Introductory Formula

Miraculous Labor-Inducing Milk Pearl Pill，*Effective Formulas for Women*, Volume 17.，Difficult labor: When the amniotic sac has ruptured, there is excessive lochia, the mother is too weak to lie down, the fetus is in a transverse or breech position, the fetus has died but has not been expelled, or the placenta has not been delivered.

Bi Xue Frost，*Simple and Easy Medical Formulas*, Volume 5.，Effective for all types of accumulated heat, sores on the mouth and tongue, restlessness and a constricted throat, dry heat with swelling and pain, and epidemic fevers.

Clove Qi-Regulating Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.，For sharp, stabbing pain and chest tightness; nausea from alcohol intoxication; and intermittent vomiting.

Jin Ye Dan，*The Book of Sincerity*, Volume 8.，For acute and chronic convulsions.

Ginseng, Oat, and Coptis Decoction，From *Insights into Epidemic Rashes*, Volume 2.，For cases where pathogenic heat from an epidemic rash has not been fully eliminated and remains latent in the pericardial collaterals, causing the patient to remain drowsy and unconscious all day, or to speak incoherently and moan.

Changshan Baihu Decoction，Formula from *Medical Case Records of Zhang Cigong*; name cited in *Famous Formulas of Ancient and Modern Times*.，Warm malaria. High fever, poor sweating, aching joints, shortness of breath and restlessness, thirst with a craving for cold drinks, yellow tongue coating, and a洪 pulse.

Changshan Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 37.，For warm malaria with fever, yellowing of the body and back, and difficulty urinating.

Qianli Guang Powder，From *Yin Hai Jing Wei*, Volume 2.，For those who can see up close but not far away.

Small Chrysanthemum Ointment Pills，From *Essentials of the Silver Sea*, Volume 1.，Eye conditions caused by wind-toxin in children.

Decoction for Digesting Food and Nourishing the Spleen，From *The Mystic Pearl of Chishui*, Volume 13.，Indigestion.

Decoction of Atractylodes to Eliminate Phlegm，*Ji Feng*, Volume 19.，For retained fluid causing shortness of breath, inability to lie down, bodily swelling and fullness, and difficulty urinating.

Dried Ginger and Bupleurum Decoction，*The Book of Saving Lives*, Volume 19.，For women with typhoid fever whose menstrual flow has just resumed and then ceased, presenting with chills and fever resembling malaria, and delirium accompanied by claims of seeing ghosts.

Mulberry and Magnolia Decoction，From *Yi Chun Sheng Yi*, Volume 4.，For lung bi syndrome characterized by restlessness, fullness in the chest, shortness of breath, and vomiting.

Miraculous Decoction for Relieving Summer Heat，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 2.，Heatstroke.

Infusion，*Qianjin Yi* (Supplement to the Thousand Gold Prescriptions), Volume 21.，Wind-cold arising from dampness causes facial blisters to erupt, stiffness and numbness throughout the body without pain or itching; the eyes may become wide and lose their luster; the voice may become coarse and heavy; the patient may experience blurred vision and excessive sleepiness; the waist … Read more

Safflower Decoction for Dispelling Stasis，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 3.，Toxic sores at the anal opening.

Ling Sha Wine，*De Xiao*, Volume 11.，For rashes or sores that have turned black and sunken without healing.

Jin-Imitating Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 9.，For hemiplegia due to stroke, with loss of sensation on one side of the body.

Peach Seed Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 83.，For children suffering from “zhong’e” (sudden illness), presenting with hardness and tightness in the chest and abdomen accompanied by pain, a bluish-black complexion, and constipation.

Decoction for Eliminating Spots and Resolving Rashes，*Record of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 14.，For children who have had a fever for 2–3 days, with faint red spots appearing beneath the skin that flicker like moving shadows, appearing and disappearing intermittently.

Qizhen Decoction，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 33.，For smallpox rashes on the second or third day.

Decoction of Dried Ginger，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 151.，For women with prolonged, unceasing menstruation.

Amber, Wax, and Alum Pills，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 1.，Boils and carbuncles, back abscesses, sebaceous cysts, scrofula, phlegm nodules, hemorrhoids with fistulas, and syphilitic sores. For boils and carbuncles—whether or not pus has formed—where there is concern that toxic qi cannot escape and will inevitably attack the body internally. Sores all over the body resembling … Read more

Muscle-Relaxing Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 8.，For blood deficiency and qi deficiency complicated by wind-dampness, resulting in stiffness of the tendons and meridians, tightness and pain in the neck and shoulders, inability to turn the head, and pain extending to the ears.

Zhimu Guixin Decoction，From *The Book of Saving Lives*, Volume 18.，Persistent fever following an unresolved case of cold damage, with morning and evening fever resembling malaria.