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Treats wind-cold pathogenic factors accumulating in the heart and abdomen, cold masses (cold accumulations) in the hypochondrium, cough with counterflow qi, asthma, panting, and cold phlegm; also treats stubborn cold pain, weak sinews and bones with lack of strength, soreness and pain in all joints, deficiency consumptive disease, damage, and deterioration of Yin.

Dai Zhe Shi (Hematite, one jin), Bi Bo (Long Pepper), Hu Jiao (Black Pepper), Fu Zi (Prepared Aconite Root, two liang each).

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Use wine to cook wheat paste to bind them into pills the size of soap beans. Take two pills on an empty stomach with rice water.

Treats vomiting, abdominal distension and hardness, reduced appetite due to Stomach Qi deficiency, and internal wind generated from deficiency.

Nong Po (Magnolia Bark, half liang), Tian Nan Xing (Arisaema Rhizome, three fen), Bai Zhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome), Ren Shen (Ginseng Root), Gan Xie (Dried Scorpion, half fen each).

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Take one qian per dose. Add one zhan of water, two slices of fresh ginger, and one jujube. Decoct together until half a zhan remains. Take warm before meals.

Treats Spleen and Stomach weakness, slippery intestines and bowels, abdominal and hypochondriac distension and fullness, umbilical and abdominal pain, indigestion of food and drink, borborygmus in the abdomen, chest fullness, counterflow qi, vomiting, nausea, tenesmus, and urgency affecting the heart and chest.

He Zi Pi (Terminalia Chebula Pericarpium, forty liang), Guan Gui (Cinnamon Twig, five jin), Qing Pi (Green Citrus Peel, forty liang), Fu Zi (Prepared Aconite Root, ten liang), Rou Dou Kou (Nutmeg Kernel, forty liang).

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Take three qian per dose. Add one zhan of water and three slices of fresh ginger. Decoct together until seven tenths remain. Strain and take warm on an empty stomach or before meals.

Warms the Spleen and Stomach, smooths the San Jiao (Triple Burner), treats congealed cold phlegm causing obstruction and blockage, vomiting immediately after eating, choking and stuffiness in the throat and diaphragm, stabbing pain in both hypochondria, vomiting, hiccups, belching, nausea, chest fullness, and shortness of breath.

Liang Jiang (Galangal Rhizome, four jin), Gan Cao (Licorice Root, one jin and half), Gan Jiang (Dried Ginger, two jin and four liang), Bai Zhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome, two jin and four liang), Gui (Cinnamon Twig, one jin and twelve liang).

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Mix with refined honey to form pills. Each liang of powder makes twenty pills. Take one pill per dose, chew thoroughly, and swallow with a decoction of fresh ginger and tangerine peel, or rice water is also acceptable. Take on an empty stomach or before meals.

Treats inability to eat due to Spleen and Stomach weakness, fatigue and lack of strength, middle-jiao distension and stuffiness, palpitations, asthma, vomiting, diarrhea, as well as cough and belching caused by Shang Han (Cold Damage). This medicine is neutral and not hot; long-term use nourishes Qi.

Ren Shen (Ginseng Root), Bai Fu Ling (Poria, Poria Cocos), Bai Zhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome), Gan Cao (Licorice Root), Shan Yao (Chinese Yam Rhizome, two jin each); Bai Bian Dou (White Hyacinth Bean), Suo Sha Ren (Amomum Fruit), Jie Geng (Platycodon Root), Lian Zi Rou (Lotus Seed Flesh), Yi Yi Ren (Coix Seed) [quantity missing in original text].

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Take two qian per dose, taken with a decoction of jujubes. For children, adjust the dosage according to age.