Cardamom Sword-Drawing Decoction

Decoction for Releasing the Exterior，From *Essentials of Shanghan* (Volume 1).，From after the Grain in Ear solar term until before the Start of Autumn solar term, patients present with spontaneous sweating, aversion to wind, and a floating and rapid pulse in both hands; the pulse may be tight or slow, and the cun pulse is short … Read more

Cock’s Comb Blood，From *Zhang’s Comprehensive Treatise on Medicine*, Volume 15.，For smallpox lesions that are blue, dry, purplish-black, and sunken, indicating severe blood heat and toxin.

Perilla Seed Pills，From *Jin Xiao Fang*, cited in Volume 10 of *Wai Tai*.，For shortness of breath, abdominal distension, undigested food, and symptoms suggestive of cholera or cough.

Vermilion and Gold Decoction，From *General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 5).，For acute and chronic convulsions in children, characterized by rolling eyes, clenched mouth, uncontrollable twitching, and high fever with severe lethargy.

Chuanxiong-Danggui Pills，*Zhi Zhi*, Volume 23.，For unstoppable bleeding from hemorrhoids.

Five-Equal Decoction，From *Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 1.，For external invasion by wind-cold, manifested as nasal congestion, a heavy voice, difficulty speaking, coughing, shortness of breath, chest fullness, and sore throat.

Wind-Dispelling and Nourishing Blood Decoction，From *Medical Lamp of Transmission*, Volume 1.，For mild cases of smallpox characterized by slight chills and low-grade fever, a fine, weak, and rapid pulse, and recurrence after recovery—this is caused by heat arising from dampness, and when heat reaches its peak, it gives rise to wind.

Divine Life-Saving Powder，From Volume 10 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*, citing a formula by Zheng Yu.，For infantile convulsions and rolling of the eyes.

Five Generals Pills，From *Ren Cun Fang*, cited in Volume 246 of *Pu Ji Fang*.，For cold-damp beriberi, swelling of the feet and knees, weakness and heaviness in the feet, and inability to lift them.

Dìfán Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 3.，Chronic latent summer heat. In summer, symptoms include dizziness, physical fatigue, loss of appetite, restlessness, thirst, and frequent drowsiness.

Toxin-Expelling Powder，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Shenyang Formula).，For children with early-stage measles, characterized by alternating chills and fever, coughing and vomiting, nasal congestion and runny nose, dry and watery eyes, swollen and sore throat, shortness of breath, high fever and thirst, confusion and delirium, headache and limb twitching; where the rash … Read more

Si Miao Powder，*Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 4.，For syphilitic nodules, regardless of how long they have existed, whether they have already ruptured or not.

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.

Decoction for Clearing the Liver, Brightening the Eyes, and Removing Obstructions，*Explanation of Ophthalmology*, Volume 3.，For wind-heat eye disorders characterized by redness, swelling, and cloudiness of the cornea that have persisted for 3–5 months without resolution.

Ephedra and White Discharge Powder，From *The Song of Preserving Life: Commentary*, Volume 18.，For wind-cold invading the lungs, causing shortness of breath and coughing.

Life-Saving Elephant Skin Pills，From Yi Fan’s formula, cited in Volume 8 of *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*.，For smallpox lesions with qi deficiency and empty sores without pus.

Tongyong Decoction，*Essentials of the Collection of Discussions on Symptoms, Causes, and Formulas*, Volume 1.，Lung abscess, with coughing up pus and blood, and chest pain triggered by coughing.

Shuangbai Powder，*Lecture Notes on Traditional Chinese Medicine Traumatology*.，Traumatic injuries, sprains, swelling and pain in muscles and tendons, redness; appendicitis at any stage accompanied by a mass.

Iron-Ejecting Ointment，*The Precious Mirror of Health*, Volume 13.，For arrowheads and all types of needles embedded in the flesh.

Pain-Relieving Decoction，From *Yu’an*, Volume 3.，Toothache, loose teeth, and bleeding.

Eye-Dotting Incense and Lotus Ointment，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 111.，Corneal opacities.

Oil-Wax Ointment，From *Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 19, citing a formula passed down through the Wa family.，For all types of toxic ulcers and sores—including those that have penetrated tendons and ruptured meridians, caused flesh to rot and bone to be damaged, broken through joints, and are oozing pus and blood, or have been festering for … Read more

Magnetite and Shell Compound，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Flat warts in young adults.

Modified Bamboo Leaf and Gypsum Decoction，*Outline of the Treatment of Throat Rash Syndrome*.，Following a cold-induced numbness, symptoms include sweating, persistent fever, dry mouth with a desire to drink, or sore throat with a sensation of a lump in the throat, as well as coughing with excessive phlegm.

Yin-Toxin Internal Elimination Ointment，From *Ji Ming Lu*.，For all early-stage yin-type abscesses and toxic sores—such as oral ulcers, back sores, scrofula, tinea of the breast, and anal abscesses—that do not present with redness, swelling, burning heat, or pus, and where the skin color remains unchanged with diffuse swelling without a defined center.