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Tonify Qi and consolidate blood, treating cold generated by deficiency in the Zang organs due to weakness, excessive menstrual flow, or menstruation arriving ahead of schedule, abdominal pain with aversion to wind, and disharmony of the Zang and Fu organs. Use Zhuyu Lurong Wan (Dogwood and Deer Antler Pill).

Evodiae Fructus (Wu Zhu Yu) (washed three times with boiling water) Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata (Fu Zi) (prepared until cracked, skin and umbilicus removed) Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens (Gan Jiang) Myristicae Semen (Rou Dou Kou) (wrapped in flour, prepared) Poria (Bai Fu Ling) Dragonis Os Carbonisatum (Hei Long Gu) (carbonized) Schisandrae Fructus (Wu Wei Zi) Cistanches Herba (Rong Cao) (soaked in wine overnight) Cervi Cornu Pantotrichum (Lu Rong) (skin and hair shaved off, split, coated with butter, and roasted) Halloysit Rubrum (Chi Shi Zhi) (select that from Zhou earth which sticks to the tongue; each of the above is one tael) Rehmanniae Radix Praeparata (Shu Di Huang) (one tael)

Grind the above into fine powder, mix with a paste made from rice flour boiled in wine to form pills the size of Sophora seeds. Take 50 to 70 pills on an empty stomach before meals with hot rice drink. After one or two months, when Qi and blood have stabilized, remove Dragonis Os Carbonisatum, add half a tael of Aquilariae Lignum Resinatum (Chen Xiang), and it can be taken regularly. My mother, after middle age, derived great benefit from this medicine.

This is a prescription from the Daqing Tongjian Bureau.

Foeniculi Fructus Bo Shang (Bo Shang Hui Xiang) Alpiniae Oxyphyllae Fructus (Yi Zhi Ren) Corydalis Rhizoma (Xuan Hu Suo) Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium Viride (Chen Ju Hong) Cinnamomi Ramulus (Rou Gui) Curcumae Zedoariae Rhizoma (E Zhu) Zingiberis Rhizoma (Chuan Jiang) (each half a tael) Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata (Fu Zi) (two pieces, prepared, skin and umbilicus removed) Boswelliae Resina (Ru Xiang) Aquilariae Lignum Resinatum (Chen Xiang) Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma (Bai Zhu) Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma (Ren Shen) Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Dang Gui) Aucklandiae Radix (Mu Xiang) Paeoniae Radix Alba (Bai Shao Yao) (each one tael)

Grind the above into fine powder, mix with date flesh to form pills. Take 60 pills per dose, swallowed with vinegar rice soup; warm wine may also be used.

Treats turbid and obstructed menstruation in women, prolonged infertility, pain from blood stasis and Qi stagnation, edema of the four limbs, vomiting and counterflow qi with heart pain, deficiency-related vexation and fatigue, sallow complexion, metrorrhagia and leukorrhea, alternating chills and fever resembling malaria-like consumption, headache and toothache, uncontrolled vaginal bleeding, chronic dripping discharges, prenatal fetal stabilization, labor induction, postpartum stagnation pain, heat-stroke with vexation and thirst, dysentery, syncope due to blood loss and blood consumption, muscle spasms, headache due to abundant phlegm, hemoptysis due to敗血 (stagnant blood), fluctuating blood masses, Qi obstruction and fullness, lower back pain due to blood stasis, urinary incontinence, dead fetus in the womb, and all various postpartum diseases.

Moutan Cortex (Mu Dan Pi) Chuanxiong Rhizoma (Chuan Xiong) Ligustici Rhizoma et Radix (Ben) Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma (Ren Shen) Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Chuan Dang Gui) Poria (Bai Fu Ling) Halloysit Rubrum (Chi Shi Zhi) (separately ground) Angelicae Dahuricae Radix (Xiang Bai Zhi) Cinnamomi Ramulus (Guan Gui) Cernuae Radix (Bai Wei) Jingxiong Rhizoma (Jing Xiong) Corydalis Rhizoma (Xuan Hu Suo) Paeoniae Radix Alba (Bai Shao Yao) Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma (Bai Zhu) (soaked in rice wash overnight, each one tael) Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Zhi Gan Cao) (roasted) Aquilariae Lignum Resinatum (Chen Xiang) (not exposed to fire) Burserae Resina (Mo Yao) (separately ground, each half tael)

Wash all the above medicinal materials with warm water, crush and sieve into powder. Mix with refined honey to form pills the size of quail eggs. Take one pill per dose on an empty stomach with warm wine. For pregnant women near term, taking five or six pills will facilitate delivery. For those with prolonged infertility, taking twenty pills may result in conception within the month. It also treats chronic blood wind, hemiplegia, and various blood disorders, effective regardless of duration!