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Treats adults and children whose intestines and stomach are invaded by wind-cold pathogens taking advantage of deficiency, leading to the inability to digest water and grain, resulting in watery diarrhea, distension and fullness in the abdomen and hypochondrium, borborygmus (intestinal rumbling), and pain; as well as bloody stool. It is suitable for use regardless of whether the symptoms occur day or night or their frequency.
Ren Shen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma) (remove the rhizome base), Bai Fu Ling (Poria), Xiong (Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizome), Kou (Broussonetia Fructus/Cardamomum - *Note: Context implies Cardamom or similar aromatic spice, often Kaifang Doukou*), Gui Zhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus) (remove rough bark), Dang Gui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) (remove seedling stems), Bai Shao Yao (Paeoniae Radix Alba), Bai Zhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma) (all in equal amounts).
Grind the above herbs into a coarse powder. Take two qian per dose, add one large cup of water and several hundred grains of millet, decoct together until three-tenths of the liquid remains, filter out the dregs, and take it while slightly warm, on an empty stomach or before meals. Reduce the dosage for children according to their strength.

Treats sanjiao (Triple Burner) accumulated heat in men and women. Heat in the upper jiao attacks and causes redness and swelling of the eyes, swelling and pain of the head and neck, and sores in the mouth and tongue; heat in the middle jiao causes irritability in the heart and diaphragm, and poor appetite; heat in the lower jiao causes dark and scanty urine with dysuria, and dry constipation. If all five zang organs have heat, it generates carbuncles, sores, and rashes. It also treats five types of hemorrhoids, characterized by swelling and pain of the anus, or passage of fresh blood.
Huang Lian (Coptidis Rhizoma) (remove rhizome base), Huang Qin (Scutellariae Radix) (remove rhizome base), Da Huang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma) (one liang each).
Grind the above herbs into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take thirty pills per dose, swallow with warm boiled water; if there is excess accumulation in the fu organs, increase the number of pills taken. Accumulated heat in children is also suitable for treatment with this formula.

Treats thirst caused by deficient heat.
Ren Shen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma) (remove rhizome base), Bai Zhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Mu Xiang (Aucklandiae Radix), Bai Fu Ling (Poria) (remove skin), Huo Xiang Ye (Agastachis Herba) (remove soil impurities), Gan Cao (Licorice Root) (stir-fried, one liang each), Ge Gen (Puerariae Lobatae Radix) (two liang).
Make the above ingredients into a coarse powder. Take three to five qian per dose, add one cup of water, decoct until half the liquid remains, and take warm. If the patient desires to drink water, decoct more and give it frequently without time restriction. If unable to eat but thirsty, Master Jiegu (Zhang Congzheng) would double the amount of Ge Gen; if able to eat but thirsty, take Bai Hu Tang (White Tiger Decoction) added with Ren Shen.

Treats disharmony of the spleen and stomach, loss of appetite, distension and stabbing pain in the epigastrium, abdomen, and hypochondrium, bitter taste in the mouth and lack of flavor, chest fullness and shortness of breath, vomiting, hiccups, nausea, belching, and acid regurgitation, sallow complexion, emaciation, lethargy and desire to lie down, heaviness of the body and joint pain, frequent spontaneous diarrhea, or occurrence of cholera-like disorders, as well as five types of dysphagia (Wu Ye), eight types of palpitations/masses (Ba Pi), qi stagnation in the diaphragm, and food regurgitation (Fan Wei).
Gan Cao (Licorice Root) (chopped, stir-fried, two liang), Hou Po (Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex) (remove rough bark, processed with ginger juice and stir-fried until fragrant), Chen Pi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium) (remove white pith, three liang two qian each), Cang Zhu (Atractylodis Lanceae Rhizoma) (remove rough bark, soaked in rice wash water, five liang).
Grind the above herbs into a fine powder. Take two qian per dose, add one cup of water, three slices of fresh ginger, and two dried dates, decoct together until three-tenths of the liquid remains, filter out the dregs, and take warm; or remove ginger and dates, take hot, on an empty stomach or before meals. Taking a pinch of salt and dissolving it in boiling water to take is also acceptable. Regular use regulates qi, warms the stomach, transforms retained food, resolves phlegm-fluids, and repels wind-cold-dampness and abnormal qi of the four seasons.
If urine is dark and scanty with dysuria, add Bai Fu Ling (Poria) and Ze Xie (Alismatis Rhizoma); if rice and grain are not digested due to excessive dietary injury, add Zhi Shi (Aurantii Fructus Immaturus); if qi feels stagnant in the chest and there is a sensation of plugging below the heart, add Zhi Ke (Aurantii Fructus) and Mu Xiang (Aucklandiae Radix); if the spleen and stomach are weak and fatigued with loss of appetite, add Huang Qi (Astragali Radix) and Ren Shen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma); if there is plugging below the heart and abdominal distension, add Hou Po (Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex) and reduce Gan Cao (Licorice Root) by half; during summer, add stir-fried Huang Qin (Scutellariae Radix); during rainy and humid periods, add Fu Ling (Poria) and Ze Xie (Alismatis Rhizoma); when there is phlegm-saliva, add Ban Xia (Pinelliae Rhizoma) and Chen Pi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium); when adding/subtracting herbs, except for Cang Zhu and Hou Po, follow the examples: e.g., if taking five qian per dose and there is phlegm, add Ban Xia five fen; if there is cough, reduced food intake, and a wiry-thin pulse, add Dang Gui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) and Huang Qi (Astragali Radix). If the pulse is surging-large and slow, add Huang Qin (Scutellariae Radix) and Huang Lian (Coptidis Rhizoma); if stool is hard, add Da Huang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma) three qian and Mang Xiao (Natrii Sulfas) two qian, first chew bran-fried Tao Ren (Persicae Semen) until mushy, and send down with the herbal decoction.