Preemptive Decoction

Danggui Xuejie Pills，From *Chanyu Baoqing*, Volume 2.，For women after childbirth who have retained lochia that has congealed into clots, accompanied by a sense of fullness and oppression in the chest and heart, and hard, painful swelling below the navel.

Ointment for Dispelling Wind, Harmonizing the Meridians, Regulating Qi, Draining Dampness, and Resolving Phlegm，From *Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For stubborn phlegm and aversion to wind that has invaded the meridians, causing facial nerve spasms.

Gua Di Decoction，From *Secret Records for Prolonging Life*, cited in Volume 4 of *Wai Tai*.，For all types of jaundice, swelling of the body, face, and limbs; intestinal parasites; nasal polyps; genital jaundice; jaundice; and sudden, acute jaundice.

Sea Leek Powder，*Experienced Effective Formulas*.，For edema due to deficiency syndrome.

Miraculous Golden Band Powder，From *Feng’s Treasure Chest: Surgery*, Volume 19.，For various toxic abscesses and boils.

Eye-Protecting and Vision-Preserving Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Shenyang Formula).，Blurred vision, impaired visual acuity, cloudiness or opacity in the eyes, tearing in the wind, weakened eyesight, dizziness and vertigo, and night blindness.

Wulingzhi Pill，From *Selected Marvelous Medical Formulas*, cited in Volume 390 of *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，For chronic cough that has gradually led to weakness and emaciation, with a risk of developing consumptive disease.

Chen-Huang Decoction，*The Mystic Pearls of the Red Water*, Volume 15.，Constipation in the elderly.

Yángmíng Decoction，From *Selected Formulas of Renowned Physicians: Continuation*.，For presbyopia, weakness of the eyes, deficient middle qi, and inability to eat or drink.

Fumigation Formula Using Dew-Covered Bee Hives，From *The Comprehensive Record of Holy Remedies*, Volume 128.，For hard, painful breast abscesses.

Floating Duckweed and Poria Pill，From *The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 4.，For vitiligo.

Ginseng and Bear Bile Pills，*Introduction to Obstetrics*, Volume 3.，Postpartum blood-induced fainting.

Yang Ye Formula，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 226.，For all kinds of deficiency and debility, exhaustion of qi and blood, and conditions arising from chronic and severe illness that have led to diaphragmatic qi stagnation, stabbing pain in the flanks, a sensation of fullness and obstruction in the chest and heart, undigested food in the stomach, … Read more

Atractylodes-Cinnamon Decoction with Alisma，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 2.，Lumbar pain that is worse during the day and milder at night, with difficult and scanty urination, but appetite remains normal.

Eight Li Powder，From *Formulas of the Huizhitiang Hall*, Volume 3.，For contusions; also treats festering sores and toxic swellings.

Agarwood and Shenqu Decoction，*Ji Feng*, Volume 12.，Spleen deficiency, poor appetite and slow digestion, fullness and distension in the chest and diaphragm, bloating in the abdomen and flanks, belching and acid regurgitation, vomiting and nausea, fatigue in the limbs, pain in the heart and abdomen, reduced food intake, and loose stools.

Saliva-Coagulating Decoction，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 19.，For deficiency-syndrome shortness of breath, with phlegm congealed in the throat and unable to be expelled, as if the throat were blocked by glue.

Shang Dan，From *Yuanhe Jiyong Jing*.，In men, this leads to loss of yang vitality and an inability to perform daily tasks; in women, it results in loss of yin vitality and an inability to conceive. Symptoms include heavy pain in the lower back and knees, deterioration of tendons and bones, a sallow complexion, mental fatigue and … Read more

Ginseng and Ginger Four-Ingredient Decoction，From *Xingyuan*, Volume 8.，For frail women after childbirth who experience alternating chills and fever, or who have retained lochia stagnating in the uterine vessels—which can also cause chills and fever—but who also suffer from acute pain in the lower abdomen.

Modified Atractylodes Powder，*Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 2.，For all cases of vomiting, diarrhea, restlessness, and thirst following typhoid fever or miscellaneous illnesses; for deficiency-syndrome with qi weakness; and for vomiting and retching due to alcohol accumulation.

Heart-Regulating Decoction，*Yi Tong*, Volume 49.，For prolonged emotional disturbances and mental disorders; heart wind causing delusional speech and uncontrolled laughter, with the patient unaware of their suffering.

Post-Smallpox Toxin-Resolving Formula，From *Collected Insights on Surgical Diseases*.，For cases where residual toxins from smallpox travel through the collaterals, causing abscesses throughout the body.

Hemorrhoid Ointment，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 3.，

Litong Pills，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 47.，Indicated for stomach heat and intestinal cold, characterized by a strong appetite, frequent hunger, frequent urination and bowel movements, lower abdominal distension and pain, and possibly difficult bowel movements.

Xiao Duhuo Sheng Pills，*Formulae of the Imperial Medical Bureau*, Volume 3.，For disharmony of the spleen and stomach, excessive damage from food and drink, stabbing pain in the chest and abdomen, retching and nausea, difficulty swallowing with acid regurgitation, dry belching with foul-smelling food, distension and fullness in the abdomen and flanks, and loss of appetite.