Single-Ingredient Formula for Clearing Stagnant Blood and Fluid

Shan Shen and Mai Men Dong Decoction，Proven Formula，Clears heat and generates body fluids. Indicated for symptoms caused by dryness injuring the yin of the lung and stomach, such as a dry throat and thirst; fever and headache; dry cough with scant phlegm; or epigastric pain.

Enhanced Xiangsu Decoction，From *Yu’an*, Volume 2.，For common cold: when wind-pathogen invades the skin and pores, causing chills, sneezing, yawning, headache, and fever—symptoms similar to those of cold damage—but with a fear of wind and cold and mild severity.

Toxin-Absorbing Bamboo Tube，From *Secretly Transmitted Formulas for Surgical Conditions*.，For back abscesses, boils, carbuncles, and swollen, toxic sores.

Dingzhong Decoction，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 7.，When smallpox lesions begin to subside, the toxin lies latent in the Yangming channel, damaging the spleen and stomach. In children with smallpox, this manifests as concurrent vomiting and diarrhea.

Mu Xiang Kuai Ban Decoction，From *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 6.，For smallpox accompanied by diarrhea, where the lesions turn from grayish-white to black, become sunken, and form a hollow center.

Qianghuo-Chuanxiong-Gaoben Decoction，*Shenshi Yaohan*, Volume 3.，Headache of the Taiyang Meridian, with fever at night and aversion to cold.

Cold-Dispelling and Calming Decoction，From *Compendium of Pediatric Care*.，For children with inherently deficient vital energy, chronic unresolved illness, post-smallpox or measles, or accidental ingestion of cooling herbs, resulting in diarrhea and vomiting that has progressed to chronic convulsions; this formula clears heat and dispels wind, with the condition becoming more critical as treatment progresses.

White Bean Powder，*Compendium of Sacred Remedies*, Volume 182.，For red, wandering swellings in children that spread throughout the body.

Ginseng and Light Bone Powder，*Jufang*, Volume 2 (with additions of renowned formulas from various schools by Wu Zhige).，For seasonal cold-induced fever characterized by headache, high fever, stiffness in the neck and back, aching joints, aversion to cold and wind, fatigue in the limbs, irregular bowel movements, red and scanty urine, vomiting, and thirst; or for … Read more

Saliva-Draining Pill，From *Discussion on Various Fevers in Children*.，For a 100-day-old infant experiencing an initial episode of startle-induced convulsions, with phlegm and saliva entering the pericardium.

Banbei-Ginger Tea，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Pregnancy malaria with balanced alternating chills and fever.

Cuoqi Dan，From *Pulse Causes and Treatment*, Volume 1.，For lower back pain caused by qi stagnation.

Almond Bone Ointment，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 82); name cited in *Pujifang* (Vol. 360).，For children with swollen navels oozing fluid that has not healed for a long time.

Wooden Tongue and Golden Thread Ointment，*Discussions on the Care of Infants and Children*, Volume 20.，For children with heat affecting the heart and spleen, resulting in sores on the lips and mouth, as well as “curtain mouth” (white coating on lips and tongue), “goose mouth” (white coating on the tongue), “double tongue” (hardness under the tongue), … Read more

Cough-Relieving Decoction，From *A Concise Explanation of Medical Formulas*, Volume 4.，For coughs, regardless of whether they are acute or chronic, or due to deficiency or excess.

Toxic Abscess Ointment，*The Heart Book of Pi Yu*, Volume 5.，Redness and swelling near the ear caused by heat-toxin.

Sacred Atractylodes Decoction，*The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 51.，For occasional food or drink-induced disorders, such as vomiting or diarrhea, fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, or pain in the flanks; or for cases where excessive use of purgative or purging herbs has damaged the vital energy of the viscera, presenting symptoms similar to … Read more

Worry-Free Powder，*The Classic of the Middle Storehouse: Appendix*, Volume 7.，Postpartum fever.

Scabies and Tinea Ointment，From *Miraculous Formulas of Han Medicine*, citing *Secret Records of Surgical Treatments*.，For severe outbreaks of scabies and tinea where the affected area is red and inflamed, accompanied by intense pain; or for cases during hot summer nights when itching is so severe that it prevents restful sleep.

Clam Shell Ointment，*General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 5).，For pediatric yin-type epilepsy and chronic convulsions with tremors.

Fever-Reducing Decoction，From *The Compilation of Medical Formulas*, Volume 65, citing *The Treatise on the Eye by Bodhisattva Nagarjuna*.，For patients who are physically weak after an illness and experience blurred vision or floaters due to rising early and being exposed to drafts.

Pingyang Qingli Decoction，From *Methods for Treating Damp-Heat Epidemics*, citing *Corrections to the Diagnosis of the Tongue*.，Acute epidemic diseases; where the heart meridian is stagnant and the sovereign fire scorches the blood, causing blood heat to generate wind.

Angelica and Scrophularia Decoction，*Zhang Jiachun’s Diagnosis and Treatment of Ophthalmic Disorders*.，Indicated for cases of “flower-like opacity” and “white sunken opacity” that have evolved from “凝脂翳” (congealed-fat opacity), characterized by a pale-red sclera, dryness, soreness, and discomfort, blurred vision, and a sunken appearance of the iris.

He Che Pills，*A Clear Illumination of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 8.，For deficiency-related wasting diseases and consumptive fever, which are invariably accompanied by emaciation, a red tongue, and red cheeks.

Wu Ye Pills，From *Formulas for the Family School*.，For various sores and ulcers with unceasing pus discharge.