Mildly Toxic Ointment

Eight Sages Powder，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 2.，For “big-head plague,” characterized by a swollen forehead and neck.

Minor Bupleurum Decoction with Modifications，*Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 1.，Malaria characterized by more chills than fever, or chills alone.

Experienced Nourishing Vitality Pills，*Zhi Zhi Fu Yi*, Volume 9.，For deficiency of both qi and blood, low vitality, insufficiency of the spleen and stomach, and emaciation.

Angelica and Ginseng Powder，From *Xuanming Lun*, Volume 11.，For postpartum debility and weakness, difficulty moving, chest pain and fullness, and loss of appetite.

Green Cloud Drunken Powder，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 12.，For five types of toxic sores on the back, neck, or hands and feet; and for abscesses caused by mineral toxins.

Bai Zi Yang Xin Pills，From *Collected Effective Formulas*, cited in *Medical Compendium*, Volume 70.，For excessive mental exertion leading to a wandering mind; one experiences dreams upon closing one’s eyes and suffers from irregular nocturnal emissions.

Formula，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，For women with liver qi stagnation, damp-heat descending to the lower burner, itching in the vulva, and various (疒番??) symptoms.

Jinjiao Pill，*Formulae of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 7.，Deficiency of the Liver Meridian, with internal invasion by wind-pathogen rising upward, manifests as dim vision, tearing, photophobia, dryness, itching, pain, blurred vision, frequent seeing of black spots, or the formation of corneal opacities.

Muxiang Qingpi Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 182.，For cases of injury to vital energy, where the throat feels as if there is a plum pit or loose fibers.

Baili Pills，*Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 8.，For lower back pain.

Poria and Pinellia Decoction for Tonifying the Middle，*Medical Levels*, Volume 8.，Deficiency of the middle jiao with retained fluid, accompanied by chest distension and belching.

Ruyi Tongsheng Powder，*Yi Tong*, Volume 11.，For rheumatic pain with wandering pain.

Malaria-Stopping Elixir，From *Preserving Life and Nourishing the Essence* (Volume 8).，For malaria.

Modified Dingchuan Decoction，From *Medical Explorations* (Yixue Tanli Ji), Volume 4.，Cough and wheezing. Caused by weakness of the spleen and stomach, deficiency of qi and blood, and qi failing to connect, resulting in wheezing; due to blood deficiency with excessive isolated yang, manifesting as fever and aversion to cold throughout the body, which worsens in the … Read more

Ox Gallbladder Star Pills，From *Essentials of the Crimson Pouch*.，For cold extremities, sudden loss of consciousness, drooling, and clenched hands and feet.

Fuhu Erqi Dan，*Formulary of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 5 (Supplementary Collection of Empirical Secret Formulas from Various Bureaus).，For deficiency of the True Essence, depletion of vital essence, insufficiency of kidney qi, dark complexion and scorched ears, lower deficiency with upper excess, dizziness and vertigo, stabbing pain in the chest and abdomen, gastric reflux and vomiting, … Read more

Cinnamon Twig, Trichosanthes, and Pueraria Decoction，*Illustrated Songs on Cold Damage and Essential Guidelines for Saving Lives*, Volume 4.，Relieves spasms.

Wu Fu Zi Jin Dan，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 265.，

Dacheng Decoction for Regulating the Middle，From *Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 3.，After an abscess has ruptured, the pus is thin and watery; appetite is reduced; and the body is unable to regenerate tissue or promote healing.

Enhanced Warm Wind Decoction，From *Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 2.，For cold pathogens invading the brain, causing toothache extending to the head.

Miraculous Secret Formula for Regulating Menstruation and Promoting Conception，From *The Zheng Family’s Inherited Gynecological Prescriptions Worth Ten Thousand Gold*, Volume 2.，Infertility.

Snake Shed Skin Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 81.，For mastitis. For abscesses and swellings accompanied by pain, intermittent chills and fever, and moaning day and night.

Ziping Compound，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Leprosy.

Emergency White Decoction，Formula from *Essentials of Clinical Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine*; name cited in *Famous Formulas Through the Ages*.，Acute leukemia, characterized by alternating chills and fever, headache, chest distress and nausea, restless sleep, mental confusion and delirium, sweating and dry mouth, sore and swollen throat, bleeding from the mouth and nose, a yellow, greasy … Read more

Universal Cicada Flower Powder，From *Yuanji Qiwei*, Volume 2.，When pathogenic heat affects the Upper Jiao, leading to a chronic eye condition, the sclera takes on a faint bluish tint, the iris appears slightly whitish, and a red ring like a band appears between the white and black parts of the eye—this is known as “red ring … Read more