Red Dragon Skin Decoction

Stone-Removing Decoction，*Three Causes*, Volume 18.，Postpartum Exhaustion. For women who, due to a difficult childbirth, have become extremely fatigued and physically weakened, and who suffer from anxiety and mental distress, resulting in debility, shortness of breath, fatigue, chills and fever resembling malaria, headache, spontaneous sweating, lethargy in the limbs, coughing with phlegm, and sharp, cramping pain … Read more

Houpo-Huang Decoction，From *Gu’s Medical Pathways*, Volume 5.，Water-and-grain dysentery, characterized by loose stools that are thin and unformed, undigested food and water in the stool, abdominal cramping, and a sensation of incomplete evacuation.

Sweet Potato Porridge，From *Therapeutic Porridge Recipes*, cited in *Porridge Recipes*.，Vitamin A deficiency, night blindness, blood in the stool, constipation, and damp-heat jaundice.

Sheep Stomach Formula，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 189.，Regurgitation.

Silver Foil Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 22.，For wind-epilepsy that has persisted for many years without cure, with gradually increasing wind-phlegm that triggers attacks upon exposure to heat.

Blood-Activating and Wind-Dispelling Ointment，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，Spasms around the mouth and eyes.

Powder for Eliminating Leprosy，Formula from *Yu Jin*, Volume 22; name cited in *Dongtian Aozi*, Volume 16.，For malignant sores that have persisted for ten years and resemble leprosy.

Spleen-Nourishing Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 62.，For stagnant qi and undigested food.

Dampness-Eliminating and Spleen-Strengthening Decoction，*Hui Chun*, Volume 3.，Chronic diarrhea, with a sallow complexion and sparse teeth, fatigue, and a sensation of food sinking downward.

Stomach-Soothing and Phlegm-Resolving Decoction，From *Yu’an*, Volume 3.，Qi fails to rise and fall; phlegm and saliva are excessively congested.

Wanming Eye Ointment，From Volume 4 of Nian’s *Collected Proven Effective Formulas*.，For eye diseases.

Qi-Consolidating and Source-Restoring Decoction，*Essence of Ancient Formulas*, Volume 1.，For persistent night sweats.

Four-Color Pills，*General Essentials of Health*, Volume 10.，For green-colored diarrhea.

Bone-Setting Hot Medication，*Lecture Notes on Traditional Chinese Medicine Traumatology*.，For trauma and contusions.

Scutellaria and Coptis Phlegm-Resolving Decoction，From *Zheng’s Family-Transmitted Gynecological Prescriptions Worth Ten Thousand Gold*, Volume 1.，For women with phlegm obstructing the uterus, resulting in regular menstruation but inability to conceive, discomfort in the epigastric region, phlegm-heat, and phlegm-induced cough with a sensation of fullness and oppression.

Ermei Ointment，*Medical Levels*, Volume 8.，For yin deficiency with internal heat, characterized by coughing, flushed cheeks, and night sweats.

Recipe for Roasted Pork Stomach，*Shenghui*, Volume 97.，Wind-cold in the lower jiao, causing pain in the lower back and legs, with inability to move.

Coptis and Cimicifuga Tooth-Rubbing Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 121.，

Such as the “Miraculous Cinnabar Phlegm-Resolving Pills”，From *Pediatric Essentials*, Volume 4.，For children with wind-heat syndrome presenting with fever, aversion to wind, nasal congestion, heaviness of the body, cough with phlegm, red face, dry lips, slight sweating, and dark urine.

Xiao Qinglong Decoction (without Ma Huang) with Added Apricot Kernels，Formula from *Treatise on Cold Damage*; name cited in *Compendium of Sacred Remedies*, Volume 24.，For cases of shanghan where the exterior syndrome has not resolved, with water retention beneath the epigastrium, dry retching, fever, and coughing and wheezing.

Minor Bupleurum and Dried Ginger Decoction，Formula from *Treatise on Cold Damage*; name cited in *Illustrated Songs on Cold Damage: A Guide to Saving Lives*, Volume 4.，For patients with shanghan who, on the 5th or 6th day, experience sudden onset of fever, alternating chills and fever, fullness and discomfort in the chest and flanks, a sullen … Read more

Qi-Stabilizing Powder，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 25.，In cases of cold damage, there is often unceasing vomiting and retching.

Chuanxiong-Fuzi Decoction，*Danxi’s Heart Method*, Volume 2.，For disharmony of qi and blood, epistaxis, hematemesis, qi-induced syncope and headache in men, and headaches caused by excessive qi in women, as well as postpartum headaches.

Scorpion Tail and Pinellia Pills，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 1.，For wind-obstruction and phlegm-congestion, characterized by coughing, nasal congestion, dizziness, headache, numbness in the hands and feet, stiffness in the neck and shoulders, and restricted movement of tendons and meridians.

Sheng San Zi，*Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 209.，For men and women with dampness affecting the spleen and stomach, cold stagnation in the epigastrium, frequent indigestion after eating, fullness and oppression in the chest, distension of the flanks, intestinal rumbling with a sensation of fullness due to deficiency,stiff pain in the lower abdomen, and rigidity … Read more