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[Cheng Wuji] If the discharge is clear water with a reddish-yellow color, or undigested rice and grain, with a desire only to drink cold water, frequent regurgitation, difficult urination, exacerbation upon exposure to heat, irritability in the chest and heart, and a pulse that is deficient, large, and rapid, this is due to heat pathogen entering the Stomach vacuously, gathering and seeping into the Lower Jiao, failing to separate the clear from the turbid fluids, and merging into the Large Intestine. This is called "Xie Re Xia Li" (Diarrhea accompanying fever). First use Wuling San (Five-Ingredient Polyporus Powder) to promote urination, then use Yufen Dan (Jade Powder Pill) and Siwei Ejiao Wan (Four-Ingredient Donkey-Hide Gelatin Pill).

[Xue Ji] For the aforementioned syndrome, if it is due to deficiency of Stomach Qi, use Buzhong Yiqi Tang (Tonify the Middle and Augment the Qi Decoction). If Liver Wood overacts on Spleen Earth, use Liujunzi Tang (Six-Gentlemen Decoction). If constraint injures Spleen Earth, use Guipi Tang (Restore the Spleen Decoction). If Mingmen Fire declines, use Bawei Dihuang Wan (Eight-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill). Refer to other discussions for the rest. A woman suffered from dysentery in May, day and night without limit, with dragging pain in the lower abdomen, fever, and aversion to cold. I considered this deficiency of Spleen Qi, and used Liujunzi Tang administered with Xianglian Wan (Fragrant Coptis Pill). After two doses, she gradually improved; still using the former decoction administered with Sishen Wan (Four-Spirit Pill), after four doses, she was completely cured. By the end of July, she felt lethargic and sleepy, her limbs were weak and unable to hold themselves, her body was heavy with joint pain, her mouth and tongue were dry, food had no taste, her stool was unformed, urination was frequent, she shivered with aversion to cold, and felt miserable and unhappy. This was deficiency of Lung and Spleen-Stomach with Yang Qi unable to extend; she recovered using Shengyang Yizhe Tang (Raise the Yang and Tonify the Stomach Decoction).

Yufen Dan
Ge Fen (Clam Shell Powder) Liu Huang (Sulfur) (equal parts)
Grind the above together finely, mix with wheat flour paste to form pills the size of Sophora seeds. Take fifty pills each time, swallowed with rice water.

Siwei Ejiao Wan
Huang Lian (Coptidis Rhizoma) Chi Fu Ling (Red Poria with Skin Removed, each 1 liang) Bai Shao (White Peony Root, 3 liang) E Jiao (Donkey-Hide Gelatin, fried until dry, 1 liang)
First grind the first three herbs into powder. Then dissolve the E Jiao in good vinegar to form a thin paste. Form pills the size of Sophora seeds. Take thirty pills with rice water.

Supplement: For diarrhea accompanying fever, Huangqin Tang (Scutellaria Decoction) and Chishizhi Wan (Red Stone Pill) from Huoren Shu, and Yiyuan San from Ju Fang can all be used.

(The treatment of dysentery is no different for men and women, as detailed in Zabu Zhunsheng; this merely extracts omissions.)

[Cheng Wuji] The so-called red and white dysentery was named "Zhi Xia" (Stagnant Downward Flow) by the ancients. Investigating the origin of the disease, it is caused by external contraction of the five pathogenic factors and internal injury from raw, hard, cold, and hot foods. The manifestations vary: there are red, white, mixed red and white, cold, heat, deficiency, and excess syndromes. Generally, the four seasons all rely on Stomach Qi as the root. There is no case where one is not injured by external contraction of cold, heat, dryness, dampness, and wind affecting the Spleen and Stomach. Once the Spleen and Stomach are depleted, and further injured by diet, the food cannot be digested, leading to accumulation and stagnation, resulting in Zhi Xia. The ancients said, "No accumulation, no dysentery," which is what this refers to. The Classics state: "If injured by wind in spring, sunken diarrhea occurs in summer." Wind tends to injure the Liver, but in spring, Liver Wood is flourishing and does not accept pathogens; instead, the qi shifts to overact on Spleen Earth. Since Spleen Earth is overacted upon, and if one does not guard against dietary indiscretion, indulging in raw, cold, sticky, and hard foods, the Spleen and Stomach cannot digest them, thus causing accumulation. Furthermore, during summer and autumn, if one contracts summerheat, dampness, wind, or cold again, it triggers dysentery. The symptoms must first include umbilical and abdominal pain, profuse watery diarrhea, tenesmus, present or absent, red or white, or mixed red and white, day and night without limit. If such symptoms occur, regardless of cold, heat, deficiency, or dampness, one should first administer Shenzhu San (Divine Operation Powder) to disperse wind, cold, and dampness, then administer Wuling San to separate and drain water and grain, and additionally use Jiaba Yinggan Wan (Enhanced Response Pill) to warm the Spleen and Stomach and remove stagnation, or Liushen Wan (Six-God Pill). There will be no unrest. One might ask: Although the ancients said "no accumulation, no dysentery," it is not solely focused on removing accumulation at first. Is it true that within a year, everyone has accumulation only in summer and autumn but not in spring and winter? Roughly, when wind pathogen enters the Stomach, Wood overacts on Earth; it either causes sudden profuse diarrhea or dysentery. Shenzhu San is the key formula. Another scenario is within a commandery, transmission from top to bottom, with similar disease states, or only one family where elders and juniors are all affected, or transmission among neighbors. Some have the same disease but different symptoms, some have different symptoms but the same treatment; some are relieved by warming agents, some healed by cooling medicines. Such cases are Epidemic Toxic Dysentery. When treating epidemic toxic dysentery, although one should observe the mutual overcoming of the Five Movements and Six Qi, one must not rigidly adhere to this theory. After all, if the movements and qi overcome each other, how could it be biased only to one region or commandery, let alone one family or alley? If such symptoms exist, first examine deficiency/excess and cold/heat. Initially use Baidu San (Defeat Toxin Powder) with added Ginseng, Licorice, aged rice, ginger, and jujube decocted and taken, as well as Sanhuang Shuai Ai Tang (Three-Yellow Cooked Mugwort Decoction), Huanglian Ejiao Wan (Coptis and Donkey-Hide Gelatin Pill), Wuling San, and Zhuche Wan (Park the Cart Pill), selecting as appropriate. If dysentery is predominantly red, or purely bright red blood, with tenesmus, constipation, high fever, heat in the palms and soles, irritability and thirst, distending pain in the abdomen and hypochondrium, dark and scanty urine, and the six pulses are surging, or tight and rapid, or deep and solid, this is Heat Dysentery. Use Baitouweng Tang (Pulsatilla Decoction) and Sanhuang Shuai Ai Tang, Wuling San, selecting as appropriate. If wind dysentery involves excessive bleeding, use Weifeng Tang (Stomach Wind Decoction) with added Aucklandia and black soybeans. If during summer and autumn, dysentery is red or white, or mixed, with umbilical pain, tenesmus, aversion to cold and fever, chest irritability, restless thirst with desire to drink, nausea and vomiting, difficult urination, and five-palm heat, with weak six pulses, these pulse and symptom patterns indicate the disease was obtained due to latent summerheat. Use Xiangru San (Elsholtzia Powder) with added Coptis, Licorice, and Angelica Sinensis, decocted strongly with wine and water, cooled and taken in one dose. Still urgently take Jiuzheng Huanglian Wan (Wine-Steamed Coptis Pill), or Xiaochaihu Tang (Minor Bupleurum Decoction) with added Ginseng decocted and taken; recovery is certain. (Shen Neihan said: There are many drugs for treating dysentery, but none is as wonderful as this one, for Xiaochaihu Tang can treat summerheat toxin.) If miscellaneous symptoms recede but dysentery persists, use Siwu Tang (Four-Material Decoction) with added gelatin and mugwort decocted and taken to harmonize Yin and Yang; there will be no unrest. If water and grain are not separated and urination is difficult, use Wuling San, adjusted with light bamboo leaf decoction. If thirst is severe, it is also suitable to take this. If one does not understand the syndrome of latent summerheat, but blindly administers sulfur, aconite, ginger, cinnamon, and cinnabar/mineral drugs based on a deficient pulse, killing the patient, this is deeply lamentable. If dysentery is purely white, resembling fish brain, with cold pain in the umbilical and abdominal regions, day and night without limit, cold extremities, possibly with nausea and vomiting, complete inability to eat, preference for warm food and aversion to cold, and fine and subtle six pulses, this is extreme deficiency-cold of the Zang-Fu organs. Use Muxiang San (Aucklandia Powder) with added Siwei Lizhong Tang (Four-Ingredient Center-Regulating Decoction) and Zhonglu Jianpi Wan (Stalagmite Spleen-Strengthening Pill). In severe cases with cold extremities and imperceptible six pulses, one should use a single potent tonic, moxa Qihai and Dantian acupoints, and use stomach-assisting medicines. This is the intention of defending without attacking. Use Sishun Fuzi Tang (Four-Compliant Aconite Decoction), Sanjian Dan (Three-Establishments Pill), Bai Dan (White Pill), Jiawei Shenfu Tang (Modified Ginseng-Aconite Decoction), Jiangfu Tang (Ginger-Aconite Decoction), selecting as appropriate. For elderly and weak individuals, or those constitutionally frail, this method should also be carefully considered for regulation. However, opening the appetite and promoting eating should be prioritized. If food can enter, the Spleen and Stomach transport and transform, feces accumulate. Once feces become greasy, fresh blood stasis forms, and one need not worry about it not resolving. If chronic dysentery does not heal, intestinal sliding and incontinence, loose stools persist, and various medicines are ineffective, only then should intestinal-astringing and dysentery-stopping agents be applied. Also, initially use Longgu (Dragon Bone), Roudoukou (Nutmeg), Hezi (Chebula Fruit), Zhonglu (Stalagmite), and Hufen (Lead White) medicines. Recently, people often use Ying Sus Ke (Poppy Shell) and Diyu (Sanguisorba Root), but these substances are too astringent and can damage Stomach Qi. If taken by young and strong people, they occasionally achieve miraculous effects. However, for epidemic toxin contracted from summerheat and dampness, the elderly, or the constitutionally frail, taking these will surely cause great harm. If solidifying and astringing the intestines is prioritized, the wind, cold, summerheat, and dampness pathogens will not only remain trapped but also close the gastric tube, leading to anorexia. Day by day wasting away, with no food entering the intestines, the disease cannot be removed. If such symptoms exist, use Shenling Baizhu San (Ginseng, Poria, and Atractylodes Macrocephala Powder), Sijunzi Tang (Four-Gentlemen Decoction), and formulas with Shi Lian (Nelumbo Seed) and Shan Yao (Dioscorea Rhizome); recovery is certain. When administering tonics for dysentery, there must be the intention of warming and unblocking. For example, Sijunzi Tang, Lizhong Tang, Shiquan Tang with added Aucklandia, White Cardamom, Poria, Cinnamon Bark, and Magnolia Bark can dispel wind pathogens, separate water passages, open the gastric tube, treat entanglement, and unblock constipation. This achieves both attacking and defending. Generally, the method for treating dysentery is: tonify the deficient, purge the excess, astringe the slipping, unblock the closed, push out accumulations, disperse wind, wash away summerheat, dry dampness, cool heat, warm cold, regulate cold and heat, aiming for balance, avoiding excess. This is the general principle.

Lin Qianshuo, the Sacrificial Wine Official, spoke of the physician Liu Congzhou, who achieved merit in treating diseases, with extraordinary and effective discussions. He said: Generally for dysentery, whether red or white, indicating cold or heat: if hands and feet are warm, it is a Yang syndrome; simply take Wuling San, adjusted with millet drink, then take Yinggan Wan twenty pills, and it will cure. If hands and feet feel cold, it is a Yin syndrome; take warming medicines, such as Yihan Wan or Aconite. Treating dysentery this way is invariably effective. This prescription was personally used effectively. Someone suffered dysentery in summer, sixty to seventy times a day; two doses of Wuling San stopped it.

[Xue Ji] Dongyuan said: When the Taiyin Meridian accepts dampness, watery diarrhea changes to pus and blood; when Spleen transmits to Kidney, it is called Thief Evil, difficult to cure. When dysentery precedes diarrhea, it is called Minor Evil, easy to recover. If Jueyin Meridian dysentery presents with deep and slow pulse, and cold extremities, use Mahuang Xiao Xuming Tang (Ephedra Minor Continuation of Life Decoction) to induce sweating. If body is cold with spontaneous sweating, urination is free, pulse is faint with vomiting, use Jiangshui San (Well Water Powder) to warm. If pulse is rapid with body movement, urgency and loud sounds, use Baizhu Shaoyao Tang (Atractylodes and Peony Decoction). If pulse is deep with body stillness and inability to eat, use Jiangfu Tang (Ginger-Aconite Decoction). If body is heavy and limbs cannot move, use Zhufu Tang (Atractylodes-Aconite Decoction). I consider that for the aforementioned syndromes, if there is food stagnation, use Liujunzi Tang to tonify Spleen and Stomach and digest food. If Stomach Qi sinks, use Buzhong Yiqi Tang to tonify Spleen and Stomach and raise Yuan Qi. If wind injures the intestines and stomach, use Shenzhu San to tonify Spleen and Stomach and resolve exterior pathogens. If phlegm accumulates in the Middle Jiao, use Liushen Wan to tonify Spleen and Stomach and resolve phlegm stagnation. Generally, for Spleen and Stomach weakness, one should tonify Middle Qi and regulate diet. An old woman developed dysentery after eating due to anger, with tenesmus and prolapse of the anus; this was sinking of Spleen Qi. Use a large dose of Liujunzi plus Aconite, Nutmeg, and baked Aucklandia each 1 qian, Evodia 5 fen, Drynaria and Schisandra each 1.5 qian. After two doses, all symptoms retreated. Only lower abdominal fullness remained; this was Liver Qi stagnating in the Spleen. Administer Tiaozhong Yiqi plus Aconite and 5 fen Aucklandia; after four doses, she recovered. Later, she felt saltiness in the mouth; this was Kidney deficiency with water flooding. Administer Liuwei Dihuang Wan (Six-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill) for two doses, and she recovered instantly. Again, due to improper diet, unformed stools, and cold extremities, this was recurrence of Spleen-Stomach injury. Administer Liujunzi plus 5 fen Aconite and Bawei Wan (Eight-Ingredient Pill), and she recovered. My late mother suffered dysentery in midsummer, with abdominal pain and endless defecation, irritability and thirst for soup, slight relief of abdominal pain when pressed, and a pulsating, forceful pulse. This was deficiency of True Qi and excess of pathogenic factor. Urgently use 5 qian Ginseng, 3 qian each of Atractylodes and Poria, 1 qian each of Tangerine Peel, Roasted Licorice, Bupleurum, and Aconite. After taking it, she slept; waking up, she asked for food, and pulse and symptoms retreated instantly. After another dose, she was safe. This is taking symptoms rather than pulse. At that time, others suffering the same condition who took dysentery medicines all died; what a pity.

[Chen Wenzhong] Once, a woman suffered dysentery for forty days, and various medicines failed to cure her. I summoned her for diagnosis; the six pulses were deep and weak. Generally, the pulse for dysentery should be deep and weak. Use Shiquan Dabu Tang (Ten-Thousand Great Tonification Decoction) decocted with ginger and jujube, add half a spoon of white honey, boil a few more times, and take it; she recovered. In the summer and autumn of the Jiazi year, the nephew of Marshal Zhao suffered severe dysentery. The pediatrician had not arrived, so I diagnosed him. The six pulses were flat and fine. Observing the symptoms, he said it was blood dysentery, but actually it was just bloody water. I recalled the indications for Tiaozhong Tang, which treats early summer to early autumn, sudden cold striking intense heat, knotting into the four limbs causing high fever and headache, cold injuring the Stomach causing diarrhea with blood, water, or redness, high fever, drowsiness, and rapid pulse. It is suitable to take this. So I compounded it, removed Rhubarb, and she recovered after taking it. Another woman had incessant diarrhea, resembling dysentery but not quite, resembling blood but not quite, the color like turbid wine. I diagnosed her; the six pulses were imperceptible. Others used hot medicines and mineral pills, causing irritability. I first used Baidu San several doses, decocted with aged rice, then Weifeng Tang with millet decocted and taken; she recovered. Tiaozhong Tang without Rhubarb also treats this condition.

[Cheng Wuji] Baitouweng Tang Treats heat dysentery with bleeding, lasting months without healing.
Baitouweng (Pulsatillae Radix, 2 liang) Huang Lian (Coptidis Rhizoma) Huangbai (Phellodendri Cortex) Qinpi (Fraxini Cortex) (each 3 liang)
Coarsely crush the above. Take 4 qian each time, with 1.5 cups of water, decoct to 0.7 cup, strain, and take warm at any time.

Shenzhu San Treats wind injury in spring causing sunken diarrhea in summer. Greatly treats wind-cold headache, stiffness of neck and back, runny nose.
Cangzhu (Atractodis Rhizoma, 1 jin) Gaoben (Ligustici Wallichii Rhizoma et Radix) Chuanxiong (Ligustici Chuanxiong Rhizoma) (each 6 liang) Qianghuo (Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix, 4 liang) Fencǎo (Licorice, 2.6 qian) Xixin (Asari Radix et Rhizoma, 1.6 qian)
Make into coarse powder. Take 3 qian each time, with 1 cup of water and 3 slices of ginger, decoct to 0.7 cup. To induce sweating, add scallion. Strain and take slightly warm at any time.

Liushen Wan Treats red and white dysentery.
Shenqu (Massa Medicata Fermentata, make into powder separately, reserve for paste) Maiya (Hordei Fructus Germinatus) Fuling (Poria) Zhike (Aurantii Fructus) Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix) (baked, double for white dysentery) Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma) (double for red dysentery, equal parts)
Make into powder. Use Shenqu powder to make paste and form pills the size of Sophora seeds. Take fifty pills each time. For red dysentery, swallow with Licorice decoction; for white dysentery, with dried ginger decoction; for mixed red and white, with dried ginger and licorice decoction. Dongshan Yaodian Jiang said: This was transmitted by capital physicians. I detail that this formula contains Huanglian to resolve summerheat toxin, harmonize Zang-Fu, and thicken intestines and stomach. Muxiang warms Spleen and Stomach, expels pathogens, and stops diarrhea. Zhike broadens intestines and stomach. Fuling promotes water passage. Shenqu and Maiya digest stagnation. Truly a key medicine for the dysentery category.

Sanhuang Shuai Ai Tang Treats cold-heat for four or five days with severe purging, intermittent heat dysentery; Baibotong Tang and other medicines often fail to stop it. It is suitable to take this decoction to remove heat and stop dysentery. Some make it into pills, swallowing forty to fifty pills with cooked water; it is effective for epidemic toxic dysentery.
Huangqin (Scutellariae Radix) Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma) Huangbai (Phellodendri Cortex) (each 2 fen) Shuai Ai (Artemisiae Argyi Folium, half, egg-sized)
Coarsely crush the above. Take 3 qian each time, with 1 cup of water, decoct to 0.7 cup, strain, and take warm at any time.

Sishun Fuzi Tang
Sheng Fuzi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Preparata, peeled and de-navelled) Baijiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma Preparatum) Gancao (Licorice) Renshen (Ginseng) (each 1 liang)
Coarsely crush the above. Take 4 qian each time, with 2 cups of water, decoct to 0.7 cup, strain, and take on an empty stomach. For vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain, add 0.5 liang Cinnamon. For difficult urination, add 0.5 liang Poria. Generally, for dysentery, even if the body is cold with cold extremities, spontaneous cold sweat, and deep-hidden six pulses, do not lightly use Aconite. It is mostly due to latent summerheat contracting this disease. There are also cases of spontaneous cold sweat, cold extremities, and weak six pulses, but with cold back and dirty face, or face like painted oil, dry teeth, irritability, and thirst with desire to drink; this is a latent summerheat syndrome. Xiaochaihu Tang, Wuling San, and Jiuzheng Huanglian Wan will certainly be effective. Students should ponder carefully.

Sanjian Dan
Yangqishi (Aquinitus Semen, flown, 0.5 liang) Zhonglu Fen (Stalactitum Pulvis, 1 liang) Da Fuzi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Preparata, baked, take powder 0.5 liang, use half for medicine, half for paste)
Use Aconite paste to form pills the size of Sophora seeds. Take five to ten pills each time, with warm wine on an empty stomach. If thirsty, take with Ginseng decoction.

Jiawei Shenfu Tang
Da Fuzi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Preparata, 2.5 liang, baked) Da Renshen (Ginseng, 5 liang)
Coarsely crush the above two. Take 4 qian each time, with 2 cups of water, 10 slices of ginger, 15 cloves, and a pinch of rice, decoct to 0.7 cup, take warm on an empty stomach.

Xiangrong Wan Treats critical dysentery.
Shexiang (Musk, 0.5 qian, ground separately, add at time of use) Lurong (Cervi Cornu Pantotrichum, 1 liang, fire-burned to remove hair, fried in butter until yellow, made into powder, mix with musk evenly)
Boil jujube flesh with rapeseed stem to form pills the size of Sophora seeds. Take fifty pills each time on an empty stomach. Miu Lifu said: Physicians adding 0.5 liang of Frankincense per batch are especially effective. During the Shaoxing era, many died from dysentery. Any usual dysentery medicines like Poppy Shell should not be taken orally; only taking this medicine and Meizi Wan (Myrobalan Pill) cured them.

Tiaozhong Tang
Gegen (Puerariae Lobatae Radix) Huangqin (Scutellariae Radix) Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix) Jiegeng (Platycodonis Radix) Gaoben (Ligustici Wallichii Rhizoma et Radix) Chi Fuling (Red Poria) Baizhu (Atractodis Rhizoma) Gancao (Licorice, roasted, equal parts)
Coarsely crush the above. Take 3 qian each time, with 1 cup of water, decoct to 0.7 cup, strain, take warm, and take again after a while.

Weifeng Tang Treats wind-cold invading intestines and stomach vacuously, causing undigested food and water, projectile diarrhea, or intestinal-stomach damp-toxin, passing bean-jelly-like substance, or passing blood stasis.
Renshen (Ginseng) Baifuling (White Poria) Xiong (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) Rougui (Cinnamomi Cortex) Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) Baishaoyao (White Peony Root, fried) Baizhu (Atractodis Rhizoma, fried, equal parts)
Take 2-3 qian each time, add a few millet grains, decoct in water, take hot on an empty stomach before meals.

Shuizhu Muxiang Wan Treats chronic dysentery with tenesmus, day and night without limit.
Yingsuke (Pericarpium Papaveris, remove skin, 3 liang) Qingpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium Viride, remove white pith) Gancao (Licorice, roasted, each 2.4 liang) Hezi (Terminaliae Chebulae Fructus, baked, remove core, 8 liang) Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix) (each 6 liang)
Make into powder. Refine honey to form pills the size of quail eggs. Take one pill each time, dissolve in water, take on an empty stomach.

Wuji Wan Treats Stomach Meridian heat, incessant diarrhea and dysentery, inability to eat, incessant abdominal pain.
Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma, fried) Wuzhuyu (Evodiae Fructus, remove stem, fried) Baishaoyao (White Peony Root) (each 5 liang)
Make into powder. Form pills the size of Sophora seeds with wheat flour paste. Take thirty pills each time before meals with rice water.

Shengyang Chushi Fangfeng Tang If stool is blocked, or tenesmus, frequent trips to the toilet but inability to pass stool, or white pus, or accompanied by bleeding, this is constraint and blockage. Use this decoction to raise Yang, then Yin Qi will descend naturally. Do not use purgatives.
Cangzhu (Atractodis Rhizoma, soaked in rice water, 4 qian) Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix, 2 qian) Baizhu (Atractodis Rhizoma, fried) Baifuling (White Poria) Baishaoyao (White Peony Root, fried, each 1 qian)
First decoct Cangzhu in 1.5 cups of water to 1 cup. Add other herbs and decoct to 0.8 cup. Take hot before meals. Food entering the Stomach, its Qi rises, transports to Heart and Lungs, then descends. If Spleen and Stomach are injured, unable to rise, it flows down to Liver and Kidney causing diarrhea and dysentery. The method should be to raise and tonify Middle Qi, not to drain downwards. This is Dongyuan's development of theories not previously discussed.

Sanhuang Wan Treats heat dysentery with abdominal pain, or mouth and tongue ulcers, throat and tooth pain, and all excess fire syndromes.
Huangqin (Scutellariae Radix) Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma) Huangbai (Phellodendri Cortex) (equal parts)
Make each into powder separately. Form pills the size of Sophora seeds with water paste. Take seventy to eighty pills each time with plain water.

Shaoyao Tang Treats heat dysentery with bleeding and tenesmus. The Classics say: "Urine and stool with pus and blood, this is when Qi moves and Blood stops." Moving Blood makes pus and blood heal spontaneously; regulating Qi removes tenesmus spontaneously.
Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix, fried, 1 liang) Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma, fried, each 0.5 liang) Binglang (Arecae Semen) Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix) Gancao (Licorice, roasted, each 2 qian) Gui (Cinnamomi Ramulus, 2.5 qian) Huangqin (Scutellariae Radix, fried, 3 qian)
Take 0.5 liang each time, decoct in water. If not reduced, add Rhubarb. Besides this syndrome, there are cases due to Middle Qi weakness and Spleen Qi constraint. Treatment requires careful examination.