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Treats the same conditions as mentioned above.

Moschus (She Xiang), Caoyu (Mangcao), Rhinocerotis Cornu (Xijiao), Gardeniae Fructus Semen (Zhizi Ren) [each 3 fen], Realgar (Xionghuang), Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Danggui) [not used in *Waitai Mi Yao*], Cinnabar (Dansha) [each 4 fen], Zingiberis Rhizoma Ustus (Ganjiang), Cinnamomi Ramulus (Guixin), Paeoniae Radix Alba (Shaoyao), Asari Radix et Rhizoma (Xixin) [each 5 fen], Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata (Fuzi), Aconiti Radix (Wutou) [each 5 pieces], Scolopendra (Wugong) [1 piece], Crotonis Fructus (Badou) [50 pieces].

The above fifteen ingredients are ground into powder, mixed with honey, pounded for a thousand strokes, and formed into pills the size of small beans. Take three pills per dose, three times daily; the dosage may be increased to five pills. This formula effectively treats all pain caused by Shizhu (a chronic, infectious, or lingering wasting disease).

Formula for treating heat imbalance due to summer-heat.

Puerariae Lobatae Radix (Zige), Gypsum Fibrosum (Shigao), Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma (Renshen), Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix (Danshen), Scutellariae Barbatae Radix (Zican), Sophorae Flavescentis Radix (Kushen), Scrophulariae Radix (Yuan Shen), Asari Radix et Rhizoma (Xixin), Natrii Chloridum (Qiyanshi/Haiyan), Haematitum (Daizhe), Cynomorii Herba (Rongrong), Crotonis Fructus (Badou), Aconiti Radix (Wutou) [each 3 fen], Zingiberis Rhizoma Ustus (Ganjiang), Cinnamomi Ramulus (Guixin), Angelicae Pubescentis Radix (Duohuo) [each 5 fen].

The above sixteen ingredients are ground into powder, mixed with honey, and pounded for over ten thousand strokes. Form into pills the size of small beans. Take six pills per dose: three pills before meals and three pills after meals. Avoid the "Five Pungent Vegetables" (scallion, garlic, leek, chives, and asafoetida), pork, chicken, fish, and garlic. Other foods are not restricted. If one feels intense internal heat, reduce the dosage by one pill per dose. This medicine promotes physical fullness and vitality, improves complexion, strengthens sexual function, and enhances appetite. The discharge of yellowish-white fluid within ten days after taking the medicine is considered an excellent therapeutic sign. Women should take only two pills before and after meals. For children under two years old, form pills the size of rice grains; this allows one to consume alcohol, cures various diseases, and its efficacy and potential adverse effects are detailed below: abdominal accumulations, epigastric and abdominal fullness, hardness below the heart, phlegm-fluid retention, retained food, vomiting and regurgitation of food, rebellious qi, shortness of breath, cough, wheezing in the throat, jaundice, chronic malaria, facial edema, generalized edema, heaviness and discomfort in the four limbs, feeling heavy when sitting or rising, febrile diseases with dampness and itching in the lower body, skin sores and itching, Guan-Ge syndrome (obstruction of upper and lower orifices), prolapse of the large intestine, painful urinary dysfunction with heat (Re Lin), diarrhea, variable complexion, emaciation and weakness, impotence with scanty essence, cold essence, mottled skin pigmentation, severe trauma from falls, blood stasis injury after abortion, scorched and rotting skin and flesh, irregular menstruation (either early or late), amenorrhea with epigastric stuffiness, heaviness in the shoulders and arms, various pediatric diseases, pediatric pi-Qi (abdominal masses), undigested milk, persistent high fever in children, and internal abdominal diseases in children. All the diseases recorded above are treated with Zige Wan (Purple Kudzu Pill). If the condition does not resolve after prolonged administration, adjust the dosage according to the formula until recovery is achieved.