Qi-Directing Pill

Wart-Treating Decoction，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，For common warts, flat warts, keloids, pruritus, scleroderma, and psoriasis—manifesting as dry skin, papillomas or flat warts, thick scaly rashes, a slippery pulse, a purplish-red tongue, or ecchymoses.

Lithospermum Detoxifying Decoction，*New Book on Smallpox Vaccination*, Volume 11.，If the rash is black in color, the heat toxin is particularly severe, constituting a condition where the patient has a one-in-nine chance of survival.

Cow Bile Calming Pills，From *Straight Talk on Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，For all cases of wind-phlegm-induced shortness of breath, coughing, fever, and sudden fright or panic; as well as abdominal distension and pain, wind-induced or food-induced obstruction, and constipation.

Paper Mulberry Leaf Powder，*Compendium of Divine Remedies*, Volume 58.，For diabetes that has persisted for a long time without resolution.

Zhang Zouma’s Flying Step Pills，*Zhun Sheng: Categorized Formulas*, Volume 4.，For various pains in the tendons, veins, bones, and joints, as well as in the hands, feet, waist, and back, accompanied by contractures and inability to extend.

Tooth-Gum Rub Formula，From *Secret Essentials for the Throat and Tongue*.，

Nineteen-Ingredient Pill，From *Zhang Wenzhong’s Formulas*, cited in Volume 14 of *Wai Tai*.，All types of wind disorders.

Xiao Bao An Decoction，From *Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 2.，For various types of brain abscesses that have already ruptured and are oozing pus.

Canglin Decoction，*The Transmission of the Lamp of Medicine*, Volume 2.，For cases of diarrhea with loss of appetite, the toxic damp-heat in the stomach rises through the clear passage, causing the stomach to close and leading to a lack of desire to eat or drink.

Whole-Body Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 2.，For hemiplegia resulting from sudden collapse.

Enhanced Five Treasures Pill，*The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 4.，For wind-toxin from bayberries, pain in the tendons and bones, cerebral hemorrhage and nosebleeds, erosion of the yang and vocal cord ulcers, and foul breath due to lung injury; as well as leprosy, tinea, and red, black, and white patches on the body and face; and … Read more

Golden Elixir for Asthma，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Shenyang Formula).，For all types of asthma, chronic cough in the elderly, restlessness due to shortness of breath, blood-streaked sputum, lung abscess, and pulmonary atrophy.

Liuwei Guizhi Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 21.，Headache and fever with aversion to cold due to cold damage.

Eight-Ingredient Hernia Formula，From *Supplement to the Essentials of the Guanjù Formulas*, Volume 5, citing a formula by Mr. Fukui.，Hernia.

Ascending Immortal Ointment，From *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 4.，For lower back pain, deficiency of the lower jiao, the “Five Labors and Seven Injuries,” hemiplegia, bladder hernia, cold qi in the lower jiao, and prolapse of the small intestine; for leg and foot pain and numbness lasting two or three decades, erectile dysfunction; and for women suffering … Read more

Enhanced Angelica Decoction for Promoting Blood Circulation，*Clinical Notes on Ophthalmology*.，“Red Circle” Syndrome. Red threads crisscrossing the “qi circle” of both eyes; congestion around the “wind circle”; soreness, tearing, and blurred vision.

Liver-Soothing and Qi-Regulating Pills，From *Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Tianjin Formula).，Indications: Distension and fullness in the flanks, chest oppression, vomiting and nausea, qi reversal and disharmony, a sensation of fullness and rumbling in the stomach, indigestion, and dry, hard stools.

Cicada Sheds and Licorice Decoction，From *Remarkably Effective Formulas*, Volume 65.，Childhood Erythematous Rash.

Soothing the Spirit and Restoring Vitality Decoction，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 6.，For mental anxiety and restlessness leading to scattered spirit, with essence leaking downward; true yin fails to ascend to the “Mud Pellet” (the third eye), causing qi to disperse; accompanied by tinnitus, a sensation of heaviness in the ears, and itching inside the … Read more

Heat-Clearing and Yin-Nourishing Pill，*Selected Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas from Beijing*.，Accumulated heat in the lung and stomach, swelling and pain in the throat, loss of voice or hoarseness, thirst, and dry tongue.

Chaihu-Zhizi Powder，*Zhengzhi Zhunsheng*，Clears heat, soothes the liver, strengthens the spleen, and harmonizes the nutritive blood. Indicated for ear sores resulting from stagnant heat in the liver and gallbladder. Symptoms include itching and sores inside the ear, oozing of pus or serous fluid, pain in the chest and breast area, alternating chills and fever, and a … Read more

Osteophyte Pills，*Science of External Injuries*.，Indicated for hypertrophic spondylitis, cervical spondylosis, loose bodies in joints, bone spurs, heel pain, and chronic aches and pains resulting from incomplete healing of muscle and bone injuries.

Seven-Ingredient Coptis Decoction，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 9.，In the summer months, when a cold-heat syndrome strikes, causing alternating chills and fever, pain and restlessness in the limbs, and fever, the patient feels restless, experiences vomiting, and has a sensation of fullness in the chest, as if afflicted by a malevolent spirit.

Black Fungus Porridge，From *Recipes for Longevity Medicinal Porridges*.，For middle-aged and elderly individuals with physical weakness, consumptive cough with blood-streaked sputum, pulmonary tuberculosis with yin deficiency and internal heat, as well as chronic rectal bleeding and bleeding from hemorrhoids.

Formula for Clearing Heat，From *Shenshi’s Formulas*, cited in Volume 15 of *Secret Essentials from the Outer Pavilion*.，For wind disorders in adults and convulsions or spasms in children, occurring dozens of times a day.