Black Jade Pill

Eight-Spirit Decoction，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 13.，Indicated for fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, vomiting, and nausea.

Chai-Shao-Shen-Ling Powder，*Ming Yi Za Zhu* (Miscellaneous Writings of a Ming Physician), Volume 8.，Disharmony of the spleen and stomach, resulting in poor appetite, or vomiting and diarrhea. In children, liver fire and blood heat may cause itching all over the body, red rashes, or muscle spasms and nodules; sores such as pemphigus affecting the liver and … Read more

Realgar Turtle Wine，*Medical Compendium for the Masses*, Volume 5.，For malaria lasting three days.

Soapberry and Asarum Powder，*Ji Feng*, Volume 21.，Toothache caused by wind-induced decay.

Water Lotus Pills，From *Qu Xue Fa Ming*, Volume 7.，For deficiency of true qi in the lower jiao, frequent urination without regularity day and night; leukorrhea.

Lung-Lifting Decoction，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 7.，Pulmonary Atrophy. Prolonged cough leading to qi deficiency; when combined with heat, it results in atrophy. Symptoms include alternating chills and fever, shortness of breath, restlessness, and excessive sputum, which may be tinged with blood.

San Sheng San，From *Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 4.，For headaches in men and women—regardless of whether they are one-sided or on both sides, acute or chronic—especially during the summer months when patients wish to wrap their heads in thick cotton.

Golden Lotus Cultivates Jade Pill，*He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 7.，For infertility.

Black Rhinoceros Horn Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 126.，For the initial stage of scrofula, where lumps on the side of the neck are hard as stone, and the skin and flesh exhibit alternating chills and fever with redness and swelling.

Miraculous Formula for Blackening Beards and Mustaches，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 6.，

Whole Scorpion and Star Anise Powder，From *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，Five Types of Epilepsy.

Emergency-Response Jade Powder Pill，From *Experienced Formulas*, cited in *Classified Materia Medica* (Vol. 4).，For sudden onset of kidney qi, chronic abdominal pain due to cold, and diarrhea caused by deficiency.

Chrysanthemum Longevity Ointment，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，Dry, itchy eyelids.

Immortal Duck，From *New Compilation of Proven Prescriptions*, Volume 11.，For weakness due to overwork. Those without illness may also consume it.

Polygala Paste，*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 2.，For stroke with loss of speech.

Da Ping Wei Ze Lan Pills，*Thousand Gold Prescriptions*, Volume 4.，For various deficiencies resulting from the “Five Labors” and “Seven Injuries,” cold and weak hands and feet, emaciation, as well as irregular menstruation and inability to move.

Pills for Bright Eyes with Raw and Prepared Rehmannia，*Direct Pointers*, Volume 20.，For kidney qi deficiency, with the liver affected by deficient heat, causing dark spots to appear in the eyes. For accumulated heat due to liver deficiency that rises to attack the eyes, causing a film to obscure the cornea, sensitivity to light, excessive tearing, … Read more

Seven-Ingredient Red Powder，Formula by Cui Wenxing, cited in *Wai Tai*, Volume 2.，For febrile diseases caused by cold damage.

Poria, Cinnamon Twig, Atractylodes, and Licorice Decoction，*Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For typhoid fever: if, after vomiting or purgation, there is a sensation of fullness and distension beneath the heart, with qi surging upward into the chest; upon standing, dizziness occurs; the pulse is deep and tight; and inducing sweating may trigger menstrual bleeding. The body trembles … Read more

Atractylodes Pill，From *Yi Bian*, Volume 1.，Deficiencies of qi and blood; various forms of debility and exhaustion; phlegm congestion and qi stagnation throughout the body; rheumatic paralysis; blurred vision; lower back pain and dizziness; stiffness in the hands and feet; difficulty walking; seminal emission; turbid and difficult urination; and, in women, vaginal discharge (red or white) … Read more

Detoxifying Rehmannia Decoction，From *Mirror of Surgical Medicine*.，Abscess on the hard palate.

Immediate Relief for Boils Pill，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 2.，For initial stages of a carbuncle that have been neglected or mismanaged, resulting in uncontrolled spread of the toxin and progression to the dangerous “yellow” syndrome—where the head is not prominently raised and the base is not contained; or where the toxin has spread inward, causing … Read more

Tinea Versicolor Ointment，*The Collection of Immortal Prescriptions*, Volume 3.，For women with amenorrhea and severe abdominal and flank distension and pain so severe as to threaten death.

Decoction for Restoring Yang and Releasing the Exterior，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 27.，Yin-toxin typhoid fever.

Qi-Regulating Decoction，From *Yi Jian*.，Chronic cough, sudden onset of cough, and shortness of breath due to qi deficiency.