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Take one white-feathered, black-boned hen (Bai Mao Wu Gu Mu Ji), feed it with glutinous rice for seven days, ensuring it does not eat insects, ants, or wild food. Strangle it with a rope, remove the feathers and entrails, and place the following herbs inside the chicken's abdomen:
Sheng Di Huang (Raw Rhizoma Rehmanniae), Shu Di Huang (Prepared Rhizoma Rehmanniae), Tian Men Dong (Radix Asparagi), Mai Men Dong (Tuber Ophiopogonis) each 2 liang.
Place the chicken in a pottery vessel, add aged wine, and boil until tender. Remove the chicken and discard the medicinal residues. Roast over mulberry wood fire until scorched and dry, then grind into powder. Add the following herbs:
Du Zhong (Eucommia Bark, stir-fried) 2 liang; Ren Shen (Ginseng Root), Zhi Gan Cao (Honey-fried Licorice Root), Rou Cong Rong (Cistanche Stem), Bu Gu Zhi (Fructus Psoraleae), Hui Xiang (Fennel Fruit), Sha Ren (Amomum Fruit) each 1 liang; Chuan Xiong (Rhizoma Chuanxiong), Bai Zhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome), Dan Shen (Salvia Miltiorrhiza Root).
Soak the above herbs in vinegar for three days, dry them, and grind into powder. Mix this powder with the previous medicinal wine, use wheat paste to form pills. Take 50 pills orally with warm wine on an empty stomach.

Jin Mao Gou Ji (Gold-haired Dogwood Fern Rhizome, remove yellow hairs), Wei Ling Xian (Radix Saposhnikoviae), Liang Jiang (Zingiberis Officinalis Rhizoma Prepared), Chi Shao Yao (Radix Paeoniae Rubra) each 1 liang; Shu Ai Ye (Prepared Mugwort Leaf) 2 liang (boil with vinegar, roast until dry, and grind into powder); Pao Fu Zi (Prepared Aconite Lateralis Radix) half piece.
Grind all ingredients into powder together. Take half of the powder, mix with vinegar-boiled wheat paste, and combine with the remaining half of the powder to form pills, sized like paulownia seeds. Take 10 pills per dose, orally with warm wine before meals on an empty stomach.

Xi Jiao (Rhinoceros Horn), Bai Shao (Radix Paeoniae Alba), Dan Pi (Cortex Moutan), Zhi Shi (Fructus Aurantii Immaturus) each 1 qian; Huang Qin (Scutellaria Root), Ju Pi (Citrus Reticulata Peel), Bai Cao Shuang (Soot from Burning Straw), Jie Geng (Platycodon Root) each 8 fen; Sheng Di Huang (Raw Rhizoma Rehmanniae) 1 qian; Gan Cao (Licorice Root) 3 fen.
Add 2 sheng of water, decoct to obtain 8 he of liquid. Take orally on an empty stomach; self-healing can be achieved after several doses. Alternatively, crush rhizome of Imperata cylindrica (Mao Gen Cao) to extract juice, grind Chen Xiang (Aquilaria Wood) thickly, and take 5 qian mixed with the juice. Another method is to store strong vinegar in a bottle, heat it over fire, and inhale the rising steam through both nostrils; bleeding will naturally subside.

When women experience menstrual pain resembling twisting or wringing during menstruation, it is called Dysmenorrhea (Tong Jing). The symptoms differ between Stagnant Heat (Yu Re) and Deficiency Cold (Xu Han). For Stagnant Heat, the following is suitable:
Huang Lian (Coptis Rhizome, boiled in wine) 8 liang; Xiang Fu (Rhizoma Cyperi, stir-fried) 6 liang; Wu Ling Zhi (Excrement Trogopterori, half stir-fried, half raw) 3 liang; Dang Gui Wei (Tail of Angelica Sinensis Root) 2 liang.
Grind and sieve the above herbs, use congee as a binder to form pills. Take 3-4 qian orally with clear soup on an empty stomach; long-term use leads to self-healing.
If it is Deficiency Cold, use the following:
Ren Shen (Ginseng Root), Huang Qi (Astragalus Root), Dang Gui (Angelica Sinensis Root), Bai Zhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome) each 1 liang; Rou Gui (Cinnamon Bark) 1 qian; Pao Fu Zi (Prepared Aconite Lateralis Radix) 1 piece.
Decoct in water; taking 20-30 doses should result in recovery.