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Treatment for stroke with excessive heat, manifesting as throwing hands and feet about, delirious speech, and unconsciousness:
Qiaoliao (Forsythiae Fructus), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Shanzhizi (Gardeniae Fructus), Huangqin (Scutellariae Radix), Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma), Bohe (Menthae Haplocalycis Herba), Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma), Puxiao (Natrii Sulfas). Decoct two zhong of water to eight fen. Take at any time.
Liangge San (Cooling the Diaphragm Powder), which is Qingxin Tang (Clear Heart Decoction) minus Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma), treats the same condition.

Treatment for stroke where phlegm confounds the heart orifice, manifesting as a stiff tongue unable to speak and hemiplegia; this formula is particularly effective for obese individuals:
Nanxing (Arisaematis Rhizoma Preparatum), Banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma), Zhishi (Aurantii Fructus Immaturus), Fuling (Poria), Juhong (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium Rubrum), Shichangpu (Acori Tatarinowii Rhizoma), Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Zhuru (Bambusae Caulis in Taenia). Decoct two zhong of water with five slices of fresh ginger to eight fen. Take long after meals.

For stroke causing dizziness and vertigo of the head and eyes, feeling as if falling: See previous formula.

For stroke causing dizziness and vertigo of the head and eyes, feeling as if falling: See previous formula.

For stroke causing flaccid paralysis of limbs and tetanus, aiming to induce sweating to expel wind:
Zibei Fuping (Duckweed), collected on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, quantity not limited. Grind into fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of a bullet. Take one pill per dose, dissolve in wine made by pouring over black beans, and take hot.
This formula is named Quhan Ji Qufeng Dan (Sweating Wind-Expelling Pill).

For stroke causing flaccid paralysis of limbs, facial paralysis (deviation of mouth and eyes), dysarthria, and tendon spasm; long-term use improves hearing and vision:
Use [missing herb name] grass, harvested on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month or the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, quantity not limited. Process through nine cycles of steaming and sun-drying. For each steaming, sprinkle with wine, honey, and water, steam for the duration of one meal, then dry in the sun. Repeat this process nine times before grinding into fine powder. Mix with refined honey to form pills the size of a tung tree seed. Take eighty pills per dose, swallow with warm wine on an empty stomach.

For various wind pathogens attacking upward, causing dizziness and heaviness of the head, tinnitus, nasal congestion, throat obstruction, skin itching, stubborn numbness, and urticaria:
Jingjie (Schizonepetae Spica), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Chenpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium), Huoxiang (Agastaches Herba), Houpo (Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex), Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma), Fuling (Poria), Jiangcan (Bombyx Batryticatus), Chantui (Cicadae Periostracum), Qianghuo (Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix), Xiong (Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizoma). Decoct two zhong of water with three slices of fresh ginger and two cun of scallion white to eight fen. Take at any time.

For stroke causing generalized numbness and insensitivity, pain in the four limbs, mental confusion, and copious phlegm-saliva:
Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Baixianpi (Dictamni Cortex), Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix), Rougui (Cinnamomi Cortex), Xingren (Armeniacae Semen Amarum), Mahuang (Ephedrae Herba), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix), Chuanxiong (Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizoma), Duhuo (Angelicae Pubescentis Radix), Fuling (Poria), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma). Decoct two zhong of water with three slices of fresh ginger to eight fen. Take long after meals.

For joint pain:
Qianghuo (Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix), Fuzi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Preparata), Wuyao (Linderae Radix). Decoct one and a half zhong of water with three slices of fresh ginger to eight fen. Take at any time.

For stroke causing migratory joint pain (li jie), flaccid paralysis, and anesthesia:
Shihu (Dendrobii Caulis), Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix), Hugujia (Pantheris Os), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Duzhong (Eucommiae Cortex), Niuxi (Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix), Chuanxiong (Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizoma), Xuduan (Dipsaci Radix), Bajitian (Morindae Officinalis Radix), Jinmao Gouji (Cibotii Rhizoma), Shinanye (Aucubae Folium), Yinyuye (Ilicis Cornutae Folium).
Cut the above herbs, soak in good wine for one day, simmer slowly for one shi (two hours), remove the "fire qi" (heat/spiciness), and take. Total weight of herbs: one jin; amount of wine: ten jin.