Pilgrim said, "The fart of a crow flying in mid-air; the urine of a carp breasting a swift current; the Queen Mother's face powder; ash from Lord Lao's cinnabar furnace; three pieces of the Jade Emperor's worn-out headcloth; and five whiskers from a fettered dragon.

The list climbs from the merely impossible to the impossible in heaven. But look at the first two: a bird's wind and a fish's water. That is very nearly what is in the pills already. He is describing his own prescription and daring the room to recognise it. 娘娘 takes the light second syllable that doubled address words take. 的 is the light de at all three occurrences.

"Decoct the six, send this medicine down with it, and your king's anxious sickness will be gone on the instant."

A balanced pair of seven characters against seven, and it reads exactly like verse — but the edition sets it as prose, with none of the indentation it uses for a poem, so prose it stays. 憂病 ties the promise straight back to the diagnosis: fright and anxious brooding.