More Herbs Formulas
Ren-Gui Powder,*Secret Transmission from the Blue Sack*.,Itching and dampness of the feet.
Xuanxi Decoction,From *Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 5.,Heat stagnation in the Heart and Spleen, with a swollen, wood-like tongue.
Wind-Epilepsy Suppressing Pills,From *Yonglei Qianfang*, Volume 6.,Epilepsy among miscellaneous diseases.
Qi Blockage,From *Fushou Jingfang*.,For men and women suffering from dysphagia, epigastric fullness, stabbing pain in the chest and flanks, masses, and hernias. Also for various types of qi stagnation and food stagnation.
Stone Acorus Decoction,The formula is taken from *Yipan Zhu*, Volume 7, citing *Shishi Milu*; the name appears in *Weisheng Hongbao*, Volume 5.,For “Flower Epilepsy”: When a woman’s emotional desires go unfulfilled, causing the Liver’s Wood element to wither and internal fire to rage, she may suddenly suffer an epileptic seizure. Her pulse at the Cunkou … Read more
Ai-Fu Pills,*Zhang’s Comprehensive Treatise on Medicine*, Volume 16.,For women with excessive uterine bleeding, intermittent and scanty discharge, and red or white vaginal discharge accompanied by lower abdominal pain.
Golden Toad Wine,*Essentials of the Crimson Pouch*.,Severe leprosy, with the entire body swollen and festering, and hair and eyebrows all falling out and rotting.
Bamboo Cuttlefish Soup,*Commentary on the Treatise on Chronic Malaria*.,Chronic Malaria.
Raw Rehmannia Decoction for Blood-Activating Pills,Quoted from *Shān Fán Fāng* in Volume 34 of *Wài Tái*.,For women with cold in the internal organs, where the uterine orifice remains closed, causing blood to accumulate in the abdomen and form a fleshy mass—a palpable lump—known as “Zheng Qi.”
Viburnum Wine,*Shengji Zonglu*, Vol. 114.,Deafness.
Moon-Gazing Sand Powder,From *Zhun Sheng: Pediatrics*, Volume 6.,For those who cannot open their eyes in a dark room after smallpox, where the smallpox toxin has settled on the black ring of the eye or obscures the pupil.
Musk and Buddha’s Hand Powder,From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 55.,For five types of ear discharge—including pus, blood, and serous fluid—as well as smallpox lesions appearing on a child’s cheeks.
Depression-Relieving Decoction,*Fu Qingzhu’s Gynecology*, Volume 2.,Used for depression during pregnancy, stagnation of liver qi, resulting in a suspended fetus, restless fetal movements, and tightness and pain in both flanks, as if a bowstring were being drawn.
Minor Xiangru Decoction,*Comprehensive Record of Sacred Remedies*, Volume 34.,For summer heat-induced vomiting and retching.
Agarwood Internal Tonifying Pills,From *Eight Notes on Nurturing Life*, Volume 17.,
Enhanced Jichuan Decoction,From *Compendium of Medicine*, Volume 3.,Postpartum constipation.
Decoction for Restoring Vitality,*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 11.,A woman whose menstrual period arrives earlier than usual and experiences extremely heavy flow is often thought to suffer from extreme blood heat. Yet who would have known that this is actually due to an excess of water and fire in the kidneys? When fire is … Read more
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.
Duyou Powder,*Introduction to Obstetrics*, Volume 3.,Postpartum metrorrhagia, unstoppable menstrual bleeding, and other types of bleeding.
Warming Stomach and Regulating the Middle Decoction,From *Essentials of the Collection of Formulas Based on Causes and Symptoms*, Volume 3.,For the elderly, children, and those with weak constitutions, when pathogenic factors invade the Jueyin channel, causing cold in the stomach and preventing roundworms from settling.
Secret-Transmitted Six-God Pills,From *Medical Convenience*, Volume 1.,
Decoction of Dried Rehmannia,From *Shuanfan Fang*, cited in Volume 10 of *Wai Tai*.,For lung atrophy with shortness of breath due to deficiency-cold.
Fennel Herb Powder,*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 4.,Nasal hemorrhoids.
Modified Eight-Ingredient Bupleurum Decoction,*Secrets of Gynecology*, Volume 4.,Amenorrhea. For cases of blood stasis causing amenorrhea, bone-steaming and tidal fever, with a weak pulse.
Huangqin Xiefei Decoction,*Records of Smallpox and Measles by Ren Duan*, Volume 13.,Lung heat with internal excess.
Sweet Tansy Pills,For “Stone Water” (a condition characterized by a hard, progressively enlarging abdomen and swelling of the limbs).