People flee amidst the echoes of illness, weaving through dogwood, mugwort, calamus, and plantain, escaping from one ailment to another. They say you are recovering, yet you see yourself thinning day by day, becoming so frail that the bitterness of childhood can no longer be reached.
Along the way, the paths grow shorter, the houses grow lower, and the streams grow narrower.
Life is but another grand illness, aching and tormenting through the days. It traverses love, hate, passion, and enmity, passing through a destiny intertwined with joy and sorrow.
Sickness carries fate, and fate carries you, tossing about in the riverbeds.
The body is like a melting iceberg, collapsing incessantly through day and night.
A gentle breeze stirs a tranquil old prescription: three coins of moonlight, two pine and cypress trees, four taels of sunshine, and a single heart of peace. The world's wisdom teaches us to smile at life and death, leaving only half a basket of crisp birdsong fluttering among the green leaves.
Sickness lives within its uneven days, while we live within our uneven pains.
By entering its depths, we tread upon the details. Within sickness, we find our own days.
Some diseases surge within the body, sustaining some lives.
Some diseases wander outside the body, taking some lives away.