Modified Atractylodes Paste

Cooling the Blood and Clearing Toxins Decoction，From *The Golden Mirror of Smallpox Medicine*, Volume 6.，When a woman experiences a fever with smallpox outside her menstrual period and her menstrual blood suddenly begins to flow.

Dao Huan San，*Xuanming Lun*, Volume 15.，For chronic or acute urinary retention, acute pain in the lower abdomen, and swelling and pain in the anus.

Essential Decoction，From *Eight Notes on Nurturing Life*, Volume 11, citing a formula by Dongpo Jushi.，

Wind-Dissolving Pills，From *Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 1.，For men and women suffering from left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness, facial and ocular deviation, hemiplegia, slurred speech, numbness in the hands and feet, difficulty walking, and pain throughout the body.

Hundred-Year Wine，From *Selected Precious and Secret Formulas from the Thousand Gold*.，For deficiency and exhaustion, paralysis and various wind disorders, seminal emission and blood loss, and decline of yang and weakness of qi.

Hundred Flowers Pill，*Selected Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas from Beijing*.，For lung heat and deficient fire, characterized by coughing, phlegm, wheezing, dry mouth, hoarseness, and blood-streaked sputum.

Pi-Sui Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 58.，Chronic thirst.

Chen Gan Powder，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，Sudden vomiting of blood.

Eight-Treasure Pill for Inhalation into the Throat，From *The Purple Treasure Collection of Laryngology*, Volume 2.，All types of throat disorders, both external and internal.

Arsenic Trioxide Top，From *Chuanya Neibian*, Volume 3.，Asthma.

Thunderbolt Powder for Manic-Depressive Disorders，*Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Used for mania and delirium. The patient presents with a dull, lifeless complexion; a vacant, unresponsive gaze; confusion and delirium with minimal speech; a preference for shade and aversion to sunlight; and daily routines and appetite that appear normal. These conditions often arise from suppressed emotions … Read more

Da Xiong Huang Decoction，From *The Collection for Preserving Life*, Volume Middle.，For tetanus with constipation, red urine, and unceasing spontaneous sweating. Or for tetanus where the pathogenic factor has penetrated inward, manifesting as a stiff tongue, locked jaw, arched neck and back, twitching and spasms of the tendons, and excessive phlegm and saliva.

Sandalwood and Coptis Decoction，From *Remarkably Effective Formulas*, Volume 13.，For dysentery with pus and blood, accompanied by tenesmus and a sensation of incomplete evacuation.

Decoction for Harmonious Tonification of the Heart and Spleen，From *Huiyue*, Volume 14.，For women with deficiency of qi in the heart and spleen who are unable to retain menstrual blood, resulting in premature menstruation.

Lung-Clearing and Meridian-Activating Decoction，From *Zhang Jiachun’s Diagnosis and Treatment of Ophthalmic Disorders*.，For latent heat and blood stasis, presenting with dry and painful eyes, clumps of eye discharge, and dilated, purplish blood vessels that coil like worms.

Ge San Zi，*Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 375.，For infantile convulsions and spasms occurring more than a hundred times in a day and night.

Yellow Alum Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 34.，For acute malnutrition causing erosion of the gums and teeth, and for sores, swelling, and pain around the lips and mouth.

Dragon’s Whisker Powder，From *Shenghui*, cited in Volume 1 of *Xiu Zhen*.，For heatstroke with confusion and loss of consciousness; diarrhea, cholera with excessive thirst; exposure to summer heat or latent heat, restlessness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm; excessive water intake leading to loss of consciousness; nosebleeds, hematemesis, blood in the urine, and dizziness with … Read more

Ephedra Decoction，From *Shenghui*, Volume 52.，For warm malaria with restlessness and agitation.

Modified Eight-Ingredient Decoction，From *Pian Yu Dou Zhen*, Volume 7.，For cases where qi and blood are inherently deficient, unable to carry the toxin to the surface, resulting in smallpox eruptions appearing 4–6 days past the expected time.

Modified Dampness-Draining Decoction，*Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Zhu Family*, Volume 5.，Wheezing. This formula uses medicinal herbs that expel phlegm and promote the flow of qi; however, they may draw external pathogenic factors into the Kidney meridian, causing swelling in both feet and the external kidneys.

Tortoise Shell and Sanling Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 73.，For men, women, and children suffering from deficiency-related internal stagnation, disharmony of the viscera, and indigestion of food and drink, leading to prolonged emaciation; also for treating deficiency-induced bloating and oppression in the chest; and for women with postpartum blood stasis and exhaustion from childbirth, resulting in severe … Read more

Junchuan Pills，From *Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 7.，For the initial stages of the ten types of water retention.

Southern Dipper Powder，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 200.，Chronic malaria, phlegm-type malaria.

Five-Branch Dipping Formula，*Shenghui*, Volume 25.，For wind-toxin attacks causing pain in the hands and feet.