More Herbs Formulas
Green Alum Powder,Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 65); name cited in *Zhizhi* (Vol. 24).,For nail abscesses and dark, bluish spots on the fingertips.
Qiongsu Powder,*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 62.,For all types of swollen, toxic sores requiring surgical incision.
Four-Ingredient Lung-Clearing Decoction,*Clinical Notes on Ophthalmology*.,Tears flowing in the wind.
Nian Zhu Pills,From *Supplements to the Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 8, citing *Zhang’s Essential and Effective Formulas*.,For a unilateral hernia with swelling and unbearable pain in the scrotum.
Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace Yin-Nourishing Decoction,*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.,Amenorrhea due to overwork, yin deficiency and blood deficiency, redness of the cheekbones, hot flashes and night sweats, restlessness and insomnia, heat in the palms, dry mouth and red lips, thin yellow tongue coating, and a fine, rapid pulse.
Enhanced Liver-Nourishing Powder,From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 2.,Liver blood deficiency with excessive fire, leading to internal injury and hemoptysis.
Third Ship’s Sulfur Pills,From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 22.,For epidemic dysentery where the severity of the illness has subsided, and the stool is reduced to only a small amount—whether it is clear, resembles duck droppings, tea broth, candle wax, or is merely a small amount of reddish discharge.
Tendon-Restoring Pill,*Compendium of Traumatology*, Volume 7.,
Twenty-Six-Ingredient Peony Decoction Pills,From *Bo Ji*, Volume 4.,For women suffering from blood stagnation, blood masses rising to the chest, wandering blood clots, pain in the heart and chest, deficiency-cold in the Blood Sea, distension below the navel, fullness and oppression in the lower abdomen, weakness in the legs and knees, heaviness and fatigue in the … Read more
Yongquan Decoction,From *Effective Formulas for Pregnancy and Childbirth*.,Insufficient breast milk.
Heart-Red Powder,*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 10.,For heart pain, qi-related pain, and heart pain in pregnant women.
Ox Bile Decoction,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 14.,For wind-induced palpitations, mental confusion, and hemiplegia.
Puxian Pills,From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 321.,For women with a deficient spleen qi and weak stomach qi, who are unable to digest food and transform it into nutrients, resulting in loose stools.
Fangge Pingwei Powder,*Etiology, Symptoms, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 2.,For vomiting due to wind-induced disorders; upon occasional exposure to cold wind, vomiting occurs immediately, accompanied by pain in the head and forehead, a flushed and hot face, and a floating pulse.
Modified Wu’ao Decoction,*Elucidations on Pediatrics*, Volume 4.,For external invasion by wind-cold, cough, shivering chills, clear nasal discharge, or nasal congestion.
Ginseng Qi-Regulating Powder,*Jufang* (Official Formulary), Volume 2 (New Formulas Added in Baoqing).,Wind-deficiency and qi weakness; disharmony of the nutritive and defensive qi; pain in the limbs and joints; heaviness of the body; dizziness and vertigo; stiffness in the shoulders and back; coldness and numbness in the hands and feet; hemiplegia; deviation of the mouth and … Read more
Medicinal Wine for Generalized Skin Ulcers,From *The Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 35, citing a formula by Wang Qiaoqiu.,For pus-filled sores covering the entire body.
Roasted Jujube Pills,From *Xingyuan*, Volume 4.,For food stagnation that has developed into white dysentery.
Disinfecting Cimicifuga Decoction,*New Book on Smallpox Inoculation*, Volume 11.,For smallpox lesions caused by exposure to wind and cold that have erupted but then receded.
Enhanced Rehmannia Pills,*Complete Book of Experience on Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 6.,For patients whose genital sores have healed but whose vital essence and blood have not yet been restored.
Decoction for Calming Anger and Nourishing Pregnancy,*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 12.,In women who have become pregnant—whether the fetus has taken shape or not—a miscarriage is inevitable if the woman has a highly irritable temperament, frequently experiences anger, and suffers from excessive liver fire that is constantly agitated and never at rest.
Yin-Nourishing and Spleen-Tonifying Decoction,*The Posthumous Writings of Shen Zhai*, Volume 7.,Excessive worry leading to mental exhaustion, or irregular diet damaging the spleen, or unchecked anger damaging the liver,resulting in the Liver’s Wood element overpowering the Spleen, which in turn stirs Fire. This manifests as heat in the right flank; or a lightning-like sensation of heat … Read more
Ephedra, Apricot Kernel, Licorice, and Gypsum Decoction,*Treatise on Cold Damage*.,Pathogenic heat obstructing the lungs, manifested as fever, severe shortness of breath, restlessness and thirst, sweating, a yellow tongue coating, and a rapid pulse. Currently used for pneumonia, scarlet fever (pharyngitis with ulceration), allergic asthma, etc.
Seven-Divine Pill for Dispelling Jaundice,From *The Classic of the Middle and Hidden* (Zhong Cang Jing), Volume 2.,For yang-type collapse accompanied by mania, on the verge of developing an abscess.
Shen’s Heatstroke Decoction,*A Clear Explanation of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 12.,For cases where summer-heat pathogens directly affect the Heart and Liver meridians, presenting with no headache, no fever, occasional restlessness, a short tongue, and twitching of the hands and feet.
Immortal-Bestowed Instant Revival Pill,For all types of stroke, regardless of the affected organ; phlegm obstruction; qi collapse; loss of consciousness; critical conditions; and all acute and chronic convulsions.