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Treats various diseases in women before and after childbirth, all of which can be cured.

Black male chicken (one) Wuyao (Aucklandiae Radix), Shichuang (likely a local or variant name, possibly referring to a mineral or herb, kept as is), Mudanpi (Moutan Cortex), Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma, remove rhizome), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Huang [missing character, likely Huangqi/Astragali Radix] (each 1 liang), Cangzhu (Atractylodis Rhizoma, soaked in rice wash water), Yaopeng'ezhu (Curcumae Phaeocaulis Rhizoma), Chuanwu (Aconiti Radix Praeparata), Honghua (Carthami Flos), Chenpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium, each 2 liang), Yanhusuo (Corydalis Rhizoma), Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix), Hupo (Succinum), Shugan Dihuang (Rehmanniae Radix Praeparata, washed and dried), Roudoukou (Myristicae Semen), Caoguo (Tsaoko Fructus).

Finely chop the above herbs. Take one black male chicken, scald with boiling water to remove feathers and internal organs. Place the above herbs inside the chicken's cavity. Use a new porcelain jar with one dou of good wine, and boil together with the chicken until the wine is dry. Remove the chicken bones, place in an oil-filtered sieve, bake until dry, and grind into fine powder. Make pills using refined honey, sized like wutong seeds. Take 30 pills per dose. For cold damage before or after pregnancy, take with honey-sweetened wine. For chest tightness and high fever during pregnancy, take with wine fried with ginger. For red and white leukorrhea, take with wine boiled with fresh ginger and rehmannia root. For postpartum blood stasis attacking the heart, swallow with child's urine and wine fried with ginger. For postpartum blood masses causing abdominal pain, take with yanhusuo-infused wine. For nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, take with ginger decoction. To induce labor, take with wine fried with huikizi (mallow seeds). To stabilize the fetus, take with salted wine. For unmarried women with amenorrhea and limb pain, take with red flower-infused wine. For blood and qi stabbing pain in the heart and abdomen, take with danggui-infused wine. For blood syncope, mix palm charcoal with wine and swallow. For blood pathogen, crush cinnabar and musk, take with wine. For blood stagnation, crush cinnabar in plum decoction and take. For chronic uterine cold, take with warm wine or jujube decoction, on an empty stomach, once daily. For blood wind consumptive disease, swallow with ginseng-infused wine. For lower abdominal pain, take with fennel and salt-infused wine fried. For blood dispersing to limbs causing generalized edema and yellow swelling, take with adzuki bean-infused wine. For regular use, take with warm wine or vinegar decoction as preferred, always on an empty stomach before meals.

Treats thirty-six diseases in women, including metrorrhagia and leukorrhea, emaciation with hot hands and feet, aversion to wind and fear of cold, cough with counterflow qi, irritability and fullness, spasms and shortness of breath, pulling pain in the waist, back, abdomen, and uterus, discharge of five colors from the vagina, constant fear, and exacerbation upon anger, worry, or fatigue. These are all caused by internal injury and can be treated by this formula.

Muli (Ostreae Shell, calcined and ground), Bai'e (Kaolin), Xixin (Asari Radix et Rhizoma, remove seedlings), Yuyuliang (Hematitum, calcined and quenched in vinegar nine times, ground), Baishizhi (Kaolinite, calcined), Longgu (Fossilized Bones, calcined), Wei [likely a typo for Qiancao or similar, kept as is] (remove hairs), Bailian (Ampelopsis Radix), Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma, remove hairs), Fuling (Poria, remove bark), Rougui (Cinnamomi Cortex, remove rough bark), Baizhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix, remove seedlings), Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma Praeparata, processed), Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma).

Grind the above into fine powder. Make pills using refined honey, sized like wutong seeds. Take 30 to 50 pills per dose, on an empty stomach, with warm wine.