Sweet Milk Porridge

Plum Blossom Five-Qi Pill，From *The Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 2.，For brain abscesses, back boils, and various types of carbuncles—in the early stages when alternating chills and fever occur, accompanied by pain in the tendons and bones, resembling a common cold, with nausea and vomiting—but before pus has formed.

A Wonderful Formula for Scrofula，*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 15.，Scrofula.

Platycodon Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 5.，Chronic accumulation of cold qi in the spleen causing wandering cold, hollow rumbling in the abdomen, distension and fullness in both flanks, and reduced appetite.

Hot Dip in Broth，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 65); name cited in *Pujifang* (Vol. 300).，Finger Swelling. When the qi of the five viscera flows into the twelve meridians and heat surges to the fingers without receding, the fingers first swell, becoming hot and painful to the touch, with a color that is not dusky; subsequently, pus … Read more

Asarum and Aconite Decoction，From *Guide to Formulas*, cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 160.，For cough originating from the heart accompanied by aversion to cold, pain radiating upward from the heart, a sensation of a lump in the throat, and in severe cases, swelling and pain in the throat, a taut pulse, and trismus.

Surgical Ointment，From *A Compendium of Ancient Formulas*, Volume 2.，For contusions, bruises, and severe burns or scalds.

Pohe Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 1.，In cases of monthly-onset cold damage, 6–7 days after onset, when the Taiyang, Yangming, and Shaoyang channels are affected simultaneously, presenting with headache, eye pain, and persistent chills and fever.

Cimicifuga Stomach-Clearing Decoction，*The Great Exposition on Cold Damage*, Volume 2.，Heat in the blood division of the Yangming channel, presenting with thirst, epistaxis, and macules; however, the thirst persists despite fluid intake; or heat accumulation from a diet rich in fatty and starchy foods, manifesting as bad breath, parched lips, and decaying teeth.

Donkey-hide Gelatin Chess Pieces，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 189.，For diarrhea and dysentery.

Golden Mercury Elixir，*Xu Yijian*, Volume 4.，For sudden stroke with abrupt loss of consciousness, limp and dragging limbs, a lopsided mouth and face, a stiff tongue with excessive phlegm, convulsions and tremors, or opisthotonos with the eyes staring straight ahead and the jaw clenched shut.

Poria, Cinnamon, and Bupleurum Decoction，*Source of the Four Sages’ Hearts*, Volume 10.，Bone-consuming fever.

Qing Shang Decoction，From *Selected Formulas of Renowned Physicians*.，Various disorders of the head and face attributed to blood heat.

Decoction for Clearing Toxins and Dissolving Rashes，From *Collected Explanations on Measles and Smallpox*, Volume 6.，For rashes caused by blood heat.

Spleen-Nourishing Cake，*Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，For damp-cold in the spleen and stomach, reduced appetite, chronic diarrhea, and undigested food in the stool.

Yanghe Huayan Decoction，*Mirror of Surgical Medicine*.，For breast cancer in women.

Mercuric Oxide Formula，*Treatment of Fungal Ulcers*, Volume 2.，Chronic fungal infection.

Decoction to Clear Heat and Soothe the Stomach，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 6.，Fire in the pericardium causes redness and swelling of the mouth and tongue, making speech impossible, while the stomach feels extreme hunger and thirst.

Two-Ingredient Fried Pills，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 6.，

Diaphragmatic Dysphagia Ointment，Formula by Miao Zhongchun, cited in *Classification and Treatment of Syndromes*, Volume 3.，Dysphagia.

Pharbitis Ear-Plugging Formula，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 15.，For ear swelling.

Pu Huang Powder，*De Xiao*, Volume 14.，For women experiencing difficulty with urination and defecation, as well as vaginal bleeding, after childbirth.

Detoxifying Decoction，Formula from Wang’s text, cited in *Essentials of Smallpox Treatment*.，For smallpox lesions on days 11–12, accompanied by fever, where the “dang’an” (red ring around the lesion) is absent or incomplete, or where scabs have fallen off without a “tuo’an” (supporting ring) forming.

Ge San Zi，*Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 375.，For infantile convulsions and spasms occurring more than a hundred times in a day and night.

Modified Seven-Ingredient Atractylodes Powder，*Compiled Medical Manuscripts*, Volume 8.，Diarrhea due to deficiency with dry mouth.

Cinnamon, Aconite, and Black Plum Four-Ingredient Decoction，*Eight Methods of Medical Practice*, Volume 4.，For symptoms of blood deficiency and irregular menstruation complicated by cold.