Modified Eight-Ingredient Bupleurum Decoction

Yang-Consolidating Warming Powder，From *Xingyuan*, Volume 3.，Excessive sweating leads to uncontrollable urinary leakage, causing the patient to become delirious.

Cinnamon Twig, Ginger, and Bitter Orange Decoction，*Jin Gui* (The Golden Chamber), Volume 1.，For epigastric fullness, various types of counterflow, and heart-suspending pain; epigastric fullness and oppression, counterflow of qi rising to cause pain, vomiting, nausea, belching, aversion to cold, and preference for warmth.

Yingsheng Pills，*Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 9.，Bleeding from the large intestine.

Siwu Kuandong Pills，Quoted from *Xiaopin Fang* in Volume 36 of *Wai Tai*.，For children with coughs that improve during the day but worsen at night, so severe at first that they cannot catch their breath or even cry.

Dampness-Resolving Powder，From *Medical Explorations* (Yixue Tanli Ji), Volume 6.，For damp-stagnation carbuncles below the ankle where there is a sensation of impending suppuration.

Lung-Nourishing and Qi-Boosting Decoction，*Yichun Shengyi*, Volume 2，Nourishes yin and moistens the lungs; resolves phlegm and relieves cough. Indicated for pulmonary consumption. Severe deficiency of lung qi, manifested as fever, shortness of breath, dry mouth and throat, and in severe cases, coughing up blood.

Da San Huang Pills，From *De Xiao* (Effective Formulas), Volume 8.，Indicated for heat stagnation in the upper burner, swelling and obstruction of the throat, restlessness in the chest and diaphragm, scanty and reddish urine, sores on the mouth and tongue, red eyes with pain in the cornea, dryness, thirst, and restlessness, and toothache.

Taiyi Divine Elixir，From *Jie Wei Yuan Sou*, Volume 4.，For severe wind-related and infectious diseases.

General Nian’s Formula for Relieving Pain，*Wen’s Experienced Effective Formulas*.，For trauma and contusions.

Stomach-Soothing and Nourishing Decoction，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 3.，For distension and fullness in the chest and diaphragm, with reduced appetite.

Five-Gallbladder Ointment，The formula is from *Shenghui* (Volume 33); the name appears in *Dongyi Baojian: Chapter on External Forms* (Volume 1).，For blurred distant vision, frequent seeing of dark spots, and signs of developing cataracts.

Fei Huang Dan，From *Formulas of the Ruizhutang*, Volume 2.，For pain caused by small intestine hernia.

Formula for Internal Heat Arising from Yin Deficiency，*Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 24.，Yin deficiency with internal heat; fire-related diseases with deficiency.

Achyranthes Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 159.，When the placenta is half-expelled and half-retained, or when the fetus has died in the womb and is lodged against the spine and cannot descend, resulting in failure to deliver for several days and a surge of blood and qi upward.

Four-Ingredient Calming Decoction，*Gu’s Medical Pathways*, Volume 5.，For children prone to startle and palpitations due to heart deficiency and blood deficiency.

Qianghuo Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 17.，Wind-induced disorders affecting the head and face, aversion to wind with profuse sweating, headache, and fever.

Three-Meat Stew，From *Shouqin Yanglao* (Caring for the Elderly), Volume 4.，For lack of breast milk after childbirth.

Eucommia Cake，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 30, You.，For cholera with confusion and severe diarrhea.

Dingyan Powder，From *Selected Annotated Ancient Formulas*, Volume 2.，For breast cancer that has been ulcerated for years, with only the inner membrane remaining.

Angelica and Toxin-Resolving Decoction，*Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 6.，For cases of hard, dry stool that cannot be passed, accompanied by abdominal pain and constipation.

Xuan Ya Paste，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 70.，Tooth decay. Loose, wobbly teeth with persistent pain.

Secretly Transmitted Cornus Fruit Internal Dissolving Pills，*Zhi Zhi*, Volume 18.，Kidney deficiency allows pathogenic factors to invade, causing lingering pain; the scrotum may become enlarged, or sores may develop that ooze yellow fluid.

Poria and Astragalus Decoction，From *The Treasure of Eastern Medicine: Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 10, citing *Introduction to Medicine*.，For a widow, nun, or teacher who has developed an illness due to repressed emotions, manifesting as occasional unprovoked laughter or weeping, with a slow and hidden pulse or a pulse resembling a sparrow’s pecking, and no change in … Read more

Poria and Magnolia Decoction，From *The Book of Nurturing Children*, Volume 2.，For cases of cold or wind-cold with phlegm, following vomiting and diarrhea, accompanied by a rattling sound in the throat due to phlegm, reduced appetite, and deficiency of spleen and stomach qi. Also for cases of milk stagnation with phlegm accumulation, cough, or spitting of … Read more

Cooling Four-Ingredient Decoction，*Essentials of Formulas and Syndromes*, Volume 3.，Hemoptysis, hematemesis.