The Tripod Formula

Decoction for Promoting Blood Circulation and Nourishing Body Fluids，*Straight Talk on Pediatrics*, Volume 2.，Smallpox appearing on the sixth, seventh, eighth, or ninth day.

Gold-Flat Water Wash，*A Concise Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Skin Diseases in Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Psoriasis, an itchy skin condition.

Formula for Washing the Legs，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For soreness and pain in the shoulders, back, and limbs.

Modified Zhu Ling Decoction，*Guide to Gynecology*.，For generalized edema, loose stools, and the treatment of pulmonary distension and gastric diarrhea.

Liver-Nourishing Dìfúzǐ Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 33.，For blurred vision due to liver deficiency; or redness, swelling, and pain in the eyes due to wind-heat.

Five-Spice String，From *Chuanyaya Neibian*, Volume 3.，For abdominal and epigastric distension, fullness and mass in the flanks, and all types of pain.

Decoction for Clearing Dizziness and Resolving Phlegm，*Compendium of Medicine*, Volume 3.，Dizziness.

Seven-Ingredient Dried Lacquer Powder，Quoted from *Cui’s Formulas* in Volume 17 of *Wai Tai*.，For weakness and emaciation.

Great Fragrant Turtle Shell Powder，From *Bo Ji*, Volume 4.，For women with wind-deficiency and cold in the blood and viscera, resulting in sallow and emaciated complexion, fluctuating appetite, irregular menstrual cycles, and frequent distension in the chest and abdomen, gradually progressing to a state resembling exhaustion.

Dashihu Pills，*Ji Feng*, Volume 12.，For wind-deficiency of the liver and kidneys, and various disorders affecting the head and eyes.

Scutellaria, Coptis, and Red Yeast Decoction，From *Ye’s Gynecology*, Volume 2.，Pediatric dysentery.

Miraculous Scorpion Tail Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 85.，For acute convulsions in infants.

Deer Antler and Coix Seed Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 397.，For persistent red and white dysentery with abdominal pain.

Golden Dew，*Ophthalmology Treasure Chest*, Volume 4.，For burning, painful eyes with photophobia and aversion to sunlight.

Lift-the-Veil Pill，*Secrets of Ophthalmology*, Volume 1.，For internal and external eye disorders.

Five-Spice and Trifoliate Orange Decoction，From *Qianjin*, Volume 5.，For children afflicted by wind-heat, with nodules as hard as sesame seeds; the sores are itchy and, when scratched, the skin peels off and fluid oozes out; or for those with recurrent outbreaks covering the entire body, including the head and face, year after year.

Secretly Transmitted Tissue-Regenerating Powder，From *Songya Medical Path* (Volume 2).，For sores and abscesses.

Formula for Applying Yellow Earth to the Head，From *Qianjin*, Volume 5.，For children suffering from external pathogenic factors.

Dayan Honey Pills，*Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 5.，Postpartum chest pain caused by deficiency-cold and blood stasis rising to the pericardium.

Nourishing Vitality and Strengthening the Kidneys Decoction，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 14.，Postpartum lower back pain resulting from overexertion or exposure to wind and cold.

Liver-Soothing and Tendon-Relaxing Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 6.，Following a fit of intense anger, pain is felt throughout the body and in all the joints; the chest and abdomen feel distended; the eyes are tightly shut; there is a sensation of coldness; and the fingernails turn bluish-black.

Huoxiang-Pipa Decoction，From *Dai’s Formulas*, cited in *Zhunsheng: Categorized Formulas*, Volume 5.，Alcoholic jaundice.

Ganxiong Powder，From *Formulas for Childbirth*.，

Ginseng Powder for Tonifying the Spleen，From *Shenghui*, Volume 5.，Spleen deficiency manifests as a body as heavy as stone, inability to lift the limbs, poor appetite, weakness, abdominal distension, borborygmi, and mental dullness.

Clear Metal and Disperse Fire Decoction，From *Records of the Essentials of Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 9.，For smallpox and measles, with initial fever and wheezing.