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[Supplementary Discussion]
The condition known as "Bone Steaming" (Gu Zheng) labor is caused by accumulated heat attaching to the bones, hence the name. It is also referred to as "Passing Corpse" (Chuan Shi), "Recurrent Connection" (Fu Lian), or "Innocent" (Wu Gu).

(The following lists formulas for treating Bone Steaming Labor)

**Renshen San (Ginseng Powder):** Treats women's Bone Steaming Labor. Symptoms include high fever, arm pain, amenorrhea, progressive emaciation, stabbing qi sensation in both hypochondria, and weak, thin limbs.
Ingredients: Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma, 2 liang, remove rhizome head), Digupi (Cortex Lycii, 2 liang), Biejia (Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis, 3 liang, coat with vinegar, roast until yellow, remove skirt edges), Lingyangjiaoxie (Cornu Saigae Tataricae, 2 liang), Chi Fuling (Poria with Hosta Root, 2 liang, remove black heart), Taoren (Prunus Persica Seed, 1 piece, remove skin and tip, stir-fry until yellow).
Usage: Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Take 3 qian each time, mixed with clear porridge soup, at any time.

**Huangqi Maimendong Wan (Astragalus and Ophiopogon Pill)** (from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats women's Bone Steaming with vexatious heat, weak and painful limbs, dry mouth, restless mind, and inability to sleep.
Ingredients: Huangqi (Astragali Radix), Maimendong (Ophiopogonis Radix, remove heart), Fushen (Poria with Pine Root), Beichaihu (Bupleuri Radix), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Sheng Ganshengdi (Rehmanniae Radix, fresh, each 1 liang), Szaoren (Ziziphi Spinosae Semen), Yuliren (Pruni Semen), Xingren (Armeniacae Semen Amarum, stir-fried), Chishao (Paeoniae Radix Rubra, each 1 liang).
Usage: Grind into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of wutong seeds. Take 20 pills each time with clear porridge soup, at any time.

**Tianlinggai San (Human Skull Cap Powder)** (from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats women's Bone Steaming Labor. Symptoms include weakness in four limbs, fever every evening, red cheeks, difficulty eating, and mental restlessness.
Ingredients: Tianlinggai (Calvaria Humana, roasted with butter), Anxi Xiang (Benzoin Resin), Digupi (Cortex Lycii), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma, remove rhizome head), Shanzhizi Ren (Gardeniae Semen, each 1 liang), Beimu (Fritillariae Bulbus, remove heart), Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma, remove stamens), Chi Fuling (Poria with Hosta Root), Maimendong (Ophiopogonis Radix, remove heart, each 1 liang).
Usage: Grind into a fine powder. Take 3 qian each time, decoct with one zhan of water until reduced to 0.6 zhan, strain, and take warm at any time.

**Qinghao Biejia Jian Wan (Artemisia and Tortoise Shell Decoction Pill)** (from *Yonglei Qianfang*): Treats Bone Steaming Labor; has effects of reducing fever, releasing muscle layer, and promoting appetite.
Ingredients: Jiulei Biejia (Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis from nine-rib tortoise, one piece), Beichaihu (Bupleuri Radix, 2 liang), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Xingren (Armeniacae Semen Amarum), Jiegeng (Platycodonis Radix), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma), Digupi (Cortex Lycii), Chishao (Paeoniae Radix Rubra, each 1 liang).
Usage: Grind into a fine powder, refine honey again to make pills the size of wutong seeds. Take 30 pills each time with clear porridge soup, at any time.

**Chi Fuling San (Red Poria Powder)** (from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats women's Bone Steaming and Blood Labor diseases. Symptoms include sallow and thin complexion, weakness and painful烦 (vexation/pain) in four limbs, excessive phlegm, thick sticky nasal discharge, and saliva.
Ingredients: Chi Fuling (Poria with Hosta Root, 1 liang), Biejia (Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis, 2 liang, coat with vinegar, roast until yellow, remove skirt edges), Chaihu (Bupleuri Radix, remove seedlings), Maimendong (Ophiopogonis Radix, remove heart, each 1 liang), Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma, remove rhizome head), Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma, cut into pieces, slightly stir-fried).
Usage: Grind into coarse powder. Take 4 qian each time, decoct with 1.5 zhan of water until reduced to 1 zhan, strain, and take warm at any time.

**Yimucao Wan (Motherwort Pill)** (from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats women's Bone Steaming Labor with emaciation, amenorrhea, mental restlessness and heat, limb pain, and inability to eat.
Ingredients: Yimucao (Leonuri Herba), Qinghao (Artemisiae Annuae Herba, each 2 jin), Taozhi (Persicae Ramulus, one handful, 1 cun long), Liuzhi (Salicis Ramulus, one handful, 1 cun long). The above four ingredients are finely cut, soaked and boiled in urine from an uncircumcised boy, strained, juice concentrated into paste, then mixed with other powdered ingredients to form pills the size of wutong seeds.
Additional Ingredients: Chaihu (Bupleuri Radix, 3 liang, remove seedlings), Zhusha (Cinnabar, 1 liang, finely ground and washed with water), Tianlinggai (Calvaria Humana, 1 liang, coat with butter, roast until slightly yellow), Biejia (Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis, 3 liang, coat with vinegar, roast until yellow, remove skirt edges), Shexiang (Moschus, half 1 liang).
Usage: Roast and grind the above drugs into fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of wutong seeds. Take 20 pills each time with rice drink, at any time.

**Tagan Wan (Wild Cat Liver Pill)** (from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats women's Bone Steaming Labor Heat, body emaciation with vexatious pain, and lack of appetite.
Ingredients: Tagan (Liver of Lynx or Wild Cat, one piece), Biejia (Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis, vinegar-roasted), Beichaihu (Bupleuri Radix, each 1.5 liang), Chuanshengma (Polygoni Cuspidati Rhizoma), Taoren (Prunus Persica Seed, remove skin and tip, double-kernel ones, bran-stir-fried until slightly yellow), Tianlinggai (Calvaria Humana, butter-roasted), Shexiang (Moschus, half 1 liang, ground).
Usage: Grind into fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of wutong seeds. Take 10 pills each time with rice drink, at any time.

**Huanglian San (Coptis Powder)** (from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats women's Bone Steaming Labor Heat, heavy and lethargic limbs, back and shoulder pain, sallow complexion, and gradual weakness.
Ingredients: Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma, 2 liang, remove stamens), Zhimu (Anemarrhenae Rhizoma, 1 liang), Biejia (Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis, 2 liang, coat with vinegar, roast until yellow, remove skirt edges), Maimendong (Ophiopogonis Radix, 3 fen, remove heart), Longdan (Gentianae Radix, 3 fen, remove rhizome head), Lingyangjiaoxie (Cornu Saigae Tataricae, 3 fen).
Usage: Grind into coarse powder. Take 4 qian each time, decoct with one zhan of water until reduced to 0.6 zhan, strain, and take warm at any time.

**Qinghao San (Artemisia Powder)** (from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats women's Bone Steaming Labor Heat, vexatious pain in limbs, and progressive emaciation.
Ingredients: Qinghao (Artemisiae Annuae Herba, 2 liang), Longdan (Gentianae Radix, 1 fen, remove rhizome head), Zhizi Ren (Gardeniae Semen, 3 fen), Zhimu (Anemarrhenae Rhizoma, 3 fen), Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma, 1 liang, remove seedlings), Biejia (Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis, 2 liang, coat with vinegar, roast until yellow, remove skirt edges), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma, 1 liang).
Usage: Grind into coarse powder. Take 4 qian each time, decoct with one zhan of water until reduced to 0.6 zhan, strain, and take warm at any time.

**Chaihu San (Bupleurum Powder)** (from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats women's Bone Steaming Labor Heat, cough with phlegm obstruction in chest and diaphragm, abdominal and hypochondriac fullness/stuffiness, and lack of appetite.
Ingredients: Chaihu (Bupleuri Radix, 1 liang, remove seedlings), Banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma, half 1 liang, soak in boiling water seven times to remove slipperiness), Chuandahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma, 3 fen, cut into pieces, slightly stir-fried), Zhike (Aurantii Fructus, 3 fen, bran-stir-fried until slightly yellow), Qinjiao (Gentianae Macrophyllae Radix, 3 fen, remove seedlings), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma, half 1 liang, roasted).
Usage: Grind into coarse powder. Take 4 qian each time, decoct with one zhan of water, add three slices of fresh ginger, boil until reduced to 0.6 zhan, strain, and take warm at any time.

**Maijian San (Wheat Decoction Powder)** (from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats young men and women with Bone Steaming, women's Blood Wind attacking limbs, and chest/heart vexation and obstruction.
Ingredients: Chi Fuling (Poria with Hosta Root), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Ganqi (Resina Toxicodendri, stir-fry until smoke ceases), Biejia (Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis, vinegar-roasted), Changshan (Dichroae Radix), Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma, baked), Beichaihu (Bupleuri Radix), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Sheng Ganshengdi (Rehmanniae Radix, fresh, each 1 liang).
Usage: Grind into coarse powder. Take 4 qian each time, decoct with 1.5 zhan of water until reduced to 1 zhan, strain, and take warm after meals.

**Jinhua San (Golden Flower Powder):** Treats unmarried women's Bone Steaming Heat Labor.
Ingredients: Huoxiang (Agastaches Herba), Lingling Xiang (Lysimachiae Herba), Yanhusuo (Corydalis Rhizoma), Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix), Baizhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix), Chuanxiong (Ligustici Chuanxiong Rhizoma), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Guixin (Cinnamomi Cortex, each 1 fen), Lianzixin (Nelumbinis Plumula), Wancan'e (Bombyx Batryticatus, each 2 fen).
Usage: Grind into fine powder. Take 2 qian each time, mixed with warm wine or rice drink, at any time.

**Biejia Wan (Tortoise Shell Pill)** (from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats women's Bone Steaming Labor, amenorrhea, masses under the hypochondrium, and frequent abdominal pain.
Ingredients: Biejia (Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis, 2 liang, coat with vinegar, roast until yellow, remove skirt edges), Tugua Gen (Trichosanthes Kirilowii Root), Guixin (Cinnamomi Cortex), Jing Sanleng (Sparganii Rhizoma), Mudan (Moutan Cortex), Niuxi (Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix, remove seedlings), Chuandahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma, cut into pieces).
Usage: Grind into fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of wutong seeds. Take 20 pills each time with rice drink, at any time.

**Zhudu Wan (Pork Stomach Pill)** (from *Yonglei Qianfang*): Treats Bone Steaming Labor, red lips and cheeks, rough breathing, dry mouth, generalized high fever, or spontaneous sweating, constipation, and scanty dark urine.
Ingredients: Qinghao (Artemisiae Annuae Herba), Biejia (Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis, vinegar-roasted), Beichaihu (Bupleuri Radix), Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix), Sheng Ganshengdi (Rehmanniae Radix, fresh, each 1 liang), Qingpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium Viride, half 1 liang), Xuan Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma, 2 liang).
Usage: Grind into fine powder. Use one pork stomach, insert the medicine inside, boil in water until tender, mash together with the medicine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of wutong seeds. Take 30 pills each time with rice drink, at any time.

**Shigao San (Gypsum Powder)** (from *Yonglei Qianfang*): Treats Bone Steaming with alternating cold and heat, external cold and internal heat, severe Bone Steaming attachment, slight emaciation of limbs, and swelling of ankles. The disease is in the bone marrow.
Ingredients: Zhen Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum, amount not specified), ground extremely fine.
Usage: Mix with fresh water, take one cun cube (approx. 5-10g), stop when body heat subsides.

**Biejia Wan (Tortoise Shell Pill):** Treats men and women, young men and unmarried women, Five Exhaustions and Seven Injuries, Passing Miasma (Chuan Zhu), Hidden Connection (Fu Lian), Flying Corpse (Fei Shi), Corpse Injection (Shi Zhu), Eight Extremes, Bone Steaming Lung Atrophy, Qi Mass, Intestinal Abscess, and menstrual obstruction.
Ingredients: Huangqi (Astragali Radix), Chaihu (Bupleuri Radix), Zhike (Aurantii Fructus), Zhimu (Anemarrhenae Rhizoma), Bai Fuling (Poria, 1 liang each), Chenxiang (Aquilariae Lignum Resinatum), Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma), Fuzi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata), Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix), Shengma ( Cimicifugae Rhizoma), Rougui (Cinnamomi Cortex), Huhuanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma, 1 liang each), Xingren (Armeniacae Semen Amarum).
Usage: Grind into fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of wutong seeds. Take 30 pills each time with rice drink, at any time. If fearing the medicine is too hot, add a little cold water.

**Baxian Yinzi (Eight Immortals Drink):**
Ingredients: Changshan (Dichroae Radix), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Qinjiao (Gentianae Macrophyllae Radix), Hongzhou Kuaijiu (Atractylodis Rhizoma, i.e., Cangzhu), Chishaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Rubra), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Zisu (Perillae Folium), Yinzhou Chaihu (Bupleuri Radix, equal parts, cleaned, ground into coarse powder).
Usage: Take 4 qian each time, decoct with 1.5 zhan of water until reduced to 1 zhan, strain, and take warm at any time.

**Sha Gui Wan (Ghost-Killing Pill)** (from *Shenghui Fang*): Treats women's Bone Steaming, Passing Corpse Labor Emaciation, and Ghost Qi Hidden Connection.
Ingredients: Shexiang (Moschus, 3 fen), Xijiaoxie (Cornu Rhinocerotis, 1 liang each), Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Guijianyu (Sambuci Ramulus Cum Spinis), Hu Jinggu (Tibia of Tiger, butter-roasted), Tianlinggai (Calvaria Humana, butter-roasted), Taoren (Prunus Persica Seed, remove skin and tip, stir-fried).
Usage: Grind into fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of wutong seeds. Take 10 pills each time with warm water, at any time.

**Mudan Tang (Tree Peony Decoction):** Treats women's Bone Steaming, menstrual obstruction, and progressive emaciation.
Ingredients: Mudanpi (Moutan Cortex, 1.5 liang), Gui (Cinnamomi Cortex, remove coarse bark), Mutong (Akebiae Caulis, cut and stir-fried, 1 liang each), Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix, 1.5 liang), Tugua Gen (Trichosanthes Kirilowii Root, 1.5 liang), Biejia (Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis, 2 liang, coat with vinegar, roast until yellow, remove skirt edges).
Usage: Grind into coarse powder. Take 4 qian each time, decoct with 1.5 zhan of water until reduced to 1 zhan, strain, and take warm at any time.

**Tianmendong Wan (Asparagus Pill)** (from *Daquan Liangfang*): Treats Hidden Connection Passing Miasma, hardness in abdomen, accumulated qi obstructing chest and heart causing Bi syndrome, pain radiating to hypochondrium and back, and fullness/stuffiness in epigastrium and diaphragm.
Ingredients: Guijiu (Podophylli Fructus), Tianmendong (Asparagi Radix, remove heart, each 3 fen), Badou (Crotonis Fructus, remove skin and heart, grind, press between paper to remove oil), Mangcao (Ephedrae Herba? Note: Mangcao usually refers to Ephedra or a specific herb, here likely distinct), Bubang Zaojiao (Gleditsiae Sinensis Fructus, vinegar-roasted, half 1 liang each), Yezi Xionghuang (Realgar, 1 liang).
Usage: Grind into fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of wutong seeds. Take 5 pills each time with rice drink, at any time.