Zhu Sha an Shen Wan is indicated for insufficient yin-blood caused by the hyperactivity of heart fire. The symptoms are insomnia, profuse dreaming, (severe) palpitations, restlessness, and vexation. The tongue tip is red, and the pulse is thin and rapid.

Bai He Gu Jin Tang is indicated for a pattern of lung-kidney yin deficiency with deficiency fire flaming upward. The symptoms are coughing, labored breathing, blood in the sputum, dry and sore throat, dizziness and blurred vision, afternoon tidal fever. The tongue is red with scanty coating, and the pulse is thready and rapid.

Cold damage, warm disease, summerheat disease with residual heat, and damage of both qi and fluid. The signs include body fever, profuse sweating, chest distress and restlessness, nausea, dry mouth and polydipsia, low spirits and weak breathing, dry throat and lips, poor appetite, cough and choking, insomnia, a red tongue with little coating, and a weak and rapid pulse.

Zhi Bao Dan is indicated for phlegm-heat blocking the pericardium. The symptoms are unconsciousness, delirium, high fever, vexation, agitation, excessive phlegm, and panting. The tongue is red with a yellow, greasy coating and a slippery, rapid pulse. Zhi Bao Dan is also indicated for wind-strike, summerheat-strike, infantile syncope, and convulsions caused by internal phlegm-heat blockage.