治痢疾里急后重，开胸膈，破滞气，散内热，进饮食。
木香 槟榔 青皮 陈皮 广术 枳壳 黄连 黄柏 大黄（各五钱） 黑牵牛 香附
米（各二两）
上为末，水丸梧子大。每六七十丸，温水送下。
一方 有三棱、黄芩、当归。
治一切痢疾。
米壳三两，水浸少顷提起，去漠后，用白蜜炒黄色，浓朴切碎，以姜汁拌匀，炒令香熟
净，称三两，同为细末。每服一茶匙，以清米汤少加蜜调下。
治痢不拘新久，红白杂下，里急后重，腹痛。
苍术 白术 当归 白芍 滑石 青皮 黄芩 黄连（姜炒） 生地（各一钱二分） 槟
榔（六分） 上水二钟，煎服。
青皮 陈皮 干姜 甘草 乌梅 米壳
上水煎，空心服。
一方 治寒痢，青色为寒。用切干姜如豆大，米饮服六七十粒，日三次用。
一方 治血痢神妙。干姜火内烧黑，磁碗地下放冷，为末。每服一钱，米饮调下。
治大便秘，或里急后重，数至圊而不能便，或少有白脓，或少有血，慎勿利之，升举其
阳，则阴气自降矣。
苍术（四两） 防风（三钱） 白术（一钱） 茯苓（一钱） 白芍（一钱） 每服一
两，先将苍术片入水二碗，煎至一碗半，入诸药同煎至一碗，空心服。
Treat dysentery with tenesmus (a feeling of incomplete defecation accompanied by abdominal pain and rectal heaviness), open the chest and diaphragm, break stagnant qi, dissipate internal heat, and promote appetite.
Muxiang (Costus Root), Binglang (Areca Seed), Qingpi (Green Tangerine Peel), Chenpi (Aged Tangerine Peel), Ezhu (Curcuma Zedoaria Rhizome), Zhike (Bitter Orange Fruit), Huanglian (Coptis Rhizome), Huangbai (Phellodendron Bark), Dahuang (Rhubarb Rhizome) (each 5 qian), Heiqianniu (Black Morning Glory Seed), Xiangfu Rice (Cyperi Rhizome Rice) (each 2 liang).
Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, make pills with water, sized like wutong seeds. Take 60–70 pills each time, swallowed with warm water.
Another prescription includes Sanleng (Sparganium Rhizome), Huangqin (Scutellaria Root), and Danggui (Angelica Sinensis Root).
Treat all types of dysentery.
Mi Qiao (Rice Husk) 3 liang, soak in water briefly, lift out, remove mud and impurities, then stir-fry with white honey until yellow; Houpo (Magnolia Bark) cut into pieces, mix with ginger juice, stir-fry until fragrant and thoroughly cooked, weigh 3 liang. Grind both together into fine powder. Take one tea spoon each time, mixed with clear rice soup and a little honey, then swallowed.
Treat dysentery regardless of whether it is new or chronic, with red and white discharge mixed, tenesmus, and abdominal pain.
Cangzhu (Atractylodes Lancea Rhizome), Baizhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome), Danggui (Angelica Sinensis Root), Baishao (White Peony Root), Huashi (Kaolin), Qingpi (Green Tangerine Peel), Huangqin (Scutellaria Root), Huanglian (Coptis Rhizome) (stir-fried with ginger), Shengdi (Rehmannia Root) (each 1.2 qian), Binglang (Areca Seed) (0.6 qian). Add two zhong of water, decoct and take.
Treat dysentery that persists for a long time without healing, leading to sinking of yang qi. See the section on "Xie" (Diarrhea/Leaking).
Qingpi (Green Tangerine Peel), Chenpi (Aged Tangerine Peel), Ganjiang (Dried Ginger), Gancao (Licorice Root), Wumei (Mume Fruit), Mi Qiao (Rice Husk).
Decoct the above ingredients in water, take on an empty stomach.
Another prescription: Treat cold-type dysentery, where stool is green indicating cold. Use dried ginger cut into bean-sized pieces, take 60–70 grains with rice drink, three times a day.
Another prescription: Miraculous for treating bloody dysentery. Burn dried ginger in fire until black, place in a porcelain bowl underground to cool, grind into powder. Take 1 qian each time, mixed with rice drink.
Treat severe constipation, or tenesmus, frequent trips to the toilet but inability to defecate, or passing small amounts of white pus, or small amounts of blood. Do not use purgatives; instead, raise the yang qi, and the yin qi will naturally descend.
Cangzhu (Atractylodes Lancea Rhizome) (4 liang), Fangfeng (Saposhnikovia Root) (3 qian), Baizhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome) (1 qian), Fuling (Poria) (1 qian), Baishao (White Peony Root) (1 qian). Take 1 liang per dose. First, put Cangzhu slices in two bowls of water, decoct until one and a half bowls remain, then add other herbs and decoct until one bowl remains. Take on an empty stomach.