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To treat diseases occurring in the years of Mao and You (Rabbit and Rooster), when Yangming Metal governs the Heaven (Si Tian) and Shaoyin Fire governs the Earth (Zai Quan). Patients present with internal heat, facial edema, nasal congestion with rhinorrhea, dark yellow urine, and in severe cases, strangury. If pestilential qi is prevalent, there may be sudden collapse, tremors and chills, delirium, cold malaria, carbuncles and sores, and hematochezia.

Prescription: Yuanzhi (Radix Polygalae, heart removed, processed with ginger juice and stir-fried) 1 liang; Zitanxiang (Santalum album Lignum) 1 liang; Tiantaodong (Asparagi Radix, heart removed) 3 fen; Shanzhuyu (Corni Fructus) 3 fen; Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma) 0.5 liang; Baishaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Alba) 0.5 liang; Zhigancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma Preparata) 0.5 liang; Shengjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens) 0.5 liang.

Crush the above herbs into a coarse powder. Take 4 qian per dose, add 1.5 cups of water, decoct until 0.7 cup remains, strain, and take before meals. From Dahan (Great Cold) to Chunfen (Spring Equinox), add Baifuling (Poria), Banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma Preparatum, washed with hot water to remove slipperiness), Zisu (Perillae Folium), and Shengjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens), each 0.5 liang; from Chunfen (Spring Equinox) to Xiaoman (Grain Buds), add Xuanshen (Scrophulariae Radix) and Baiwei (Cynanchi Atrati Radix), each 0.5 liang; from Xiaoman (Grain Buds) to Dashu (Great Heat), remove Yuanzhi (Radix Polygalae), Shanzhuyu (Corni Fructus), and Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), add Danshen (Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix) and Zexie (Alismatis Rhizoma), each 0.5 liang; from Dashu (Great Heat) to Qiufen (Autumn Equinox), remove Yuanzhi (Radix Polygalae) and Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), add Suanzaoren (Ziziphi Spinosae Semen) and Cheqianzi (Plantaginis Semen), each 0.5 liang; from Qiufen (Autumn Equinox) to Dahan (Great Cold), follow the main formula as stated above.

To treat diseases occurring in the years of Yin and Shen (Tiger and Monkey), when Shaoyang Ministerial Fire governs the Heaven (Si Tian) and Jueyin Wind Wood governs the Earth (Zai Quan), where the qi transformation operates prior to the natural timing. In the First Qi phase, Shaoyin Sovereign Fire overlays Jueyin Wind Wood; the people suffer from warm diseases, wind disturbs upwards causing blood extravasation and red eyes, cough with counterflow and headache, metrorrhagia, hypochondriac fullness, and sores in the skin and interstices. In the Second Qi phase, Taiyin Earth overlays Shaoyin Fire; the people suffer from heat stagnation, cough with counterflow and vomiting, chest and diaphragm discomfort, headache and fever, drowsiness and purulent sores. In the Third Qi phase, Shaoyang Ministerial Fire overlays Ministerial Fire; the people suffer from heat in the middle, deafness and blindness, blood extravasation, purulent sores, cough and vomiting, nasal congestion and epistaxis, thirst, sneezing and yawning, throat obstruction, and red eyes, prone to sudden death. In the Fourth Qi phase, Yangming Metal overlays Taiyin Earth; the people suffer from fullness and heavy body. In the Fifth Qi phase, Taiyang Water overlays Yangming Metal; the people avoid cold pathogens, and gentlemen act with caution. In the Final Qi phase, Jueyin Wood overlays Taiyang Water; the people suffer from incontinence of urine and feces, heart pain, and cough due to yang qi failing to store. The treatment method should employ salty-cold substances to calm the upper part, pungent-warm substances to treat the interior, and utilize sour-draining methods, purgative methods, maceration methods, and diaphoretic methods.