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Treats deficiency of the Kidney Meridian, where Wind-Cold pathogenic factors invade, causing lower back pain as if broken, radiating to the dorsal spine, with difficulty in bending and stretching, and difficulty in turning or lying on the side. These conditions may result from overexertion injuring the Kidneys, sleeping in cold and damp environments where Earth Qi harms the waist, trauma from falls or blows, or invasion by Wind-Cold external pathogens. All these causes of lower back pain are treated by this formula.

Weilingxian (Caulis Clematidis, processed to remove soil, 20 liang) Danggui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis) Rougui (Cortex Cinnamomi, processed to remove coarse bark, each 10 liang)

Grind the above ingredients into fine powder. Use wine-boiled wheat paste as a binder to form pills, sized like Sophora japonica seeds. Take 15 pills per dose, administered with warm wine or decoction of Fennel Fruit (Foeniculi Fructus) before meals. For women, administer with decoction of Cassia Bud (Cassiae Gemmae), increasing the dose to 20 pills. Pregnant women must not take this; tea consumption is prohibited.

Treats cases caused by weakness of the Zang-Fu organs, or excessive consumption of sweet and fatty foods, leading to the agitation of Ascaris lumbricoides (roundworms). Symptoms include twisting pain in the heart and abdomen, migratory masses that appear and disappear, moving up and down, abdominal heat and irritability, and spitting of saliva. This indicates biting by roundworms, and this medicine is suitable. Even for chronic cases lasting years, it can bring about a cure. It also treats itching and pain in the lower orifices.

Dahuang (Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, cut and stir-fried, 15 liang) Muxiang (Radix Aucklandiae) Binglang (Arecae Semen) Helile (Fructus Chebulae, roasted, pitted, soaked in wine, and dried) Fuzi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata)

Grind the above ingredients into fine powder. Use refined honey as a binder to form pills, sized like Sophora japonica seeds. Take 30 pills per dose, before meals, administered with decoction of Tangerine Peel (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium); for women, use vinegar water.

Treats various types of hemorrhoids with bleeding, flesh growths around the anus, nodular swelling and pain, sores with itching and pain, difficult defecation, and prolapse of the rectum. For blood in the stool, regardless of whether it is recent or chronic, and for various types of dysentery, whose root lies in the Zang-Fu organs, all can be treated.

Zhiqiao (Fructus Aurantii Immaturus, pith removed, stir-fried with bran) Muli (Concha Ostreae, calcined) Bichengqie (Pericarpium Litseae Cubebae) Yuanqing (Mylabris, heads, wings, and legs removed, stir-fried with glutinous rice until the rice turns yellow)

Grind the above ingredients into fine powder. Use millet paste to form pills, sized like Sophora japonica seeds. Take 10 to 15 pills per dose. For treating Intestinal Wind bleeding, administer with clear brew of aged tea. For various hemorrhoids, administer with decoction of Scallion White (Allii Fistulosi Bulbus). For various dysenteries, administer with decoction of Iron Filings (Lacus Ferri), all taken before meals.

Detoxifies and treats Channing Feng (Wind entangling the throat) and Ji Hou Bi (acute throat obstruction), sudden collapse, aphonia, or trismus (lockjaw), with loss of consciousness.

Yujin (Radix Curcumae Longae) Xionghuang (Realgar, ground and levigated, each 1 fen) Badou (Semen Crotonis, peeled and oil removed, 14 seeds)

Grind the above ingredients into fine powder. Use vinegar-boiled wheat paste to form pills, sized like mung beans. Administer 7 pills with hot clear tea. This induces vomiting of stubborn phlegm-saliva, leading to immediate recovery. If vomiting does not occur, administer again. In cases of apparent death, if the heart area remains warm and oral administration is impossible, use a knife, ruler, or iron spoon to pry open the mouth and instill the medicine. Once the medicine enters the throat, survival is assured. Mild vomiting or diarrhea is not harmful. It also treats upper jiao stagnation-heat, obstructed phlegm-saliva, sore and swollen throat, red eyes, carbuncles, and all toxic heat syndromes. For children suffering from red and swollen throats, or convulsive fever with obstructing phlegm-saliva, administer 2 or 3 pills, adjusting according to the child's age and size.