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To treat spleen and stomach deficiency (Spleen-Stomach Deficiency), internal invasion by cold pathogen (Cold Pathogen), diarrhea with watery stool (Diarrhea), indistinguishable food and water, imbalance of cold and heat, dysentery with pus and blood where the blood is scanty resembling fish brain, intestinal slipping with abdominal pain, frequent and dense bowel movements, epigastric and abdominal fullness, decreased appetite, fatigue, all these symptoms are suitable for taking this prescription.
Stale rice (stir-fried, 20 liang) Aromatic Aucklandia Root (Muxiang, not roasted over fire, 1 liang) Nutmeg (used raw) Poppy Shell (remove calyx and cover, honey-fried, each 2 liang)
Grind the above herbs into fine powder. Each time take 2 qian, add 1 cup of wine, 2 slices of fresh ginger, and 1 jujube. Decoct until 7/10 remains. Take warm at any time. If one does not drink alcohol, decocting with water is also acceptable. Avoid alcohol, wheat products, fish, and seafood.

To treat intractable profuse diarrhea (Profuse Diarrhea).
Large Sichuan Aconite Root (Chuanwu, processed) Prepared Fuzi (Mianfu, processed) Heavenly Male Aconite (Tianxiong, processed) [These three herbs must be processed, soaked in salt water, skin and umbilicus removed] Aromatic Aucklandia Root (Muxiang) Nutmeg (roasted) Chebula Fruit Flesh (Hehezi, pitted)
Cut the herbs into pieces to make a granular preparation. Each time take 3 qian, add 1 cup of water, 10 slices of fresh ginger, 2 jujubes, 1 sour plum, and a handful of stale rice. Decoct until 6/10 remains. Take hot on an empty stomach.

The syndrome is the same as mentioned above.
Poria (Fuling) Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome (Cangzhu) Magnolia Bark (Houpo) [each 2 liang] Tangerine Peel (Chenpi, 7 qian) Licorice Root (Gancao, 2.5 qian) Chebula Fruit (Hezi) Prepared Aconite Child Lateral Root (Fuzi) Sichuan Aconite Root (Chuanwu) [each 1 liang]
Grind the herbs into fine powder. Use Saccharomyces Granulum paste to make pills, size similar to Sophora japonica seeds. Each time take 110 pills. Take on an empty stomach with rice soup.

The *Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon: Suwen - Yin-Yang Yingxiang Lun* states: Excessive joy and anger damage Qi, while excessive cold and heat damage the form. Violent anger damages Yin, violent joy damages Yang. Jue Qi (Rebellious Qi) moves upward, filling the vessels and depleting the form. If joy and anger are unregulated, and cold and heat are excessive, the foundation of life becomes unstable. Therefore, extreme Yin transforms into Yang, and extreme Yang transforms into Yin. The *Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon: Suwen - Yuji Zhenzang Lun* states: Worry, joy, grief, fear, and anger, if not regulated in proper sequence, will cause severe illness. Thus, excessive joy leads to great deficiency of Zheng Qi (Upright Qi), allowing Kidney Qi to invade; worry allows Heart Qi to invade; anger allows Liver Qi to invade; grief allows Lung Qi to invade; fear allows Spleen Qi to invade. Zhu Danxi said: Qi circulates throughout the body and is the basis of life. When Yang goes, Yin comes; when Yin goes, Yang comes. Ascending and descending, without end. If internally not moved by the Seven Emotions (Seven Emotions) and externally not affected by the Six Evils (Six Evils), how could there be disease in Qi? What people call cold Qi, stagnant Qi, rebellious Qi, and ascending Qi are all due to the Lung suffering from Fire Evil (Fire Pathogen), undergoing inflammatory transformation, rising only without descending, steaming the clear orifices. This may even lead to the Upper Jiao failing to receive, the Middle Jiao failing to transform, and the Lower Jiao failing to seep. Through辗转 transformation, it becomes vomiting, regurgitation, chest obstruction, dysphagia, phlegm-fluid retention, reverse flow of stomach contents, acid regurgitation, or stagnation and pain, distension, heartburn, belching with rotten odor, loss of appetite, with various symptoms appearing together. Later generations did not understand the essence of the classics. Relying on the *Mai Jue* which states "heat generates wind, cold generates Qi, cold governs contraction," they believed that cold Qi rushing upward causes Qi rebellion and stagnation, asking if this is not cold? The *Yuan Bing Shi* states: All Qi rebelling and rushing upward, vomiting and overflowing, inability to eat, all belong to Fire. All diseases involving vomiting and acid regurgitation belong to Heat. All accumulations, fluid retention, stagnation, chest obstruction, and middle fullness belong to Dampness. Then, do diseases such as Qi disorders, fluid retention, vomiting, reverse flow of stomach contents, and acid regurgitation have any Cold? The answer is: Each of the Five Zang Organs has its own Fire. When stirred by the Five Emotions (Five Emotions), the Fire arises accordingly. If it is a disease of Cold, it must be caused by the body being exposed to cold pathogens or consuming cold substances. It is not like diseases of Fire which arise from within. Therefore, among Qi diseases, those belonging to Cold are one or two out of ten. The *Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon: Suwen - Jutong Lun* states: Hundred diseases arise from Qi. Anger causes Qi to ascend, joy causes Qi to slacken, grief causes Qi to dissipate, fear causes Qi to sink, cold causes Qi to contract, heat causes Qi to leak, shock causes Qi to become chaotic, labor causes Qi to be exhausted, thought causes Qi to knot. These are the differences among the Nine Qi (Nine Qi Movements). However, all movements of Qi ultimately generate Heat. Zhang Hezi said: The Qi of Heaven and Earth, in normal conditions brings peace, in abnormal conditions brings disease. How much more so for humans who inherit the Qi of Heaven and Earth, with the Five Transformations invading externally and the Seven Emotions battling internally? Therefore, predecessors cherished Qi as if holding a supreme treasure, while mediocre people threw things away, thereby damaging Great Harmony. This is why Xuanyuan (Yellow Emperor) and Qibo discussed that all pains are due to Qi, and all diseases arise from Qi, leading to the theory of the nine different Qi movements. Qi is originally one, but divided into nine due to different triggers: anger, joy, grief, fear, cold, heat, shock, thought, and labor. They said: Anger causes Qi to rebel; severely, it causes hematemesis and undigested stool diarrhea, thus Qi rebels upward. Wang Taipu said: Anger causes Yang Qi to rebel upward, and Liver Wood invades Spleen, thus severely causing vomiting and undigested stool diarrhea; Joy causes Qi to harmonize and will to reach, Ying and Wei to flow freely, thus Qi slackens; Grief causes the Heart Tie to tighten, Lung leaves to spread and rise, Upper Jiao to block, Ying and Wei not to scatter, Heat Qi remaining in the center, thus Qi dissipates; Fear causes Essence to retreat; retreat means Upper Jiao closes, closure means Qi returns, Lower Jiao becomes distended, thus Qi does not move. It is also said: Fear damages Essence; Essence retreats upward and does not flow downward, Lower Jiao Yin Qi also returns and does not scatter, thus gathering and causing distension. However, since Upper Jiao is sealed and Lower Jiao Qi returns, Qi moves downward. Cold causes pores to close, Qi does not move, thus Qi contracts. It is also said: When the body is cool, Wei Qi sinks, thus the texture of the skin and sites of excretion are closed and tight, Qi does not circulate, and Wei Qi converges in the interior without scattering. Heat causes pores to open, Ying and Wei to flow freely, sweat to pour out, thus Qi leaks. It is also said: Humans feel comfortable in Yang and miserable in Yin. Thus, heat causes skin and pores to open, Ying and Wei to flow freely through fluids, and sweat to pour out; Shock causes the Heart to have no support, Spirit to have no return, thoughts to have no fixation, thus Qi becomes chaotic; Labor causes panting and sweating, internal and external both escaping, thus Qi is exhausted. It is also said: Fatigue and overwork cause Qi to rush rapidly, thus panting; rapid Qi movement causes Yang to emit outward, thus sweating; internal and external both exceed normal limits, thus Qi is exhausted. Thought causes the Heart to retain focus, Spirit to have a return point, Zheng Qi to remain and not move, thus Qi knots. It is also said: Fixating the Heart prevents scattering, thus Qi also stays. This is the discussion of Nine Qi in the *Suwen*, which details changes very thoroughly and explains principles clearly. However, it briefly discusses diseases caused by the nine Qi, only mentioning vomiting and undigested stool diarrhea, saying nothing else. Only the *Lingshu* discusses thought, sorrow, joy, worry, anger, and fear, stating their diseases: Thought damages Shen (Spirit); damaging Shen leads to self-induced fear, muscle wasting, hair becoming brittle and color fading, dying in winter corresponding to Spleen; Unresolved worry damages Yi (Intellect); damaging Yi leads to confusion, inability to raise limbs, hair becoming brittle and color fading, dying in spring corresponding to Liver; Grief moving internally damages Hun (Ethereal Soul); damaging Hun leads to mania and forgetfulness, restlessness and irregularity, penile retraction and cramping, inability to raise both hypochondria, hair becoming brittle, dying in autumn corresponding to Lung; Endless joy damages Po (Corporeal Soul); damaging Po leads to mania, where the manic person disregards others, hair and skin become dry and brittle, hair becomes brittle and color fades, dying in summer corresponding to Heart; Unrestrained anger damages Zhi (Willpower); damaging Zhi leads to forgetfulness, inability to bend or extend the lower back and spine, hair becoming brittle and color fading, dying in late summer corresponding to Spleen; Unresolved fear damages Jing (Essence); damaging Jing leads to bone flaccidity, spontaneous emission of essence, because the Five Zang Organs store Essence and cannot be damaged. Damaging them leads to loss of control and Yin deficiency; deficiency leads to lack of Qi; lack of Qi leads to death. It is also said: Diseases governed by Shen, Yi, Hun, Po, Zhi, and Jing, yet lacking the four syndromes of cold, heat, shock, and labor, I deduce from this. Anger manifests as hematemesis, undigested stool diarrhea, Jian Jue (Boiling Syncope), Bo Jue (Thinning Syncope), Yang Jue (Yang Syncope), chest fullness and hypochondriac pain, Qi rebelling downward after eating, panting, thirst, vexation, Xiao Bi (Consumption Bi), Fei Qi (Fat Qi), sudden blindness, sudden deafness, tendons relaxing outward, carbuncles and sores; Joy manifests as incessant laughter, dry and brittle hair, flesh diseases, failure of Yang Qi to secure, severely leading to mania; Grief manifests as genital retraction, tendon cramping, muscle Bi, pulse flaccidity, frequent bloody urine in men, metrorrhagia in women, sour nose and pungent sensation, blurred vision, shortness of breath, inability to complete inhalation, arm numbness when weeping; Fear manifests as muscle wasting, bone soreness and flaccidity/cold extremities, sudden profuse watery diarrhea, facial heat and skin tension, impotence, jaw dropping from fear; Shock manifests as tidal salivation, mouth locking, dementia and epilepsy, unconsciousness, stiff collapse, eventually turning into Bi syndrome; Labor manifests as throat obstruction, panting, coughing blood, lower back pain and bone flaccidity, lung sounds, destruction of high bones, impotence, spitting blood, dim vision, ear closure, scanty sperm in men, amenorrhea in women, severe decline like a collapsing dam, unstoppable; Thought manifests as insomnia, hypersomnia, dizziness and clouded vision, middle stagnation, closure of Triple Burner, difficulty in swallowing, bitter bile vomiting, tendon flaccidity, white discharge, post-worry Qi deficiency, feeling weak and depleted, loss of appetite; Cold manifests as fluid discharge from upper and lower parts; Heat manifests as panting, vomiting, acid regurgitation, sudden profuse diarrhea with tenesmus. For all these nine, the *Neijing* has treatment methods, simply treating them according to the principle of mutual overcoming of the Five Elements. Anger damages the Liver; Liver belongs to Wood. Anger causes Qi to congregate in the Liver, and Spleen Earth suffers evil. If Wood is excessive, the Liver itself becomes diseased; Joy damages the Heart; Heart belongs to Fire. Joy causes Qi to congregate in the Heart, and Lung Metal suffers evil. If Fire is excessive, the Heart itself becomes diseased; Grief damages the Lung; Lung belongs to Metal. Grief causes Qi to congregate in the Lung, and Liver Wood suffers evil. If Metal is excessive, the Lung itself becomes diseased; Fear damages the Kidney; Kidney belongs to Water. Fear causes Qi to congregate in the Kidney, and Heart Fire suffers evil. If Water is excessive, the Kidney itself becomes diseased; Heat damages the Spleen; Spleen belongs to Earth. Thought causes Qi to congregate in the Spleen, and Kidney Water suffers evil. If Earth is excessive, the Spleen itself becomes diseased. Cold damages the Form; Form belongs to Yin-Cold. Overcoming Heat, Yang suffers disease; if Cold is excessive, Yin itself becomes diseased; Heat damages Qi; Qi belongs to Yang. Overcoming Cold, Yin suffers disease; if Heat is excessive, Yang itself becomes diseased. All these seven mutually treat each other. The principle of excess and deficiency is stated in the Classics: Slippery pulse indicates much blood and little Qi; choppy pulse indicates little blood and much Qi; large pulse indicates abundant Qi and Blood; large and firm pulse indicates solid Qi and Blood; small pulse indicates deficient Qi and Blood; thin and slow pulse indicates deficient Qi and Blood; intermittent pulse indicates declining Qi; thin pulse indicates scarce Qi; floating and interrupted pulse indicates dispersed Qi; large and slippery pulse with shortness of breath indicates Qi deficiency; choppy and firm radial pulse indicates solid Blood and deficient Qi; thin and faint radial pulse indicates deficient Qi and Blood. Liu Lizhi's *Maili Xuanyao* states: If the pulse is deep upon palpation, know it is Qi sinking; if extremely deep, choppy, and weak, it is difficult to treat. If deep and slippery, Qi is accompanied by Phlegm-Fluid Retention. Moreover, humans are born inheriting Heaven and Earth's Yin and Yang, forming Qi through flesh and blood. One Qi circulates to form Spirit. With both Form and Spirit complete, it is called a whole body. Therefore, Yin and Yang ascending and descending, blood vessels flowing, Ying and Wei rotating, Five Zang and Six Fu organs nourishing and generating each other, are all enabled by Qi. Heaven and Earth have Five Elements, and changes generate the regularity or reversibility of Wind, Cold, Summer-Heat, Dampness, and Dryness. Regularity brings peace, reversibility brings harm. Humans have Five Zang Organs, which also generate Joy, Anger, Worry, Thought, and Fear. Thus, it is said that rooted in creation is the Great Harmony of Heaven and Earth, where the body is naturally at peace; arising from disease is the discordance of Yin and Yang. Generally, if Qi depression is in the Upper, it should be scattered; if Qi depression is in the Lower, it should be purged. This merely states the general outline. Skilled physicians should deduce and treat based on pulse and syndrome.