Zi Pu Decoction

Seven Treasures Decoction for Stopping Malaria，From *Simple Formulas*, citing *Formulas of the Imperial Bureau* (see *Compilation of Medical Formulas*, vol. 122).，For all types of malaria, regardless of the severity or sequence of chills and fever, whether occurring daily or every other day; as well as cases where one cannot acclimate to the local climate or … Read more

Ginseng and Lung-Nourishing Decoction，From *Feng’s Treasure Chest: Miscellaneous Disorders*, Volume 12.，In children with cold in both the lung and stomach, presenting with drooling, wheezing, shortness of breath, and inability to sleep soundly.

Jade Maiden Powder，Formula by Xu Dexiu, cited in Volume 8 of *Zhu’s Collection of Proven Prescriptions*.，For all types of deficiency and debility in men and women, postpartum debility, deficiency-related fever and chills, and spontaneous or night sweats.

Ochre Ointment，From *Liangfang Hebi*, Volume 2.，For severe, raw burns or scalds accompanied by unrelenting heat and pain.

Li Chong Decoction，From *Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，For women with amenorrhea, or postpartum lochia that fails to resolve and congeals into masses (zheng-jia), leading to yin deficiency causing heat and yang deficiency causing cold, accompanied by poor appetite, fatigue, and cough—with a succession of deficiency symptoms. Also for unmarried women with amenorrhea due … Read more

Amomum and Coptis Powder，*Research on Medical Formulas*, Volume 6.，For stomach cold due to food stagnation, presenting with vomiting and diarrhea. For smallpox.

Aroca Powder for Descending Qi，From *Shenghui*, Volume 50.，For qi stagnation in the diaphragm, and cold, hard, knotted pain in the chest and heart region.

Fu Shen Decoction，From *Yan Nian*, cited in Volume 17 of *Wai Tai*.，For heart deficiency causing insomnia and loss of appetite.

Diao Liao Dan，From *Secret Formulas of Miraculous Medicines*, Volume 2.，For scrofula that has not yet ruptured and contains a solid nodule.

Citrus Peel and Licorice Decoction，Formula from *Formulas for Emergency Use* (Vol. 2); name cited in *Formulas from the Outer Pavilion* (Vol. 3).，In cases of typhoid fever with unceasing retching and belching, the underlying cause is latent heat in the stomach, which leads to chest fullness and subsequent qi reversal; when qi reverses, belching occurs. If, … Read more

Toxic-Clearing Jingfang Decoction，*Compendium of Measles Disorders*, Volume 3.，Used for the “manifest” stage of measles.

Decoction for Dispelling Pathogenic Factors and Stabilizing the Fetus，From *Fu Qingzhu’s Treatise on Gynecology and Andrology*, Volume 2.，For a pregnant woman experiencing excessive phlegm and drooling, followed by sudden abdominal pain and the fetus pressing upward.

Red Donkey-Hide Gelatin Pills，Quoted from *Wang Yue’s Book on Childbirth* in *Collected Medical Formulas*, Vol. 234.，For all types of wind disorders and blood deficiency occurring within 10 to 100 days postpartum, as well as sudden stroke in men and paralytic or flaccid wind disorders.

Decoction for Nourishing Yin and Expelling Pathogenic Factors，*Huiyue*, Volume 9.，Yin deficiency with a weak pulse; cough due to external pathogenic factors; or kidney qi deficiency causing fluid accumulation that transforms into phlegm.

Sheng-Huai Ascending-Descending Decoction，From *Famous Prescriptions Through the Ages*, Volume 6, citing *Medical Case Records from the Sea of Yi Ping*.，Qi deficiency with sinking, persistent abdominal pain that worsens in paroxysms, a mass that does not shift upon palpation, intermittent passage of red and white stool mixed with bloody fluid, unbearable heaviness and distension, and inability … Read more

Purple Aster Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 49.，For lung heat with wheezing and cough.

Eastern Alum Powder，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Hand Eczema.

Decoction for Clearing Dizziness and Resolving Phlegm，*Compendium of Medicine*, Volume 3.，Dizziness.

Mysterious Universal Remedy，From *Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 3.，For all kinds of pre- and postpartum ailments in women, the thirty-six types of cold-blood wind disorders, the eighty-two types of wind-hernia diseases, breast wind, hematuria, unstable pregnancy, retained dead fetus, retained placenta, postpartum abdominal cramping, and stabbing pain below the navel;pre- and postpartum red and white … Read more

Blood-Nourishing and Qi-Regulating Decoction，*Compiled Medical Manuscripts*, Volume 6.，Lung distension with cough, or inability to sleep on either side, with shortness of breath upon movement—these are caused by phlegm mixed with stasis blood.

Purple Aster Root Pills，From *Yixin Fang*, Volume 9, citing *Fan Wang Fang*.，For coughs.

Huaqu Powder，*The Mysterious Pearl of the Red Water*, Volume 12.，Arm pain.

Exterior-Releasing Powder，*Handbook for the Care of Infants and Children*, Volume 2.，For common cold and exposure to cold, cough with phlegm and wheezing, vomiting, diarrhea, and dysentery; palpitations accompanied by fever; and conditions affecting both the exterior and interior.

Qi-Regulating Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 393), citing *Formulas for the Care of Infants*.，For children with abdominal distension, labored breathing, and loss of appetite.

Musk Toxin-Expelling Powder，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Shenyang Formula).，For epidemic rashes where macules and papules fail to erupt, with internal toxic heat, mental confusion and restlessness, alternating chills and fever, vomiting, and red, swollen muscles.