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Urination is difficult, the heart feels stifled and hot, inability to eat, frequent desire to vomit, yellowing of the face and eyes, or eruption of red spots. This is caused by heavy drinking followed by exposure to wind and entering water. The toxicity of wine-dampness is suppressed by wind-water, preventing its dissemination and emission, thus steaming and stagnating to cause jaundice.

Yinchen Hao Tang (Artemisiae Scopariae Decoction) treats Jiudan (Wine Jaundice), characterized by a stifling sensation in the heart and yellow-red urine.
Yinchen Hao (Artemisiae Scopariae Herba), Gegen (Puerariae Lobatae Radix), Chiling (Polyporus with Hostwood, *Zhu Ling* variant often referring to Polyporus umbellatus but here specified as Chiling/Red Polyporus contextually linked to damp-heat drainage), Shengma (Cimicifugae Rhizoma), Qinjiao (Gentianae Macrophyllae Radix) each 5 qian; Gualou Gen (Trichosanthis Radix) each 3 qian; Shanzhi (Gardeniae Fructus) 5 fen.
Decoct with water, take 3 qian decoction, warm administration, twice daily, until recovery.

Xiaomai Yin (Wheat Drink)
Sheng Xiaomai (Tritici Levis Semen) 2 he, decoct with water to obtain juice, take in one dose. If not recovered, take again.

Dahuang Tang (Rhubarb Decoction) treats Jiudan (Wine Jaundice), stifling sensation, swelling of the shins, yellow urine, and red spots on the face.
Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma, stir-fried) 2 liang; Shanzhi (Gardeniae Fructus), Zhishi (Aurantii Fructus), Chi (Zizyphi Fructus, stir-fried) 3 he.
Decoct with water, take 4 qian decoction, warm administration, twice daily. Adding Yinchen is also acceptable.

Gegen Tang (from *Jisheng Fang*)
Gegen (Puerariae Lobatae Radix) 2 qian; Zhizi (Gardeniae Fructus) 2 qian; Zhishi (Aurantii Fructus), Douchi (Sojae Semen Praeparatum) each 1 qian; Zhi Cao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma, honey-fried) 5 fen.
Decoct with water, take warm at any time.

Acquired due to sexual excess damaging the Kidney. *Jinkui Yaolue* states: Blackening of the forehead, slight sweating, heat in the palms and soles, onset at dusk, urgency of the bladder, free urination, is called Nulaodan (Female Labor Jaundice). Generally, the heat of Huangdan (Jaundice) arises from the Spleen, while the heat of Nulaodan arises from the Kidney. Thus, Huangdan presents with full-body yellowing, whereas Nulaodan presents with body yellowing and blackening of the forehead. Renzhai stated: When both Spleen and Kidney are diseased, it becomes Heidan (Black Jaundice).

For all jaundice caused by sexual fatigue, accompanied by heavy body, insomnia, eyes red as cinnabar, and a mass rising in the epigastrium resembling a Jia (mass), which is ten deaths to one survival, moxa should be applied to Xinshu (BL-15) and Guanyuan (CV-4), fourteen moxa cones each. Also, cauterize under the tongue, and take two qian of powdered ashes from a woman's underwear mixed with wine.

Fan Wang also said: For Nulaodan with shortness of breath and sinking qi, take ashes of a woman's menstrual cloth mixed with blood, taken on an empty stomach with wine, one fangcun bi per day... [Text cuts off]

The disease originates as Heat transforming into Yin; it is not that Yin syndrome causes jaundice. Han Zhihe stated: After three to five days, if purgatives are used excessively, the Spleen and Stomach become deficient, and body fluids are depleted. Thirst leads to drinking liquids; the Spleen Earth is affected by Yin-dampness, meeting with Heat pathogen to cause jaundice; this is Yinhuang (Yin Jaundice). It should be treated with Warm medicines. For example, if the pulses in both hands are deep, fine, and slow, the body is cold from the extremities inward, skin has gooseflesh, or there is vomiting, coating on the tongue, restlessness desiring to sit in mud or water, full-body yellowing, and scanty dark urine, these are all signs of Yin syndrome.

Yinchen Jupi Tang (Han's Formula) treats full-body yellowing, deep-fine-rapid pulse, heat with cold hands and feet, wheezing, vomiting, restlessness, and no thirst.
Yinchen (Artemisiae Scopariae Herba), Juhong (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium Rubrum), Shengjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens) each 1 liang; Banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma), Fuling (Poria) each 5 qian; Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma) 2.5 qian.
Decoct with four sheng of water to obtain two sheng, divide into four doses.

Xiao Yinchen Tang (Han's Formula) treats jaundice with deep-fine pulse, cold limbs and whole body.
Fuzi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata, one piece, processed, sliced into eight), Zhi Cao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma, honey-fried) 1 liang, Yinchen (Artemisiae Scopariae Herba) 2 liang.
Decoct with four sheng of water to obtain two sheng, divide into three doses. Another version contains Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma) instead of Zhi Cao, named Yinchen Fuzi Tang (Han's Formula).

Yinchen Lizhong Tang treats cold body, yellow face, deep-fine-powerless pulse, or diarrhea, spontaneous sweating, clear and white urine, named Yinhuang (Yin Jaundice).
Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Paojiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma Preparatum), Zhi Cao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma, honey-fried), Yinchen (Artemisiae Scopariae Herba).
Crush the above herbs, take 5 qian per dose, decoct with water.

Luo Qianfu treated Han Junxiang from Zhending. During summer, due to excessive labor, thirst led to drinking cold tea and eating cold food, resulting in heaviness and pain in the head, body, and joints. Sweating, purging, and cold medicines were administered repeatedly without effect. The condition transformed into yellowing of the body and eyes, aversion to cold on the back, cold skin, hardness and pain upon pressure in the epigastrium, tight-fine pulse that feels empty upon pressure, short pulses in both Cun positions failing to reach their standard location. This syndrome resulted from drinking cold liquids due to seasonal heat, compounded by excessive cold medicine, aiding Water to attack Heart, thereby insulting Spleen Earth. First the Mother (Heart) was injured, then the Child (Spleen), as stated in the classics: encroaching upon the unconquerable (one who overcomes oneself) and attacking the conquerable (one whom oneself overcomes). At that time, continuous rain combined dampness and cold; this is Yinhuang (Yin Jaundice), primarily treated with Yinchen Fuzi Ganjiang Tang. *Neijing* states: When Cold dominates internally, treat with Sweet-Hot, assisting with Bitter-Pungent; when Dampness dominates, level with Bitter-Hot, drain with Bland, dry with Bitter. Fuzi and Ganjiang are Pungent-Sweet Great Hot, dispersing middle Cold as Sovereign; Banxia and Caokou are Pungent-Hot; Baizhu and Chenpi are Bitter-Sweet-Warm, strengthening Spleen and drying Dampness as Ministers; Shengjiang is Pungent-Warm to disperse; Ze Xie is Bland-Sweet to drain; Zhishi is Bitter-Pungent to drain fullness; Yinchen is Bitter-Slightly Cold, its qi light and floating, assisted by Jiang and Fu, able to remove Cold-Damp from skin and pores to resolve jaundice as Envoys. Decoct and take 1 liang; previous symptoms halved, subsequent doses cured completely. Then given Lizhong Tang, recovered after several days.

Li Sixun stated that all jaundice is Yang syndrome; what is called Yinhuang is actually Yang syndrome deteriorating into Yin, not originally Yin syndrome. Yinchen Ganjiang Tang is for treating Heat syndrome deteriorating into Cold. Scholars must trace the source: essentially adding one Warm herb to the primary treatment formula to warm it, similar to the logic of Guizhi Tang adding Dahuang.