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To treat wind pathogens, descend phlegm, resolve stagnation, and regulate qi.
Gan Jiang Sheng (Dried Ginger), Mu Xiang (Aucklandiae Radix) (each 0.5 liang), Bai Fu Ling (Poria with Removed Bark), Che Qian Zi (Plantaginis Semen), Mu Tong (Akebiae Caulis) (each 1 liang), Qing Pi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium Viride, with white pith removed, 3 liang), Chen Pi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium, with white pith removed), Zhi Shi (Immature Bitter Orange Fruit, stir-fried with bran, each 2 liang), Qian Niu Zi (Pharbitidis Semen, taking the finest powder, 4 liang), Xi Jiao (Rhinocerotis Cornu, shaved, 1.5 liang).
Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Moisten with rice decoction and steam steamed wheat dough to form pills, sized like Sophora japonica seeds. Take 30 pills per dose, increasing up to 50 pills. Administer after meals with warm ginger water.

To treat stroke, paralysis with inability to move limbs, dragging of hands and feet, deviation of mouth and eyes, or sudden vertigo leading to collapse and unconsciousness, surging phlegm with convulsions, and acute onset of illness. Take 20 pills per dose, administered with wine made from black beans steeped in liquor.

For dizziness and vertigo due to wind-deficiency, stiffness and spasm of neck tendons, and pain in the temporal region (Taiyang acupoint area), this formula is also used.
For heaviness and pain in the waist and legs, difficulty walking, spasmodic contraction of tendons and vessels, limited flexion and extension, invasion by thief-wind causing pain as if pierced by awls, numb and thick skin, or impaired blood circulation with dry and emaciated muscles, administer with raw green onion wine, or raw green onion tea may also be used.
For rheumatic Hongjiao (podagra/gout-like condition with swelling and pain in lower legs), weakness in legs and knees, difficulty taking steps, sores on both feet with pus and blood exudation, intermittent itching and pain, recurrence after healing, administer with warm salted wine.
For traumatic injuries and sprains affecting tendons for many years, with recurrent pain triggered by cold weather, administer with Myrrh wine.
Ru Xiang (Boswelliae Resin), Chuan Wu (Aconiti Radix Lateralis Preparata), Mo Yao (Myrrhae Resin), Wu Ling Zhi (Trogopterori Faeces), Bai Jiao Xiang (Agarici Resina), Di Long (Pheretima), Bai Jiang (Dried Ginger), Ban Xia (Pinelliae Rhizoma Preparatum), Wu Jia Pi (Acanthopanacis Cortex), Chi Xiao Dou (Adzuki Bean) (each equal parts).
Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Use flour paste to form pills, sized like Sophora japonica seeds. Select appropriate decoction guides according to symptoms, same as previous method, and take on an empty stomach.

To treat stroke, regardless of urgency, with surging phlegm, mental confusion, and loss of consciousness.
Dan Sha (Cinnabar), Niu Huang (Bovis Calculus), Shui Yin (Hydrargyrum), Long Nao (Borneolum Syntheticum), Ni Fen (Calomelas), She Xiang (Moschus) (all ground finely, each 1 fen), Jin Bo (Folium Auricum) (21 large pieces).
Grind together again until the hydrargyrum stars completely disappear. Use steamed jujube flesh to form pills, sized like Sophora japonica seeds. For mild cases, take 10 pills per dose; for severe cases, take 20 pills. Dissolve and administer with warm water. After phlegm is discharged, administer Qi-regulating medicines. Subsequently, administer wind-treating medicines slowly at regular intervals.
For stroke with undischarged phlegm, mental obtundation, and loss of consciousness, grind with Mint Decoction (Bo He Tang) and administer.