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Treats the condition where extreme heat in the pulse leads to loss of blood color, resulting in a pale, dry, and lusterless complexion; food intake fails to nourish the muscles and skin. This formula clears heat, stops thirst, and strengthens stomach qi.
Sheng Dihuang Zhi (Fresh Rehmanniae Radix Juice), Sheng Maidong (Fresh Ophiopogonis Tuber), Chi Mi (Red Honey) (each 1 sheng); Xin (Heart, alternatively described as Chi/Douchi - Fermented Soybean), Yuanzhi (Polygalae Radix) (each 2 sheng); Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Fuling (Poria), Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix), Gan Dihuang (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix) (each 3 liang); Gancao (Licorice Root) (2 liang); Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum) (6 liang); Sheng Weirui (Polygonati Odorati Rhizoma) (4 liang).
Take the above thirteen ingredients. Chop eleven of them, decoct with 12 sheng of water until reduced to 2.7 sheng, strain, then add Sheng Dihuang Zhi and Chi Mi, and decoct again until 3.5 sheng remains. Divide into four doses.

Chest pain radiating to the lower back, epigastric vomiting and regurgitation, complexion lacking moisture. Moxibustion at the aforementioned acupoint, number of moxa cones (Zhuang) according to the patient's age. The acupoint is located on both sides of Juque (CV14), half cun apart (some texts say one cun). For scorched and withered complexion, seminal emission due to laboring qi, shoulder and arm pain preventing overhead movement. Moxibustion at Jianliao (SI14) for 100 Zhuang. The acupoint is located posterior to the lateral end of the shoulder, identified by a depression when pressed with the hand.

(One Treatise, Three Formulas, Two Acupuncture Methods)
The treatise states: Whenever the pulse is deficient, there is a tendency toward fright and irregular palpitations; when the pulse is excess, it appears surging and full. The manifestation of pulse deficiency or excess primarily relates to the Heart and Small Intestine. If there is disease in the zang-fu organs, heat conditions correspond to the zang organs, while cold conditions correspond to the fu organs.

Tonifies deficiency and regulates the middle jiao, treating deficient pulse with fright and irregular palpitations, coming and going intermittently, primarily addressing Cold of the Small Intestine Fu organ.
Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix), Guixin (Cinnamomi Ramulus), Tongcao (Tetrapanacis Medulla), Fushen (Poria with Hostwood), Yuanzhi (Polygalae Radix), Maidong (Ophiopogonis Tuber), Gancao (Licorice Root), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Bai Shiying (Quartz) (each 3 liang).
Grind the above nine ingredients into powder, mix with white honey to make pills the size of wutong seeds. Take 30 pills with wine, twice daily, increasing to 40 pills if necessary.

Treats excess pulse that is surging and full, primarily addressing Heat Disease of the Heart.
Shengma (Bupleuri Radix), Ziqin (Scutellariae Radix), Zexie (Alismatis Rhizoma), Zhizi Ren (Gardeniae Fructus), Dan Zhuye (Lophatheri Herba), Mangxiao (Natrii Sulfas) (each 3 liang); Sheng Dihuang (Fresh Rehmanniae Radix) (cut, 1 sheng).
Chop the above seven ingredients, decoct with 9 sheng of water until reduced to 3 sheng, strain, add Mangxiao, and divide into three doses.

Regulates the Heart and drains heat, treating Jue (reversal/cold extremities) with a coarse Heart pulse, heat in the Cun Kou (radial artery) and Small Intestine, dental caries, and throat pain.
Mahuang (Ephedrae Herba), Shengjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens) (each 4 liang); Xixin (Asari Radix et Rhizoma), Ziqin (Scutellariae Radix), Fuling (Poria), Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix) (each 5 liang); Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma) (2 liang); Guixin (Cinnamomi Ramulus) (1 liang); Sheng Dihuang (Fresh Rehmanniae Radix) (cut, 1 sheng).
Chop the above nine ingredients, decoct with 9 sheng of water until reduced to 3 sheng, strain, and divide into three doses. Add Mangxiao (Natrii Sulfas) 3 liang if purgation is required.