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(There are cases of heatstroke from summer heat, and cold-stroke from summer cold.)
[For Heatstroke] [Grains and Herbs] Polygonum hydropiper (Boil the juice and administer orally.) Sesamum indicum (Stir-fry until black, grind with well water, and administer orally.) Cold-food flour (Mix with well water and administer orally.)
[Vegetables and Fruits] Allium sativum (Pound together with hot earth from the road, clarify with water, and take orally.) Cucumis melo var. makuwa (Induce vomiting; consciousness is regained immediately.) [Earth and Water] Hot water (Soak a cloth in it, apply as a warm compress to the heart region to restore consciousness, then slowly administer orally.) Earth slurry (Administer orally.) Hot earth from the road (Mound it over the umbilicus, have the patient urinate into it, and consciousness will be restored.) Soil from cart ruts (Clarify the water and drink it.) "Yangtianpi" (Adjust with fresh water and administer orally.) Hot tiles (Apply mutual warming compresses.
[Summerheat Stroke] [Herbal Category] Elsholtzia splendens (Relieves summerheat and promotes diuresis, possessing the efficacy of penetrating both upper and lower jiao. It is a herb for releasing the exterior in summer, capable of venting yang qi and dissipating accumulated fluids.) Coptis chinensis (Take as pills boiled in wine; treats latent summerheat in the Heart and Spleen, and various diseases such as fever, vomiting, diarrhea, dysentery, and thirst.) Pogostemon cablin Perilla frutescens leaf Atractylodes lancea Atractylodes macrocephala Garlic [Fruit and Wood Category] Chaenomelis Fructus Loquat leaf Poria cocos (red) Magnolia officinalis Polyporus (All treat injuries from summerheat accompanied by damp-heat conditions.) Cinnamon twig (Greatly resolves summerheat toxicity; taken as pills with Poria cocos, or mixed with honey to make a thirst-quenching drink.) Phellodendron amurense (Removes damp-heat, drains deficient fire, nourishes Kidney water, and alleviates flaccidity and weakness.) [Water and Stone Category] Snow water Summer ice Talc Gypsum Cinnabar (Relieves thirst.) Realgar (When summerheat toxicity resides in the Spleen and dampness affects the legs, presenting with vomiting, pain, dysentery, or malaria, process by calcination and take as pills.) Niter Sulfur (These two substances form cinnabar-like crystals; they treat external injury from summerheat and internal injury from raw/cold foods, manifesting as headache, alternating chills and fever, vomiting, diarrhea, cholera, and abdominal pain; swallowing one hundred grains of sulfur during the Sanfu days is excellent for removing stagnation.) Xuanjingshi (Resolves summerheat and reduces accumulation.)
[Draining Fire and Benefiting Primordial Qi] [Herbal Category] Astragalus membranaceus (Treats self-sweating due to summerheat injury, panting, and muscular heat.) Ginseng (Summerheat injures primordial qi; when accompanied by profuse sweating and flaccidity, decoct with Ophiopogon japonicus and Schisandra chinensis and take orally; greatly drains deficient fire, supplements primordial qi, and assists Metal and Water.) Glycyrrhiza uralensis (Raw form drains fire, cooked form tonifies fire; together with Ginseng and [missing text], it serves as a formula to drain fire and benefit qi.) Ophiopogon japonicus (Clears Lung metal, descends Heart fire, stops irritability, thirst, and cough.) Scutellaria baicalensis Anemarrhena asphodeloides (Drains Lung fire, nourishes Kidney water.) Polygonum cuspidatum (Decoct and drink with Glycyrrhiza uralensis; suppresses all summerheat toxicity, irritability, and thirst, and promotes diuresis.) [Fruit and Wood Category] Tea leaves (Decoct and drink with ginger, or drink with vinegar; treats summerheat injury with diarrhea and dysentery.) Stone toxicity.)