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Toxic-Expelling and Life-Preserving Decoction，*Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*, Volume 8.，Gangrene results from deep-seated cold and chronic chill, with yin toxins attacking the joints of the toes. If the toe cannot be extended when flexed, the disease lies in the tendons; if it cannot be flexed when extended, the disease lies in the bones. It … Read more

Formula for Harmonizing Injuries and Regulating Blood，*Yizong Shuoyue*, Volume 6.，For stasis blood resulting from trauma, abdominal distension and internal congestion, redness, swelling, dark-blue discoloration, and stasis-related pain; for patients experiencing drowsiness and a sense of impending death due to severe injury; or for those who have already died from a blow or fall with respiratory … Read more

Life-Saving Pill，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 4.，White turbidity.

Yellow Earth Decoction，*Thirteen Essays on Medicine*, Volume 11.，For cholera with vomiting and diarrhea, and cholera with muscle cramps.

Dragon Bone Decoction (Variation)，From *New Book on the Care of Infants* (Renwei Edition), Volume 29, citing *Ji’s Family Tradition*.，For children with bloody dysentery, as well as boils and abscesses on the body, accompanied by a flushed face and high fever.

Astragalus Blood-Nourishing Decoction，*A Concise Explanation of Medical Formulas*, Volume 5.，For excessive uterine bleeding, regardless of whether stasis is present or absent, and in cases of qi deficiency or blood deficiency.

Lianxiang Decoction，From *The Jade Case*, Volume 5.，For dysentery during pregnancy where there is a risk of miscarriage.

Liver-Connected Pills，From *Essentials of the Silver Sea*, Volume 1.，Red veins extending from the outer canthus to the pupil, with persistent dryness and涩ness, making it difficult to focus on objects.

Marrow-Nourishing Qing’e Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 8.，For lower back pain.

Enhanced White Cardamom Powder，*The Classic of Dian Dian*, Volume 1.，Alcohol has injured the middle jiao; cold pathogens have transmitted to the liver, causing numbness and distension throughout the body, trembling and twitching of the meridians, pain that comes and goes suddenly, and discomfort in the chest and diaphragm. If blood transforms into phlegm, the pain … Read more

Cooling Calming Pills，From *Elucidations on Pediatrics*, Volume 2.，For various types of fever and convulsions in children.

Peach Leaf Decoction，Formula from *Wai Tai* (Vol. 26), citing *Zhou Hou Fang*; the name appears in *Sheng Ji Zong Lu* (Vol. 38).，Three types of parasites. For cholera with abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Cuscuta Seed Tincture，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Vitiligo.

Dry Incense，From *Qianjin Yi* (Supplement to the Thousand Gold Prescriptions), Volume 5.，

Divine Cinnabar Plague-Repelling Pills，*Songfeng on Epidemics*, Volume 5.，

Alum Decoction，From *Shenghui*, Volume 89.，For children with sores, swelling, and pain around the eyes and inner corners of the eyes.

Lung-Warming Ointment，From *Li Ye*.，For all symptoms of cough and wheezing caused by lung cold.

Decoction for Food Stagnation，From *A Clear Illumination of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 18.，Food Stagnation.

“Century-Old Iron Boy Pill”，*Selected Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas from Beijing*.，For children with indigestion and failure to digest milk, undigested food stagnation, abdominal distension and fullness, severe constipation, acute fever, and convulsions.

Fragrant Cornelian Cherry Pills，From *The New Book on the Care of Infants* (Volume 29), citing *The Formulae of Gathered Treasures*.，For bloody and white dysentery.

Epilepsy-Expelling Powder，*Direct Pointers on Pediatrics*, Volume 1.，Various types of epilepsy.

Divinely Revealed Prescription for External Injuries with Bleeding，*Mei’s New Compilation of Proven Formulas: Traumatology*.，For traumatic injuries accompanied by bleeding.

Cinnabar Ointment，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 57.，When smallpox lesions cluster behind the ear on the prominent bone, it is called “Mengfei.” This condition arises from toxic fire originating in the Kidney Meridian and is considered the most severe.

Seven Essences of Immortality Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 94.，

Wei Tie Pills，From *Experienced Effective Formulas*.，For bloating.