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Treats latent summerheat, with symptoms of fever, thirst, vomiting, and nausea. Also treats cases where summerheat toxicity has persisted for years without healing.
Coptidis Rhizoma (1 jin, remove the rootlets) Wine (2.5 sheng)
First, boil Coptidis Rhizoma in wine until the wine is completely dry, then dry it by baking and grind it into fine powder. Use wheat paste to make pills the size of a Chinese quince seed. Take 30 pills each time, swallowed with warm water. It also treats excessive alcohol consumption...

Treats upper excess and lower deficiency, interior cold and exterior heat, watery diarrhea due to latent summerheat, as well as sunstroke. (See formula in the "Chronic Cold" category later.)

Treats summerheat injury with exterior heat and interior thirst; add three slices of fresh ginger, one dark plum, and thirty grains of Ophiopogonis Radix (decored) to the base formula. Decoct and take orally. ... (See formula in the "Yang Syndromes of Cold Damage" category earlier.)

Treats latent summerheat with blazing heat inside and outside, restlessness, and severe thirst. (See formula in the "General Treatment of Cold Damage" category earlier.)

Treats summerheat injury complicated by external cold contraction, as well as vomiting caused by internal injury from raw or cold food. (See "Phlegm-Fluids" category.)

Treats summerheat injury causing mental confusion and dizziness, as well as diarrhea and cholera with thirst, with immediate effect. It can also detoxify various poisons.
Alumen (Bai Fan) Myrobalan Terminalia Chebula Resin (Wubeizi) Dark Plum (remove pits) Licorice Root (Gancao) (each 1 liang)
Grind the above herbs into powder, mix evenly with 4 liang of fine flour. Take 2 qian each time, mixed with newly drawn cold water. Even those who usually dare not drink cold liquids can take this without harm, truly...

Treats summerheat injury with tidal fever, irritability, thirst, and dysuria. (See formula in the "Diarrhea" category later.)
Take 3 qian each time, decoct with 1.5 cups of water, 20 stems of Juncus effusus (Dengxin Cao), 20 grains of Ophiopogonis Radix (decored), 10 pieces of Lophatheri Herba (Dan Zhu Ye), and 5 spikes of Plantago asiatica (Cheqian Sui). Do not restrict...

Add Atractylodis Rhizoma (Cangzhu), Ligustici Chuanxiong Rhizoma (Chuanxiong), Angelicae Dahuricae Radix (Baizhi), and Chaenomelis Fructus (Mugua) in equal parts, using 4 qian of each, plus three slices of fresh ginger. Decoct and take orally. For recent or chronic dampness injury, fatigue... and deficiency, prolonged use yields results. (See formula in the "Harmonizing Category of Cold Damage" earlier.)

Treats dampness injury with nasal congestion and body pain.
Astragali Membranacei Radix (Huangqi, lightly roasted) Cinnamomi Ramulus (Lagui) (each 2 liang) Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Zhi Gancao, roasted, 2 liang) Paeoniae Radix Alba (Baishao) (6 liang)
Cut the above herbs into coarse powder. Take 3 qian each time, decoct with four slices of ginger and one jujube. Take before meals.

Treats dampness injury, benefiting the spleen and regulating qi. Add 1 liang of Poria (Fuling) and three slices of fresh ginger per dose. (See formula in the "Epidemic Disease" category later.)