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[Longnao Tianma Jian (Borneol and Gastrodia Decoction)]
Treats all types of wind pathogens and flaccid paralysis due to wind, manifesting as hemiplegia, deviation of the mouth and eyes, slurred speech with excessive saliva, and mental confusion. Or it treats bi-syndrome of sinews and vessels, pain in all joints, and trembling or shaking of hands and feet. It also treats kidney wind-toxin attacking upward to the head and face, causing edema of the head and face, tinnitus, deafness, nasal congestion, and dry mouth; wind-toxin sinking downward to the waist and legs, causing weakness, swelling, pain, and sores in the feet and knees. Furthermore, it treats women's blood wind attacking inward, causing body pain, facial edema with emaciated muscles, vertigo with spinning sensation, drowsiness, and excessive sleep. Or it treats skin itching, urticaria, and sores. It treats dark wind combined with brain wind causing lateral or frontal headaches, addressing all these conditions.

Ingredients: Sweet melon seeds (Tian Guazi), washed clean with hot water; Floating duckweed (Fuping Cao), selected and washed clean; Sichuan aconite root (Chuanwu), processed, skin and umbilicus removed; Sanguisorba root (Diyu), roots and leaves removed, scraped clean.
The above four herbs are ground into fine powder. Using snow water and white sand honey, each 15 jin and 10 liang, melt them together, filter through a silk bag, and slowly boil over low heat in silver or stone vessels until a thick paste is formed.

Raw borneol (Longnao), ground (8 liang); Musk (Shexiang), ground (4 liang).
Grind these two into fine powder. Excluding borneol and musk, mix with the paste made from Gastrodia and Aconite until uniform. Allow to cool, then add borneol and musk, mixing again until uniform. Pound in a mortar for thousands of strikes, roll into cylindrical pills. Take one dose the size of a soap bean pod, chew with mint leaves, and swallow with tea or wine as preferred. Time is not restricted. Effective for flaccid paralysis due to wind. For tetanus, take with wine prepared by soaking black beans. To induce sweating, take with roasted green onions and hot wine, three doses; daily use is also acceptable.

[Niu Huang Xiao Wuxi Wan (Cattle Gallstone and Small Black Rhinoceros Horn Pill)]
Treats various wind pathogens causing spasm of sinews and vessels, numbness of hands and feet, slurred speech, deviation of the mouth and face, palpitations with absent-mindedness, accumulation of phlegm and saliva, and painful joints. Also treats stroke-induced flaccid paralysis, dark wind epilepsy. Kidney wind attacking upward causes facial swelling and tinnitus; sinking downward to the waist and legs causes heaviness, dizziness, vomiting, skin swelling and itching, and generalized body pain.

Ingredients: Gastrodia elata (Tianma), roots and leaves removed (20 liang); Sichuan aconite root (Chuanwu), processed, skin and umbilicus removed; Sanguisorba root (Diyu), roots and leaves removed, washed, dried; Scrophularia root (Xuanshen), washed, dried (quantities unspecified in text, implied equal parts).
The above four herbs are ground into fine powder. Dissolve honey in a small amount of water, combine in a stone pot, and slowly boil while stirring until a thick paste is formed. Allow to cool, then add the following ingredients.

Floating duckweed (Fuping Cao), washed clean, dried; Borneol mint leaves (Longnao Bohe Ye), free of soil; Sweet melon seeds (Tian Guazi) (each 10 liang); Raw rhinoceros horn (Xijiao); Cinnabar (Zhusha), ground and purified (quantities unspecified in text, implied equal parts).
Grind the above into fine powder, mix with the previous paste, and form pills the size of a chicken head. Take one pill per dose, chew thoroughly, and swallow with Schizonepeta tea; warm wine is also acceptable. Time is not restricted.