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San Yi Cheng Qi Tang: Treats Taiyang disease (disease of the Taiyang channel) presenting with Da Cheng Qi Tang syndrome (abdominal fullness, solid pain), Tiao Wei Cheng Qi Tang syndrome (delirium, diarrhea), and Xiao Cheng Qi Tang syndrome (internal heat, constipation), combining them into one formula. It is also used for sudden collapse due to wind-stroke and onset of wind-phlegm epilepsy; it can be taken in all these cases. This is a purgative formula.

Da Huang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma), Mang Xiao (Natrii Sulfas), Nong Po (Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex), Zhi Shi (Aurantii Fructus Immaturus) (each 1 liang), Gan Cao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma) (5 qian). In *Xuan Ming Lun*, the dosage of Gan Cao is double that of the other four herbs. The above herbs are cut into small pieces, divided into three doses. Each dose is decocted with two cups of water and three slices of fresh ginger until reduced to 70%, then filtered. Take warm, at any time, stopping when bowel movement becomes free.

Shuang Jie San: Treats cold damage or wind-cold, whether with or without sweating, where exterior symptoms are fully present, accompanied by internal heat and dry mouth.

Tong Sheng San and Tian Shui San (half of each). The above herbs are cut into small pieces. Each dose is two liang, decocted with two large cups of water, three slices of fresh ginger, and three roots of scallion white part until reduced to 70%, then filtered. Take slightly warm to induce sweating.

Qing Jie San: Treats all types of common cold.

Cang Zhu (Atractylodis Rhizoma, stir-fried), Jing Jie (Schizonepetae Herba) (each 2 liang), Gan Cao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma) (1 liang), Ma Huang (Ephedrae Herba) (1.5 liang). The above four herbs are cut into small pieces. Each dose is one liang, decocted with two cups of water, three slices of fresh ginger, and one stem of scallion white part until reduced to 70%, then filtered. Take slightly warm, cover with blankets, and stop when sweating occurs.

Ban Xia Ju Pi Tang: Treats persistent vomiting of any kind.

Ren Shen (Ginseng Radix), Bai Zhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Bai Fu Ling (Poria), Gan Cao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Huang Qin (Scutellariae Radix), Ban Xia (Pinelliae Rhizoma), Nong Po (Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex), Huo Xiang Ye (Agastaches Herba), Ge Gen (Puerariae Lobatae Radix), Ju Pi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium) (equal parts). The above herbs are cut into small pieces. Each dose is one liang, decocted with one bowl of water until reduced to 70%, then filtered. Add a little fresh juice of ginger, take warm, at any time.

Examples of Tonifying and Dispersing Methods:

Danxi stated: Some suffer from heaven-earth cold qi invasion, others from consuming raw and cold food. Thus, cold damage diseases must involve bodily exposure to cold qi and oral consumption of cold substances. Therefore, those belonging to internal injury account for eight or nine out of ten. The method is: "Where evil gathers, qi must be deficient." Use only Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang (Supplement the Middle and Augment the Qi Decoction), modifying it according to observed symptoms. For severe qi deficiency, add a small amount of Fu Zi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata) to promote the qi-moving action of Ren Shen and Bai Zhu (see Miscellaneous Diseases, Fatigue and Overwork section for the formula). Internal injury diseases primarily follow Li Dongyuan's *Differentiation of External and Internal Injury*, which is very detailed. Many people suffer from this, but some have phlegm or external pathogens complicated, or depression-heat arising internally; all should focus on supplementing primordial qi. One should examine the complicating factors and use combined medications.

A man who usually indulged in alcohol, due to strong wind and cold and thin clothing, felt fatigue and loss of appetite. Half a day later, after sleeping, he had high fever, body-wide pain as if beaten, slight aversion to cold. At dawn, his six pulses were floating and large, hollow upon pressure, more pronounced on the left. I treated him as extreme deficiency suffering from wind-cold. Ren Shen was the sovereign herb, Huang Qi (Astragali Radix), Bai Zhu, Dang Gui Shen (Angelicae Sinensis Radix root portion) were minister herbs, Cang Zhu, Gan Cao, Mu Tong (Akebiae Caulis), Ge Gen were assistant and guide herbs. A large dose was given. After five doses, he sweated profusely like rain, changed beds three times, slept, and upon waking, all symptoms disappeared.

Brother Lu, aged 49, had been passing blood in stool for two years, with sinking, slow, and choppy pulses, sallow complexion, and mental fatigue. In September, due to labor-induced fever, he self-administered Shen Su Yin (Ginseng and Perilla Infusion) for two doses, and the fever subsided. Upon rising early and exerting himself slightly, encountering cold caused his hands' dorsum and face to turn purple-black, followed by brief unconsciousness, then awakening with high fever, delirium, dry mouth, and unbearable body pain preventing sleep. Pulses in all three positions were irregular, slightly rapid, empty upon heavy pressure, with the left hand larger than the right. Given Ren Shen 2.5 qian, Ma Huang with nodes, Huang Qi each 1 qian, Bai Zhu 2 qian, Dang Gui 0.5 qian. After three to five doses, he could sleep, woke up with profuse sweating, and stabilized. Two days later, relapse occurred with hypochondriac pain and coughing; if sleeping, no cough but delirium and slight aversion to cold. Pulse resembled previous but left side slightly tight. I said: "This is deficiency constitution re-contracted by cold." Used previous formula plus Ban Xia and Fu Ling, taken for over ten doses, achieved profuse sweating and stability. Later, body fatigue prevented long sitting, loss of appetite. Used Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang removing cooling herbs, adding Shen Qu, Ban Xia, Sha Ren, taken for fifty to seventy doses, and stabilized.

Ye Junzhang of Hangzhou, in the twelfth lunar month, suffered hunger during vegetarian fasting, exposed to cold while working, leading to fever and headache. The doctor prescribed Xiao Chai Hu Tang (Minor Bupleurum Decoction), causing spontaneous sweating, coma, deafness, and blindness. I diagnosed his pulse as large as a finger, seemingly forceful, with fever persisting. Gave a large dose of Ren Shen, Huang Qi, Bai Zhu, Shu Fu Zi (Prepared Aconite Root), Zhi Gan Cao (Honey-fried Licorice). After one day, less sweating; after two days, fever halved, ears slightly responsive, eyes could see. Up to the fourth dose, added Cang Zhu to the previous formula, took two doses, sweated again and fever cleared. That day, removed Cang Zhu and Fu Zi, continued with smaller doses of the previous formula, stabilized after three days.

Lu Zhongxiu, aged 66, in January, endured hunger, cold exposure, and labor, resulting in headache, aversion to cold, fever, joint pain, and anhidrosis. By the next day, delirium, worsening fever (intermittent), slight fever intensity. Self-administered Shen Su Yin for two doses, no sweat. Took another dose, covered with clothes to induce sweating, profuse sweat but fever persisted. On the fourth day, my diagnosis showed both hands' pulses were surging and rapid, more so on the right. This was due to hunger, cold exposure, and labor; although Yangming channel received cold, attack is contraindicated. Urgently tonify with large doses to restore deficiency. Wait for stomach qi to fill, then sweat will resolve naturally. Used Ren Shen, Bai Zhu, Dang Gui Shen, Chen Pi, Zhi Gan Cao, adding one piece of Shu Fu Zi per dose, five doses in one day and night. By the third day, mouth slightly dry, speech coherent, symptoms resolved but fever remained. Removed Fu Zi, added Bai Shao (Paeoniae Radix Alba). Two days later, desired food, gave meat broth occasionally. Three days later, spirit fully recovered. After about two days, spontaneous sweating and fever subsided. Pulse no longer rapid, but lingering surging quality remained. Discussing large pulse in elderly after mistaken sweating, subsequent deficiency signs are expected. Continued previous medicine. Next day, he said: "My bowels have been ill, no bowel movement since illness began, now anal stricture pain, feeling of incomplete defecation (tenesmus-like), unbearable." Doctors wanted to administer Da Huang or Ba Dou. I said: "Not true constipation; qi is deficient due to mistaken sweating, cannot fill abdomen, lacks strength to push." Continued tonifying medicine, gave meat porridge and Cong Rong (Cynomorii Fructus). One and a half days later, soaked lower body in strong green onion and pepper soup, passed five or six soft stool lumps. Pulse still large and unconsolidated, indicating qi and blood not yet restored. Continued previous medicine for two doses. Two days later, urinary retention, lower abdominal distension and discomfort, relieved only when supine. I said: "Tonifying medicine not fully absorbed. Double Ren Shen in previous formula, large dose, two days later urination resumed and stabilized."

Wang Ji treated a man in his thirties who had fever due to cold exposure. The doctor used dispersing medicines without success, then Xiao Chai Hu Tang, leading to intense heat, profuse sweating, confusion, lying down like clouds hovering, walking like wind-blown feathers. Accompanied by polyphagia, frequent seminal emissions. Observing his fat appearance, Wang Ji said: "This is internal fire blazing, extreme deficiency." Pulses were all floating and surging like fingers. He cited *Mai Jing*: "If pulse does not diminish after sweating, death is inevitable, untreatable." Fortunately, although pulse was large, it did not drum under pressure; though body was long/emaciated, complexion was still dark/cyanotic, curable. Treating as external pathogen was wrong, essentially damaging the deficient. *Classic* says: "Where evil gathers, qi must be deficient." Prioritize internal injury. Used large doses of Ren Shen, Dang Gui, Bai Zhu, with small amounts of Gui Zhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus) and Fu Zi. After ten doses, illness reduced by two-tenths to three-tenths. Reduced Gui Zhi, added Bai Shao and Huang Qin, taken for ten doses. Patient realized he was lying on bed, feet on ground, rejoiced: "Can avoid death." Long-term use led to recovery.

Marshal Xue Yi treated a man aged 79. Mid-winter, before going out slightly, engaged in sexual intercourse, resulting in headache, fever, vertigo, asthma, copious phlegm, frequent urination, dry mouth craving drink, tongue tip prickling/shrinking like lychee, black cracked lower lip, red face and eyes, irritability, insomnia. Sometimes throat felt like smoke/fire rising, cooled slightly by drinking cold tea, near death. Pulse was surging, large, boundless, and forceful; body hot to touch. This is kidney channel deficiency fire roaming externally. Prescribed Shi Quan Da Bu Tang (Ten Significant Tonifying Decoction) plus Shan Zhu Yu (Corni Fructus), Ze Xie (Alismatis Rhizoma), Dan Pi (Moutan Cortex), Shan Yao (Dioscoreae Rhizoma), Mai Men Dong (Ophiopogonis Radix), Wu Wei Zi (Schisandrae Fructus), Fu Zi. One cup, deep sleep for a long time, pulse and symptoms reduced by three or four tenths. Then administered Ba Wei Wan (Eight-Ingredient Pill), all symptoms retreated. Recovered after avoiding cold objects.

Ben Shi Fang Huang Qi Jian Zhong Jia Dang Gui Tang (Astragalus Decocting the Center Plus Angelica): Treats fever, headache, floating and rapid pulse, but slow and weak at cunchi position. Should first take this medicine to nourish blood, then combine with Ma Huang, Gui Zhi, etc.

Huang Qi, Dang Gui (each 1.5 liang), Bai Shao, Gui Zhi, Gan Cao (each 1 liang). Cut into pieces. Each dose 5 qian, three slices of ginger, one jujube, decoct in water. Take three times day, two times night. If pulse remains sinking and slightly slow, take another dose.

Haizang Huang Qi Tang: Treats cold damage affecting two channels, spasms, sanjiao qi deficiency with spontaneous sweating and limb sweating, or excessive hand back sweating, limb tremors, heavy waist/legs, red face/eyes, drowsiness, hot head/face, hot hypochondrium, warm hands/feet, hot palms, spontaneous diarrhea without thirst, difficult or normal stool, dry mouth/throat, craving hot drinks but not wanting to swallow, or slight desire to drink, impending retching, chest fullness, abdominal pain, laughing or crying spontaneously, sighing, disordered speech (not delirium/hallucination, but unsettled spirit). Illness begins between wakefulness and sleep, palpitations, mild head/neck pain, normal gait. This is yin excess and yang deficiency. Pulses float/sink inconsistently, left/right fluctuating, showing five yin pulse shapes: sinking, choppy, weak, minute, wiry. All powerless upon pressure, diminished upon light/heavy pressure. These are all yin pulses. Should treat slowly first, then urgently. Slow treatment uses Huang Qi Tang.

Huang Qi Tang Formula:
Ren Shen, Sheng Jiang (Fresh Ginger), Huang Qi, Bai Fu Ling, Bai Zhu, Bai Shao (each 1 liang), Gan Cao (7 qian). For vomiting, add Huo Xiang and Chen Pi each 5 qian; for severe cases, add Pao Gan Jiang (Fried Dried Ginger) 1 qian. Cut into pieces, decoct in water, adjust dosage based on symptoms. For severe constipation, use Tiao Zhong Wan.

Tiao Zhong Wan Formula:
Ren Shen, Bai Zhu, Bai Fu Ling, Gan Jiang (Dried Ginger), Gan Cao (equal parts). Powder, honey pills. Each liang makes ten or five pills. Take one or two pills, decoct in small amount of water. If urgent, add Gan Jiang 1 qian to Huang Qi Tang per dose. For constipation, use Li Zhong Wan.

Li Zhong Wan Formula:
Ren Shen, Bai Zhu, Gan Jiang (fried, or substitute with Sheng Jiang if fearing heat), Zhi Gan Cao (equal parts). Powder, honey pills. Each liang makes five pills. Dissolve in plain water. Treat slowly first, then urgently. If extremely urgent, anhidrosis: use Fu Zi Gan Jiang Gan Cao Tang. Spontaneous sweating: use Bai Zhu Fu Zi Gan Cao Tang. Select Si Ni Tang, Zhen Wu Tang, or Tong Mai Si Ni Tang based on pulse and symptoms.

Danxi's *Ju Xin Shu* states that mixed pathogens require mixed treatment methods. For example, chills and fever from common cold indicate external pathogen, confirmed by floating-rapid pulse. But if Qi Kou pulse is tight and full, it indicates food stagnation. Patient is fatigued, pulse empty upon heavy pressure, chest/diaphragm fullness radiating to hypochondrium, pulse wiry upon light pressure, indicating liver qi stagnation from anger. Left Chi pulse large/small/sinking/weak indicates past sexual exhaustion. Treatment should prioritize addressing the common cold last. First observe complexion, strength, thickness. Use middle-tonifying, food-digesting, stagnation-resolving, stomach-fire-cooling methods, guided by pungent-warm herbs (ginger/pepper) to restore middle qi, move stagnation, harmonize fluids, induce whole-body sweating, resolving external pathogen. Doctors who do not carefully examine, only focusing on dispersing external pathogen, ignoring complicating pathogens, failing to investigate pulse origins and emotional attachments, skillfully applying mixed treatments, will see righteous qi become deficient and evil qi solidify. This is the fault of incompetent practitioners.

Lou's collection gathers Danxi and Haizang's treatments for cold damage, all using tonifying and dispersing methods, based on the Classic: "Success and failure depend on movement; continuous movement leads to transformation" and "Wind, rain, cold, heat cannot injure alone without deficiency." External wind-cold always enters after internal injury from excessive labor/activity weakening the body. Hence, within one family, some get sick, others don't; deficiency allows evil entry, non-deficiency prevents it. Thus, cold damage is internal injury in eight or nine cases. Ignorant students believe there is no tonification for cold damage, seeing fever regardless of deficiency/excess, uniformly using sweating/purging, leading to premature death. This is a sin of the medical profession. Collecting these methods after Zhang Zhongjing, responses are immediate, guiding adherence to avoid reinforcing deficiency and draining righteousness.

Regarding the outline text, seeing doctors rigidly believing no tonification for cold damage, often violating the principle of avoiding deficiency-excess errors, I detailed this, deleting purely internal injury cases and Danxi's mediocre notes, adding recent doctors' cases as living examples of deficiency-suffering cold. Enlightenment depends on the individual; do not be rigid. I once treated a woodblock carver, newly married, winter cold exposure with full exterior symptoms. Ordered Ren Shen and Zi Su Jing Ye (Perilla Stem and Leaf) each 1 liang decocted and drunk. Sweated and healed. A pregnant woman in spring-summer transition had warm disease, headache, fever, no aversion to cold, thirst. Before treatment, miscarriage with massive bleeding, fainting. Ordered Mai Men Dong 1 jin, Dan Zhu Ye (Lophatheri Herba), Xiang Chi (Fermented Soybean), frequently drunk. Sweated and healed. Using labor-relapse treatment method, obtaining such living rules ensures near-perfect cure for such diseases.

Han Zhihe's Harmonizing According to Season Method:
Cold damage has sweating indications. The discussion generally mentions sweating syndromes and pulses: floating-rapid, floating-tight, floating-no sweat-asthma, or floating indicating exterior. Now briefly listing several, later generations rely only on general pulse characteristics, not distinguishing floating pulse yin/yang deficiency/excess principles, nor knowing unsweatable conditions. Mistakenly administering dispersing medicines often transforms into Yang Du (Yang Toxicity) complications. Now categorizing patients with sweating/aversion to wind and no sweating/aversion to cold into two grades, prescribing formulas based on climate severity from after Start of Spring to before Start of Autumn, to facilitate student understanding.

Patient 1: Before Feb/Mar, both hands floating-rapid or slow/tight, pressing slightly soft. Cun/Guan/Chi equal force, neither too large nor too small. Do not immediately administer exterior-dispersing medicine. This shows interior symptoms without exterior pulse. Wait until Cun pulse force is small like Guan/Chi before administering exterior medicine. Generally, treating cold damage: observe symptoms without pulse, do not prescribe; observe pulse without symptoms, prescribing slightly is harmless. For miscellaneous diseases, symptoms first, pulse second; for cold damage, pulse first, symptoms second.

Patient 2: Both hands floating-rapid and tight, named Cold Damage. If Cun pulse force is small, Chi pulse force is large, even without aversion to wind or spontaneous sweating, this indicates yin qi already abundant, manifesting in pulse first. Without medication to harmonize, later will develop aversion to wind and spontaneous sweating. From Start of Spring to Start of Clear Brightness, use Tiao Mai Tang. From Start of Clear Brightness to Grain in Ear, use Ge Gen Chai Hu Tang. From Grain in Ear to Start of Autumn, use Ren Shen Jie Geng Tang.

Tiao Mai Tang Formula:
Ge Gen (1 liang), Qian Hu (deprived of sprouts), Fang Feng (each 7.5 qian), Zhi Gan Cao (half liang). Coarse powder. Each dose 5 qian, one cup water, ginger piece size of little finger, split, decoct to 70%, filter, take warm. If Cun pulse force is small as described, add three dates, decoct together.

Ge Gen Chai Hu Tang:
Ge Gen (1.5 liang), Chai Hu (deprived of rhizome, 1 liang), Shao Yao, Jie Geng, Zhi Gan Cao (each 7.5 qian), Nong Po (half liang). Cut into pieces. Each dose 5 qian, one cup water, two slices ginger, decoct to 70%, filter, take hot. If Cun pulse force is small as described, add three inches of scallion white, decoct together.

Ren Shen Jie Geng Tang:
Ren Shen, Jie Geng (each 7.5 qian), Ma Huang (deprived of joints, 1 liang), Shi Gao (3 liang), Zhi Gan Cao (7.5 qian). Each dose 5 qian, one cup water, five spikes of Jing Jie, decoct to 70%, filter, take hot. If Cun pulse force is small as described, add 0.2 qian Ma Huang deprived of joints, decoct together.

Patient 3: Both hands floating-rapid and slow, named Wind Strike. If Cun pulse force is small, Chi pulse force is large, even without aversion to wind or spontaneous sweating, this indicates yin qi already abundant, manifesting in pulse first. Without medication to harmonize, later will develop aversion to wind and spontaneous sweating. From Start of Spring to Start of Clear Brightness, use Bo He Tang. From Start of Clear Brightness to Grain in Ear, use Fang Feng Tang. From Grain in Ear to Start of Autumn, use Xiang Xiong Tang.

Bo He Tang:
Bo He (1 liang), Ge Gen, Ren Shen, Zhi Gan Cao (each half liang), Fang Feng (deprived of rhizome, 2 liang). Cut into pieces. Each dose 5 qian, one cup water, decoct to 70%, filter, take hot. If after three to five doses Cun pulse force is still small, add 0.2 qian Bo He, decoct together.

Fang Feng Tang:
Fang Feng (deprived of rhizome, 1 liang), Jie Geng (3 qian), Zhi Gan Cao, Xuan Fu Hua (each half liang), Nong Po (0.3 fen). Cut into pieces. Each dose 5 qian, two cups water, two pieces ginger, decoct, take hot. If after three to five doses Cun pulse force is still small, add five to seven spikes of Jing Jie Sui, decoct together.

Xiang Xiong Tang:
Chuan Xiong (2.5 qian), Shi Gao (2 liang), Sheng Ma (3 liang), Zhi Gan Cao, Zhi Nong Po (each half liang). Cut into pieces. Each dose 5 qian, two cups water, decoct to 70%, take warm. If after three to five doses Cun pulse force is still small, add 0.2 qian Xi Xin, decoct together. Why separate laws for Wind Strike and Cold Damage in previous two paragraphs? Because within three days of onset, Wind Strike may show slow pulse, Cold Damage tight pulse. Although pulse appears first, symptoms may not yet appear, allowing medicinal resolution, hence formulating prescriptions.

Patient 4: Both hands floating-rapid or slow/tight, Cun pulse short and weaker than Guan/Chi, named Yin Excess Yang Deficiency. If spontaneous sweating and aversion to wind, evil is in exterior, yin qi is surplus. *Su Wen* says: Yin surplus causes excessive sweating and body cold. Can administer exterior agents eliminating yin and assisting yang. From Start of Spring to Start of Clear Brightness, use Liu Wu Ma Huang Tang. From Start of Clear Brightness to Grain in Ear, use Qi Wu Chai Hu Tang. From Grain in Ear to Start of Autumn, use Fa Biao Tang.

Liu Wu Ma Huang Tang:
Ma Huang (deprived of joints, 1 liang), Ge Gen, Cang Zhu (each 7.5 qian), Ren Shen, Zhi Gan Cao (each half liang). Cut into pieces. Each dose 5 qian, one cup water, two jujubes, decoct to 70%, take hot. If after three to five doses sweat persists with aversion to wind, add 7 qian Jing Jie. If after three to five doses no longer aversion to wind but still sweating, add 0.5 liang Ding Xiang Pi.

Qi Wu Chai Hu Tang:
Chai Hu, Cang Zhu (each 2 liang), Jing Jie, Ma Huang (each 1 liang), Zhi Gan Cao (7 qian). Cut into pieces. Each dose 5 qian, one cup water, one piece ginger, two jujubes, decoct to 70%, take hot. If after three to five doses sweat persists with aversion to wind, add three inches of scallion white. If after three to five doses sweat still persists, add 1 liang Dang Gui, decoct together.

Fa Biao Tang:
Ma Huang (deprived of joints, 1 liang), Cang Zhu (2 liang), Ren Shen, Dang Gui (each half liang), Zhi Gan Cao, Ding Xiang Pi (each 7 qian). Cut into pieces. Each dose 5 qian, one cup water, one piece ginger, three jujubes, decoct to 70%, filter, take hot. If after three to five doses sweat persists with aversion to wind, add 7 qian Gui Zhi. If sweat persists, add 0.5 liang Xi Xin, stop when sweating ceases.

Patient 5: Pulse floating-rapid or tight or slow, pulse extends to Yu Ji (thenar eminence), Cun pulse larger than Guan/Chi, named Yang Excess Yin Deficiency. If dizziness, chest oppression, dry mouth/throat, evil is in exterior, yang qi is exclusively surplus. *Su Wen* says: Yang surplus causes body heat and anhidrosis. Can administer medicines eliminating yang and assisting yin to resolve exterior. From Start of Spring to Start of Clear Brightness, use Ren Shen Tang. From Start of Clear Brightness to Grain in Ear, use Qian Hu Tang. From Grain in Ear to Start of Autumn, use Shi Gao Tang.

Ren Shen Tang:
Ren Shen (half liang), Chai Hu (1 liang), Shao Yao, Zhi Gan Cao (each 7.5 qian), Shi Gao (2 liang). Cut into pieces. Each dose 5 qian, one cup water, one piece ginger, decoct to 70%, take hot. If after three to five doses fever unresolved, add thirty grains of Chi Dou, decoct together.

Qian Hu Tang:
Qian Hu (1 liang), Shi Gao (2 liang), Zhi Gan Cao (half liang), Jie Geng, Chi Dou (each 7.5 qian). Each dose 5 qian, one cup water, five slices ginger, decoct to 70%, filter, take hot. If after three to five doses fever unresolved, add thirty grains of Chi Dou, decoct, take again.

Shi Gao Tang:
Shi Gao (3 liang), Shao Yao, Chai Hu (each 1 liang), Sheng Ma, Huang Qin, Zhi Gan Cao (each 7.5 qian). Cut into pieces. Each dose 5 qian, one and a half cups water, one heaping measure of Chi Dou, decoct to 80%, take hot. If after three to five doses fever unresolved, add 1 liang Zhi Mu. If still unresolved, add 1 liang Da Huang.

Patient 6: Both hands floating-rapid or tight or slow, all three positions forceful, anhidrosis, aversion to wind. This is yin and yang qi both surplus. *Su Wen* says: Yin and yang surplus cause anhidrosis and cold. Medicines can be used to balance it.