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To treat women suffering from deficiency-cold in the interior due to wind-pathogen, borborygmus (intestinal rumbling) within the abdomen, alternating chills and fever accompanied by headache, irregular menstruation, lingering pain around the umbilicus, or epigastric and abdominal fullness with hardness, impaired digestion, constant coldness of the hands and feet, frequent and chaotic dreams, numbness and pain in the body, disharmony of Ying and Wei (Nutritive and Defensive Qi), weakness preventing movement, as well as postpartum deficiency and damage. All these conditions are suitable for this prescription.

Calcitriton (Zhongru), Yuyuliang (Bauxite), Zhi Shiyuan (Purple Quartz), Gancao (Licorice Root), Huangqin (Scutellaria Root) (each 2 liang 5 qian); Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum), Baishiying (White Quartz), Chuanjiao (Sichuan Pepper), Ganjiang (Dried Ginger) (each 2 liang); Zelan (Agastache Rugosus Herb) (2 liang 6 zhu); Danggui (Angelica Sinensis Radix), Guixin (Cinnamon Twig), Chuanxiong (Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizome), Houpo (Magnolia Bark), Baiziren (Biota Seed), Shengdihuang (Rehmannia Root), Xixin (Asarum Root), Fuling (Poria), Wuweizi (Schisandra Fruit), Longgu (Fossilized Bones) (each 1 liang 5 qian); Shihu (Dendrobium Stem), Yuanzhi (Polygala Root), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Xuduan (Dipsacus Root), Baizhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome), Fangfeng (Saposhnikovia Root), Wutou (Aconitum Carmichaelii Lateral Root) (each 30 zhu); Shanzhuyu (Cornus Fruit), Ziwan (Aster Root) (each 1 liang); Baizhi (Angelica Dahurica Root), Gaoben (Ligusticum Sinense Rhizome), Wuyi (Chimonobambusa Bamboo Mite) (each 18 zhu).

The above thirty-two ingredients are ground into powder, mixed with honey to form pills the size of a wu zi (cherry pit). Take 20 pills with wine per dose, increasing up to 30 pills. (*Qianjin Yifang* includes Yangqishij [Actinolite] 2 liang.)

To treat women suffering from deficiency-cold and damage due to overwork, reduced appetite, lackluster complexion, cold pain in the abdomen, irregular menstruation, shortness of breath, and weakness. This is a formula for tonifying and warming the middle jiao.

Calcitriton (Zhongru), Zhi Shiyuan (Purple Quartz), Fanshi (Alumen) (each 1 liang 5 qian); Baishiying (White Quartz), Chishizhi (Red Halloysite), Danggui (Angelica Sinensis Radix), Gancao (Licorice Root) (each 42 zhu); Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum), Yangqishij (Actinolite), Ganjiang (Dried Ginger) (each 2 liang); Zelan (Agastache Rugosus Herb) (2 liang 6 zhu); Rongrong (Cistanche Stem), Longgu (Fossilized Bones), Guixin (Cinnamon Twig) (each 2 liang 5 qian); Baizhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome), Shaoyao (Peony Root), Houpo (Magnolia Bark), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Chuanjiao (Sichuan Pepper), Shanzhuyu (Cornus Fruit) (each 30 zhu); Baiziren (Biota Seed), Gaoben (Ligusticum Sinense Rhizome) (each 1 liang); Wuyi (Chimonobambusa Bamboo Mite) (18 zhu).

The above twenty-three ingredients are ground into powder, mixed with honey to form pills the size of a wu zi. Take 20 pills with wine per dose, increasing up to 30 pills, three times daily.

To treat various diseases after childbirth, regulating blood and qi, and tonifying deficiency and fatigue.

Zelan (Agastache Rugosus Herb), Gancao (Licorice Root), Danggui (Angelica Sinensis Radix), Chuanxiong (Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizome) (each 42 zhu); Fuzi (Prepared Aconite Lateral Root), Ganjiang (Dried Ginger), Baizhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome), Baizhi (Angelica Dahurica Root), Guixin (Cinnamon Twig), Xixin (Asarum Root) (each 1 liang); Fangfeng (Saposhnikovia Root), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Niuxi (Achyranthes Root) (each 30 zhu); Baiziren (Biota Seed), Shengdihuang (Rehmannia Root), Shihu (Dendrobium Stem) (each 36 zhu); Houpo (Magnolia Bark), Gaoben (Ligusticum Sinense Rhizome), Wuyi (Chimonobambusa Bamboo Mite) (each half liang); Maidong (Ophiopogon Tuber) (2 liang).

The above twenty ingredients are ground into powder, mixed with honey to form pills the size of a wu zi. Take 15 to 20 pills with wine on an empty stomach.