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Treating cold fatigue with withered qi and blood, emaciated flesh, tooth loss, and extreme fatigue with faint speech.

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1. Wu He-gao said: Dai Yuanli once remarked that all cooling medicines are stagnant, only Coptis Rhizome is cold but not stagnant; all heating medicines are dry, only Sulfur is hot but not dry. In the past, an official from Renhe who suffered from premature aging took it and lived to the age of ninety. Others, such as Fan Wenzheng's Golden Elixir Pill, the effective Jade True Pill, the Harmony Formula's Returning to Life Pill, Pineilia and Sulfur Pill, Efficacious Sand Pill, the Hundred Choices' Two Qi Pill, the Life-Saving Return Yang Pill, and Yang's Purple Mist Pill, all used it, but each was appropriate for different conditions.
2. Ang noted: There are cases of true yang deficiency and decline that cannot be supplemented by cinnamon and aconite, and only Sulfur can supplement them. Nowadays, people consider it a dryness toxin and avoid using it in cases of decline, not realizing that although Sulfur is dry, it is also dispersing and beneficial, unlike other drying and astringent substances. Materia medica calls it a miraculous medicine for rescuing the critically ill, and Taoists use it for taking medicine, revering it as the Golden Elixir Pill. It is indeed something that people can take regularly. Moreover, niter and sulfur, one yin and one yang, are actually similar substances. Nowadays, people only know to use Mirabilite but dare not use Sulfur, which shows how far modern people fall short of the ancients.

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1. Golden Liquid Pill: Sulfur ten taels, ground into powder, placed in a porcelain basin with water, sealed with red halloysite, and secured with salt mud. After drying in the sun, bury a small jar filled with water in the ground, place the basin inside, and seal it with mud. Use a slow fire to nourish for seven days and nights, then add a pound of top fire to calcine. After taking it out, grind it into powder, form into steamed cake pills, and take with rice water. It treats chronic cold and congealed cold, overwork and deficiency damage, cold-damage disease yin pattern, and infantile chronic convulsions.
2. Jade True Pill: Raw Sulfur two taels, raw Niter, Gypsum, Pinellia, each one tael, form into ginger juice flour and water paste pills, take with ginger soup or rice water, forty pills each time, treats kidney syncope headache.
3. Returning Pill: Taiyin Essence Stone, imported Sulfur, Niter, each one tael. [Niter and Sulfur are slightly fried together, not too hot, stirred with willow sticks to form granules.] Trogopterus Dung [remove sand and stones], green tangerine peel, Dried Tangerine Peel, each one tael, form into vinegar flour and water paste pills, take with rice water, treats latent summerheat diarrhea, body heat and weak pulse. [Yu Ji Wei Yi says: Niter is cold in nature, assisted by Dried Tangerine Peel, which is dispersing and quick, Sulfur can benefit people, if used as a warming medicine to stop diarrhea, it is a mistake. This is due to eating raw and cold food, or summerheat injury heat, middle burner knotting, sudden turmoil, this medicine clears and benefits the triple energizer, regulates yin-yang, taking it is very effective, but if due to summer fire dampness-heat, do not use.]
4. Pinellia and Sulfur Pill: Pinellia, Sulfur, equal parts, Fresh Ginger Rhizome flour and water paste pills, treats elderly constipation of deficiency type cold constipation.
5. Efficacious Sand Pill: Mercury three taels, Sulfur one tael, refined and ground into powder, sticky rice flour and water paste pills, treats various deficiencies and congealed cold.
6. Two Qi Pill: Niter, Sulfur equal parts ground into powder, fried in a stone vessel into granules, then ground into sticky rice flour and water paste pills, the size of a wutong seed, take forty pills each time with well water, treats latent summerheat injury cold, two yin qi and yang qi meeting together disorder, middle gastric stuffiness knotting, or vomiting or diarrhea, cholera reversal cold of limbs.
7. Yin-Recovering Pill: Treats yin toxin cold-damage disease, heart spirit dysphoria, reversal cold of limbs, Sulfur five taels, Niter, Taiyin Essence Stone, each one tael. Aconite Lateral Root [processed], Dried Ginger [processed], Cassia Central Bark each five qian, first spread half of the Taiyin Essence powder in an iron pot, then spread half of the Niter powder, place the Sulfur powder in the middle, then cover with the other half of Niter, cover the Sulfur with the remaining Taiyin Essence powder, cover with a small cup, burn with three catties of charcoal, let it burn appropriately, do not let smoke escape, grind into powder and mix with the previous medicine powder to form pills, the size of a wutong seed, take fifteen to twenty pills each time with mugwort soup, until sweating occurs.
8. Benshi Fang‧Breaking Yin Pill: Treats yin hidden within yang, dysphoria, six pulse conditions sinking and hidden, Sulfur, Mercury, each one tael, Dried Tangerine Peel, green tangerine peel, each five qian, first melt Sulfur in a pot, then add Mercury, stir with an iron rod until no stars are seen, grind finely into flour and water paste pills, take thirty pills each time, if dysphoria, take with cold salt water, if yin pattern, take with mugwort soup.
9. Cold-Damage Disease Hundred Questions Formula: Sulfur five qian, take with mugwort soup, treats body cold and faint pulse, reversal and dysphoria, lie down and sweat to recover.
10. Black Tin Pill: Black lead, Sulfur, each two taels, melt the tin, gradually add Sulfur, wait until it forms into sheets, pour onto the ground to remove fire toxin, grind until no sound is heard, treats yin-yang not ascending and descending, upper excess and lower deficiency, head dizzy vision.