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Treats amenorrhea in married women and unmarried girls, accompanied by pain, or the formation of blood masses (abdominal masses).

Guixin (Cinnamon Heart, not roasted) Qingpi (Green Tangerine Peel, white pith removed) Dahuang (Rhubarb Root, processed) Ganjiang (Dried Ginger, processed) Chuanjiao (Sichuan Pepper, seeds and closed ends removed, lightly stir-fried, placed on the ground to release heat) Peng'ershu (Curcuma Zedoaria, peeled, weighed) Taoren (Peach Seed, skin and tips removed, stir-fried)

Grind the above herbs into a fine powder. Take one-fourth of the powder and boil it with rice vinegar until it forms a paste. Mix this paste with the remaining three-fourths of the powder to form pills. Pound them in a mortar, shape them into pills the size of tung tree seeds, and dry them in the shade. Take twenty pills per dose, administered with light vinegar water. The dosage can be increased to thirty pills; warm wine is also acceptable. Take on an empty stomach or before meals.

Zhang Heng, a folk doctor from Huizhou, was once detained in the interrogation prison due to some matter. A doctor surnamed Wang, who stayed overnight for medical duties, became very familiar with him day and night and orally transmitted this prescription, which Zhang kept secret. I later obtained this prescription and used it to treat women's diseases, the number of cases being countless. I wish to disseminate it widely and dare not keep it secret.

For ordinary qi and blood stagnation causing pain, there was a nun suffering from aversion to wind, fatigue, alternating chills and fever, facial flushing, irritability, and spontaneous sweating. At that time, epidemic pathogens were prevalent. Physicians, seeing her chills and fever, treated her as Cold Damage (Shanghan), administering various combinations of Xiaochaihu Tang and Da Chaihu Tang. After several days, her condition worsened. Upon examination, I said: "There are no pulse signs of cold pathogen in the three positions; only the Jueyin pulse is wiry, long, and extending upwards beyond the thenar eminence."

Sheng Dihuang (Rehmannia Root, fresh, two liang) Chaihu (Bupleurum Root, buds removed, thoroughly washed) Qinjiao (Gentiana Macrophylla Root, thoroughly washed, rhizome removed) Huangqin (Scutellaria Root, half liang each) Chi Shaoyao (Red Peony Root, one liang)

Grind the above herbs into a fine powder. Use refined honey to make pills the size of tung tree seeds. Take thirty pills per dose, swallowed with sour plum juice. No specific timing is required; take three times a day.

In ancient times, Chu Cheng of the Song Dynasty formulated separate prescriptions for nuns and widows, which likely had a rationale. These two groups live in isolation, lacking yang energy while possessing yin. When sexual desire arises but is often unfulfilled, it leads to conflict between yin and yang, resulting in alternating chills and fever, closely resembling Warm Malaria (Wen Nue). If prolonged, it becomes a consumptive disease (Lao). I once read the "Biographies of Canghai Gong" in the *Records of the Grand Historian* (*Shiji*), which records that Han Nu, a concubine of the King of Jibei, suffered from lower back and abdominal pain... Asking about the cause of her illness? Upon diagnosis, it was found that she was a woman with blood issues... Indeed, there is truth to this.