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Kung-Fu, or Tauist Medical Gymnastics, by John Dudgeon, [1895], at sacred-texts.com
14.—For the Middle of the Seventh Month, termed "Stopping of Heat."—Turn the head to the right and left, raise the head, turn the two hands and beat the back each 5 × 7 times, etc. To cure rheumatism, pain of the shoulder, back, chest, ribs, thighs, knees, small blood vessels, outside of the leg and ankle, pain of the various joints, cough, asthma, shortness of breath, thirst,—all will then disappear. (See Figure).
