Prescriptions that are mainly composed of drugs pungent in flavor and disperse in nature for dispelling exogenous wind or subduing endogenous wind to relieve convulsion and used for syndromes due to wind are known as prescriptions for treating wind syndrome.

Wind syndrome refers to those caused by pathogenic wind. Since pathogenic wind includes exogenous wind and endogenous wind, this group of prescriptions is subdivided correspondingly into prescriptions for dispelling exogenous wind and those for subduing endogenous wind.

The former is mainly made up of pungent and disperse drugs with the effect of dispelling pathogenic wind and used for treating diseases as the result of attack of muscles, meridians and collaterals, tendons and joints by exogenous wind. The latter, however, consists chiefly of drugs with the action of checking liver-yang to stop endogenous wind and is applied to diseases caused by liver-wind stirring inside the body.

In the application of this group of prescriptions, first of all, it is essential to differentiate between exogenous and endogenous wind, between cold and heat syndrome as well as between deficiency and excess syndrome. Exogenous wind should be dispelled and endogenous wind subdued. If wind is complicated with pathogenic cold, heat, dampness or phlegm, it is necessary to adopt the method of expelling cold, clearing away heat, inducing diuresis or eliminating phlegm simultaneously. In addition, in case of exogenous wind concomitant with endogenous wind, it is necessary to differentiate the primary from the secondary syndrome. In doing so, prescriptions are formed rationally.