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[Chensha Wuling San (Cinnabar Five-Ingredient Poria Decoction)] Indicated for men and women suffering from five types of exhaustion and seven kinds of injuries, or those whose constitution is weak due to exposure to cold pathogens. Symptoms include fatigue and lack of strength. Regular use strengthens the sinews and bones, making the limbs light and vigorous.

Ingredients: Tengstem Aristolochiae Vine (Tianxianteng), Seed of Artemisia Annua (Qinghaozi, stir-fried), Cortex Mori (Sangbaipi, stir-fried), Rhizoma Cyperi (Xiangfuzi, stir-fried), Flower Bud of Schizonepeta (Jingjiesui), Radix Peucedani (Qianhu, processed with ginger juice and stir-fried), Radix Bupleuri (Chaihu), Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Cinnamon Twig (Guizhi, bark removed), Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizome (Baizhu). [Note: The source text lists "24 flavors" but only enumerates 11 specific items in this segment; the translation reflects the listed items.] These are ground into a coarse powder. Take three qian per dose, add one and a half sheng of water, along with fresh ginger, dried mume fruit, and jujubes. Decoct until the volume reduces to seven-tenths. Strain the dregs and take the decoction warm. Combine the dregs from two doses for a single subsequent decoction.

It also has the effect of resolving summerheat toxicity.

Ingredients: Cinnamon Bark (Rougui, bark removed, avoid direct fire), Poria (Fuling, bark removed, equal parts). Grind these into a fine powder. Form pills with refined honey, making eight pills from each liang of powder. Take one pill per dose, swallowing it with freshly drawn cool water or hot water; chewing it down or allowing it to dissolve is acceptable.

Indicated for summerheat injury presenting with fever and headache.

Ingredients: Pinellia Tuber (Banxia, boiled dry in five sheng of vinegar), Licorice Root (Gancao, raw), Poria (Fuling, peel removed, half jin each). Grind these into a fine powder. Use ginger juice to make a thin paste for coating, forming pills the size of sophora seeds. Take fifty pills per dose with water. *Yijian Fang* states: When preparing this medicine, Banxia must be decocted with good vinegar, and ginger juice used for the paste; avoid contact with raw water. Prepared according to Zhixiu's method, it is extremely effective. For heatstroke, consciousness returns immediately after ingestion; for summerheat injury with fever and headache, it is particularly efficacious. Regular use in summer stops thirst and promotes urination; even with excessive water intake, it causes no harm. No other summerheat-resolving medicines compare to this. If phlegm-fluid retention is present, swallow with ginger soup. This medicine should not be lacking once summer begins.

Indicated for exterior and interior syndromes of cold damage that have not yet resolved, presenting with headache, fever, chest and heart oppression, dry lips and scorched mouth, mental confusion, delirious speech, as well as for treating miasma malaria characterized by restlessness and loss of consciousness.

Ingredients: Cinnabar (Chensha, ground), Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizome (Baizhu, rhizome removed), Polyporus (Muzhuling, black skin removed), Alisma Rhizome (Zexie, washed and chopped), Red Poria (Chifuling, peel removed, twelve liang each). Grind these into a fine powder. Take two qian per dose, mixed with boiling water, at any time. If summerheat causes thirst and red, scanty urine, mix with freshly drawn cool water. For children with five-palm heat, irritability, frequent crying, teeth grinding, upward rolling of eyes, and signs of impending convulsions, take half a qian per dose, mixed with warm, cooked water.