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After taking powder preparations, excessive drinking of water, improper lifestyle management, wearing thick clothing, and consuming warm/hot food can cause fluid retention to condense into *tanpi* (phlegm-accumulation and fixed masses). The manifestations are: when phlegm is abundant, there is chest and diaphragm fullness and distension, dizziness, and headache; when masses are formed, there is binding and urgency in the heart and hypochondriac regions.

Those who take powder preparations should bathe when they feel hot and eat when they feel hungry. If bathing and eating are not timed properly, losing their measure, it causes *shi lao* (stone-labor toxicity from mineral drugs) to become obstructed and knotted, leading to blockage that cannot resolve and generates heat; therefore, medicinal treatment is required to eliminate it.

Edema occurring after taking powder preparations arises because the diet is warm and there is a lack of physical exertion for a long time. The drug's potency merges with qi and blood, causing qi to stagnate in the skin and muscles without being dispersed, thus resulting in edema. Alternatively, external wind-dampness combined with internal retained water may contend with the powder's potency, causing vexatious heat and qi stagnation, which also leads to edema. If edema results from warm diet and lack of exertion, it presents merely as vexatious heat and deficient edema. However, if caused by wind-dampness and retained water, it must present with swelling accompanied by vexatious heat, or scanty/difficult urination alongside swelling.

For those taking stone/mineral drugs, the toxicity of *shi lao* returns to the Kidney, but its force assaults the fu and zang organs. Once the organs are heated, body fluids become depleted and dry. Since the Kidney dislikes dryness, this leads to thirst and the desire to drink.

Improper management after taking powders, specifically taking warmth excessively, causes heat to contend with Ying and Wei (Nutritive and Defensive levels), leading to rebellious Qi ascending upward. The manifestation is chest fullness and shortness of breath.

Cold in the diaphragm region and heat in the stomach epigastrium; when cold and heat contend, rebellious Qi attacks the abdomen and overwhelms the Heart, causing heart and abdominal pain. If Cold is dominant over Heat, blocking and obstructing Ying and Wei so they do not flow freely, and Cold knots internally within the Heart, then heart and abdominal pain occur accompanied by a cold sensation in the Heart. The manifestation is heart and abdominal pain with tremors/shivering, and an inability to speak.

Improper management, exceeding limits in taking warmth, prevents the dispersion of the powder's potency. Heat accumulates in the intestines and stomach, resulting in constipation and difficult defecation.

Improper management leads to Heat in the Upper Jiao and deficiency-cold in the Lower Jiao. Cold Qi assaults the Bao (uterus/lower jiao organ system), causing the Bao to be cold and unable to control urination, resulting in frequent urination.

Improper management, either taking too much heat or suffering cold injury, disturbs the mineral drugs. Cold and heat strike each other, both affecting the Blood, stirring up Blood and Qi. Blood seeps into the Large Intestine; since the intestine is deficient, diarrhea occurs, resulting in blood in the stool.

Disregarding rhythm in activities, loss of dietary moderation, and contact with dispersing/powder preparations weaken the intestines and stomach, leading to sudden onset of diarrhea (acute loose stools).