Method for Avoiding Heat

Pork Kidney and Go-Stone Soup，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 190.，For women with blood stasis, chronic fatigue, cold symptoms, and persistent lower abdominal pain.

External Application of Puxiao Powder，*Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 405.，For boils and sores.

Puxiang Pills，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 3.，For cold-induced distension; in the elderly or deficient individuals with internal cold and lower-jiao deficiency, presenting with distension of the chest and abdomen, aversion to food, and a floating, slow, and weak pulse.

San Jia San，*Treatise on Epidemic Fevers*, Volume 2.，This formula is indicated for cases where latent pathogenic factors of an epidemic have already erupted, but the patient’s vital energy is too weak to expel the external pathogens. The invading pathogens are firmly entrenched in the blood vessels, causing the host and pathogenic factors to intermingle. Symptoms … Read more

Soft-Shelled Turtle Blood Pills，From *De Xiao* (Effective Remedies), Volume 12.，For childhood wasting disease.

Secretly Transmitted Art of the Precious Elixir，*Yu’an*, Volume 3.，For all cases of internal injury and deficiency.

Cooling the Blood and Clearing Toxins Decoction，From *The Golden Mirror of Smallpox Medicine*, Volume 6.，When a woman experiences a fever with smallpox outside her menstrual period and her menstrual blood suddenly begins to flow.

Internal-Dissolving Qianghuo Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Vol. 126.，For scrofula caused by the accumulation of wind-heat toxins.

Milk-Promoting Pill，From *Fu Qingzhu’s Gynecology*, Volume 2.，Used for postpartum deficiency of both qi and blood resulting in insufficient lactation.

Chuanxiong Decoction，From *Compendium of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 1.，For wind-cold invasion causing chest fullness, headache, cough with phlegm, aversion to cold, and high fever—symptoms resembling typhoid fever—with a floating and slow pulse.

Three Flowers Decoction，*Complete Book of Madness*.，Leprosy.

Tongli Decoction，From *Yi Chun Sheng Yi*, Volume 3.，Chronic cough with simultaneous dysfunction of the Three Jiao. Cough accompanied by abdominal distension, loss of appetite, profuse nasal discharge and vomiting, facial swelling, and counterflow of qi.

Ferming Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 175.，For feverish cough in children.

Shengzhi Pills，From *Compilation of Various Secret Formulas Based on Clinical Experience*.，For cholera with muscle cramps, abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea; cold extremities; bloating and fullness caused by pathogenic factors; and all types of pathogenic influences occurring at any time of year.

Xuandong Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，For heart heat with restlessness; when faced with matters, one may speak excessively and feel agitated, often as if the chest were in a state of chaotic turmoil and clamor; or after purgation for typhoid fever, when heat in the limbs has subsided but the heart remains … Read more

Ash-Grass Powder，*New Book on Smallpox Vaccination*, Volume 12.，For ulcerated smallpox lesions.

Pills for Opening the Jaws and Relieving Diaphragmatic Obstruction，From *Bingji Shazhuan*, Volume 1.，For dysphagia and dry, hard stools resembling sheep droppings.

Miraculous Efficacy Pill，*National Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas* (Shenyang Formula).，Indicated for chronic convulsions, coughing and wheezing, indigestion due to the “Five Wastes,” nighttime crying and abdominal distension, vomiting, diarrhea, dysphagia, and hot saliva flowing from the mouth.

Inner-Supporting Astragalus Powder，From *Jin Jian*, Volume 64.，For cases of “Zhongda Shou” (a syndrome characterized by deficiency of qi and blood, preventing the ulcer from developing and growing). For a hanging abscess that has already ruptured.

Scallion and Alum Wine，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 8.，For all types of carbuncles and malignant sores in their early stages, accompanied by fever and chills.

Decoction for Clearing Dryness and Relieving Muscle Tension，From *Differential Diagnosis of Various Fevers in Children*.，For autumn dryness with dry heat and absence of sweat, accompanied by vomiting, thirst, or cough; occasionally with chills resembling malaria; where treatment with exterior-releasing herbs alone is ineffective, and the fever persists for half a month to a month.

Decoction for Recovery from Syncope，From Volume 1 of *A Thousand Family Remedies*, citing a formula by Dong Shuliu.，Paroxysmal syncope caused by yin deficiency with hyperactive yang, inadequate nourishment of the heart and liver, heat stagnation in the blood, and qi-fire combined with phlegm obscuring the clear orifices.

Ginger, Scutellaria, and Four Substances Decoction，From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 44.，If menstruation arrives early, with scanty, stilted flow and a bright red color, this indicates excessive heat causing blood stasis.

Speckle-Removing Medicinal Porridge，*Shenghui* (Volume 97).，Yang deficiency and emaciation caused by kidney qi deficiency; impotence (i.e., diminished sexual function); premature ejaculation; nocturnal emissions; soreness or cold pain in the lower back and knees; dizziness and blurred vision; tinnitus and deafness; dribbling and uncomfortable urination; enuresis and polyuria; and leukorrhea in women.

Dampness-Eliminating Pills，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 9.，Dampness-Injury Noodles.