Pine Decoction

Ointment for External Application，From *Collected Insights on Surgical Treatments: Formulas for Home Use—Ointments, Pills, and Powders*.，For carbuncles, abscesses, wandering abscesses, and leg boils that have ruptured.

Er Ding San，From *New Book on the Care of Infants* (Volume 22), citing a formula by Wang Dui.，For various types of abdominal masses that do not resolve, abdominal pain, alternating chills and fever, irregular diarrhea, excessive thirst, jaundice and emaciation, or dysentery, with a mass in the abdomen or flanks the size of a palm, … Read more

Diao Teng Decoction，Quoted from *Essentials for Health Preservation* in Volume 980 of the *Yongle Dadian*.，For pediatric yin epilepsy characterized by excessive sleepiness, cold hands and feet, occasional convulsions, a fixed gaze, and refusal to breastfeed or eat.

Decongestant Ointment，Formula from *Qian Jin* (Vol. 22); name cited in *Pu Ji Fang* (Vol. 286).，Apply to a boil on the back at the onset of symptoms, or if the condition has persisted for more than 10 days, with redness, swelling, and intense heat, and the toxic energy is severe, causing pain day and night, and … Read more

Ji Ji Bu Zhen Dan，*Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 6.，For blurred vision and weakness, loose skin and pores, deficient internal organs, exhaustion of true yang, and deficiency of blood and qi.

Anle Powder，*Essentials for Prolonging Life*, Volume 2.，For women with urinary dribbling caused by kidney deficiency and heat that impairs metabolic functions.

Purple Antler Ointment，From *The Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 10.，For eyebrow eczema, infantile eczema caused by fetal toxins, sores on both eyebrows—which may spread to the entire body with intense itching or oozing pus and fluid—and conditions that have persisted for years without healing.

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.

Li Family Tianxian藤 Powder，*Feng’s Treasure Chest: Miscellaneous Disorders*, Volume 17.，Edema. After the third month of pregnancy, both feet gradually swell, making walking difficult; appetite is poor, and the condition resembles water retention.

Enhanced Er Miao Pills，From *Compendium of Medicine*, Volume 3.，For beriberi caused by excessive alcohol consumption, resulting in pain and a sensation of the feet burning as if on fire.

Miraculous Sophora-Chicken Pills，From *Shenghui*, cited in *Pujifang*, Volume 298.，For bleeding hemorrhoids.

Zhu-Fu Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，Heart deficiency; sweating during sleep.

He Tai Bai Du San，*Huiyue*, Volume 14.，For cold-induced fever during pregnancy, epidemic diseases, the early stages of infectious diseases, and all types of common colds.

Xiangru Powder，*New Book on Treating Illnesses at Home*.，For cholera with vomiting and diarrhea, accompanied by fever and abdominal pain.

Ephedra-Like Sacred Decoction，*Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 9.，For severe spasms.

Pomegranate Branch Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 99.，For cases of nine types of intestinal parasites causing activity, stabbing abdominal pain, vomiting of clear fluid, a dark-yellow complexion, and heart pain caused by the parasites.

Arsenic Trioxide Top，From *Chuanya Neibian*, Volume 3.，Asthma.

Thirst-Relieving Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 176.，For diabetes.

Modified Shengshi Pills，*Gu’s Medical Pathways*, Volume 4.，Leucorrhea. For cases of intermittent leukorrhea caused by a habit of drinking alcohol and tea, pre-existing excessive damp-heat, qi deficiency, and spleen weakness.

Peony and Gardenia Fermented Soybean Decoction，From *Yunqi Zi’s Collection for Preserving Life*, Volume 2.，Not to be taken in cases of postpartum restlessness due to deficiency.

Zhuge Liang’s Military Campaign Powder，From *Collected Formulas of the Crane-Feeding Pavilion*.，When the pathogenic factors of the six excesses in the four seasons or the toxic mists of mountain mists suddenly affect a person, phlegm congeals and qi becomes blocked, the passages are obstructed and the orifices are blocked, and yin and yang become disordered, leading … Read more

San Cai San，Formula adapted from Ma Nanxing’s recipe in *Selected Precious and Secret Formulas Worth a Thousand Gold*.，Tinea.

Heat-Inducing Ointment，*Pharmaceutical Technology of Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Burns from water or fire.

Throat-Clearing Gardenia and Fermented Soybean Decoction，*A Brief Treatise on Epidemic Sore Throat*，Dispels exterior pathogens and clears heat; clears the throat and eliminates toxins. Initial symptoms include aversion to cold and fever, followed by high fever and thirst; the throat is red, swollen, and painful, and may even ulcerate; a faint rash may appear on the … Read more

Decoction for Enhancing Memory，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，For forgetfulness. Caused by the depletion of kidney essence and the drying up of heart blood due to old age, resulting in an inability to recall recent events; even when others recount past events, the patient remains bewildered.