驅邪治病法綱要

The exorcistic-healing branch of Shenxiao practice diagnoses illness as the invasion of pathogenic qi (xie qi 邪氣) or possession by malevolent spirits (xie sui 邪祟).

The healing procedure pairs medical diagnosis (drawn from the *Huangdi Neijing* tradition) with thunder-rite intervention.

The practitioner first determines the affected viscera and the entry-point of the pathogenic agent, then deploys a targeted thunder-talisman to disperse the agent.

The text specifies that congenital illnesses (xian tian 先天) and karmic illnesses (ye zhang 業障) cannot be treated by thunder-rites alone and require parallel moral-cultivation work by the patient.

[Specific talisman-illness correspondences omitted.]