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Rhizoma Polygonati (Yuzhu), Gypsum Fibrosum (Shigao), Radix Puerariae Lobatae (Gegen) (each 1 qian), Caulis Anemones Raddeanae (Baiwei), Rhizoma Notopterygii (Qianghuo), Semen Armeniacae Amarum (Xingren), Radix Glycyrrhizae (Gancao), Radix Chuanxiong (each 6 fen), Radix Saposhnikoviae (Fangfeng) (7 fen, using this herb instead of Ephedrae Herba is more prudent), Fructus Aromatische Schisandrae (Qingmuxiang) (5 fen).
Decoct in water and take orally.

When the pathogenic heat of Cold Damage (Shanghan) has not been eliminated, and wind pathogen is contracted again, it transforms into Warm Malaria (Wen Nue). The manifestation of Warm Malaria involves alternating chills and fever occurring at regular intervals; generally, there is more heat than cold, or fever precedes chills. This often leads to coma and delirium, which differs from typical seasonal malaria. Treatment utilizes Xiao Chai Hu Tang (Minor Bupleurum Decoction), removing Pinelliae Tuber (Banxia), and adding Coptidis Rhizoma (Huanglian), Anemarrhenae Rhizoma (Zhimu), and Fritillariae Thunbergii Bulbus (Beimu) to clear heat. However, the timed alternation of chills and fever in Warm Malaria is naturally distinct from the irregular alternating chills and fever seen in Shaoyang disease (Shaoyang Bing).

Heaviness of the body mostly belongs to cold patterns, but there are also cases involving heat. The Classics state: When wind-dampness combats each other, causing severe pain in the bones and joints, inability to turn over independently, without vomiting or thirst, and with a deficient, floating, and choppy pulse, Guizhi Fuzi Tang (Cinnamon Twig and Aconite Root Decoction) should be used; this is exterior cold. The Classics state: In Shaoyin disease, with abdominal pain, heaviness and pain in the four limbs, and diarrhea, Zhen Wu Tang (True Warrior Decoction) should be used; this is interior cold. The Classics state: After sweating therapy, if the body remains burning hot, it is named Wind-Warmth (Feng Wen). Its symptoms include a floating pulse, sweating, bodily heaviness, excessive sleepiness, snoring breath, and it is treated with Weirui Tang (Polygonatum Decoction); this is exterior cold binding interior heat. The Classics state: In combined disease of the three Yang channels, with abdominal fullness, bodily heaviness, insensitivity of the mouth and tongue, facial greasiness, delirium, urinary incontinence, and spontaneous sweating, Baihu Tang (White Tiger Decoction) should be used; this is heat in both exterior and interior. Furthermore, for Yin-Yang Exchange disease (Yin Yang Yi Bing), characterized by bodily heaviness, shortness of breath, urgency and tightness in the lower abdomen, qi rushing up to the chest, and visual disturbances (seeing spots), Fuzi Lizhong Tang (Aconite and Licorice Center-Regulating Decoction) should be used; this is interior deficiency and cold.
Zhen Wu Tang (See entry on Muscle Twitching).

When damp-heat is abundant, jaundice develops. In Cold Damage, progression to jaundice indicates a severe condition. Heat combined with dampness is like yeast/ferment; over time, it turns yellow. However, not only damp-heat causes jaundice, but cold-dampness can also cause yellowing. The yellow caused by cold-dampness resembles a smoked hue, dark and dull; the yellow caused by damp-heat resembles the color of an orange peel, staining clothes with a pure yellow akin to indigo dye. Additionally, jaundice caused by blood stasis is also induced by damp-heat; blood stasis steamed by accumulated heat results in yellow discoloration. Removing stasis and generating new blood will cause the jaundice to recede naturally.