Ginger Porridge

Ginseng Tonifying Voice Decoction，From *Records of the Essentials of Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 10.，Hoarseness following smallpox.

Ginger and Yiyuan Decoction，From *Songfeng’s Discourse on Epidemics*, Volume 5.，Epidemic and plague.

Rehmannia Blood-Nourishing Decoction，From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 1.，Blood deficiency with qi collapse, fever during menstruation, accompanied by heaviness in the head and blurred vision.

Wuling Decoction without Cinnamon Twig, with Talc Powder，From *Baoming Ge Kuo*, Volume 24.，Retained urine with palpable distension and fullness in the lower abdomen.

Xianfu Powder，*Record of Compassionate Insights on Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 14.，For sunken smallpox lesions.

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.

Blue Cress Seed Decoction，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 111.，For corneal opacities and opacities caused by wind-pathogen invasion.

Eucommia-Like Sacred Pills，From *The Treasure of Health* (cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Vol. 210).，For cold of the spleen and internal organs, abdominal pain, and loose stools with watery diarrhea.

Ginseng and Qianghuo Decoction，*One Hundred Questions on Gynecology*.，For common cold during pregnancy, characterized by fever, headache, and body aches.

Yellow-White Niuche Powder，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 11.，In women, worry and overthinking injure the spleen; combined with pent-up anger that injures the liver, this leads to intense internal liver fire. This fire overpowers the spleen earth, causing the spleen to fail in its transport and transformation functions. Damp-heat qi accumulates within the Belt … Read more

Essence and Qi Pills，*Treatise on Wind-Induced Consumption and Abdominal Distension*.，Consumptive disease. Shortness of breath, reluctance to speak, lack of strength to move, dull eyes, pale complexion, and deficiency of both qi and blood.

Lian’ai Decoction，From *Songfeng on Epidemics*, Volume 2.，For plague patients with lockjaw and diarrhea.

Powdered Medicinal Formula，*Guide to Prenatal and Childbirth Care*, Volume 8.，All types of abscesses, boils, and malignant sores.

Sixteen-Ingredient Qi-Regulating Decoction，From *Yuji Weiyi*, Volume 15.，For liver qi stagnation and blood stasis, or external invasion by wind, cold, and dampness pathogens leading to disharmony of qi and blood, resulting in the formation of masses without changes in skin color; for symptoms such as unexplained malignant swellings, abscesses, and boils; for breast cancer; for wandering … Read more

Silver-Infused Luo Dan，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 173.，For food stagnation and abdominal masses, with constipation and unbearable pain.

Lingzao Pill，From *Yu’an*, Volume 6.，Treats “running horse teeth” sores and all types of oral sores.

Gui-Fu Decoction，*The Secret Treasury of the Orchid Chamber*, Middle Volume.，Foul-smelling leukorrhea, accompanied by frequent sadness and melancholy. This indicates extreme deficiency of yang qi and a syndrome of severe cold, with prolonged, unceasing discharge that flows downward, white and slippery like snot.

Detoxifying and Clearing the Nutritive Fluid Decoction，From *Zhao Bingnan’s Collection of Clinical Experience*.，For carbuncles, boils, and abscesses with intense toxic heat causing simultaneous disruption of both Qi and Blood, as well as the early stages of toxemia caused by all types of suppurative infections. Symptoms include high fever, restlessness and thirst, and may even include … Read more

Alum and Scorpion Powder，*Puji Fang*, Volume 294.，Neck swelling, also known as goiter.

Mu Xiang Bu Er Pills，From *Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 6.，For dysentery—whether the stool is red, white, or a mixture of red and white.

Black Amber Powder，*Yi Ji*, Volume 8.，For swelling caused by blood stasis, accompanied by difficult, scanty urination, and generalized edema of the face and limbs.

Decoction for Eliminating Dampness and Restoring Original Qi，*Songfeng on Epidemics*, Volume 2.，Epidemic fever complicated by dampness.

White Horse Hair Powder，*Qianjin*, Volume 4.，For leukorrhea.

Hui Chun Ointment for Diarrhea and Dysentery，From *Li Ye*.，For diarrhea and dysentery.

Hawthorn Internal Dissolution Pills，*Unified Formulary of Traditional Prescriptions of Tianjin Municipality*.，Indicated for epigastric fullness, acid regurgitation, chest fullness and bloating, pain associated with masses or lumps, and constipation caused by stagnation of qi and blood.