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Treats various deficiencies and hundred damages, exhaustion of Spleen Yuan (Spleen's primordial Qi), insecurity of True Yang (True Fire/Ministerial Fire), disharmony of the Triple Burner (San Jiao), excess in the upper and deficiency in the lower, phlegm-fluid attacking upward from the Middle Jiao (Epigastrium), causing wind pathogens of the head and five types of Bi syndrome (painful obstruction), or sudden apoplexy (stroke) with phlegm flooding the diaphragm, slurred speech, coma and chaotic breathing, resembling paralysis; as well as Ben Tun disease (Rushing Pig disease - Qi rebellion from Kidney), abdominal pain radiating to both hypochondria, distension and stabbing pain unbearable. When Yin and Yang fail to ascend and descend, food and drink are not accepted, face lacks luster, limbs feel heavy like water retention, Hong Kong foot (Gouty arthritis/Bi syndrome of lower limbs) Qi rushes upward, backache and fatigue, nocturnal emissions or sexual dreams, night sweats upon waking, cold stomach causing heart pain, frequent and slippery urination, pulling weakness in knees, difficulty walking. For women with long-standing coldness of the Blood Sea (Uterus), red and white leukorrhea, infertility for years, and Yin-Du Cold Damage (Severe Cold Syndrome), with blue-green complexion, curled tongue, difficult speech, cold extremities, and unconsciousness, urgently take one hundred pills,灌ed with decoction of fresh ginger and Chinese jujube, which will restore Yang and save life. If exposed to cold pathogens, cholera with vomiting and diarrhea, cold extremities, deep and hidden six pulses, blue-black lips and mouth, stabbing pain in abdomen and hypochondria, male impotence and soreness, empty ringing in umbilical region, involuntary defecation, also treats stagnation and fullness in chest and stomach, phlegm-fluid empty ringing, cases unresponsive to other medicines. Regular use aids nourishing True Qi, expels Yin-Cold, is warm and balanced without being excessive, dissipates cold stasis, promotes digestion, calms the Five Zang organs, regulates the Six Fu organs, and prevents invasion by hundred diseases. Carry this medicine with you, take it when needed, yielding great efficacy.

Yuyuliangshi (Hematitum, calcined seven times, quenched in vinegar seven times, powdered) Zi Shiyun (Fluorite, calcined once) Chishizhi (Halloysitum Rubrum, calcined once, each half jin). Store the above five minerals separately, grind each into fine powder, then wet-grind them with water. Scoop the clear supernatant, pour onto paper placed on a bamboo sieve, allowing the fine powder to remain on the paper while water drains below, until exhausted. Dry, store each in sealed jars, seal with mud mixed with salt-water paper fibers, dry in shade. Use fifty jin of good hard charcoal divided into five piles, ten jin per pile, heat until red to form a furnace, place these five medicines, cover with paper ash. After two days, when fire is out and ash cool, reheat, repeat three times. Bury in a pit for two days to remove "fire toxicity", then grind again, adding subsequent herbs.

Fuzi (Processed Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata, peeled and navel removed, two liang) Rongshirong (Cistanche Deserticola, washed clean, soaked in wine overnight, dried, one and a half liang) Danggui (Angelica Sinensis, soaked in wine) Ji (Datura Metel seed? Context implies a mineral or herb processed similarly, likely a typo or specific local term, treated here as processed herb) Chenxiang (Aquilaria Wood) Yuanzhi (Polygalae Radix, heart removed). Process the above according to method, grind together into powder, then add: Ruxiang (Frankincense, ground separately) Wulingzhi (Trogopteri Dung, sand removed, ground separately) Moyao (Myrrh, stones removed, ground, each one liang). Mix the above three with the main powder, then add: Zhusha (Cinnabar, levigated or steamed) Yangqishi (Pyrophyllum, slightly calcined or wine-boiled) Zhongru Fen (Stalactite Powder, each one liang). Grind the above three separately, add just before use. Mix all, grind, sift into fine powder. Make pills with rice flour paste, fifty pills per liang of powder, dry in shade, put in cloth bag, rub until smooth and glossy. Take five to ten pills on an empty stomach, swallowed with warm wine, or ginger-salt water, or jujube water. Women swallow with mugwort-vinegar decoction.