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Formula for treating Eight Winds and Twelve Bi syndromes.
Duhuo (Radix Angelicae Pubescentis), Shinan (Foliium Nandinae) (each 4 liang); Fangfeng (Radix Saposhnikoviae) (3 liang); Fuzi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata), Wutou (Radix Aconiti), Tianxiong (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata), Yinyu (Fructus Corylinae) (each 2 liang).
The above seven herbs are chopped, soaked in 2 dou of wine for seven days. Each dose is half he, taken three times a day, until efficacy is observed.

Bianque stated: For sudden onset of evil wind, with chest oppression, severe toxicity, and feeling as if dying, urgently moxa the transverse crease below the big toe of the foot. The number of moxa cones (zhuang) should correspond to the patient's age; recovery will be immediate. If tendons are tight and walking is impossible, for tightness of tendons at the medial malleolus, moxa forty zhuang above the medial malleolus; for tightness of tendons at the lateral malleolus, moxa thirty zhuang above the lateral malleolus; recovery will be immediate. If the eyes are fixed upward (eye deviation), moxa twenty zhuang behind each eye. If unable to speak, moxa one hundred zhuang above the third vertebral spinous process. If unable to recognize people, moxa seven zhuang at the end of the floating ribs. If there is upward deviation of the eyes, lockjaw, and cutting pain in the abdomen, moxa fourteen zhuang on the first transverse line below the scrotum; this is also effective for sudden death. For chronic wind, sudden wind causing alternating spasm and flaccidity, various wind diseases suddenly attacking without self-awareness, or abdominal distension and fullness, or hemiplegia, or lockjaw with inability to speak and spontaneous salivation, or closed eyes with deafness, or cold stiff body, or irritability, confusion, and erratic mood, or cyanotic lips with white mouth corners, upward deviation of eyes, and opisthotonos, immediately upon sensing the onset, moxa Shenting (GV24) once with seven zhuang. This acupoint is located directly above Yintang (EX-HN3) at the hairline. Next, moxa Qucha (BL4) twice, seven zhuang each. This acupoint is located one and a half cun laterally from Shenting. Next, moxa Shangguan (ST7) twice, seven zhuang each, also known as Keyuren (ST7). It is located in the depression above the upper border of the zygomatic arch anterior to the ear. Next, moxa Xiaguan (ST7) twice, seven zhuang each. It is located in the depression where the arterial pulse can be felt below the zygomatic arch anterior to the ear. Next, moxa Jiache (ST6) twice, seven zhuang each. It is located in the depression at the angle of the jaw. Next, moxa Lianquan (CV23) once with seven zhuang. It is located in the depression posterior to the hyoid bone on the midline of the head and neck. Next, moxa Xinhui (GV22) once with seven zhuang. It is located two cun above Shenting. Next, moxa Baihui (GV20) once with seven zhuang. It is located at the apex of the head, in the center. Next, moxa Benshen (GB13) twice, seven zhuang each. It is located two fen into the hairline directly above the ear (alternatively described as four fen). Next, moxa Tianzhu (BL10) twice, seven zhuang each. It is located in the depression between the large tendons posterior to the neck, entering the hairline. Next, moxa Taodao (GV10) once with seven zhuang. It is located in the interspace below the Dazhui (GV14) vertebra. Next, moxa Fengmen (BL12) twice, seven zhuang each. It is located one and a half cun laterally from the second lumbar/thoracic vertebra (context implies thoracic, specifically T2). Next, moxa Xinshu (BL15) twice, seven zhuang each. It is located one and a half cun laterally from the fifth thoracic vertebra. Next, moxa Ganshu (BL18) twice, seven zhuang each. It is located one and a half cun laterally from the ninth thoracic vertebra. Next, moxa Shenshu (BL23) twice, seven zhuang each. It is located one and a half cun laterally from the fourteenth thoracic vertebra (Note: Text says 14th, standard is 2nd lumbar/L2, but translation follows text strictly as "fourteenth vertebra"). Next, moxa Pangguangshu (BL28) twice, seven zhuang each. It is located one and a half cun laterally from the nineteenth thoracic vertebra (Note: Text says 19th, standard is 2nd lumbar/L2, but translation follows text strictly as "nineteenth vertebra"). Next, moxa Quchi (LI11) twice, seven zhuang each. It is located in the depression at the lateral end of the elbow crease when the elbow is flexed. Next, moxa Jianyu (LI15) twice, seven zhuang each. It is located in the depression between the two bones at the midpoint of the shoulder tip. Next, moxa Zhigou (TE6) twice, seven zhuang each. It is located three cun proximal to the wrist crease on the dorsal aspect of the forearm, between the two bones. Next, moxa Hegu (LI4) twice, seven zhuang each. It is located in the depression between the first and second metacarpal bones at the tiger's mouth. Next, moxa Yangfu (GB38) twice, seven zhuang each. It is located in the depression at the end of the fibula above the lateral malleolus. Next, moxa Kunlun (BL60) twice, seven zhuang each. It is located in the depression between the lateral malleolus and the calcaneal tendon.

For treating wind diseases, moxa Shangxing (GV23) and Baihui (GV20) each with two hundred zhuang; Qianding (GV21) with two hundred forty zhuang; Naohu (GV16) and Fengfu (GV16) each with three hundred zhuang. One source states that for severe wind, moxa Baihui (GV20) with seven hundred zhuang. To treat various types of wind, measure two cun and three fen laterally from the flat area of the greater curvature of the cervical spine (Dazhui) at the back of the neck. Use the patient's finger-cun measurement. Moxa one hundred zhuang on each side for recovery. For wind-induced tinnitus, measure eight fen and a half posterior to the ear; there is a small opening. Moxa to treat all wind diseases for recovery, including mania. Moxa one hundred zhuang anterior and posterior to both Ear Gates (Ermen, TE21). For sudden illness with evil wind causing death-like state, inability to speak, and flesh bi with loss of consciousness, moxa the fifth vertebra, named Zangshu, with one hundred fifty zhuang, up to three hundred zhuang for cure. Xinshu (BL15) is at the fifth segment (one source says seventh segment), opposite the heart, spanning three inter-sternal spaces. It primarily treats Heart Wind with abdominal distension and fullness, indigestion, vomiting blood, emaciation of limbs, anorexia, epistaxis, vertigo, blurred vision, pain in shoulders and hypochondrium, lower abdominal urgency. Moxa two to three hundred zhuang. Dachangshu (BL25) is located one and a half cun apart on both sides of the sixteenth vertebra. It primarily treats wind causing borborygmus in the abdomen, intestinal diarrhea, indigestion, colic, stiffness and pain in the waist and spine, difficulty in urination and defecation, and inability to eat. Moxa one hundred zhuang, repeated every three days. Yemen is located one cun within the axillary hair, named Taiyang Yin, also known as Yejian. Moxa fifty zhuang, primarily treating wind. Jiegǔ (GB39) is located three cun above the lateral malleolus. Moxa one hundred zhuang to treat wind causing heavy body, irritability, and pain in the legs and shins.