许学士说：有一个人完全不想吃东西，用补脾的方法治疗没有效果，后来服用二神丹，吃完后立刻就能进食了，这就是“补母法”的道理。黄曾直直接用菟丝子淘洗干净后用酒浸泡，每天挑几匙，用酒送服。十几天后，饮食像雪遇热汤一样迅速消化吸收，也是这个道理。（出自《治法汇》。）
张三锡治疗一个人，夏天吃了太多的羊肉，导致口渴烦躁，自认为是中暑，便用凉水调服益元散，结果烦躁更加严重。诊脉时，脉象虽然滑利，但按之无力（不鼓指），于是随即用盐汤催吐，吐出约一碗的生肉。随后使用二陈汤加入草果、肉桂、厚朴、山楂进行调理，患者得以安宁。如果误用凉药当作暑证来治疗，病人会立刻死亡。
还有一个人饮茶过量，且心中多有愤懑不平，腹中常常发出漉漉的水声。秋天出现寒热交替，症状类似疟疾，用十枣汤的药材配料，用黑豆煮干后晒干研成粉末，再用枣肉和丸做成如芥菜籽大小的药丸……
Xu Xueshi stated: There was a patient who had absolutely no appetite. Treatment aimed at tonifying the spleen was ineffective. After administering Ershen Dan (Two Divine Pills), the patient immediately regained their ability to eat. This exemplifies the method of "tonifying the mother" (strengthening the source organ to benefit the affected organ). Huang Zengzhi directly used Cuscutae Semen (Dodder Seed, 菟丝子) that had been thoroughly washed and soaked in wine. The patient took several spoonfuls daily, swallowing them with wine. After more than ten days, food intake and digestion became as rapid as snow melting in hot water, illustrating the same principle. (From *Zhifa Hui*.)
Zhang Sanxi treated a patient who had consumed excessive mutton during summer, resulting in thirst and irritability. The patient believed they had contracted heatstroke and used cool water to mix and ingest Yiyuan San (Benefit Origin Powder), which exacerbated the irritability. Upon pulse diagnosis, although the pulse was slippery, it lacked force upon pressure (did not drum against the finger). Consequently, salt water was administered to induce vomiting, yielding approximately one bowl of raw meat. Subsequently, the patient was regulated and stabilized using Erchen Tang (Two Aged Decoction) modified with Caoguo (Black Cardamom Fruit, 草果), Rougui (Cinnamon Bark, 肉桂), Houpo (Magnolia Bark, 浓朴/厚朴), and Shanzha (Hawthorn Fruit, 山楂). Had cooling herbs been mistakenly used to treat this as heatstroke, death would have ensued immediately.
Another individual drank excessive tea and harbored much resentment. Their abdomen frequently produced gurgling sounds. In autumn, they experienced alternating chills and fever resembling malaria. They were prescribed ingredients from Shizao Tang (Ten Jujube Decoction); these were boiled with Vigna angularis var. angularis (Adzuki Bean, 黑豆), dried, ground into powder, and formed into pills the size of mustard seeds using jujube flesh...