Jiang Shangbin's wife, aged 62. In the severe winter, kidney yang was weak and unable to resist the cold, leading to deep cold penetrating the bone marrow. Symptoms included headache, lower back pain, body fever, severe aversion to cold, and despite wearing thick clothes and heavy blankets, the cold did not diminish. The tongue coating was black and moist. The six pulse conditions were deep, thin, and tight. This is what the ancients called "kidney cold-damage disease." As stated in the "Cold-Damage Disease Treatise," "heat is in the skin, cold is in the bone marrow." It is appropriate to use Ephedra, Asarum, and Aconite Decoction to warm and purge, dispersing the cold.
Raw Ephedra 3g, prepared common monkshood daughter root 3g, Northern Asarum 2.2g
One dose caused sweating down to the feet, and all symptoms were immediately cured. The ancient medical sage Zhongjing created this formula to treat "shaoyin disease, initially presenting with fever and a deep pulse." I have repeatedly treated similar pulse conditions, and without this formula, the condition could not be cured. Hence, I have elaborated on it here.