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Shu Gan Di Huang Decoction (Prepared Rehmannia Root Decoction)

Treats gynecological diseases caused by deficiency and damage, or headache wind pathogen invading the lower legs and shins, as well as cold-bi syndrome causing tendon and vessel tension or flaccidity, amenorrhea leading to infertility, wandering wind moving irregularly, leukorrhea with red and white discharge, or menstrual irregularities.

Formula: Angelicae Dahuricae Radix (Baizhi), Dendrobii Caulis (Shihu), Cistanches Herba (Rongshou), Asari Radix (Xixin), Saposhnikoviae Radix (Fangfeng), Polypodi Rhizoma et Rhizoma (Juanbai), Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex (Nanpiao), Poria (Baifuling), Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma (Baizhu), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gancao), Cinnamomi Ramulus (Guizhi), Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens (Ganjiang), Dioscoreae Rhizoma (Shanyao), Yiyu Liang (Yuyuliang), Dipsaci Radix (Xuduan), Purpurascens Quartz (Zishiqing) (each 1 liang 1 fen).

Grind the above herbs into a fine powder, mix with refined honey, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills each time on an empty stomach, washed down with rice water.

Da Wu Shi Ze Lan Wan (Great Five-Stones Ze Lan Pill)

Treats gynecological wind-deficiency syndrome, borborygmus in the abdomen, tension and flaccidity of tendons and vessels, headache, alternating chills and fever, menstrual irregularities, pain around the umbilicus, epigastric fullness and hardness, regurgitation of food, body bi-pain, disharmony of Ying and Wei Qi, weakness preventing movement, and postpartum deficiency damage. This formula is suitable for all these conditions. (Qianjin Yi Fang records adding Yangqishi [Coptidis Rhizoma] 1 liang.)

Formula: Zhongru Fen (Calcitris Powder), Yuyuliang (Halloysitum Rubrum) (each 1.5 liang), Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum), Bai Shiyin (White Beryl) (each 2 liang), Zishiqing (Purple Quartz) (2.5 liang), Zelan Ye (Lycopus Herba) (2.1 liang), Wuweizi (Schisandrae Fructus) (1.1 liang). (Revised edition notes that Shujiao [Sichuan Pepper] has no specified dosage in this formula; another version includes Baiziren Wan which has similar therapeutic effects, adding Shujiao 1.5 liang.)

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with honey, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 20-30 pills each time on an empty stomach, washed down with warm wine.

Ze Lan San (Ze Lan Powder)

Treats various gynecological diseases after childbirth, stabilizes the fetus, regulates Qi, treats postpartum blood dizziness, blood loss, blood stasis, deficiency consumption, infertility, miscarriage, difficult labor, fetal death in utero, retained placenta, lochia spreading over the whole body causing sores, menstrual irregularities, red and white leukorrhea, breast nodules, cough, cold and heat attacking the four limbs, and irregularity of the Ren Mai in virgins. Regular use can regulate blood... (text implies beneficial effects).

Formula: Zelan (Lycopus Herba) (9 fen), Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum) (8 fen), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Chishaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Rubra), Bai Wuyi (Chenopodii Semen), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Xiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma) (each 10 fen), Guizhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus) (5 fen), Sheng Gan Dihuang (Raw Prepared Rehmanniae Radix), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma) (each 2 fen).

Grind the above herbs into a fine powder. Take 2 qian each time on an empty stomach, mixed with hot wine. Especially suitable for those with poor appetite and fatigue in the four limbs.

Baiziren Wan (Baiziren Pill)

Treats five labors and seven injuries in women, emaciation and coldness, thinness, lack of luster in complexion, reduced diet, loss of radiance in appearance, postpartum sterility, and infertility. Long-term use promotes weight gain.

Formula: Baiziren (Biota Seed), Huangqi (Astragali Radix), Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma), Zhongru (Calcitris), Baishiyin (White Beryl), Zishiqing (Purple Quartz) (each 2 liang), Shujiao (Sichuan Pepper) (1.5 liang), Duzhong (Eucommiae Cortex), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Wuweizi (Schisandrae Fructus) (one variant uses Niuxi [Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix]). (Qianjin Yi Fang omits Wutou [Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata], but includes Longgu [Fossil Bones], Fangkui [Adenophorae Radix], Fuling [Poria], Qinjiao [Gentianae Macrophyllae Radix] each 0.5 liang.)

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with refined honey, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills each time, washed down with wine.

Ziwan Jian (Ziwan Decoction/Paste)

Treats long-standing blood consumption in women, blood and Qi accumulation in the abdomen forming malignant masses and fixed pain, gas blocks moving in the abdomen or rushing up to the heart and chest, distension in the hypochondrium, cold pain in the waist and knees, stabbing pain at the umbilicus, spleen and stomach disharmony, loss of taste, vomiting clear fluid, whole-body numbness, stiffness and spasm of hands and feet, dry mouth and lips, physical weakness, restless sleep, irritability, facial sores, heaviness of the four limbs, menstrual irregularities, year-round unpredictability, resembling pregnancy but gradually becoming emaciated, and all chronic wind diseases not healing. All are suitable for this treatment.

Formula: Ziwan (Asterae Radix), Renshen (Ginseng Radix) (each 8 fen), Shu Dihuang (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix) (6 fen), Maimendong (Ophiopogonis Tuber), Chaihu (Bupleuri Radix), Shujiao (Sichuan Pepper), Wutou (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata), Qianghuo (Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma) (each 5 fen), Puhuang (Typhae Pollen), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) (dosages implied).

Grind the above herbs into a fine powder, mix with refined honey, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 3-5 pills each time on an empty stomach, washed down with rice water. Bowel movements should be promoted 3-5 times; if unstable, stop medication with white porridge.

Da Sheng San (Great Sage Powder)

Treats all disorders before and after childbirth, greatly stabilizing the fetus and harmonizing Qi. If fetal death in utero causes stabbing pain, postpartum blood dizziness, blood stasis, metrorrhagia, lochia entering the four limbs, any blood organ disease, retained placenta, typhoid vomiting, widespread sores, menstrual irregularities, red and white leukorrhea, breast nodules with cough, cold and heat, limb contraction, irregular Ren Mai in virgins, all are suitable for this. If the uterus is cold and deficient causing frequent miscarriages, or illness due to improper care during pregnancy, this can also be taken. After taking, complexion harmonizes, blood sea becomes peaceful, appetite improves, and movement becomes vigorous. Men taking it also treats five labors and seven injuries.

Formula: Zelan (Lycopus Herba) (9 fen), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Baizhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix), Bencao (Ligustici Rhizoma), Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma), Huangqi (Astragali Radix), Wuweizi (Schisandrae Fructus), Danshen (Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix) (each 3 fen), Chuanjiao (Sichuan Pepper), Houpo (Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex), Baiziren (Biota Seed), Baiwei (Cynanchi Atrati Radix) (each 4 fen).

Select and clean the above herbs, weigh accurately, bake dry, and grind into a fine powder. Each day on an empty stomach, take 1 qian mixed with hot wine. For all gynecological diseases, please take this formula.

Hupo Wan (Amber Pill)

Treats gynecological blood-wind consumption.

Formula: Hupo (Amber), Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix), Binglang (Arecae Semen), Xiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma), Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix), Guizhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus), Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma), Fuzi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata), Jingsanleng (Sparganii Rhizoma) (each 5 fen), Qingpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium Viride), Wuzhuyu (Evodiae Fructus), Baizhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix) (each 6 fen). (The formula also records Renshen [Ginseng Radix] and Chaihu [Bupleuri Radix] each 2 fen, Ganzhe [Scorpio] 1 fen.)

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with refined honey, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 15-20 pills each time, washed down with Jingjie Tang (Schizonepeta Decoction), at any time.

Shun Jing Wan (Smooth Menstruation Pill)

Tonifies deficiency, regulates menstruation. Treats deficiency of Chong and Ren Qi, cold in the lower abdomen, menstrual irregularities, abdominal pain, heavy waist and legs, fatigue in the four limbs, soreness in all joints, mental confusion, depression, lack of luster in complexion, loss of appetite. Removes cold wind from lower organs, treats thirty-six leukorrhea diseases, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, five-colored discharge, uterine cold causing infertility, and strengthens the fu organs.

Formula: Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum), Shujiao (Sichuan Pepper), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Chantui (Cicadae Periostracum), Mingtuie (Mantis Egg Case) (each 2 liang), Baiziren (Biota Seed), Baiwei (Cynanchi Atrati Radix), Bencao (Ligustici Rhizoma), Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Baizhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix), Jiegeng (Platycodonis Radix) (dosages implied).

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with refined honey, and make pills the size of a bullet. Take one pill each time, dissolved in warm wine or rice water, taken on an empty stomach.

Shizhi Ze Lan San (Red Clay Ze Lan Powder)

Treats postpartum wind-deficiency syndrome.

Formula: Zelan (Lycopus Herba) (9 fen), Yuyuliang (Halloysitum Rubrum) (10 fen), Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum), Baizhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix), Gan Dihuang (Dry Rehmanniae Radix), Chishizhi (Halloysitum Rubrum), Rongshou (Cistanches Herba), Lurong (Deer Antler), Xiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma) (each 8 fen), Xixin (Asari Radix), Nongpo (Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex) (dosages implied).

Grind the above twenty-two herbs into a fine powder. Take one fangcunbi (square inch spoonful) with wine, three times a day, increasing dosage as appropriate.

Buyi Zhongru Wan (Supplementing Calcitris Pill)

Treats blood sea deficiency in women with heat attacking the lungs, causing occasional panting, restlessness, reduced appetite, and limb weakness.

Formula: Zhongru Fen (Calcitris Powder) (3 liang), Wuweizi (Schisandrae Fructus), Rongshou (Cistanches Herba), Zelan (Lycopus Herba), Xiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma), Baishaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Alba), Huangqi (Astragali Radix), Jiegeng (Platycodonis Radix), Baiziren (Biota Seed), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Zishiqing (Purple Quartz), Houpo (Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex) (each 1 liang), Tianmendong (Asparagi Tuber) (1.5 liang), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Xixin (Asari Radix) (each 0.5 liang), Yuanzhi (Polygalae Radix), Tianxiong (Aconiti Kusnezoffii Radix), Puhuang (Typhae Pollen), Wuyao (Illicii Fructus) (each 2 fen), Shu Gan Dihuang (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix) (3 liang).

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with refined honey, pound 500-700 times, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills each time on an empty stomach and before evening meal, washed down with warm wine.

Yu Yan San (Jade Tray Powder)

Each treated according to method for Qi deficiency with heat, symptoms resembling tuberculosis.

Formula: Shanyao (Dioscoreae Rhizoma) (7.5 liang), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Guizhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus), Shenqu (Massa Medicata Fermentata), Shu Dihuang (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix), Dadoujuan (Sojae Semen Preparatum) (each 2.5 liang), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Renshen (Ginseng Radix) (each 1.75 liang), Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma) (dosage implied).

Grind the above herbs into a fine powder. Take 3 qian each time before meals, mixed with warm rice water.

Kunbu Jian (Kelp Decoction/Paste)

Treats latent Qi in the chest of women.

Formula: Kunbu (Laminaria Thallus), Haizao (Sargassum Thallus), Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Kuandonghua (Farfarae Flos), Baishiyin (White Beryl), Sangbaipi (Mori Cortex), Guizhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus) (each 2 liang), Baiziren (Biota Seed), Fuling (Poria), Zhongru Fen (Calcitris Powder) (dosage implied), Shengjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens) (dosage implied).

Grind the above herbs into a fine powder, mix with refined honey, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 20 pills each time, washed down with ginger soup, at any time.

Bai E Jian (White Earth Decoction/Paste)

Treats menstrual cycles occurring twice a month or skipping months, varying amounts, continuous dripping, or accompanied by abdominal pain, shortness of breath, inability to eat, and heart pain. Discharge may be green, yellow, black, or watery, with whole-body heaviness.

Formula: Bai E (Kaolin), Baishi Zhi (White Halloysite), Muli (Concha Ostreae), Yuyuliang (Halloysitum Rubrum), Wuyu (Sepiae Endoconcha), Longgu (Fossil Bones), Xixin (Asari Radix), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Baishaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Alba), Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma), Fuling (Poria), Jiang (Ginger), Renshen (Ginseng Radix) (dosages implied).

Grind the above herbs into a fine powder, mix with refined honey, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills each time on an empty stomach, washed down with warm wine.

Xiao Huoxue Dan (Small Blood-Invigorating Pellet)

Treats cold deficiency of the blood organs, sallow complexion, emaciation, chest oppression, stabbing pain in heart and abdomen, vomiting and nausea, dark spots on face, hair loss, dizziness, blurred vision, menstrual irregularities, leg soreness, flank distension and pain, loss of appetite, heat in hands and feet, joint stiffness and fatigue. Treats all blood and Qi deficiency and decline.

Formula: Anshixiang (Styrax), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Yanhusuo (Corydalis Rhizoma), Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix), Taoren (Persicae Semen), Baiziren (Biota Seed) (each 2 liang), Zelan Ye (Lycopus Herba), Mudanpi (Moutan Cortex), Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma), Huangqi (Astragali Radix), Guizhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus) (dosages implied).

Grind the above herbs into a fine powder. First crush Anshixiang, grind with good wine, filter, and slowly boil into a paste in a silver vessel. Add a little white flour, cook into a paste, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds.

Anshixiang Wan (Styrax Pill)

Treats cold deficiency of blood organs, sallow complexion, emaciation, chest oppression, stabbing pain in heart and abdomen, vomiting and nausea, dark complexion, hair loss, dizziness, blurred vision, menstrual irregularities, leg pain, flank distension, loss of appetite, heat in hands and feet, joint soreness, alternating chills and fever without regularity.

Formula: Anshixiang (Styrax), Taoren (Persicae Semen), Huzhang (Polygoni Cuspidati Rhizoma et Radix), Fuzi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata), Duzhong (Eucommiae Cortex), Shanzhuyu (Corni Fructus), Wuzhuyu (Evodiae Fructus), Baiziren (Biota Seed), Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Yanhusuo (Corydalis Rhizoma) (dosages implied).

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with vinegar-cooked flour paste, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 20 pills each time on an empty stomach, washed down with warm wine.

Ze Lan Wan (Ze Lan Pill)

Treats wind-deficiency with cold invasion, borborygmus, headache, alternating chills and fever, menstrual irregularities, periumbilical pain, disharmony of Ying and Wei Qi, inability to move, and postpartum deficiency damage.

Formula: Zelan (Lycopus Herba) (2.1 liang), Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum) (2 liang), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma) (each 1.3 liang), Baiziren (Biota Seed), Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix), Fuling (Poria), Xiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma) (dosages implied).

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with refined honey, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 20 pills each time before meals, washed down with warm wine.

Wan An San (Ten Thousand Peace Powder)

Treats insufficient menstruation, cold Qi attacking, flank distension and pain, hard and full lower abdomen, Qi stagnation, difficulty urinating, and chronic cold in Chong and Ren meridians causing stabbing pain in the umbilicus and abdomen, irregular menstruation, and limb pain and fatigue.

Formula: Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Fuling (Poria), Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix), Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix), Chuanlianzi (Toosendan Fructus), Xiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma), Houpo (Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex), Shenqu (Massa Medicata Fermentata), Maibao (Hordei Fructus Germinatus), Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma), Shu Dihuang (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Zhike (Aurantii Fructus) (dosages implied).

Cut the above herbs into coarse pieces. Take 2 qian each time with one cup of water and two cun of scallion white, decoct to 0.7 cups, filter, and take warm before meals.

Renshen Yuyuliang Wan (Ginseng Yuyuliang Pill)

If menstruation varies in amount, comes early or late, with frequent abdominal pain and lack of luster in complexion, prolonged untreated cases lead to deficiency damage and sterility... (text implies progression). Deficiency of Ren Mai leads to disharmony of Ying and Wei, or Yin overcoming Yang, cold in the uterus causing blood stagnation, hence variable menstruation. One must regulate Yin and Yang and smooth blood and Qi. Discussing symptoms means observing Yin and Yang imbalance to know safety. Excess blood in Yang causes early periods; excess in Yin causes late periods. Variable amounts and metrorrhagia are also due to Yin-Yang decline and cold-heat pathogens.

Formula: Yuyuliang (Halloysitum Rubrum), Longgu (Fossil Bones), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Guizhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus), Zishiqing (Purple Quartz), Chuan Wutou (Aconiti Kusnezoffii Radix), Sangjisheng (Taxilli Caulis), Duzhong (Eucommiae Cortex), Wuweizi (Schisandrae Fructus), Yuanzhi (Polygalae Radix) (each 2 liang), Zexie (Alismatis Rhizoma) (dosage implied).

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with refined honey, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 20 pills each time with rice water, gradually increasing to 30 pills, three times a day, on an empty stomach before meals. If menstrual flow is blocked with cold pain around the umbilicus and deep, tight pulse, this is due to cold invading the blood chamber, coagulating blood, forming masses that do not dissipate. Accumulated blood transmitted by Qi, new blood mixing with old blood... (text implies pain). Like water freezing in winter, one should use Wenjing Tang (Warm the Meridian Decoction) or Guizhi Tao Ren Tang (Cinnamon Twig and Peach Kernel Decoction). Postpartum constipation due to lack of fluids and dry stomach/intestines should be treated with... (text implies specific treatment). (Zisu Wan formula see Large Intestine section, Guizhi Tang see Volume 17).

Mudan Wan (Mudan Pill)

Greatly warms cold and damaged blood sea in women, improving complexion and strength.

Formula: Mudanpi (Moutan Cortex), Baiwei (Cynanchi Atrati Radix), Roudoukou (Myristica Seed), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Shu Dihuang (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix), Yuyuliang (Halloysitum Rubrum), Rongshou (Cistanches Herba), Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix) (each 2 liang), Wuzhuyu (Evodiae Fructus), Xixin (Asari Radix), Duhuo (Angelicae Pubescentis Radix) (dosage implied).

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with refined honey, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills each time on an empty stomach, washed down with warm vinegar soup.

Tugua Gen Wan (Trichosanthes Root Pill)

Treats amenorrhea for six to seven years, or swelling, Qi rebellion, abdominal distension, and mass pain.

Formula: Qilao (Ground Beetle Larva) (1 sheng), Shu Dihuang (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix), Mudan (Moutan Cortex), Ganqi (Dammar Resin), Chishaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Rubra), Niuxi (Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix), Tugua Gen (Trichosanthes Root), Guizhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus) (each 4 liang), Taoren (Persicae Semen), Huangqin (Scutellariae Radix), Muli (Concha Ostreae), Renshen (Ginseng Radix) (dosage implied).

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with refined honey, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 7 pills each time on an empty stomach, washed down with warm wine.

Buyi Ejiao Wan (Supplementing Ejiao Pill)

Treats wind-deficiency consumption in women, excessive menstruation, deficiency of Zang-Fu organs, sallow complexion, emaciated limbs, intermittent abdominal pain, and loss of appetite.

Formula: Ejiao (Colla Corii Asini), Bailonggu (White Fossil Bones), Lurong (Deer Antler), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Baifuling (White Poria), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Houpo (Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex), Shihu (Dendrobii Caulis), Huangqi (Astragali Radix), Shu Gan Dihuang (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix) (each 1 liang).

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with refined honey, pound 300-200 times, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 40 pills each time on an empty stomach and before evening meal, washed down with porridge drink.

Zishiqing Wan (Purple Quartz Pill)

Treats wind-deficiency cold consumption in women, menstrual irregularities, inability to lift limbs, and inability to eat.

Formula: Zishiqing (Purple Quartz), Shu Gan Dihuang (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix), Baishiyin (White Beryl) (each 3 liang), Xuduan (Dipsaci Radix), Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix), Guizhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Baishaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Alba), Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma), Baiwei (Cynanchi Atrati Radix) (dosages implied).

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with refined honey, pound 500-700 times, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills each time before meals, washed down with warm wine.

Matí Wan (Hoof Pill)

Treats metrorrhagia and leukorrhea in women.

(Revised edition notes Matí Wan's Xiaosugen is likely Xiaojigen [Cirsii Herba], possibly a transcription error.)

Formula: Bama Ti (White Horse Hoof) (5 liang), Bama Mao (White Horse Hair), Puhuang (Typhae Pollen), Lurong (Deer Antler), Yuyuliang (Halloysitum Rubrum), Baizhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix), Xuduan (Dipsaci Radix), Xiaosugen (Cirsii Herba) (each 4 liang), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma) (dosages implied).

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with refined honey, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 20 pills each time on an empty stomach with rice water, gradually increasing to 40 pills daily.

Shengjin Wan San (Victorious Gold Pill Powder)

Treats various gynecological diseases, mutually reinforcing. For prolonged bleeding, missed periods, and infertility, common in recent years, do not worry too much. Some stop bleeding and conceive after taking medicine, recovering naturally. This is due to wind-pathogen stagnation in Chong and Ren meridians before conception, or entering from below after childbirth or during menstruation when using the toilet. Simply taking this Shengjin Wan San will be effective, proven many times.

Formula: Baiwei (Cynanchi Atrati Radix) (0.5 liang), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Bencao (Ligustici Rhizoma), Puhuang (Typhae Pollen), Chuan Wutou (Aconiti Kusnezoffii Radix), Danshen (Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix) (each 3 fen), Wuzhuyu (Evodiae Fructus), Baiziren (Biota Seed), Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix), Houpo (Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex) (dosage implied), Zelan (Lycopus Herba) (dosage implied).

Pound all herbs except Guixin (Cinnamomi Ramulus) together, sieve through a horse-hair mesh into coarse powder, roast again until brown but not burnt, cool, then grind into fine powder. Mix with Guixin powder evenly, then divide into two... (text implies division). Pills as follows: Yanhusuo (Corydalis Rhizoma), Wuweizi (Schisandrae Fructus), Baizhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Shichangpu (Acori Tatarinowii Rhizoma) (each 3 fen), Fuling (Poria), Jiegeng (Platycodonis Radix), Juanbai (Polypodi Rhizoma et Rhizoma), Chuanjiao (Sichuan Pepper) (each 1 liang), Huangqi (Astragali Radix) (dosage implied).

All except Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum) are pounded together, sieved into coarse powder, roasted until brown, cooled, ground into fine powder, mixed with Shigao evenly, and divided into two... (text implies division). Pills usually, no powder. Cold cough, heart blood, child... (text implies indications).

Sang'er San (Mulch Ear Powder)

Treats red and white leukorrhea in women, regardless of duration.

Formula: Sang'er (Fomes Officinalis), Shu Gan Dihuang (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix), Danshen (Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix), Ejiao (Colla Corii Asini), Niujiao (Buffalo Horn), Muli (Concha Ostreae), Lurong (Deer Antler), Biejia (Carapax Testudinis), Chishizhi (Halloysitum Rubrum), Xieye (Allii Macrostemonis Bulbus) (each 1 liang), Xiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma) (dosage implied).

Grind the above herbs into a fine powder. Take 2 qian each time before meals, mixed with warm wine.

Huai'er Wan (Acorn Gall Pill)

Treats white metrorrhagia and hemorrhoids involving blood organs in women who have not healed with other medicines.

Formula: Huai'er (Quercus Infectoria), Bailian (Pseudostellariae Radix), Aiye (Artemisiae Argyi Folium), Puhuang (Typhae Pollen), Baizhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix) (each 1 liang), Huangqi (Astragali Radix), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Xuduan (Dipsaci Radix), Yuyuliang (Halloysitum Rubrum), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Juapi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium), Fuling (Poria) (dosages implied).

Grind the above herbs into a fine powder, mix with wine-cooked flour paste, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 20 pills each time on an empty stomach with wine, twice a day.

Gujin Luyan Ze Lan Wan (Ancient and Modern Recorded Ze Lan Pill)

Effective formula for postpartum wind-deficiency emaciation and hundred diseases.

Formula: Zelan (Lycopus Herba) (6 fen), Baizhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix), Chuanjiao (Sichuan Pepper), Wuyi (Chenopodii Semen), Bencao (Ligustici Rhizoma), Xixin (Asari Radix) (each 4 fen), Baiziren (Biota Seed), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Guizhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus), Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix), Houpo (Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex), Danshen (Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix) (each 5 fen), Xiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) (each 7 fen), Gan Dihuang (Dry Rehmanniae Radix) (10 fen).

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with refined honey, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 20-30 pills each time on an empty stomach, washed down with vinegar soup.

Jingjie Chaihu San (Schizonepeta and Bupleurum Powder)

Treats Qi deficiency in virgins, blood sea irregularity, occasional chills and fever, dry eyes and tongue, body fatigue, palpitations, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, red and painful urination, gradual emaciation, sallow complexion turning into consumption. Suitable for this.

Formula: Biejia (Carapax Testudinis), Chaihu (Bupleuri Radix), Jingjie Sui (Schizonepetae Spica), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Mian Huangqi (Astragali Radix), Yanhusuo (Corydalis Rhizoma) (each 1 liang), Chishaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Rubra), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Shu Gan Dihuang (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix) (dosages implied).

Grind the above herbs into a fine powder. Take 1 qian each time with one cup of water and three slices of ginger, decoct to 0.7 cups, filter, and take warm. One dose at noon and one before bed. This disease should not be treated with purgatives or hot acupuncture needles... (text implies contraindications).

Renshen San (Ginseng Powder)

Treats wind-deficiency attacking the head causing dizziness and blurred vision, weak limbs, trembling hands and feet, muscle wasting, chest oppression, organ disharmony, resembling consumption with seasonal chills and fever, bitter taste, dry tongue, palpitations, shortness of breath, cough, asthma, fright, sleepiness, lethargy, vomiting phlegm, loss of appetite, abdominal... (text implies distension). All can be treated, suitable for all ages. Regular use generates muscle, invigorates blood vessels, removes hundred diseases, and improves appetite.

Formula: Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Maimendong (Ophiopogonis Tuber) (each 3 fen), Chenxiang (Aquilaria Wood), Jiegeng (Platycodonis Radix), Biejia (Carapax Testudinis), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Sheng Gan Dihuang (Raw Prepared Rehmanniae Radix), Xiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma) (each 0.5 liang), Chi Fuling (Red Poria) (dosage implied).

Grind the above herbs into a fine powder. Take 2 qian each time with one cup of water, decoct to 0.7 cups, filter, and take warm before meals.

Neibu Huangqi Tang (Internal Tonification Huangqi Decoction)

Treats five labors and seven injuries in women, body pain, lower abdominal urgency and fullness, sallow and black complexion, inability to eat, and all deficiencies, shortness of Qi, palpitations... (text implies symptoms).

Formula: Huangqi (Astragali Radix), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix), Gan Dihuang (Dry Rehmanniae Radix), Banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma) (each 3 liang), Fuling (Poria), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Guizhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus), Yuanzhi (Polygalae Radix), Maimendong (Ophiopogonis Tuber), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Zexie (Alismatis Rhizoma) (dosages implied).

Chop the above herbs, add 1.5 dou of water, decoct to 3 sheng, filter. Take 5 he each time, three times a day and once at night.

Renshen Jingjie San (Ginseng and Schizonepeta Powder)

Treats blood-wind consumption Qi, chest obstruction, stagnant meridians, limb stiffness and painful spasms, frequent palpitations, inability to eat, gradual emaciation... (text implies symptoms).

Formula: Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Jingjie (Schizonepetae Spica), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Chaihu (Bupleuri Radix), Sheng Dihuang (Rehmanniae Radix), Suanzaoren (Ziziphi Spinosae Semen), Lingyangjiao (Saiga Tataricae Cornu), Biejia (Carapax Testudinis), Zhike (Aurantii Fructus), Guizhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus) (each 1.5 liang), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) (dosage implied).

Cut the above herbs into coarse pieces. Take two large qian each time with one cup of water and three slices of ginger, decoct to 0.6 cups, filter, and take after meals.

Baosheng Dan (Protect Life Pellet)

Tonifies palace Qi deficiency, emaciated and fatigued limbs.

Formula: Shihu (Dendrobii Caulis), Qinjiao (Gentianae Macrophyllae Radix), Shu Dihuang (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix), Beimu (Fritillariae Cirrhosae Bulbus), Nuomi (Glutinous Rice), Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix), Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma), Xixin (Asari Radix), Guizhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus) (each 0.5 liang), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Chuanjiao (Sichuan Pepper) (dosage implied).

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with refined honey, and make pills the size of a bullet. Take one pill each time with plain water or wine. Chew finely, take before meals.

Zhongru Ze Lan Jian (Calcitris and Ze Lan Decoction/Paste)

Tonifies deficiency damage.

Formula: Zhongru Fen (Calcitris Powder) (2 liang), Zelan Ye (Lycopus Herba) (2.25 liang), Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix) (1.3 liang), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Baiziren (Biota Seed), Maimendong (Ophiopogonis Tuber), Shu Gan Dihuang (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix) (dosages implied).

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with refined honey, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills each time before meals, washed down with warm wine.

Qianghuo San (Notopterygium Powder)

Treats blood-wind deficiency cold consumption in women, emaciated limbs, inability to eat, sallow complexion, intermittent abdominal pain.

Formula: Qianghuo (Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix), Taoren (Persicae Semen), Biejia (Carapax Testudinis), Shu Gan Dihuang (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix), Niuxi (Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix) (each 1 liang), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Baifuling (White Poria), Xuduan (Dipsaci Radix), Chuanxiong (Chuanxiong Rhizoma), Fuzi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata), Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix) (dosages implied).

Cut the above herbs into coarse pieces. Take 4 qian each time with one cup of water and half a slice of ginger, decoct to 0.6 cups, take warm, filter, at any time.

Buyin Dan (Tonify Yin Pellet)

Treats various diseases of blood organs, stranguria, amenorrhea, or residual blood after childbirth forming blood masses. All are treated.

Formula: Hao Zhusha (High-quality Cinnabar), Sha... (text implies mineral), Yanhusuo (Corydalis Rhizoma), Banxia Qu (Pinelliae Fermented Rhizoma), Yuanhua (Genkwa Flos), Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix), Banmao (Mylabris) (each 0.5 liang), Hai Ge (Clam Shell), Jingsanleng (Sparganii Rhizoma), Hei Fuzi (Black Prepared Aconite), Peng... (text implies herb) (dosages implied).

Grind the above herbs into a powder, mix with wine-cooked flour paste, and make pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 5-7 pills each time on an empty stomach, washed down with warm vinegar soup.

Mudan San (Mudan Powder)

Treats wind attacking head and eyes due to blood organ deficiency, desire to eat, heat in hands and feet, joint stiffness and pain, chest obstruction, large intestine irregularity, Yin-Yang... (text implies imbalance), palpitations, occasional dizziness, body fatigue. Suitable for this.