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Da Banxia Tang (Great Pinellia Decoction) from *Jin Gui Yao Lue* (Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet) treats stomach reversal with vomiting. *Qian Jin Fang* (Thousand Gold Formulas) states it treats fan wei (reverse regurgitation), inability to accept food, and immediate vomiting after ingestion.

Banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma, two sheng), Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma, three liang), Baimi (White Honey, one sheng).
*Qian Jin Fang* also includes Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma) and Shengjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens).
Take the above ingredients, add twelve dou of water and honey, stir vigorously two hundred and forty times, decoct the herbs, and obtain one and a half sheng of liquid. Take one sheng warm, then take the remainder.

Fuling Zexie Tang (Poria and Alisma Decoction) treats stomach reversal with vomiting accompanied by thirst and desire to drink water.

Fuling (Poria, half jin), Zexie (Alismatis Rhizoma, four liang), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Guizhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus, each two liang), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma, three liang), Shengjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens, four liang).
Take ten dou of water, decoct to obtain three sheng, add Zexie, and decoct again to obtain two and a half sheng. Take eight ge warm, three times daily. *Wai Tai Mi Yao* (Prescriptions from the Imperial Library of the External Storehouse) adds Xiaomai (Tritici Fructus, one sheng).
Note: The above two formulas are also applicable to cases of vomiting and hiccups in the Taiyin syndrome.

Hezhong Jiegeng Tang (Middle-Harmonizing Platycodon Decoction) from *Bing Ji* (Pathogenesis) treats heat in the upper jiao rushing upward, causing sudden vomiting after eating, with a floating and surging pulse.

Jiegeng (Platycodonis Radix, one and a half liang), Banxia Qu (Prepared Pinelliae Rhizoma, two liang), Chenpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium, white part removed), Zhishi (Aurantii Fructus Immaturus, stir-fried), Bai Fuling (Poria, each one liang), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma, one and a half liang), Houpo (Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex, one liang, processed with ginger juice).
Decoction method as described previously.
Chop the above herbs. For each dose, take one liang, mix with clear liquid and two qian of Muxiang San (Costus Powder), taken on an empty stomach overnight. After three doses, qi gradually descends and vomiting gradually stops. Then remove Muxiang and other powdered herbs. Add Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Alba, two liang) and Huangqi (Astragali Radix, one and a half liang) to each prescription. Continue until the disease is cured. If stool is dry and hard and food does not pass completely, use Dachengqi Tang (Major Order the Qi Decoction) without Mangxiao (Natrii Sulfas) to gently purge, stopping when slight laxation occurs, then resume the previous medication to tonify.

Muxiang San Formula: Binglang (Arecae Semen) and Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix) in equal parts, ground into powder.
Note: These are medicines for the Taiyin and Yangming meridians.

Qingzhen Wan (Green Sedative Pill) from *Bing Ji* treats upper jiao vomiting accompanied by headache, sweating, and a wiry pulse.

Chaihu (Bupleuri Radix, two liang), Huangqin (Scutellariae Radix, seven qian and half), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma, half liang), Qingdai (Indigo Naturalis, two qian and half), Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma, half qian).
Grind the above into fine powder. Soak steamed leavened cake in ginger juice and form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take fifty pills per dose, washed down with ginger soup, after meals.
Note: This is a medicine for the Shaoyang meridian.

Jinhua Wan (Golden Flower Pill) treats vomiting of food with a wiry pulse. This is caused by Liver wood overacting on Spleen earth leading to vomiting; treatment should focus on dispelling wind and calming the Spleen.

Banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma, one liang), Binglang (Arecae Semen, two qian), Xionghuang (Realgar, two qian and half).
Grind the above into fine powder. Form pills as described above. Take with ginger tea, starting with a small amount and gradually increasing.
Note: This belongs to the Jueyin category. Qingzhen Wan is a medicine for treating Liver fire; Jinhua Wan is a medicine for treating wind-phlegm attacking the Spleen and Stomach. Therefore, they are collectively classified under agents for Wind-Wood.