At the intermediate stage, multiple methods for expelling water is applied, including the five methods of changing the water passages, in which Si-wei-shi-liu Powder (see above) is applied for ascending the stomach fire. This method is effective for cold type edema. For the heat type, saffron, glycyrrhiza, seeds of coriander, feather ash from a vulture are put together and ground as powder and swallowed with melted butter.

The so-called Drying Method is the made of mercury, sulfur Hippophae Rhamnoides, dry ginger, Piper nitrum, salt, sal Ammoniacum Halitum violaceum, sallucidum, plus crude sugar and prepared as pills. This recipe is very effective with powerful action in expelling water. At the same time, the waist should be wrapped in a wolf skin. Moxibustion at the umbilicus and infraclavicular fossa should also be applied, also at 1st, and 12th vertebrae. In diet, mutton, hot cake made of highland barley and wild beef soup, plus dry ginger and seeds of coriander can be eaten. The patient should stay in a dry place, avoiding wind and cold. There are also other methods, including dredging, ushering, and diking.

The dredging method is too complicated and is omitted here. For the ushering method, a powder made of animal bones, old deer horn and clematis spp. Is administered as an oral medication, plus bloodletting. For the diking method, a powder made of beer bile, musk, Flos carthmi, and Folium Lepisolrus, mixed with bee honey, together with moxibustion at the umbilicus, 1st, 12th vertebrae and infra-clavicle region, is adopted.
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