Safflower Ointment

Ephedra and Evodia Wine，From *A Clear Explanation of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 25.，Headache, chest pain, poor appetite, difficulty swallowing, aversion to cold, and a taut and tight pulse in the left cun position.

Seaweed Soaked in Wine，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 136.，For edema that moves erratically—sometimes swelling like a clam, sometimes as large as a bowl, sometimes appearing on the abdomen or back, or on the arms or legs.

Wanling Wood Fragrance Pills，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 62.，For diaphragmatic qi stagnation and throat obstruction.

Imperially Prescribed Formula for Clearing Heat and Eliminating Toxins，From *Collection of Good Friends*, Volume 3.，For epidemic fever and typhoid fever (regardless of the stage of transmission), wind-cold cough, bloody or watery dysentery, pain in the chest and abdomen, typhoid fever or bloody/watery dysentery in pregnant women, and early-stage carbuncles.

Liver-Clearing and Blood-Activating Decoction，*Integrative Chinese and Western Dermatology*.，Liver heat with blood stasis; chronic dermatitis of the scrotum or vulva, or exudative erosive dermatitis with recurrent episodes; bitter taste in the mouth; taut pulse; yellow tongue coating with a bitter taste.

Pill for Reversing Ulcers，From *Essentials of Surgical Medicine*, Volume 2.，For carbuncles.

Jinling Seed Pill，*Record of Shared Longevity*, Volume 1.，

Black Toad Pill，Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in Volume 23 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For children suffering from wind-induced malnutrition and emaciation, who shake their heads and rub their eyes, with all meridians stiff and tense.

Alum Extract，From *Qianjin Yi* (Supplement to the Thousand Gold Prescriptions), Volume 24.，For dry or moist itching, as well as malignant sores and alopecia.

Thousand Gold Child-Nourishing Pills，From *Yi Bian*, Volume 4.，For children with malnutrition syndrome, characterized by a distended abdomen with visible blue veins, intermittent fever, cough, and protruding sternum.

Aroca Powder for Descending Qi，From *Shenghui*, Volume 50.，For qi stagnation in the diaphragm, and cold, hard, knotted pain in the chest and heart region.

Yinchen Huangqin Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 28.，For epidemic fever with a sallow complexion, a hard abdomen, shortness of breath, and incoherent speech.

White Plague-Preventing Powder，*National Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas* (Beijing Formula).，For summer heat, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, excessive alcohol consumption, motion sickness (car or boat), and scorpion stings or insect bites.

Eye-Dotting Salt-Green Ointment，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 102.，Redness and pain in the eye.

Navel-Protecting Pills，From *New Compilation of Mei’s Proven Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，For various abdominal pains.

Snake Skin Decoction，*General Treatise on Cold Damage Diseases*, Volume 5.，For pediatric shanghan (typhoid fever) where wind-heat arises, causing convulsions and loss of consciousness with spasms in the hands and feet.

Processed Phellodendron Powder，*Insights into Surgical Medicine*, Volume 12.，Damp-toxin.

Honeysuckle Detoxifying Decoction，*Straight Talk on Pediatrics*, Volume 5.，Dan Tumors in Children.

Ma Lian Zi Decoction，*Compendium of Holy Remedies*, Volume 76.，For bloody and white dysentery, and severe pain in the navel and abdomen; as well as chronic watery diarrhea with white, turbid stools resembling rice water.

Secretly Transmitted Pill for Relieving Masses，From *Baoming Gejue*, Volume 23.，In children, this condition manifests as alternating chills and fever.

Thousand-Year Spot-Removing Decoction，From *Records of Smallpox and Measles* (Volume 13).，For smallpox with red, purple, or black spots.

Achyranthes and Rhubarb Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Vol. 151.，A woman has not menstruated for 3 years.

Powder for Skin Sores Caused by Malnutrition，From *The Great Compendium of Medical Formulas*, Volume 8, citing *Formulas from Clinical Experience*.，For abscesses and sores on the external genitalia.

Phoenix Dew，*Compiled Medical Manuscripts*, Volume 13.，Consumptive disease.

Decoction for Regulating the Essence and Eliminating Toxins，*Records on Smallpox and Measles* (Dou Zhen Chuan Xin Lu), Volume 19.，Smallpox. In cases where fever precedes the eruption of smallpox by 1–2 days, and the lesions first appear on the forehead, temples, or between the eyebrows; or where they erupt simultaneously and densely; or where they are … Read more