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Dusheng Pill，*The Jade Key*, Volume 1.，Effective for all types of teething sores, including those that cause the cheeks to swell and the lips to crack.

Huangshi Decoction，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 12.，For hemoptysis and epistaxis.

Tuoli Yizhong Decoction，*Essentials of Surgery*, Volume 4.，For skin ulcers caused by deficiency of central qi, resulting in a lack of appetite, or where the ulcer fails to resolve, or has ulcerated but fails to heal.

Minor Blue Dragon Decoction Without Ephedra and With Aconite，Formula from *Treatise on Cold Damage*; name cited in *Illustrated Songs on Cold Damage: A Guide to Saving Lives*, Volume 4.，For shanghan with an unresolved exterior syndrome, water retention beneath the heart, dry retching, fever with cough, and a sensation of choking. For shanghan where water and … Read more

Ginseng and Sichuan Pepper Decoction，*Complete Book of Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 4.，For scabies.

Iron Ring for Holding the Medication，*Danxi’s Heart Method*, Volume 5.，For boils and abscesses.

Modified Ganju Decoction，From *Selected Essentials on Measles and Rashes*.，For cases of choking due to a cold contracted after a rash.

Sanbei Pills，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 18.，For phlegm-fluid retention that is neither hot nor cold, accompanied by unceasing vomiting.

Danshen Decoction，*Shi Fang Ge Kuo*, Volume 2.，For chest pain and various types of epigastric pain.

Dragon Fire Toxin-Removing Powder，*Pulse Causes and Treatment*, Volume 2.，Acute laryngeal constriction.

Decoction of Cinnamon Twig Without Peony Root, with Aconite Root，*Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For Taiyang syndrome, following purgation, presenting with a rapid pulse, chest fullness, and slight aversion to cold.

Er Chen Si Qi Decoction，From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 4.，Abdominal pain due to qi stagnation and phlegm condensation, with distension and fullness in the chest and abdomen; pain radiating to the heart and back; pain lessens with the release of gas but worsens with qi stagnation; pain is slightly alleviated by qi-dispersing herbs … Read more

Recipe for Applying Wild Boar Liver to the Eyes，From *Shenghui*, Volume 16.，After an epidemic, the patient’s eyes were damaged by consuming hot noodles with garlic and mustard greens, resulting in blindness and unbearable pain day and night.

Almond Ointment，Formula from *Qianjin* (Vol. 23); name found in *Puji Fang* (Vol. 293).，For all types of fistulas.

Five Gentlemen Decoction，*The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 51.，For spleen and stomach deficiency-cold with vomiting and diarrhea complicated by dampness.

Pills for Treating Blood Clots，From *Danxi’s Heart Method*, Volume 3.，For masses caused by phlegm, food stagnation, or stagnant blood.

Enhanced Five Bi Decoction，From *The Mystic Pearl of Chishui*, Volume 12.，Syndromes of Bi affecting the five zang organs, caused by wind, cold, and dampness lingering in the body, resulting in weakness and numbness in the hands and feet.

Soapberry Seed Pills，*Essentials for Infant Care*, Volume 11.，For wind-heat in the Liver and Gallbladder meridians, presenting as nodules on both sides of the neck and flanks.

Paulownia Foot-Washing Decoction，*Supplement to the Omissions of the Inner Canon*, Volume 3.，Persistent diarrhea.

Cooling Pill，From *Zhunsheng: Categorized Formulas*, Volume 7.，For corneal opacities.

Enhanced Magnolia and Scutellaria Pills，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，For food and fluid stagnation, chest fullness and constriction, depressed mood with abdominal pain, and distension of the flanks.

Great Yang-Consolidating Decoction，From *De Xiao* (Effective Formulas), Volume 8.，Syndrome of Yang Depletion. This may occur after severe vomiting or diarrhea, resulting in cold extremities, depletion of vital energy, and loss of consciousness; or it may result from engaging in sexual activity too soon after recovering from a cold, causing tight pain in the lower abdomen, … Read more

Stomach Qi Pills，*San Yin*, Volume 11.，Excessive worry and anxiety lead to stagnation of spleen and lung qi, causing phlegm and fluid to accumulate and stagnate in the stomach and intestines. Qi becomes depressed in the Yin, while cold condenses in the Yang; the Yin and Yang become disordered, resulting in alternating vomiting and diarrhea, cold … Read more

Frog-and-Chicken Ash Powder，From *General Essentials of Health* (Volume 12).，For pediatric kidney wasting syndrome (hidden parasites), intestinal weakness, and parasitic erosion of the lower rectum and anus.

Raw Huang Powder，From *Explanations of Ophthalmology*, Volume 3.，For conditions before and after childbirth, such as the discharge of blood opacities from the eye, corneal ulceration, photophobia, and cloudiness of the cornea.