A Formula for Immediate Relief

Zuo Jin Di Gu Decoction，From *Treatise on Warm Syndromes Caused by Sheep’s Wool*.，Internal injury to the Metal and Earth elements by warm pathogenic factors from sheep’s wool, with rebellious Wood energy, persistent flank pain, qi stagnation and distension, difficulty turning over in bed, a string-like and large pulse, or a deep, string-like, and fine pulse; … Read more

Liuhei Pills，*Essentials of the Crimson Pouch*.，For eye disorders caused by deficiency.

Garlic Wine，*Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 1.，For cholera, pain in the heart, stomach, and abdomen.

“Quench a Hundred Cups of Thirst” Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 20.，For severe thirst.

Trichosanthes and Indigo Pill，Formula from *Danxi’s Heart Method*, Volume 2; name cited in *A Rhinoceros-Horn Lamp Illuminating the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 1.，For a cough caused by alcohol.

Camphor Tincture，*A Concise Guide to Dermatology in Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Neurodermatitis.

Tianma Herb Decoction，*Wai Tai*, Volume 34, citing *Ji Yan Fang*.，For mastitis, spreading, yellow, festering, and hot sores; genital ulcers with itching and dampness; and scalp sores in children.

Decoction of Four Juices，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 38.，For vomiting associated with cholera.

Cinnamon and Safflower Pills，*The Jade Case*, Volume 5.，Blood masses, blood-induced abdominal masses.

Rat and Garlic Ointment，*Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 3.，For alopecia and various sores, scabies, and tinea that form white crusts.

Doctor’s Wine，From *Formulas of the Huizhitiang Hall*, Volume 2.，Pain in the lower back and legs so severe that one cannot bear weight on the ground; stroke-induced facial paralysis; and gout affecting the joints.

Su-Xing Er-Chen Decoction，From *Medical Lamp of Transmission*, Volume 1.，Common cold with cough; phlegm lodged between the lungs and stomach, sticky and congealed.

Chuanxiong-Chrysanthemum Upper-Clearing Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Yuxian Formula).，Indicated for excessive fire in the Upper Burner, headaches (whether due to pathogenic or constitutional factors), nasal congestion, tinnitus, and heat in the head and face.

Small Areca Nut Pills，From *Rumen Shiquin*, Volume 12.，For shortness of breath and abdominal distension.

Pills for Digesting Internal Accumulations，From *Secret Formulas Based on Clinical Experience*, citing a formula by Yang Zigou, found in *Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 113.，For abdominal masses.

Di Shu Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 77.，For spleen-toxin dysentery with bloody stools resembling goose or duck livers and unrelenting abdominal pain.

Dampness-Clearing Decoction，From *Baoming Gejue*, Volume 4.，Damp-heat in summer and autumn, causing pain in the lower back, hips, and groin, along with a heavy body and lethargy.

Amomum Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Vol. 394.，Vomiting in infants due to overfeeding.

Fog-Dispelling and Disinfecting Decoction，From *Throat Medicine for Bestowing Blessings*, Volume 3.，For the early stages of epidemic diphtheria, characterized by chills, fever, headache, back distension, pain in the joints throughout the body, and mental fatigue—when the disease has not yet penetrated to the interior.

Pot Scorch Pills，*The Collection of Immortal Prescriptions*, Volume 3.，For children with weak spleen and stomach, chronic malnutrition with jaundice and emaciation, and watery diarrhea.

Houpo Powder for Tonifying Yin and Nourishing Yang，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 29.，Used for typhoid fever.

Night-Glow Nourishing Spirit Pills，*Nourishing the Elderly for a Long Life*, Volume 2.，Blurred vision, forgetfulness.

Newly Added Aconite Zuo Jing Decoction，From *Baoming Ge Kuo*, Volume 14.，Berket. When the four pathogenic qi flow into the Foot Shaoyin Meridian, berket ascends to the abdomen, causing abdominal distension and pain, as well as shortness of breath and rapid, labored breathing; this is caused by deficiency-cold in the Kidney Meridian.

Bear Bile Life-Saving Powder，From *Lu Fu’s Prohibited Formulas*.，For extreme fever in typhoid fever leading to delirium, where the patient fails to recognize relatives or strangers, and dry heat is at its peak.

Bear Bile Powder，*Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 10.，Hemorrhoidal fistulas. The wound does not close; the pus is thin and watery; the swelling is hard and persistent.