Eight-Treasure Ointment

Formula for Nourishing Tendons and Relieving Leg Pain，From *Selected Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，Leg pain.

Medicinal Wash for Rectal Prolapse，*Hui Chun*, Volume 7.，Rectal prolapse.

Ointment for Boils and Various Sores，From *Collection of Good Friends*, Volume 3, citing a formula by Sun Wanglin.，For boils and various toxic sores.

Immortal Cloud-Dispelling Pills，From *A Clear Illumination of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 22.，For red-veined corneal opacities that initially extend from the outer canthus inward.

Hemorroidal Fistula Hun Yuan Pill，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 23.，Hemorrhoids with fistula.

Jixiang Decoction，Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in Volume 21 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For children with spleen-stomach deficiency, loss of appetite, and emaciation.

Rong Salt Pills，The formula is from *Qian Jin* (Vol. 6); the name appears in *Wei Sheng Zong Wei* (Vol. 15).，The tongue is black with several holes, each as large as a chopstick, and blood gushes forth like a spring.

Dampness-Draining and Spleen-Clearing Powder，From *Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 5.，For damp-heat in the spleen and stomach, often manifesting as redness and erosion of the upper and lower eye sockets.

Fire-Suppressing and Moisturizing Decoction for the Buttocks，*The True Selection of Surgical Formulas*, Volume 1.，Early-stage stork-beak abscess: swelling at the tip of the coccyx resembling a fish’s bladder, red in color, firm, and painful.

Japonica Rice Decoction，*Compendium of Divine Remedies*, Volume 188.，Uncontrollable hemoptysis and chest tightness.

Great Thistle Powder，From *Ji Sheng*, Volume 2.，Consumption of pungent and hot foods leads to heat pathogens injuring the lungs, resulting in vomiting of blood amounting to 1 he or half a sheng; this is known as “lung abscess.”

Qinpi Decoction，From *Xiaopin Fang*, cited in Volume 2 of *Wai Tai*.，In cases of toxic disease affecting the eyes, where a red or white opacity suddenly appears, or the skin swells and rises; or where redness and pain prevent seeing light, with pain penetrating the heart and liver; or where the area outside the eye swells … Read more

Astragalus and Poria Powder，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 18.，For children with deficiency of the Nutritive and Defensive Qi, manifesting as listlessness, a pale complexion, bluish-white lips and mouth, retching, drowsiness, and a complete lack of appetite. The body may be slightly swollen.

Method for Steaming Castor Oil Paste，From *The Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 6.，Ten types of water-related disorders, five types of miasma and toxic vapors.

Zhike-Qianghuo Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 150.，For women suffering from blood-wind attacks, characterized by numbness and itching in the limbs as if insects were crawling, or red, swollen, and painful muscles, stiffness in the shoulders and back, and mental fatigue.

Yin-Nourishing and Heart-Tonifying Decoction，From *The Posthumous Writings of Shen Zhai*, Volume 7.，The Hand-Shaoyin Heart Meridian is inherently weak by constitution. During the day, mental exertion and emotional strain, and at night, sexual activity that depletes essence, cause the vital energy to become deficient and unable to nourish the spirit. This leads to fire invading the … Read more

Meifeng Pills，Formula taken from *Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 15, citing *Qiankun Shengyi*; name found in *Compendium of Ten Thousand Formulas*, Volume 3.，For severe leprosy with loss of eyebrows and hair, and numbness throughout the body.

Aconite and Codonopsis Decoction，From *Yi Jian*.，Persistent loose stools.

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.

Dragon’s Tooth Heart-Nourishing Decoction，*Zhi Zhi*, Volume 10.，For various conditions of deficiency and insufficiency, with episodes of deficiency-heat, restlessness and anxiety, disturbed sleep, and oily, turbid urine.

Xiao Hei Shen Pills，From *De Xiao* (Effective Remedies), Volume 15.，Blood-wind with wandering, piercing pain; hemiplegia; numbness and itching; acute wind with deviation of the mouth and eyes; slurred speech; and stiffness of the hands and feet.

Tail Elixir，From *Comprehensive Treatise on Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 4.，White spots appear on the eyeballs after smallpox.

Bone-Renewing Pills，From *Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 8.，For leprosy and all types of scabies, tinea, and skin diseases.

Qingjin Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 171.，For children with convulsions, epilepsy, accumulated heat, and phlegm-induced cough.

Water Dropwort Decoction，From *Introduction to Obstetrics: Appendix*.，For various pre- and postpartum disorders and traumatic injuries.