Decoction for Dispelling Dampness and Clearing Heat

Hardness-Dissolving Powder，*The Collection of Immortal Remedies*, Volume 4.，For abscesses and boils that are hard and swollen, as thick as a cow’s neck skin, and do not produce pus or necrosis.

Throat-Relieving Wine，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 9.，In cases of throat obstruction where prompt treatment is essential.

Agarwood and Pinellia Decoction，From *Zisheng Fang*, cited in Volume 2 of *Dongyi Baojian: Miscellaneous Diseases*.，For stroke with excessive phlegm.

White Mustard Seed Pills，*The Holy Beneficent* (Shenghui), Volume 3.，Liver wind causing stiffness and spasms of the tendons and meridians, with pain in the bone marrow.

Menstrual Stabilizing Ointment，From *Li Yue*.，For women with blood deficiency accompanied by heat, who experience early menstruation, excessive menstrual flow, irregular cycles, prolonged menstruation, metrorrhagia, metrorrhagia with clots, leukorrhea due to damp-heat, or those who continue to menstruate after the age of fifty.

Worm-Expelling Powder，From *Quansheng*, cited in Volume 3 of *Xian Nian Ji*.，For various intestinal parasites.

Golden-Coated Precious Ingot，From *National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Shenyang Formula).，For children suffering from indigestion or milk-induced distress, food or fluid retention, vomiting, constipation or difficulty urinating, and poor digestion.

Angelica Decoction for Washing，From *Shenghui*, Volume 61.，For boils and abscesses on the back that, after lancing, continue to discharge pus and fluid uncontrollably, or that have been affected by external wind-toxin, causing severe swelling and pain.

Tianyuan Powder，From *Records of Smallpox and Measles* (Volume 14).，Do not use smallpox pus for irrigation.

Huan Su Decoction，*Outline of Internal Medicine*.，Red eyes, aversion to wind, tearing, photophobia, inability to open the eyes, and even pain; pulse is floating and rapid.

Zhang Wujing’s Da Ming Pills，From *Yifang Leiju*, Volume 67, citing *Jianyi*.，All types of clouded vision.

Citrus Peel and Bamboo Shavings Decoction，From *Ji Sheng*, Volume 2.，Indicated for stomach heat manifesting as excessive thirst, retching, and inability to eat. Suitable for robust patients with a recent onset of illness who have not yet undergone treatment with bitter-cold purgatives, or who have been mistakenly administered heat-inducing or stagnating herbs, presenting with a洪数滑实 pulse … Read more

Three-Juice Pills，*Yi Tong*, Volume 46.，For consumptive wasting disease caused by a contagious pathogen.

Miraculous Golden Ointment，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 315.，For sores, boils, abscesses, and contusions.

Pills for Stabilizing the Mind and Resolving Phlegm，*Guide to Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，For childhood convulsions and epilepsy.

Strophanthus Paste，*Qianjin*, Volume 3.，Postpartum stroke.

Water-Drawing Cake，From *The Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 6.，For swelling.

Purslane Wine，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 159.，

Ginger and Aconite Four Gentlemen Decoction，*Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 4.，Cold-induced cholera; incomplete labor, with fever, flushed face, and a deep, fine pulse.

Black Plum and Cornus Decoction，From *Si Sheng Xin Yuan*, Volume 8.，For dilated pupils.

Secret Formula for Resolving Stagnation Pills，*Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 3.，Indigestion and fullness after meals, diarrhea following a meal, cholera, vomiting, dysentery, abdominal pain due to qi stagnation, and malnutrition in children. All types of pain caused by qi stagnation and stagnant masses.

Acacia Flower and Angelica Powder，From *Shenghui*, cited in Volume 3 of *Xiu Zhen*.，For blood rushing to the pupils, causing the eyes to appear fiery and the eyelids to swell and ache.

Dipsacus Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 163.，For severe lower back pain after childbirth, making it impossible to turn from side to side.

Zhou’s Life-Restoring Pill，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，For heatstroke, exposure to cold, irregular diet, cholera with vomiting and diarrhea, and abdominal colic.

Secret Formula: Leg-Relief Pills，*Formulas of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 1 (Supplementary Collection of Empirical Secret Formulas from Various Bureaus).，Weakness of the Kidney Meridian manifesting in the lower back and knees; or exposure to drafts or cold, resulting in invasion by cold qi, causing a sensation of heaviness and weakness, slow and sluggish gait, cramping and … Read more