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In general, postpartile dizziness and oppression manifest in four types: first, dizziness and oppression due to extreme deficiency caused by excessive blood loss (suitable for taking Yangrou Tang [Mutton Decoction] combined with Heishen San [Black Divine Powder]); second, when blood loss is scanty but blood rebels upward to the Heart, also causing dizziness and oppression; third, dizziness and oppression occurring upon exploiting deficiency (using ... medicines); fourth, Heart Qi deficiency leading to ... (using Huang San, Zhibao Dan, Tao Nu Wan).

Immediately after delivery, administer Heishen San [Black Divine Powder], mixed with two qian of urine from a young boy. If no other symptoms appear within three days, only this medicine needs to be taken. Within one day, it may be taken only once. If there is ... in the abdomen ... like big ... cut ... completely extreme ... pulse floating ... pill person ... again ...

When postpartum blood rushes upward to the Heart, causing irritability, oppression, confusion, delirious speech, and false talk, while lochia does not discharge (it is suitable to take this E San [Earth White Powder]).

All diseases of deficiency consumption arise from excessive emotional desire, leading to labor and injury of Ying and Wei [Defensive and Nutritive Qi], resulting in emptiness of all vessels, decline and damage of the Five Zang Organs, and invasion of pathogenic qi, thereby generating myriad diseases. The sages necessarily rely on medicinal herbs and stones to supplement... substances to... winter's... deficiency... distress all...

Ancient discussions on diseases often employed analogy and categorization to make them easy to understand. For instance, describing the sparse and scattered nature of Zang-Fu organs as resembling duck feces or... loose stools (wild ducks are called...), stating they live in water and their feces are often loose... capable of running wild... chicken hemorrhoids refer to the urge to defecate... wild wolf thus its source... earthworm larva thus its source...

The onset of Huoluan [Cholera-like disorder] is all due to improper living conditions, unregulated diet, sleeping exposed on damp ground, seeking pleasure against the wind, imbalance of warmth and coolness, conflict between clear and turbid Qi, and cold-wind Qi... returning to... Huo... Fang Yun...

Classics and treatises state that accumulation of Qi in the Five Zang Organs occurs because during the prosperous phase of each Zang, it does not accept transmitted pathogenic Qi. For example, Lung disease transmits to the Liver, the Liver transmits to the Spleen; the Spleen is prosperous in late summer, prosperity means it does not accept pathogenic Qi... the Liver rebounds... hypochondrium... into... causing people... chills and fever... not healing... death if...

The disease of Pi [Mass] is largely similar but slightly different. ... near the umbilicus left and right forming a strip shape, large ones like an arm, smaller ones like a string. Pi is located between the two hypochondria, sometimes painful... these all...

Although the appearance of Zheng [Fixed Mass] and Jia [Moving Mass] is similar, those that do not move are named Zheng; those whose treatment has methods and can be shifted/eliminated are named Jia. Jia disease is lighter than Zheng. If Jia does not move, it is a sign of certain death. Its onset... voice... Jia also.

The Heart stores Shen [Spirit]; the Heart is the master of the body. When the main meridian of the Heart is attacked by Wind-Pathogen, it is named Zhenxintong [True Heart Pain]. If it occurs in the morning, death comes in the evening; if in the evening, death comes in the morning. The Heart Pericardium Meridian is the branch meridian of the Heart... for... pain drawing... one insect... thus causing... sinking then...