Fresh Small Thistle Root Decoction

Stone Resin Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 18.，Fever accompanied by diarrhea with pus and blood.

Si Xuan Powder，From *Direct Pointers with Addenda*, Volume 26.，For stroke with phlegm obscuring the orifices of the heart, mania, delirium, agitation, mental confusion, profuse phlegm and saliva, and the five types of epilepsy caused by heart wind.

Chicken Bone Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 83.，For children who have been exposed to dew while breastfeeding, resulting in heat in the hands and feet, emaciation, and failure to gain weight.

Kidney Inflammation Decoction No. 1，*Clinical Medical Case Studies and Prescriptions*.，Acute nephritis. Generalized edema, soreness and pain in the lower back, scant and yellow urine, thin white tongue coating, and a floating and rapid pulse.

Miraculous Formula for Protecting Infants and Reducing Measles，From *Shen’s Prescriptions Based on Clinical Experience*.，

Sea Mugwort Decoction，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 4.，Wind-Dampness. Due to blood deficiency, the skin and hair are deprived of nourishment; wind-heat takes advantage of this vulnerability to invade, causing hair to fall out in patches, the skin to become glossy, and itching as if insects were crawling on it. Alopecia areata.

Decay-Wood Decoction，*Research on Medical Formulas*, Volume 4.，For diabetes.

Liuwei Shenfu Decoction，From *Records of Insights into Miscellaneous Disorders*, Volume 1.，For those who have contracted an epidemic and, within 2–3 days, experience cold extremities, mental confusion, and fixed gaze.

Pills for Chronic Phlegm，Formula by Wang Jiezhai, cited in Volume 43 of *Yi Tong*.，When fire pathogen rises upward and stagnates in the heart and lung regions, lung qi becomes impure; old phlegm and stagnant phlegm coalesce into a sticky mass, stagnating in the throat, making it difficult to cough up or expel.

Formula for Nourishing Both the Heart and Kidneys，From *The Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 3.，For restlessness and anxiety; nocturnal emissions and seminal leakage.

Nine-Ingredient Qianghuo Decoction，Zhang Yuan-su, recorded in *This Matter Is Hard to Know*，Induces sweating to expel dampness while clearing internal heat. Indicated for external invasion by wind, cold, and dampness pathogens with underlying internal heat. Symptoms include aversion to cold, fever, absence of sweat, headache, stiff neck, aching and painful limbs, bitter taste in the mouth … Read more

Xie Rong Decoction，From *The Secret Treasures of the Orchid Chamber*, Volume 2.，A skin disease covering the face and extending to the neck, causing extreme, unbearable itching and eyebrow loss.

Heat-Clearing Rehmannia Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，Postpartum fever, dizziness and headache, flushed face and dry lips, heat in the palms and soles, restlessness and thirst, preference for cool breezes, dry stools and scanty urine; in severe cases, delirium; red tongue with yellow coating; rapid pulse.

Gu Shen Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 10.，Summer lethargy.

Toxicity-Dispelling Ointment，From *Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 8.，Effective for all types of boils and abscesses on the back, various swollen and toxic sores, hot carbuncles, and snakebite poison throughout the body.

Huiyang Pill，From *Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 2.，For yin-deficiency syndromes, cold and numb hands and feet, and pain in the chest and abdomen.

Su Fang Mu Powder，From *The Collection of Ulcers and Sores*, cited in Volume 6 of *The Correct Transmission of Medicine*.，To treat anal abscesses.

Musk Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 172.，Pediatric cerebral malnutrition. The scalp is shiny and taut; the hair is dry and clumped together; the head feels hot as fire; sores may appear on the head; or the cheeks and face may be swollen and sunken.

Enhanced Stomach-Harmonizing and Spasm-Relieving Decoction，Formula by Guan Youbo, cited in *A Thousand Family Remedies*, Volume 1.，Epigastric pain, choking, belching, acid regurgitation, nausea, and vomiting (cardiac spasm) caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis, phlegm-blood congealing, and disharmony between the liver and stomach.

Xiao Feng Ding，From *Chuanya Bu*, Volume 1.，For children suffering from excruciating chest pain caused by insect bites.

Jade Marrow Ointment，From *Compendium of Medical Essentials*, Volume 9.，For smallpox rashes where scabs are about to fall off but do not; also effective for eliminating scars.

Realgar Toxin-Eliminating Pills，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 8.，For syphilis sores where the toxin has already manifested.

Thousand-Li Plum Blossom Pills，*Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 2.，For heatstroke.

Si Mo Dan，From *Jie Wei Yuan Sou*, Volume 3.，For paralysis, epilepsy, wind-induced disorders, and general weakness and exhaustion.

Blood Stasis-Resolving Pills，*Integrative Chinese and Western Dermatology*.，Liver Qi Stagnation with Blood Stasis syndrome.Facial hyperpigmentation; purplish-red nodular rashes on the skin of the limbs; chronic purplish-red macules; distension in the flanks; early menstruation with clotted blood; dysmenorrhea; etc. Pulse: string-like and slippery; tongue: thin yellow coating; ecchymoses may be present. Commonly used for melasma, facial hyperpigmentation … Read more