病源夫虚劳者。五劳六极七伤是也。五劳者。一曰志劳；二曰思劳；三曰心劳；四曰忧
劳；
神不
脾劳
阴湿
六极者。一曰气极。令人内虚。五脏不足。邪气多。正气少。不欲言；二曰血极。令
人无颜
曰骨极
饮食不
者。一
小便苦
血目暗
肺伤
发落
男子
浮
寸
薄
养
此
之
放两肘头向外。肘膊腰气散尽势大闷。始起来去七通。去肘臂之劳。又云∶两足跟相对坐上
。两足趾相向外扒。两膝头柱席两向外扒使急始长舒两手。两向取势。一一皆急三七。
去五
取势
寸。
冷。又
势二七。
努膝向
相。
来去七
用之常
去五
为食。
息十二
引去心
广济疗五劳七伤六极八风十二痹。消渴。心下积聚。使人身体润。服之多情性。补益养
精方。
生干地黄（十二分） 天门冬（十分去心） 干姜（六分） 菟丝（十分酒渍二宿焙干
别捣）
石斛（八分） 当
分） 人参（八分） 玄参（
菀（六分） 茯苓（八分） 防风（六分） 杏仁（八分
骨皮（六分） 椒（三分去目
汗）
上二十二味捣筛。蜜和丸如梧子。空腹酒下二十丸。日再服。渐加至三十丸。忌鲤鱼海
藻菘菜桃李雀肉大酢芜荑等。
崔氏肾沥汤。疗五劳六极八风十二痹。补诸不足方。
猪肾（一具去脂膜） 附子（四分炮） 芎 （四分） 牡丹（四分） 桂心（四分） 茯
苓（八
分） 干地黄（六分）
（八分）
当归（四分） 黄 （八
上十四味切。以水一斗七升。煮肾取一斗一升。去肾纳药。煎取四升。分四服。忌羊肉
饧冷水酢生葱芜荑胡荽。（古今录验同）
又治丈夫五劳七伤。百病无不补之。干漆散方。
干漆（八两熬令断烟） 苁蓉（八两） 石斛（八分） 枸杞子（一升） 干地黄（十
两） 远志
皮（五两） 续断（五两） 菟丝子（五两） 天雄（三两炮） 桂心（三两）
上十味捣筛为散。每旦服一匕暮一匕。酒饮皆得。忌猪肉生葱芜荑冷水。
又七味干漆散方。（韦都水服不逾月光悦倍常疗虚羸无比）
干漆（三两熬烟断） 干地黄（八两） 芍药（二两） 苁蓉（二两） 五味子（二两）
食茱萸
（四两） 枸杞子（四两）
上药捣筛为散。酒服方寸匕。渐加至二匕。日二服。以知为度。忌芜荑。
又五落散。主五劳六极七伤八不足。里急。胸胁胀满。背痛头眩。四肢重。腰膂强。环
脐腹
有病
甚
大黄（六分） 麦门（炙七分去心） 栝蒌（五分） 白薇（七分） 甘草（五分炙） 当
归（十
分） 干地黄（七分）
（五分）
桂心（三分） 铁屑（三
上十五味合捣筛。以白蜜一斤枣膏一斤。当蒸之。以温汤浸之。和 （疏有切）前药。
令
如
和
加
当
搜
又落肾散一名肾着散。疗腰背痛。少腹挛急。尿难。自汗出。耳聋。阴痿脚冷皆其病候
方。
羊肾（一双作脯炙燥） 磁石（六分研） 天门冬（五分去心） 人参（二分） 防风
（三分）
天雄（三分炮） 龙
分） 干地
黄（四分） 桑白皮
上十五味下筛。空腹以大麦饮下二方寸匕。日五六服。忌鲤鱼猪肉冷水芜荑酢等物。
又枸杞酒。疗五内邪气。消渴风湿。下脑胁间气。头痛。坚筋骨。强阴。利大小肠填骨
髓。
破积
用米（一石为一剂黍糯并得计常酿酒米一石用曲一斗此加五升弥佳其曲唯须上好者末
之）
枸杞（三十斤去赤皮半寸锉之以水一石浸之三日煮取五斗汁） 生地黄（二十斤洗去土细切
共米
汁）
上四味。地黄一味。共米同蒸之。三物药汁。总合得五斗。分半渍米。 半及曲和酿饭
。如人肌温。总和一 。盖瓮口。经二七日。压取封泥。复经七日。初一度酿。用麻子二斗
多。
病退。
千金五劳六极七伤虚损。何谓五劳。五脏病。六极。六腑病。七伤。表里受病。凡远思
强
寒
苁蓉（七分） 五味子（八分） 地肤子（五合） 续断（五分） 蛇床子（五分） 车
前子（五
合） 菟丝子（七合）
生（七分）
韭子（五合） 天门冬
龙骨（七分）
上十七味合捣筛。以酒服方寸匕。日三。忌猪肉冷水鲤鱼芜荑等。（出第十九卷中）
古今录验淮南八公石斛万病散。疗五劳七伤。大风缓急湿痹不仁。甚则偏枯。筋缩拘挛
。胸
心腹
减。
康健
牛膝（二分） 远志（二分去心） 续断（二分） 蛇床子（三分） 菟丝子（三两酒
渍） 苁蓉
（二分） 茯苓（二分）
辛（二分）
附子（二分炮） 天
（二分） 石
斛（二分） 云母粉（二分） 菊花（
上二十二味。随病倍其分。捣筛为散。先食以酒服方寸匕。日三。以知为度。神良。忌
猪
味）
又淮南王枕中丸疗五劳六极七伤。胃气不和。发于五脏虚劳。小便或难或数。令人多思
。脾气不和
三丸方。
芎 （二两） 附子（二两炮） 桂心（二两） 甘草（二两炙） 黄芩（二两） 芍
药（二两）
干姜（二两） 蜀椒（二两汗） 杏仁（四两去皮尖熬） 白术（五两） 当归（二两） 大
黄（一两）
上十二味捣筛蜜和丸如梧子。以酒服五丸。日三。忌海藻菘菜生葱猪肉冷水桃李雀肉等
。（并出第二十五卷中）
Background Information:
Book: *Waitai Miyao* (Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold for Emergencies)
Author: Wang Tao
Dynasty: Tang Dynasty, Tianbao 11th Year
Chapter: Ten Formulas for Five Exhaustions, Six Extremes, and Seven Injuries
Category: Formulas
Source Text Translation:
The *Bingyuan* (Source of Diseases) states: The so-called "Xu Lao" (Deficiency Consumption Disease) refers to the Five Exhaustions, Six Extremes, and Seven Injuries. The Five Exhaustions are: first, Zhi Lao (Exhaustion due to excessive willful striving); second, Si Lao (Exhaustion due to excessive mental pondering); third, Xin Lao (Exhaustion due to overuse of the heart/mind); fourth, You Lao (Exhaustion due to excessive worry); fifth, Pi Lao (Spleen exhaustion). The Six Extremes (Six states of extreme depletion) are: first, Qi Ji (Extreme depletion of Qi), causing internal emptiness, insufficiency of the five Zang organs, abundance of pathogenic factors, scarcity of healthy Qi, and reluctance to speak; second, Xue Ji (Extreme depletion of Blood), causing lack of luster in the complexion; third, Gu Ji (Extreme depletion of Bone)... [text missing]; fourth... [text missing]; fifth... [text missing]; sixth... [text missing].
[The following text contains fragmented descriptions of Qigong exercises and physical movements intended to relieve fatigue, such as extending elbows outward to disperse elbow and arm Qi, and sitting with heels together to relieve Five Exhaustions.]
The *Guangji* formula treats Five Exhaustions, Seven Injuries, Six Extremes, Eight Winds (various wind-pathogen diseases), Twelve Bi syndromes (various obstruction syndromes), Xiao Ke (Wasting-Thirst/Diabetes-like conditions), and accumulations under the heart (epigastric masses). This formula moistens the body and improves mood, possessing effects of tonifying and nourishing Jing (Essence).
**Formula for Tonifying and Nourishing Essence:**
Sheng Gan Di Huang (Raw Dried Rehmannia Root, 12 fen) Tian Men Dong (Asparagus Root, 10 fen, remove heart) Gan Jiang (Dried Ginger, 6 fen) Tu Si Zi (Cuscuta Seed, 10 fen, soak in wine for two nights, bake dry, grind separately) Shi Hu (Dendrobium Stem, 8 fen) Dang Gui (Angelica Sinensis Root, 10 fen) Ren Shen (Ginseng Root, 8 fen) Xuan Shen (Scrophularia Root, 10 fen) Jie Geng (Platycodon Root, 6 fen) Fu Ling (Poria, 8 fen) Fang Feng (Saposhnikovia Root, 6 fen) Xing Ren (Apricot Seed, 8 fen, remove skin and tip) Di Gu Pi (Lycium Bark, 6 fen) Jiao Hua (Sichuan Pepper, 3 fen, remove eyes and closed ones).
Grind the above twenty-two herbs into powder, mix with honey, and form pills the size of mulberry seeds. Take twenty pills on an empty stomach with wine, twice daily, gradually increasing to thirty pills. Avoid carp, seaweed, Chinese cabbage, peaches, plums, sparrow meat, vinegar, and Xiang Yi (Chrysanthemum coronarium fruit).
**Cui Shi Shen Li Tang (Cui's Kidney Drip Decoction):** Treats Five Exhaustions, Six Extremes, Eight Winds, Twelve Bi syndromes, and tonifies various deficiencies.
Zhu Shen (Pig Kidney, one piece, remove fat membrane) Fu Zi (Prepared Aconite Lateralis Radix, 4 fen) Xiong Qiong (Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizome, 4 fen) Mu Dan Pi (Moutan Cortex, 4 fen) Gui Xin (Cinnamon Twig Heart, 4 fen) Fu Ling (Poria, 8 fen) Gan Di Huang (Dried Rehmannia Root, 6 fen) Ze Xie (Alisma Rhizome, 8 fen) Dang Gui (Angelica Sinensis Root, 4 fen) Huang Qi (Astragalus Root, 8 fen).
Cut the above fourteen ingredients. Boil in 17 sheng of water, cook the kidney until 11 sheng remains. Remove the kidney, add the herbs, and decoct until 4 sheng remains. Divide into four doses. Avoid mutton, malt sugar, cold water, vinegar, raw scallion, Xiang Yi, and Hu Sui (Coriander). (*Gu Jin Lu Yan* has the same formula.)
**Another Formula:** Gan Xi San (Dry Lacquer Powder) treats men's Five Exhaustions and Seven Injuries, tonifying all hundred diseases.
Gan Xi (Dry Lacquer, 8 liang, roast until smoke stops) Rou Cong Rong (Cistanche Stem, 8 liang) Shi Hu (Dendrobium Stem, 8 fen) Gou Qi Zi (Goji Berry, 1 sheng) Gan Di Huang (Dried Rehmannia Root, 10 liang) Yuan Zhi (Polygala Root, 5 liang, remove heart) Sang Bai Pi (Mulberry Root Bark, 5 liang) Xu Duan (Teasel Root, 5 liang) Tu Si Zi (Cuscuta Seed, 5 liang) Tian Xiong (Prepared Aconitum Kusnezoffii Root, 3 liang) Gui Xin (Cinnamon Twig Heart, 3 liang).
Grind the above ten herbs into powder. Take one bi (measure) each morning and evening, taken with wine. Avoid pork, raw scallion, Xiang Yi, and cold water.
**Seven-Ingredient Gan Xi San:** (Wei Du Shui took this and within less than a month regained radiance; its efficacy in treating severe deficiency is doubled.)
Gan Xi (Dry Lacquer, 3 liang, roast until smoke stops) Gan Di Huang (Dried Rehmannia Root, 8 liang) Shao Yao (Peony Root, 2 liang) Rou Cong Rong (Cistanche Stem, 2 liang) Wu Wei Zi (Schisandra Fruit, 2 liang) Shi Zhu Yu (Edible Dogwood Fruit, 4 liang) Gou Qi Zi (Goji Berry, 4 liang).
Grind the above herbs into powder. Take one cun bi (square-inch measure) with wine, gradually increasing to two bis, twice daily. Stop when effective. Avoid Xiang Yi.
**Wu Luo San (Five Fallings Powder):** Mainly treats Five Exhaustions, Six Extremes, Seven Injuries, and Eight Deficiencies. Symptoms include interior urgency, distension and fullness in the chest and hypochondrium, back pain, dizziness, heaviness in the four limbs, stiffness of the waist and spine, and abdominal pain around the navel.
Da Huang (Rhubarb Root, 6 fen) Mai Men Dong (Ophiopogon Tuber, 7 fen, stir-fry, remove heart) Gua Lou Gen (Trichosanthes Root, 5 fen) Bai Wei (Cynanchum Root, 7 fen) Gan Cao (Licorice Root, 5 fen, stir-fry) Dang Gui (Angelica Sinensis Root, 10 fen) Gan Di Huang (Dried Rehmannia Root, 7 fen) Huang Qin (Scutellaria Root, 5 fen) Gui Xin (Cinnamon Twig Heart, 3 fen) Tie Xie (Iron Filings, 3...) [text missing].
Mix and grind the above fifteen ingredients into powder. Mix with 1 jin of white honey and 1 jin of jujube paste, steam them, soak the powder in warm water, and combine with the previous medicine... [text missing].
**Luo Shen San (Kidney Settling Powder)**, also known as Shen Zhuo San: Treats lower back and back pain, spasmodic tightness in the lower abdomen, difficult urination, spontaneous sweating, deafness, impotence, and cold feet.
Yang Shen (Sheep Kidney, one pair, make into jerky and roast dry) Ci Shi (Magnetite, 6 fen, grind fine) Tian Men Dong (Asparagus Root, 5 fen, remove heart) Ren Shen (Ginseng Root, 2 fen) Fang Feng (Saposhnikovia Root, 3 fen) Tian Xiong (Prepared Aconitum Kusnezoffii Root, 3 fen) Long Gu (Fossilized Mammal Bones, ...) [text missing] Gan Di Huang (Dried Rehmannia Root, 4 fen) Sang Bai Pi (Mulberry Root Bark, ...) [text missing].
Sift the above fifteen ingredients. Take two cun bis on an empty stomach with barley drink, five or six times daily. Avoid carp, pork, cold water, Xiang Yi, and vinegar.
**Gou Qi Jiu (Goji Berry Wine):** Treats pathogenic factors in the five Zang organs, Xiao Ke (Wasting-Thirst), wind-dampness, qi stagnation in the brain and hypochondrium, headache, strengthens sinews and bones, fortifies Yin, benefits the large and small intestines, and fills the marrow.
Use rice (one dan per batch; millet or glutinous rice is acceptable; usually one dan of rice requires one dou of yeast; adding five sheng here is better; use high-quality yeast ground into powder) Gou Qi (Goji Berry, 30 jin, remove red skin up to half inch, chop, soak in one dan of water for three days, boil to obtain five dou of juice) Sheng Di Huang (Fresh Rehmannia Root, 20 jin, wash, remove soil, cut finely, steam with rice).
Steam the fresh Rehmannia with the rice. Combine the juices of the other three herbs to get five dou total. Use half to soak the rice, and the other half mixed with yeast to ferment the rice. When the temperature is like human skin, mix everything in a vessel, cover the mouth, and let it ferment for two seven-day periods (14 days). Press and seal with mud. Let it rest for another seven days. Initial fermentation requires more than two dou of hemp seeds... [text missing]. Condition recedes... [text missing].
*Qian Jin Fang* discusses Five Exhaustions, Six Extremes, Seven Injuries, and deficiency consumptions. What are the Five Exhaustions? They are diseases of the five Zang organs. What are the Six Extremes? They are diseases of the six Fu organs. What are the Seven Injuries? They are diseases affecting both exterior and interior. Any distant thoughts... [text missing].
Rou Cong Rong (Cistanche Stem, 7 fen) Wu Wei Zi (Schisandra Fruit, 8 fen) Di Fu Zi (Kochia Fruit, 5 he) Xu Duan (Teasel Root, 5 fen) She Chuang Zi (Cnidium Fruit, 5 fen) Che Qian Zi (Plantago Seed, 5 he) Tu Si Zi (Cuscuta Seed, 7 he) Jiu Zi (Chinese Chive Seed, 5 he) Tian Men Dong (Asparagus Root, ...) [text missing] Long Gu (Fossilized Mammal Bones, 7 fen).
Grind the above seventeen ingredients into powder. Take one cun bi with wine, three times daily. Avoid pork, cold water, carp, and Xiang Yi. (From Volume 19).
*Gu Jin Lu Yan* Huainan Bagong Shi Hu Wan Bing San (Huainan Eighth Duke's Dendrobium Ten-Thousand-Disease Powder): Treats Five Exhaustions, Seven Injuries, severe wind, alternating damp-bi, numbness, and in severe cases, hemiplegia, muscle contraction, spasms, chest... [text missing].
Niu Xi (Achyranthes Root, 2 fen) Yuan Zhi (Polygala Root, 2 fen, remove heart) Xu Duan (Teasel Root, 2 fen) She Chuang Zi (Cnidium Fruit, 3 fen) Tu Si Zi (Cuscuta Seed, 3 liang, soak in wine) Rou Cong Rong (Cistanche Stem, 2 fen) Fu Ling (Poria, 2 fen) Xin Yi (Magnolia Flower Bud, 2 fen) Fu Zi (Prepared Aconite Lateralis Radix, 2 fen) Tian Xiong (Prepared Aconitum Kusnezoffii Root, 2 fen) Shi Hu (Dendrobium Stem, 2 fen) Yun Mu Fen (Muscovite Powder, 2 fen) Ju Hua (Chrysanthemum Flower, ...) [text missing].
For the above twenty-two ingredients, double the dosage according to the disease. Grind into powder. Take one cun bi with wine before meals, three times daily, until effective. Highly efficacious. Avoid pork... [text missing].
**Huainan Wang Zhen Zhong Wan (Prince of Huainan's Pillow Center Pill):** Treats Five Exhaustions, Six Extremes, Seven Injuries, disharmony of Stomach Qi, originating from deficiency consumption of the five Zang organs, difficult or frequent urination, and excessive thinking. Disharmony of Spleen Qi... [text missing].
Xiong Qiong (Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizome, 2 liang) Fu Zi (Prepared Aconite Lateralis Radix, 2 liang, prepared) Gui Xin (Cinnamon Twig Heart, 2 liang) Gan Cao (Licorice Root, 2 liang, stir-fry) Huang Qin (Scutellaria Root, 2 liang) Shao Yao (Peony Root, 2 liang) Gan Jiang (Dried Ginger, 2 liang) Shu Jiao (Sichuan Pepper, 2 liang, sweat-treated) Xing Ren (Apricot Seed, 4 liang, remove skin and tip, roast) Bai Zhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome, 5 liang) Dang Gui (Angelica Sinensis Root, 2 liang) Da Huang (Rhubarb Root, 1 liang).
Grind the above twelve ingredients into powder, mix with honey, and form pills the size of mulberry seeds. Take five pills with wine, three times daily. Avoid seaweed, Chinese cabbage, raw scallion, pork, cold water, peaches, plums, and sparrow meat. (All from Volume 25).