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味甘，气平。无毒。乡落俱有，平地沿栽。根实花茎，依时收采。各有用度，并无
麻骨可作炬心，
麻皮堪绩布疋。麻子入药，修制宜精。始用帛包浸沸汤，待冷检出；
井内，隔水勿沾。务过一宵，
方取曝日。候干燥置平地面，压重板揩净壳皮。择起细仁，随宜索效。或搀粳米煮粥，或佐
血药为丸。经入阳明大肠及
足太阴脾脏。恶茯苓一
大肠风热，结涩便难。止消
渴而小水能行，破积血而血脉可腹。胎逆横生易顺，产后余疾总除。和菖蒲鬼臼为丸，吞服
即见鬼魅。（要见鬼者，用各
等分，杵，丸弹大。每朝向日服一丸，满百日即见鬼魅。）合豆子头发着井，祝敕能辟瘟魔。
（除夜四更，取麻子、豆子
各二七粒，家人头发少许，着
头发滋润。久服肥健，不老
仙。重压取油，亦能油物。麻花味苦性热，堪调经水不通。驱恶风黑色遍身，散诸风
瘙痒难抵。麻根煮服，
更通石淋。除难产带下崩中，逐 折挝打瘀血。
麻叶捣汁，又杀蛔虫。或被蝎伤，敷之即效。麻沸汤专主虚热，渍麻汁善
解渴消。
味甘，气平。无毒。六月六日，制造方宜。曝干仍积月深，入药须炒黄色。助人之真
气，走阳明胃经。下气调中，止泻开胃。化水谷，消宿食。破症结，逐积痰。疗妇人胎动不
安，治小儿胸腹坚满。酒曲系者药合造，味辛而性气大温。落胎兼下鬼胎，下气并驱
冷气
。酒痰尤劫，宿食竟消。六畜误食米多，胀满欲死；急研煎汁灌下，即解回生。麸曲
性凉，消食亦用。红曲
色赤，滑血须知。
（谟）按∶六月六日造神曲者，谓诸神集会此日故也。所用药料，各肖神名。当此之日
造成，
才可以名神曲。倘或过此，匪但无灵，抑不得以神名也。其方用白曲一百斤，以象白虎；苍
耳
草自然汁三升，以象勾陈；野蓼自然汁四升，以象腾蛇；青蒿自然汁三升以象青龙；杏仁去
皮尖四升，以象玄武；赤小豆煮软熟，去皮三升，以象朱雀。一如造曲法式，造备晒干，收
贮
待用。今这之卖家，只蓼面为之，既不依方，又不按日，何得以取效乎？医者见其不真，每
以酒曲代用，亦失原造之意矣。
味甘，气平。无毒。乡村各地都有，多在平地沿边种植。根、果实、花、茎，按季节适时采收。各有不同的用途，并无浪费。麻骨可作火炬芯，麻皮可织布匹。麻子入药，炮制必须精细。先用丝帛包裹浸入沸水中，待冷却后取出；放入井中，隔水避免沾污。务必浸泡一整夜，然后取出在阳光下曝晒。待干燥后置于平整地面，用重板压住并擦拭干净壳皮。挑选出细小的仁，根据需求发挥疗效。或掺入粳米煮粥，或配合补血药物制成丸剂。药性进入阳明大肠经和足太阴脾脏。能治疗大肠风热引起的便秘涩滞。能止渴并使小便通畅，破除积血使血脉运行顺畅。胎位不正横生容易转正，产后各种余疾都能消除。与石菖蒲、鬼臼制成丸剂，吞服后能见到鬼魅。（想要见鬼的人，用各等分药材，捣碎，制成如弹丸大小的药丸。每天早晨面向太阳服用一丸，满百日即可见到鬼魅。）与豆子、头发一起投入井中，念咒敕令能辟除瘟魔。（除夕夜四更天，取麻子、豆子各十四粒，家人少许头发，投入井中滋润。长期服用使人肥壮健康，不老成仙。重压取油，也能用来润滑物品。麻花味苦性热，能调理月经不通。驱除全身黑色恶风，散发各种风邪引起的剧烈瘙痒。麻根煮服，更能通利石淋。能治疗难产、带下、崩中，驱逐跌打损伤的瘀血。麻叶捣汁，又能杀死蛔虫。如果被蝎子蜇伤，敷上即见效。麻沸汤专门主治虚热，浸泡麻汁善于解渴消烦。
神曲
味甘，气平。无毒。六月六日制造最为适宜。晒干后仍要堆积存放很久，入药必须炒至黄色。能助人真气，走阳明胃经。下气调中，止泻开胃。化水谷，消宿食。破症结，逐积痰。治疗妇人胎动不安，治疗小儿胸腹坚满。酒曲是多种药物合造的，味辛而性气大温。能落胎兼下鬼胎，下气并驱冷气。尤能劫除酒痰，彻底消除宿食。六畜误食过多米粒，胀满欲死；急研煎汁灌下，即刻解毒回生。麸曲性凉，也用于消食。红曲色赤，须知其滑血功效。
（陈嘉谟）按语：六月六日制造神曲，说是因为诸神在这一天集会的原因。所用的药料，各自象征神名。在这一天造成，才可以称为神曲。如果过了这一天，不仅没有灵验，也不得以“神”命名。其方用白曲一百斤，以象征白虎；苍耳草自然汁三升，以象征勾陈；野蓼自然汁四升，以象征腾蛇；青蒿自然汁三升以象征青龙；杏仁去皮尖四升，以象征玄武；赤小豆煮软熟，去皮三升，以象征朱雀。完全按照造曲的方法制作，备好后晒干，收贮备用。现在的卖家，只用蓼面制作，既不依配方，又不按日期，怎么能取得疗效呢？医生见其不真，常用酒曲代替使用，也失去了原造的本意。
Hemp Seed (Huomazi)
Sweet in flavor, neutral in nature. Non-toxic. Found in villages everywhere, usually planted along the edges of flat lands. The roots, fruits, flowers, and stems are harvested at appropriate times according to the season. Each part has its specific uses without waste. Hemp stalks can serve as wicks for torches, and hemp fibers can be spun into cloth. For medicinal use, the processing of hemp seeds must be meticulous. Initially, wrap them in silk and soak them in boiling water; after cooling, remove them; place them in a well, ensuring they do not touch the water directly. They must be soaked overnight. Then take them out and dry them in the sun. Once dry, place them on a level surface, press with a heavy board, and wipe clean the husks. Select the fine kernels and utilize them according to their therapeutic effects. They may be mixed with japonica rice to make porridge, or combined with blood-nourishing herbs to form pills. The medicinal action enters the Yangming Large Intestine Channel and the Taiyin Spleen Channel. It treats wind-heat in the large intestine causing constipation and difficulty in defecation. It relieves thirst and promotes urination, breaks up accumulated blood, and facilitates blood circulation. It corrects abnormal fetal position (transverse lie), making it easier to deliver, and eliminates various residual ailments postpartum. Combined with Acorus Tatarinowii Rhizome (Changpu) and Podophyllum Hexandrum Root (Guijiu) to form pills, swallowing them allows one to see spirits/ghosts. (For those wishing to see spirits, use equal parts of these ingredients, pound them, and form pills the size of marbles. Take one pill facing the sun every morning; after 100 days, one will see spirits.) Mixed with beans and human hair and thrown into a well, while reciting incantations, it can ward off plague demons. (On New Year's Eve at the fourth watch, take fourteen hemp seeds, fourteen beans, and a small amount of family members' hair, throw them into the well to moisten. Long-term consumption makes one robust and healthy, preventing aging and leading to immortality. Pressing heavily to extract oil, it can also be used for lubrication. Hemp flower is bitter in flavor and hot in nature, capable of regulating amenorrhea. It drives away severe wind manifesting as black discoloration over the body and disperses various wind pathogens causing unbearable itching. Boiling and consuming hemp root further promotes the passage of urinary stones. It treats difficult labor, leukorrhea, metrorrhagia, and expels blood stasis from fractures and bruises. Crushing hemp leaves to extract juice kills roundworms. If bitten by a scorpion, applying it externally yields immediate results. Hemp boiling decoction specifically treats deficiency heat, and soaking hemp juice effectively relieves thirst and dissipates irritability.
Medicated Leaven (Shenqu)
Sweet in flavor, neutral in nature. Non-toxic. Manufactured on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month is most suitable. After drying in the sun, it should still be piled and stored for a long time; for medicinal use, it must be stir-fried until yellow. It assists the body's true qi, enters the Yangming Stomach Channel. It directs qi downward and regulates the middle jiao, stops diarrhea, and opens the appetite. It transforms food and fluids, digests retained food, breaks up masses, and expels accumulated phlegm. It treats restless fetus in women and fullness/hardness of the chest and abdomen in children. Wine leaven is made from a combination of medicines; it is pungent in flavor and greatly warm in nature. It induces abortion and expels "ghost fetus," directs qi downward, and drives away cold qi. It particularly scavenges wine-phlegm and completely eliminates retained food. If livestock accidentally eat too much rice, causing bloating and near-death distress; grinding and decocting it into juice and forcing it down immediately detoxifies and restores life. Bran leaven is cool in nature and is also used for digesting food. Red yeast rice is red in color; one must know its ability to promote blood circulation.
(Chen Jiamo) Commentary: Manufacturing Shenqu on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month is said to be because all deities gather on this day. The medicinal materials used each symbolize a deity's name. Only when manufactured on this day can it be named Shenqu. If manufactured after this date, not only will it lack efficacy, but it cannot bear the name "Shen." The formula uses 100 jin of white leaven base to symbolize White Tiger; three sheng of fresh juice from Xanthium Strumarium Herb (Cang'ercao) to symbolize Gouchen; four sheng of fresh juice from wild smartweed (Yeliao) to symbolize Tengshe; three sheng of fresh juice from Artemisia Annua Herb (Qinghao) to symbolize Azure Dragon; four sheng of Apricot Kernels (Xingren) peeled and tipped to symbolize Black Tortoise; three sheng of adzuki beans cooked soft, peeled, to symbolize Vermilion Bird. Following the standard method of making leaven, prepare, dry, store, and await use. Current sellers only use smartweed flour to make it, neither following the formula nor the date, how can they expect efficacy? Doctors, seeing its impurity, often substitute it with common wine leaven, thereby losing the original intent of its manufacture.