治头痛面赤，烦闷咽干，上膈风痰，头目晕昏，百节疼痛，背项拘急。
川芎（洗） 防风（去钗股） 僵蚕（去丝、嘴，炒） 独活（黄色如鬼眼者，去芦，
洗，焙
，秤，各一两） 天麻（四两） 桔梗（炒，三两） 细辛（去叶） 白附子（炒） 羌活
（洗，去芦
）甘草（炙，各半两） 薄荷 荆芥穗（各一两半）
上细末，炼蜜丸如弹子大。每服一粒，清茶酒嚼下，食后。
治上焦虚热，肺脘咽膈有气如烟抢上。
黄连（去须） 茯苓（去皮） 人参（各三两，去芦） 朱砂（一分，水飞） 真脑子
（少许）
上细末，研匀，炼蜜丸如梧子大。熟水下三五丸，日二三服。
治心经有热。
麦门冬（一两，水 去心） 川黄连（去须，半两）
上细末，炼蜜丸如梧子大。食后熟水下二三十丸。
治心热。
川黄连（去须，四两，粗末） 生地黄（半斤，研取汁，连滓，二味匀，日干）
上细末，炼蜜丸如梧子大。每服三十丸，食后麦门冬汤下。
治邪热客于经络，肌热痰嗽，五心烦躁，头目昏痛，夜多盗汗。此药补和真气，解劳倦
，妇人血热虚劳骨蒸，并皆治。
人参（去芦） 白术 白茯苓（去皮） 柴胡（去苗，洗） 半夏曲 当归（洗，去芦，
薄切
，焙干，秤） 赤芍药 干葛 甘草（各一两，炙） 子芩（半两，去皮）
上为细末。每服三钱，水一盏，生姜四片，枣二个，煎至八分，不拘时候带热服。但是
有劳热证，皆可服，热退即止。大抵透肌解热，干葛第一，柴胡次之，所以升麻葛根汤为解
肌之冠也。
Treats headache with facial redness, mental restlessness and oppression, dry throat, wind-phlegm obstructing the upper jiao (upper burner), dizziness and blurred vision, pain in all joints, and stiffness and tension in the back and neck.
Chuanxiong Rhizoma (Washed) Fangfeng Radix Saposhnikoviae (Remove woody core) Tan Can (Remove silk and mouth, stir-fried) Duhuo Radix Angelicae Pubescentis (Select those yellow with patterns like ghost eyes, remove rhizome, wash, dry-roast, weigh, each 1 liang) Tianma Gastrodiae Rhizoma (4 liang) Jiegeng Radix Platycodi (Stir-fried, 3 liang) Xixin Herba Asari (Remove leaves) Baifuzi Rhizoma Typhonii (Stir-fried) Qianghuo Radix Notopterygii (Wash, remove rhizome) Gancao Radix Glycyrrhizae (Honey-fried, each half liang) Bohe Herba Menthae Jingjie Spica Schizonepetae (Each 1.5 liang)
Grind the above into fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of a bullet. Take one pill per dose, chew and swallow after meals with clear tea and wine.
Treats deficiency-heat in the upper jiao (upper burner), where qi rushes upward like smoke through the lung system, throat, and chest-diaphragm area.
Huanglian Rhizoma Coptidis (Remove roots) Fuling Poria (Remove skin) Renshen Radix Ginseng (Each 3 liang, remove rhizome) Zhusha Cinnabaris (1 fen, water-triturated) Zhen Naobing (Borneolum Syntheticum, a small amount)
Grind the above into fine powder, mix evenly, and combine with refined honey to form pills the size of wu-tzu seeds (Cocculus Indicus seeds). Swallow three to five pills with warm water, taken two to three times daily.
Treats heat in the Heart channel.
Maimendong Tuber Ophiopogonis (1 liang, soak in water and remove heart) Chuan Huanglian Rhizoma Coptidis (Remove roots, half liang)
Grind the above into fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of wu-tzu seeds. After meals, swallow twenty to thirty pills with warm water.
Treats Heart heat.
Chuan Huanglian Rhizoma Coptidis (Remove roots, 4 liang, coarse powder) Sheng Dihuang Radix Rehmanniae (Half jin [approx. 16 oz], grind to extract juice, retain dregs, mix the two ingredients evenly, sun-dry)
Grind the above into fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of wu-tzu seeds. Take thirty pills per dose, swallow after meals with Maimendong Decoction.
Treats pathogenic heat lodging in the meridians, causing fever of the muscles, phlegm-cough, vexation and irritability of the five centers (palms, soles, and chest), dizziness and headache, and night sweats. This medicine tonifies and harmonizes true qi, relieves fatigue and lassitude, and also treats women's blood-heat leading to deficiency-consumption and bone-steaming sensation.
Renshen Radix Ginseng (Remove rhizome) Baizhu Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae Baifuling Poria (Remove skin) Chaihu Radix Bupleuri (Remove sprouts, wash) Banxia Qu Fermented Radix Pinelliae (Prepare as paste) Danggui Radix Angelicae Sinensis (Wash, remove rhizome, slice thinly, dry-roast, weigh) Chi Shaoyao Radix Paeoniae Rubra Gegen Radix Puerariae Gancao Radix Glycyrrhizae (Each 1 liang, honey-fried) Ziqin Radix Scutellariae (Half liang, remove skin)
Grind the above into fine powder. For each dose, take 3 qian, add 1 zhan [approx. 200ml] of water, four slices of fresh ginger, and two dates. Decoct until reduced to 8/10 volume. Take hot at any time. It can be taken for any syndrome of labor-heat; stop once the heat subsides. Generally speaking, for venting muscle-layer heat, Gegen is the first choice, followed by Chaihu. Therefore, Shengma Gegen Tang is considered the premier formula for releasing the muscle layer.