Eight-Ingredient Pill

Ghee-Honey-Wine Paste，Quoted from *Shān Fán Fāng* in Volume 10 of *Wài Tái*.，For lung deficiency with cold, injury from violent wind, hoarseness and blocked voice, labored and weak breathing, and coughing with sputum. For cold-suppressed heat pathogens causing an inability to speak.

Poppy-Elm Decoction，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 7.，Dysentery.

Elm Bark Poultice Formula，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 182.，

Bi Xia Tingzi，From *Essentials of Life-Saving Methods*.，For malignant sores that have broken through the skin but cause no pain.

Qing Shang Qin Hua Pills，From *Huichun*, Volume 2.，Cough and wheezing.

Flame-Suppressing Powder，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 12.，For women with deficiency of kidney yin who, during the third or fourth month of pregnancy, experience a dry mouth and tongue, mild sore throat, and lack of saliva to moisten the throat, leading to fetal restlessness and, in severe cases, bleeding like menstrual flow.

Chicken Liver Formula，*Zongfutang Formulas*, Volume 4.，In cases where a child’s malnutrition has affected the eyes, resulting in external opacities or corneal films.

Enhanced Liu Shen Decoction for Resolving Phlegm，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，For postpartum mental confusion, opisthotonos, or locked jaw with inability to speak, epigastric fullness and distension, wheezing and counterflow of qi, fever, severe constipation, a yellow and greasy tongue coating, and a string-like, slippery, and rapid pulse.

Modified Fetal-Protecting Decoction，*Song Family Gynecology*，For women with uterine bleeding during pregnancy.

Artemisia and Black Plum Decoction，From *Songfeng on Epidemics*, Volume 5.，Epidemic Fever.

Multi-Seed Pill，From *Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing*.，For kidney deficiency with qi weakness, prolonged infertility, listlessness, and soreness and pain in the lower back and knees.

Toxin-Extracting Decoction，From *Handbook for the Care of Infants*, Volume 2.，For wind-heat toxins rising upward, causing swelling and pain in the head and neck, convulsions, and the appearance of rashes.

Xianglian Siwu Decoction，*Huiyue*, Volume 14.，For menstrual blood that is purple and thick due to blood heat, accompanied by a洪实 pulse.

Rivaling Spring Thunder，From *Yu’an*, Volume 6.，For smallpox lesions that are red, purple, scorched, or withered; or for cases where the eruption fails to appear due to wind-cold, with severe internal heat causing the lesions to remain suppressed and unable to break through.

Pork Kidney Stew，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 190.，For women suffering from postpartum wind-deficiency, consumptive cold, pain in all joints, and internal heat.

Melting Acorus Decoction，From *Shenghui*, Volume 6.，For hoarseness caused by wind-cold invading the lungs.

Stomach-Activating Powder，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Tianjin and Lanzhou Formulas).，Chest and diaphragm distension and fullness, intermittent stomach pain, vomiting with a sensation of fullness, loss of appetite, and constipation.

Peach and Pepper Seed Pills，*Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 1.，Menstrual flow ceases first, followed by the onset of swelling.

Dulian Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 10.，For diabetes.

Modified Sishi Pills，*Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 4.，For deficiency of both the spleen and stomach, resulting in inability to digest food and drink; fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm; intermittent distension of the abdomen and flanks persisting for months or years; reduced appetite and a tendency to lie down; a bitter, tasteless … Read more

Tonic for Relaxing Tendons and Activating Meridians，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Jinan Formula).，Numbness of the body, stiffness and cramping of the hands and feet, difficulty walking, and difficulty extending the arms.

Decoction for Dispelling Blood Stasis and Dissolving Masses，From *Yu’an*, Volume 5.，Blood-induced distension and swelling, hard as stone; alleviated in the morning but worsening in the evening; protruding navel accompanied by shortness of breath.

Miraculous Formula for Washing Hemorrhoids，*Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 2.，Hemorrhoidal fistulas.

Five Grains Pill，From *Simple Formulas for Difficult and Acute Conditions*, Volume 3.，For lockjaw dysentery that does not respond to other treatments.

Dried Lacquer and White Wuti Powder，*General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 6).，For various parasitic conditions, transmitted diseases, convulsions and epilepsy, gnawing at the teeth, staring straight ahead with eyes rolling upward, screaming, convulsing, and thrashing about—symptoms that gradually become life-threatening.