Black Bean Formula

Pus-Draining Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 138.，For abscesses, swellings, and boils accompanied by pus discharge and pain.

Great Tendon- and Bone-Restoring Pill，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 188), citing *Shi Yuanduan’s Effective Prescriptions*.，For contusions and bruises, as well as fractures of tendons and bones.

Evil-Eradicating Decoction，From *Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 1.，Sudden exposure to wind-pathogen, causing cold to invade the Lung Meridian, resulting in sudden shortness of breath, heaving with raised shoulders, counterflow of qi, phlegm that cannot be expelled, and an inability to lie down.

Pill for Nourishing Yin and Strengthening the Marrow，From *The Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 3.，Insufficiency of kidney yin, excessive Yangming fire, and depletion of bone marrow lead to weakness and inability to stand.

Li Zhong Decoction with Clove and Persimmon Calyx Powder，From *Wind-Consumption and Ascites*.，For patients with deficiency-cold in the stomach following an illness, resulting in hiccups occurring in a continuous series of 8–9 sounds.

Pearl and Amber Ointment，From *Liangfang Hebi*, Volume 2.，For scrofula in the neck and nape, as well as small nodules initially forming in the armpits that gradually cluster like a string of pearls and do not resolve; whether they remain unulcerated or have ulcerated but fail to heal for a prolonged period, or have developed into … Read more

Single-Ingredient Ji Yin Powder，From *A Compendium of Ancient Formulas*, Volume 2.，For boils, abscesses, back sores, and all toxic sores characterized by redness and severe swelling—conditions classified as “yang.”

Shen Sai Pills，*The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 3.，Internal ear bleeding and epistaxis.

Divine Immortal Meridian-Assisting Decoction，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 62), citing *Secret Formulas Based on Clinical Experience*.，When cold or heat invades the Three Yang Meridians of the feet, causing stiffness and pain in the hands and feet, difficulty walking, dizziness and swelling of the head and eyes, joint pain, aversion to cold and fever, sweating and … Read more

Toothache Pill，From *Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Xi’an Formula).，Toothache.

White Sophora Bark Decoction，From *Wei Ji Bao Shu*, Volume 2.，Ulcers and sores.

Five-Spice Life-Saving Pill，From *Formulas of the Huizhitiang Hall*, Volume 2.，For acute and chronic chest pain, intestinal colic, alcohol-induced disorders and cold-related illnesses, childhood typhoid fever complicated by food stagnation, diarrhea, dysentery, and abdominal masses, as well as blood clots in women and food stagnation causing dysphagia.

Xuan Zhong Jiang Ni Decoction，From *Preliminary Discussions on Warm Diseases*.，Vomiting and retching.

Zhongming Ointment，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 86.，For all eye diseases.

Miraculous Taiyi Ointment，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 314.，For all types of abscesses, boils, and malignant sores.

Tuo Hua Decoction，From *The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 51.，Women nearing delivery should take this formula beforehand. It also treats prolonged labor or retained dead fetus.

Garlic Cake，From *Yang’s Family-Treasured Formulas*, Volume 13.，Hemorrhoids caused by wind-cold stagnation, resulting in unbearable pain.

Male Black Soybean Wine，From *Shenghui*, Volume 69.，For women suffering from stroke, with locked jaw and confusion.

Wanling Pills，*Hong’s Collection of Proven Prescriptions*, Volume 5.，For women with turbid and obstructed menstrual flow, prolonged infertility, blood stasis and abdominal pain, swelling of the limbs, vomiting, heart pain, restlessness and oppression due to deficiency, a sallow and haggard complexion, metrorrhagia, metrorrhagia with leukorrhea, alternating chills and fever with exhaustion, headaches and toothaches, uncontrolled bleeding, … Read more

Tissue-Repairing and Swelling-Reducing Ointment，*Zhun Sheng: Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 6.，For contusions, bruises, falls, blows, and injuries from knives or axes, as well as tiger attacks and bites from muntjacs or oxen.

White Reed and Ginger Decoction，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，For blood in the urine due to overwork.

Zisheng Dazao Pills，From Volume 2 of Nian’s *Collected Proven Effective Formulas*.，

Ma-Xing-Shi-Gan Decoction，*Treatise on Cold Damage*，Pungent and cool in nature, it disperses and relieves, clears the lungs, and alleviates wheezing. Indicated for external invasion by wind-pathogen with pathogenic heat obstructing the lungs. Symptoms include persistent fever, coughing with shortness of breath, flaring nostrils, thirst, with or without sweating, a thin white or yellow tongue coating, and … Read more

Water-Boiled Wood Fragrance Pills，From *San Yin*, Volume 12.，For weakness of the stomach and intestines, invasion by wind-dampness, watery and food-like diarrhea, stagnant stools with pus and blood, stabbing pain, tenesmus, and frequent bowel movements day and night without regularity.

Gou Teng Powder，Formula from *Jingxiao Chuanbao* (Vol. 1); name cited in *Shenghui* (Vol. 77).，For eclampsia during pregnancy and postpartum convulsions. During the 8th–9th month of pregnancy, if fetal movement is unstable, or if, due to exertion or exhaustion, the patient experiences pain in the chest and abdomen, a pale complexion, cold sweat, and near-fainting. In … Read more