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Huo Xiang (Herba Agastaches, each 1 fen, sifted clean) Gan Cao (Radix Glycyrrhizae, 1 liang). The above are ground into fine powder. Take 2 qian with a little honey dissolved in warm water. Take three times daily. Alternatively, mix with refined honey to make pills. Each liang of powder makes ten pills. Named Baizhu Tiaozhong Wan (Atractylodes Macrocephala Pill for Regulating the Middle). For children, divide one dose into three servings.

Renshen Baizhu San (Ginseng and Atractylodes Powder) (From *Xuanming Lun*). This formula treats the same syndrome as Tiaozhong Tang. The treatment method and administration are the same.
Renshen (Radix Ginseng), Baizhu (Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae), Fuling (Poria), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae), Jupi (Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae), Gegen (Radix Puerariae), Zexie (Rhizoma Alismatis), Huashi (Talcum), Huoxiang (Herba Agastaches) (each half liang). The above are ground into fine powder.
Take 3 qian per dose. Add one cup of water, decoct until reduced to 60%. Use to resolve exterior and promote diuresis. Pregnant women add Cangzhu (Rhizoma Atractylodis Lanceae) 3-5 slices. Take hot.

Chenxiang Guifu Wan (Agarwood, Cinnamon Twig and Aconite Pill) (From *Jisheng Bacui Fang*). Treats cold pain in the heart and abdomen due to intermediate cold, cholera with tendon retraction, and other syndromes. It is interchangeable with Jiangfu Tang (Ginger and Aconite Decoction) mentioned earlier.
Chenxiang (Lignum Aquilariae Resinatum), Fuzi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, processed, skin and umbilicus removed), Ganjiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Secati, processed), Liangjiang (Rhizoma Galangalis, crushed and stir-fried), Guanyi (Cortex Cinnamomi, skin removed), Huixiang (Fructus Foeniculi, stir-fried), Chuanwu (Radix Aconiti Carmerichaelii, processed, skin and umbilicus removed, crushed into small pieces like beans, lightly stir-fried until yellow), Wuzhuyu (Fructus Evodiae, soaked in water, washed to remove bitterness, stir-fried). Each ingredient is 1 liang, ground into fine powder. Use good vinegar to boil wheat paste to form pills, size of Sophora japonica seeds. Take 50-70 pills per dose, sent down with warm rice drink. Take on an empty stomach or before meals. Twice daily. Avoid raw, cold, and hard foods.

Jianggui San (Ginger and Cinnamon Powder) (From *Zhizhi Fang*). Warms the middle and dispels cold.
Ganjiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Secati), Liangjiang (Rhizoma Galangalis) (each half liang), Lagui (Cortex Cinnamomi), Muxiang (Radix Aucklandiae), Banxiaqu (Massa Medicata Fermentata, prepared), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae, prepared) (each 2.5 qian). The above are cut into coarse fragments. Take 3 qian per dose.
Add 5 slices of fresh ginger and 2 jujubes, decoct and take.

Chenfu Tang (Agarwood and Aconite Decoction) (From *Zhizhi Fang*). Treats deficiency-cold with absence of yang, weak stomach with dry retching.
Shufuzi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata), Ganjiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Secati, processed) (each half liang), Chenxiang (Lignum Aquilariae Resinatum), Baizhu (Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae) (each 1 fen), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae, stir-fried, 1.5 qian). The above are cut into fragments. Take 3 qian per dose.
Decoct with 5 slices of fresh ginger. Take before meals.

Tongjing Tang (Unblocking Meridians Decoction) (From *Yuyao Yuan Fang*). Treats abnormal ascent and descent of yin and yang, sudden contraction by cold pathogen, insufficiency of true qi leading to cold extremities, retraction of the scrotum, or acute pain in the lower abdomen. All are treated by this formula.
Shechuangzi (Fructus Cnidii), Zuogu Muli (Concha Ostreae facing left), Fuping (Herba Lemnae) (each 3 liang), Caoxiangfuzi (Rhizoma Cyperi, 2 liang, ground into powder), Cishi (Magnetitum, 10 liang, must be tested with a needle to ensure strength, pounded into bean-sized pieces, placed in a silk bag for decocting 10 times, do not use others). Use one dou of spring water facing the sun, decoct with the above herbs until reduced to 7 sheng. Filter out dregs, store in a bottle. Before sleep, place the bottle near the genitalia, fumigate and soak for several cycles. Pour into a basin, wash thoroughly by hand.

Warming Method (Yun Fa). Treats intermediate cold of the three yin meridians, all deficiency-cold with cold limbs, vomiting and belching, excess yin with deficiency yang, and yin-toxic shaoyin disease with cold limbs.
Fat green onions (finely chopped), Wheat bran (each 3 da sheng), Cangyan (Halitum). Mix the above three items with one large cup of water until moist. Stir-fry in a pan until extremely hot. Sew two bags from thick silk, wrap around the patient's navel area, extending down to the genital region, anterior and posterior, and between the thighs. Move back and forth continuously. Replace when one bag cools. When the onion bag cools, re-moisten with salt water, stir-fry until scorched and hot, and use again as before. Stop when the skin becomes ulcerated. Take new onions and bran to continue day and night without stopping. Continue until the body becomes warm, pulse becomes strong, and yang qi returns. Preserve qi, nourish harmony, and regulate.

Another Prescription. Treats yin-pattern shaoyin disease, abdominal pain with vomiting and dysentery, blue lips and black face, stiffness of the back and body, cold limbs, deep and fine pulse, and difficulty in the throat.
Use 1 jin of Cangyan (Halitum), stir-fry until scorched and extremely hot. Wrap in two layers of cloth/silk to make a bag. Apply warming compress to the yin area and navel. Same method as onion warming. Especially effective.

Shengliao Wuji San (Raw Material Five Accumulations Powder) (From *Yifang Jicheng*). Treats headache and body pain caused by cold pathogen invasion, stiffness of the neck and back, aversion to cold and vomiting, or abdominal pain. Also treats shaoyang fever, headache, and aversion to wind. Regardless of internal injury from raw/cold food or external contraction of wind-cold, and cold-dampness lodging in the meridians causing soreness and pain in the waist and legs, as well as irregular menstruation in women or difficult labor, all are treated.
Baizhi (Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, 3 liang), Chenpi (Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, white part removed, 6 liang), Houpo (Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis, skin removed, ginger-processed, 4 liang), Jiegeng (Radix Platycodonis, radix end removed, 12 liang), Zhike (Fructus Aurantii, pulp removed, bran-fried, 6 liang), Chuanxiong (Rhizoma Chuanxiong), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae, honey-fried), Fuling (Poria) (each 3 liang), Cangzhu (Rhizoma Atractylodis Lanceae, soaked in rice wash, skin removed, 24 liang), Danggui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis, radix end removed, 3 liang), Mahuang (Herba Ephedrae, joints removed, 6 liang), Rougui (Cortex Cinnamomi, skin removed), Shaoyao (Radix Paeoniae Alba) (each 3 liang), Ganjiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Secati, 4 liang), Banxia (Rhizoma Pinelliae, washed in water, 3 liang). The above are cut into coarse fragments. Take 4 qian per dose. Add one cup of water, 3 slices of ginger, 3 roots of white onion. Decoct until 70% remains. Take hot. For exposure to cold, use baked ginger. For qi stagnation, add Evodia. For women regulating menstruation or inducing labor, add mugwort and vinegar.

Da Jupi Wan (Large Citrus Peel Pill) (From *Yangshi Jiacang Fang*). Treats intermediate cold with qi blockage, inability to eat.
Chen Jupi (Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, white part removed, 1 jin), Shengjiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens, washed, unpeeled, sliced and dried, 1 jin), Dingxiang (Flos Caryophylli), Renshen (Radix Ginseng, radix end removed), Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae, honey-fried) (the above three ingredients each 4 liang), Shenqu (Massa Medicata Fermentata, lightly fried, 2 liang), Maiya (Fructus Hordei Germinatus, lightly fried, 2 liang). The above are ground into fine powder. Form pills with refined honey. Each liang makes ten pills.

Wenzhong Jiangqi Wan (Warming Middle and Descending Qi Pill) (From *Yangshi Jiacang Fang*). Treats intermediate cold with qi blockage, spleen and stomach disharmony, erratic appetite, deficiency-cold in the navel and abdomen, alcohol-induced vomiting and retching, and chest/diaphragm discomfort.
Fuzi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, skin and umbilicus removed, crushed like half a date, weighed 1 liang, boiled slowly in silver/copper vessel with 0.5 jin of fresh ginger juice until juice is exhausted, thinly sliced and dried), Ganshengjiang (Dried Fresh Ginger, 2 liang, peeled), Baizhu (Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae), Renshen (Radix Ginseng, radix end removed), Chenpi (Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, white part removed), Shenqu (Massa Medicata Fermentata, stir-fried yellow), Banxia (Rhizoma Pinelliae, soaked in water seven times), Baifuzi (Rhizoma Typhonii, processed), Danggui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis, washed and dried), Tiannanxing (Rhizoma Arisaematis, processed), Gaoliangjiang (Rhizoma Galangalis, baked, sliced, oil-fried), Dingxiang (Flos Caryophylli), Muxiang (Radix Aucklandiae), Chenxiang (Lignum Aquilariae Resinatum), Hujiaorou (Semen Piperis Nigrum), Rougui (Cortex Cinnamomi, rough bark removed) (each 1 liang). The above are ground into fine powder. Use fresh ginger juice to boil wheat paste to form pills, size of Sophora japonica seeds. Take 50 pills per dose, sent down with ginger soup.

Deputy Commander KT, Official Mu, age 68. In autumn of the Wuwu year, he campaigned in the South. I accompanied him over a thousand li through Yangzhou. In mid-winter, he fell ill with spontaneous diarrhea, undigested food in stool, cold pain in the navel and abdomen, cold feet that felt no pain or itch when touched. Burning stones to warm them did not help. His pulse was deep, fine, and faint. I reasoned that his qi was deficient due to age, he had penetrated deep into enemy territory, military affairs were burdensome, he was exposed to cold morning and night, diet was irregular, he drank milk and cheese, walked in damp lowlands, and yang qi could not secure the exterior. Thus, clear dampness attacked deficiency, so the disease arose from below, causing cold feet and reversal. *Neijing* states: contracting cold leads to illness; mild cases cause cough, severe cases cause diarrhea and pain. This is a disease caused by the combination of cold and dampness. The method should urgently expel cold-dampness and strongly tonify yang. Only moxibustion can cure it. Use large moxa cones to first moxa Qihai (CV6) 100 zhuang to tonify deficiency of lower jiao yang. Then moxa Zusanli (ST36) bilaterally, 37 zhuang each, to treat cold feet and reversal, and guide yang qi downward. Then moxa Sanyinjiao (SP6) bilaterally to dissipate cold-dampness in the feet. The prescription stated: When cold dominates, treat with pungent-hot. When dampness dominates externally, level with bitter-hot. Use bitter to vent. Use Fuzi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata), greatly pungent and hot, to assist yang, retreat yin, warm meridians, and dispel cold, thus serving as the Sovereign herb. Ganjiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Secati) and Guanyi (Cortex Cinnamomi) are pungent-sweet and greatly hot, also dispelling cold-dampness. Baizhu (Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae) and Banxia (Rhizoma Pinelliae) are bitter-pungent-warm and dry spleen heat, thus serving as Ministers. Caodoukou (Fructus Cardamomi), Zhi Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata), and Renshen (Radix Ginseng) are sweet-pungent-greatly warm, warming the middle and benefiting qi. Shengjiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens) is pungent-greatly warm, able to disperse clear dampness. Congbai (Bulbus Allii Cepae) is pungent-warm, to unblock upper jiao yang qi, thus serving as Assistants. It is said: Tonifying below and treating below requires urgent preparation; urgency implies strong flavor and potency. Therefore, prepare a large decoction. After a few doses, diarrhea stopped, pain decreased, feet gradually warmed. Regulate diet, recovered after more than ten days. Next year, August, passing Xiangyang, encountering continuous rain for over ten days, previous symptoms recurred. Again moxa Yangfu (GB38) bilaterally, 37 zhuang each, administered previous medicine for a few doses, cured well. From then on, the Deputy Commander valued medical arts highly and treated me with greater intensity.

Jiajian Baitong Tang (Modified Baitong Decoction) (From *Weisheng Jiabao Fang*). Treats exposure to cold and drinking cold liquids, spontaneous diarrhea, undigested food in stool, cold pain in navel/abdomen, cold feet with reversal.
Fuzi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, processed, skin and umbilicus removed, 1 liang), Ganjiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Secati, processed, 1 liang), Guanyi (Cortex Cinnamomi, 5 qian), Baizhu (Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, 5 qian), Zhi Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata, 5 qian), Caodoukou (Fructus Cardamomi,
Water 2.5 cups, Ginger 5 [slices]

Qihai (CV6) is located 1.5 cun below the umbilicus, emerging from the Ren Meridian. Zusanli (ST36) is 3 cun below the knee, between the two segments outside the tibia, take when lifting the foot, entering point of Foot-Yangming Meridian. For humans, moxa 3 zhuang, needle insert 5 fen. Sanyinjiao (SP6) is located 3 cun above the medial malleolus, in the depression below the bone, intersection of Foot-Taiyin, Foot-Jueyin, and Foot-Shaoyin meridians. Moxa 3 zhuang, needle insert 3 fen. Marrow meeting point is Juegu (GB39). *Zhenjing* says: Brain marrow diminishes, leg soreness, tinnitus. Also says: Leg soreness, cold marrow, Juegu is above the lateral malleolus, attached to the bone below, in the middle of the tibia, which is the place where marrow meets. Elder Jiegu said: Head hot as fire, feet cold as ice, can moxa Yangfu (GB38) acupoint. Yangfu two points belong to Fire, located 4 cun above the lateral malleolus, anterior to the fibula, at the end of Juegu, 3 fen as before, 7 cun away from Qiuxu (GB41), pathway of Foot-Shaoyang Meridian. To fear not cold. (From *Bencao*) Take Tianmendong (Radix Asparagi) and Fuling (Poria) ground into powder, take one fangcun bi twice daily. Sweat out while wearing single clothes during extreme cold.