A time-tested remedy: Rat-adhesive root soaked in wine

Internal Injury Ointment，From *Compendium of Pills, Powders, Ointments, and Pills*.，For sudden back strain, qi stagnation, and injuries from falls or accidents. Numbness in the limbs and joints; pain in tendons and bones.

Milk Bee Powder，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 66.，Toothache.

Qingxuan Yangrong Decoction，From *He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 3.，For men and women with blood deficiency, internal heat, dizziness, and mental confusion.

Dingchou Huafeng Pills，From *Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing*.，For acute fever, convulsions, excessive phlegm congestion, restlessness, cough, and fever.

Camphor Decoction for Eye Drops，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 104.，For redness and pain in the eyes caused by wind-toxin.

Centipede and Scorpion Powder，*Essentials of Surgery*, Volume 2.，Due to the predominance of wind-toxin, the ulcer is tight, small, and hard.

Pepper-Infused Wine，*Yi Tong*, Volume 76.，Malaria: Also treats rheumatic beriberi, hernias, cold-induced abdominal pain, and wind-induced chills affecting the back and limbs.

Melting Golden Dew Pills，*Shenghui*, Volume 35.，For wind-heat toxins rising to attack the throat, causing itching and pain in the throat.

Four Gentlemen with Chuanxiong and Danggui Decoction，*Ye’s Gynecology*, Volume 2.，For the 4th–5th month of pregnancy, when fetal qi is disharmonious, rising upward to the heart and chest, causing distension, fullness, and pain—a condition known as “zi xuan”—due to spleen deficiency and restlessness.

Xiao Jianzhong Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.，For cases of deficiency with food stagnation where medications that promote digestion should not be taken.

Decoction of Zhi Ke，From *Classification and Treatment of Syndromes*, Volume 2.，Liver-related cough, pain in the flanks.

Two-Powder Decoction，*Insights into Surgical Medicine*, Volume 12.，For women with powdery sores on the face.

Minor Harmonizing Decoction，From *The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 51.，Distension and fullness in the chest and diaphragm, or stagnation and fullness due to pregnancy in women; food-induced malaria-like distension; after an illness, when turbid qi has not yet been cleared or residual heat has not yet been resolved, resulting in loss of appetite and inability … Read more

Qi-Regulating and Labor-Inducing Decoction，*Annotated and Commented Collection of Effective Formulas for Gynecology, Prenatal, and Postpartum Care*.，Dystocia.

Great Kudzu Root Decoction，From *Shanghan Dabai*, Volume 1.，When external pathogens in the Yangming channel have not yet been fully resolved, leading to severe constipation and accumulated heat rising upward, causing headache. When the exterior syndrome of the Yangming channel has not yet been resolved, with internal heat accumulating, resulting in thirst and constipation.

Shi Zhen’s Jade Complexion Powder，From *Selected Precious Family-Transmitted Formulas by Ding Ganren*.，Freckles on the face, which may be yellow or black in color, appear as countless tiny spots.

Tian Gen Yue Ku Ointment，*Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 5.，For those with damage to both Yin and Yang in the Lower Jiao and impairment of the Eight Extra Meridians, where recovery is not immediate but the stomach qi remains robust and there are no signs of damp-heat; for men suffering from … Read more

Secretly Transmitted Modified Scutellaria and Coptis Four Substances Decoction，From *Songya Medical Path* (Volume 2).，Blood in the stool or urine.

Gourd Root Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 81.，For postpartum heat stagnation in the upper jiao causing blocked milk ducts.

Coffin-Shattering Decoction，*Formulas from the Physician’s Heart*, Volume 14, citing *The Tang Herbal*.，For cold-induced fever and febrile diseases characterized by extreme fever, thirst, delirium, bleeding from the mouth and nose, as well as various heat toxins and witchcraft-induced poisons. For epidemic diseases where the tongue is dry as a saw, accompanied by extreme thirst, and the … Read more

Camphor-Cinnabar Ointment，*Outline of Surgical Treatise on Ulcers*, Volume 2.，For wandering rheumatic sores, weeping sores, abscesses, and pus-filled lesions with spreading discharge, accompanied by unbearable itching.

Pills for Clearing the Eyes and Nourishing the Liver，From *Formulas of the Huizhi Hall*, Volume 2.，Photophobia with excessive tearing; corneal opacity invading the cornea; symptoms that come and go intermittently; a chronic condition that has not resolved.

Trichosanthes Root Decoction，*Complete Book on the Treatment of Epidemics*, Volume 4.，Wind-heat syndrome, characterized by shortness of breath, thirst, excessive sleepiness, phlegm-induced shortness of breath, and other symptoms.

Immortal Jujube，From *Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 34.，For syphilis sores.

Eight-Pillar Decoction，*Hui Chun*, Volume 3.，For deficiency-cold in the stomach and intestines with uncontrollable loose stools.