Four Substances Decoction for Inducing Labor

He Shou Wu Powder，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 272, citing *Yi Fang Ji Cheng*.，For sores, swelling, itching, and pain all over the body.

Ping Sou Wan，From *The Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For chronic cold coughs with counterflow of qi and excessive phlegm, which flare up upon exposure to cold.

Skin-Cleansing Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 287.，For cases where a boil has ruptured but the pus has not yet dried up.

Ghost Arrow Feather Decoction of Ten Ingredients，Quoted from *Xu Renze’s Formulas* in Volume 5 of *Wai Tai*.，For malaria where, after repeated vomiting and diarrhea, the root cause remains; if further vomiting or diarrhea is feared, especially in emaciated patients.

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

Fumai Decoction，*Essentials for the Medical Profession*, Middle Volume.，

Ox Bile Palace-Clearing Pills，*Unified Formulation Manual for Traditional Prescriptions of Tianjin Municipality*.，For heat invading the pericardium, manifested as fever, mental confusion, headache, dizziness, dry mouth and tongue, delirium, and mania, as well as febrile convulsions in children.

Black-Eliminating Powder，*Essentials of Pediatrics*, Volume 3.，Swelling and unilateral descent of the testicles in children.

Qianghuo Eye-Cloud-Dissolving Ointment，From *Lan Shi Mi Cang*, Volume 1.，Cold water in the Foot-Taiyang meridian causes a membrane to obscure the eye; a white opacity forms on the surface, resulting in blurred vision.

Purple Gold Ointment for Eye Washing，*Selected Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas from Beijing*.，For sudden onset of red eyes, external opacities such as cloud-like veils, and red, ulcerated eyelids.

Suoyang Semen-Consolidating Pills，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，Indicated for nocturnal emissions and seminal leakage, dizziness and tinnitus, soreness and pain in the lower back and knees, and weakness in the limbs.

Ginseng-Enhanced Shenghua Decoction for Stopping Metrorrhagia，*Essentials of Prenatal and Postnatal Care*, Volume 3.，Postpartum pain with blood clots, fresh blood discharge, pallor and weakness, excessive sweating, or shortness of breath.

Warming the Menstrual Channels with Cyperus and Acorus Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 15.，For excessive menstrual flow and various blood and qi disorders.

Tongchun Pills，From *The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 7.，Hernia.

Miraculous External Formula for the Immediate Elimination of Boils，*Zongfutang Formulas: Appendix*.，Boils.

Modified Great Blue Dragon Decoction，*Yizhong Yide*.，Malaria.

Blood-Nourishing and Fetal-Stabilizing Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Qingdao Formula).，For pregnant women with lower back and abdominal pain and fetal restlessness.

Worm-Expelling Pills，*Yi Lue Liu Shu*, Volume 23.，For parasitic distension with a slow and slippery pulse.

Enhanced Fusan Decoction，From *Yichun Shengyi*, Volume 2.，Liver exhaustion, with rebellious yang qi and deficiency of yin qi, manifesting as fever, pain in the flanks, dizziness, tinnitus, and laxity of the tendons and joints.

Liu Yi Pills，From *Collected Proven Formulas of the Zhu Family*, Volume 8.，

Ginger and Egg，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 3.，For childhood dysentery.

Shengshui Decoction，*Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 9.，Dampness attacks the heart, causing phlegm to be coughed up all day long; even a small amount of tea causes a hard, constricting sensation beneath the heart, shortness of breath, and aversion to water.

Eight Treasures Paste，From *Lu Fu’s Prohibited Formulas*, Volume 1.，For consumptive wasting disease.

Ai-Fu Si-Shen Pills，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，Indicated for deficiency-cold during pregnancy, characterized by pain in the lower back and abdomen, listlessness, aversion to cold and preference for warmth, coldness in the lower abdomen, clear and copious urine, poor appetite, a pale tongue with a white coating, and a deep, slow pulse.

Buddha’s Hand Powder，*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 12.，During the 6th–7th month of pregnancy, if the fetus is struck by a stone lid or the fetus dies in the womb, resulting in the discharge of lochia and unrelenting pain so severe that the mouth clenches shut and the patient feels on the verge … Read more