Cinnabar and Fingernail Powder

Family Secret Decoction for Warming the Lungs and Treating Malaria，*Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 4.，The kidneys are affected by winter cold, which manifests as warm malaria in spring and summer.

Stomach-Strengthening and Anti-Emetic Powder，From *National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Shenyang Formula).，Excessive heat in the stomach due to overindulgence in food, indigestion, abdominal distension, loss of appetite, vomiting and nausea, epigastric discomfort and acid regurgitation, and physical fatigue.

Sanling Xiaoji Pills，*Secrets of Infant Care*, Volume 4.，Indications: abdominal pain due to food stagnation, epigastric pain, pain in the chest and abdomen, painful urination, distending pain, and pain caused by intestinal parasites.

Galangal and Lamb Soup，*Shenghui*, Volume 48.，For cold-induced hernia with pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, as well as cramping in the flanks and inability to eat or drink.

Formula No. 2，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 9.，For deficiency of water and fire, ringing in the ears due to deficiency, forgetfulness and mental confusion, and dizziness affecting the head and eyes.

Modified Shengyang-Removing-Dampness Decoction，*Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 73.，Stomach cold, diarrhea, and intestinal rumbling.

Wind-Dampness-Dispelling Powder，From *Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For skin diseases caused by blood heat.

Camphor-Clearing-the-Diaphragm Decoction，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 1.，

Da Jin Hua Pills，From *Xuanming Lun*, Volume 4.，For various types of fever, night sweats, teeth grinding, sleep talking, palpitations, hematuria, dysuria, hemoptysis, epistaxis, emaciation, and headaches, as well as bone-consuming fever, pulmonary atrophy, and wheezing and coughing. For consumptive disease following a rash: after the rash has subsided, pathogenic toxins remain stagnant in the muscles … Read more

Gourd Wine，*The Jade Case*, Volume 5.，For the early stages of isolated abdominal distension.

Modified Xiao Chengqi Decoction，*Medical Explorations* (Yixue Tanli Ji), Volume 3.，When the heat-toxin of cold damage has spread to the interior, causing excessive internal heat and obstruction in the central region, with no aversion to cold externally, but only red eyes, a red tongue coating, and a洪大 pulse that is not very forceful—particularly in patients with … Read more

Chuanxiong-Atractylodes-Perilla Powder，*The Treasure of Health: Supplement*，Headache and fever, or nasal congestion with a hoarse voice.

Great Life-Sustaining Decoction，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 8.，When a severe wind-syndrome affects the internal organs, the patient suddenly loses the ability to speak, the limbs become limp and drag, and the patient experiences pain and itching in the skin and flesh without being aware of it.

Cinnabar Powder，From *Su Shen’s Effective Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，For various pains caused by wind-pathogen, delirious speech and aimless wandering, mental confusion, disoriented thinking, sudden bursts of singing or crying, irregular eating and drinking, sudden collapse upon onset of the illness, saliva covering the eyes, loss of mental clarity, and cases where conventional medical treatments have proven … Read more

Wheat Flour Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 56); name cited in *Pujifang* (Vol. 253).，For vomiting blood due to gu poison.

Secret-Transmitted Toxin-Extracting Pill，From *Songya Medical Path* (Volume 2).，For sores and abscesses.

Semen Raphani Powder，From *Bi Xiao Fang*, cited in Volume 21 of *Wai Tai*.，For green blindness where the pupil remains intact. For sudden blindness following an epidemic illness, provided the pupil remains undamaged.

Eight Gentlemen Decoction，From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For spleen deficiency complicated by damp phlegm, manifested during menstruation as red and white leukorrhea—which may be discharged with the menstrual blood or occur intermittently on its own.

Lotus Root Juice and Wood Ear Fungus Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For those who have traveled long distances while carrying heavy loads, or who have suffered blood loss due to overexertion, resulting in qi rising upward, causing oppression and pain in the chest and flanks—in severe cases, even breathing is painful, and coughing … Read more

Zisheng Dazao Pills，From Volume 2 of Nian’s *Collected Proven Effective Formulas*.，

Almond and Ephedra Decoction，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 49.，Excessive nasal discharge due to cold in the lungs.

Highly Effective Ginseng and Zhi Shi Decoction，*Discussions on the Care of Infants and Children*, Volume 17.，For infants and young children who, following a bout of typhoid fever, experience disharmony of qi, shortness of breath, coughing, chest and diaphragm congestion, restlessness day and night, mental fatigue and physical weakness, and loss of appetite; or for symptoms … Read more

Liver-Soothing and Tendon-Relaxing Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 6.，Following a fit of intense anger, pain is felt throughout the body and in all the joints; the chest and abdomen feel distended; the eyes are tightly shut; there is a sensation of coldness; and the fingernails turn bluish-black.

Women’s Menstrual Ointment，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Nanjing Formula).，For women with yin deficiency accompanied by heat, characterized by early menstruation, irregular menstrual flow (either heavy or scant), dark purple menstrual blood, restlessness, bone-deep heat, night sweats, dry mouth, and burning sensation in the palms.

Qianghuo and Guizhi Decoction，From *Essence of Ancient Formulas*, Volume 1.，For epidemic common cold with chills and fever, a tongue without coating or with a slippery white coating, a sticky and foul-smelling mouth, and cold limbs without sweating.