Red Alum Powder

Wind-Dispelling Ointment，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 52.，For scars.

White Wall Ointment，From *New Treatise on Fungal and Contagious Diseases*.，For chronic skin sores, anal abscesses, all types of ulcers, and hemorrhoids.

Zhuqing Ointment，From *Secretly Transmitted Formulas for Surgical Conditions*, citing *Li Fangyu’s Five Hemorrhoid Formulas*.，For hemorrhoids with clear fluid discharge.

Shi Xia Pills，From the formula of the Office of Grand Tutor Meng of Ezhu, as cited in Volume 5 of *Zhu’s Collection of Proven Prescriptions*.，For phlegm-related cough.

Three-Ingredient Aloe Pill，*Revealing the Subtleties of the Original Mechanism: Appendix*.，For black water-induced corneal opacities and internal cataracts that are neither painful nor itchy, accompanied by mild dizziness, a sensation of fullness, and blurred vision.

Cantharides Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 66.，For scrofula caused by heat-toxin.

Phlegm-Stagnation Decoction，*A Clear Illumination of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 18.，Phlegm-Stagnation. Symptoms include shortness of breath, chest fullness, or coughing upon exertion; the cun pulse is deep and slippery.

Decoction for People and Horses，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 4.，When a person is affected by the miasma of mountain mist or overflowing water, or by the irregular energies of the four seasons, or by the miasma of corpses or the miasma of disease, a “snake” may form in the abdomen, and the body … Read more

Ginseng Calming the Spirit Decoction，*Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 11.，For diabetes, chest fullness, restlessness, and listlessness.

Lotus Seed, Jujube, Barley, and Bean Decoction，Formula from *Formulas of the Hall of Cultivating Blessings*, Volume 2; name cited in *The Essentials of Medicine Made Easy*, Volume 5.，Night sweats.

Zhengqi Tianxiang Powder，Formula from Hejian, cited in Volume 4 of *Compendium of Medicine*.，Nine Types of Qi Disorders; all types of qi disorders in women, including qi rising to the heart, a pounding sensation in the chest, stabbing pain in the flanks, and irregular menstruation.

Ginseng and Side-Berch Pills，From *The Mystic Pearl of the Red Water*, Volume 9.，For intestinal bleeding.

Realgar Ointment for Topical Application，*Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 10.，For various itchy sores along the hairline and hives on the skin causing unbearable itching.

Toad and Alum Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 36); name cited in *Pujifang* (Vol. 299).，Sores in the mouth and on the tongue.

Cough-Relieving Decoction，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 3.，For lung fire causing nighttime wheezing and coughing that persists for a long time.

Formula for Rubbing the Tongue and Expelling Phlegm，*Medical Discourses*, Volume 10.，Phlegm above the diaphragm.

Ear Ointment，From *Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 78, citing *Essentials for Imperial Physicians*.，Deafness, with swelling and pus discharge inside and outside the ear.

Fish-Clearing Pills，From *Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For hemorrhoids with bloody stools.

Sea Cucumber Pills，*The Great Dictionary of Chinese Medicine*.，For lower back pain and nocturnal emissions.

Modified E Zhu San，From *New Book on Pregnancy and Childbirth*.，For women aged 38–39 who have ceased menstruating and experience abdominal pain with a sensation of a mass, dizziness, blurred vision, and loss of appetite.

Deer Antler Paste，*National Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas* (Shenyang Formula).，Effective for the Five Labors and Seven Injuries, hemiplegia, abdominal pain, hernias, impotence, premature ejaculation, leukorrhea in women, lower back pain, metrorrhagia, and abdominal pain due to deficiency-cold.

Pork Brain Wine，From *A Clear Illumination of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 26.，In winter, exposure to severe wind, cold, or ice causes the hands and feet to crack, bleed, and become painful.

Tetanus Ointment，*New Book on Child Care*, Volume 7.，For children with blood stasis and wind-cold invasion, falls and injuries resulting in skin lacerations, or swelling caused by an invasion of wind-pathogen.

Decoction for Nourishing Yin and Softening Hardened Masses，From *Short Path to the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 1.，Caused by internal injury due to pent-up anger and stagnation, with phlegm-fire congealing to form scrofula.

Fetal Toxin Powder，*Collected Insights from Reflection and Practice*.，Fetal Toxin: A condition in which a newborn’s entire body is covered in moist, oozing sores.