Harmonizing the Nutritive and Relieving Pain Decoction

Gold-Rivaling Pills，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For lower-body sores.

Lithospermum Decoction，*The Authentic Transmission of Smallpox Medicine*, Volume 7.，For cases where smallpox has persisted for seven or eight days, the vital energy is already deficient, the toxin has not yet been resolved, and the fever has not subsided.

Golden Mercury Elixir，*Xu Yijian*, Volume 4.，For sudden stroke with abrupt loss of consciousness, limp and dragging limbs, a lopsided mouth and face, a stiff tongue with excessive phlegm, convulsions and tremors, or opisthotonos with the eyes staring straight ahead and the jaw clenched shut.

Burdock, Licorice, and Tangerine Peel Decoction，From *Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 4.，For facial toxicity where external pathogens have been expelled, but the ears and neck remain swollen, with mild heat, no redness, and pain.

Golden Lock Surpassing Heaven Ointment，From *Formulas of the Huizhitiang Hall*, Volume 4.，For back abscesses, boils, unexplained swellings and toxins, carbuncles, rat-bite sores, scrofula, purple scabies with red threads, “crow’s flame” eye discharge, and other such sores; blood wind in the legs; internal and external leg sores; “fish-mouth” anal abscesses; syphilitic nodules;wounds from weapons or beatings, … Read more

Ginseng Lung-Nourishing Pills，*Formulae of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 4 (New Formulas Added in Baoqing).，In cases of concurrent injury to the lung and stomach, where qi surges upward and external heat scorches the lung, presenting with coughing and shortness of breath, restlessness and palpitations in the chest, thick and sticky nasal discharge and sputum (sometimes containing … Read more

Coffin-Shattering Decoction，*Formulas from the Physician’s Heart*, Volume 14, citing *The Tang Herbal*.，For cold-induced fever and febrile diseases characterized by extreme fever, thirst, delirium, bleeding from the mouth and nose, as well as various heat toxins and witchcraft-induced poisons. For epidemic diseases where the tongue is dry as a saw, accompanied by extreme thirst, and the … Read more

Huang Sheng Dan，*Formulas and Ingredients of Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，For abscesses and boils that have ruptured but are not draining pus.

Shen’s Head Plague Decoction，From *A Clear Illumination of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 20.，For the initial 1–2 days of severe head plague.

Imperial Favor Forget-the-Cane Pills，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 242.，For dry and wet beriberi.

White Tiger Life-Sustaining Decoction，From *The Collection of Life-Preserving Formulas*, Volume Middle.，Stroke with no sweating, fever, and no aversion to cold.

Modified Wei-Ling Decoction，*Pian Yu Xin Shu*, Volume 5.，For generalized edema resulting from exposure to wind after sweating following a bout of malaria.

Bamboo Sap Decoction，*Qianjin*, Volume 7.，Stroke. Lockjaw with inability to speak; flaccid and limp limbs; hemiplegia with spasms and stiffness; wind invading the five viscera, causing confusion, unpredictable anger, and uncoordinated hands and feet. Leg swelling with spasms and stiffness caused by wind-toxin. Lockjaw with inability to speak; stubborn numbness, weakness, and flaccidity in the limbs, … Read more

Decoction for Clearing Blue and Red Toxins，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 7.，Twitching of the hands and feet; internal and external heat. Heart and liver fire; pain in the shoulders, armpits, elbows, arms, wrists, and hands.

Xu Zhenjun’s Ruyi Pill，From *Collected Formulas of the Crane-Feeding Pavilion*.，For severe epidemic pathogens, malevolent spirits causing internal disturbances, toxic mists and miasmas, inability to adapt to local climate and soil, as well as red and white dysentery, regurgitation and dysphagia, epigastric fullness, jaundice, malaria, hernias, food stagnation, yin and yang toxins, typhoid fever, common cold, … Read more

Decongestant Aconite Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 9.，For headache and fever due to cold damage, with stiffness in the limbs.

Seaweed Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 125.，For a sensation of tightness and obstruction in the throat leading to a goiter.

Black Carp Soup，From *Effective Remedies*, Volume 9.，Edema; swelling of the limbs.

Xingchuan Powder，*Essential Supplements to Medical Practice*, Middle Volume.，Damp-heat in the legs and feet.

Gua Sha Dan，*Collected Proven Formulas of the Zhu Family*, Volume 8.，For men and women suffering from various deficiencies and weakness, restlessness of the heart, disturbed sleep, pain in the hands and feet, stiffness in the lower back and knees, and difficulty walking; for women with edema affecting the heart, causing vomiting of medicine and food, … Read more

The Extraordinary Golden Rabbit Pill，*Complete Book of Childbirth Rescue*，For women experiencing difficult labor or retained placenta.

Saposhnikovia Cake，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 143.，For intestinal wind with bloody diarrhea.

Yellow Hen Dumplings，*Nourishing the Elderly and Honoring Parents*.，For elderly patients with dysphagia, inability to swallow food, and fullness and oppression in the chest and flanks.

Brain-Clearing Decoction，*The Precious Manual of Medical Examination*, Volume 3.，For the condition of fixed gaze (falcon eye).

Cold Water Gypsum，*Shenghui*, Volume 62.，For abscesses and boils on the back, where heat toxins violently attack the muscles, causing unbearable redness, swelling, and pain—whether on the verge of forming pus or already containing pus—as well as wind-heat toxins in the joints that are about to form an abscess.