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Kung-Fu, or Tauist Medical Gymnastics, by John Dudgeon, [1895], at sacred-texts.com
19.—The Solar Term of the Tenth Month, called "Beginning of Winter."—Seated upright, one hand on the knee, one hand grasping the elbow, change right and left and support the right and left 3 × 5 times, etc. To cure the hsü-lao (empty toil, consumption) and vicious poison in the chest and ribs, fulness of the thorax, loins painful, neither able to bend nor straighten [the body], deficiency of saliva, face dusky, nausea and hiccough, indigested fæcal motions, head-ache, deafness, jaws swollen, eyes red swollen and painful, sense of fulness and depression in abdomen and ribs and the four extremities, vertigo, pupils painful. (See Figure).
