（《蒙筌》）
【释名】秋冰。时珍曰∶《淮南子》丹成，号曰秋石，言其色白质坚也。近人以人中白
炼成白质，亦名秋石，言其亦出于精气之余也。再加升打，其精致者，谓之秋冰，此盖仿海
水煎盐之义。方士亦以盐入炉火 成伪者，宜辨之。嘉谟曰∶秋石须秋月取童子溺，每缸入
石膏末七钱，桑条搅，澄定倾去清液。如此二三次，乃入秋露水一桶，搅澄。如此数次，滓
秽涤净，咸味减除。以重纸铺灰上晒干，完全取起，轻清在上者为秋石，重浊在下者刮去。
古人立名，实本此义。男用童女溺，女用童男弱，亦一阴一阳之道也。世医不取秋时，杂收
人溺，但以皂荚水澄，晒为阴炼， 为阳炼。尽失于道，何合于名？媒利败人，安能应病？
况经火炼，性却变温耶？
【气味】咸，温，无毒。
【主治】虚劳冷疾，小便遗数，漏精白浊（时珍）。滋肾水，养丹田，返本还元，归根
复命，安五脏，润三焦，消痰咳，退骨蒸，软坚块，明目清心，延年益寿（嘉谟）。
【发明】时珍曰∶古人惟取人中白、人尿治病，取其散血、滋阴降火、杀虫解毒之功也。
王公贵人恶其不洁，方士遂以人中白设法 炼，治为秋石。叶梦得《水云录》，极称阴阳二
炼之妙；而《琐碎录》乃云秋石味咸走血，使水不制火，久服令人成渴疾。盖此物既经 炼，
其气近温。服者多是淫欲之人，借此放肆，虚阳妄作，真水愈涸，安得不渴耶？况甚则加以
阳药，助其邪火乎？惟丹田虚冷者，服之可耳。观病淋者水虚火极，则煎熬成沙成石；小便
之炼成秋石，与此一理也。
【附方】旧一，新十一。秋石还元丹∶久服去百病，强骨髓，补精血，开心益志，补暖
下元，悦色进食。久则脐下常如火暖，诸般冷疾皆愈。久年冷劳虚惫甚者，服之亦壮盛。其
法∶以男子小便十石，更多尤妙。先支大锅一口于空室内，上用深瓦甑接锅口，以纸筋杵石
灰泥甑缝并锅口，勿令通风。候干，下小便约锅中七八分以来，灶下用焰火煮之。若涌出，
即少少添冷小便。候煎干，即人中白也。入好罐子内，如法固济，入炭炉中 之。旋取二三
两，再研如粉，煮枣瓤和，丸如绿豆大。每服五七丸，渐加至十五丸，空心温酒或盐汤下。
其药末常要近火收，或时复养火三五日，则功效更大也。（《经验方》）阴阳二炼丹∶世之炼
秋石者，但得火炼一法。此药须兼阴阳二炼，方为至药。火炼乃阳中之阴，得火而凝，入水
则释，归干无体，盖质去味存，此离中之虚也。水炼乃阴中之阳，得水而凝，遇曝而润，千
岁不变，味去质留，此坎中之实也。二物皆出于心肾二脏，而流于小肠，水火 蛇玄武正气，
外假天地之水火，凝而为体。服之还补太阳、相火二脏，实为养命之本。空心服阳炼，日午
服阴炼。此法极省力，与常法功用不侔，久疾服之皆愈。有人得瘦疾且嗽，诸方不效，服此
即瘳。有人病颠腹鼓，日久加喘满，垂困，亦服此而安也。阳炼法∶用人尿十余石，各用桶
盛。每石入皂荚汁一碗，竹杖急搅百千下，候澄去清留 。并作一桶，如前搅澄，取浓汁一
二斗滤净，入锅熬干，刮下捣细。再以清汤煮化，筲箕铺纸淋过，再熬。如此数次，直待色
白如雪方止。用沙盒固济，火 成质，倾出。如药未成，更 一二次，候色如莹玉，细研。
入砂盒内固济，顶火养七昼夜，取出摊土上，去火毒，为末，枣膏丸梧桐子大。每空心温酒
下三十丸。阴炼法∶用人尿四五石，以大缸盛。入新水一半，搅千回，澄定，去清留 。又
入新水搅澄，直候无臭气，澄下如腻粉，方以曝干。刮下再研，以男儿乳和如膏，烈日晒干，
盖假太阳真气也。如此九度，为末，枣膏和，丸梧桐子大。每午后温酒下三十丸。（叶石林
《水云录》）秋冰乳粉丸∶固元阳，壮筋骨，延年不老，却百病。用秋冰五钱，头生男乳晒
粉五钱，头生女乳晒粉五钱，乳香二钱五分，麝香一分，为末，炼蜜丸芡子大，金箔为衣，
乌金纸包，黄蜡匮收，勿令泄气。每月用乳汁化服一丸，仍日饮乳汁助之。秋冰法∶用童男、
童女尿 各一桶，入大锅内，桑柴火熬干。刮下，入河水一桶搅化，隔纸淋过。复熬刮下，
再以水淋炼之。如此七次，其色如霜，或有一斤。入罐内，上用铁灯盏盖定，盐泥固济，升
打三炷香。看秋石色白如玉，再研，再如前升打。灯盏上用水徐徐擦之，不可多，多则不结；
不可少，少则不升。自辰至未，退火冷定。其盏上升起者，为秋冰，味淡而香，乃秋石之精
英也，服之滋肾水，固元阳，降痰火。其不升者，即寻常秋石也，味咸苦，蘸肉食之，亦有
小补。（《杨氏颐真堂经验方》）《直指》秋石丸∶治浊气乾清，精散而成膏淋，黄白赤黯，
如肥膏、蜜、油之状。用秋石、鹿角胶（炒）、桑螵蛸（炙）各半两，白茯苓一两，为末，
糕糊
丸梧桐子大。每服五十丸，人参汤下。（《仁斋直指方》）秋石交感丹∶治白浊遗精。秋石一
两，白茯苓五钱，菟丝子（炒）五钱，为末。用百沸汤一盏，井华水一盏，煮糊，丸梧桐子
大。
每服一百丸，盐汤下。（《郑氏家传方》）秋石四精丸∶治思虑色欲过度，损伤心气，遗精，
小便数。秋石、白茯苓各四两，莲肉、芡实各二两，为末，蒸枣肉和，丸梧桐子大。每空心
盐汤下三十丸。（《永类钤方》）秋石五精丸∶常服补益。秋石一两，莲肉六两，真川椒红五
钱，小茴香五钱，白茯苓二两，为末，枣肉和，丸梧子大。每服三十丸，盐汤、温酒空心下。
秋石法∶用童男、童女洁净无体气、疾病者，沐浴更衣，各聚一石。用洁净饮食及盐汤与之，
忌葱、蒜、韭、姜、辛辣、膻腥之物。待尿满缸，以水搅澄，取人中白，各用阳城瓦罐，盐
泥固济，铁线扎定，打火一炷香。连换铁线，打七火。然后以男、女者称匀，和作一处，研
开，以河水化之，隔纸七层滤过，仍熬成秋石，其色雪白。用洁净香浓乳汁和成，日晒夜露。
但干即添乳汁，取日精月华，四十九日数足，收贮配药。（刘氏《保寿堂经验方》）肿胀忌盐∶
只以秋石拌饮食。待肿胀消，以盐入罐 过，少少用之。（《摘玄方》）赤白带下∶真秋石研
末，蒸枣肉捣，丸梧桐子大。每服六十丸，空心醋汤下。（《摘玄方》）噎食反胃∶秋石，每
用一钱，白汤下，妙。（《医方摘要》）服丹发热∶有人服伏火丹药多，脑后生疮，热气冉冉
而上。一道人教灸风府数十壮而愈。仍时复作，又教以阴炼秋石，用大豆黄卷煎汤下，遂愈，
和其阴阳也。（《王清明余话方》）
（出自《蒙筌》）
【释名】秋冰。李时珍说：《淮南子》中提到丹药炼成后，称为“秋石”，是说它的颜色白、质地坚硬。近代人将“人中白”炼制成白色固体，也称为秋石，说是因为它也出自精气的残余。如果再经过升华蒸馏，其中最为精致的部分，被称为“秋冰”，这大概是模仿海水煎盐的原理。方士中也有人用盐放入炉火中烧制伪品，应当加以辨别。嘉谟说：制作秋石必须在秋季采集童男童女的尿液，每缸加入七钱石膏末，用桑树枝条搅拌，静置澄清后倒去上层清液。如此重复两三次，然后加入一桶秋季收集的露水，再次搅拌澄清。这样反复多次，杂质污秽被洗净，咸味也随之减少。用厚纸铺在灰上晒干，完全取下，轻清浮在上层的为秋石，重浊沉在下层的刮去。古人确立这个名字，实际上就是基于这个原理。男性使用童女尿，女性使用童男尿，这也是遵循一阴一阳的道理。世俗医生不选择在秋季采集，而是杂乱地收集人尿，只用皂荚水澄清，晒干制成的称为“阴炼”，加热炼制的称为“阳炼”。这完全失去了正道，怎么能符合名字的含义呢？为了牟利而败坏医德，怎么能治愈疾病呢？况且经过火炼后，药性却变成了温性呢？
【气味】味道咸，性质温，无毒。
【主治】虚劳冷疾，小便频数或遗尿，漏精白浊（李时珍）。滋补肾水，滋养丹田，返本还元，归根复命，安定五脏，滋润三焦，消除痰咳，退除骨蒸潮热，软化坚块，明目清心，延年益寿（嘉谟）。
【发明】李时珍说：古人只取人中白和人尿来治病，是利用它们散血、滋阴降火、杀虫解毒的功效。王公贵人厌恶它不洁净，方士于是设法从中人白中提炼，制成秋石。叶梦得在《水云录》中极力称赞阴阳二炼法的妙处；而《琐碎录》却说秋石味咸走血，使水不能制约火，长期服用会让人患上口渴病。大概是因为此物经过火炼后，其气接近温性。服用者多是淫欲之人，借此放纵欲望，导致虚阳妄动，真水更加枯竭，怎么会不渴呢？况且严重者还加上助阳的药物，以助长邪火呢？只有丹田虚冷的人，服用它才合适。观察患淋证的人，因水虚火极，煎熬而成沙石；小便炼制成秋石，与此是同一个道理。
【附方】旧方一个，新方十一个。
秋石还元丹：长期服用可去除百病，强健骨髓，补充精血，开心益智，补暖下元，美容悦色，增进食欲。久服则脐下常感觉如火般温暖，各种冷疾都会痊愈。多年患冷劳虚损疲惫严重的人，服用后也能变得强壮。其制作方法：取男子小便十石，越多越好。先在空室内支起一口大锅，上面用深瓦甑对接锅口，用纸筋和石灰泥涂抹甑缝及锅口，不要让它漏风。待干后，倒入约七八分满的小便，灶下用猛火煮。如果涌出，就少量添加冷小便。等到煎干，就成了人中白。装入好罐子内，按规定密封，放入炭炉中煅烧。每次取二三两，再研磨成粉，用枣肉调和，制成绿豆大小的丸药。每次服用五到七丸，逐渐增加到十五丸，空腹时用温酒或盐汤送服。药末要经常靠近火源保存，有时再养火三五天，功效会更大。（《经验方》）
阴阳二炼丹：世上炼制秋石的人，只懂得火炼这一种方法。此药必须兼用阴阳二炼法，才是至宝。火炼属于阳中之阴，遇火凝结，入水则溶解，干燥后无固定形态，可以说是质去味存，这是离卦中的虚象。水炼属于阴中之阳，得水凝结，遇日晒湿润，千年不变，可以说是味去质留，这是坎卦中的实象。这两种物质都出于心肾二脏，而流注于小肠，蕴含水火蛇玄武之正气，借助天地之水火，凝结而成形体。服用它可以补益太阳、相火二脏，确实是养命的根本。空腹服用阳炼，日午时分服用阴炼。这个方法极其省力，与常规方法的功用不可同日而语，久病服用皆可痊愈。有人患瘦疾且咳嗽，各种方剂无效，服用此药即愈。有人患癫狂腹胀，日久加重气喘胸闷，生命垂危，服用此药也得以安宁。
阳炼法：用人尿十余石，分别用桶盛装。每石加入一碗皂荚汁，用竹杖急速搅拌千百下，待澄清后去掉清液留下沉淀。合并为一桶，像前面那样搅拌澄清，取浓汁一二斗过滤干净，放入锅中熬干，刮下来捣细。再用清水煮化，用铺有纸的筛箕过滤，再熬。如此反复多次，直到颜色白如雪为止。用沙盒密封，用火炼成固体，倒出。如果药未炼成，再炼一两次，等到颜色像莹玉一样，细细研磨。放入砂盒内密封，顶部用火养护七昼夜，取出摊在地上，去除火毒，研成粉末，用枣膏制成梧桐子大小的丸药。每次空腹用温酒送服三十丸。
阴炼法：用人尿四五石，用大缸盛装。加入一半新水，搅拌一千回，澄清后去掉清液留下沉淀。又加入新水搅拌澄清，直到没有臭味，沉淀物像腻粉一样，才拿出来晒干。刮下来再研磨，用男婴乳汁调和如膏状，在烈日下晒干，这是假借太阳的真气。如此重复九次，研成粉末，用枣膏调和，制成梧桐子大小的丸药。每次午后用温酒送服三十丸。（叶石林《水云录》）
秋冰乳粉丸：固护元阳，强壮筋骨，延年不老，祛除百病。用秋冰五钱，头胎男婴乳汁晒成的粉五钱，头胎女婴乳汁晒成的粉五钱，乳香二钱五分，麝香一分，研成粉末，炼蜜制成芡子大小的丸药，用金箔包衣，乌金纸包裹，黄蜡封存收藏，不要让气体泄漏。每月用乳汁化开服用一丸，同时每天饮用乳汁辅助药效。
秋冰法：用童男、童女尿液各一桶，放入大锅内，用桑柴火熬干。刮下来，加入一桶河水搅拌溶解，隔纸过滤。再熬再刮，再以水淋炼。如此七次，颜色如霜，可得一斤左右。放入罐内，上面用铁灯盏盖住，用盐泥密封，升华蒸馏三炷香的时间。看秋石颜色白如玉，再研磨，再像前面那样升华蒸馏。在灯盏上用水慢慢擦拭，不可多，多了就不凝结；不可少，少了就不能上升。从辰时到未时，退火冷却定型。灯盏上升起的，称为秋冰，味道淡而香，是秋石的精华，服用它能滋补肾水，固护元阳，降化痰火。没有升上去的，就是寻常秋石，味道咸苦，蘸着肉食吃，也有小补。（《杨氏颐真堂经验方》）
《直指》秋石丸：治疗浊气干扰清气，精气散失而成膏淋，尿液呈黄、白、赤、暗色，像肥膏、蜂蜜、油一样的状态。用秋石、鹿角胶（炒）、桑螵蛸（炙）各半两，白茯苓一两，研成粉末，用米糕糊制成梧桐子大小的丸药。每次服用五十丸，用人参汤送服。（《仁斋直指方》）
秋石交感丹：治疗白浊遗精。秋石一两，白茯苓五钱，菟丝子（炒）五钱，研成粉末。用一杯百沸汤（刚烧开的水），加一盏井华水（清晨第一次打的井水），煮成糊状，制成梧桐子大小的丸药。每次服用一百丸，用盐汤送服。（《郑氏家传方》）
秋石四精丸：治疗思虑和色欲过度，损伤心气，遗精，小便频数。秋石、白茯苓各四两，莲肉、芡实各二两，研成粉末，用蒸熟的枣肉调和，制成梧桐子大小的丸药。每次空腹用盐汤送服三十丸。（《永类钤方》）
秋石五精丸：常服可补益身体。秋石一两，莲肉六两，真川椒红五钱，小茴香五钱，白茯苓二两，研成粉末，用枣肉调和，制成梧子大小的丸药。每次服用三十丸，空腹用盐汤或温酒送服。
秋石制备方法：选用童男、童女中洁净、无体味、无疾病者，沐浴更衣，各自收集一石尿液。用洁净的饮食及盐汤给他们喝，忌食葱、蒜、韭、姜、辛辣、膻腥之物。等到尿满缸，用水搅拌澄清，取人中白，分别用阳城瓦罐，用盐泥密封，铁线扎紧，打火燃烧一炷香的时间。连续更换铁线，共打七次火。然后将男女的尿按比例称匀，混合在一起，研磨开，用河水溶解，隔七层纸过滤，仍熬制成秋石，颜色雪白。用洁净香浓的乳汁调和，日晒夜露。只要干了就添加乳汁，汲取日精月华，凑足四十九天的数量，收贮以备配药。（刘氏《保寿堂经验方》）
肿胀忌盐：只用秋石拌饮食。等到肿胀消退，将盐放入罐中煅过，少量使用。（《摘玄方》）
赤白带下：真秋石研成粉末，与蒸枣肉捣碎，制成梧桐子大小的丸药。每次服用六十丸，空腹用醋汤送服。（《摘玄方》）
噎食反胃：秋石，每次用一钱，用白开水送服，效果奇妙。（《医方摘要》）
服丹发热：有人服用伏火丹药过多，脑后生疮，热气冉冉而上。一位道人教他灸风府穴数十壮而痊愈。但病情反复发作，又教他用阴炼秋石，用大豆黄卷煎汤送服，于是痊愈，这是调和阴阳的作用。（《王清明余话方》）
(From *Meng Quan*)
[Names] Qiu Bing (Autumn Ice). Li Shizhen stated: In *Huainanzi*, it is mentioned that when the elixir is refined, it is called "Qiu Shi" (Autumn Stone), referring to its white color and hard texture. In recent times, people refine "Ren Zhong Bai" (Human Urine Sediment) into a white solid, also naming it Qiu Shi, implying that it also originates from the remnants of essence and qi. If further subjected to sublimation, the most refined portion is called "Qiu Bing," which imitates the principle of boiling seawater to make salt. Some alchemists also produce fake products by heating salt in a furnace; these should be distinguished. Jia Mo stated: To prepare Qiu Shi, urine from young boys and girls must be collected in autumn. For each vat, add 7 qian of gypsum powder, stir with mulberry branches, let settle, and pour off the clear liquid. Repeat this two or three times. Then add one bucket of dew collected in autumn, stir, and let settle. Repeat several times until impurities are washed away and the salty taste is reduced. Spread thick paper on ash, dry in the sun, and collect completely. The light and clear part floating on top is Qiu Shi; the heavy and turbid part sinking at the bottom should be scraped off. The ancient name is based on this meaning. Males use urine from young girls, and females use urine from young boys, following the Dao of Yin and Yang. Modern physicians do not collect urine in autumn but gather human urine indiscriminately, clarifying it only with soap pod water and drying it. This is called "Yin Lian" (Yin Refining) if dried, and "Yang Lian" (Yang Refining) if heated. This completely deviates from the correct method and contradicts the name's meaning. Driven by profit and corrupting medical ethics, how can such methods cure diseases? Moreover, after fire refining, does the nature not become warm?
[Flavor and Nature] Salty, warm, non-toxic.
[Indications] Deficiency-wasting cold diseases, frequent urination or enuresis, spermatorrhea and leukorrhea (Li Shizhen). Nourishes Kidney Water, nourishes the Dantian, returns to the root and restores the origin, returns to the root and restores life, calms the Five Zang organs, moistens the San Jiao (Triple Burner), eliminates phlegm and cough,退了 bone-steaming fever, softens hard masses, brightens the eyes and clears the heart, prolongs longevity (Jia Mo).
[Elucidation] Li Shizhen said: The ancients only used Ren Zhong Bai and human urine for treating diseases, utilizing their functions of dissipating blood stasis, nourishing Yin and descending fire, killing parasites, and detoxifying. Nobles and dignitaries disliked its uncleanliness, so alchemists devised methods to refine it from Ren Zhong Bai to create Qiu Shi. Ye Mengde in *Shui Yun Lu* highly praised the subtlety of the Yin and Yang refining methods; whereas *Suo Sui Lu* claimed that Qiu Shi is salty and enters the blood, causing water to fail to control fire, leading to thirst disease with long-term use. This is likely because the substance becomes warm in nature after fire refining. Those who take it are often individuals with excessive sexual desire, using it to indulge, causing deficient Yang to flare up and True Water to dry up further, hence the thirst. Furthermore, severe cases involve adding Yang-tonifying drugs, aiding the pathogenic fire. Only those with deficiency-cold in the Dantian should take it. Observing patients with strangury (Lin syndrome), where extreme heat boils fluids into sand and stones; the refining of urine into Qiu Shi follows the same principle.
[Attached Formulas] One old formula, eleven new formulas.
**Qiu Shi Huan Yuan Dan (Autumn Stone Returning to Origin Pill):** Long-term use removes hundred diseases, strengthens marrow and bones, supplements essence and blood, benefits the heart and willpower, warms the lower Yuan, enhances complexion, and promotes appetite. With prolonged use, warmth like fire is felt below the umbilicus, and various cold diseases heal. Even those suffering severely from chronic cold-wasting deficiency become robust. Method: Use ten shi of male urine, more is better. Place a large pot in an empty room, cover the mouth with a deep earthen steamer, seal seams and joints with paper筋 and lime mud to prevent air leakage. When dry, fill the pot about 70-80% with urine. Boil over strong fire at the stove. If it surges out, add small amounts of cold urine. When boiled dry, it becomes Ren Zhong Bai. Put into a good jar, seal properly, and calcine in a charcoal furnace. Take 2-3 liang each time, grind into powder, mix with jujube paste, and form pills the size of mung beans. Take 5-7 pills initially, gradually increasing to 15 pills, taken with warm wine or salt water on an empty stomach. Keep the powder near fire for storage; occasionally re-heating for 3-5 days enhances efficacy. (*Experience Formula*)
**Yin Yang Er Lian Dan (Yin-Yang Dual Refining Pill):** Most refiners of Qiu Shi only know the fire-refining method. This medicine requires both Yin and Yang refining to be supreme. Fire refining is Yin within Yang; it coagulates with fire and dissolves in water, having no fixed form when dry, representing "Qi leaves, flavor remains," corresponding to the emptiness in the Li Trigram. Water refining is Yang within Yin; it coagulates with water and moistens under exposure, remaining unchanged for millennia, representing "Flavor leaves, substance remains," corresponding to the fullness in the Kan Trigram. Both substances originate from the Heart and Kidney Zang organs and flow into the Small Intestine, containing the righteous Qi of Water, Fire, Snake, and Black Tortoise. They borrow Heaven and Earth's Water and Fire to coagulate into form. Taking them tonifies the Taiyang and Xianghuo (Ministerial Fire) Zang organs, truly being the foundation of life preservation. Take Yang-refined pills on an empty stomach, and Yin-refined pills at noon. This method is extremely labor-saving and far superior to common methods; chronic diseases heal with long-term use. Someone with wasting disease and cough, unresponsive to other prescriptions, healed immediately upon taking this. Another patient with mania and abdominal distension, worsening with asthma and fullness, nearing death, was also stabilized by this.
**Yang Lian Method:** Use over ten shi of human urine, stored in separate buckets. Add one bowl of soap pod juice to each shi, stir vigorously with a bamboo stick for thousands of strokes, let settle, discard clear liquid, keep sediment. Combine all sediments into one bucket, stir and settle as before. Take 1-2 dou of concentrated liquid, filter clean, boil in a pot until dry, scrape down, and pound fine. Dissolve in clear water, filter through paper-lined sieve, boil again. Repeat until color is white as snow. Seal in a clay box, fire-refine into solid, pour out. If not fully formed, refine once or twice more until color resembles glazed jade, then grind finely. Seal in a cinnabar box, nurture with fire at the top for seven days and nights, take out, spread on earth to remove fire toxicity, grind to powder, mix with jujube paste, form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills with warm wine on an empty stomach.
**Yin Lian Method:** Use 4-5 shi of human urine, store in a large vat. Add half fresh water, stir 1,000 times, let settle, discard clear liquid, keep sediment. Add fresh water again, stir and settle, until odorless, and sediment resembles talcum powder. Dry in the sun. Scrape down, grind again, mix with male infant milk to form paste, dry in fierce sun (borrowing solar true Qi). Repeat nine times, grind to powder, mix with jujube paste, form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills with warm wine after noon. (Ye Shilin, *Shui Yun Lu*)
**Qiu Bing Ru Fen Wan (Autumn Ice Milk Powder Pill):** Secures Original Yang, strengthens muscles and bones, prevents aging, dispels hundred diseases. Use 5 qian of Qiu Bing, 5 qian of powder from first-born male infant milk, 5 qian of powder from first-born female infant milk, 2.5 qian of Frankincense (Ruxiang), 1 fen of Musk (Shexiang). Grind to powder, mix with refined honey, form pills the size of euryale seeds, coat with gold foil, wrap in Wujin paper, seal in yellow wax, prevent gas leakage. Each month, dissolve one pill in milk and take, while drinking milk daily to assist.
**Qiu Bing Method:** Use one bucket each of urine from young boys and girls, boil dry in a large pot with mulberry wood fire. Scrape down, dissolve in one bucket of river water, filter through paper. Boil and scrape again, refine with water filtration. Repeat seven times until color is frost-like, yielding about one jin. Put in jar, cover with iron lamp saucer, seal with salt mud, sublimate for three incense sticks' time. Check if Qiu Shi is white as jade, grind again, sublimate again. Slowly wipe water on the saucer; too much prevents coagulation, too little prevents rising. From Chen hour to Wei hour, extinguish fire and cool. The substance rising on the saucer is Qiu Bing, tasteless and fragrant, the essence of Qiu Shi. It nourishes Kidney Water, secures Original Yang, and descends phlegm-fire. What does not rise is ordinary Qiu Shi, salty and bitter; eating it with meat provides minor benefit. (*Yang's Yizhentang Experience Formula*)
**Zhizhi Qiu Shi Wan (Directing Guide Autumn Stone Pill):** Treats turbid Qi interfering with clear Qi, essence scattering into creamy strangury, urine appearing yellow, white, red, or dark, resembling fat, honey, or oil. Use 0.5 liang each of Qiu Shi, Deer Horn Glue (Chao/Stir-fried), and Tang Shen (Zhi/Processed); 1 liang of Poria (Baifuling). Grind to powder, mix with rice cake paste, form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 50 pills with Ginseng decoction. (*Renzhai Zhizhi Fang*)
**Qiu Shi Jiao Gan Dan (Autumn Stone Interaction Elixir):** Treats leukorrhea and spermatorrhea. Use 1 liang of Qiu Shi, 5 qian of Poria, 5 qian of Dodder Seed (Tusizi, Chao/Stir-fried). Grind to powder. Mix one cup of boiling water and one cup of well-water (Jinghua Shui), cook into paste, form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 100 pills with salt water. (*Zheng Family Inherited Formula*)
**Qiu Shi Si Jing Wan (Autumn Stone Four Essence Pill):** Treats excessive thought and sexual desire damaging Heart Qi, spermatorrhea, and frequent urination. Use 4 liang each of Qiu Shi and Poria; 2 liang each of Lotus Seed (Lianrou) and Euryale Seed (Qianshi). Grind to powder, mix with steamed jujube flesh, form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills with salt water on an empty stomach. (*Yonglei Qianfang*)
**Qiu Shi Wu Jing Wan (Autumn Stone Five Essence Pill):** Regular use tonifies. Use 1 liang of Qiu Shi, 6 liang of Lotus Seed, 5 qian of Sichuan Pepper Red (Chuanjiaohong), 5 qian of Fennel (Xiaohuixiang), 2 liang of Poria. Grind to powder, mix with jujube flesh, form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills with salt water or warm wine on an empty stomach.
**Qiu Shi Preparation Method:** Select clean young boys and girls without body odor or illness, bathe and change clothes, collecting one shi of urine each. Provide clean diet and salt water, avoiding garlic, scallions, leeks, ginger, spicy, and fishy foods. When vats are full, stir with water to clarify, collect Ren Zhong Bai. Use Yangcheng clay jars, seal with salt mud, tie with iron wire, burn for one incense stick's time. Change wires continuously, burn seven times. Weigh male and female portions equally, mix, grind, dissolve in river water, filter through seven layers of paper, boil back into Qiu Shi, color snow-white. Mix with clean, fragrant milk, sun-dry by day and moon-expose by night. Add milk whenever dry, absorbing solar and lunar essence, completing forty-nine days, then store for compounding. (Liu's Baoshoutang Experience Formula)
**Edema Avoiding Salt:** Season food only with Qiu Shi. Once edema subsides, calcine salt in a jar and use sparingly. (*Zhaixuan Fang*)
**Red and White Leukorrhea:** Grind real Qiu Shi to powder, mix with steamed jujube flesh, form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 60 pills with vinegar water on an empty stomach. (*Zhaixuan Fang*)
**Dysphagia and Regurgitation:** Qiu Shi, 1 qian each time, taken with plain boiled water. Excellent. (*Yifang Jiangyao*)
**Fever from Taking Elixirs:** Someone took too many Huofu (Fire-subduing) elixirs, developing sores on the back of the head with rising heat. A Daoist advised moxibustion on Fengfu (GV16) acupoint dozens of times, curing him. Recurrence led to advice of taking Yin-refined Qiu Shi with Soybean Sprout (Da Dou Huang Juan) decoction, resulting in cure, harmonizing Yin and Yang. (*Wang Qingming Yu Hua Fang*)