Formula for Inducing Labor

Glutinous Rice Soup，From *General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 10).，For persistent vomiting and diarrhea.

Copper Green Ointment for Eye Drops，*Shenghui*, Volume 32.，For red, itchy, and painful eyes caused by wind.

Cinnamon and Clove Pain-Relieving Powder，From *Yi Chuan Sheng Yi*, Volume 4, citing a formula by Xu Xiangren.，For thirst resulting from physical labor in summer or autumn, accompanied by excessive consumption of cold water, leading to pain in the chest and abdomen, where other medications have proven ineffective.

Tai Bi Dan，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 392.，For children suffering from water retention, food stagnation, the “Five Accumulations,” fruit poisoning, and other abdominal disorders. Also treats the “Five Accumulations” and undigested breast milk.

Tannic Acid Powder，From *A Clear Explanation of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 23.，For swelling of the tooth root accompanied by severe pain, slight redness, white blisters, and a cracked tip of the tongue.

Mulberry, Moutan, and White-Discharging Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Liver fire drying the lungs, resulting in cough accompanied by pain in the flanks, inability to turn over in bed, and in severe cases, hemoptysis, or sputum mixed with blood streaks or droplets.

Achyranthes Leaf Porridge，From *Shenghui*, Volume 97.，Rheumatic arthralgia, pain in the lower back and knees.

Miraculous Pills，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 395.，For children with vomiting and diarrhea, indigestion, abdominal pain, loss of appetite for breast milk or food, and accompanying vomiting (?? Shi Jian).

Xiao Dingxin Decoction，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 14.，For debility and emaciation, with weak and startled heart qi and frequent nightmares. For heart exhaustion with deficiency-cold, manifesting as palpitations, confusion, and forgetfulness; nightmares and startled awakenings; and mental instability.

Ten-Ingredient Cangbai Powder，Formula from *Danxi’s Heart Method* (Vol. 4); name cited in *Introduction to Medicine* (Vol. 7).，Hernia pain.

Silkworm Fragrance Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Vol. 14.，For chronic ear discharge that has not healed.

Paste for Regulating Blood and Nourishing the Stomach in Cases of Exhaustion-Induced Illness，From *Li Ye*.，For fatigue-induced colds, internal injury to qi and blood, and external invasion by wind-cold, presenting with headache, fever, aversion to cold, spontaneous sweating, and profound fatigue and weakness.

Gardenia, Acorus, and Poria Decoction，*Zhun Sheng: Pediatrics*, Volume 5.，In cases of smallpox in children, where heat-toxin gives rise to wind, resulting in a hoarse voice and inability to speak.

Jinghong Powder Medicated Paste，From *Zhao Bingnan’s Collection of Clinical Experience*.，Yang-syndrome sinus tracts, fistulas, abscesses, and cases where pus and toxins have not been completely cleared.

Tiger Bone Gel Pills，From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 81.，For “crane-knee wind” and various symptoms of paralysis.

Mi Meng Pills，From *New Compilation of Mei’s Proven Prescriptions*, Volume 1.，Sensitivity to sunlight and photophobia.

Huangxiang Powder，From *New Compilation of Proven Prescriptions*, Volume 11.，For scabies.

Five-Lamp-Head Grass Ointment，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For scrofula that fails to heal, swollen abscesses, and eczema.

Weixi Pills，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 92.，Deficiency of primordial yang leading to exhaustion; instability of essence and vital energy; nocturnal emissions; enuresis; leukorrhea; in women, chronic coldness of the Blood Sea, leukorrhea, turbid discharge, and infertility; tinnitus in both ears; dry mouth; pathogenic dampness in the kidneys causing instability of essence and vital energy; urine resembling … Read more

Fenzhu Powder，From *Zhun Sheng: Categorized Formulas*, Volume 7.，For eye disorders characterized by blood pooling in the pupil and stagnant blood that fails to dissipate.

Beef Fat Ointment，*Zhun Sheng: Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 6.，For wounds caused by beatings.

Flower-Leaf Wash，*A Concise Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine Dermatology*.，Moist, erosive skin diseases.

Large Agarwood and Stewed Ginger Pills，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 73.，For cold-induced stagnation and accumulated qi, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.

Golden Thread Universal Ointment，From *Li Ye*.，For wind, cold, dampness, and heat; spleen and stomach deficiency; sallow complexion; fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm; diarrhea, dysentery, and malaria; masses, blood masses, and abdominal masses; and various pains in the heart and abdomen.

Jingfu Powder，*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 13.，In children with abdominal masses, fever, dry mouth, and dark urine.