Camphor and Cinnabar Pills

Tried-and-True Pills，From *Yuji Weiyi*, Volume 15.，For all types of malignant sores.

Daizhe Powder，*Shenghui* (Volume 12).，For typhoid fever, following sweating, vomiting, or purgation, presenting with fullness and distension in the epigastrium and abdomen, and impaired qi circulation in the chest and diaphragm.

Decoction of Dried Rehmannia Gold Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 67.，For persistent pain following injuries to tendons and bones.

Black Plum Vinegar Method，The formula is from *Classified Materia Medica* (Vol. 23), citing *Formulas for Emergencies*; the name appears in *Direct Pointers* (Vol. 24).，Sudden swelling and pain in the fingers is called “substitute finger.”

Thirteen-Ingredient Angelica Decoction for Tonifying Deficiency，*Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 10.，For women suffering from various deficiencies and insufficiencies, epigastric fullness and oppression, fatigue in the limbs, dizziness and blurred vision, mental confusion, difficulty digesting food, or alternating chills and fever—all conditions involving deficiency-cold.

Digestive Tablets，*Yunnan Provincial Standards for Rural Chinese Herbal Medicinal Preparations*.，Food stagnation and qi stagnation, with chest and abdominal distension and pain.

Toxin-Resolving Leilu Decoction，*Mirror of Surgical Medicine*.，Boils forming outside the throat.

Cinnabar Ointment，*Zhun Sheng: Categorized Formulas*, Volume 7.，For redness, swelling, and closure of the eyes.

Liver-Nourishing and Blood-Nourishing Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，Blood loss injures the liver, leading to blood depletion and amenorrhea; dizziness and vertigo; restless sleep with frequent dreams; distension and oppression in the chest and flanks; loss of appetite; emaciation; shortness of breath; a pale tongue with a normal coating; and a weak, fine pulse.

Decoction for Moistening Dryness and Nourishing Blood，*Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 3.，Dryness-heat with flaccidity and weakness. Dryness injures yin and blood, manifesting as a dry mouth, parched lips, dry and peeling skin and hair, flaccid and weak hands and feet, inability to move, and a洪数 pulse on the left side.

Newly Formulated Jianbi Decoction，*Six Books on Medical Essentials*, Volume 20.，When cold and dampness invade a deficient constitution, causing stiffness in the joints, resulting in a heavy, aching body that worsens on overcast days, with a string-like and slow pulse—this is called “cold bi.”

He Che Feng Mai Dan，From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 3.，Kidney Bi. Lower back pain and seminal emission; urine frequently changes color; leg cramps preventing extension; bone atrophy preventing standing; caused by excessive sexual activity leading to depletion of essence.

Secretly Transmitted Five Wasting Diseases Powder，From *The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 10.，For children suffering from the “Five Wasting Diseases” with intermittent fever, sallow complexion, emaciation, restlessness, thirst, vomiting, and diarrhea; a distended abdomen with visible blue veins; hands and feet as thin as sticks; and mental fatigue and palpitations.

Eight Immortals Pill for Tendons and Bones，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Hohhot Formula).，For left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness, widespread body pain, difficulty walking, lower-body atrophy and numbness, common cold, all forms of latent wind disorders, and wind-induced epilepsy.

Ershu Pills，From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For women with spleen and stomach deficiency, initially presenting with scant and pale menstrual flow, later progressing to amenorrhea; also treats men and children with spleen deficiency causing profuse diarrhea.

Ten Drops of Water，*Three Hundred Collected Effective Formulas*.，For cholera with vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain due to exposure to cold, nausea and vomiting, white dysentery with watery diarrhea, and all types of shā syndrome.

Doubled Chen Decoction，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 7.，Stomach deficiency with hiccups.

Whitehead-on Decoction with Licorice and Donkey-Hide Gelatin，*The Golden Cabinet*, Volume 2.，For women suffering from extreme debility due to postpartum diarrhea; feverish diarrhea with a sensation of heaviness in the lower abdomen, bloody stools, and restlessness preventing sleep.

Rhinoceros Horn Decoction for Calming Shock，From *Medical Formulas Compiled by Category* (Vol. 254), citing *Secret Essentials for Protecting Children*.，For those with an innocent lump at the back of the head—where two tendons are knotted like a marble and can be felt shifting beneath the skin when pressed—

Iron Shoe Powder，From *Bao’s Family Treasure on Throat Disorders*.，For recurrent thrush.

Yuzhen Decoction，*Formulas of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 10 (Supplementary Collection of Empirical Secret Formulas from Various Bureaus).，All types of cold-induced disorders, phlegm-induced nausea, fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, cramping pain in the navel and abdomen, bitter taste in the mouth with loss of appetite, and lack of enjoyment in food.

Chai-Ge An-Tai Decoction，From *Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For pregnant women with febrile illnesses and joint pain.

Reduced-Ingredient Wu Mei Pills，*Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 3.，Recurrent malaria with symptoms appearing at dawn, persisting for a long time; fever upon exertion; or epigastric fullness and distension, with qi rebelling and a desire to vomit.

Newly Formulated Decoction for Anemic Epistaxis in Black Heat Disease，*Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Black-Heat Diseases*.，Black-Heat Disease: The skin appears charred black; the eye sockets are sunken and bluish; the area around the lips is dark; the neck is long and thin; the neck veins pulsate; frequent nosebleeds occur, with the blood being … Read more

Dried Ginger Wine，Formula from *Formulas for Emergency Use* (Vol. 3); name cited in *Nurturing the Elderly and Honoring Parents*.，For sudden loss of vital energy, failure of the breath to return, shoulder breathing, cold qi rising in the elderly, constricted chest pain, and inability to move.