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Treats Kidney Heat and Liver Deficiency, where excessive heat within the interior leads to flaccidity of sinews and bones, inability to support oneself, requiring assistance for daily activities, inability of the feet to bear weight, palpitations with trembling, tidal fever occurring intermittently, loss of taste in food, lack of vitality and strength, and various deficiencies.
Cistanche Herba (soaked in wine) Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix (soaked in wine) Gastrodiae Rhizoma Chaenomelis Fructus (dried) Cervi Cornu Pantotrichum (scorched to remove hair, fried with butter) Rehmanniae Radix Praeparata Schisandrae Fructus (soaked in wine) Cuscutae Semen (soaked in wine, ground separately).
All ingredients are taken in equal parts, ground into fine powder, mixed with refined honey to form pills the size of Sophora seeds. Take 50 pills per dose, administered before meals with warm wine or rice water as desired. Another prescription excludes Schisandrae Fructus and uses Eucommiae Cortex instead.

Treats the five types of Wei syndrome (flaccidity syndromes), characterized by loose skin and brittle hair, withered blood vessels, emaciated muscles adhering closely to bones, weak sinews and bones, poor appetite, lethargy in all affairs, weakness in the four limbs, brittle nails and falling hair, blurred vision and dry lips, extreme fatigue preventing turning over in bed.
Elaphoceri Cornu (shaved, one jin in weight, soaked in wine overnight) Aconiti Lateralis Radix (raw, peeled and navel removed, 1.5 liang) Rehmanniae Radix Praeparata (4 liang).
Use two sheng of barley grains; place half at the bottom and half on top. Cover with two cloth towels to separate and cover. Steam for one day. Remove the herbs and barley, dry them separately by roasting, and grind into powder. Soak the herbs in wine, add clear wine, cook barley flour into a paste to mix with the powder. Pound three thousand times to form pills the size of Sophora seeds. Take 50 pills per dose, administered before meals with warm wine or rice soup.

Treats weakness in the knees, inability to flex and extend, heaviness in the lower back, back, legs, and feet, and difficulty walking.
Stephaniae Tetrandrae Radix prepared with wine (1 liang) Saposhnikoviae Radix Alismatis Rhizoma (each 3 qian) Aconiti Radix (processed, peeled) Sophorae Flavescentis Radix prepared with wine (each 1 qian) Cinnamomi Cortex Poria Cocos (fried) Trichosanthis Radix (washed with wine) Bupleuri Radix Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (roasted, each 0.5 qian).
Grind all ingredients into fine powder, use wine paste to form pills the size of Sophora seeds. Take 70 pills per dose, administered before meals on an empty stomach with warm wine.

Treats Cold of the Bladder and Kidney, feeling like falling when sitting up or standing, dim eyesight, insufficient Qi, and Bone Wei (bone flaccidity).
Dragones Os Cnidii Fructus Saposhnikoviae Radix Rehmanniae Radix Exsicca Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (each 5 fen) Metali Yuyangitis Auripigmentum Album Poria Cocos Cinnamomi Cortex Astragali Radix (each 7 fen) Schisandrae Fructus Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix Aconiti Radix Ginseng Radix (each 6 fen) Corni Fructus Scrophulariae Radix Chuanxiong Rhizoma (each 4 fen) Magnetitum Eucommiae Cortex Zingiberis Rhizoma Exsiccatum (each 8 fen).
Grind all ingredients into fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of Sophora seeds. Take 30 pills per dose, increasing to 40 pills if necessary. Administer on an empty stomach with warm wine, twice daily.