Ash Decoction

Qi-Nourishing and Original-Essence-Tonifying Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，Exhaustion due to overwork affecting qi and blood; sudden heavy menstrual bleeding; pale complexion; palpitations and shortness of breath.

Qianghuo Jiuku Decoction，*Comprehensive Treatise on Smallpox and Rash* (Dou Zhen Hui Tong), Volume 4.，For symptoms of smallpox where pathogenic fire has injured yin.

Bi Yu San，From *Pocket Guide*, Volume 3.，Ringworm.

Si Fang San，*Science of Traumatic Injuries*.，Joint pain resulting from old injuries or exposure to wind, cold, and dampness.

Astragalus Jianzhong Decoction，The formula is from *Formulas for Emergency Use* (Vol. 4); the name appears in *Thousand Gold Prescriptions* (Vol. 17).，For men and women suffering from debility due to chronic overwork or failure to recover to normal health after a serious illness—manifesting as heaviness and sluggishness in the limbs, aching and soreness in the bones … Read more

Heart-Descending Decoction，*Direct Pointers*, Volume 17.，Heart fire rises excessively; kidney yin is deficient; restlessness and thirst lead to excessive fluid intake; qi and blood are gradually depleted.

Raw Rehmannia and Coptis Decoction，*Yuanrong*.，In women with blood-wind syndrome caused by massive blood loss—such as metrorrhagia, menorrhagia, or irregular bleeding—the body becomes parched. If the heat is not resolved, the patient may cling to clothing, grasp at thin air, feel around the bed, close their eyes and lose consciousness, flail their hands and stare blankly, … Read more

Xiangha Powder，*Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 16.，For women with breast abscesses who have just begun to feel pain and where toxic qi is about to accumulate.

Thorn Root Juice，From *Qianjin*, Volume 22.，For a child with “Zhutian Fire Rash”—a condition where sores form within one day and one night, starting on the back and gradually spreading to one side of the body, with lesions the size of a jujube and a bright red color—

Soapberry and White Pills，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 5.，For all types of wind-phlegm, alcohol-induced phlegm, tea-induced phlegm, and food-induced phlegm; headaches, dizziness, vertigo with a sensation of fainting; numbness in the hands and feet; phlegm and saliva obstruction; and all wind-related conditions that cannot be treated by other medications.

Four Substances and Motherwort Pills，*Formulas and Ingredients of Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，For women with blood deficiency and irregular menstruation.

Yishou Bitian Ointment，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 4.，For deficiency-cold in the lower jiao, the five labors and seven injuries, hemiplegia, or deficiency-cold in the lower body, bladder disorders, soreness and numbness in the feet and knees, and erectile dysfunction. Also for red and white leukorrhea, sandy urine, metrorrhagia, and boils and abscesses.

Formula for Mud-Navel，From *Formulas for Infants and Young Children*, cited in Volume 30 of *The New Book on the Care of Young Children*.，Urinary retention in infants.

Longevity Pill，*The Book of Sincerity*, Volume 8.，For severe and critical cases of acute and chronic convulsions in children.

Postnatal Nourishing Pills，From the *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 1, citing a formula by Lian Zhuang.，For disharmony of the spleen and stomach, bloating, and diarrhea or dysentery resulting from failure to adapt to the local climate and loss of appetite; also for children suffering from indigestion, diarrhea, or dysentery.

Shengqi Yiyin Decoction，From *A Concise Explanation of Medical Formulas*.，Vaginal discharge following childbirth.

Qinjiao and Huangqin Decoction，From *Haojing Zhizhi*, Volume 2.，Internal accumulation of damp-heat, with fever in the afternoon, epigastric fullness, and dark urine.

Apricot and Ginger Wine，*Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，For all types of chest and diaphragm blockages.

Qi-Regulating Ginseng Powder，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 5.，For high fever, headache with a stiff neck, lower back pain, fullness and distension in the chest and epigastrium, cough with copious phlegm, fever with aversion to cold, and difficulty swallowing.

Achyranthes and Papaya Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 186.，

Formula for Prolonging Life and Fostering Children，From *Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Mo Bao Zhai*, Volume 1.，For men with deficient kidney qi, presenting symptoms such as flaccidity upon sexual stimulation or premature ejaculation before intercourse.

Cimicifuga and Atractylodes Decoction，The formula is from *Ming Yi Za Zhu* (Miscellaneous Writings of a Ming Physician), Volume 2; the name appears in *Dong Yi Bao Jian* (Treasury of Eastern Medicine: Miscellaneous Diseases), Volume 3.，During the spring and autumn seasons in Lingnan, people are exposed to the miasma of mountain mist and fog; toxic vapors … Read more

Ginseng Wei’ai Powder，*Ming Yi Za Zhu* (Miscellaneous Writings of a Ming Physician), Volume 6.，For symptoms such as smallpox lesions that have already erupted or have not yet erupted, persistent vomiting and diarrhea, and loss of appetite; also for smallpox lesions that have failed to develop properly due to the mistaken administration of cooling medications.

Great Tonifying and Toxin-Resolving Decoction，From *The Complete Book of Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 2.，For smallpox lesions that appear grayish-white due to deficiency of qi and blood.

Tongjing Powder，From *Yin Hai Jing Wei*, Volume 1.，A thorn has lodged in the eyelid.