Detoxifying Yu-Ling Decoction

Phlegm-Expelling Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 9.，The patient has a preference for sour foods; due to excessive consumption of green plums, he developed a phlegm-fluid retention disorder. The phlegm-fluid retention causes pain as it rises and falls with the breath; during the day, the chest and diaphragm feel as if pierced by a knife, … Read more

Gourd and Glutinous Rice Wine Powder，From *Medical Records for the Common People*, Volume 6.，For abdominal fullness and distension.

Fenugreek Powder，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 187.，For kidney deficiency and exhaustion, pain in the lower back and knees, and surging qi in the small intestine and bladder.

Wall-Clinging Insect Powder，From *The Great Treasure of Health*, Volume 2.，For all types of carbuncles.

Blood-Nourishing and Pain-Relieving Decoction，*Hui Chun*, Volume 6.，Abdominal pain due to blood stasis following a miscarriage.

Cinnabar and Pinellia Pills，*General Essentials of Health*, Volume 14.，For cough due to cold phlegm.

Beech Leaf Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 73.，For women with metrorrhagia and metrometra accompanied by discharge of five colors, or unceasing red and white discharge.

Wuji Ointment，*Collection of Good Friends*, Volume 4.，For women with deficient blood and qi, resulting in blocked meridians.

Cassia Seed Decoction，Formula from *Clinical Guidelines for Medical Cases* (Vol. 8); name cited in *A Clear Illumination of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases* (Vol. 22).，Liver and gallbladder qi-heat; eye pain predominantly on the left side; red threads on the corneal opacity; left pulse string-like and涩 (thready).

Lapis Lazuli Pills，From *The Yongle Encyclopedia*, Volume 976, citing *Experienced Formulas for Universal Relief with Modifications*.，For children with febrile convulsions, labored breathing, copious phlegm, coughing, restlessness, flushed cheeks, difficulty with urination and defecation, and restless sleep at night.

Banlong Powder，From *Supplements to the Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 9.，Highly toxic.

Tianling Ointment，*Compendium of Divine Remedies*, Volume 141.，For hemorrhoids with a visible head that cause unbearable pain, or those with ulcerated, oozing, and moist lesions.

Fang Kui Pills，*Shenghui*, Volume 28.，For consumptive disorders with mass accumulation, fullness and distension under the flanks, abdominal distension with loss of appetite, and abdominal pain.

Galangal and Li Zhong Decoction，*The Heart Book of Bian Que: Divine Formulas*，Deficient malaria, chronic malaria, and weakness of the spleen and stomach. Or, in the early stages, caused by exposure to cold substances.

Sweet Bamboo Shavings Decoction，Quoted from *Shenshi’s Formulas* in Volume 2 of *Wai Tai*.，For wind-heat-induced restlessness and various forms of retching.

Formula for Dispelling Dampness and Transforming Blood Stasis，From *The Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 4.，For festering sores on the shins.

Xiao Bai Jiang，From *Extraordinary Formulas Beyond Surgical Prescriptions*, Volume 1.，Swelling and toxic sores.

Soft Red Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 9.，For food stagnation.

Qinjiao Jisheng Decoction，*Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 5.，Caused by physical strain during childbirth, resulting in irregular ascension and descent of blood and qi, which stagnates in the joints and causes tightness in the tendons and meridians, leading to widespread postpartum pain; in severe cases, stiffness in the lower back and spine, inability to … Read more

Phlegm-Nodule Wine，From *Classified Diagnoses and Treatments*, Volume 2.，Phlegm-Nodules.

Five-Spice Qi-Regulating Pills，From *Mei’s New Compilation of Proven Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，For all cases of food stagnation and qi stagnation, disharmony of the five viscera, obstruction of the nine orifices, constipation, chest fullness and distension, and pain in the heart and stomach caused by qi.

Calm-the-Fear Pills，From *He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 5.，For cases of deficient-heat of the “mutual fire” (xianghuo) causing sudden surges of cold extremities, accompanied by distension, pain, or symptoms that may or may not be manifest.

Stomach-Regulating and Yang-Elevating Decoction，*Six Books on Medical Essentials*, Volume 28.，For pregnant women with vomiting and diarrhea bordering on collapse, where the pulse has not yet become weak.

Decoction to Assist Fire and Nourish Earth，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 8.，For spleen deficiency resulting in impaired transformation and transportation, causing a sensation of fullness and oppression in the chest; over time, this solidifies into a mass—neither quite a mass nor a mass, neither quite a mass of stagnation nor a mass of … Read more

Nine-Two Elixir，From *Secret Formulas for Immediate Relief from the Blue Sack*, Volume 1.，For abscesses, boils, and sores where the necrotic tissue has sloughed off and the pus has been completely drained.