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Jingang Wan (Golden Pill): Treats bone atrophy due to kidney essence deficiency, where the patient cannot get out of bed. It is suitable to take this formula to tonify essence.
Bixie (Dioscorea Hypoglauca Rhizome), Duzhong (Eucommia Bark, stir-fried with ginger juice), Rongshou (Cistanche Stem), Tusizi (Cuscuta Seed, processed).
Grind the above herbs into fine powder. Boil pig kidneys in wine until soft, mash them, and mix with the powder to make pills, sized like Chinese honeylocust seeds. Take 50-70 pills per dose, swallowed with warm wine on an empty stomach.

Bugan Wan (Liver-Tonifying Pill): Treats the aforementioned syndrome. Symptoms include coldness in the genital area as if ice-cold, sweating in the genital region, and weakness/atrophy in both legs.
Huangqi (Astragalus Root, one qian, roasted), Renshen (Ginseng Root), Gegen (Pueraria Root), Baifuling (Poria, one qian each), Zhuling (Polyporus, one qian each), Shengma (Cimicifuga Rhizome, one qian each), Chaihu (Bupleurum Root), Dangguishen (Angelica Sinensis Root body), Qianghuo (Notopterygium Rhizome), Lianqiao (Forsythia Fruit), Huangbai (Phellodendron Bark), Zexie (Alisma Rhizome), Chenpi (Citrus Reticulata Peel), Shenqu (Medicated Leaven), Zhimu (Anemarrhena Rhizome), Fangfeng (Saposhnikovia Root), Cangzhu (Atractylodes Rhizome), Gancao (Licorice Root, roasted, five fen each).
Add two cups of water, decoct to one cup. Take hot on an empty stomach. Avoid alcohol, damp-producing foods, and wheat products.

Wenshen Tang (Kidney-Warming Decoction): Treats sallow complexion, weakness in the feet, and sweating in the genital region.
Cangzhu (Atractylodes Rhizome, one qian), Baizhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome, one qian), Chaihu (Bupleurum Root, five fen each), Shengma (Cimicifuga Rhizome, five fen each), Mahuang (Ephedra Herb, five fen each), Zhuling (Polyporus, five fen each), Zexie (Alisma Rhizome, five fen each), Jiu Huangbai (Phellodendron Bark, wine-processed, one qian each), Fangfeng (Saposhnikovia Root, one qian each), Baifuling (Poria, one qian each).
Add two cups of water, decoct to one cup. Take warm before meals. Wait for a period of time before eating food.

(Section on Wind-Bi: Treats what secular people call numbness and paralysis. Numbness refers to the type of Bi syndrome characterized by loss of sensation.)

The *Neijing* (Inner Canon) states that when wind, cold, and dampness pathogenic factors mix and invade together, they combine to form Bi syndrome. When wind predominates, it is called Xingbi (Wandering Bi); when cold predominates, it is called Tongbi (Painful Bi); when dampness predominates, it is called Zhuobi (Fixed Bi). Those that are neither painful nor insensible are referred to as Mabu (numbness and anesthesia). In current cases of numbness and anesthesia, the classics describe them as painless and insensible. When the disease lingers and penetrates deeply, the flow of Ying (Nutrient Qi) and Wei (Defensive Qi) becomes sluggish, and the meridians become temporarily sparse or deficient, hence there is no pain. The skin lacks nourishment, hence there is insensibility, resembling the feeling after tight ropes have just been untied.
He Jian (Liu Wansu) stated: When pathogens remain lodged and do not depart, it leads to numbness and spasms in the four limbs.
Danxi (Zhu Zhenheng) said: "Ma" (tingling) is caused by Qi deficiency; "Mu" (woodiness/anesthesia) is caused by damp-phlegm and dead blood. Some cases involve both Qi and Blood deficiency, presenting only with tingling but no anesthesia; some involve deficiency compounded by dampness, presenting with both tingling and anesthesia; some involve deficiency allowing wind-cold-dampness to invade, causing whole-body pulling pain accompanied by numbness. If the condition is severe, one should first induce sweating to release the exterior, then tonify. Some cases involve phlegm stagnation in the four limbs, or numbness in a single finger, which may precede stroke by a year; these are all omens of prior Qi and Blood deficiency. In such cases, preventive regulation is necessary.