Areca Nut and Black Jujube Decoction

Soapberry Thorn Decoction，*Zhi Zhi*, Volume 24.，For severe wind disorders.

Qi-Regulating and Meridian-Unblocking Decoction，*Differential Diagnosis of Symptoms in Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Liver qi stagnation, delayed menstruation, purplish-red menstrual blood with clots, lower abdominal distension and pain, and distension in the chest, flanks, or breasts.

Hundred-Year Pill，From *The Treasure of Health* (Weisheng Baojian), cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Puji Fang), Volume 210.，For malignant dysentery with mixed discharges and spleen-related diarrhea.

Lianpi Decoction，From *Yu’an*, Volume 6.，For children suffering from abdominal pain and spleen dysfunction caused by dietary indiscretion.

Realgar and Blister Beetle Tincture，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Neurodermatitis.

Fangwen Decoction，*New Book on Smallpox Vaccination*, Volume 12.，Dampness complicating smallpox that is difficult to resolve.

Ginseng and Poria Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 90.，For deficiency-related debility with fullness and distension in the chest and abdomen, loss of appetite, and discomfort in the chest and diaphragm.

Pills for Acute Convulsions in Children，*Secret Transmission of Proven Internal and External Prescriptions*.，Wind-heat transforms into fire, which in turn generates wind, disturbing the Liver’s Wood element and leading to symptoms of convulsions.

Chuanxiong-Poppy Seed Powder，*The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 5.，For dysentery with red and white stools and lockjaw that has persisted for a long time.

Dried Jujube Formula，Formula from *Shengji Zonglu* (Compendium of Divine Remedies), Volume 74; name cited in *Puji Fang* (Formulas for Universal Relief), Volume 208.，Watery diarrhea.

He Ru Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 13.，Mastitis. Pain precedes swelling; accompanied by mild fever; progresses to an abscess.

Xiangru San for Summer-Heat Decoction，*Medical Lamp of Transmission*, Volume 1.，Heatstroke.

Earthworm Wine，*Zhang’s Comprehensive Treatise on Medicine*, Volume 15.，Smallpox lesions characterized by blood heat and excessive toxin, with blackened, sunken lesions that fail to rise.

Pill for Treating Internal Yang Stagnation，From *Qian Jin*, Volume 15.，For children with cold-induced stagnation, characterized by red, white, or bluish stools resembling fish brains, prolapse of the anus, and abdominal pain persisting for days or even hours on end.

Ephedra Wine，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 93), citing *Formulas of the Bao Family*.，For various wind-induced disorders such as left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness, as well as migratory joint pain.

Chuanxiong-Danggui Si Junzi Decoction，From *Classification and Treatment of Syndromes*, Volume 8.，For food stagnation, spleen qi deficiency, and impaired blood circulation.

Pain-Relieving Pills，From *The Correct Transmission of Medicine*, Volume 4, citing a formula by Danxi.，For all types of rheumatic pain.

Decoction for Clearing Heat, Warming, and Consolidating the Vessels，From *Wen Bing Huai Zheng* (Critical Conditions of Warm Diseases).，In cases of warm disease where the pulse is floating, forceful, and scattered, or deep, faint, and涩 (thready), indicating prolonged deficiency of the zang-fu organs, long-standing stagnation of phlegm-fire, the body’s vital energy unable to overcome the pathogen, … Read more

Large Poria Pill，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 198.，

Shenjiao Pills，*Ji Feng*, Volume 11.，For skin itching caused by lung wind, as well as hives, scabies, or tinea.

Taiyi Jubao Pill，From *Selected Precious and Secret Formulas from the Thousand Gold*.，Particularly effective for throat ailments caused by yin deficiency.

Supreme Pill for Dispelling Cold and Saving Yin，From *The Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 4.，For yin-type abscesses and boils that have ruptured, presenting with black spots, mild pain, a non-protruding ulcer surface, or numerous small ulcer openings, accompanied by a deep, heavy sensation in the body.

Turtle Shell, Phellodendron, Ginger, and Gardenia Pills，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 8.，For red or white vaginal discharge, or occasional abdominal pain.

Scrophularia, Licorice, and Platycodon Tea，*Manual of Chinese Herbal Formulations*.，Indicated for itchy throat, dry cough without phlegm, and thirst with a dry throat caused by deficiency of lung yin.

Tao’s Chai-Ge Jie-Ji Decoction，From *Six Treatises on Cold Damage*, Volume 3.，For combined disorders of the Three Yang channels, presenting with headache, fever, restlessness, insomnia, aversion to cold without sweating, dry throat, deafness, pain in the eye sockets, epistaxis, and a pulse that is floating, full, and tight. Currently used for exogenous febrile diseases, Salmonella infections, … Read more