23.—For the Solar Term of the Twelfth Month, named 'Slight Cold.'

Kung-Fu, or Tauist Medical Gymnastics, by John Dudgeon, [1895], at sacred-texts.com

23.—For the Solar Term of the Twelfth Month, named "Slight Cold."—Sitting upright, one hand pressing the foot,

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the other raised aloft as if supporting something, turn the head and change alternately [the hands], use great force 3 × 5 times, etc. To cure the air stored up in the arteries and veins, retching and vomiting, stomach painful, abdomen distended, ague, fulness of thorax, failing appetite, sighing, great heaviness of body, grief, below the heart painful, diarrhœa, suppression of urine, jaundice, the five diarrhœas of five colours, large and small "convenience"

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impervious, face yellow, mouth dry, indolent, desire to lie down, angina pectoris, hungry, liking savoury things, want of appetite. (See Figure).