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Treats deficiency exhaustion (Xu Lao) following the recovery from febrile diseases. Symptoms include fatigue and weakness in the four limbs, pain in the hands and feet, loss of taste in food, sallow and emaciated skin, or heat-type malaria with night sweats, dizziness, and empty irritability.
Long-term use of this medicine preserves youthfulness; its miraculous effects cannot be fully described.

Bie Jia (Turtle Shell, 3 liang, soaked in vinegar to remove the skirt-like edges, roasted until yellow, then dipped in vinegar and roasted seven times) Dang Gui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) Mu Xiang (Aucklandiae Radix) Ren Shen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma) Qiang Huo (Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix) Chuan Xiong (Ligustici Chuanxiong Rhizoma)
Chen Xiang (Aquilariae Lignum Resinatum) Rou Dou Kou (Myristicae Semen) Suan Zao Ren (Ziziphi Spinosae Semen) Fu Zi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Preparata) Bing Lang (Arecae Semen) Da Fu Zi (Arecae Pericarpium) (each half liang) Bei Chai Hu (Bupleuri Radix, half liang) Nong Po (Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex) Chuan Niu Xi (Cyathulae Radix) Bai Fu Ling (Poria) Qin Jiao (Gentianae Macrophyllae Radix) (each 1 liang) Gui Xin (Cinnamomi Ramulus, half liang)

Crush the ingredients. For each dose, take 5 qian. Add one zhan of water, three slices of fresh ginger, and one smoked plum. Decoct until eight-tenths remains, strain, and take warm. Take three times daily on an empty stomach. Avoid cold/raw foods, wheat products, chicken meat, and sauces.

Treats limb pain caused by blood wind attacking through the body. It may also cause itching, numbness and bi-syndrome sensations, alternating chills and fever, reduced appetite, and altered taste. All these conditions are treated. (The above is from *Zhuan Zhi Fu Ren Fang*)

Ma Bian Cao (Verbena Herba) (remove coarse stems) Jing Jie Sui (Schizonepetae Spica) Bei Chai Hu (Bupleuri Radix) Wu Mei Rou (Mume Fructus Caruncula) (each 2 liang) Zhi Ke (Aurantii Fructus Immaturus) Bai Zhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma) Qiang Huo (Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix) Bai Shao Yao (Paeoniae Radix Alba) (each 1 liang) Qin Jiao (Gentianae Macrophyllae Radix) Tian Tai Yu Yao (Linderae Radix) Ma Huang (Ephedrae Herba) (each 1.5 liang) Mu Xiang (Aucklandiae Radix, half liang) Dang Gui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) Chuan Wu (Aconiti Radix) (prepared) Gan Cao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma) (each 1 liang)

Grind into a fine powder. For each dose, take 2 qian. Add one zhan of water, two slices of fresh ginger, one jujube, and two cun of white part of scallion. Decoct until seven-tenths remains. Take warm at noon and before bedtime. Long-term use has no contraindications, but pregnant women must not take it.

Regarding "wind-deficiency exhaustion-cold" in women: this refers to deficiency exhaustion of the human body combined with contraction of cold pathogens. If women manage their health properly and follow physiological laws, qi and blood will harmonize, and wind, cold, summer-heat, and dampness cannot cause harm. However, if labor and injury damage qi and blood, leading to deficiency, wind-cold pathogens will invade due to the void. The pathogens may lodge in the meridians or enter the abdomen. If the meridians are affected by cold, qi and blood stagnate and cannot warm the skin and muscles. If the interior of the abdomen is affected by wind-cold, spleen and stomach qi become weak and fail to digest food. Depending on where the injury occurs, various diseases arise. If the large intestine is deficient, diarrhea ensues. If wind-cold enters the uterus (Zi Zang), it causes uterine coldness, leading to infertility. If it clashes with blood, it causes涩 obstruction (stagnation), resulting in irregular menstruation or amenorrhea.