More Herbs Formulas
Detoxifying Decoction,Formula from Wang’s text, cited in *Essentials of Smallpox Treatment*.,For smallpox lesions on days 11–12, accompanied by fever, where the “dang’an” (red ring around the lesion) is absent or incomplete, or where scabs have fallen off without a “tuo’an” (supporting ring) forming.
Five-Leaf Acacia Bark Decoction with Wine,From *Eight Notes on Nurturing Life*, Volume 12.,For wind-induced fatigue, cold qi, internal stagnation, and chronic ailments.
Black General Powder,From *The Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 7.,For severe phlegm-fire causing unbearable dizziness.
Ginger and Sweet Orange Decoction,From *Zhi Zhi*, Volume 22.,For various types of abscesses and boils where toxic qi surges upward to the throat, causing obstruction and difficulty in breathing in the chest and diaphragm.
Chestnut Porridge,*Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 25.,All cases of vertigo and dizziness, hand tremors, muscle twitching, nausea and loss of appetite, qi deficiency with abdominal rumbling, wind-induced numbness and loss of sensation, and hemiplegia. Renal deficiency in the elderly, lower back soreness and pain, weakness in the legs and feet, and spleen deficiency with diarrhea.
Two Sages’ Relief Pills,From *Hui Chun*, Volume 2.,For typhoid fever and epidemic diseases, regardless of whether the disease has entered or passed through the meridians. For “big-head plague” with red eyes and a swollen throat.
Fragrant Ointment,From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 169), citing *New Effective Formulas*.,For stubborn tinea, scabies, and leprosy, as well as all itchy sores.
Cinnabar Calming the Heart Pills,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 14.,For various wind-induced conditions such as palpitations, anxiety, worry, mental confusion, delirium, restlessness, and facial paralysis; for children with restlessness, occasional palpitations, squinting, difficulty swallowing phlegm, and in severe cases, convulsions.
Golden Pellet,From *Eight Essays on Nurturing Life*, Volume 18.,Effective for various wind-induced disorders, left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness, numbness and stiffness of the hands and feet, hemiplegia, deviation of the mouth and eyes, pain in the tendons and bones due to cold and dampness, and unilateral hernias.
Five-Linhuan Zhi-Zong Powder,*Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Virtuous* (Lower Volume).,Effective for the five types of dysuria; particularly effective for calculous dysuria.
Great Phoenix Marrow Pill,From *Yuanrong*, Volume 10.,For excessive heart fire and uncontrolled yang, combined with deficiency of kidney water and true yin, resulting in nocturnal emissions.
Dailao Guiku Decoction,From *Remarkably Effective Formulas*, Volume 22.,Consumptive disease.
Liver-Soothing and Ear-Clearing Decoction,From *Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 5.,Tinnitus and deafness in the left ear, caused by pent-up anger and liver fire burning intensely.
Enhanced Baoyuan Decoction,*Commentary on the Compilation of Smallpox Medicine*, Volume 3.,For cases where the smallpox lesions gradually turn black upon eruption, have already spread over the entire body, but have not yet become dry, shriveled, or sunken.
Tianqing Ointment,From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 3.,For acute and chronic convulsions in children, as well as coughing and shortness of breath.
Dou-Ge Powder,From *Secret Formulas for Immediate Relief from the Blue Sack*, Volume 2.,For adults and children with open, oozing sores on the head and face; yellow-water sores that cause tissue to rot wherever the fluid spreads, or form thick crusts; and for treating blood-wind sores on the legs and feet.
Ten-Ingredient Harmonizing and Dispersing Decoction,From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 3.,Headache and fever, with fatigue in the limbs.
Ginseng and Atractylodes Decoction,From *Yi Tong*, Volume 44, citing *Yi Chao*.,For qi reversal with severe shortness of breath.
Sa Su Decoction,*Essentials of Diet and Nutrition*, Volume 1.,For kidney deficiency with cold, cold pain in the abdomen, and aching pain in the lower back and spine.
Spleen-Strengthening and Middle-Warming Pills,From *Collected Insights from Reflection*.,For coughs in the elderly during cool weather, or coughs due to qi deficiency from chronic illness, attributed to spleen-stomach deficiency-cold.
Minor Bupleurum Decoction with Gardenia,*Yuji Weiyi*, Volume 45.,Jaundice, alternating chills and fever, with the entire body turning yellow.
Er Xian Powder,From *Bai Yi*, Volume 5; the name appears in *Medical Outline*, Volume 25.,For internal retention of phlegm and fluid, chest fullness after meals, gastric reflux, dysphagia, and liver-qi pain. Phlegm and fluid in the diaphragm. Liver-qi pain; regular use eradicates the root cause. For cold accumulation in the spleen, where chest fullness prevents … Read more
Yuan-Hua-Ling-Gan Powder,*Golden Needles of Medicine*, Volume 2.,Dampness obstructing the channels, causing difficult bowel movements and restlessness.
Platycodon and Disinfecting Decoction,*Compendium of Medical Essentials*, Volume 9.,For cases following the formation of scabs on smallpox lesions, where internal toxins are extremely severe, their force attacks inward and ascends to scorch the lungs, causing swelling and pain in the throat and hoarseness.
Blood Stasis-Resolving Decoction,From *Xian Nian Ji* (Sanhuai Tang edition), Volume 1, citing a formula by the Cheng family.,
Aconite Root Li Zhong Decoction,For skin ulcers and sores caused by deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach, or following inappropriate use of purgative or purgative-like treatments, presenting with cold extremities, inability to tolerate food, or intestinal rumbling, abdominal pain, retching, vomiting, and diarrhea.