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Treats various types of malaria presenting with chills preceding fever, or fever preceding chills, or isolated chills or fever, or simultaneous onset for consecutive days, or every-other-day onset. Accompanied by headache, nausea, irritability, thirst with desire to drink, rapid and labored breathing, bitter taste in the mouth, dry throat, and ineffectiveness of other medications.
Chuan Changshan (Radix Dichroae), Zhi Mu (Rhizoma Anemarrhenae), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae, honey-fried), Caoguo (Fructus Tsaoko, skin not removed, each 2 liang), Wumei (Fructus Mume, 1 liang), Liangjiang (Rhizoma Alpiniae Officinarum, 1.5 liang).
Crush the above into a coarse powder. Take 4 qian per dose, with 1.5 cups of water and 5 jujubes. Decoct together until reduced to 0.7 parts. Strain and take warm. Administer three doses prior to the onset of the paroxysm.

Treats Pin Malaria (a type of malaria characterized by predominant cold), presenting with abundant chills and slight fever, or only chills without fever.
Chaihu (Radix Bupleuri, 8 liang), Guixin (Cortex Cinnamomi, 1 liang), Huangqin (Radix Scutellariae, 3 liang), Muli (Concha Ostreae), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae, honey-fried), Ganjiang (Radix Zingiberis, processed, each 3 liang), Gualougen (Radix Trichosanthis, 1 liang).
Crush the above into a coarse powder. Take 4 qian per dose, with 2 cups of water. Decoct until reduced to 0.7 parts. Strain and take on an empty stomach, three times daily. Mild restlessness after the first dose indicates sweating and cure.
Another method includes adding Banxia (Rhizoma Pinelliae, 3 liang).

When patients exhibit alternating chills and fever, a sallow complexion, frequent sighing, and a state resembling death, it is caused by liver injury from suppressed anger leading to qi stagnation; this is named Liver Malaria.
When patients experience mental distress, desire to drink clear water, abundant chills with minimal fever, and fluctuating symptoms, it is caused by heart injury from excessive joy leading to dispersion of heart qi; this is named Heart Malaria.
When patients have abundant chills, heat and pain in the abdomen, variable thirst, no fever nor diarrhea, borborygmus, and sweating, it is caused by spleen injury from excessive thinking leading to qi stagnation and phlegm-damp accumulation; this is named Spleen Malaria.
When patients feel coldness in the chest, severe cold progressing to fever, fright during fever-free intervals, and visual hallucinations, it is caused by lung injury from sorrow leading to condensation of lung qi and phlegm; this is named Lung Malaria.
When patients have cold extremities, shivering, lower back and spine pain, fever, difficulty defecating, and blurred vision, it is caused by kidney injury from loss of willpower; this is named Kidney Malaria.
The aforementioned five types of malaria are caused by disharmony of zang-organ qi and stagnation leading to phlegm-fluid retention; each has its specific treatment formula.

Treats malaria resulting from deficiency of qi in the five zang organs and mutual excess of yin and yang, regardless of whether chills precede fever, fever precedes chills, or if they occur independently or intermittently every other day.
Fuzi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, one piece, processed: soaked in salt water and processed again, repeated seven times; on the seventh time, do not soak, remove skin and umbilicus).
Crush the above into a coarse powder. Use one bowl of water, seven slices of ginger, and seven jujubes. Decoct until reduced to 0.8 cup. Take warm on an empty stomach on the day of the paroxysm, and consume three to five jujubes.
Dietary restrictions apply as usual. The *Liang Fang* uses Wutou (Radix Aconiti) and does not use salt water soaking; this results in excessive dryness and heat upon ingestion and fails to differentiate yin and yang. Strain and take.