Black Chicken Soup

Moistening the Lungs and Harmonizing the Liver Paste，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For imbalance in the liver and lung meridians, resulting in occasional coughing.

Eye-Clarifying Powder，*Formulary of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 7 (with famous formulas from various authors added by Wu Zhige).，External eye disorders. When wind-toxin ascends, causing eye pain, redness, and swelling; or itching and erosion of the eyelids and inner corners of the eyes, often accompanied by hot tears, blurred vision, and dryness.

Horse Bone Powder，*Compendium of General Principles of Health*, Volume 15.，For various types of night crying in infants.

Modified Jianzhong Decoction，From *Baoming Ge Kuo*, Volume 19.，For vomiting, diarrhea, and muscle cramps, accompanied by pain beneath the ribs and a string-like pulse.

Enhanced Formula for Nourishing the Heart and Kidneys，Formula from *Medical Case Records of Liu Huimin*; name found in *A Thousand Families’ Wonderful Formulas*, Volume 1.，Night wandering caused by deficiency of the Heart and Kidney with internal obstruction by phlegm-heat.

Smoke-Fumigation Powder，*Science of External Injuries*.，For conditions such as goose-foot eczema and chronic eczema characterized by dry, itchy skin.

Snake，*A Concise Guide to Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Shingles.

Alisma Pills，*Shenghui* (Volume 53).，Treats unrelenting thirst, frequent urination, restlessness and heat, and weakness in the limbs.

Formula for Clearing Heat，From *Qian Jin*, Volume 15.，Regarding cases where both the upper pulse’s Yin and Yang are full, this indicates that both the Foot-Taiyang and Yangming meridians are full. Symptoms include spleen distension, a hard abdomen with pain radiating to the flanks, stagnation of stomach qi, difficult bowel movements, occasional diarrhea, abdominal pain, heat … Read more

Tooth-Strengthening Like a Sage Powder，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 9.，

Secret Formula: Fangfeng Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 64.，Wind-heat obstructing the upper body, causing discomfort in the throat.

Black Bean and Licorice Decoction，*Complete Book on the Treatment of Epidemics*, Volume 3.，A form of “big-head plague” caused by an underlying injury from damp-heat and the stagnation of toxic qi rising to attack the head and neck. Symptoms include aversion to cold and high fever, stiffness of the neck and heaviness of the body, swelling … Read more

Aged Vinegar Formula，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 7.，For stroke patients unable to speak, with a stiff and numb tongue root.

Jianxian Ointment，*Zongfutang Formulas*, Volume 2.，Effective for wind, cold, and dampness; joint pain; gout; atrophy, numbness, and loss of sensation; “crane-knee wind”; migraine; “leaking shoulder wind”; and injuries from falls, blows, or sprains, as well as yin-type conditions and unexplained swellings and abscesses.

Toxicity-Eliminating Sacred Elixir，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 4.，For Yang-type sores and ulcers that have become suppurative and ruptured.

Life-Saving Pill，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 8.，For boils and abscesses on the back, carbuncles, mastitis, anal abscesses, all types of unexplained swellings and toxic sores, and umbilical wind in children.

Emergency Paste，*Shenghui*, Volume 19.，For stroke-induced lockjaw where the mouth cannot be opened.

Five-Toxins Pills，*Collection of Good Friends*, Volume 5.，For injuries caused by venomous snakes and scorpions, and early-stage carbuncles.

Wild Camel Fat Wine，From *Classified Collection of Medical Formulas*, Volume 24, citing *The Heart’s Mirror of Dietary Medicine*.，For stubborn rheumatic arthralgia and the “Five Sluggishnesses and Six Urgencies.”

Great Sage Life-Preserving Pill，*Formulae of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 1 (Supplementary Collection of Empirical Secret Formulas from Various Bureaus).，For all wind-related disorders characterized by deficiency of both qi and blood, imbalance of yin and yang, sudden stroke, rigidity and unconsciousness, profuse drooling with convulsions, trembling and flopping of the limbs, loss of consciousness, stiff tongue … Read more

Cooling Lung Decoction，From *Essential Readings on Medicine*, Volume 6.，For lung consumption with excess heat, accompanied by coughing and shortness of breath.

Diao Teng Da Huang Decoction，From *General Treatise on Cold-Induced Diseases*, Volume 5.，For children with persistent Shanghan presenting with convulsions, delirium, mania, and tidal fever; as well as for children with food stagnation causing convulsions, epilepsy, refusal to take breast milk or food, fever, and crying.

Rehmannia and Realgar Powder，Formula taken from *New Book on the Care of Infants* (Vol. 18), citing *Treatise on Rashes and Smallpox*; name found in *Remarkably Effective Formulas* (Vol. 65).，For children with epidemic toxins, where smallpox lesions fail to erupt; those who, in winter, should feel cold but instead experience fever; or those in whom accumulated … Read more

Rehmannia Formula for Longevity，From *Shenghui*, Volume 94.，

Toxicity-Dispelling Ointment，From *Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 8.，Effective for all types of boils and abscesses on the back, various swollen and toxic sores, hot carbuncles, and snakebite poison throughout the body.