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(Applicable to bone-steaming fever symptoms)

It has the effects of tonifying deficiency, strengthening vital energy (Qi), warming the back, dispelling pathogenic factors, benefiting essence and marrow, regulating the spleen and stomach, promoting appetite, and beautifying the complexion. It treats five exhaustions and seven injuries, true yuan deficiency leading to cold pain in the abdomen, soreness and pain in the limbs, stiffness and tension in the waist and back, weakness in the feet and knees, dark complexion, emaciation, dim vision, tinnitus, subjective empty ringing in the mouth, stabbing pain under the hypochondrium, loss of taste, constant mental sorrow and grief, frequent strange dreams at night, lack of spirit during the day, slippery and frequent urination, impotence, or sexual intercourse in dreams, as well as all kinds of wind-deficiency and chronic cold syndromes; it is suitable for taking this prescription.

Tanna Qi (one pair, slow-fire roasted with wine until cooked), Sha (ground and refined, two liang), lean mutton (cooked, chopped finely, ground), sheep marrow (the above six ingredients are placed together in a silver vessel with one dou of good wine without ash, slowly boiled into a paste, cooled, and then the following medicines are added).

Yangqi Shi (boiled in fermented rice water for one day, finely ground and sieved, dried by baking), Renshen (rhizome removed), Buguzhi (wine-fried), Zhongru Fen (refined), Muxiang, Bicheng (two liang), Rougui (bark removed), Roushoucong (washed, sliced, dried by baking, four liang), Baidoukou (husk removed, one liang), Da Fuzi (processed, skin and umbilicus removed, boiled with half a jin of green salt and one dou five sheng of fermented rice water until the liquid is exhausted, then cut...).

Each of the aforementioned herbs is processed according to the specified methods, pounded, sieved into powder, mixed with the previous paste to form a mass, pounded more than a thousand times in a mortar, and formed into pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take twenty pills each time, on an empty stomach, washed down with warm wine; salted water is also acceptable.

It treats kidney qi deficiency and damage, five exhaustions and seven injuries, urgency and tension in the lower abdomen, soreness and pain in the four limbs, dark complexion, dry lips and mouth, dim vision, shortness of breath, fearful dreams at night, mental fatigue, irregular mood swings, sadness and unhappiness, loss of taste, weakness in movement, flaccidity in the heart and abdomen, slippery and frequent urination, impotence, dampness and itching inside the thighs, astringent pain in the urinary channel, hematuria, occasional dribbling after urination; it is suitable for taking this prescription. It can fill the bone marrow, heal severe injuries, tonify the five zang organs, eliminate myriad diseases, clarify hearing and vision, benefit the complexion, make the body light and prolong life, and improve auditory and visual acuity. Additionally... fen, Yuanzhi (radix polygalae) with sprouts and hearts removed, half a liang, boiled with black soybeans; Shilongrui, Zexie, and Roushoucong are not used.

Tusizi (cleanly washed, soaked in wine), Zexie, Lurong (antlers without hair, fried with butter), Shilongrui (soil removed), Rougui (rough bark removed), Fuzi (dried by baking), Xuduan, Penzi (branches removed...).

The above medicines are ground into fine powder, and wheat flour paste boiled with wine is used as a binder to form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take twenty pills each time, on an empty stomach, washed down with warm wine or salted water. If there is weakness in the feet and knees, take with Mugua decoction, and take again before evening meal.