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The son of Aotun Zhouqing, Vice Commissioner of the Jiankang Circuit Surveillance Office, was twenty-three years old. In the third month of the Wuyin year of Zhiyuan, he fell ill with fever, emaciation, fatigue in the four limbs, somnolence with night sweats, loose and frequent stools, borborygmus, anorexia, loss of taste, reluctance to speak, and a fluctuating condition lasting for over half a year. I was invited to treat him. His pulse was floating and rapid, but weak upon deep pressure. This exactly corresponds to Wang Shuhe's "Song of Floating Pulse": "Cold accumulated in the zang organs, heat in the ying (nutritive) level; to generate essence, one must tonify deficiency." First, moxa was applied to Zhongwan (CV12), the front-mu point of the Stomach meridian, to guide clear qi upward and fatten the cou-li (skin and interstices). Then, moxa was applied to Qihai (CV6) to generate yuan qi (original qi), nourish the blood vessels, and grow muscles. Finally, moxa was applied to Zusanli (ST36), the he-sea point of the Stomach meridian, to assist stomach qi, withdraw upper heat, and direct it downward into the yin level. A sweet-cold formula was used to drain heat, assisted by sweet-warm herbs to nourish middle qi. The patient also consumed foods like japonica rice and mutton to consolidate stomach qi. He was advised to be cautious with speech, moderate diet, restrain anger, and curb desires. The disease gradually diminished, and within several months, his qi recovered. Two years later, his physique became twice as robust as before. Someone asked: "Physicians generally use bitter-cold herbs to treat consumptive diseases. Why do you use sweet-cold drugs? Mutton is believed to aid heat, which people usually avoid. Yet you prescribed mutton and japonica rice. Please analyze this in detail." I said: "The *Neijing* states: 'For fire as the primary pathogen, drain it with sweet flavor.' The *Lingshu·Zangqi Fashi Lun* states: 'The Heart suffers from flaccidity; hasten to use sour to astringe it, and use sweet to drain it.' To drain heat and tonify qi, sweet-cold is indispensable. If bitter-cold were used to drain spleen earth, the spleen would become more deficient, and fire pathogens would flourish further. It is also stated: 'For insufficiency of form, warm with qi; for insufficiency of essence, tonify with flavor. For exhaustion, apply warmth; for damage, apply benefit.' The *Shi Ji* (Ten Categories) states: 'Tonification can remove weakness; ginseng and mutton are examples.' My predecessor also said: 'Ginseng can tonify qi deficiency; mutton can tonify blood deficiency.' For consumptive diseases, eating mutton is perfectly acceptable." The person sighed and said: "Jiegu's (Zhang Yuansu's) learning indeed has its origins."

[Liangge San] Treats accumulation of heat and irritability in adults and children, excessive thirst, facial heat, cracked lips, dry throat, swollen tongue, throat obstruction, red eyes, epistaxis, hard nodules on the neck and cheeks, mouth and tongue sores, delirium and madness, dryness and constipation of the intestines and stomach, urinary and fecal retention, restlessness during sleep, and all types of wind-heat congestion.
Qianqiao (Forsythiae Fructus, 4 liang) Poxiao (Natrii Sulfas, 2 liang) Chuan Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma, 2 liang) Bohe (Menthae Haplocalycis Herba) Huangqin (Scutellariae Radix) Shanzhizi (Gardeniae Fructus) Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma, prepared, 1 liang each)
Grind the above seven ingredients into powder. Take 3 qian per dose, with 1.5 sheng of water, 5-7 leaves of Zhuye (Bambusae Folium), and a little honey. Decoct until reduced to 0.7 parts, strain, and take warm after meals. For children, take 0.5 qian, adjusting according to age. Stop subsequent doses if diarrhea occurs.

[Longnao Jisu Wan] Treats stagnant heat in the chest and lung heat, cough with hemoptysis, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, lower bleeding, bloody stranguria, and vexatious heat due to deficiency consumption.
Chaihu (Bupleuri Radix, 2 liang, sliced, soaked overnight in nearly 0.5 sheng of boiling water with Mutong, then strained for juice, added to the paste later) Mutong (Akebiae Caulis, 2 liang, sliced, mixed with Chaihu juice) Ejiao (Asini Corii Colla) Puhuang (Typhae Pollen) Renshen (Ginseng Radix, 2 liang each) Maidong (Ophiopogonis Radix, 4 liang) Huangqi (Astragali Radix, 1 liang) Jisu Jingye (Elsholtziae Spica/Cleomeae Herba, 1 jin, i.e., Longnao Bohe/Garden Mint) Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma, 1.5 liang) Sheng Gan Dihuang Mo (Rehmanniae Radix Preparata, 6 liang, added to paste later)
Grind all ingredients into fine powder. Use 2 jin of honey, boil briefly once or twice, then add Sheng Di Huang Mo, stirring constantly. Gradually add the strained Chaihu and Mutong juice, slowly simmer into a paste without burning. Mix with the remaining powders to form pills the size of pea seeds. Take 20 pills per dose with warm boiled water.

[Xixin San] Treats accumulation of heat and wind-heat congestion in the heart and lungs, attacking upward causing dizziness and headache, stiffness and tension in the shoulders and back, painful joints, bitter taste, cracked lips, sore and swollen throat, phlegm-saliva stagnation, thick nasal discharge and sputum, dark and scanty urination, and constipation.
Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma, 1.5 liang) Mahuang (Ephedrae Herba) Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) Jingjie (Schizonepetae Spica) Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix) Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma) Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma, 6 liang each)
Grind the above ingredients into powder. Take 2 qian per dose, with 1 sheng of water, adding a little fresh ginger and Bohe. Decoct until reduced to 0.7 parts, strain, and take warm.