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Kung-Fu, or Tauist Medical Gymnastics, by John Dudgeon, [1895], at sacred-texts.com
5.—Third Month,—Solar Term "Pure Brightness."—Change hands right and left, like drawing the bow, each 7 × 8 times, knock the teeth, respire, taking in the outside pure air to displace the foul air from within, and swallow the saliva each 3 times. To cure the weakness and vicious air of the loins, kidneys, intestines, and stomach, painful deglutition, ears deaf .and painful, pain of the neck and inability to turn it, pain in the shoulder and unable to raise it, body bent and without strength, arm painful, and weakness of the loins.—See Figure, below. *
125:* This Figure corresponds with Amiot's No. 2, which is explained as directed against asthma and the pains of the loins and bowels. It is not necessary to turn the head.
