Black Ointment

Yi Yin Yang Rong Ointment，*Essence of Ancient Formulas*, Volume 4.，Pediatric Consumption. Initial symptoms include fever and cough, yin deficiency with night sweats, loss of appetite, nocturnal emissions, and hemoptysis.

Black Bean Distilled Oil Ointment，*Science of Traumatic Injuries*.，Chronic and subacute skin lesions.

Recipe for Boiled Achyranthes with Deer Hoof，From *Shenghui*, Volume 97.，For beriberi and wind-cold-damp bi syndrome, with stiffness and spasms in the limbs and swollen feet that cannot touch the ground.

Yi-Yi Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Vol. 112.，For internal opacities, floating opacities, and jujube-flower opacities following acupuncture treatment.

Scallion and Mucus Pills，*Shenghui*, Volume 36.，Tinnitus may be caused by water entering the ear.

Processed White Pinellia，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 5.，For coughs caused by exposure to cold and phlegm retention.

Atractylodes Four-Reversal Decoction，From *Yi Chun Sheng Yi*, Volume 1.，Chest pain with cold extremities. Coldness and numbness in the hands and feet, chills with sweating, clear and copious bowel movements and urination; in severe cases, the condition may progress from onset in the morning to death by evening.

Four Aged Herbs Decoction，*Insights into Medicine*, Volume 3.，For dry cholera, where the patient feels the urge to vomit but cannot, or feels the urge to have a bowel movement but cannot, and the condition changes in the blink of an eye.

Xiang Sheng Po Di Pills，*Yi Tong*, Volume 46, citing *Yi Lin*.，For cases of voice loss and inability to speak caused by excessive vocal strain.

Dragon’s Blood Powder，From *Zongfu of Laryngology*, Volume 4.，For children with tonsillitis that is about to become suppurative—where the abscess is on the verge of rupturing but has not yet done so, obstructing the flow of qi—

White Castor Bean Ointment，Quoted from *Fan Wang’s Formulas* in Volume 26 of *Wai Tai*.，For pinworms.

Fu-Gui-Er-Chen Decoction，*Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 1.，Cold malaria, characterized by more chills than fever, coldness in the lower back and legs, or chills alone.

Modified Hei Xi Dan，From *De Xiao*, Volume 3.，For deficiency of the lower jiao, failure of yin and yang to rise and fall properly, heat above and cold below, dizziness and blurred vision, with the condition having reached a critical stage; or for cases where taking warming medications has caused the symptoms to worsen.

Ginseng Penetrating the Skin Decoction，*Ming Yi Za Zhu* (Miscellaneous Writings of a Ming Physician), Volume 6.，For smallpox lesions that have appeared unevenly and remain hidden beneath the skin. The eruption is delayed and accompanied by itching; stools are loose.

Harmonizing Injury and Activating Blood Decoction，From *Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 36.，Traumatic injuries.

Xiangfu Powder，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For conditions characterized by pale skin and a stiff, wooden-like body.

Immortal Formula: Brain-Musk Pills，From *The Book of Rash Diseases*, Volume 2.，For malaria-like miasma, bloody or white dysentery, and all heat-related syndromes; for shā-induced distension, facial flushing, body heat, shortness of breath, and unconsciousness.

Ginseng and Cardamom Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 44.，Deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach, vomiting and nausea with loss of appetite, pain in the umbilical region and abdomen, and loose stools.

Tong Sheng Shuang Jie San，*Secrets of Infant Care*, Volume 3.，For children with heat in both the exterior and interior, or with skin rashes.

Black Sesame and Rehmannia Wine，From *Cui’s Formulas*, cited in Volume 21 of *Wai Tai*.，Wind-deficiency.

Phlegm-Resolving and Digestion-Promoting Decoction，*Internal Medicine*.，For early-stage gastric cancer characterized by the pattern of phlegm and food obstructing the passage. Symptoms include loss of appetite, aversion to meat, fullness and distension in the epigastric region, dull pain, difficulty swallowing, regurgitation of sticky phlegm, vomiting of undigested food with a sour and putrid odor, a white, greasy … Read more

Mo Ji San Leng Pills，*The Treasure of Health* (Weisheng Baojian), Volume 14.，For all kinds of long-standing or recent accumulations, masses, or lumps, or injuries caused by qi stagnation or alcohol accumulation, this formula is suitable for men, women, the elderly, and children alike.

Baoyuan Dihuang Decoction，From *Straight Talk on Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，Pediatric kidney malnutrition results from an imbalance of the liver and spleen, compounded by a congenital deficiency of kidney yin. Patients are often thin and weak, with blurred vision and lethargy; they may experience alternating chills and fever, or frequent colds.

Hui Jian Pills，From *Introduction to Obstetrics: Appendix*.，For amenorrhea, chronic blood stasis, and abdominal pain.

Flaxseed Ear Pillow Formula，Formula from *Formulas for Emergency Use* (Vol. 6); name cited in *Compendium of Holy Remedies* (Vol. 181).，If a cricket enters the ear: