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Formula for treating various deficiencies, consumptive diseases, and hundred types of injuries.

Dioscoreae Rhizoma (2 liang), Cynomorii Herba (4 liang), Schisandrae Fructus, Cuscutae Semen, Eucommiae Cortex (each 3 liang), Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix, Corni Fructus, Rehmanniae Radix, Alismatis Rhizoma, Poria (one version is Poria cocos), Morusae Radix, Halloysit Rubra (each 1 liang).

The above twelve medicinal materials are ground into powder, mixed with honey to make pills the size of Chinese quince seeds. Take twenty pills before meals with wine, increasing gradually to thirty pills, twice a day. There are no dietary restrictions, except avoiding vinegar, garlic, and stale or rancid foods. After seven days of taking the medicine, one will become strong, limbs will be moist and lustrous, lips and mouth reddish, hands and feet warm, face radiant, digestion improved, body comfortable and harmonious, voice clear and resonant; this is the verification of efficacy. After ten days, muscles grow. The medicinal power penetrates the middle jiao and enters the brain and nose, inevitably causing soreness and pain; do not be surprised. If seeking significant weight gain, add Dunhuang Gypsum (Stalactitum) 2 liang. For forgetfulness due to loss of vitality, add Polygalae Radix 1 liang. For lack of bodily moisture and luster, add Platycodi Semen 1 liang. (In *Gu Jin Lu Yan*, there is White Horse Penis 2 liang, making sixteen ingredients in total. It treats five labors and seven injuries in men, headache, vertigo, cold extremities, intermittent irritability and heat, or cold bi-syndrome with bone pain and immobility of waist and hips, eating much but not gaining muscle, or eating little but feeling full, dry and lusterless body, exhaustion of yang qi, stagnation of yin qi. This medicine can tonify the twelve meridians, balance yin and yang, regulate internal and external, calm the soul and spirit, open the triple burner, break accumulations, thicken the intestines and stomach, eliminate pathogenic factors from the five zang organs, remove latent heat from the heart, strengthen tendons and bones, lighten the body and improve vision, dispel wind and cold, curing all ailments. Its tonifying benefits are extensive; regular intake is advisable. Even seventy-year-old elders gain extraordinary strength after taking it, let alone...)

Formula for treating deficiency injuries leading to depletion of essence in both men and women, characterized by dizziness of head and eyes, painful joints, reduced appetite, emaciation, and various diseases.

Dioscoreae Rhizoma, Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata (*Gu Jin Lu Yan* uses Poria), Ginseng Radix, Alismatis Rhizoma (each 8 fen), Asparagi Radix, Rehmanniae Radix, Scutellariae Radix, Angelicae Sinensis Radix (each 10 fen), Drynariae Rhizoma (Note: Text says Gan Qi - Dry Lacquer/Resin? Actually "Gan Qi" usually refers to Dried Lacquer, but contextually might be distinct. Sticking to literal: Dry Lacquer), Prunus Armeniacae Semen Amarum, Ecliptae Herba (Note: Text says Ejiao - Donkey-hide Gelatin), Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma, Ampelopsis Radix (*Gu Jin Lu Yan* uses Saposhnikoviae Radix), Paeoniae Radix Alba, Gypsum Fibrosum, Peucedani Radix (each 3 fen), Platycodonis Radix, Zingiberis Rhizoma, Cinnamomi Ramulus (each 4 fen), Rhei Radix et Rhizoma (6 fen), Schisandrae Fructus (16 fen), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (20 fen), Sojae Semen Praeparatum (5 fen. *Gu Jin Lu Yan*...).

The above twenty-four medicinal materials are ground into powder, mixed with honey and date paste, pounded three thousand times, and made into pills the size of Chinese quince seeds. Take five pills with wine, three times a day. Gradually increase to ten pills. (Zhang Zhongjing's version does not have these pills; instead, they are pill-sized like bullet shots, take one pill per dose, with one hundred pills as a course.)