Maqian Decoction

Amber Thorough Decoction，From *Famous Prescriptions Through the Ages*, citing a family recipe passed down by Shi Chuan’en.，For tetanus.

Heart-Calming Gentian Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 14.，For wind-heat with heart deficiency causing palpitations, or anxiety, fear, and bewilderment—as if being chased—or fear and restlessness during sleep, accompanied by delusions and agitation.

Essential Pregnancy Decoction，From *The Complete Guide to Longevity*, cited in Volume 3 of *The Collection of Immortal Insights*.，For regular menstrual cycles but infertility.

Pork Kidney with Green Salt and Eucommia Formula，From *Research on Medical Formulas*, Volume 5.，Lower back pain.

Life-Saving Pill，*Records of Smallpox and Measles* (Ren Duan Lu), Volume 14.，Smallpox. Cold qi rising upward, body feeling cold, smallpox lesions appearing grayish-white and sunken, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, vomiting, watery diarrhea, abdominal pain, and cold hands and feet.

Dan Decoction，From *The Book of Nurturing Children*, Volume 2.，For erysipelas in children, characterized by dry itching all over the body, fever, and restless crying.

Bone-Resolving Pill，*Selected Essentials of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 7.，For bone lodged in the throat.

Tong’ai Bu’er Powder，*The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 4.，For sycamore-induced toxin manifesting in the throat, causing ulceration and pain, making it difficult to swallow even broth or water.

Wild Fox Pill，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 100.，Note 5: For those who have had sexual relations with ghosts, spirits, fox spirits, or malevolent spirits.

Decoction to Expel the “Thief” from the Wall，*Zongfu of Laryngology*, Volume 3.，Yellow Throat Caused by Plague.

Taiyang Pill，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 27.，For cold-toxin in typhoid fever, with cold and numbness in the limbs and a faint, fine pulse.

Ginseng and Coptis Decoction，Formula from *Danxi’s Heart Method*, Volume 2; name cited in *Huichun*, Volume 3.，For dysentery with locked jaw and severe heat in the stomach.

Perilla Seed Decoction for Resolving Phlegm and Regulating Qi，Quoted from *Bi Yong* in Volume 5 of *Dong Yi Bao Jian*.，Phlegm-induced wheezing and shortness of breath. Cold phlegm and qi stagnation, with fullness, oppression, and obstruction.

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.

Kehua Powder，Formula from *Formulas for Emergency Use* (Zhouhou Fang), Volume 7; name cited in *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy* (Yuyuan Fang), Volume 8.，

Mantis Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 174.，For children suffering from stroke-induced spasms, with stiffness in the body and back and clenched jaws.

Fragrant Antler Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 9.，For depletion of the lower jiao, cramping pain in the umbilical region and abdomen, reduced appetite, a dazed or unfocused gaze, nightmares of sexual intercourse with ghosts, seminal emission, and emaciation.

Bai Shang Decoction，From *Handbook for the Care of Infants*, Volume 2.，For wind-cold pathogens causing common cold, regardless of whether symptoms manifest as cold or heat.

Camphor-Cinnabar Ointment，*Outline of Surgical Treatise on Ulcers*, Volume 2.，For wandering rheumatic sores, weeping sores, abscesses, and pus-filled lesions with spreading discharge, accompanied by unbearable itching.

Heart-Nourishing and Stomach-Harmonizing Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，Qi deficiency with stomach heat; a history of epileptic seizures; incessant mumbling; frequent episodes of confusion; alternating between shouting and cursing and singing; spitting phlegm resembling that of a centipede.

Prince Han Wei’s Self-Nourishing Pills，*Remarkably Effective Formulas*, Volume 21.，For emaciation, mental lethargy, loss of appetite, epigastric fullness, vomiting, persistent pain in the chest and abdomen, heaviness in the lower back and leg pain, and intermittent diarrhea.

Five-Herb Powder，*Bai Yi*, Volume 9.，For headaches and red eyes.

Monkey-Horse Oil，*The Collection of Immortal Remedies*, Volume 4.，Alopecia.

Milk-Promoting and Edema-Reducing Decoction，From *Collected Insights from Reflection*.，For women with mastitis or breast abscesses, characterized by hardened lumps, redness, swelling, pain, and alternating fever and chills, resulting from stagnation of qi and blood.

Enhanced Angelica and White Peony Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 10.，Deficiency of liver blood leads to liver dryness and qi reversal; even the slightest disappointment causes anger to fill the chest, which cannot be dispelled, resulting in unceasing irritation and resentment.