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To treat epigastric fullness and discomfort caused by melancholy and qi stagnation in the middle jiao, resulting in slight pain inside the abdominal skin, subcardiac stuffiness, and loss of appetite:
Zhi Shi (Stir-baked Aurantii Fructus), Dang Gui Shao (Radix Angelicae Sinensis, caudal part) (2 fen each); Chen Pi (Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae), Sheng Jiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens), Mu Xiang (Aucklandiae Radix) (3 fen each); Chai Hu (Bupleuri Radix) (4 fen); Zhi Gan Cao (Prepared Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma) (5 fen each); Hong Hua (Flos Carthami) (a small amount); Cao Dou Kou (Fructus Alpiniae Katsumadai) (5 fen); Ban Xia (Rhizoma Pinelliae Preparatum) (1 qian).
Pulverize into coarse powder. Take as one dose. Add two cups of water and three slices of Sheng Jiang. Decoct until one cup remains. Administer after meals. Avoid alcohol and damp wheat products.

To treat subcardiac stuffiness and chest obstruction:
Ban Xia (Washed), Hou Po (Stir-fried with honey), Shi Gao (Gypsum Fibrosum), Qing Pi (Exocarpium Citri Grandis) (5 fen each); Dang Gui Shen (Radix Angelicae Sinensis, body part) (7 fen); Bai Dou Kou Ren (Semen Amomi Rotundus), Suo Sha (Fructus Tsaoko), Yin Chen (Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, wine-processed), Ge Gen (Puerariae Lobatae Radix) (1 qian each); Zhi Gan Cao (Prepared Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Qiang Huo (Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix), Huang Qin (Scutellariae Radix) (half wine-washed, half stir-fried), Ting Li Zi (Semen Lepidii seu Descurainiae, wine-washed and stir-fried), Ren Shen (Ginseng Radix), Chai Hu (Bupleuri Radix), Du Huo (Angelicae Pubescentis Radix) (3 qian each).
Pulverize into fine powder. Mix with dough soaked in decoction, rub through a sieve to form particles the size of rice grains. Take 2 qian per dose, administer before sleep with a mouthful of water.

To treat spleen and stomach deficiency with heart fire encroaching, failing to nourish the primordial qi of the upper jiao; during winter when kidney and bladder cold-water qi is prosperous, the child makes the mother full, causing lung metal and large intestine to assist each other to overcome heart fire and encroach upon spleen and stomach. This is termed "great revenge." The Classics state: "Great excess must be followed by great recovery," which is the normal principle. Thus, primordial qi in the skin, blood vessels, and muscle layers is exhausted externally. When simultaneously attacked by great cold and dryness, symptoms include aversion to wind and cold, tinnitus, pulling pain between waist and back, nasal congestion, anosmia, cold forehead, headache, severe aversion to wind and cold, dizziness with desire not to open eyes, abdominal coldness with excessive phlegm and saliva, regurgitation of food after eating, constant abdominal pain, gastric pain, hypochondriac contraction and urgency with intermittent pain, inability to strain abdomen, frequent diarrhea rather than constipation, continuous lower qi discharge or borborygmus. These indicate extreme spleen and stomach deficiency. Turbulent qi in the chest, restlessness, leading to impending Huoluan (cholera-like syndrome); obstruction in throat and diaphragm, culminating in dysphagia with sound, panting, and closure. Relief may occur in sunny places or warm rooms, but recurrence follows inhalation of cold wind. Symptoms include cold extremities, heavy body unable to turn, inability to look back, frequent urination with occasional irritability. This formula treats these conditions and is indicated for autumn/winter cold-recovery pathogenic factors.
Shen Qu (Endowed Mass), Chai Hu (Bupleuri Radix, use according to severity of hypochondriac pain), Jiang Huang (Curcumae Longae Rhizoma) (4 fen each); Dang Gui Shen (Radix Angelicae Sinensis, body part), Qing Pi (Exocarpium Citri Grandis) (6 fen each); Huang Qi (Astragali Radix), Ren Shen (Ginseng Radix), Yi Zhi Ren (Alpiniae Oxyphyllae Fructus), Wu Zhu Yu (Evodiae Fructus, washed with water and dried), Chen Pi (Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae), Bai Jiang Can (Bombyx Batryticatus) (8 fen each); Ze Xie (Alismatis Rhizoma, reduce dose if frequent urination); Ban Xia (Rhizoma Pinelliae Preparatum) (1 qian, washed); Gan Cao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma, raw 6 fen, cooked 6 fen); Mai Mian (Tritici Farina, stir-fried) (1.5 qian); Cao Dou Kou Ren (Fructus Alpiniae Katsumadai, wrapped in flour and roasted until done) (1.4 qian); Tao Ren (Persicae Semen, seven pieces, soaked in water, peeled, and removed of sharp ends).
Except for Tao Ren which is separately ground into paste, pulverize remaining herbs into fine powder and mix uniformly. Use dough soaked in decoction to make pills the size of Sophora japonica seeds. Take 50–70 pills per dose with plain warm water, after meals.