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Secret Formula for Resolving Stagnation Pills，*Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 3.，Indigestion and fullness after meals, diarrhea following a meal, cholera, vomiting, dysentery, abdominal pain due to qi stagnation, and malnutrition in children. All types of pain caused by qi stagnation and stagnant masses.

Life-Saving Pill，*Records of Smallpox and Measles* (Ren Duan Lu), Volume 14.，Smallpox. Cold qi rising upward, body feeling cold, smallpox lesions appearing grayish-white and sunken, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, vomiting, watery diarrhea, abdominal pain, and cold hands and feet.

Shenxiang Suhe Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Hangzhou Formula).，For acute convulsions in children, characterized by convulsions, vomiting of milk, eyes rolling upward, clenched jaws, and excessive phlegm and saliva; as well as other critical conditions. Also treats stroke-induced phlegm-induced syncope in men and women, coma and rigidity, cold-induced qi obstruction, cholera with … Read more

Citron Paste，From *The Zheng Family’s Inherited Gynecological Prescriptions Worth Ten Thousand Gold*, Volume 5.，Effective for chronic phlegm-fire coughs, hoarseness due to thick phlegm, and irregular breathing.

Modified Xiangru-Poria Decoction，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 3.，For summer heat and heatstroke, with symptoms of cholera, fever, and thirst.

Qianghuo and Gypsum Powder，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 7.，For long-standing or recent internal and external opacities of the eye, blurred vision due to wind-heat, curled eyelashes, all eye diseases, and headaches.

Emergency Spleen-Strengthening Pills，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 25.，

Xiangfu-Xuanfu Flower Decoction，*Treatise on the Differentiation of Warm Diseases*, Volume 3.，For latent summer heat or damp-heat causing flank pain, with or without cough, no chills, but only tidal fevers, or alternating chills and fever resembling malaria.

Plum Paste Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 8.，

Steamed Jujube Formula，From *The Direct Pointers*, Volume 18.，Unbearable pain in the small intestine.

Ginseng-Feather Pills，*Jie Wei Yuan Sou*, Volume 3.，For leprosy.

Da Fu Wan，From *San Yin*, Volume 16.，For unbearable headaches—whether one-sided or bilateral—caused by the stagnation and upward surge of deficient original qi.

Chicken Gizzard Powder，*San Yin*, Volume 12.，Enuresis and food stagnation in children.

Musk Ointment Formula，From *Gujin Luyan*, cited in Volume 23 of *Wai Tai*.，Rat-bite abscess.

Toxicity-Clearing and Eye-Protecting Decoction，From *Records on the Transmission of Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 19.，For cases where, after the smallpox scabs have fallen off, there is a sudden pain at the crown of the head and residual toxins attack the eyes.

Weed-Eradicating Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 5.，Caused by parasitic infestation, resulting in stomach discomfort, mild abdominal pain, and vomiting of phlegm and saliva.

Toxin-Extracting and Life-Saving Powder，*Complete Book of Experiential Treatments for Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 3.，Pediatric Red Wandering Eruption Pill.

Yinqiao Powder，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Fushun Formula).，Warm-heat diseases, common cold with fever, thirst, headache, body aches, sore throat, dry heaving, and the early stage of measles in children, etc.

Alternative Formula: Divine Immortal Yin-Nourishing Pill，*Pocket Guide*, Volume 4.，For women with absent menstruation, as well as pain in the heart and spleen, and pain in the lower back and abdomen.

Da Jian Pi Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 6.，For accumulated cold in the middle jiao, qi stagnation in the chest and diaphragm, vomiting, nausea, pain in the abdomen and flanks, weakness and slippage of the viscera, frequent digestive disturbances, fatigue, and lack of strength, as well as lethargy in the limbs.

Swim Bladder Wind Powder，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 9.，Epilepsy.

Decoction of Five Juices and One Branch，*Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For pathogenic heat in the pericardium: after the heat has been dispelled and the condition cleared, blood deficiency leads to restlessness, constant restlessness with no relief, discomfort in the chest, occasional vomiting of sticky phlegm, moaning, and incoherent speech.

Hui Sheng Dan，From the end of the volume of *Essentials for Saving the Young*.，For white smallpox scabs, deficiency-cold with vomiting and diarrhea, and cold hands and feet.

Fragrant Black Bean Powder，From *The New Book on the Care of Infants* (Vol. 35), citing a formula by Zhang Huan.，For children with white sores accompanied by pain and swelling so severe it appears as if the body has been inflated.

Crystal Decoction，From *Guide to Formulas*, cited in Volume 18 of *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，Mental agitation.