养五脏,补不足,秘固真元,均调二气,和畅荣卫,保神守中。久服轻身耐老,
健力能食,明目,降心火,交肾水,益精气。男子绝阳,庶事不堪,女子绝阴,乃不能妊
,腰膝重痛,筋骨衰败,面色黧黑,心劳志昏,寤寐恍惚,烦愦多倦,余沥梦遗,膀胱邪热
,五劳七伤,肌肉羸瘁,上热下冷,难任补药,服之半月,阴阳自和,容色肌肉,光润悦泽
。开心意,安魂魄,消饮食,养胃气。
五味子(半斤) 百部(酒浸一宿焙) 菟丝子(酒浸别研) 肉苁蓉(酒浸) 杜仲(炒断丝)
巴戟(去心) 远志(去心) 枸杞子 防风(去叉) 白茯苓 蛇床子(炒) 山药 柏子仁(别研,各二两)
上为末,蜜丸,梧子大。食前温酒、盐汤任下三十丸。春,煎干枣汤;夏,加五味子四
两;四季月,加苁蓉六两;秋,加枸杞子六两;冬,加远志六两,食后兼服卫生汤。
补虚劳,强五脏,除烦养真,退邪热,顺血脉,缓中,安和神志,润泽容色。
常服通畅血脉,不生痈疡,养胃益精。
当归 白芍药(各四两) 黄 (八两) 甘草(炙,一两)
上为锉散。每服四钱,水盏半,煎七分,去滓,不以时。年老,加酒半盏煎。
补百损,体劣少气,善惊昏愦,上焦客热,中脘冷痰,不能多食,心腹弦满,脾
胃气衰,精血妄行,容色枯悴。
黄 白芍药 当归(各四两) 白茯苓 人参 桂心(各二两) 川椒(炒出汗,一两) 大附子
(炮去皮脐) 黄芩(各一两,为末,姜汁和作饼)
上为末,粟米饮搜和得所,捣千杵,丸如梧子大。酒饮任下三五十丸,食前服。
[Weisheng Tang]
Nourishes the Five Zang organs, supplements deficiencies, secures and consolidates the True Yuan (Original Qi), harmonizes the Two Qi (Yin and Yang), smooths the Ying and Wei (Nutritive and Defensive Qi), preserves the Shen (Spirit), and maintains centrality. Long-term consumption lightens the body, delays aging, strengthens physical power, promotes appetite, brightens the eyes, descends Heart Fire, connects Kidney Water, and benefits Jing (Essence) and Qi. For men with exhausted Yang, unable to endure various conditions; for women with exhausted Yin, unable to conceive; for those with heavy and painful waist and knees, degeneration of sinews and bones, dark complexion, mental exhaustion with confused will, trance-like states between waking and sleeping, irritability, depression, and fatigue, dribbling urine after voiding, nocturnal emissions, pathogenic heat in the Bladder, Wulao Qishang (Five Exhaustions and Seven Injuries), emaciation, upper heat and lower cold, and those who cannot tolerate other tonic medicines: after taking this formula for half a month, Yin and Yang naturally harmonize, and the complexion and muscles become lustrous and radiant. It also opens the mind, calms the Hun and Po (Ethereal and Corporeal Souls), aids digestion, and nourishes Stomach Qi.
Schisandrae Fructus (Banxiajin), Stemona Radix (Jiujin Yiye Bei, soaked in wine overnight then dried), Cuscutae Semen (Jiujin Bieyan, soaked in wine then separately ground), Cistanches Herba (Jiujin, soaked in wine), Eucommiae Cortex (Chao Duansian, stir-fried until fibers break), Morinda Officinalis Radix (Quxin, heart removed), Polygalae Radix (Quxin, heart removed), Lycii Fructus, Saposhnikoviae Radix (Qucha, forked parts removed), Poria (Fuling), Cnidii Fructus (Chao, stir-fried), Dioscoreae Rhizoma (Shanyao), Biota Seed (Bieyan, separately ground). All the above herbs are used in equal amounts of two liang.
Grind into powder, make pills with honey, size of Sophora japonica seeds. Take thirty pills before meals with warm wine or salt water. In spring, take with decoction of dried jujubes; in summer, add four liang of Schisandrae Fructus; in the last month of each season, add six liang of Cistanches Herba; in autumn, add six liang of Lycii Fructus; in winter, add six liang of Polygalae Radix. Take Weisheng Tang after meals concurrently.
[Zhong Dan]
Tonifies deficiency and勞 (labor/strain), strengthens the Five Zang organs, removes vexation to nourish the True Yuan, clears pathogenic heat, smooths blood vessels, moderates tension, calms and harmonizes the Shen (Spirit), and moistens the complexion.
Regular consumption unblocks blood vessels, prevents carbuncles and sores, nourishes Stomach Qi, and benefits Essence.
Angelicae Sinensis Radix, Paeoniae Alba Radix (each four liang), Astragali Membranacei Radix (Huangqi, eight liang), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Zhi, roasted, one liang).
Grind into coarse powder. Each dose is four qian, decocted in one and a half cups of water until reduced to seven-tenths, strain off dregs. Take at any time. For the elderly, add half a cup of wine during decoction.
[Shang Dan]
Tonifies hundred injuries, addresses weak constitution and shortness of breath, susceptibility to fright and confusion/dizziness, external heat in the Upper Jiao, cold phlegm in the Middle Wan (epigastrium), inability to eat much, stringy fullness in the heart and abdomen, decline of Spleen and Stomach Qi, reckless bleeding of Jing and Blood, and withered, sallow complexion.
Astragali Membranacei Radix (Huangqi), Paeoniae Alba Radix, Angelicae Sinensis Radix (each four liang), Poria, Ginseng Radix, Cinnamomi Ramulus (Guixin, each two liang), Zanthoxyli Pericarpium (Chao Chuhanshu, stir-fried until sweat appears, one liang), Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata (Da Fuzi, processed, skin and umbilicus removed), Scutellariae Radix (each one liang, made into powder, mixed with ginger juice to form cakes).
Grind into powder, mix adequately with Setaria italica drink, pound a thousand times, make pills size of Sophora japonica seeds. Take thirty to fifty pills with wine or water as desired, before meals.