Recipe for Boiled Black Beans

Decoction to Clear the Upper Burner and Subdue Fire，From *He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 3.，For unilateral or bilateral headaches, cerebrospinal fluid leakage, and chronic nasal discharge.

Decoction for Treating Combined Wind and Fire，From *Complete Record of Medicine*, Volume 491, citing *Complete Book of Pediatrics*.，Itching in pediatric smallpox lesions.

Linyi Guanzhong Decoction，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 128.，For a bone abscess occurring in the fleshy crease of the thigh.

Decoction for Eye Ulcers，*Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，For red, ulcerated eyes.

Phlegm-Clearing and Asthma-Relieving Pills，From *Liangpeng Huiji*, Volume 1.，Wheezing.

White Head翁 Decoction，From *Shenghui*, Volume 22.，For pain in the limbs that becomes unbearably severe at night.

Pinellia and Cinnamon Twig Decoction，*Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 3.，For those who can sleep only after drinking, have a slippery tongue, and are unable to eat.

Tianxiong Ointment，*General Essentials of Health* (Wei Sheng Zong Wei), Volume 5.，For children with deficiency-wind-induced slow convulsions and spasms.

Pills for Bright Eyes with Raw and Prepared Rehmannia，*Direct Pointers*, Volume 20.，For kidney qi deficiency, with the liver affected by deficient heat, causing dark spots to appear in the eyes. For accumulated heat due to liver deficiency that rises to attack the eyes, causing a film to obscure the cornea, sensitivity to light, excessive tearing, … Read more

Enhanced Yin-Nourishing Pills，*Complete Collection on Survival from Cold Damage*, Volume 4.，Following recovery from shanghan, symptoms of insufficient heart blood and yin deficiency include fever, weakness in the limbs, fatigue, blurred vision, deafness, restlessness, nocturnal emissions, alternating chills and fever with night sweats, loss of appetite, failure to gain weight, emaciation, and a sallow-yellow complexion.

Bitter Powder，From *Essentials for Nurturing Life*, cited in Volume 26 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For children with dampness in the spleen, resulting in unceasing diarrhea and the inability to digest grains; also treats diarrhea caused by malnutrition.

Ten-Ingredient Stomach-Nourishing Decoction，From *Yi Jian Fang*.，For cold malaria, or cases of cold-induced epidemic disease accompanied by aversion to cold.

Shi Xuan Tuo Li Powder，*Records on the Transmission of Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 15.，For smallpox toxin in children that has spread to both shoulders and arms, with smallpox lesions resembling bran—thin, lacking luster, and adhering without peeling off.

Castor Bean and Garlic，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，Deafness.

Ice-Penetrating Pill，From *Bo Ji*, Volume 4.，For all wind-toxin conditions that ascend, causing discomfort in the chest and heart, dryness and涩ness of the mouth and tongue, wind-deficiency with phlegm congestion, and loss of appetite; as well as wind-toxin descending to cause pain in the lower back and legs, spleen deficiency with jaundice, kidney failure with weak … Read more

Tonifying Tribulus Pill，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，For kidney deficiency with qi deficiency, tinnitus, blurred vision, spleen-stomach weakness, and insufficiency of essence and qi.

Large Pepper Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 187.，For cold-induced contraction of the leg tendons and intractable arthralgia.

Blood-Activating and Meridian-Unblocking Pills，*Six Books of Medical Essentials*, Volume 26.，For amenorrhea with masses and a firm pulse.

Pimpinella Ointment，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 133.，For all types of chronic, cold sores.

Pojing Pills，From *Ren Cun Fang*, cited in Volume 319 of *Pu Ji Fang*.，For women with stagnant blood and prolonged qi stagnation, presenting with cold pain in the legs, navel, and abdomen; alternating chills and fever; blood clots; blood stasis; abdominal masses; masses and tumors; weakness in the limbs; and a gradual loss of appetite—which, if … Read more

Miaoying Decoction，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 27.，For yang-toxin typhoid fever characterized by high fever throughout the body, severe shortness of breath, and restlessness with a sense of oppression.

Anger-Dispelling Pill，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 2.，Caused by anger and emotional suppression, leading to stagnation of liver and gallbladder qi, resulting in pain in both flanks that persists for months or even years without resolution; or, the pain may occasionally subside only to recur. When the condition flares up, the patient experiences chills and … Read more

Boil-Extracting Powder，From *Shortcuts in Surgical Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 1.，For facial boils.

Wind-Dispelling Four-Seven Pill，From *Jie Wei Yuan Sou*, Volume 3.，For conditions such as purple cloud rash, white patch, and purpura caused by wind.

Baohe Decoction，From the *Xiu Yue Lu Ban Jing*, citing the *Lao Zheng Shi Yao Shen Shu* (see *Yi Fang Lei Ju*, Vol. 150).，For chronic cough due to lao syndrome resulting in lung dryness and atrophy; for coughing up blood, vomiting blood, or regurgitating blood.