Axe-and-Mallet Pills

Wild Rose Dew，From *Formulas and Ingredients of Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Mouth sores, oral ulcers.

Throat-blowing Medication，From *Chuanya Neibian*, Volume 1.，For acute laryngitis, tonsillitis, and throat obstruction.

Huo’er Dan，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 14.，For childhood convulsions, malnutrition, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Eight Gentlemen Decoction，From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For spleen deficiency complicated by damp phlegm, manifested during menstruation as red and white leukorrhea—which may be discharged with the menstrual blood or occur intermittently on its own.

To Clear and Disperse Internal Obstructions，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 288.，For a brain abscess in its early stages, accompanied by pain and oppression, and on the verge of developing into a boil or carbuncle.

Cotton Ball Powder，From *The Mirror of Medicine Through the Ages*, Volume 9, citing a formula by Wang Boquan.，Laryngeal obstruction.

Eucommia and Ginger Decoction，*Compendium of Sacred Remedies*, Volume 55.，Nine types of chest pain.

Scutellaria, Coptis, and Licorice Decoction，From *Baoming Gejue*, Volume 6.，Pediatric “Big-Head Plague.”

Changchun Zhenren’s Life-Preserving Pill，From *The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 2.，For the five types of exhaustion and seven types of injury, deficiency-induced weakness, fatigue in the limbs, numbness in the hands and feet, depletion of blood and vital energy, sallow complexion and emaciation, failure of yang energy to rise, dizziness and nausea … Read more

Regulating and Tonifying Decoction，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 28.，Severe leprosy.

Decoction for People and Horses，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 4.，When a person is affected by the miasma of mountain mist or overflowing water, or by the irregular energies of the four seasons, or by the miasma of corpses or the miasma of disease, a “snake” may form in the abdomen, and the body … Read more

Secret Formula: Pinellia Pills，Quoted from *Ji Yan* in Volume 5 of *Zhun Sheng: Lei Fang*.，For heart wind-induced mania.

Wind-Dispelling and Muscle-Relieving Pills，From *Gai Weng’s Record of Proven Formulas*.，For rheumatic conditions manifesting as red rashes over the entire body that feel hot to the touch.

Snake Shedding Powder，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 183), citing *Divine and Ingenious Formulas for Complete Cure*.，Hemorrhoids. Nodules form around the anus, accompanied by chills and fever, with unrelenting pain.

Rehmannia Decoction with Ginseng to Cool the Blood，*Complete Book on Measles*, Volume 2.，For women with measles who, during the fever phase, experience heat entering the blood chamber, causing their menstrual period to arrive prematurely and persist for four days or more.

Shen-Fu-Qi-Lu Decoction，*Introduction to Obstetrics*, Volume 4.，For postpartum profuse sweating like rain, accompanied by cold hands and feet.

Kidney-Nourishing Miraculous Decoction，From *A Thousand Family Remedies*.，Hypertrophic Spondylitis (Cold-Dampness and Blood Stasis Obstruction Type).

Kunhua Decoction，From *Dongtian Aozi*, Volume 15.，Swollen lumps under the neck. These result from the accumulation and stagnation of phlegm-qi; over time, this leads to tissue damage, causing deficiency of qi and blood, making it difficult to heal the sores, which may spread continuously—a condition also known as “chain-like sores.”

Great Tonifying Astragalus Decoction，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 4.，For spontaneous sweating and debility.

Ginseng, Deer Antler, and Tiger Bone Wine，From *Collection of National Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Shenyang Formula).，Pain in the tendons and bones, numbness and loss of sensation, hemiplegia, cold distension of the stomach and abdomen, soreness in the lower back and legs, convulsions and spasms, paralysis and atrophy, and all diseases caused by wind, … Read more

Single-Ingredient Cornus Wine，From *Qianjin Yi* (Supplement to the Thousand Gold Prescriptions), Volume 6.，Abdominal pain after childbirth.

Bei San Decoction，Formula by Zhang Dan, cited in Volume 12 of *Qianjin Yi*.，For gas-induced dysentery that has persisted for a long time without healing, as well as all types of dysentery causing severe weakness.

Compendium Epilepsy-Suppressing Pills，From *Collected Works on the Care of Infants*, Volume 2.，For pediatric epilepsy, where the child occasionally loses consciousness and collapses upon a sudden stimulus, regaining consciousness only after a long time.

Decoction for Harmonizing the Nutritive and Defensive Qi，From *Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 3.，For the initial stage of a wandering abscess, where qi and blood have congealed, causing a mass that has not yet dissipated—whether fully formed or not.

Shuli Decoction，*Huiyue*, Volume 10.，For food stagnation, fluid retention, phlegm congestion, and qi stagnation, manifesting as abdominal distension and pain; or for damage to the internal organs caused by raw, cold, or damp foods; or for severe, exogenous pathogenic factors causing cholera; or for the initial stage of diarrhea.