Burdock Leaf Soup

Tussilago Pills，From *Qian Jin*, Volume 18.，For a 30-year-old suffering from shortness of breath and coughing, spitting up pus and blood, and wheezing so severe that lying down is impossible.

Tongcao Wine，*Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 25.，

Milk-Inducing Decoction，*Treatise on Childbirth*, Volume 3.，For insufficient or absent lactation after childbirth.

Chrysanthemum Hair-Washing Powder，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 8.，For hair loss.

Pea Soup，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 82.，Beriberi, with raised shoulders and shortness of breath.

Cinnamon and Poria Pill，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 19.，For edema and distension caused by water retention, with difficulty urinating.

Goat Dung Wine，*General Essentials of Health* (Volume 10).，For children who vomit for no apparent reason after eating, with incessant regurgitation of sour fluid—sometimes as many as 3–5 mouthfuls.

Kudzu Flower Hangover-Relief Decoction，From *Discrimination of Internal and External Injuries*, Volume 2.，For excessive alcohol consumption resulting in vomiting, phlegm regurgitation, mental agitation, chest and diaphragm fullness, trembling of the hands and feet, reduced appetite, and difficulty urinating. Or for alcohol accumulation leading to sores on the mouth and tongue, toothache, diarrhea, or chronic alcoholism.

Halting Nausea and Vomiting Pill，From *The Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 6.，For “Zhong’e” (sudden toxic attack). Caused by exposure to the toxic fumes of snakes or various insects, the symptoms include abdominal distension and swelling, fullness of the chest with shortness of breath, the body feeling as if parched and cracked to the … Read more

Huangxian Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，For swelling and pain of the external testicles, one testicle drooping into the bladder, and women suffering from severe appendicitis on the verge of death; as well as edema.

Honey and Oil Ointment，From *Medical Explorations* (Vol. 4).，For coughs where the force of the cough strikes the mucous membranes of the throat, causing them to lose their natural moisture—without pain or swelling, but making speech laborious and the voice difficult to produce.

Secret Treasure Universal Elixir，From *Yu’an*, Volume 6.，For acute and chronic convulsions, chronic spleen-wind, and life-threatening cases.

Diao Ling Powder，Quoted from Chen Gong’s Treasure Formula in *Essentials of Surgical Medicine*, Volume 2.，For malignant sores that have not healed despite prolonged treatment.

Lizhong Powder，Quoted from *Bi Xiao Fang* in Volume 6 of *Wai Tai*.，For cholera and muscle cramps, with unceasing vomiting and diarrhea.

Bone-Nourishing Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 185.，For exhaustion and weakness of the lower jiao.

Spleen-Harmonizing and Mass-Resolving Decoction，From *Ming Yi Zhi Zhang*, Volume 10.，Various types of food stagnation in children.

Gansui Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 54); name cited in *Pujifang* (Vol. 193).，For water retention, distension of the chest and abdomen, and shortness of breath.

Snow Decoction，*Shenghui*, Volume 17.，For delirium in febrile diseases and various forms of jaundice.

Chicken Dung Liquor Drink，*The Mystic Pearl of the Red Water*, Volume 5.，For abdominal distension, inability to eat in the evening after eating in the morning, and a sensation of fullness and obstruction.

Qingfeng Huanjing Powder，From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 77.，For chronic cataracts that have progressed to a deficiency of “blue wind.”

Siwu-Chaihu-Kulian-Fuzi Decoction，From *Yidi*, Volume 6.，Malaria.

Raw Rehmannia Decoction，*Secret Manual of Prenatal and Childbirth Care*, Volume 1.，Cough During Pregnancy with Persistent Hemoptysis.

Decoction to Tonify Fire and Draw Water，From *Gynecology of the Bamboo Grove*, Volume 3.，For postpartum ascending kidney fluid, vomiting, and diarrhea, with the true yang escaping.

Frankincense and Wu Long Pill，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 188), citing *Shi Yuanduan’s Effective Prescriptions*.，For falls from horses or carts, blows to the head and limbs, injuries to tendons and bones accompanied by pain and confusion, as well as stroke-induced paralysis, facial paralysis (crooked mouth and eyes), women’s blood-wind disorders, and wandering pain and numbness … Read more

Decoction for Consolidating the Essence and Nourishing Vitality，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 3.，When a bone abscess has already formed but the bone has not protruded, or when it has protruded but cannot be reabsorbed, this is due to deficiency of qi and blood and weakness of the spleen and stomach.