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Magnolia Bark and Gypsum Emergency Decoction，From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 4.，For a woman in labor who suddenly experiences fetal death in utero; or where the fetus has previously suffered from a febrile illness, leading to fetal atrophy; or where menstruation is irregular, postpartum recovery is delayed, obstructing the flow of qi and … Read more

Imperial Garden Qi-Harmonizing Powder，From *Zhun Sheng: Pediatrics*, Volume 8.，Reversed Qi of the Spleen and Lung, manifested as wheezing, coughing, facial swelling, fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, and difficulty urinating.

Eight-Ingredient Pills，Formula from *Elbow-Back Prescriptions* (Vol. 4); name cited in *Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Zhu Family* (Vol. 2).，For kidney yin deficiency with deficient fire rising upward, causing excessive thirst, a flushed face with cold feet, severe chills, and cough with copious phlegm.

Decoction for Calming the Spirit and Nourishing the Will，From *Lu Fu’s Prohibited Formulas*, Volume 1.，For restlessness due to deficiency in typhoid fever, accompanied by palpitations, mild fever, weakness in the limbs, and general fatigue; also for cases of typhoid fever on the 6th or 7th day where there are no other severe symptoms, the patient … Read more

Qili Powder，*Secret Essentials for Treating Injuries*.，For trauma injuries where blood stasis attacks the heart.

Beeswax Paste，*Outline of Surgical Mysteries*, Volume 12.，Hemorrhoidal fistula.

Chicken Gizzard Decoction，From *Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，For distension caused by qi stagnation; also treats spleen-stomach deficiency combined with stagnation, where food cannot be properly digested and transformed.

Empirically Modified Detoxifying and Blood-Activating Decoction，From *A Concise Compendium on the Plague*.，Plague.

Mercury Formula，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 135.，For malignant, toxic wind-induced swelling accompanied by heat and pain.

Chuanxiong Decoction，From *Compendium of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 1.，For wind-cold invasion causing chest fullness, headache, cough with phlegm, aversion to cold, and high fever—symptoms resembling typhoid fever—with a floating and slow pulse.

Antiseptic and Spot-Resolving Powder，*Essentials of Smallpox Treatment*, Volume 22.，Smallpox.

Military Traumatology Pills，*National Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas* (Jinan Formula).，For contusions, sprains, torn tendons, fractures, and blood stasis affecting the heart.

Malaria-Stopping Pills，From *The Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For malaria.

Decoction to Guide Blood Back to Its Meridian，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 3.，For blood disorders where the blood refuses to return to the meridians, flowing either upward or downward, or causing bleeding in various parts of the body, including the limbs and skin.

Li Zhong Ginseng Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 30.，For consumptive weakness and emaciation, cold extremities, or a sensation of fullness in the chest and abdomen with inability to eat or drink.

Divine Acupuncture-Substitute Powder，*Xuanming Lun*, Volume 13.，For those with heart palpitations bordering on death; small intestine spasms causing the body to arch like a bow; a swollen and hard bladder; all types of qi-related stabbing pains and deficiency-related pains; as well as women suffering from blood-induced confusion, blood-induced fainting, blood-induced stabbing pain, blood surging to the … Read more

Small Thistle Root Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 152.，For women with excessive menstrual bleeding, or sudden, uncontrollable bleeding, or blood that is liver-colored, or clotted in patches.

Appetite-Stimulating and Spleen-Strengthening Pills，*Selected Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas from Beijing*.，For disharmony of the spleen and stomach, loss of appetite, food tasting bland, and nausea or vomiting.

Pearl and Frankincense Powder，From *Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhao Bingnan*.，For all clean wound surfaces, as well as burns and scalds where epithelial growth is delayed.

Tongxuan Lipi Pills，From *Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Tianjin and Lanzhou Formulas).，For coughing and shortness of breath, fever, headache, nasal congestion, and body aches caused by a cold due to wind-cold.

Jianzhong Dan，From *The New Book on the Care of Infants*, Volume 28, citing a formula by Zhang Huan.，For children with unrelenting diarrhea and abdominal pain accompanied by frequent crying.

Modified Blood-Activating and Pain-Relieving Powder，*Secret Essentials for Treating Injuries*，For swelling and pain due to a fracture.

Milk-Suppressing Pills，From *Gu’s Medical Pathways*, Volume 5.，When a child drinks milk without restraint, causing stagnation in the epigastric region and resulting in vomiting—whether vomiting immediately after feeding or shortly thereafter.

Bone-Setting Like a Sage Powder，From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 86.，Fractures.

Prescription from *Bai Yuchan’s Legacy*，From *Jie Wei Yuan Sou*, Volume 3.，For various wind-induced conditions such as numbness and paralysis, as well as severe cases of paralysis, gangrene, contractures, and swelling; also for “da ma” (severe numbness), “ji zhao shen ye” (dragging of the feet like a chicken’s claws), and “lu guo leng ma” (cold numbness … Read more