Formula for Strengthening Tendons and Nourishing Bones

Burdock and Musk Powder for Promoting Urination，*Yi Ji*, Volume 8.，For sandy or stony dysuria, where urine appears as small clumps and is accompanied by distension and pain.

Tea Accumulation Pills，From *The Mystic Pearl of Chishui*, Volume 13.，Indications: tea accumulation, reduced appetite, sallow complexion, and abdominal pain.

Astragalus Plaster，Formula by Liu Juanzi, cited in Volume 24 of *Wai Tai*.，For abscesses and swellings accompanied by heat.

Formula for Internal Resolution of Scrofula，From *Eight Notes on Nourishing Life*, Volume 18.，For scrofula.

Yellow Mercury Pills，*Experienced Effective Formulas*.，Syphilis.

Method for Preparing Lingwu Powder，*Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 17.，For infantile fetal wind, various forms of epilepsy, strabismus, excessive salivation with choking, inability to swallow, pulling of the mouth and eyes, and rigidity of the body.

Poria and Akebia Internal Support Powder，*Complete Record of Medicine*, Vol. 127.，For a temporal abscess that has already formed, is firm but has not ruptured, or has ruptured but has not healed; characterized by deficiency of both qi and blood, a cool body, a fine pulse, poor appetite, a bland taste in the mouth, and emaciation.

Pill for Expelling Pathogenic Factors，The formula is from *Shenghui* (Vol. 52); the name appears in *Puji Fang* (Vol. 200).，For malaria, with alternating chills and fever that come and go at irregular intervals.

Warming the Middle and Tonifying the Spleen Decoction，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 51.，Chronic Spleen Wind. Due to prolonged vomiting and diarrhea, spleen qi has been severely depleted, resulting in earth deficiency that fails to generate metal, and weak metal that fails to restrain wood. Consequently, liver wood becomes excessively vigorous and overpowers the spleen; hence it … Read more

Injury Pills，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For trauma and contusions.

Chrysanthemum Decoction to Clear Dryness，From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 68.，Pomegranate-shaped abscess, with intense swelling.

Du-Hui Decoction，*Compendium of Medical Essentials*, Volume 10.，For genuine brain abscess located at the crown of the head, where the Cui pulse lacks a root and is not palpable upon deep palpation, caused by the upward flaring of the Ming Fire and the depletion of Kidney Water.

Zhi-Ge Er Miao Pills，*Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 1.，For lower back pain due to damp-heat, internal heat and restlessness, spontaneous sweating and thirst, dark and scanty urine and stools, aching and heavy pain, and a deep and rapid pulse at the right Guan position.

Two Rehmannia Pills，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 6.，Liver deficiency, pain around the eyebrows and eye sockets, photophobia, and aversion to sunlight.

Medicines for Tendons and Bones，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 311.，For all types of pain and various wind-related disorders.

Astragalus Soaked in Wine，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 90.，For consumptive debility; cold hands and feet; pain in the feet and knees.

Summer-Heat-Dispelling Powder，*Comprehensive Record of Sacred Remedies*, Volume 34.，Symptoms of heatstroke include restlessness and, in many cases, fatigue and weakness.

Baihuang Powder，*Classified Collection of Medical Formulas*, Volume 185, citing *Wu’s Collection of Proven Formulas*.，Injuries from knives or axes; malignant sores.

Hu Huanglian Decoction，From *The New Book on the Care of Infants*, Volume 26.，Heat due to malnutrition, irregular diarrhea, fluctuating appetite, sallow complexion with dark bone marrow, and progressive wasting.

Qinghe Decoction，*Records of the Essentials of Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 11.，Smallpox.

Milk Porridge，From *The Prescriptions of the Emaciated Immortal for Saving Lives*, Volume 1.，

Yin-Preserving Decoction，*A Concise Explanation of Medical Formulas*, Volume 2.，For cases in the summer months where yin deficiency leads to an excess of yang; exposure to heat pathogens causes headache, fever, stiffness in the neck, and thirst; the patient does not feel aversion to cold but rather aversion to heat; and the pulse is weak.

Quick-Spot-Promoting Decoction，*Essentials of Smallpox Treatment*, Volume 23.，When smallpox lesions fail to erupt on the hands and feet.

Kidney Qi Consolidation Pills，From *Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Mo Bao Zhai*, Volume 1.，Deficiency of the lower jiao, instability of essence and qi; or nocturnal emissions and seminal emissions; yin deficiency with internal heat; imbalance between water and fire; excess above and deficiency below; profuse night sweats.

Cotton Decoction Powder，From *The New Book for Young Children*, Volume 14, citing *The Ji Family’s Inherited Formulas*.，For pediatric typhoid fever, convulsions with high fever, facial heat, profound lethargy and headache, and refusal to eat or drink.