Three Invitations to Zhuge

Lung-Softening Pills，From *The New Book for the Very Young*, Volume 16, citing *Ji’s Family Tradition*.，For chronic nasal congestion.

Epilepsy Heart-Calming Pill，*Compendium of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas* (Suzhou Formula).，For phlegm-fire obscuring the mind, resulting in mental confusion, dizziness, and sudden collapse; as well as all types of epilepsy characterized by excessive phlegm, loss of consciousness, and convulsions of the limbs.

Cimicifuga Decoction，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 19.，For children with accumulated heat in the viscera, characterized by a flushed face, restlessness and thirst, thick phlegm obstructing the flow, dryness and涩ness in the stomach and intestines, and all forms of wind-obstruction.

Chen Yuan Paste by the Taoist of Cangwu，From *Qianjin*, Volume 7, citing *Hu Qia’s Formulas*.，Effective for all types of rheumatic pain and stiffness in the bones and muscles.

Shaqi Mo’er Decoction，*Essentials of Diet and Nutrition*, Volume 1.，

Aconite Root Formula，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 15.，Insects in the ear.

Scorpion Tail Ointment，Quoted from *The Zhu Family’s Inherited Recipes* in Volume 10 of *The New Book on Infant Care*.，For children who, following a prolonged illness, experience vomiting, diarrhea, or convulsions that develop into chronic spleen wind.

Newly Formulated Tongyou Decoction，*Compendium of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 1.，Obstruction of the pylorus, severe constipation, upward surging of stool to the throat, vomiting with inability to swallow food, intestinal dryness and gastric obstruction, on the verge of developing dysphagia.

Military Pills，*Formulas from the Heart of Medicine*, Volume 26, citing *Records of Verified Cases from Ancient and Modern Times*.，For snake and bee stings.

Gui Yuan Decoction，*The Classic of Dian Dian*, Volume 1.，Chronic illness leading to dysuria, difficulty urinating, redness, swelling, and pain, with frequent oozing of pus and serous fluid.

Stone-Lithiasis Powder，From *Selected Formulas of Renowned Physicians: Continuation*.，For sand-and-stone urinary calculi.

Liver-Soothing and Ear-Clearing Decoction，From *Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 5.，Tinnitus and deafness in the left ear, caused by pent-up anger and liver fire burning intensely.

Two Atractylodes and Four Divine Herbs Pill，From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 5.，For postpartum deficiency of blood and qi, resulting in impaired digestion and absorption, or exposure to wind and cold leading to diarrhea, and in severe cases, abdominal pain.

Pill for Chronic and Persistent Illnesses，From *Wang’s Collection of Proven Formulas*, cited in *Classified Collection of Medical Formulas*, Volume 89.，For all types of stagnant qi.

Pills for Eliminating Food Stagnation with Donkey-Hide Gelatin，From *The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 6.，For abdominal stagnation, pain, and diarrhea or dysentery.

Maltose Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 124.，For fish bones stuck in the throat.

Shunrong Decoction，From *One Hundred Questions on Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For women with blood stasis, blood clots, or masses (jiazheng), characterized by a distended abdomen with a palpable mass and throbbing pain, without alternating chills and fever over a prolonged period.

Dragon Bone and Polygala Pill，From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 41.，Weakness of the heart and kidneys, resulting in nocturnal emission without dreaming.

Calomel Wash，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Athlete’s foot.

One Tonifying, One Purging Pill，*Pulse Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments*, Volume 1.，Chronic malaria resulting from internal injury complicated by external pathogens.

Fangfeng Baidu Powder，From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 4.，Wind-Cold Cholera.

White Agarwood Powder，*Formulas of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 3 (*Newly Added Formulas of the Chunyou Era*).，For all conditions of cold qi attacking the heart and abdomen, causing distension and fullness in the flanks, belching with a sour taste and regurgitation of acid, chest and diaphragm obstruction, and reduced appetite.

Four-Spirit Pill，From *Su Shen’s Effective Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，Wind-related disorders.

Ox Gallbladder Pills，*Thousand Gold Prescriptions*, Volume 10.，For alcohol-induced jaundice, with yellowing of the body and the discharge of curd-like substances.

Ginseng, Atractylodes, Aconite, and Cinnamon Decoction，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 3.，Yin-cold qi directly strikes the Yin meridians, breaks through the barriers, and enters the Kidney Palace; the fire of the Gate of Life flees and is about to escape beyond the body.