Kudzu Root and Gypsum Decoction

Agarwood and Musk Decoction，From *Collected Effective Formulas for Back Ulcers*.，For patients with back abscesses who have been treated by incompetent doctors with toxic ointments, or who have suffered severe lacerations to the flesh and blood from surgical incisions.

Luo-Activating Pill，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Lanzhou Formula).，For rheumatic paralysis, numbness in the limbs, pain in the lower back and legs, pain in the tendons and bones, severe phlegm-heat, and sudden loss of consciousness.

Vinegar-Infused Pomegranate Peel Decoction，*Shenghui*, Volume 23.，Stroke. Paralysis of the limbs, facial asymmetry, slurred speech, and drooling.

Amber Calming Pills，From *He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 5.，For loss of mental composure, mania, and delirium.

Black Gold Pill，Formula taken from *Compendium of Materia Medica* (Vol. 7), citing *Thousand Gold Prescriptions*; name found in *A Clear Explanation of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases* (Vol. 22).，For fine threads entering the eye.

Minor Chengqi Decoction with Ophiopogon and Scrophularia，*Selected Essences of Medicine*.，For Yangming viscera syndrome due to cold epidemic, characterized by tidal fever, sweating, delirium, abdominal distension, and constipation.

Evil-Warding Ointment，Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in Volume 7 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，Infants, whose vital energy is not yet robust and whose spirit is weak, may encounter harsh, violent, or malevolent energies from spirits and demons, resulting in vomiting or diarrhea of green, yellow, red, or white substances, with undigested food … Read more

Decoction of Two Ling and Two Zhu，*A Concise Explanation of Medical Formulas*, Volume 2.，Dampness-related syndromes.

Xiaoyin Pills，*Wai Tai*, Volume 8, citing *Shen Shi Fang*.，Alcohol-Induced Edema. Phlegm and fluid accumulate due to alcohol consumption and fail to dissipate, causing fullness, regurgitation, and vomiting; the eyes appear bulging; deafness; and gurgling sounds in the abdomen. Water Retention.

Neituo Hu Xin Powder，*Pian Yu Dou Zhen*, Volume 8.，For smallpox where the internal organs are weak, toxins remain trapped within, causing obstruction and preventing eruption, and the rash has not appeared after 6–7 days.

Decoction for Restoring Yang and Rescuing Yin，*Collection of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 5.，For a back abscess nearing recovery where the wound has not yet closed, presenting with symptoms of yin deficiency masquerading as yang excess.

Late Silkworm Sand Soaked in Wine，From *Shenghui*, Volume 69.，For women suffering from stroke-induced hemiplegia, with stiff and contracted limbs and stubborn paralysis.

Apricot and Peach Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 57); name cited in *Puji Fang* (Vol. 306).，For a dog bite causing toxic pain at the wound site and chest tightness.

Jieji Decoction，*Treatise on the Subtleties of Cold Damage*, Volume 1.，For cases of shanghan where both yin and yang are in excess, with a floating and rapid pulse in both hands—or a tight or slow pulse—and strong pulses in all three positions; accompanied by absence of sweat and aversion to wind; occurring from the beginning of … Read more

Cinnamon Twig and Acorus Decoction，*Source of the Hearts of the Four Sages*, Volume 8.，Constricted pupils.

Agarwood and Piper longum Decoction，From *Hong’s Collection of Proven Formulas*, Volume 3.，Pain in the lower back and legs caused by cold and dampness.

Mao-Shu-Xia-Chen Decoction，*Direct Pointers to Medical Formulas from Haojing*.，Dampness injures spleen yang, causing a cough with thin phlegm; the tongue is coated with a white-ash, slippery coating; there is epigastric fullness and nausea.

Decoction with Honey Powder，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 301.，For sores and ulcers in the male genital area.

Houpo, Ginger, Pinellia, Licorice, and Ginseng Decoction，*Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Central deficiency with qi stagnation, abdominal distension and fullness, vomiting and retching. Abdominal distension and fullness following sweating in cases of cold damage. Distension and fullness of the heart and abdomen due to cold damage. Stomach deficiency with vomiting and retching, epigastric fullness, and loss of … Read more

Wild Boar Liver Pills，From *A Clear Explanation of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 14.，For masses, tumors, abdominal distension, and epigastric fullness.

Purple Reishi Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 90.，For deficiency-related wasting disease with shortness of breath, soreness in the chest and flanks, dry lips and mouth, cold hands and feet, or restlessness, blurred vision, and intermittent abdominal pain.

Great Cinnabar Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 170.，For palpitations in children.

Xiangju Decoction，*Ma Ke Huo Ren* (Saving Lives in the Department of Measles), Volume 4.，Cold-induced pain, intestinal colic.

White Scallion and Psoralea Decoction，*Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 5.，For cases of internal accumulation of cold qi before childbirth, bladder contractions during labor, postpartum abdominal distension as if a drum, difficulty urinating, and a sense of suffocation and confusion so severe as to feel as if one were about to die.

Boiled Guang Meng Decoction，From *Remarkably Effective Formulas*, Volume 47.，Cardiac hernia, chest pain, and cold limbs due to deficiency.