Astringent Decoction

Minor Bupleurum Decoction with Cinnamon，From *Illustrated Songs on Cold Damage: A Guide to Saving Lives*, Volume 4.，Malaria with fever and a desire to keep warm; fever without thirst. Malaria with sweating.

“Beating the Old Man” Pills，From *The Collection of Good Friends*, Volume 2, citing a formula by Hu from Lingzu Palace.，

Pain-Relieving and Swelling-Reducing Decoction，*Elucidation of Ophthalmology*, Volume 3.，For sudden redness and swelling of the eyes lasting two or three days, or five to seven days.

Chai-Qin Shuangjie Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*, Volume 2.，Shao Yang phase fire is stagnant within the skin and muscle layers and cannot dissipate; exterior pathogens have not yet subsided, while interior pathogens have already become severe, presenting with chills and fever, body pain without sweating, thirst, and aversion to heat.

Cold-Repelling Decoction，From *Lan Shi Mi Cang*, Volume 1.，Cold and wind pathogens invade the skin and hair, causing nasal congestion, coughing, and wheezing.

Worm-Fishing Pill，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 93.，For consumptive diseases caused by “transmitted corpses,” emaciation and weakness, constant redness of both cheeks, coughing and shortness of breath, fullness and oppression in the chest, weakness in the limbs, and dreams of copulating with ghosts.

Toxic-Purging Decoction，*Selected Essentials of Surgical Medicine*, Volume 4.，For fecal toxicity.

Arsenic Thread，From *Thirteen Formulas for Surgical Conditions*, citing *Effective Formulas from the Hongliao Mountain Pavilion*.，Hemorrhoids and Fistulas.

Chaihu Pinggan Decoction，*The Transmission of the Lamp of Medicine*, Volume 2.，Qi stagnation caused by anger in the lower jiao leading to a qi hernia, presenting with no pain or itching, but a sensation of swelling and heaviness.

Enhanced Diamond Pill，From *Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 1.，For atrophy and weakness of tendons and bones.

Millet Soup，From *The Record of the Heart* (Jingxin Lu), cited in Volume 12 of *Prescriptions from the Heart of Medicine* (Yixin Fang).，For diabetes.

Secretly Transmitted Curcuma Powder，From *Longmu Collection of Ophthalmology by Daoist Baoguang*.，Blood in the cornea (red eye).

Secret Wine Infusion Formula，From *Eight Essays on Nurturing Life*, Volume 18.，For left-sided paralysis, right-sided paralysis, hemiplegia, facial asymmetry, all types of wind disorders, and unbearable pain.

Salt Flower Pills，The formula is from *Shenghui* (Vol. 36); the name appears in *Shengji Zonglu* (Vol. 115).，For swelling and pain in both ears, or a constant buzzing sensation in the ears.

Cow Dung Juice Application，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 133.，

Zhuantian Decoction，*Fu Qingzhu’s Gynecology*, Volume 2.，Difficult labor where the feet or hands descend first.

Purple Fat Ointment，From *Formulas of the Hall of Cultivating Blessings*, Volume 3.，For chronic leg sores that do not heal.

Lead Powder Powder，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 2.，Cold carbuncles occur on the feet; initially, they appear as purple-white blisters with excruciating pain; they gradually become gangrenous, forming deep, purple-black ulcers with foul-smelling bloody discharge, and remain chronic.

Five Immortals Powder，From *Compendium of Miasma Disorders*, Volume 4.，Cough due to deficient fire in the lung and stomach.

Honey-Scented Pills，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 99.，Pinworms.

Decoction for Relieving Muscle Tension and Resolving Toxins，*Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 6.，For smallpox with damp-heat, where the lesions have turned grayish-white and emit a foul odor.

Ba’an Ointment，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 130.，All types of sores and swellings.Boils on the back, scrofula, fistulas, carbuncles, wind-induced swelling, dry tinea, tinea of the breast, tinea of the genitals, hair loss at the temples, hair loss on the scalp, tooth eruption, snake and insect bites, fractures and sprains, arrows lodged in the bone, throat obstruction, difficult … Read more

Five Tigers Descend from Xichuan，From *Extraordinary Formulas Beyond Surgical Prescriptions*, Volume 3.，For blood-wind tinea, scabies, and various skin sores caused by prolonged sitting on hard surfaces.

Deer Bone Soup，*Qianjin Yi*, Volume 19.，For deficiency-related fatigue, wind-cold invasion, and weakness with shortness of breath.

Modified Whole Insect Formula，Formula from *Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhao Bingnan*; name cited in *A Thousand Family Remedies*, Volume 2.，Generalized neurodermatitis.