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[Ren Shen (3 qian) Bai Zhu (3 qian) Bai Fu Ling (1 liang) Gan Cao (5 qian) Dang Gui (1 liang) Chuan Xiong (1 liang) Shu Di Huang (1 liang) Bai Shao (5 qian) Tao Ren (1 liang) Yuan Hu Suo (1 liang) Wu Ling Zhi (5 qian) Pu Huang (1 liang) San Leng (5 qian) Qiang Huo (5 qian) Di Yu (5 qian) Niu Xi (5 qian) Gao Liang Jiang (5 qian) Shan Zhu Yu Rou (5 qian) Chen Pi (5 qian) Cang Zhu (1 liang) Xiang Fu Zi (1 liang) Wu Yao (2.5 liang) Mu Gua (5 qian) Qing Pi (3 qian) Mu Xiang (1 qian) Ru Xiang (1 qian) Mo Yao (1 qian)]

Grind these medicinal materials into fine powder together, using Da Huang paste as a binder to make pills. Take 1 jin of Da Huang and grind it into powder; take 3 liang of Su Mu, chop it finely, add five bowls of water, decoct until three bowls of liquid remain, filter out the dregs and retain the liquid. Take 3 liang of Hong Hua, stir-fry until yellow, put it into a large pot of good wine, boil for three to five times, filter out the dregs and retain the liquid. Take three sheng of Hei Dou, cook until soft, remove the beans and retain three bowls of liquid. Additionally, take four bowls of high-quality vinegar, add the Da Huang powder, stir evenly, and simmer into a paste; if it becomes too dry, add one more bowl of vinegar, repeating this process three times. Then add the Hong Hua juice, Su Mu soup, and Hei Dou juice, stir to dissolve the Da Huang paste until uniform, then pour back into the pot and simmer again into a paste. Remove and place in a basin. Roast the scorched rice from the bottom of the pot until dry, grind into powder, mix evenly with the fine powder of Huisheng Dan, and use the Da Huang paste to form pills the size of bullet seeds. Take at any time, one pill per dose, taken down with wine.

This medicine is specifically used to treat eighteen postpartum syndromes, said to have miraculous effects:
The first is fetal death in the uterus, the second is difficult labor, the third is retention of the placenta, the fourth is postpartum blood syncope, the fifth is dry mouth and chest oppression, the sixth is alternating chills and fever like malaria, the seventh is edema of the four limbs, the eighth is mania and delirious speech, the ninth is aphonia, the tenth is postpartum diarrhea and dysentery, the eleventh is soreness and pain in all joints, the twelfth is hematuria resembling chicken liver color, the thirteenth is distension, fullness, and vomiting, the fifteenth is cough with chills and fever, the sixteenth is cicada-like sound in the throat, the seventeenth is epistaxis with macules, and the eighteenth is lower back pain with dysuria.

For the above various syndromes, urgently use two or three pills of Huisheng Dan, dissolved in wine, taken in one dose for immediate recovery.

For postpartum headache, fever, cough, body heat without sweating, which belongs to Shang Han (Cold Damage), add 3 fen of Ma Huang powder, taken with Cong Jiang Tang (Ginger and Scallion Decoction); for postpartum headache, body heat with sweating, which belongs to Shang Feng (Wind Injury), add 3 fen of Gui Zhi, taken with Cong Jiang Tang. For persistent postpartum cough, add 3 fen of Ren Shen, eight grains of Wu Wei Zi, and three leaves of Su Ye, decocted in wine. For postpartum agalactia, add 3 fen of Tian Hua Fen powder, 3 fen of Dang Gui powder, and 3 fen of Shan Zhe Jia (parched until yellow), ground into powder, taken with hot wine at any time, while massaging the breasts over a thousand turns, milk will flow out like a spring. For unmarried women with amenorrhea, add 3 fen of Peng Zhu powder, 3 fen of Chi Shao powder, 5 fen of Jiang Huang powder, and 4 fen of Tian Hua powder, dissolved in wine and taken at any time. For women with irregular menstrual cycles, take 1 qian each time, dissolved in wine on an empty stomach; avoid raw, cold, salty, and sour foods. For women suffering from Wind Stroke with opisthotonos, trismus, and salivation, take half a sheng of Hei Dou, stir-fry until charred black, when smoke rises, pour two sheng of non-ash wine over it, store in a porcelain vessel, take half a sheng of this wine each time, add 5 qian of Du Huo, decoct together until reduced to six parts, and take warm. For postpartum stasis blood causing strangury with unbearable pain, which also damages stomach qi leading to anorexia, use one he of Tu Niu Xi, five zhong of water, decoct until four parts remain, filter out dregs, add a small amount of She Xiang, and take on an empty stomach. For postpartum stasis blood rushing to the heart that cannot be stopped, take one bowl of good vinegar, quench a red-hot iron scale weight multiple times into the vinegar, and drink it for immediate recovery.

Postpartum Blood Pain Formula:
Dang Gui Wei, Chi Shao, Chi Fu Ling, Yuan Hu Suo, Mu Dan Pi, Hong Hua, Xiang Fu Zi, Niu Xi, Chen Pi, Yi Mu Cao, Gan Cao.
Decoct in water and take. If pain is severe, add Wu Jia Pi, San Leng, Peng Zhu, and Dao Dou Ke.

Wu Jin Wan: Postpartum use can expel stasis blood, stop abdominal pain, and promote menstruation; its wonders are indescribable.
Jin Wen Da Huang 8 liang (stir-fried until no smoke), Guang Mu Xiang (1 liang), Mo Yao (1 liang).
These two ingredients are ground into powder, decocted with Da Huang paste to form pills the size of bullet seeds. Take one pill per dose with wine.

Hei Shen San (also known as Huisheng Wan): Specifically treats stagnant menses in women, postpartum stasis blood attacking the heart, and continuous bleeding. Also treats bruises and fractures, being crushed by wood or stone near death; within three doses, apply scallions externally, and internally dissolve one pill in wine, adding Tong Bian (child's urine) is especially excellent. If someone faces official punishment and beating, taking one pill beforehand can protect the heart and save life.
Dang Gui (wine-washed), Chi Shao (stir-fried), Shu Di Huang (wine-soaked), Pu Huang (stir-fried), Gui Xin (remove rough bark), Gan Cao (each 4 liang), Hei Dou (stir-fried half sheng), Huang Qie Zhong Ke (4 liang).
Grind the above into powder, refine honey to make pills, each weighing 3 qian, taken with decoction according to symptoms.

For postpartum stasis blood rushing to the heart, nearly causing death, take a piece of coal weighing 5-6 liang, heat it red, quench it in wine multiple times, and drink the wine; it settles immediately.

Postpartum Syncope due to excessive blood loss:
Dang Gui, Sheng Di, Wu Yao, Jing Jie Sui, Yi Mu Cao, Gan Jiang (charred black), Hong Hua.
Take with Tong Bian and wine, half zhong each.

Postpartum joint pain and soreness, body heat:
Wu Yao, Shan Zha, Dang Gui Wei, Xiang Fu Zi, Sheng Di, Yi Mu Cao, Gan Jiang, Hong Hua, Su Mu, Rou Gui.
Take with Tong Bian and wine, half each.

Postpartum headache, weak body:
Dang Gui, Sheng Di, Xiang Fu Zi, Ren Shen, Zhi Mu, Mai Dong, Gan Jiang (charred black), Chuan Xiong, add Tong Bian.

Postpartum deficiency heat, continuous sweating:
Ren Shen, Huang Qi, Bai Zhu, Sheng Di, Chuan Xiong, Huang Qin, Xiang Fu Zi, Zhi Mu, Yi Mu Cao, add Lian Rou.

Postpartum lower back and abdominal pain:
Du Zhong, Dang Gui, Sheng Di, Su Mu, Gan Jiang (charred black), Wu Yao, Hong Hua, Xiang Fu Zi, Shan Zha, Yi Mu Cao.

Postpartum headache and abdominal pain, named "Nong Shui":
Gan Jiang, Rou Gui, Wu Yao, Hong Hua, Shan Zha, Yi Mu Cao, Dang Gui, Sheng Di, Xiang Fu Zi, Su Mu, add Tong Bian and wine.

Postpartum thirst and fluid depletion:
Zhi Mu, Dang Gui, Shan Zhi Ren, Mai Dong, Tian Hua Fen, Sheng Di, Huang Lian, Chen Pi, Gan Cao.

Postpartum blood heat clashing causing delirium:
Chai Hu, Huang Qin, Sheng Di, Dang Gui, Ban Xia, Shan Zhi Ren, Mai Dong, Zhi Mu, Chen Pi, Su Mu.

Postpartum lower back pain, leg weakness and paralysis:
Dang Gui, Hong Hua, Yi Mi Ren, Han Fang Ji, Qiang Huo, Fang Feng, Mu Gua, Du Zhong, Sheng Di, Wu Yao, Su Mu, Gan Jiang.
Take with wine.

Postpartum diarrhea or dysentery:
Bai Zhu, Fu Ling, Shan Yao, Bai Shao, Chen Pi, Mu Xiang, Zhi Ke, Mi Ren, Wu Zhu Yu, Ren Shen, Gan Jiang (charred black), Gan Cao, Huang Lian, add Sha Ren, Lian Rou.

Postpartum headache and aversion to wind:
Qiang Huo, Xi Xin, Gao Ben, Dang Gui, Di Huang, Wu Yao, Fang Feng, Xiang Fu Zi, Chuan Xiong.

Postpartum body heat and cough:
Bai Zhu, Mai Dong, Zhi Mu, Huang Qin, Bei Mu, Sang Pi, Chen Pi, Zhi Ke, Jie Geng, Huang Lian, Gan Jiang (charred black), Shan Zhi. Add Huang Qi if there is sweating.

Postpartum generalized edema:
Dang Gui, Bai Zhu, Fu Ling Pi, Shao Yao, Huang Lian, Mu Xiang, Nong Po, Da Fu Pi, Luo Bo Zi, Ren Shen, Chen Pi, Zhi Shi, add Deng Xin, Sha Ren.

Postpartum bleeding continuing after half a month:
Dang Gui, Xu Duan, Pu Huang (stir-fried), Huang Lian, Di Yu, Gan Jiang (charred black), Huang Qin, Sha Ren, Shu Di.

Postpartum hoarseness and sore throat:
Jie Geng, Bo He, Bei Mu, Huang Lian, Xuan Shen, Huang Qin, Shan Dou Gen, Zhi Zi, Dang Gui, Bai Zhu, Chen Pi, Gan Cao, Bai Fu Ling, Tian Hua Fen, Yuan Yan Rou.

Postpartum abdominal mass and pain:
Wu Yao, Shan Zha, Rou Gui, Dang Gui, Di Huang, Hong Hua, Yi Mu Cao, Gan Jiang (charred black), water and wine.

Postpartum paralysis unable to move:
Qin Jiao, Dang Gui, Sheng Di, Tian Hua Fen, Qiang Huo, Xiang Fu Zi, Mi Ren, Mu Gua, Ren Shen, Chuan Niu Xi, Han Fang Ji, Huang Qi.
Decoct in water, take with wine.

Postpartum heart pain nearing death, unresponsive to hundred medicines, recovers upon taking this:
Wu Ling Zhi, Pu Huang (stir-fried).
Grind into powder, take with vinegar soup.

Postpartum wind syndrome unable to move:
Fang Ji (1 liang), Cang Zhu (2.5 liang, soaked in rice water, stir-fried), Bai Zhu (2 liang, earth-stir-fried), Mu Gua (1 liang), Mi Ren (3 liang, soaked in water overnight, stir-fried), Niu Xi (2 liang, wine-soaked), Gui Shen (2 liang, wine-stir-fried), Shao Yao (1 liang), Sheng Di (1 liang, wine-soaked), Hong Hua (3 qian), Ju Hong (1 liang).
Make ten doses, decoct in water and take.

Postpartum retention of placenta, evil blood gathering at the heart, symptoms include mental confusion, placenta reversing upward to attack the heart; if not treated promptly, the mother dies:
Gan Xi (5 qian), Da Fu Zi (one, processed, remove skin and tip), Da Huang (5 qian).
Simmer the first two ingredients in vinegar until dry, make pills the size of tung tree seeds. Take 30 pills per dose, sent down with light vinegar soup; take another dose shortly after, and the placenta will drop immediately.

Postpartum lochia not clearing, abdominal pain:
Da Gui Shen, Hong Hua, Chuan Xiong, Gan Jiang, Rou Gui, Zha Rou.

Prolonged bleeding after miscarriage:
Ren Shen, Huang Qi, Dang Gui, Bai Zhu, Bai Shao (wine-stir-fried), Gan Cao, E Jiao (stir-fried), Chuan Xiong, Qing Pi (charred black), Xiang Fu Zi, Ai Ye, Sha Ren.
Decoct in water.

Sudden prolapse of a cloth-like object from the vagina after childbirth due to excessive effort, with sinking of yuan qi:
Ren Shen, Huang Qi, Bai Zhu, Sheng Ma.
Subsequently regulate with Chuan Xiong, Dang Gui, Bai Shao, Gan Cao.

Abdominal pain after miscarriage:
Dang Gui, Chuan Xiong, Shu Di, Shao Yao, Yuan Hu, Xiang Fu, Qing Pi, Ze Lan, Dan Pi, Hong Hua, Tao Ren.
Decoct in water, take with Tong Bian.

Retention of placenta after childbirth, use Duo Ming Dan:
Mu Dan Pi, Da Huang (each 4 qian), Fu Zi (3 qian), Gan Xi (1 qian).
Grind into powder, make pills with egg white, take with Tu Niu Xi soup.

Postpartum continuous deficiency sweating:
Ren Shen, Huang Qi, Dang Gui, Mu Li, Fu Xiao Mai, Ma Huang Gen, Sheng Jiang.
Decoct in water and take.

Postpartum accumulation, stasis blood forming masses, suitable for Po Zi Xue Wan, treating as if divine:
Hong Niang Zi (1 qian, lightly stir-fried), Pu Huang (3 qian), Dang Gui Wei (wine-soaked), Ban Mao (remove head and feet, bake to 70%), Xiong Huang, Xue Jie (1 qian).
Grind into fine powder, make pills with flour paste, size of walnut, coated with gold foil. Take nine pills per dose. Take on an empty stomach with wine; pain stops after one dose.

Simple formula for postpartum blood and qi attacking the heart:
Grind Xiang Fu into powder, take 2 qian per dose, taken down with hot good wine.