Black Elixir

Toxicity-Resolving Powder，From *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 4.，For the initial stage of boils and abscesses.

Spleen-Strengthening Pills，*New Book on Child Care*, Volume 10.，For food stagnation in children.

Xiao Pai Feng San，From *Shenghui*, Volume 25.，Effective for all types of wind disorders.

Di Luo, Gan Ju, Xuan Shen, and Dong Quai Decoction，From *Dongtian Aozi*, Volume 6.，Lung abscess. Pain in the chest and diaphragm, with coughing causing particular pain; shortness of breath when pressing on the chest.

Aconite and Mung Bean Decoction，*San Yin*, Volume 14.，Cold invades the skin, causing it to become hard and shell-like; the abdomen is distended and the body swollen; when pressed, the indentation does not rebound, and the complexion remains unchanged.

Powder for Removing Wheat and Promoting Tissue Regeneration，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For toxic sores.

Decoction for Consolidating the Essence and Relieving Asthma，From *A Brief Summary of Pediatric Diagnosis and Treatment*.，Asthma in children with a constitutionally weak constitution or deficient vital energy following illness, resulting from lung qi deficiency. Symptoms include a pale or sallow complexion, listlessness, fatigue in the limbs, pale lips, a weak cough, shortness of breath, interrupted … Read more

Liver-Soothing Pills，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，Indicated for distension and fullness in the flanks, stabbing pain in the epigastrium, vomiting, nausea, and belching with acid regurgitation.

Persimmon Frost Pills，From *A Clear Illumination of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 24.，Chronic cough and sore throat.

“A Thousand Gold Is Not Worth a Cake”，From *Formulas of the Huizhiting Hall*, Volume 2.，For stiffness and contractures of the hands and feet, or lameness lasting more than ten years.

Secret Formula Chrysanthemum Powder，From *Longmu Collection of Ophthalmology by Daoist Baoguang*.，For eye pain accompanied by fever.

Da Jian Pi San，*Bai Yi*, Volume 2.，Deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach, resulting in inability to take food.

Calm-the-Mind Ointment，*The Book of Sincerity*, Volume 8.，

Xichuan Luo’s Barefoot Immortal Youth-Restoring Pill，From *Hong’s Collection of Proven Formulas*, Volume 1, citing a formula by Chen Huishu.，For all cases of deficiency syndrome characterized by depletion of mental clarity and vitality, lack of vigor, heaviness in the lower back and legs, physical fatigue, deficiency of qi and blood, cloudy urine, and chronic uterine cold; … Read more

Detoxifying and Plague-Repelling Pill，From *Yifang Yijian*, Volume 4.，For wind-cold common colds in all four seasons, accompanied by headache and fever, as well as epidemic diseases, mountain mists, and miasma.

Bai Zhi, Gui Zhi, and Chuan Xiong Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 2.，A headache as if the head were splitting, moving from place to place with no fixed location—this occurs after drinking alcohol and sleeping in a draft, where wind-pathogen takes advantage of the rising and falling of alcohol fumes to invade the … Read more

Left Ci Pill for Deafness，From *Revised Comprehensive Treatise on Warm and Febrile Diseases*, Volume 2.，Deficiency of liver and kidney yin; ascending deficient fire; tinnitus and deafness; dizziness; red eyes; blurred vision; dry mouth and tongue.

Six-Ingredient Decoction for Scattered Measles，From *The Mystic Pearl of the Red Water*, Volume 27.，When measles are about to erupt.

Xiang Sha San，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 101, citing *Ten Convenient and Effective Formulas*.，The patient’s mind is restless; they crave climbing heights and facing danger, use abusive language and curses without regard for kinship or acquaintance, walk forcefully day and night, speak and laugh to themselves, or climb heights to shout angrily; their behavior … Read more

Kushen Wine，*Shenghui*, Volume 24.，For vitiligo, characterized by white spots all over the body resembling fat or elm pods; when scratched, white scales fall off; the condition may be itchy or painful, and the white patches gradually spread.

Five-Flavor Spring-Welcoming Ointment，*Yinjing Zhengyi*.，For blood deficiency where the Wood element is excessive and overpowers the Earth element, causing vomiting and diarrhea, and where the patient cannot tolerate bitter-cold medications; as well as for yin deficiency with excessive yang, resulting in restless sleep at night, a pulsating sensation in the left flank, and, in severe cases, … Read more

Oak Bark Decoction，From *New Treatise on Fungal and Contagious Diseases*.，For fungal skin ulcers and skin erosion.

Jinlian Powder，Formula from *Classified Materia Medica* (Vol. 14), citing *Formulas from Clinical Experience*; name found in *Outline of Medical Science* (Vol. 14).，This formula is intended for men with damage to the original organ qi, affecting the bladder and small intestine. Symptoms include swelling and pain in the lower abdomen and an inability to urinate.

Black-Bone Chicken Pills，*Guide to Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For prolonged uterine bleeding due to internal deficiency, with a pulse that is fine, small, hollow, faint, and slightly涩 (thready).

Yellow Medicinal Powder，*Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhao Bingnan*.，Neurodermatitis (psoriasis), chronic eczema (stubborn moist sores).