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Hanlu Temple · eighty lots

Medicine King Hall — Lot 1

This tube asks about health. Think of the person you are worried about. Say their name.

Medicine King Hall · Lot 1Excellent

药灶烟消百病除身心康泰胜金珠饮食有节眠早起赛过神仙不用扶

What it means: The body is mending. Rhythm is what does it.

The verse is kept in Chinese. It is a four-line regulated poem — rhyme and metre are part of the thing itself, and they do not survive translation. The reading below is written in English.

All Excellent lots

The reading

Health is improving on the strength of sleep and food. Early nights, less oil, a walk every day — worth more than any supplement. Give it three months and look again.

A lot is not a diagnosis. For the body, listen to a doctor.

How to read this grade

Excellent is the highest of the four bands, and the rarest. It means the timing, the people around you and your own frame of mind all line up. It does not guarantee an outcome — it says this road has little resistance and is worth walking to the end.

All eighty lots are lines written for Hanlu Temple. They are here to help you put a question into words — no promise, and no medical, financial or legal advice.

Draw this lot in the hall

Walk to the Medicine King Hall, sit down on a cushion and put your palms together. The tube of lots stands by the altar. A lot you drew in the same hall on the same day is remembered, so you can come back and read it again.

Walk to this hall