Coptis and Garlic Pills

Decoction for Cleansing Pathogenic Factors，From *A Concise Explanation of Medical Formulas*, Volume 5.，If menstruation has already begun and the patient is further affected by a heat pathogen, resulting in alternating chills and fever—which may be milder during the day and more severe at night, or manifest only as body heat—regardless of whether the patient experiences … Read more

Eight-Ingredient Madder Root Decoction，Formula from *Qianjin* (Volume 24); name cited in *Qianjin* (Volume 15).，For poisoning by a “gu” (magic insect), with bleeding resembling chicken liver and unbearable, churning abdominal pain.

Cedar Wood Decoction，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 4.，Lacquer-induced skin sores.

Red Rooster Ointment，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Jinan Formula).，For joint and bone pain, numbness and loss of sensation, trauma from falls or blows, and mastitis in women.

Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty’s Imperially Enfeoffed Continuation-Fluid Ointment，From *The Prescriptions of the Emaciated Immortal for Saving Lives*, Volume 2.，Effective for all eye diseases, both chronic and acute.

Dried Ginger and White Atractylodes Powder，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 14.，For persistent red and white dysentery that does not subside, accompanied by abdominal pain.

Five-Branch Green Oil Ointment，From *Bao’s Formulas*, cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 292.，For scrofula that has become toxic, with pus, blood, and stagnant flesh.

Platycodon and Er Chen Decoction，*A Clear Explanation of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 1.，Fire-induced wheezing.

Seven-Ingredient Three-Yellow Decoction，*Wai Tai*, Volume 38.，For cases where milkstone causes agitation, with heat rising to the head, inability to eat, and vomiting immediately after drinking alcohol to relieve the symptoms.

Mung Bean Porridge，From *Compendium of Materia Medica* (Vol. 24), citing *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，For excessive thirst and water consumption; summer heat-induced restlessness and thirst; toxic sores and boils; edema in the elderly; and high fever with thirst.

Corydalis Ash Decoction，*Experienced Effective Formulas*.，For abdominal edema.

Decoction for Activating Meridians and Expelling Toxins，From *Miscellaneous Remarks on Treating Uncommon Ailments*, Volume 10.，When smallpox is subsiding and facial rashes are fading, if heat toxins linger and the patient’s sorrowful expression is palpable, residual toxins are inevitable.

Sacred Jujube，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 7.，All types of malignant dysentery.

Remarkable Formula for Regulating Menstruation，From *Yu’an*, Volume 5.，Amenorrhea.

Mercury Oxide Powder，*Treatise on Formulas for Smallpox in Children*.，When a child develops smallpox and a membrane forms over the eye:

Douyao，From *Secret Transmission from the Blue Sack*.，For various conditions involving deficiency-cold in the lower jiao.

Wind-Canker Pill，From *The New Book on the Care of Infants* (Volume 23), citing *The Zhao Family Tradition*.，In cases where a child has a constitutional deficiency or has been improperly breastfed,resulting in a pale, fragile complexion; exposure to wind and cold; weak vital energy; and the presence of external pathogens within the body—all of which cause … Read more

Newly Revised “Hei Re Bing He Ren Yin” Decoction，*Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Black-Heat Diseases*.，Black Fever. The skin is dark and sallow; the eye sockets are sunken and bluish; the area around the lips is dark; the neck is long and thin; the neck veins pulsate; chills and fever rise and fall in … Read more

Great Divine Atractylodes Decoction，From *This Matter Is Hard to Know*.，For cold-induced illnesses in all four seasons.

Aconite Wind-Dispelling Paste，*Shenghui*, Volume 25.，For stubborn wind-induced arthralgia, paralysis of the lower back and legs, stiffness of the limbs, and unbearable pain from falling from a horse; as well as vitiligo and various skin sores, including beriberi.

Jinghuai Powder，*Zhi Zhi*, Volume 21.，Bleeding or pain from the gums.

Five Poisons Ingot，From *Li Ye*.，For all types of toxic swellings and insect or scorpion stings.

Zhongru Zhenling Pill，*Direct Pointers on Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，Pediatric kidney-related diarrhea. The face is dark and sallow; teeth are worn down and falling out; bone strength is weak; there is lower abdominal pain; and the stool contains a large amount of white pus.

Decay-Removing, Pain-Relieving, and Tissue-Regenerating Powder，*Secret Transmission from the Blue Sack*.，

Bone-Transforming Pill，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 1.，For stroke-induced paralysis that has persisted for a long time without healing, with the limbs limp and unresponsive, and where other medications have proven ineffective.