San Zhen Decoction

Cimicifuga and Atractylodes Decoction，The formula is from *Ming Yi Za Zhu* (Miscellaneous Writings of a Ming Physician), Volume 2; the name appears in *Dong Yi Bao Jian* (Treasury of Eastern Medicine: Miscellaneous Diseases), Volume 3.，During the spring and autumn seasons in Lingnan, people are exposed to the miasma of mountain mist and fog; toxic vapors … Read more

Rhubarb Flesh-Eroding Ointment，From *Ghost Remedies*, Volume 5.，For boils and abscesses.

Dong Family’s Inherited Formula for Eliminating Food Stagnation，Proven Formula，Promotes digestion and resolves food stagnation.

Cinnabar Pill，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 52). Name cited in *Puji Fang* (Vol. 198).，For malaria with unpredictable attacks that has persisted for a long time without resolution.

Shi Zheng Pills，*National Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas* (Shenyang Formula).，For mountain mist and miasma, heatstroke, sudden illness, intestinal colic, abdominal pain with cold extremities, nausea and vomiting, vomiting and diarrhea with no passage, loss of consciousness, locked jaw and wide-open eyes, and venomous insect bites.

Modified Angelica and Sanguisorba Powder，*Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 141, citing *Shi Yuanduan’s Effective Formulas*.，Imbalances of cold and heat; qi toxins and malignant toxins; damp-heat intestinal stagnation; residual toxic dysentery; greasy, foul-smelling dysentery; dry heaving with inability to eat; muscle fever; and scanty urination.

Honeyed Peach Pastry，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 2.，For chronic wind-cold-damp arthralgia with paralysis on the left and weakness on the right.

Decoction of Cinnamon Twig (without cassia bark), Poria, and Atractylodes，*Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For Taiyang syndrome patients who have taken Guizhi Decoction or undergone purgation, yet still experience stiffness and pain in the head and neck, a smoldering fever, no sweating, fullness and mild pain in the epigastrium, and difficulty urinating.

Ginger and Honey Drink，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 47.，Excessive heat in the stomach, accompanied by vomiting, restlessness, and inability to eat or drink.

Du Zhan Fahan Qing San，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 9.，For typhoid fever characterized by a red complexion, aversion to cold, fever, headache, stiff neck, and body aches. Also effective against epidemic diseases.

Coptis and Elsholtzia Powder，*Effective Remedies*, Volume 2.，Summer malaria characterized by isolated fever, restlessness, intense thirst with a strong urge to drink, scanty and reddish urine, or a cold back and a sallow complexion.

Decoction for Restoring Yang and Rescuing the Stomach，*Collection of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 5.，For black, gangrenous sores extending to the lungs, where there is yin deficiency without yang, but stomach qi has not yet ceased.

Itching and Discharge Decoction，*Mirror of Surgical Medicine*.，Vaginal erosion in women, also known as “hidden insect” sores.

Qunxun Powder，From Volume 2 of *Chuanxin Shiyong Fang*, citing a formula by Li Wuzhong.，For acute or chronic toothaches with unbearable pain and swelling; swelling and pain in the cheeks.

Emergency Ointment for Yang Sha，*Li Ye*.，For conditions caused by exposure to wind, cold, heat, or dampness; dietary irregularities; and cholera with vomiting and diarrhea.

Decoction to Induce Labor and Regulate Qi，From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 4.，When a woman in labor suddenly experiences the fetus rising upward and pressing against the heart, this is caused by qi stagnation, or by the amniotic fluid drying up prematurely, causing the birth canal to become dry and constricted, making it … Read more

Purple Robe，*Secret Treatise on the Throat*, Volume 2.，Various types of oral sores affecting the Spleen Meridian, swollen and gangrenous gums, and dental abscesses.

Wu-Bin Pills，Formula from *Ben Shi* (Vol. 7); name cited in *Ben Shi Fang Shi Yi* (Vol. 7).，

Modified Minor Bupleurum Decoction Combined with Four Substances Decoction，From *Baoming Gejue*, Volume 32.，Flank pain caused by blood stasis.

Swelling-Dispelling Pills，From *Shi Yuan’s Effective Prescriptions*, cited in *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 129).，Edema, scanty and difficult urination.

Gardenia and Rehmannia Decoction，From *Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 7.，For phlegm accumulation with heat, where phlegm precedes bleeding.

Han’s Toxin-Expelling Powder，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Shenyang Formula).，For abscesses, malignant sores, genital ulcers, syphilis, hemorrhoids, scabies, carbuncles, red wounds, burns, lacerations, as well as fetal toxins, wind-fire toxins in children, and other skin erosions.

Powder to Calm Agitation，From *Chongqing Tang Suibi* (Random Notes from Chongqing Hall), Volume 1.，For pediatric convulsions and spasms.

Sweet Pear Decoction，Formula from *Compendium of Materia Medica* (Vol. 30), citing *Simple Formulas*; name found in *Songfeng’s Discourse on Epidemics* (Vol. 5).，For typhoid fever and epidemic fever.

Life-Preserving and Life-Stabilizing Pill，*Shenghui* (Volume 85).，For children suffering from “celestial convulsions”—characterized by convulsions in the limbs, eyes rolling upward, dazed mental state, dry skin, a body feeling as if on fire, restless sleep at night, inner agitation, and unrelenting thirst and heat—