Kung-Fu, or Tauist Medical Gymnastics: Medicinal Kung: No. 9.—Ch‘ieu Ch’ang-ch‘un’s Method of Turning the Windlass

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

No. 9.—Ch‘ieu Ch’ang-ch‘un’s (#) Method of Turning the Windlass; otherwise called the Genii turning the Windlass (the Shoulder).—To cure severe pain of the back and arm.

Sit high (as on a chair), extend the right and left feet inclined, with the two hands press the knees, moving the air round in 12 mouthfuls. Do it daily 3 × 5 times.

The Moving Air Soup.

Prescription.—Take of kau-pen (#), Nothosmyrnium japonicum, fang-fêng (#), Peucedanum terebinthaceum (?), root of an umbellifera, chw‘an-hiung, of each 1 mace; ch‘iang-hwo (#), Peucedanum decursivum, tu-hwo (#), Angelica inæqualis, of each 2 mace; man-ching-tse (#), a kind of turnip with a white tuber below ground, 6 candareens; liquorice 5 candareens. Boil in water, and drink.

The Figure is omitted.

Next: No. 10.—Ma Tan-yang's Method of using the strength of Fire for the whole Body