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Answer: Wind is a yang pathogen, and cold is cold qi. Wind enters following deficiency, and cold arises from labor injury. If women regulate their lives in accordance with reason, then blood and qi will be harmonious, and wind, cold, summer-heat, and dampness cannot cause harm. However, if labor injures blood and qi, leading to deficiency and damage, then wind and cold take the opportunity of deficiency to invade.

If they lodge in the meridians and collaterals, blood and qi become stagnant and obstructed, failing to warm and nourish the skin and muscles. If they enter the abdomen, the Qi of the Chong vessel becomes deficient, failing to digest food and drink. Deficiency of the Large Intestine leads to frequent diarrhea; cold of the Zi Zang (uterus) prevents conception. It may also result in amenorrhea or obstruction of menstruation. Diseases form according to the site of injury, all stemming from the pathogenic factors of wind and cold.

Buyin Wan (Nourishing Yin Pill) treats various diseases in women, such as irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis (flooding and spotting), heaviness of the waist and legs, pain in the umbilical and abdominal regions, alternating tidal fever, deficiency vexation and spontaneous sweating, chest and epigastric fullness with shortness of breath, intermittent vomiting and hiccups, painful limbs, loss of appetite, and gradual emaciation and weakness. This medicine regulates the body, beautifies the complexion, harmonizes Ying and Wei (nutritive and defensive qi), expels wind and cold, promotes digestion, resolves phlegm and saliva.

Ingredients: Shudi (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix), Shengdi (Rehmanniae Radix) (each 7 liang); Baizhu (Atractylodis Rhizoma) (5 liang); Cangzhu (Atractylodis Rhizoma) (5.5 liang, soaked overnight in rice water); Bencao (Ligustici Rhizoma et Radix) (cleaned); Mudanpi (Moutan Cortex); Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix); Qinjiao (Gentianae Macrophyllae Radix) (these four ingredients each 10 liang); Xixin (Asari Radix et Rhizoma) (7 liang); Rougui (Cinnamomi Cortex) (peeled, 8 liang); Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma) (roasted, 6.5 liang); Cantui Bu (Serici Bombycis Folium burnt to retain nature) (7 liang); Dayou Huangjuan (Sojae Semen Praeparatum) (fried until smoke appears, ash removed, 6.5 liang); Zhike (Aurantii Fructus Immaturus) (6 liang, stir-fried with bran); Chenpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium) (6 liang, white pith removed); Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma) (processed); Qianghuo (Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix) (each 5 liang); Baizhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix) (6 liang); Baifuling (Poria) (6 liang); Nuomi (Oryza Sativa Glutinosa) (3 sheng, fried until black and smoking).

Grind the above ingredients into fine powder. Make pills with honey. Each liang of powder makes ten pills. Take one pill per dose, dissolved in warm wine; vinegar decoction is also acceptable. Take before meals.

Danqian Dan (Cinnabar and Lead Pill) treats all deficiency-cold diseases.

Ingredients: Lurong (Cervi Cornu Pantotrichum), Lingsha (Cinnabaris), Bailonggu (Dinosaur Bone), Chuanjiao (Zanthoxyli Pericarpium), Yangqishi (Yangqi Stone), Moli Fen (Ostreae Concha), Rougui (Cinnamomi Cortex), Rousongrong (Cynomorii Herba), Shihu (Dendrobii Caulis), Chuan Bajitian (Morindae Officinalis Radix), Muzei (Equiseti Herba), Zexie (Alismatis Rhizoma), Tianxiong (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Preparata) (soaked in wine and processed), Chenxiang (Aquilariae Lignum Resinatum), Tusizi (Cuscutae Semen) (soaked in wine), Anayu (Viverrae Penis et Testis) (each 1 liang); Cishi (Magnetitum) (quenched in vinegar); Shexiang (Moschus) (each 0.5 liang).

Grind the above into fine powder. Make pills with refined honey, size of Sophora japonica seeds. Take 100 pills per dose, with warm wine or salt water.