Earthworm Dung Cake

Inner Calming and Heart-Clearing Powder，From *Secretly Transmitted Formulas for Surgical Conditions*.，For malignant sores with intense heat, burning pain, thirst, and restlessness. When appearing on the chest, it is called “well abscess” (jingju); it appears bean-sized and develops within 3–4 days.

Four-Yellow Decoction，*Xingyuan*, Volume 8.，Qi deficiency fails to contain damp-heat, causing it to flow down into the large intestine and produce heat symptoms.

Soft-Shelled Turtle Shell and Dried Lacquer Powder，Appendix to *Introduction to Obstetrics*.，For women with blood masses (xie) and masses (zhi).

Cinnamon Twig and Cistanche Decoction，From *Si Sheng Xin Yuan*, Volume 6.，For dysentery caused by dampness sinking into the liver and spleen, with stagnation and putrefaction of fat and blood.

White Frost Pills，From *The New Book on the Care of Infants* (Vol. 10), citing *The Ji Family’s Inherited Formulas*.，

Military All-Purpose Ointment，Formula by Xu Bangdao, cited in *The Great Dictionary of Chinese Medicine*.，For contusions and injuries, as well as all types of unknown malignant conditions, scrofula, abscesses, phlegm nodules, blood stasis, qi stagnation, and conditions caused by wind, cold, and dampness.

Eye-Penetrating Ointment，Quoted from *Experienced Universal Relief with Modifications* in *The Great Compendium of the Yongle Era*, Vol. 11412.，For opacities and redness within the eye, accompanied by pain and a sensation of dryness and irritation.

Xianluo Ointment，*Eight Notes on Nurturing Life*, Volume 18.，For hemorrhoids with fistulas and internal toxins causing fluid discharge from 3–5 openings.

Pearl and Cowhage Throat Powder，Volume 1 of the *Chinese Pharmacopoeia*.，Swelling, pain, and erosion of the throat, mouth, and tongue.

Great Sage Black Spirit Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 7.，For paralysis and all types of wind disorders.

Radish Porridge，From *Essentials of Diet and Nutrition*, Volume 2.，For diabetes, characterized by a parched tongue, dry mouth, and frequent urination.

Coix Root Decoction，*Compendium of Divine Remedies*, Volume 84.，Early-stage beriberi.

Spleen-Reviving Decoction，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 51.，Chronic convulsions caused by qi deficiency complicated by phlegm; mild cases of yin-type epilepsy, characterized by cold and numb hands and feet, lying supine with muscle rigidity, a pale-blue complexion, spitting of phlegm-foam, a faint voice, and a deep, fine pulse.

Cockcrow Elixir of Immortality，From *Collection of National Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Hohhot Formula).，For parasitic infestations.

Boiled and Powdered Amomum Seed，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 45.，Cold qi in the spleen, alternating intestinal rumbling, and loss of appetite.

Decoction for Clearing Internal Heat and Eliminating Toxins，From *Zhun Sheng: Pediatrics*, Volume 3.，For pediatric sores and abscesses characterized by swelling, hardness, deep pain, and difficult bowel movements, with a deep and full pulse, indicating an internal syndrome.

Immediate Hemoptysis-Stopping Powder，From *Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Auspicious People*.，Hemoptysis.

Drum Flower Powder，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 25.，

Lung-Clearing and Yin-Nourishing Decoction，*Essentials of the Collection of Discussions on Syndromes, Causes, and Formulas*, Volume 1.，Lung yin deficiency with internal heat.

Scallion Root, Kudzu, and Fermented Soybean Porridge，*Wai Tai*, Volume 37.，For those who, after taking mineral remedies, experience stiffness in the tendons of the limbs, heaviness in the spine, or a headache as if being pricked, with a sensation that the eyes are about to pop out.

Toli Disinfection Powder，From *Chen’s Treatise on Formulas for Smallpox and Measles in Children*.，For cases of smallpox, boils, abscesses, skin ulcers, and epidemic toxins characterized by deficiency of qi and blood, as well as cases of “big-head plague.”

Chen Gan Powder，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，Sudden vomiting of blood.

Burn Lotion，From *Compendium of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulations*, citing *Barefoot Doctors*.，For scalds and burns.

Longevity and Vitality-Preserving Pills，*Essentials for Childbirth and Lactation*.，A woman suffers from deficiency of the blood organ and excessive menstrual flow; during menstruation, she experiences uncontrollable, sudden heavy bleeding, leading to metrorrhagia that persists for days on end. This depletes the five viscera, causing her to lose her complexion, become sallow and emaciated. Although the metrorrhagia … Read more

Junmen Dan，*Hongbao of Public Health*, Volume 6.，For knife wounds.