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This is Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) with the addition of Ge Gen (Puerariae Radix), used to treat Taiyang disease (disease of the Taiyang channel) presenting with stiffness and tightness in the neck and back, sweating, and aversion to wind.

This is Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) with the addition of Fuzi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata), used to treat Taiyang disease where excessive sweating has led to continuous leakage of sweat, aversion to wind, difficulty in urination, and slight rigidity of the four limbs making flexion and extension difficult.

This is Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) with the addition of Hou Po (Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex) and Xing Ren (Armeniacae Semen Amarum), used to treat Shanghan (Cold Damage) manifesting as wheezing with sweating; it also treats mild wheezing after the erroneous use of purgatives in Taiyang disease, indicating that the exterior syndrome remains unresolved.

This is Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) with the dosage of Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Alba) doubled, used to treat a patient originally suffering from Taiyang disease who was erroneously treated with purgatives, resulting in abdominal fullness and occasional pain, which belongs to Taiyin disease; this decoction is the primary treatment.

This is Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) with an addition of two liang of Guizhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus), used to treat cases where burning needles were used to induce sweating, causing cold to invade the needle sites and form nodules (kernels) that have not subsided. Such cases inevitably lead to Bengtun Qi (a condition characterized by a sensation of qi rushing upward from the lower abdomen). Treatment involves moxibustion on each nodule (one zhu per site) and administration of this decoction.

This is Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) with the addition of Renshen (Ginseng Radix) and doubled dosages of Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Alba) and Sheng Jiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens), used to treat body pain and a deep, slow pulse following excessive sweating.

This is Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) with the addition of Longgu (Fossilia Ossis Mastodi et Scapulae) and Muli (Concha Ostreae), used to treat men with seminal emission and women with nocturnal emissions during dreams, presenting with extremely deficient and hollow (Kou) pulses.

This is Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) with Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Alba) removed, and Shu Ke (Houttuyniae Herba), Longgu (Fossilia Ossis Mastodi et Scapulae), and Muli (Concha Ostreae) added, used to treat Shanghan with a floating pulse, where fire therapy was forcibly used to induce sweating leading to Yang collapse, inevitably causing fright, mania, restlessness, and inability to lie still.

This is Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) with one liang of Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma) added, used to treat Taiyang disease where erroneous purgation resulted in severe abdominal fullness, excess, and intense pain.

This is Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) with two liang of Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Alba) removed, used to treat Taiyang disease after erroneous purgation, presenting with a hurried pulse and chest fullness.

This is the previous formula (Guizhi Jia Fuzi Tang) with one piece of Fuzi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata) added, used to treat the same conditions as above but with slight aversion to cold. In the *Jin Gui Yao Lue*, this is named Guizhi Fuzi Tang (Cinnamon Twig and Aconite Decoction), used to treat Shanghan lasting eight or nine days, characterized by painful irritability, inability to turn the body, absence of vomiting or thirst, and a floating, deficient, and choppy pulse.

This is Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) with Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma) removed and Huangqi (Astragali Radix) added, used to treat Blood Bi (Blood Obstruction), presenting with numbness and insensitivity of the body, resembling Wind Bi.

This is Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) with Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Alba) removed and one piece of Zao Jiao (Gleditsiae Sinensis Spina) peeled and roasted until charred, added, used to treat Fei Wei (Lung Withering), presenting with expectoration of saliva and foam.

This is Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) with Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Alba) and Sheng Jiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens) removed, and half a jin of Fuling (Poria) added. Use Ganlan Water (Agitated Water) to boil Fuling first, then add other herbs and decoct for administration, used to treat Bengtun (Rushing Qi).

This is Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) with two liang of Huangqi (Astragali Radix) added, used to treat Huanghan (Yellow Sweat), characterized by fever, sweating, severe flaccid pain in the waist and hips, inability to eat, heavy body pain, irritability, and difficult urination.

Use only Chuwu (Aconiti Kusnezoffii Radix) alone, combined with two jin of honey, decocted until reduced by half. Strain the dregs, then mix with five he of Guizhi Tang (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) to obtain one sheng. Initially administer two he; if ineffective, administer three he. If still no improvement ("bu zhi"), administer five he. If the patient experiences a state similar to drunkenness or vomits, this indicates the medicine is effective ("zhong bing"). This is used to treat Hanhan (Cold Cramp) with abdominal pain, cold extremities, and numbness in hands and feet, in cases refractory to other medications.