Hand-Soaking Formula

Almond Syrup Porridge，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 96); name cited in *Pujifang* (Vol. 258).，For injuries to the tendons and meridians, sudden shortness of breath, and coughing.

Eight-Ingredient Wax-Alum Pills，From *Records of the Transmission of Smallpox and Rash*, Volume 18.，For boils and abscesses.

Crying-Then-Laughing Powder，From *The Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 9, citing a formula by Qi Shuangquan.，For toothache and facial swelling.

Si Shun Fu Zi Decoction，From *Effective Prescriptions for Women*, Volume 8.，Diarrhea consisting entirely of white stool resembling fish brains; cold pain in the navel and abdomen occurring day and night without pattern; cold extremities; or vomiting, inability to retain any food, preference for warm food and aversion to cold; the six pulses are faint and … Read more

Ice-Penetrating Pill，From *Bo Ji*, Volume 4.，For all wind-toxin conditions that ascend, causing discomfort in the chest and heart, dryness and涩ness of the mouth and tongue, wind-deficiency with phlegm congestion, and loss of appetite; as well as wind-toxin descending to cause pain in the lower back and legs, spleen deficiency with jaundice, kidney failure with weak … Read more

Coptis and Trichosanthes Root Pills，From *Yuanji Qiwei*, Volume 2.，For conditions characterized by excessive eye discharge, blurred vision, tightness and dryness with photophobia, red veins running through the eyes, and constipation in the internal organs.

Xiao Dingxiang Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 54.，For distension and fullness of the Triple Burner, disharmony of qi in the chest and diaphragm, and cold qi rising from the primordial organs causing confusion and drowsiness.

Aconite and White Atractylodes Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 28.，For typhoid fever with flaccid convulsions, cold and numb hands and feet, tight and stiff tendons and vessels, unceasing sweating, a stiff neck, and shaking of the head with a clenched jaw.

Qianjin Wutao Pills，*Zhi Zhi*, Volume 6.，For stomach deficiency with epigastric fullness, undigested food stagnation, retained phlegm and fluid retention, dizziness, and arm pain.

Banlangen Dry Syrup，*Manual of Chinese Herbal Formulations*.，Tonsillitis, mumps.

Chuanxiong-Danggui Decoction，From *Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 2.，For cases of profuse vomiting caused by straining after a heavy meal, or by lifting heavy loads, or by straining that damages the meridians and blood vessels leading to gushing blood and vomiting, or by falls, blows, or injuries.

Enhanced Sanbai Pill，From *Zhang’s Comprehensive Treatise on Medicine*, Volume 15.，For toxic sores caused by plum blight in individuals with deficient vital energy and cold constitution.

Secretly Transmitted Angelica and Rehmannia Decoction，From *Songya Medical Path* (Volume 2).，Eye disorders.

Anran Decoction，From *Yu’an*, Volume 6.，For those who cough up clear phlegm.

Japanese Encephalitis Compound，*Technology for the Preparation of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicines in Rural Areas*.，Epidemic Japanese Encephalitis.

Capture-the-Watch Pills，*Complete Book of Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 2.，For any bone lodged in the throat.

Decoction of Two Huang and Three Bai，From *The Jade Ruler of Gynecology*, Volume 5.，For yin deficiency with restlessness and fever, accompanied by red or white leukorrhea; or for cases caused by emotional distress, presenting with a rapid pulse and leukorrhea, where the condition is attributed to heat.

Scorpion-Tiger Powder，From *Direct Pointers on Pediatrics*, Volume 2.，For childhood convulsions and epilepsy.

Cinnamon Twig and Tangerine Peel Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Wandering bi syndrome, numbness in the shoulders and back, stiffness and pain in the wrists, heaviness in the head and nasal congestion, aversion to wind with slight sweating, and generalized pain without a fixed location.

Deer Antler and Dendrobium Pills，From *Selected Remarkable Formulas by Layman Yu*, cited in Volume 12 of *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，Deficiency of the liver and kidneys causes blood and qi to fail to nourish the eyes, resulting in prolonged visual strain (eyestrain), clusters of black specks, a hazy, foggy vision, and objects appearing as if covered … Read more

Newly Formulated Orchid Ointment Decoction，*Treatise on Warm Syndrome Caused by Sheep’s Wool*.，For warm pathogenic factors caused by sheep’s wool, resulting in deficiency of qi and blood; or latent toxic heat from sheep’s wool within half a month after childbirth, presenting with chest tightness and poor appetite, alternating chills and fever, pain in the head and … Read more

Poplar Wine，From *Yuxiang Fang*, cited in Volume 16 of *Yixin Fang*.，For goiters and nodules.

Five Tigers Toxin-Seeking Pills，From *Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Shenyang Formula).，Syphilitic skin ulcers.

Horsefly Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 72.，For women with prolonged absence of menstruation accompanied by intermittent chills and fever.

Malaria-Stopping Elixir，From *Preserving Life and Nourishing the Essence* (Volume 8).，For malaria.