Sichuan Pepper Pills

Decoction for Clearing the Skin, Drying Dampness, and Eliminating Toxins，*Complete Book of Experience in the Treatment of Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 3.，Purple Scabies. Accumulated toxins in the five viscera and six腑 rise to the skin and hair, causing purple scabies that may be painful or itchy and appear anywhere on the body. The crown of … Read more

Goji Berry Tea，*Eight Notes on Nurturing Life*, Volume 13.，

Gastric Reflux Decoction，From *Supplement to the Essentials of Prescriptions Collected from Observation*, Volume 3, citing *Ye’s Record of Proven Prescriptions*.，For regurgitation and vomiting, discomfort in the chest and diaphragm, food remaining undigested for a night before being vomited up with a sour and foul odor.

Instant-Effect Aquilaria Powder，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 9.，For all kinds of malignant toxins, back abscesses, and boils—whether already ruptured or not yet ulcerated.

San Jian Dan，*Ju Fang*, Volume 5 (Supplementary Collection of Empirical Secret Formulas from Various Bureaus).，For exhaustion and debility due to overwork, depletion of the lower jiao, instability of kidney qi, loss of semen and urine, spontaneous bowel movements, and cold extremities; or for a pulse as fine as a thread, wasting away of flesh and … Read more

Goat Horn Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 37); name cited in *Pujifang* (Vol. 188).，Hemoptysis, coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath.

Modified Qing Shi Decoction，*Records of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 5.，For heat entering the blood chamber in a woman whose menstrual period has just begun; she is suffering from a common cold, with fever, aversion to cold, distension and fullness in the chest and flanks, and delirium.

Bu Yuan Pills，From *The Mystic Pearl of the Red Water*, Volume 26.，In cases of acute deficiency of the Lower Jiao, with uncontrollable urination of a greasy, oily consistency.

Xiaosan Pills，*Shanghai Pharmaceutical Standards*.，For early-stage abscesses and carbuncles, back abscesses with spreading infection, and rheumatic pain.

Atractylodes Decoction for Dampness Removal，From *The Secret Treasury of the Orchid Chamber*, Volume 2.，Fever in the afternoon, aversion to wind on the back, heaviness in the limbs, and urine that is either copious or scant and yellow in color; also treats fever following sweating.

Mulberry and Placenta Pills，From *Formulas of the Huizhitiang Hall*, Volume 1.，

Formula for Internal Resolution of Scrofula，From *Eight Notes on Nourishing Life*, Volume 18.，For scrofula.

Worm-Fishing Pill，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 93.，For consumptive diseases caused by “transmitted corpses,” emaciation and weakness, constant redness of both cheeks, coughing and shortness of breath, fullness and oppression in the chest, weakness in the limbs, and dreams of copulating with ghosts.

Cough-Relieving and Phlegm-Resolving Decoction，From *Zhun Sheng: Lei Fang*, Volume 2.，For wind-cold common cold with cough and nasal congestion.

Detoxifying Purple Gold Ointment，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 3.，For sycamore-induced toxic sores that have become gangrenous and foul-smelling, with oozing pus and serous fluid, where other treatments have failed; also effective for various stubborn toxic sores and chronic ulcers.

Xiangfu Pills，From *A Clear Explanation of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 16, citing *Yang’s Formulas for Jaundice*.，For jaundice resulting from exhaustion or overwork, as well as all types of jaundice accompanied by obesity.

Hemorrhage Powder，From *Puji Fang*, cited in Volume 2 of *Xian Nian Ji*.，Suitable for both severe and mild cases of rectal bleeding.

Yin-Dampness Decoction，From *Selected Remarkable Formulas by Layman Yu*, cited in Volume 88 of *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，For all cases of stroke characterized by spontaneous sweating, gradually developing aversion to wind, a smoldering fever, shortness of breath, wind-dampness or wind-heat syndromes, exterior excess with interior deficiency, or exterior deficiency with interior excess; where the skin pores … Read more

Heart-Regulating Powder，From *Discussions on the Treatment of Smallpox*.，For cases where smallpox rashes should appear but do not.

Lotus Root Juice Powder，*Compendium of Holy Remedies*, Volume 68.，Hemoptysis.

Zisheng Dan，*Compendium of Measles Disorders*, Volume 4.，For those with spleen and stomach deficiency accompanied by diarrhea.

Duck Decoction，Formula from *Xu Ben Shi* (Continuation of Stories of Medical Practice), Volume 6; name cited in *Dong Yi Bao Jian* (Treasury of Eastern Medicine), Volume 10, “Miscellaneous Diseases.”，For women suffering from red or white dysentery before or after childbirth.

Bulan Dan，From *Supplement to the Treatise on Surgical Diseases*, Volume 2.，For gangrenous legs.

Haitong Powder，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 169), citing *Shi Yuanduan’s Effective Prescriptions*.，Wind sores, scabies, and tinea.

Liver-Nourishing Turnip Seed Powder，From *Qianjin*, Volume 6.，