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Treats stagnation of the meridians and collaterals, pain in bone joints, spasm and tension of tendons and vessels, with pain worsening upon exposure to yin-cold.
Ru Xiang (Frankincense), Mo Yao (Myrrh) (each separately ground), Chi Shao Yao (Red Peony Root), Shu Di Huang (Prepared Rehmannia Root), Dang Gui (Angelica Sinensis), Xue Jie (Dragon's Blood), Hu Jing Gu (Tiger Tibia Bone) (roasted with butter until yellow).
Grind into fine powder. Take one Mu Gua (Chaenomeles Fruit), cut open and remove seeds, insert the Ru Xiang powder inside, tie tightly with hemp thread to prevent air leakage. Boil in 6 sheng of good wine until the wine is exhausted. Remove the Mu Gua, peel it, and grind into a paste. Add a small amount of cooked honey, pound and mix to form pills, size similar to paulownia seeds. Take 50 pills per dose, adjusting based on whether the disease location is upper or lower.

Treats swelling and pain caused by Bai Hu Feng (White Tiger Wind) and Li Jie Feng (Joint-Traveling Wind). Use 5 sheng of strong vinegar, heat and boil for three to four boils. Cut 2-3 sheng of scallion whites, boil once more, strain, wrap in cloth, and apply hot compresses to the affected area, rubbing until appropriate.

Treats pain throughout the body and bone joints with miraculous effect.
Shu Di Huang (Prepared Rehmannia Root) (3 liang), Dang Gui (Angelica Sinensis), Bai Zhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome), Bai Shao (White Peony Root), Xu Duan (Dipsacus Root), Ren Shen (Ginseng Root) (each 1 liang). Grind into powder, make pills with wine paste, size similar to paulownia seeds. Alternatively, divide into five doses and decoct for oral administration for better efficacy.

Treats bone and joint pain due to damp-heat. If there is qi stagnation, add qi-regulating herbs; if blood deficiency, add blood-nourishing herbs; if pain is severe, take with ginger juice while hot.
Huang Bo (Phellodendron Bark) (stir-fried), Cang Zhu (Atractylodes Lancea Rhizome) (soaked in rice wash water and stir-fried). Grind into powder, take with boiling water mixed with ginger juice. Both herbs possess vigorous qi. For exterior excess patterns, add a little wine as an assistant. If phlegm carries heat, first purge with Shen Xiong Wan, then regulate with Chen Tong San type formulas.
Treats alcohol-dampness and phlegm-gout.
Huang Bo (Phellodendron Bark) (wine-fried), Wei Ling Xian (Clematis Root) (wine-fried, each 5 qian), Cang Zhu (Atractylodes Lancea Rhizome), Qiang Huo (Notopterygium Rhizome), Gan Cao (Licorice Root) (3 qian), Chen Pi (Citrus Peel), Shao Yao (Peony Root) (each 1 qian). Grind into powder, take 1-2 qian per dose, mix with boiling water and ginger juice.
Huo Luo Dan (Meridian-Activating Pill)
See previous section on Stroke.

Da Feng Bing (Great Wind Disease) is contracted from the killing and pestilential winds of heaven and earth. Ancients called it Li Feng (Leprosy/Malignant Wind) because of its fierce and violent nature. It must be distinguished whether the pathogen is above or below. For those above, use Zui Xian San to expel foul saliva and evil blood from between the teeth. For those below, use Tong Tian Zai Zao San to expel foul matter and old worms from the anus. Although the expulsion routes differ (upper vs. lower), they all pertain to the Hand and Foot Yangming meridians, as the stomach and large intestine are like markets, accepting everything. The fu-organs of the Spleen and膈 (Diaphragm/Spleen-Stomach region): Spleen governs muscles, Lung governs skin and hair; this is a fu-organ disease affecting the zang-organs. Treating this disease requires observing nodules and sores. If appearing first on the upper body and predominantly there, the disease is upper. If appearing first on the lower body and predominantly there, the disease is lower. If both are affected, it is upper disease extending to the lower. Stomach and Large Intestine accept everything; this is how wind enters. Qi invasion leads to more upper symptoms; Blood invasion leads to more lower symptoms; simultaneous Qi and Blood invasion is severe. Without a divine physician and an iron-willed patient, cure is rare. If onset is gradual from above or below, it is treatable. However, if people are negligent and cannot abstain from rich flavors and sexual activity, relapse is inevitable. Relapse means ultimate incurability.
Wind arises from eight directions; following seasons brings life, opposing them brings death. People with insufficient Middle Qi are like empty vessels receiving objects, thus contracting this killing qi, transforming into dampness, which over time becomes heat. Qi becomes turbid, blood becomes filthy, spreading through organs, generating worms and ulcerating muscles, causing epidemic harm. Worms eating the Heart cause perforated soles and swollen knees; eating the Liver causes eyebrow loss; eating the Lungs causes nasal collapse and hoarseness; eating the Kidneys cause tinnitus, ear canal sores, numbness, or needle-like pain; eating the Body causes itching like insects crawling. Onset from head/face is Shun Feng (Smooth Wind); from soles is Ni Feng (Reverse Wind). All result from damp-heat toxicity condensing filth. First purge with Zai Zao San, regulate with thin porridge, avoid exertion. Then use Zui Xian San to expel foul saliva and evil blood from teeth via vomiting or purging to vent pathogens. Face color turns from black to white, bringing peace.

Causes of Da Feng Zheng vary: sexual indulgence facing wind, drunken sleep on wet ground, undressing when hot, entering water while sweating, mountain travel hungry/empty-stomached contracting miasma, labor running in cold rain/dew. All stem from internal injury to the form, failure to avoid taboos, external contraction of wind-damp-toxic qi penetrating skin, vessels, muscles, and bones. Failure to disperse initially allows accumulation. Long stagnation disrupts Ying and Wei circulation, steaming internally generating worms and externally generating sores, affecting all zang-fu and meridians. Eyebrow loss indicates toxin in Lungs; purple blisters on face indicate toxin in Liver; painful/perforated soles indicate toxin in Kidneys; patchy lesions indicate toxin in Spleen; eye damage indicates toxin in Heart. These are severe zang-organ involvements. Ancients stated Da Feng has Three Causes and Five Deaths. Three Causes: Wind Toxin, Damp Toxin, Contagion. Five Deaths: Skin Death (numbness), Pulse Death (pus formation), Flesh Death (insensitivity to cutting), Tendon Death (limb flaccidity), Bone Death (nasal collapse, eyebrow loss, blindness, lip eversion, choking). These are difficult to treat. Why? Evil and Righteous Qi clash, Qi and Blood boil, damp-phlegm and dead blood fill meridians. Heat dominance rots flesh, generating worms/sores, pain/itch/numbness. Treatment: unblock zang-fu internally, vent meridians externally, nourish Ying and benefit Wei, tonify Righteousness and expel Evil. Large doses of potent herbs taken long-term will naturally resolve worms, sores, pain, itch, and numbness. Must strictly abstain from alcohol and sex, avoid wind-aggravating foods (meat, fish, salt, sauce, roasted/fried, raw/cold). Cultivate pure heart and few desires to ensure safety.
Li Yang (Malignant Ulcers) affect not just one organ; Qi and Blood are invariably damaged, complications are invariably complex. Accumulated over years before manifesting externally, one must distinguish meridian levels (upper/lower) and disease nature (deficiency/excess). Do not indiscriminately use toxic-purging herbs. First strengthen Stomach Qi and solidify the root, then treat sores. Diseases have variations and similarities; treatments include sweating, purging, pricking, attacking, and tonifying. Assess severity of complications, sequence of changes, authenticity of similar patterns. Adjust sweating/purging/pricking/attacking/tonifying methods based on patient's deficiency/excess and disease origin. Deficiency refers to Righteous Qi deficiency; Excess refers to Pathogenic Qi excess. Zai Zao San treats Yin-pattern diseases using Zao Jiao Ci (Gleditsia Spine) to reach the site directly, expelling wind-toxin from Ying-Blood. Liver governs Blood; stagnant evil blood belongs to Liver. Worms also arise from Jueyin Wind-Wood transformation; this herb treats the Zang-Qi, focusing on killing worms. Bai Chou (Canarium Album Seed) enters Stomach/Large Intestine, moves Lower Jiao Blood, clears Qi-level damp-heat, pursues worms/removes accumulation, expelling via stool/urine. Yu Jin (Curcuma Aromatica Rhizome) is light and ascending, resolving Qi/Blood stagnation; bitter/pungent, clearing Yang-toxin/accumulated heat. Combined with Da Huang (Rhubarb Root) to enter Stomach/Intestines Ying-Blood, expelling stasis/worms. Zui Xian San treats Yang-pattern diseases using Niu Bang Zi (Arctium Fruit) to dissipate Yangming wind-toxin. For widespread malignant sores: Hu Ma (Sesame Seed) disperses wind, moistens skin; Ji Li (Tribulus Fruit) disperses evil blood, clears Stomach, opens nose, expels wind; Fang Feng (Saposhnikovia Root) commands all winds; Gua Lou Gen (Trichosanthes Root) resolves vexing heat; Gou Qi (Goji Berry) moistens Kidney dryness, expels wind; Man Jing (Vitality Flower) disperses wind, brightens eyes; Ku Shen (Sophora Root) attacks damp-heat, cleans ulcers, removes red leprosy/eyebrow loss toxins. These eight herbs comprehensively dispel wind and mold, covering upper/lower, inside/outside.
There are 36 Wind syndromes, but Li Feng is the most cruel. Infection often leads to death due to non-compliance with taboos. *Jing* says: "Pulse wind abundance is Li; Li means evil." Pulse governs Blood. Blood heat attracts killing wind qi, causing vessel coagulation and Wei Qi stagnation, leading to turbid Qi. Nose is essential for breathing, Zong Qi passes through it. Current circulating Qi fails to ascend for use, causing nasal pillar rot and muscle ulcers. Textual treatments include sweating and blood-pricking. Sweating vents Ying-Wei friction-heat; pricking swelling expels retained evil blood. Zhang Hezi said: "One sweat equals thousand needles," as blood-pricking is less comprehensive than sweating. Crucially, support Stomach Qi to solidify the root, reinforce Wei Qi and nourish Ying Blood subsequently. Tracing the root, it stems from desire/labor damaging Qi/Blood, failing to avoid evil wind/cold/damp, causing dampness to interfere with Stomach Qi. Righteous deficiency is the root; damp-heat is the branch. Though named Wind, do not treat solely as Wind.
A poor woman, lacking rich/greasy food, took Zui Xian San plus Ji Jian Si Wu Tang (Modified Four Substance Decoction) for over 100 doses. Within half a year, menstruation resumed and wind syndrome cured. Thus, valuing bland flavors is key.