable. Injury to the Shangen (root of the nose): if not severed, it is treatable; if severed, it is untreatable. Severance of the esophagus: untreatable. Complete severance of the trachea: untreatable; if not completely severed, five out of ten may be saved. A red complexion indicates treatability; a bluish-black complexion indicates untreatability.

Injury to both shoulders: if blood enters internally, it is untreatable. Injury to the heart region (epigastrium) with a bluish complexion: death within seven days; if the complexion turns red-yellow after three days of medication, it is treatable. Injury after a full meal: if the patient survives three days, it is treatable; if the bone at the heart pit is fractured, it is untreatable.

Injury to both hypochondriac regions with urgent and severe pain: death within seven days; injury penetrating the lungs: death within fourteen days; injury penetrating the Liver and Gallbladder, presenting with a cyanotic face, dizziness, and vomiting yellow fluid: death in less than five days; if accompanied by cold phlegm, death within forty-nine days; numbness of muscles and bones, body heat like fire, inability to eat or drink: untreatable. Open wounds where blood enters internally: untreatable. Exhaustion of blood flow: untreatable. Discharge of black blood and black fluid: untreatable. Injury to both breasts: male patients can be saved with urgent treatment; female patients are difficult to treat.

Injury to the greater abdomen without dizziness, with regurgitation of food: treatable. If food is not regurgitated, but continuous abdominal pain persists: death within forty days. Fever with delirium, and syncope occurring at night: death within three days. Injury to the lower abdomen with internal bleeding and a deficient pulse: untreatable. Trauma to a pregnant woman affecting the fetus: the fetus will inevitably abort, which is untreatable.

Injury to the large intestine, with feces expelled from the mouth: death on the same day. If urine is passed instead: death within forty-nine days. Inability to speak: death within twenty days. Dizziness of the eyes and coldness of hands and feet: difficult to treat. If warmth returns after one shi period (two hours), it is treatable. Injury to the small intestine, presenting with fainting, fever, and delirious speech: death within seven days. Failure to distinguish between Yin and Yang syndromes: untreatable. Abdominal rupture with evisceration of intestines: if not severed or partially severed, treatable; if completely severed, untreatable. If odorless, treatable; if odorous, untreatable. If color remains unchanged, treatable; if it changes to purple-black, untreatable.

Waist injury with hematemesis: immediately drink one bowl of *Tongbian*. If the patient perceives pain, it is treatable. If the patient does not perceive pain but laughs: death within three days. Fracture of the vertebrae adjacent to the spine: untreatable. Injury to the Kidney meridian, with inability to vomit, immobility of the whole body, difficulty sitting up despite struggling, and restlessness in sleep: death within seven days. Vomiting fresh blood: death within ten days. Injury to the external kidneys (genitals): if the testis is within the scrotum, its condition can be assessed; if the testis enters the lower abdomen, it is untreatable; if the testis is crushed within the scrotum, it is untreatable. Scrotal swelling: if pain does not originate from above, it is treatable; if prolonged and pain extends into the abdomen, death within forty-nine days. Fever and dizziness: death within three days. Loss of consciousness, immobility of hands and feet: death instantly. Rupture of the scrotum with testis entering the lower abdomen: untreatable; if the testis has not entered the abdomen, even if hanging externally, it can be saved. Crushing fracture of the left thigh in the elderly: untreatable.

After any injury, if a pulse is palpable at the Yuji area (thenar eminence), it is treatable; if the pulse is absent, death ensues; if the pulse is large and slow, it is untreatable. Unceasing sweating and alteration of physical appearance: beware of death within five days. Bluish-black discoloration around the eyes: untreatable. Transmission of wind toxin via Yukou carbuncle: untreatable. Cyanosis of the head and eyes, sweat on the forehead that does not flow, narrowed eye fissures with protruding eyeballs, and oily sweat on the body: this is called "Sini" (Four Reversals), which is untreatable.