More Herbs Formulas
Yang-Tonifying and Malaria-Eliminating Pill,*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 1.,For cases of malaria that suddenly develop into diarrhea, where inducing sweating would deplete the body’s yin, and where expelling the pathogen would result in the passage of turbid stools.
Life-Saving Pill,*Records of Smallpox and Measles* (Ren Duan Lu), Volume 14.,Smallpox. Cold qi rising upward, body feeling cold, smallpox lesions appearing grayish-white and sunken, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, vomiting, watery diarrhea, abdominal pain, and cold hands and feet.
Stone Swallow Wine,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 159.,Difficult labor.
Jingjiao-Sui Siwu Decoction,From *Jin Jian*, Volume 43.,Dizziness due to blood deficiency.
Kidney-Strengthening Powder,*Preserving Life and Nourishing the Essence*, Volume 5.,Deficiency of the Kidney Meridian, with pain in the lower back, legs, and throughout the body.
Formula for Restoring Black Hair and Beards,*Ji Feng*, Volume 27.,
Mu Mantou Powder,*A Clear Explanation of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 17.,For cases where wind-pathogen has invaded the viscera, or where food toxins have accumulated and generated heat, resulting in fresh blood in the stool, pain radiating from the anus, or chronic alcohol-induced dysentery.
Gan Shi San,From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 301.,For lower-body sores.
To Disperse Toxin from a Wound,*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Shenyang Formula).,For abscesses, toxic boils, and hot sores characterized by severe swelling and pain; for infantile “fetal toxins,” scalp sores, and alopecia; for residual toxins from rashes causing pus discharge or oozing; for swelling of the neck and cheeks with ulceration … Read more
Zelan Decoction,From *The True Selection of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 1.,Wrist abscess.
Enhanced Liu Yi Shun Qi Decoction,*Treatise on Cold and Heat Disorders*, Volume 4.,For diseases of the Shao Yin and Jue Yin channels characterized by dry mouth and throat, aversion to heat and excessive thirst, delirium and mental confusion, hard and dry stools, fullness and hardness in the chest and abdomen, or heat accumulation spreading laterally … Read more
Sweat-Inducing Fermented Soybean Porridge,*Shenghui*, Volume 96.,For stroke or typhoid fever in the initial 2–3 days, characterized by high fever and headache.
Ginger Powder,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 47.,Gastric reflux, unceasing vomiting, discomfort in the chest and diaphragm, and reduced appetite.
Cimicifuga Blood-Harmonizing Decoction,From *The Song of Preserving Life: Annotations*, Volume 8.,For bloody diarrhea, which constitutes a separate category: when the stool is expelled with a hissing sound, forcefully and with great range, scattering in all directions like a sieve, accompanied by pain in the intestines.
Artemisia Capillaris, Aconite, and Dried Ginger Decoction,*The Treasure of Health* (Weisheng Baojian), Volume 23.,Due to an overdose of cooling herbs, the condition transformed into a yin syndrome, presenting with jaundice of the body and eyes, cold skin on the limbs, fullness and hardness beneath the heart, dry and sore eyes reluctant to open, spontaneous diarrhea, … Read more
Feilong Asafoetida Hardness-Dissolving Ointment,*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 4.,For conditions of tissue atrophy, goiters, breast cancer, and scrofula—where the initial toxic mass is hard as stone, the skin shows no redness, and the mass gradually enlarges over time, with or without pain, but has not yet ruptured.
Small Areca Nut Pills,From *Rumen Shiquin*, Volume 12.,For shortness of breath and abdominal distension.
Saposhnikovia Wine,*Qianjin*, Volume 3.,Postpartum stroke.
Xiao Cao Pills,From *Fan Wang’s Formulas*, cited in Volume 12 of *Wai Tai*.,For chest obstruction and heart pain, with counterflow qi in the diaphragm and inability to swallow.
Heicheng Powder,*Comprehensive Treatise on Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 4.,For smallpox in children, with black spots scattered all over the body like ink splatters.
Summer-Heat Clearing and Qi-Nourishing Decoction,The formula is from *The Compendium of Warm-Heat Diseases* (Vol. 4); its name is cited in *Lecture Notes on Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas*.,Indicated for patterns of damp-heat where damp-heat has injured qi, presenting with fatigue in the limbs, diminished vitality, fever with a high pulse, restlessness, yellow urine, thirst, spontaneous sweating, … Read more
Peony, Scutellaria, Coptis, and Pueraria Decoction,*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 42.,Diarrhea due to heat.
Xuanqin Erchen Decoction,From *Huiyue*, Volume 8.,For cough with excessive phlegm that worsens at night, due to spleen dampness and mild heat in the lungs.
Dried Kudzu and Atractylodes Decoction,*The Great Exposition on Cold Damage*, Volume 3.,Damp-heat in the Yangming channel obstructs and stagnates the middle jiao; stomach yang cannot be distributed, resulting in sweating only on the head and no sweating throughout the body.
Decoction of Plantain Seeds,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 159.,Difficult labor.
Single Chestnut Pills,Heaviness in the lower back and legs, pain from overexertion or injury, and beriberi.