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Treats various injuries caused by excessive alcohol and improper diet, manifesting as fullness and discomfort in the heart and abdomen.
Realgar (Wuhuang, 5 qian) Crotonis Fructus (Badou, 100 pieces, de-oiled, removing the heart and membrane) Wheat Flour (Baifan, 10 liang, sifted through a fine sieve)
Take the above three ingredients. Except for taking 8 to 9 liang of wheat flour, grind the remaining medicines into a fine powder together. Mix evenly with the wheat flour, knead into cakes using fresh water, sized like a hand. Boil in starch water until they float on the surface, then remove, drain, and check for hardness or softness. Pound into doses, form into pills the size of Sophora japonica seeds, and shape into small cakes. Take five to seven cakes per dose. Increase gradually to ten or fifteen cakes. Chewing one cake induces one bowel movement; chewing two cakes induces two bowel movements. Take with tea or wine freely, before meals.

Expels fluid retention, eliminates phlegm, guides out stagnation, and clears the chest and diaphragm.
Immature Bitter Orange (Zhishi, stir-fried with bran, removed pith) Pinellia Tuber (Banxia, washed with boiling water) Tangerine Peel (Chenpi, white pith removed, each above 2 liang) Black Morning Glory Seed (Heiqianniu, 8 liang, take the finest powder, grind into fine powder, use rice paste made from boiled water as binder to form pills the size of Sophora japonica seeds. Take 50 pills per dose, administer after meals with ginger decoction.)

Treats deficiency-cold accumulation in the middle jiao, weak qi with injury, stagnation in the stomach region unable to transmit and transform; or due to qi injury from cold, irregular eating habits, or excessive drinking, leading to hardness and fullness below the heart, distending pain in both hypochondria, severe pain in the heart and abdomen, cholera-like vomiting and diarrhea, frequent stools with tenesmus and difficult passage, chronic dysentery with mixed red and white pus and blood, undigested food, recurrence after recovery. Also treats drunkenness causing vomiting of phlegm and counterflow, nausea with excessive salivation, dizziness, chest and diaphragm oppression, fatigue in the four limbs, and loss of appetite. Also treats cold injury during pregnancy and postpartum injury. For those with long-standing cold accumulation unresponsive to warm herbs, all are treated. Also treats chronic illness with emaciation, lingering over years, gradually leading to weakness, sallow complexion, thin muscles, variable appetite, and alternating constipation and diarrhea. Regardless of whether the cold accumulation is new or old, all are treated.
Prepared Ginger Root (Ganjiang, processed, 1 liang) Southern Costus Root (Nanmuxiang, removed radix base) Clove (Dingxiang, each above 1.5 qian) Soot from Chimney (Baicaoshuang, 2 liang) Nutmeg (Roudoukou, peeled, 30 pieces) Crotonis Fructus (Badou, peeled, de-heart, de-membrane, de-oil, ground, 70 pieces) Apricot Seed (Xingren, 140 pieces, soaked in hot water, peeled, tips removed, ground into paste)
Take the above seven ingredients. Excluding Badou powder, Baicaoshuang, and Xingren, pound the remaining four into fine powder. Mix with the other three and grind finely. Use high-quality beeswax to seal and bind. First, melt 6 liang of wax, filter through heavy silk to remove dregs. Then boil the wax in 1 sheng of good wine in silver or earthenware vessels until melted, boil vigorously several times, pour out, and let cool. The wax will naturally float on top. Weigh the extracted wax for pill-making. In spring and summer, take 1 liang of clear sesame oil, boil in a pot until bubbles dissipate and aroma is ripe. Add 4 liang of wine-boiled wax, melt together into liquid, and mix while hot with the aforementioned powders in the pot. In autumn and winter, take 1.5 liang of clear sesame oil, boil thoroughly into liquid, and use to mix the powders into a dough. Divide into small strips, wrap in oiled paper, and prepare and consume as needed.