Bi Ma Decoction

Indigo Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 93.，For children with chronic malnutrition-related dysentery that has not healed for a long time, resulting in progressive wasting and emaciation.

Buddha’s Hand Porridge，From *Recipes for Longevity Medicinal Porridges*, citing *Daily Notes of a Court Official*.，For the elderly with weak stomachs, chest tightness and qi stagnation, indigestion, loss of appetite, belching, and vomiting.

Pills of the Sublime Union of True Essence，*Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 67.，For men and women suffering from debility and depletion of both yin and yang.

Hibiscus Porridge，From *The Essential Guide to Dietary Medicine*.，For heat-induced dysuria.

Bitter Shepherd’s Purse Decoction，From *Treatise on General Diseases of Cold Damage*, Volume 3.，For typhoid fever on the 7th–8th day, with intense fever that does not subside.

Decoction for Cleansing the Heart and Cooling the Blood，From *Explanations of Ophthalmology*, Volume 3.，Epidemic conjunctivitis.

Dongliu Decoction，*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 8.，Constipation due to heat-induced stool obstruction.

Enhanced Poria Decoction，From *Ophthalmology Essentials*, Volume 4.，For retained fluid in the stomach, accompanied by spontaneous vomiting of stagnant fluid and difficulty urinating; or for white phlegm with blood spots resulting from coughing; as well as for whooping cough in children.

Saofeng Decoction，*Record of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 2.，For genuine stroke, where pathogenic and healthy forces clash, causing sudden collapse; the patient spits phlegm and saliva, raves and screams, sits and stands on their own, walks unaided, fails to recognize people, develops spots on the body, and after several days, these spots turn into sores and boils.

Alum Powder，Formula from *Qianjin* (Vol. 6). Name found in *Pujifang* (Vol. 56).，Nasal congestion. Nasal polyps causing difficulty in breathing.

Decoction for Closing the Orifices and Quenching Thirst，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 6.，For diabetes.

Miraculous Formula for Washing Hemorrhoids and Fistulas，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 4.，Hemorrhoidal fistulas.

Peppermint and Schizonepeta Decoction，From *Dongtian Aozi*, Volume 13.，For heat-induced skin lesions. In extremely cold weather, warming one’s hands by a fire may cause skin burns, resulting in lesions that develop into painful spasms.

Bai Ji Pills，*The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 3.，Chronic nasal discharge.

Persimmon Elixir，From *Essentials for Treating Miscellaneous Diseases*, citing *Elixir of Longevity*.，Effective against ten types of bloating caused by poisonous insects.

Five-Ash Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 295), citing *Formulas for Emergency Treatment*.，Effective for all five types of hemorrhoids, regardless of whether they are internal or external, female or male, caused by cold or heat, or resulting from overwork or dampness.

Aconite Decoction，*Treatise on General Diseases of Cold Damage*, Volume 3.，In cases of Yin-toxin, with a deep and faint pulse nearly imperceptible, cold extremities, severe restlessness, and unrelenting thirst.

Life-Preserving and Fetal-Protecting Decoction，From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 3.，For pregnant women who are four or five months along and, due to fright, a fall, or a tumble, experience fetal restlessness and have already experienced vaginal bleeding.

Minor Yin-Nourishing Pill，*Bu Ju Ji*, Volume 7 of the First Collection.，For deficiency syndromes.

Decoction for Stopping Miscarriage and Stabilizing the Fetus，From *Six Books of Medical Essentials*, Volume 28.，For cases of threatened miscarriage with a soft and rapid pulse.

Decoction for Nourishing Blood and Revitalizing the Weak，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 2.，Blood deficiency fails to nourish the tendons and vessels; although the patient has not suffered a fall, the left side of the body is numb, speech is slurred, and saliva flows from the corners of the mouth.

Atractylodes Toxin-Eliminating Powder，*The Great Compendium of Shanghan* (Volume 2).，Damp-toxin invades the skin and hair from the outside and penetrates the blood from within, causing chills and fever, bloody stools, and, conversely, no abdominal pain.

Mo Ji He Wan，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 392.，For children with stagnant food mass that fails to dissipate, presenting with distension and fullness in the abdomen and flanks, dry retching, nausea, and a complete inability to eat.

Ten-Ingredient Stomach-Nourishing Decoction，From *Yi Jian Fang*.，For cold malaria, or cases of cold-induced epidemic disease accompanied by aversion to cold.

Pili Decoction，From *The Heart Book of Bian Que: Divine Formulas*.，Weakness of the spleen and stomach, leading to diarrhea caused by consumption of raw or cold foods; undigested grains; bloating, pain, or fullness; pain in the chest and flanks extending to the heart; distension in both flanks; isolated abdominal distension; cholera with vomiting and diarrhea;Stroke and … Read more