Decoction to Clear Dryness

Tonifying and Activating the Meridians Pill，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Tianjin Formula).，For trauma and contusions, deficiency of qi and blood, aching of tendons and bones, and difficulty moving.

Empirical Decoction for Stopping Menorrhagia，From *Song’s Gynecology*.，Uncontrollable heavy menstrual bleeding, causing extreme distress.

Medicinal Wine for Wind-Induced Arthralgia，From *Supplements to the Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 5.，For contusions and severe swelling.

Huanlian Pills，Formula from *Zongfutang Fang*, Volume 2; name cited in *Yixue Shizhaiyi*, Volume 7.，For those with blood in the stool and physical weakness.

Pig Gallbladder Ointment，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 3.，For malaria resulting from spleen and stomach deficiency, characterized by more chills than fever.

Dipsacus Decoction Pills，*Ji Feng*, Volume 4.，Damp-bi syndrome, lower back and leg disorders.

Iron-Dissolving Pills，From *Essentials for Miscellaneous Diseases*, citing *The Family Treasure of Health*.，For various types of qi-related and food-related poisonings, characterized by abdominal distension as taut as a drum, shortness of breath and chest tightness, inability to sit or lie down, sudden loss of appetite, and emaciation of the hands and feet—cases that have not responded … Read more

Scallion-Inducing Decoction，*Yixin Fang*, Volume 3, citing *Jingxin Lu*.，Irregular onset of pathogenic factors, accompanied by cursing and speaking as if possessed by a spirit.

Decoction for Resolving Dampness and Clearing Fire，*Family Instructions on Laryngology*, Volume 2.，Damp-heat and wind-fire ascend to affect the throat orifices, causing sore throat and fever, accompanied by a slight sweat, restlessness, and thirst; the pulse is floating and slow or fine and rapid; the tongue coating is yellow and greasy; and the urine is scanty … Read more

Bone-Penetrating Ointment，From *Formulas of the Ruizhu Hall*, Volume 2.，For all types of rheumatic pain with wandering sensations.

An Zang Decoction，*Records of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 3.，Caused by the inversion of the liver lobe, resulting in unharmed eyes but an inverted visual perception of all objects.

Mung Bean and Fermented Soybean Soup，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 349.，Postpartum weakness, emaciation, shortness of breath, and fatigue, accompanied by chills and fever resembling malaria, are collectively known as “ru lao.”

Pills for Dissolving Accumulations and Regulating Qi，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 182), citing *Formulas from the De Sheng Hall*.，For qi stagnation in the middle jiao, fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, slow digestion, vomiting and nausea with impaired qi circulation, abdominal masses and masses, abdominal distension and pain; and for women’s blood … Read more

Recipe for Boiled Black Beans，*Shenghui*, Volume 96.，Stroke, rheumatic arthralgia, muscle spasms and acute pain, accumulated heat in the stomach, mouth sores and restlessness; constipation with dry stools.

Coarse Mu Xiang Powder，From *General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 16).，For constipation.

Emergency Decoction for Restoring Yang，From *Yu’an*, Volume 2.，Directly targets the Yin meridians. Indicated for cases with no fever, aversion to cold, a sallow complexion, cold and numb hands and feet, purple lips and a curled tongue, blue-black fingernails, heaviness of the body making it difficult to turn over, no thirst, a tendency to curl the … Read more

Quick-Relief Muscle Ointment，From *Miscellaneous Remarks on Remedies for Uncommon Ailments*, Volume 10.，When smallpox occurs during the height of summer, with dry, hardened pus and exudate, the entire body appears as red as a sunset, fever and restlessness are as intense as fire, and the patient cannot find a comfortable position.

Decoction of Two Fragrant Herbs，From *Yu’an*, Volume 5.，Abdominal pain during menstruation.

Mutton Kidney Wontons，*Shenghui*, Volume 97.，Deficiency of kidney qi, pain in the lower back and legs.

Miraculous Elixir，From *Jie Wei Yuan Sou*, Volume 3.，For conditions such as “Wild Goose’s Leak,” “Hollow Hoof,” “Cold Wind,” “Mud on the Wall,” “Snake Skin,” and all forms of severe wind disorders.

Ganjue Ointment，*Ghost’s Legacy*, Volume 2.，For gunshot wounds and abscesses.

Miraculous Decoction for Relieving Summer Heat，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 2.，Heatstroke.

Toxin-Resolving Decoction，From *Supplement to Essential Formulas for Observing and Collecting*, Volume 8, citing *Formulas That Are All Effective*.，For boils and abscesses on the back, malignant carbuncles, mastitis, and a hundred kinds of nameless, headless, malignant sores.

Modified Liuqi Decoction，*Baoming Ge Kuo*, Volume 26.，Various types of swelling caused by qi and blood stagnation.

Rhubarb and Astragalus Decoction，*San Yin*, Volume 8.，Extreme deficiency of body fluids; heaviness of the body and lethargy; reluctance to move the limbs; joint pain; lack of appetite; coughing upon eating; pain under the right flank when coughing, radiating to the back and shoulder, making movement impossible.