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*Suwen* (Source of Diseases) states that the Qi of the five Zang organs is derived from the Lung. When the Lung is affected by slight cold, coughing ensues. Cold combats with Qi, causing Qi to gather and return to the Lung. As pathogens have periods of activity and rest, when pathogens move, Qi rushes upward in rebellion. When Qi rebels upward, it injures the five Zang organs. If it disturbs the Stomach Qi, Stomach Qi rebels, leading to vomiting. This is pulmonary cough, where the condition lingers, disturbing Qi and affecting the Stomach, resulting in vomiting. Furthermore, during the late summer when the Spleen is in command, if Spleen Qi is deficient and cannot fulfill its function, cold pathogenic factors may injure it, causing coughing; this is called Spleen Cough. Its manifestation includes pain in the right hypochondrium during coughing, dull pain radiating to the shoulder and back, severe cases being unable to move, as movement triggers coughing. The Spleen and Stomach are exteriorly-interiorly related. If Spleen Cough persists, the disease transmits to the Stomach. Its symptoms include coughing accompanied by vomiting; severe vomiting may result in the expulsion of roundworms. Generally, severe coughing leads to vomiting; one should determine the affected Zang or Fu organ based on the syndrome patterns. (From Volume XIV)

*Shenshi Fang* treats coughing with rebellious Qi, a fishy odor in the throat and pharynx, deficiency Qi churning the heart, headache and eye pain, buzzing in the ears, wind-pathogen toxicity invading causing epidemic diseases, food failing to nourish flesh, chest obstruction and blockage, vomiting with excessive saliva, nausea, hardness and fullness below the heart, drinking much but eating little, treating Zhu diseases and strangury. Tongqi Wan Formula.
Malt Sugar (Jiaoyi) (5 jin) Sichuan Pepper (Shujiao) (2 sheng, processed to release moisture) Aconite Root (Wutou) (7 fen, processed) Cinnamon Twig Heart (Guixin) (6 fen) Large Prepared Aconite Root (Dafuzi) (5 pieces, processed) Dried Ginger (Ganjiang), Ginseng Root (Renshen) (each 4 fen) Almond Seed (Xingren) (1 sheng) Ophiopogon Tuber (Tianmendong) (10 fen) Centipede (Wugong) (5 segments, head removed, roasted)
The above ten ingredients are powdered. Almonds are pounded into a paste. The powder is gradually added to the paste and pounded a thousand times. Malt sugar is melted and mixed with the powder until uniform. Form pills the size of half a jujube. Take six or seven times daily, two or three times at night, aiming for warmth in the chest. If dreaming of intercourse with spirits or eating, use whole centipedes. For indigestion, add 5 he of almonds; for deficiency Qi with lower abdominal urgency and lumbar pain, add Ophiopogon Tuber and Eucommia Bark (Duzhong); for wind, add 2 pieces of Aconite Root and 1 piece of Prepared Aconite Root, but do not add after Start of Summer; for retained fluid, add 1 liang of roasted Lepidium Seed (Tinglizi), powdered. Avoid pork, cold water, raw green onion, carp, etc. (Same as *Qianjin Fang*)

Also treats rebellious Qi and coughing, dry mouth, cold hands and feet, vexation and fullness, accumulation with diarrhea, vomiting and rebellion, sensation of falling blood stasis, rebellious Qi, distension and fullness of the chest and hypochondrium, shortness of breath, borborygmus, epigastric urgency after overeating injuring the middle, women with stagnant milk and damp-evil below, Yin deficiency, difficulty in urination and defecation, pain in all joints. Xiaoshi Wan Formula.
Niter (Xiaoshi) (1 sheng) Dried Ginger (Ganjiang) Peucedanum Root (Qianhu) Rhubarb (Dahuang) (each 1 jin) Almond Seed (Xingren) (1 sheng)
The above five ingredients are pounded and sifted, then mixed with honey. Take three pills the size of a wu seed with water, twice daily. After five days, various ailments of the heart and abdomen will be expelled via stool or urine. Menstruation will cease and flow will be unobstructed. Dozens of roundworms may be passed. It also treats bloody dysentery, mixed cold-heat discharges of red and white pus, and toxic accumulations (Zhengjia). Adjust dosage according to clinical response.

Also treats rebellious Qi, vexation, fullness, vomiting, and inability to eat. Houpo Tang Formula.
Magnolia Bark (Houpo) (1 liang, roasted) Ginseng Root (Renshen) (1 liang) Pinellia Tuber (Banxia) (4 liang, washed) Fresh Ginger Shengjiang (8 liang) Poria (Fuling) Licorice Root (Gancao) (roasted) Tangerine Peel (Chenpi), Cinnamon Twig Heart (Guixin) (each 2 liang) Immature Bitter Orange (Zhishi) (2 liang, roasted)
The above nine ingredients are sliced. Decoct with 8 sheng of water to obtain 3 sheng. Divide into three doses. Avoid seaweed, Chinese cabbage, mutton, malt sugar, raw green onion, and vinegar products. (All from Volume XVIII)

*Bixiao Fang* treats rebellious Qi and coughing, vomiting and inability to eat, rising Qi.
Tangerine Peel (Chenpi) Aster Tataricus Root (Ziwan) (each 3 liang) Ginseng Root (Renshen) Poria (Fuling) Bupleurum Root (Chaihu) Almond Seed (Xingren) (remove tip and skin)
The above six ingredients are sliced. Decoct with 6 sheng of water to obtain 2 sheng. Divide into three doses. For cold syndromes, add 2 liang of Fresh Ginger; for heat syndromes, add 3 liang of Ophiopogon Tuber (remove heart); for inability to eat, add 2 liang of Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome (Baizhu) and 2 liang of roasted Magnolia Bark. Avoid vinegar products, peaches, plums, sparrow meat, etc. (From Volume I)