Tongding Decoction

Angelica and Dragon’s Blood Pills，*Six Books of Medical Essentials*, Volume 18.，For cases of internal accumulation of liver fire, impaired digestion due to deficient stomach qi, pain and distension in the flanks and abdomen, constipation, and a rapid, forceful pulse.

Anti-inflammatory and Analgesic Powder，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 8.，Boils and abscesses.

Cinnabar Calming the Mind Pills，*Hui Chun*, Volume 4.，For cases of excessive mental exertion leading to damage to the heart’s blood, manifested as palpitations, anxiety, and restless sleep—as if someone were trying to capture the patient—which gradually develops into a heart disorder and may even lead to madness.

Pu Bai Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 10.，For excessive fire in the pericardium, characterized by uncontrollable, unprovoked laughter or laughing to oneself in private—behavior unlike one’s usual disposition.

Worm-Expelling Powder，From *Quansheng*, cited in Volume 3 of *Xian Nian Ji*.，For various intestinal parasites.

Dried Kudzu, Pinellia, and Ginger Decoction，From *The Complete Collection on Survival from Cold Damage*, Volume 2.，For Yangming syndrome with high fever, eye pain, dry nose, and vomiting; for combined Taiyang and Yangming syndromes with diarrhea and vomiting; and for cases where symptoms worsen after taking a decoction, specifically those involving vomiting in the upper jiao.

Lao Mo San，*Special Teachings on Ophthalmology*.，For cases of extremely severe corneal opacity.

Chive Juice，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 115.，For ants in the ear.

Aged Perilla Powder，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 242.，For beriberi, scanty and difficult urination, abdominal distension and fullness, phlegm rising, and loss of appetite.

Male-Female Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 34); name cited in *Shengji Zonglu* (Vol. 121).，For teeth that have long failed to erupt, even after more than ten years.

Enhanced Yougui Decoction，From *Secret Manual of Prenatal and Postnatal Care*, Volume 2.，For cases where wind-cold invades the skin and muscles after childbirth, causing disharmony in the meridians, resulting in twitching of the hands and feet, upward rolling of the eyes, opisthotonos, facial asymmetry, loss of speech, surging phlegm and saliva, and loss of consciousness.

Soapstone and Alum Decoction，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 4.，Finger crushed in a vice.

Rescue-Right Decoction，*Formulas from the Huizhitiang Hall*, Volume 1.，After a stroke, the right hand is numb, or saliva drips from the corner of the mouth, and the patient is unable to speak.

Huiguang Pills，From *Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 69, citing *Wang’s Collection of Proven Formulas*，For redness, swelling, dryness, and pain in the eyes.

Great Warming Pill for Convulsions，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 8.，For acute convulsions with feverish spells, chronic convulsions with nighttime crying, spasms, and internal heat with restlessness.

Du Ruo Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 22.，For headaches and dizziness, phlegm congestion in the chest and heart, inability to eat or drink, and weakness in the limbs.

Lung-Regulating Ginseng Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 86.，Pulmonary Consumption. Caused by exposure to cold or consumption of cold liquids damaging the lungs, or by hemoptysis following alcohol consumption, accompanied by coughing up turbid sputum, intermittent chills and fever, inability to tolerate food, and progressive emaciation.

Fire-Clearing and Blood-Cooling Decoction，From *Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 1.，Hemoptysis.

Huolong Powder，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 4.，Yang-toxin affecting multiple meridians, where medication fails to clear the obstruction, resulting in chest constriction and severe pain; or where there is slight relief followed by renewed obstruction, accompanied by shortness of breath, heat, dryness, and delirium.

Atractylodes and Black Pepper Pills，*Ji Feng*, Volume 12.，

Black Hen Soup，*Qian Jin*, Volume 2.，In the first month of pregnancy, when yin and yang combine to form the fetus, excessive cold causes pain; excessive heat leads to sudden startles; lifting heavy objects causes lower back pain; abdominal distension and a tight uterus may result in sudden discharge.

White Medicine Pills，*Shenghui*, Volume 35.，For sores, swelling, and pain in the throat, accompanied by coughing.

Five-Drain Decoction，From *Essentials of the Silver Sea*, Volume 1.，For those with dry, deficient eyes and excessive fire, as well as those with excessive deficient fire in the five viscera.

Miraculous Mylabris Pills，*Shenghui*, Volume 66.，For wind-induced fistulas with redness and swelling, accompanied by unceasing discharge of pus.

Wind-Dispelling and Cough-Relieving Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For headache and fever due to cold damage, aversion to wind and chills, nasal congestion with a heavy voice, cough with clear nasal discharge, copious white, slippery, and thin phlegm; or spontaneous sweating with severe coughing; or absence of sweating with wheezing; with a thin, white, … Read more