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Ginseng and Deer Antler Hundred-Tonics Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines*.，For diminished libido, deficiency of vital energy, excessive worry and overthinking leading to mental exhaustion, night sweats, and seminal emission; also for women with consumptive disease.

Powdered Siwu Decoction，*The Jade Ruler of Gynecology*, Volume 4.，Persistent postpartum lochia and painful, urgent urination.

Xiao Chen She Decoction Pills，*General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 13).，Chronic undigested food stagnation, fullness, oppression, and body heat.

Gui-Ling Pills，*Formulas of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 2 (Shaoxing Supplementary Formulas).，Retained fluid in the chest and abdomen, shortness of breath and dizziness, swelling of the face and feet, and difficulty urinating; kidney qi rising in reverse, cold fluid transforming into phlegm, and surging upward to the diaphragm.Dizziness and palpitations; a swollen and puffy face; a … Read more

Shengyang San for Clearing Fire，From *Yiguan*, cited in Volume 421 of *Yibu Quanlu*.，

Ginseng and Spleen-Nourishing Decoction，From *Yi Tong*, Volume 23.，Weakness of the spleen and stomach, resulting in inability to take in food.

Toxin-Absorbing Powder，From *Zhi Zhi*, Volume 22.，Boils and abscesses.

Decoction for Cleansing Impurities and Dispelling Rash，From *Complete Collection of Emergency Treatments for Rash Syndromes*, Volume 2.，For symptoms such as shā syndrome caused by exposure to impure and pathogenic qi, including fullness and distension in the chest and diaphragm, phlegm stagnation, and qi reversal.

Warming the Middle with Angelica Decoction，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 11.，For cases where cold persists and clashes with the body’s vital energy, causing unrelenting pain and a taut, tight pulse.

Ginseng and Aconite Decoction for Draining Dampness，From *The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 58, citing *Formulas of the Imperial Bureau*.，Sitting or lying on damp ground, exposed to rain and dew, resulting in heaviness of the body, weakness in the legs, joint pain, fever with aversion to cold, difficulty urinating, and loose stools. The skin and … Read more

Decoction for Itching，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 4.，For women with damp-heat descending to the lower burner, causing itching in the genital area and sores both internally and externally.

Miraculous Dental Remedy，*Selected Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas from Beijing*.，Indicated for stomach heat rising upward, wind-fire toothache, tooth sensitivity, dental caries, and swollen, ulcerated gums.

White Bark of the Chinese Tallow Tree Powder，From *Effective Remedies*, Volume 6.，For dysentery that has not responded to other treatments.

Gui Pi Wan，From *Six Essentials of Medicine: Compilation of Treatment Methods*, Volume 7.，Excessive thinking injures the spleen; when the spirit fails to return to the spleen, forgetfulness and palpitations result.

Yang-Enhancing and Root-Strengthening Rehmannia Pills，*Feng’s Treasure Chest: Miscellaneous Disorders*, Volume 11.，Primordial yang is extremely depleted.

Decoction for Reversing Collapse and Nourishing the Lungs，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，Chronic cough, spitting red phlegm, profuse night sweats, intestinal rumbling with diarrhea, and fever in the afternoon.

Essential Formulas for Pain and Diarrhea，Formula from *Danxi’s Heart Method*, Volume 2; name cited in *The Correct Transmission of Medicine*, Volume 2, citing a formula by Liu Caochuang.，Liver Qi overacting on the Spleen, causing persistent pain and diarrhea.

Perilla Seed Throat-Relieving Decoction，*Complete Book of Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 2.，Throat abscess: redness, swelling, and pain in the throat, with no distinct shape.

Waist Ointment，From *Chuanya Neibian*, Volume 1.，Lower back pain.

Curcuma Pill，From *New Book on the Care of Infants*, Volume 13, citing a formula by Zhang Huan.，For children suffering from stroke, with episodes of fever and profuse drooling.

Yili Dan，*National Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions* (Hangzhou Formula).，For children with malnutrition-related abdominal distension and parasitic pain, a distended abdomen like a drum, sallow complexion and emaciation, various forms of food stagnation, acute convulsions with excessive phlegm, coughing, wheezing, and convulsions.

Supreme Holy Powder，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，For all types of epidemic typhoid fever.

Siamese Clearing and Dispersing Decoction，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Shenyang Formula).，For internal heat-induced cough, flushed face and red eyes, fever and mental confusion, macules and urticaria, and various types of toxic sores.

Refining Jade Dew Frost，From *Eight Essays on Nurturing Life*, Volume 13.，For heat-related disorders.

Decoction for People and Horses，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 4.，When a person is affected by the miasma of mountain mist or overflowing water, or by the irregular energies of the four seasons, or by the miasma of corpses or the miasma of disease, a “snake” may form in the abdomen, and the body … Read more