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For treating sores that have collapsed inward due to cold transformation, presenting with clear and resolved pus, cool skin, epigastric fullness and obstruction (Xin Xia Pi Man), borborygmus with cutting pain, slightly loose stools, vomiting after eating, shortness of breath, incessant hiccup (Ni), inability to sleep peacefully, and occasional confusion or stupor.

Dingxiang (Clove), Chenxiang (Aquilaria Wood), Huixiang (Fennel), Yizhiren (Alpinia Oxyphylla Fruit), Chenpi (Tangerine Peel) (each 1 qian); Muxiang (Aucklandia Root), Qianghuo (Notopterygium Root), Ganjiang (Dried Ginger) (roasted, 2 qian); Hei Fuzi (Prepared Black Aconite Root) (processed, peeled and de-navelled, 4 qian).

The *Neijing* states: "When cold invades the interior, treat it with pungent-hot substances, assisting with bitter-warm ones." Using the great pungent-hot nature of Fuzi (Aconite Lateral Root) and Ganjiang (Dried Ginger) to warm the middle and emit yang qi from the interior to the exterior, serving as the Sovereign drug; Qianghuo (Notopterygium Rhizome and Root) is bitter-pungent-warm, penetrating the joints; Zhi Gancao (Honey-fried Licorice Root) is sweet-warm, tonifying the spleen and stomach, moving meridians and collaterals, and unblocking blood vessels; Cold in the stomach leads to vomiting, hiccup, and inability to eat; Yizhiren (Alpinia Oxyphylla Fruit), Dingxiang (Clove), and Chenxiang (Aquilaria Wood) are great pungent-hot, used to disperse cold as Assistant drugs; The pathogenic qi of sores attacks inward, causing qi accumulation leading to fullness; Muxiang (Aucklandia Root), Huixiang (Fennel), and Chenpi (Tangerine Peel) are bitter-pungent-warm, treating pi-syndrome (obstruction) and dispersing fullness, serving as Envoy drugs.

Chop the above ingredients into one dose, add three zhan of water and five slices of fresh ginger, decoct until one zhan remains, strain, and take warm at any time. Avoid all cold foods.

Treating sores arising from below the ear to the Quepen point (LI15), or extending to the shoulder, which are hard as stone and have no root when moved, named "Ma Dao" (Horse Dagger). These originate from the Hand-Shaoyang and Foot-Shaoyang meridians, or arise in the hypochondrium, whether already suppurating or not yet broken, are all treated.

Lianqiao (Forsythia Fruit), Huangqin (Scutellaria Root) (raw), Shaoyao (Peony Root), Dangguiwei (Angelica Sinensis Tail) (wine-processed), Jingsanleng (Burreed Tuber) (finely sliced), Guangzhu (Curcuma Zedoary Rhizome) (finely sliced, wine-processed once together with Sanleng, lightly fried, each half liang above); Caolongdan (Gentiana Scabra Root) (wine-processed four times, 2 liang); Huangqin (Scutellaria Root) (wine-fried twice); Huanglian (Coptis Rhizome) (wine-fried twice); Cangzhu (Atractylodes Rhizome) (each two qian above); Tugua Gen (Melon Root) (wine-fried, 1 liang); Chaihu (Bupleurum Root) (1 liang 2 qian); Gancao (Licorice Root) (roasted, 3 qian).

Take half of the above ingredients and grind into powder. Mix with refined honey to make pills the size of mung beans. Take 100 pills per dose, or 150 pills. Take the other half and chop. For each dose, take half liang, add one zhan eight fen of water, soak for half a day, decoct until one zhan remains, strain, and take hot before sleeping. Lie with head elevated and feet lowered, remove pillow and lie on back. Swallow the liquid medicine ten times per mouthful, reserve one mouthful to wash down the pills, then sleep as usual.