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(The causes of cholera include damp-heat, cold-dampness, internal injury from the seven emotions, and external contraction of the six qi.)

[Damp-heat] [Herbal Category] Moslae Herba (Treats spasmodic abdominal pain in cholera; decoct in water and take the juice.) Schizonepetae Herba et Rhizoma (Strengthens the stomach and soothes the spleen, clears damp-heat, and stops vomiting and diarrhea in cholera.) Polygoni Orientalis Fructus (Treats irritability and thirst in cholera; decoct together with Moslae Herba.) Perillae Fructus (Decoct in water and take to stop distension in cholera.) Menthae Haplocalycis Herba Glechomae Herba Brachypodii Spica (Treats vomiting and diarrhea in cholera; decoct with Viciae Semen Preparatum into a soup.) Phragmitis Rhizoma Caulis et Folium (Treats irritability and oppression in cholera; decoct in water and take with powder of Angelicae Dahuricae Radix.) Akebiae Caulis Alismatis Rhizoma Paeoniae Radix Alba (Treats spasms in cholera.) Polygalae Radix Humuli Lupulus Scutellariae Barbatae Herba Sempervivi Tetrani Radix et Rhizoma vel Juice or water grind, squeeze juice and drink.) Sorghum Starch Rice Bran (Treats irritability and thirst in cholera; grind in water for juice, add Arundinis Medulla Sap and Zingiberis Recensis Rhizoma Sap mix and take.) Pisum Sativum Seed (For unceasing vomiting and diarrhea in cholera, grind into powder and take with vinegar. Flowers and leaves can also be squeezed for juice, taken with vinegar. Decoct together with Moslae Herba and Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex.) Vigna Unguiculata Seed Glycine Max Seed (Treats abdominal distension and pain in cholera; crush raw and take with water.) Mung Bean Leaf (Squeeze juice and take with vinegar.) Oenanthe javanica Stem (Stops vomiting and diarrhea in children.) [Fruit and Tree Category] Chaenomelis Fructus (Treats severe vomiting and diarrhea in cholera with unceasing spasms; decoct in water or wine. The pit, branches, leaves, bark, and roots are all usable.) Crataegi Fructus Crataegi Semen (Same usage as above.) Pruni Mume Folium (Decoct in water and take.) Pruni Mume Fructus (Stops vomiting and regurgitation; take juice mixed with drink.) Nelumbinis Plumula (Stops cholera.) Gardeniae Fructus (Treats spasms in cholera; burn, grind into powder, and take with decoction.) Mori Folium (Decoct and drink.) Mori Cortex Radicis (Stops vomiting and diarrhea in cholera.) Viticis Negundo Folium (Decoct and drink.) Cupressi Lignum (Wash for spasms.) Sophorae Flavescentis Folium (Decoct and drink together with Mori Folium and Glycyrrhizae Radix.) Sappan Lignum (Decoct and drink.) Aceris Cortex [Utensil Category] Toilet Stick (For sudden evil cholera with spasms, burn and smoke under the bed.) Toilet Curtain (Burn to ash, take with wine; treats pediatric cholera.) Urine Bucket Board (Decoct and take.) Broken Wooden Comb (Treats spasms in cholera; burn one piece to ash, take with wine.) Widow's Mat (Polygonati Rami, boil juice to stop pediatric cholera.) Head Cloth (For vomiting and diarrhea in cholera, use the person's own cloth, soak in water and sip.) Old Hemp Shoe Sole (For spasms in cholera, burn and throw into wine to drink.) Roadside Straw Sandal (Wash clean, decoct and drink.) Cotton Wadding (For spasms in cholera, boil in wine and wrap.) Blue Cloth (Soak in juice, mix with Zingiberis Recensis Rhizoma Sap, take to stop cholera.) [Water and Earth Category] East-flowing Water Well Spring Water (Drink it, and still soak both feet.) Mountain Rock Spring Water (Drink until full, named "washing the intestines."). Sweet Water Hot Water (For spasms, hold in vessel and apply heat.) Raw and Cooked Water (Drink to settle immediately.) Sour Fermented Rice Water (Decoct dried Zingiberis Rhizoma flakes, sip.) Earth Slurry (For dry cholera near death, drink to recover immediately.) East Wall Soil (Boil juice and drink.) Cauldron Navel Ink (Soak in water, drink one or two mouthfuls to stop.) Hanging Dust (Soak in water and drink.) Earth Bee Hive (Pediatric vomiting and diarrhea, roast, grind, and take.) Dung Beetle Pellet (Burn, grind, take with wine.) [Metal and Stone Category] Minii Rubrum Lead Dross (Mainly treats cholera.) Nigrum Plumbum Black Lead (Combine with Hydrargyrum Mercury to form cinnabar, make pills and take.) Hydrargyrum Mercury (Regardless of cold or hot vomiting/diarrhea/cholera, combine with Sulfur, grind into powder, take, or make pills.) Ancient Coins (For spasms in cholera, take seven pieces decocted together with Chaenomelis Fructus and Pruni Mume Fructus.) Cinnabaris Cinnabar (For cholera spasms where the patient is dead but the chest is slightly warm, take two liang combined with three liang of wax, burn to smoke, fumigate until sweating occurs to revive.) Gypsum Fibrosum Gypsum (Pediatric heat injury causing yellow vomiting/diarrhea, take with Halloysitum Rubrum Cold Water Stone and Glycyrrhizae Radix powder.) Talcum Talc (Summerheat latent vomiting/diarrhea, take with Agastaches Herba and Tingyi Fructus powder.) Xuanjing Stone Sulfur, Talc, Alum, Wheat Flour Pills. Treats various summerheat vomiting/diarrhea diseases.) Alum (Take with boiling water wax (For vomiting/diarrhea in cholera, melt one pill-sized amount in wine and take.) Ox Saliva (Pediatric cholera, add a little salt and take.) Ox Grass (Cholera, take with Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma and Zingiberis Recensis Rhizoma, decoct in fermented rice water.) Black Ox Manure Yellow Ox Manure (Squeeze juice and take.) White Dog Manure (Squeeze juice and take.) Cholera, smear on breast milk, nurse the infant.)

[Cold-dampness] [Herbal Category] Pogostemonis Herba (Cholera abdominal pain near death, decoct with Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium; in summer months, take with Tingyi Fructus and Talcum powder.) Aucklandiae Radix (Spasms in cholera, grind into powder and take with wine.) Cyperi Rhizoma Aconiti Lateralis Radix Preparata (Vomiting/diarrhea in cholera, four qian powder, half qian salt, decoct in water; pediatric vomiting/diarrhea with white urine, take prepared Aconiti Lateralis Radix, Halloysitum Album Kaolin, and Fossilia Os Draconis pills.) Pinelliae Rhizoma (Abdominal fullness in cholera, take with Cinnamomi Ramulus powder.) Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma (Stops vomiting/diarrhea in cholera; decoct juice, add Egg White, or add Tingyi Fructus, or add Cinnamomi Cortex.) Amomi Fructus Rotundus Piperis Longi Fructus Sauce Zingiberis Officinalis Varietatis Mountain Ginger Dichroae Radix Kaempferiae Galanga Rhizoma Liu Ji Nu Costus Root (All warm middle, descend qi, digest food, stop cholera.) Myristicae Semen Nutmeg (Disperse cold stagnation, regulate spleen and stomach.) Cardamomi Fructus Warm middle, digest food, descend qi. Irritability/thirst in cholera, decoct with Coptidis Rhizoma and Aconiti Radix.) Zingiberis Officinalis Varietatis Rhizoma Warm middle, digest food, descend qi. Abdominal pain in cholera, roast fragrant, boil wine. Or decoct in water and take cold.) Curcumae Rhizoma (Cold qi in cholera.) Artemisiae Argyi Folium (Spasms in cholera, decoct and take.) Polygoni Multiflori Herba (Spasms in cholera, decoct and drink, and rub legs.) [Grain and Vegetable Category] Glutinous Rice (Stops unceasing vomiting after cholera; grind in water for juice and take.) Glutinous Rice Wash (Stops irritability/thirst in cholera.) Distilled Spirits (Mix with fresh drawn water and drink.) Vinegar (Vomiting/diarrhea in cholera, or inability to vomit/diarrhea, decoct and take. For spasms, dip cotton and apply.) Allii Fistulosi Bulb (Spasms in cholera, decoct with Jujubae Fructus.) Allii Macrostemonis Bulbus (Dry retching in cholera, boil and eat several times. Allii Sativi Minoris Bulbus boil juice to drink, apply to navel, moxa seven burns.) Allii Sativi Bulbus (Spasms, crush and apply to soles of feet.) Mustard Seed (Crush into powder and apply to navel.) Sinapis Albae Semen Bursae Pastoris Fructus (Boil juice and take.) Zingiberis Rhizoma Dry Ginger (Spasms in cholera, take one qian with tea.) Zingiberis Recensis Rhizoma (Decoct in wine and take.) Anethi Fructus Foeniculi Fructus [Fruit and Tree Category] Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium (Damp-phlegm cholera, if there is any stomach qi left, taking it restores life; decoct with Pogostemonis Herba. If unconscious, pour in.) Arecae Semen Arecae Pericarpium Coconut Peel (Boil juice and drink.) Persicae Folium (Stops abdominal pain in cholera, boil juice and take.) Piperis Nigris Fructus (Swallow fourteen grains, or grind together with Phaseoli Volubilis Semen.) Piperis Betle Fructus Evodiae Fructus Bai Tangxiang Sandalwood (Grind for juice.) Boswelliae Resina Storax Liquid Benzoin Resina Sumbene Eucalypti Globuli Camphora Camphor Wood Nanmu Wood钓樟 Grind for juice.) Linderae Radix (All treat sudden evil cholera, heart/abdominal pain.) Ebony Powder (Take with wine.) Terminalia Chebula Retzii Fructus (Wind-phlegm cholera, grind into powder and take with wine; pediatric decoct and take.) Gleditsiae Sinensis Spina (Spasms in cholera, blow into nose.) Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex (Abdominal distension/pain in cholera, take as powder. Or add Cinnamomi Cortex, Aurantii Fructus Immaturus, and Zingiberis Recensis Rhizoma, decoct and take.) Cryptocarya Alata Bark (Sudden evil cholera, decoct and take.) [Metal and Stone Category] Sulfur (Summerheat latent cold vomiting/diarrhea, stir-fry with Nitrum Natrii until sand-like, glutinous rice paste pills. Or grind black with Hydrargyrum Mercury, take with Zingiberis Recensis Rhizoma Sap. Summerheat vomiting/diarrhea, take with Talcum powder, rice drink.) Yangqi Stone Not-gray Wood (Cholera cold limbs, take with Yangqi Stone, Ferulae Resina, and Crotonis Fructus pills.) Stir-fried Salt (Abdominal pain in cholera, apply heat. Spasms near death

[Accumulation/Stagnation] [Grass/Grain] Rheum Palmatum Rhizoma (Take with Crotonis Fructus and Curcumae Radix pills, treats dry cholera.) Chen Cang Mi (Vomiting/diarrhea, decoct with Hordei Fructus Germinatus and Coptidis Rhizoma.) Mai Shen Qu [Wood Category] Crotonis Fructus (Summerheat latent cold, take with Minii Rubrum and wax pills.) Camphora Wood (Dry cholera, no vomiting/diarrhea, decoct to induce vomiting.) [Stone Category] Sodium Chloride Salt (Induce vomiting for dry cholera.) One ball, induce vomiting.) [Bird Category] Sparrow Male Excrement (Dry cholera distension/oppression near death, take 3-7 grains, grind, take with wine.) Cholera, take a little with water.)

(There are damp-heat, cold-dampness, wind-summerheat, accumulation/stagnation, fright-phlegm, deficiency/collapse)

[Damp-heat] [Herbal Category] Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma (Clears damp-heat, strengthens spleen/stomach. Damp diarrhea, take powder with Plantaginis Semen; deficiency diarrhea, take pills with Myristicae Semen and Paeoniae Radix Alba; chronic diarrhea, take pills with Poria and Glutinous Rice; pediatric chronic diarrhea, take pills with Pinelliae Rhizoma and Tingyi Fructus; elderly spleen diarrhea, take pills with Atractylodis Rhizoma and Poria; elderly/childhood slippery diarrhea, take pills with Dioscoreae Rhizoma.) Atractylodis Rhizoma (Damp diarrhea like pouring, decoct with Paeoniae Radix and Scutellariae Radix; sudden diarrhea in summer, take pills with Shen Qu.) Plantaginis Semen (Sudden diarrhea in summer, stir-fry, grind, and take.) Qiang Huo (Sudden diarrhea with drinking desire, decoct with Glycyrrhizae Radix.) Coptidis Rhizoma (Damp-heat spleen diarrhea, take with Zingiberis Recensis Rhizoma powder. Food stagnation spleen diarrhea, take pills with Garlic.) Huhuanglian (Infantile malnutrition diarrhea.) Alismatis Rhizoma Akebiae Caulis Kochiae Spica Dengxincao Spleen/Stomach.) Green Millet Red Millet Yam (Damp diarrhea, take pills with Atractylodis Rhizoma.) Coicis Semen (Out, ten lightly stir-fried, decoct and take.) Phellodendri Cortex (Pediatric heat diarrhea, roast, grind, take with rice soup, removes lower jiao damp-heat.) Poria Polyporus Gypsum (Watery diarrhea, borborygmus like thunder, grind, rice pills, take twenty pills, cured in two doses.) Realgar (Summer toxin dysentery, take pills.) Talcum [Beast Category] Pig Bile (Add to Baitong Decoction, stops Shaoyin downward purging.)

[Deficiency-Cold] [Herbal Category] Glycyrrhizae Radix Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma Huang Bai Paeoniae Radix Alba (Calms liver, tonifies spleen, take pills with Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma.) Saposhnikoviae Radix Ben Cao (Treats wind diarrhea, wind overcomes dampness.) Huo Cao (Wind qi moves in intestines/stomach, diarrhea, vinegar paste pills.) Mi Wu (Damp diarrhea, make drink and take.) Cimicifugae Rhizoma Puerariae Radix Bupleuri Radix (All Zi (Kidney diarrhea at dawn, take pills with Evodiae Fructus.) Psoraleae Fructus (Watery diarrhea long duration, take pills with Papaveris Pericarpium; spleen/stomach deficiency diarrhea, take pills with Cardamomi Fructus.) Myristicae Semen Nutmeg (Warm middle, digest food, solidify intestines, stop diarrhea. Heat diarrhea, take pills with Talcum; cold diarrhea, take pills with Aconiti Radix; slippery diarrhea, take pills with Papaveris Pericarpium; chronic diarrhea, take pills with Aucklandiae Radix; elderly deficiency diarrhea, take pills with Boswelliae Resina.) Aucklandiae Radix (Roasted hot, solidifies large intestine, harmonizes stomach qi.) Amomi Fructus Rotundus (Deficiency consumption cold diarrhea, retained food.) Cardamomi Fructus (Summerheat cold injury diarrhea.) Alpiniae Oxyphyllae Fructus (Abdominal distension sudden diarrhea, day and night unceasing, all medicines ineffective, yuan qi collapse, decoct strongly two liang and take.) Piperis Longi Fructus (Sudden diarrhea, body cold, spontaneous sweat, faint pulse, take pills with Zingiberis Rhizoma Dry Ginger, Cinnamomi Cortex, Zingiberis Officinalis Varietatis Rhizoma, named Yi Han Wan.) Aconiti Lateralis Radix Preparata (Shaoyin downward purging cold limbs, decoct with Zingiberis Rhizoma Dry Ginger and Glycyrrhizae Radix; organ cold spleen diarrhea, take pills with Myristicae Semen; Jujubae Fructus boiled pills; sudden diarrhea yang collapse, chronic diarrhea yang loss, take with Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma, Aucklandiae Radix, Poria decoct; elderly deficiency diarrhea, take pills with Red Halloysite.) Aconiti Radix (Watery diarrhea cold purging, half raw half roasted pills.) Artemisiae Argyi Folium (Diarrhea, decoct with Evodiae Fructus. Decoct with ginger.) Datura Seed (Chronic diarrhea, roast with Jujubae Fructus.) Ba Fen [Grain/Veg] Chen Lin Mi (Astringes intestines/stomach, warms spleen.) Glutinous Rice Flour (Eat with Yam and Brown Sugar, stops chronic dysentery/diarrhea.) Distilled Spirits (Cold-damp diarrhea.) Yellow Rice Flour Gan Gan Gao (Both stop elderly chronic diarrhea.) Papaveris Pericarpium (Unceasing watery diarrhea, should astringe, decoct with Pruni Mume Fructus and Jujubae Fructus.) Shen Qu White Adzuki Bean Coicis Semen Zingiberis Rhizoma Dry Ginger (Middle cold watery diarrhea, roast, grind, drink.) Garlic Chives Bai Shi Lian Twenty-year chronic diarrhea, roast, grind, take with rice drink, stops immediately.) Stone Lotus (Removes cold-damp, spleen diarrhea intestinal slipperiness, roast, grind, take with rice drink.) Piperis Nigris Fructus (Summer cold diarrhea, take pills.) Sichuan Pepper Elderly damp diarrhea, pediatric watery diarrhea, vinegar boiled pills. Chronic diarrhea, undigested grain diarrhea, take pills with Atractylodis Rhizoma.) Evodiae Fructus (Elderly spleen cold diarrhea, decoct in water, add salt.) Oak Acorn Jujubae Fructus Chaenomelis Fructus Du Jue Zhu Zi Terminalia Chebula Retzii Fructus (Stops diarrhea, solidifies intestines. Chronic diarrhea, roast, grind, add to porridge. Take with Myristicae Semen powder. Long-term formula: take pills with Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex and Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium.) Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex (Stops diarrhea thickens intestines, warms stomach, treats borborygmus.) Tingyi Fructus (Cold diarrhea deficiency slipperiness, undigested food/grain.) Boswelliae Resina (Diarrhea abdominal pain.) Cinnamomi Cortex Murraea Exotica Stone Bibili Le [Stone/Insect/Fish/Shell] China Clay (Watery diarrhea, take pills with Zingiberis Rhizoma Dry Ginger and Broussonetiae Folium.) Calcined Iron Ore (Watery diarrhea, take pills with Poria.) Red Halloysite (Slippery diarrhea infantile malnutrition diarrhea, grind, take with rice drink. Large intestine cold diarrhea spermatorrhea, take pills with Zingiberis Rhizoma Dry Ginger and Piperis Nigris Fructus.) Halloysitum Album Kaolin (Slippery Zingiberis Rhizoma Dry Ginger pills, take with Fossilia Os Draconis pills.) Alum (Stops slippery/watery diarrhea, vinegar paste pills. Elderly add Terminalia Chebula Retzii Fructus.) Nitrum Natrii (Summerheat diarrhea, stir-fry with Sulfur, take pills. Take with Sulfur, Alum, Talcum, refined flour, water pills.) Sulfur (Original organ cold diarrhea, yellow wax pills; chronic diarrhea add green salt; spleen deficiency white discharge, take pills with stir-fried flour. Qi deficiency sudden diarrhea, take pills with calcined alum. Summerheat cold injury, take with Talcum powder, or take pills with Piperis Nigris Fructus.) Yu Yuliang (Cold labor intestinal diarrhea unceasing, take pills with Aconiti Radix.) Yangqi Stone (Deficiency-cold slippery diarrhea, cold limbs essence slipperiness, take pills with Glandula Pituitaria Preparata and Aconiti Lateralis Radix Preparata.) Glandula Pituitaria Preparata (Large intestine cold slipperiness, take pills with Myristicae Semen.) Pili Zhena (Stops fright diarrhea.) Chinese Gall (Chronic diarrhea, take pills. Watery diarrhea, add calcined alum.) Fossilia Os Draconis (Slippery diarrhea, take pills with Red Halloysite.) Testudinis Carapax et Plastrum (Chronic diarrhea.) [Bird/Beast] Black Chicken Bone (Spleen deficiency chronic diarrhea, cook and eat with Myristicae Semen and Tsao-ko Fruit.) Yellow Hen Sheep Horn Ash (Chronic diarrhea, take pills with Alum.) Cervi Cornu Pantotrichum (Diarrhea after drinking alcohol, take pills with Celosiae Semen.) Pig Kidney (Cold purging chronic diarrhea, sprinkle Gynostemma Pentaphyllum Rhizoma powder, roast and eat.) Pig Intestine (Organ cold chronic diarrhea, steam with Evodiae Fructus, make pills.) Pig Liver (Cold labor deficiency diarrhea.)

[Accumulation/Stagnation] [Grain/Wood/Stone/Earth] Shen Qu Mai Buckwheat Flour (Spleen accumulation diarrhea, take three qian with brown sugar water.) Archangelicae Radix (Qi diarrhea unceasing long time, pediatric malnutrition diarrhea, take pills with Cardamomi Fructus and Terminalia Chebula Retzii Fructus.) Broussonetiae Folium (Stops all diarrhea/dysentery, take with Crotonis Fructus Peel, stir-fry, grind, wax pills Bean (Accumulation diarrhea, can unblock intestines, can stop diarrhea. Summer watery diarrhea, pediatric vomiting/diarrhea dysentery, burn on lamp, wax pills take with water.) Minii Rubrum Baicao Shuang (Both treat accumulation diarrhea.)

[External Treatment] Apple Snail (Apply to navel.) Momordicae Semen (With Tingyi Fructus and Moschus apply to navel, deficiency diarrhea.) Cnidii Fructus (With prepared Artemisiae Folium each one liang, four Momordicae Semen, grind evenly, wrap in cotton, place on navel, iron with hot iron.) Ricini Semen (Seven, with prepared Artemisiae Folium half liang two qian, use as above method.) Polyporus (With Earthworm, Needle Sand powder, scallion juice mix, apply to navel.) Pepper Red (Pediatric diarrhea, lard mix apply to fontanel.) Castor Bean (Nine apply to fontanel also.) Croton Paper (Pediatric diarrhea, cut into flower shape, apply to glabella.) Garlic (Apply to both soles of feet, also apply to navel.) Red Adzuki Bean Wine