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If pain persists without relief, it is more severe than ordinary cold. When cold pathogen lingers and does not depart, clashing with healthy qi, if the pulse is tight and wiry, it is termed deficiency-cold (Xu Han); if the pulse is deep, tight, and forceful, it is termed accumulated-cold (Ji Han). For deficiency-cold, warming methods should be employed.

Danggui Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Renshen Ginseng Radix, Ganjiang Dried Zingiberis Rhizoma, Baizhu Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma, Houpo Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex, Guizhi Cinnamomi Ramulus (each 2 liang), Jiegeng Platycodonis Radix, Shaoyao Paeoniae Radix (each 1 liang), Fuzi Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata, Gancao Glycyrrhizae Radix, Muxiang Aucklandiae Radix.
Crush the above herbs into coarse powder. Take 5 qian per dose, add 2 zhan of water, decoct until 1 zhan remains, remove dregs, and take warm.

Treat cold cough.
Tianmendong Asparagi Radix (2.5 liang), Shujiao Sichuan Pepper Fruit, Wutou Aconiti Radix, Ganjiang Dried Zingiberis Rhizoma, Renshen Ginseng Radix (each 2 liang), Guizhi Cinnamomi Ramulus (1.5 liang), Wugong Scolopendra.
Grind the above herbs into fine powder. Mix with refined honey to make pills the size of a chicken head. Contain one pill in the mouth for dissolution per dose. Take after meals and before sleep, totaling ten pills day and night, stopping when warmth is felt in the chest.

Treat cough with reverse flow of qi due to lung qi deficiency, characterized by reverse flow of qi in the heart and chest, stifling sensation in the throat, coughing with shortness of breath, cold rising from the back, occasional pain, dry retching, irritability, hearing wind and rain sounds, and facial edema.
Maimendong Ophiopogonis Radix (4 liang), Wuweizi Schisandrae Fructus (3 liang), Ziwan Asteris Radix, Ganjiang Dried Zingiberis Rhizoma, Kudong Flower Dendrobii (each 2 liang), Baishiying Halloysitum Rubrum (2.1 liang), Sangbaipi Mori Cortex.
Crush the above herbs into coarse powder. Take 4 qian per dose, add 2 zhan of water, include 20 leaves of bamboo sap (Zhuru) and 5 jujubes, decoct together until 7/10 remains, remove dregs, and take warm before meals.

Treat chronic or recent onset cough.
Beimu Fritillariae Bulbus, Zhimu Anemarrhenae Rhizoma, Bubu Stemona Radix, Ejiao Donkey-hide Gelatin, Gancao Glycyrrhizae Radix, Mahuang Ephedrae Herba, Xingren Armeniacae Semen Amarum, Renshen Ginseng Radix, Fulings Poria, Banxia Curcumae Rhizoma Fermentatum.
Sift the above herbs equally into fine powder. Take 2 qian per dose, add 1 zhan of water, add Dahuang Rheum Radix et Rhizoma and a piece of wax the size of a soap cake, decoct together until 8/10 remains, and take orally.

Nourish lung qi.
Ejiao Donkey-hide Gelatin, Renshen Ginseng Radix, Fulings Poria, Baihe Lilii Bulbus, Beimu Fritillariae Bulbus, Jiegeng Platycodonis Radix, Wuweizi Schisandrae Fructus, Shanyao Dioscoreae Rhizoma (each 1 liang), Gancao Glycyrrhizae Radix (0.5 liang), Banxia Pinelliae Rhizoma (0.1 fen).
Grind the above herbs into fine powder. Mix with refined honey to make pills the size of a bullet. Take one pill per dose, add 1 zhan of water and 3 slices of fresh ginger, decoct until 7/10 remains, mix with dregs, and take warm before meals.

Treat cough with excessive phlegm, painful and fatigued limbs, aversion to cold, fever, vomiting, nausea, nasal congestion with clear discharge, dry throat, and wheezing/fullness due to lung qi deficiency and external invasion of cold pathogen.
Wuweizi Schisandrae Fructus, Shaoyao Paeoniae Radix (each 1 liang), Banxia Pinelliae Rhizoma, Xixin Asari Radix et Rhizoma, Ziwan Asteris Radix, Xingren Armeniacae Semen Amarum, Guizhi Cinnamomi Ramulus (each 0.3 fen), Gancao Glycyrrhizae Radix (0.1 fen), Renshen Ginseng Radix (0.5 liang).
Crush the above herbs into coarse powder. Take 2 qian per dose, add 1 zhan of water and 3 slices of fresh ginger, decoct until 6/10 remains, remove dregs, and take warm. Take at any time.