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Treats deficiency-consumption (Xu Lao) with guest-heat (external pathogenic heat), emaciation of muscles, lassitude of the four limbs, five-palm heat (heat sensation in the palms, soles, and chest), dry mouth and throat, redness of the cheeks, palpitations (Xin Song), night sweats, oppression and discomfort in the chest and hypochondrium, decreased appetite with excessive thirst, coughing up thick and sticky sputum, and occasional expectoration of pus and blood.

Ren Shen (Ginseng Radix), Rou Gui (Cinnamon Twig Bark), Ku Jie (Platycodon Root, i.e., Jie Geng) (each 1 liang 6 qian 5 fen), Sheng Gan Di Huang (Fresh Rehmannia Root, washed and dried by baking) (3 liang 3 qian), Ban Xia (Pinellia Tuber, winter-harvested, heart removed, baked), [Tu...] (Text missing here, likely a herb starting with 'Tu'), Chai Hu (Bupleurum Root, radicle removed, each [weight missing]).

Crush the above ingredients into coarse powder. For each dose, take two large qian, add one zhan of water, decoct until reduced to seven-tenths, strain, and take warm after meals.

Treats various diseases, tonifies the Five Viscera, wards off epidemic pestilence, eliminates malarial miasma (Lan Zhang), expels corpse-infection (Shi Zhu) and gu-toxin, repels evil spirits and pathogenic qi. It is particularly effective for men and women suffering from deficiency-damage, depletion of essence and marrow, emaciated form, deficient qi, middle-fullness with lower-deficiency, resulting in the failure of Water and Fire to interact, and disorder of Yin and Yang; symptoms include mental fatigue, [missing] complexion, [muscle] night sweats, seminal emission and spermatorrhea, spontaneous diarrhea, frequent and slippery urination, fright and terror in dreams, impotence, heavy and sore waist and legs, [tendon and vessel] [symptoms missing].

Treats all deep-seated cold and stubborn cold pathogens, pi-mass and hernia-jia (abdominal masses), colic pain in the umbilical and abdominal region, chronic diarrhea and dysentery, Yin-pattern of Cold Damage (Shang Han), pulse that is deep and minute, cool body, [cold] extremities. For women's various diseases, long-standing cold of the uterus, infertility, red and white leukorrhea, irregular menstruation, and conditions refractory to other medicines over a long period, it cures them all [completely].

This pill utilizes the creative power of Yin and Yang, obtaining the harmonious Qi of Heaven and Earth; its efficacy differs immediately from ordinary pills made by refining single herbs which are often drying and hyperactive. This [pill fills] the essence and marrow, calms the soul and stabilizes the spirit, brightens and moistens the complexion, lightens the body, and preserves longevity. If one does not rely on the drug's power to indulge in lust, but takes it consistently over time, one may attain the Dao of Immortality.

Xiong Huang (Realgar), Ci Huang (Orpiment), Liu Huang (Sulfur), Zhu Sha (Cinnabar) (each 5 liang).

Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, place them in a porcelain box, mix Ma Bian Cao (Verbena Officinalis) into powder, seal tightly with salt mud, and roast slowly around the perimeter for one day and one night. Remove, grind again into fine powder, and bind with a paste made from glutinous rice zongzi (or glutinous rice paste) to form pills the size of beans. Take one pill each morning on an empty stomach, swallowed with fresh cold water. Pregnant women must not take this. Avoid sheep blood and okra (Kui Cai).