Dried Rehmannia Decoction

Formula for Boils and Abscesses，*Records of Clinical Practice*.，Cerebral abscess, mastitis, and multiple furuncles.

Safflower Decoction for Menstrual Cramps，From *Ji Yin Gang Mu*, Volume 2.，For women and young maidens with absent menstruation and occasional distending pain.

Angelica and Schizonepeta Decoction，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 59), citing *Guide to Formulas*.，For wind-induced spasms with unconsciousness, foaming at the mouth, convulsions, and stiffness of the spine; or postpartum spasms.

Ephedra Emergency Decoction，From *The Complete Book on the Treatment of Rashes*, Middle Volume.，When a rash is just breaking out but is suddenly blocked by wind-cold, causing half of it to recede, the body develops a fever that will not subside; the skin is cold on the outside and hot on the inside; cold and heat … Read more

Main Formula for Diarrhea，*Red Furnace Dotting Snow*, Volume 2.，When all symptoms of phlegm-fire are present and the stool suddenly becomes loose or watery, this indicates a deficiency of both spleen and kidney qi, which is unable to control and regulate the flow of qi; or it may result from internal injury due to diet or … Read more

Five-Flavor Sea Buckthorn Powder，*Chinese Pharmacopoeia*, Volume 1.，Chronic bronchitis; persistent cough due to lung heat; shortness of breath with excessive phlegm; chest fullness and oppression; pain in the chest and flanks.

Fangfeng-Bai Zhu Decoction，*Complete Record of Medicine*, Vol. 494.，Smallpox that has persisted for a long time without forming scabs.

Yin-Suppressing Powder，*Essentials for Infant Care*, Volume 15.，For pediatric sores and ulcers caused by deficiency of original qi and cold, resulting in failure to resolve; or for abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, loss of appetite, cold hands and feet, failure of sores to ulcerate or heal, muscle spasms, and bone pain—all belonging to purely yin syndromes; for … Read more

Lung-Nourishing Snow Pear Paste，Formula by Hu Zai-zi, cited in *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For dry cough with hemoptysis due to lung dryness, hemoptysis due to pulmonary atrophy, and lung abscess where the acute phase has subsided but residual heat remains.

Fan Zhi Shen Qu，From *The Great Treasure of Health*, Volume 1.，For disorders caused by irregular seasonal energies, such as colds with fever, dizziness, and cough; as well as indigestion with abdominal pain, fullness and distension, vomiting, and diarrhea; travel-related digestive upset; miasma; malaria; dysentery; and the initial onset of smallpox.

Xiang Sha Liu Jun Pills，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For central deficiency with qi stagnation, undigested food, vomiting, nausea, bloating, stomach pain, abdominal rumbling, and diarrhea.

Peach Leaf and Cinnabar Decoction with Wine，*Shenghui*, Volume 3.，Liver wind, with spasms and pain in the tendons and meridians.

Realgar and Pinellia Pills，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 5.，For internal deficiency of the five viscera, stroke-induced stupor, and excessive salivation with stagnant qi.

Acacia Pod Decoction Pills，From *Essentials of Surgical Medicine*, Volume 2.，For sores, abscesses, scrofula, scabies, tinea, redness, swelling, and other skin lesions.

Wanquan Poria Powder，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 76.，Red and white dysentery.

Holy Monk Powder，From *The Treasure of Family Health*, cited in Volume 147 of *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，For epidemic plagues and all forms of cold damage, regardless of yin or yang, and irrespective of severity.

Gardenia and Honeysuckle Pills，*Chinese Pharmacopoeia*, Volume 1.，For severe heat in the lung and stomach, characterized by sores in the mouth and on the tongue, swollen and painful gums, red eyes and dizziness, swollen and painful throat, hemoptysis and epistaxis, and severe constipation.

Ten Precious Herbs Powder，From *Continuation of Yi Jian*, Volume 2.，After a serious illness, when vital energy has not returned to normal, resulting in fatigue, shortness of breath, a gloomy disposition, and a loss of taste in the mouth and on the tongue.

Ginger and Tangerine Decoction，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 1.，Malaria; vomiting and retching, cold and numb limbs.

Stalactite Pill，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 9.，For abdominal pain due to cold in the viscera and uncontrollable diarrhea.

Mulberry Snail Paste，*The Direct Pointers*, Volume 14.，Rectal prolapse.

Wind-Dampness Ointment，*Compilation of Remarkable Formulas*, Volume 2.，For rheumatic bone pain.

Bamboo and Wheat Decoction，*Songfeng’s Discourse on Epidemics*, Volume 2.，Yellowing due to epidemic fever.

Huan Yuan Bao Zhen Decoction，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 3.，For a hanging abscess that has already ruptured, with a wide-open wound and oozing pus and fluid, and which fails to heal.

Horn Thorn Porridge，*Complete Collection of Surgical Life-Preserving Methods*, Volume 4.，Transverse mass.