“A Thousand Gold Is Not Worth a Cake”

Hai Fu Decoction，From *Essentials of Obstetrics*, Volume 2.，For cases where slight pain persists after pus has drained from an intestinal abscess.

Pancreas-Nourishing Decoction，From *Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，For diabetes.

Divine Dew Ointment，From *Feng’s Treasure Chest: Miscellaneous Disorders*, Volume 9.，All types of dry, heat-induced coughs, hemoptysis, and consumptive diseases.

Pepper Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 20, citing *The Great Compendium of Medical Formulas*.，For unbearable spleen pain and pain caused by cold qi.

Spleen-Strengthening Decoction，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.，Weakness of the spleen and stomach, diarrhea due to organ dysfunction, cold stagnation in the chest and diaphragm, and loss of appetite.

Yin-Nourishing, Hundred-Tonifying, Essence-Consolidating, Disease-Treating Ointment，From *Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Mo Bao Zhai*, Volume 1.，For men suffering from cold semen, erectile dysfunction, nocturnal emissions, and small intestine hernia; for women suffering from heavy menstrual bleeding, red or white vaginal discharge, irregular menstruation, and cold in the internal organs.

Quansheng Decoction，*Gujin Yijian* (A Mirror of Medicine Through the Ages), Volume 7.，For vomiting blood, nosebleeds, coughing up blood, spitting up blood, and spitting blood.

Zexi Decoction，*Essentials of the Golden Cabinet* (Volume 1)，Dispels lung stagnation and clears phlegm. Indicated for internal retention of fluid and phlegm, accompanied by cough and a deep pulse.

Divinely Inspired Bone-Setting Pill，From *The Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，

Unparalleled Hemorrhoid and Fistula Pills，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，For hemorrhoids, fistulas, anal swelling and pain, hard lumps that do not subside, and unbearable pain and itching.

Warming the Meridians and Activating Blood Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，For women with dysmenorrhea caused by cold-dampness stagnation, presenting with lower abdominal pain before or during menstruation (relieved by warmth), menstrual blood resembling black bean juice, a moist tongue with a harmonious mouth sensation, and a deep, slow pulse.

Yinqiao Xinyi Decoction，Formula by Leng Baizhi, cited in *Clinical Treatment of Internal Medicine in Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Sinusitis.

Divinely Inspired Taiyi Powder，From *Bai Yi*, Volume 7.，When the seasonal energies are out of balance, epidemics run rampant, and people suffer from various illnesses, as well as conditions caused by simultaneous invasion of yin and yang pathogens, or wind, cold, and dampness-induced arthralgia.

Four-Ingredient Decoction for Eliminating Impurities，From *Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 3.，For disharmony of stomach qi causing spontaneous vomiting, inability to retain food, and no substance being vomited.

Secretly Transmitted Three Saints Powder，From *Secrets of Infant Care*, Volume 2.，For infantile fetal epilepsy.

Formula for Rubbing Teeth to Darken the Beard，*Compendium of Medicine*, Volume 66.，

Double Reishi Pills，*Xuanming Lun*, Volume 12.，For various deficiency syndromes.

Hernia-Relieving Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 9.，Cold invades the Jueyin channel, causing qi to surge upward toward the liver, resulting in a hernia, testicular pain, and distension and fullness in both flanks; pressing on the area increases the pain.

Iron Lock Spoon，From *Secrets of Laryngology*, Volume 2.，For laryngeal spasm.

Miraculous Formula for Scrofula，From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 64.，For scrofula in its early stages.

Blood-Cooling Decoction of the Two Huang Herbs，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*，Women with severe heat-induced dysmenorrhea, accompanied by a bitter taste in the mouth, restlessness, and a string-like, rapid pulse.

Cinnabar and Coptis Pills，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 176, citing *Yi Fang Ji Cheng*.，Heart deficiency with latent heat, or excessive alcohol consumption leading to diabetes insipidus.

Purslane and Black-Return Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 41.，Deficiency of blood and brain essence, resulting in premature graying of hair.

Jade Dew Lung-Nourishing Pills，*Selected Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas from Beijing*.，For lung qi deficiency with heat, manifested as coughing, phlegm, and wheezing; symptoms flare up in spring and autumn; and a persistent cough that will not subside.

Cock’s Crow Powder，From *Formulas for Traumatology*.，For blood stasis from trauma attacking the heart, with a pulse that has ceased and the patient on the verge of death.