Diao Gu Wan

Highly Effective Four-Spirit Pills，From *Shenghui*, cited in Volume 221 of *Puji Fang*.，For men and women with a deficiency of both vital energy and blood, characterized by heaviness in the lower back and knees, weakness when walking, soreness and pain in the hands and feet, deficiency of the lower jiao, and frequent urination at night.

Bamboo Six，Formula from *Yu Heng on Shā and Distension*, Middle Volume; name found in *Complete Book of Shā Syndromes*, Lower Volume.，Purple-blistered shā, where the toxic qi of shā remains in the muscles and skin.

Water-Decocted Pingwei Powder，*Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Zhu Family*, Volume 4.，For regurgitation.

Blood-Harmonizing and Qi-Regulating Pills，From *Essentials of Surgical Medicine*, Volume 2.，For boils and abscesses, as well as constipation of all degrees.

Five-Spice Ruyi Pill，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.，For pain in the chest and abdomen.

Atractylodes Pill，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 88.，Consumptive disease; deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach; inability to eat; undigested food.

Purple Earth Powder，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 4.，Unprovoked, unstoppable nosebleeds.

Rolling Gold Pills，From *Bai Yi*, Volume 5.，For phlegm accumulation in the epigastrium, dizziness, blurred vision, vomiting, headache, nausea, and occasional regurgitation of sour fluid.

Fragrant Poria Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 193), citing *Effective Formulas Based on Clinical Experience*.，Dampness-related conditions, swelling of the limbs, fullness and distension in the abdomen and flanks, and difficult, dry bowel movements.

Elm, Rehmannia, Scrophularia, and Angelica Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 10.，Fire in the large intestine surges forth, causing rectal prolapse without the need for a bowel movement, accompanied by extreme pain.

Decoction for Harmonious Tonification of the Heart and Spleen，From *Huiyue*, Volume 14.，For women with deficiency of qi in the heart and spleen who are unable to retain menstrual blood, resulting in premature menstruation.

Jixian Guochi Pill，*Zongfutang Formulas*, Volume 4.，

Sophora Flower Wine，*Elucidations on Surgery*, Volume 2.，For boils on the back and all types of toxic sores—whether fully developed or not—as long as they are accompanied by burning pain; as well as for sores and scabies caused by damp-heat, and for hemorrhoids and fistulas.

Blood-Activating Pill，*Zhunsheng: Yao Yi* (Treatise on Surgical Medicine), Volume 6.，For contusions, injuries, sprains, fractures, falls, blows, and wounds from knives or axes; various wind-related disorders, left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness, and numbness in the hands and feet; women’s blood-wind disorders, generalized pain, and cold and weakness.

Decoction for Nourishing Yin and Strengthening Bones，From *Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 3.，Weakness and Lethargy. Yangming Stomach fire consumes all the kidney yin, leaving the bones hollow and empty; the patient has been bedridden for a long time and is unable to rise.

Liver-Gallbladder Nourishing Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，Weakness of gallbladder qi, inability to sleep at night, tossing and turning restlessly, or sleeping only briefly before being startled awake, or falling back asleep only to feel as if being seized.

Tian Zhen Dan，*Medical Inventions*, Volume 7.，For yang deficiency in the lower jiao, chronic cold in the umbilical region and abdomen, legs swollen as large as a dou, scrotum swollen as large as a sheng, and muscles that are hard and do not yield to pressure.

Remedy for Blackening Beard and Sideburns and Whitening Teeth，From *Bai Yi*, Volume 20.，

Da Zao Pills，*He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 2.，For various deficiencies and debility, as well as bone-consuming fever and consumptive fever.

Cinnamon Bark and Atractylodes Powder，From *The Complete Collection on Shanghan and Preservation of Life*, Volume 4.，For yin spasm with sweating, a deep and fine pulse, and twitching of the hands and feet.

Bailingteng Porridge，From *Shenghui*, Volume 24.，Severe wind-induced disorders.

Mao Hua Decoction，From *Xiaopin Fang*, cited in Volume 2 of *Wai Tai*.，Epistaxis, hematemesis, and bloody diarrhea.

Bai Long Pills by a Monk-Physician from Nanjian Prefecture，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 16), citing *The Family Treasure of Health*.，All types of wind disorders.

Sheep Brain Jade，*Special Teachings on Ophthalmology*.，For cataracts, tearing in the wind, photophobia, blurred vision, or pterygium pulling on the cornea; red and white opacities, ulcerated membranes; acute conjunctivitis; or long-standing cloud-like opacities obscuring the eyes, rendering the patient unable to walk and seeing only silhouettes—such as a person in white clothing walking—with blood vessels pulling … Read more

Lord Pei’s Eight-Toxin Ointment，*Qianjin*, Volume 7.，For stroke caused by wind-toxin, with sharp, cramping pain in the abdomen and “flying corpses” invading the internal organs; as well as for those suffering from nightmares from which they cannot awaken, sudden collapse with loss of consciousness; undigested food from the previous meal; poisoning from centipedes, snakes, bees, and … Read more