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Specializes in treating pathogenic factors from the four seasons, causing headache, fever, abdominal pain, bloating and distension, cholera with muscle cramps, vomiting, diarrhea, cold limbs, and intestinal colic (Jiao Chang Sha).

It also treats conditions such as cold injuring summerheat, food stagnation, malaria, and dysentery. Each dose is one qian; for severe cases, double the dosage. If the tongue coating is white, take it down with Huoxiang Tang (Agastache Decoction); if yellow, take it down with Heye Tang (Lotus Leaf Decoction); if caused by cold or raw food, take it down with Jiang Tang (Ginger Decoction).

For vomiting, diarrhea, and muscle cramps, take four pills, decocted with Shengjiang (Fresh Ginger) and Zaoshin Tu (Fulongan/Cooked Earth). Avoid eating rice grains. This formula has been prepared and distributed annually, saving many lives with minimal cost. It is earnestly hoped that all benevolent individuals will either prepare the medicine or carve the prescription to distribute widely, achieving great merit with little expense. The formula is listed below.

Chuan Houpo (Magnolia Bark, 6 liang 5 qian), Wu Yao (Lindera Root, stir-fried with ginger juice, 2 liang), Zhi Qiao (Aurantium Fructus, 3 liang 5 qian), Qiang Huo (Notopterygium Rhizome, 4 liang), Guang Huoxiang (Patchouli Herb, 7 liang), Mugua (Chaenomeles Fruit, 1 liang 3 qian), Zi Doukou (Black Cardamom, 2 liang), Mao Zhu (Atractylodes Rhizome, 3 liang), Banxia (Pinellia Tuber, 4 liang 5 qian), Su Ye (Perilla Leaf, 7 liang), Xiang Ru (Elsholtzia Herb, 2 liang), Cao Guo (Tsaoko Fruit, 2 liang), Chi Ling (Poria Cocos with Red Skin, 6 liang), Xiang Fu (Cyperus Rhizome, peeled, 6 liang).

The above medicinal materials must be selected for cleanliness and brightness, then ground together into a fine powder. Use Bohe (Mint), Cha Ye (Tea Leaves), and Dafupi (Areca Peel) to decoct a liquid. Take one bowl of Rice Soup (Mi Tang) to form pills. Coat the pills with Zhusha (Cinnabar). Each pill weighs seven fen. Dry them and store them in small-mouthed porcelain bottles; ensuring they are airtight is crucial.

Sheng Di Huang (Rehmannia Root), Bohe (Mint), Duhuo (Angelica Pubescens), Chi Shao (Red Peony Root), Chuan Xiong (Sichuan Lovage Rhizome), Chuan Qiang Huo (Notopterygium Rhizome), Lian Qiao (Forsythia Fruit)—each of these ingredients is one liang. Xiang Fu (Cyperus Rhizome), Jing Jie (Schizonepeta Spike), Dang Gui (Chinese Angelica Root), Tao Ren (Peach Seed), Mi Yi Ren (Coix Seed), Qing Pi (Aurantium Peel), Jia Pi (likely Acanthopanax Bark or Phellodendron Bark), Mu Dan Pi (Tree Peony Bark), Du Zhong (Eucommia Bark), Chuan Bai (Phellodendron Bark), Yuan Hu (Corydalis Rhizome), Bai Shao (White Peony Root), Bai Zhi (Angelica Dahurica), Niu Xi (Achyranthes Root), Hong Hua (Carthamus Flower), Xian Pi (likely Toosendan Bark or similar), Mu Tong (Akebia Stem), Su Mu (Sappan Wood), Mugua (Chaenomeles Fruit), Gan Cao (Licorice Root), Hou Po (Magnolia Bark), Su Geng (Perilla Stem), Zhi Shi (Immature Aurantium Fruit), Zhi Qiao (Aurantium Fructus), Qin Jiao (Gentiana Macrophylla), Chuan Duan (Dipsacus Root), Huang (Likely Huang Lian or Huang Qi, text incomplete), Gan Song (Nardostachys Root), San Leng (Burreed Tuber), Shan Nai (Sand Ginger), Yuan Shen (Scrophularia Root), Liu Ji Nu (Artemisia Annua or similar herb), Gu Sui Bu (Drynaria Rhizome, hair removed)—each of these ingredients is six qian. Additionally, add seventy-two liang of Lead Powder (Qian Fen) fried until yellow. Use ten jin of high-quality Sesame Oil. Soak all the above herbs for two to three days first, then decoct in a pot, filter out the dregs, add the lead powder, stir evenly with Mulberry Branches, fan until smoke ceases, cool down, and soak in water. The older it becomes, the better.