泻相火 黄柏 知母 牡丹皮 地骨皮 生地黄 茯苓 玄参 寒水石
益阳 附子 肉桂 益智 破故纸 沉香 角回香 川乌 硫黄 天雄 乌药 阳起石
胡桃 巴戟天 丹砂 当归 蛤蚧 覆盆子
涩滑 牡蛎 芡实 金樱子 五味子 远志 蛤粉 山茱萸肉
三焦为相火之用，分布命门元气，主升降出入，游行天地之间，总驭五脏六腑，营卫
经络，内外上下左右之气，号中清之府，上主纳，中主化，下主出。
本病∶诸瞀 ，暴病、暴死、暴喑、躁扰、狂越、谵妄、惊骇，诸血溢、血泄，诸气逆
冲上，诸疮、疡、痘、疹、瘤、核。
上热则喘满，诸呕吐酸，胸痞胁痛，饮食不消，头上出汗。
中热则善饥而瘦，解 中满，诸胀腹大，诸病有声，鼓之如鼓，上下关格不通，霍乱吐
下热则暴注下迫，水液混浊，下部肿满，小便淋沥或不通，大便闭结或下利。
上寒则吐饮食痰水，胸痹前后引痛，食已还出。
中寒则饮食不化，寒胀反胃吐水，湿泻不渴。
下寒则二便不禁，脐腹冷，疝痛。
标病∶恶寒战栗，如丧神守，耳鸣耳聋，嗌肿喉痹诸病， 肿疼酸，惊骇，手小指次指
Clearing Ministerial Fire: Huangbai (Phellodendri Cortex), Zhimu (Anemarrhenae Rhizoma), Mudanpi (Moutan Cortex), Digupi (Lycii Cortex), Shengdihuang (Rehmanniae Radix), Fuling (Poria), Xuanshen (Scrophulariae Radix), Hanshuishi (Calcitum).
Benefiting Yang: Fuzi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata), Rougui (Cinnamomi Cortex), Yizhi (Alpiniae Officinarum Fructus), Poguzhi (Psoraleae Fructus), Chenxiang (Aquilariae Lignum Resinatum), Jiaohuixiang (Foeniculi Fructus), Chuanwu (Aconiti Radix), Liuhuang (Sulfur), Tianxiong (Aconiti Radix), Wuyao (Linderae Radix), Yangqishi (Leucogynii Os), Hetao (Juglandis Semen), Bajitian (Morindae Officinalis Radix), Dansha (Cinnabaris), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Gejie (Gekko), Fupenzi (Rubigeniculati Fructus).
Astringing Slippery Discharges: Muli (Concha Ostreae), Qianshi (Euryales Semen), Jinyingzi (Chrysanthemi Fructus), Wuweizi (Schisandrae Chinensis Fructus), Yuanzhi (Polygalae Radix), Haifen (Concha Meretricis), Shanzhuyu Rou (Corni Fructus Pericarpium).
The Sanjiao (Triple Burner) is the functional manifestation of Ministerial Fire; it distributes the Primordial Qi from the Mingmen (Gate of Life), governs the ascending, descending, exiting, and entering movements, travels between heaven and earth, and commands the Qi of the Five Zang and Six Fu organs, Ying and Wei (Nutritive and Defensive) levels, meridians, and the Qi inside and outside, above and below, left and right. It is called the "Middle Clear Mansion." Its upper part governs reception, its middle part governs transformation, and its lower part governs excretion.
Root Disease (Fundamental Pathology): Various forms of visual confusion and dizziness, sudden illnesses, sudden death, sudden aphonia, restlessness and agitation, mania and unruliness, delirium, fright and terror, various hemorrhages such as blood extravasation or bleeding from the bowels, various rebellious upward surges of Qi, various sores, ulcers, smallpox, rashes, tumors, and nodules.
Heat in the Upper Jiao manifests as panting and chest fullness, various vomiting of sour fluids, chest oppression and hypochondriac pain, indigestion, and sweating on the head.
Heat in the Middle Jiao manifests as excessive hunger with emaciation, abdominal distension, various cases of abdominal swelling and enlargement, borborygmus (bowel sounds) where percussion yields a drum-like sound, obstruction at the upper and lower gates preventing free flow, cholera with vomiting and diarrhea.
Heat in the Lower Jiao manifests as urgent, tenesmic diarrhea with turbid fluids, swelling and fullness in the lower body, dribbling dysuria or urinary retention, constipation or loose stools.
Cold in the Upper Jiao manifests as vomiting of food, phlegm, and water, chest bi-syndrome with pain radiating to the front and back, and regurgitation of food after eating.
Cold in the Middle Jiao manifests as inability to digest food, cold-type abdominal distension with regurgitation of clear fluid, damp-type diarrhea without thirst.
Cold in the Lower Jiao manifests as incontinence of urine and feces, coldness of the umbilical and abdominal region, and hernia pain.
Branch Disease (Manifestation/Symptomatic Pathology): Aversion to cold with shivering, loss of spiritual control, tinnitus and deafness, throat swelling and bi-syndrome, various limb swelling, pain, and soreness, fright and terror, sweating in the little finger and the next finger (ring finger)...
Inducing Sweating (Releasing the Exterior): Mahuang (Ephedrae Herba), Chaihu (Bupleuri Radix), Gegen (Puerariae Lobatae Radix), Jingjie (Schizonepetae Spica), Shengma (Cimicifugae Rhizoma), Bohe (Menthae Haplocalycis Herba), Qianghuo (Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix), Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum).
Inducing Vomiting (Expelling Phlegm/Toxins): For the Upper Jiao: Gadi (Citrulli Semen), Cangyan (Halitum), Jiuzhi (Allii Fistulosi Juice); For the Lower Jiao: Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma), Mangxiao (Natrii Sulfas).
Warming and Tonifying: For the Upper Jiao: Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Tianxiong (Aconiti Radix), Guixin (Cinnamomi Ramulus); For the Middle Jiao: Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Huangqi (Astragali Radix), Dingxiang (Caryophylli Flos), Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix), Caoguo (Tsaoko Fructus); For the Lower Jiao: Fuzi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata), Guixin (Cinnamomi Ramulus), Liuhuang (Sulfur), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Chenxiang (Aquilariae Lignum Resinatum), Wumei (Mume Fructus), Poguzhi (Psoraleae Fructus).