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Great Blood-Activating Pills，*Zhunsheng: Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 6.，For contusions, injuries, broken bones, torn tendons, blood stasis with swelling and pain, paralysis and intractable numbness, aching limbs, and all forms of gout.

Enhanced Heart-Clearing Decoction，From *De Xiao*, Volume 7.，Excessive heat in the heart causing restlessness, with stools containing red, turbid, and greasy matter.

Life-Saving Jade Throat Pill，From *Selected Precious and Secret Formulas from the Thousand Gold*.，Various throat conditions, including oral ulcers that become gangrenous within a day, as well as unexplained severe pain and bleeding in the mouth.

Family-Transmitted Harmonizing the Middle Pills，*Secrets of Infant Care*, Volume 3.，For dysentery with fatigue and for malnourishment-related dysentery.

Anzhi Pills，*Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 54.，Deficiency of qi and blood, frequent startles during sleep.

Asthma-Relieving Elixir，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，Occasionally, when affected by wind-cold, one may experience sudden wheezing, shortness of breath accompanied by raised shoulders, phlegm being coughed up in a gushing manner, and a “waterfowl” sound in the throat.

Thousand-Pound, Ten-Thousand-Response Phlegm-Resolving Ointment，*Essentials of Formulas and Syndromes*, Volume 2.，For masses.

Formula for Quitting Smoking，From *Wen’s Experienced Effective Formulas*.，

Modified Chai-Qin Decoction，*Comprehensive Guide to Medical Principles*, Volume 1.，Malaria on the 3rd–4th day.

Iron Band Powder，From *Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 16.，For various back sores, boils, swellings, and toxic abscesses, as well as red, swollen wounds from beatings.

Women’s Cramp-Relieving Pills，*Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas from Jilin Province*.，For women suffering from muscle spasms and “chicken-claw wind.”

Ox Bile Seven-Treasure Ointment，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 151.，

Ointment for Boils，From *Chuanya Neibian*, Volume 2.，For boils on the back.

Hundred Chews Pills，From *Yi Fang Lei Ju* (Vol. 24), citing *Yan Xia Sheng Xiao*.，All types of wind disorders.

Zhu’s Xixin Powder，*Ma Ke Huo Ren*, Volume 4.，Heat in the Heart Meridian, manifested as sores in the mouth and on the tongue, white spots, and similar symptoms.

Chicken Stomach and Gizzard Pills，*Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 321.，Frequent urination in women.

Gui Xue San，*Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 20.，For men, women, the elderly, and children with blood in the urine.

Hair-Cleansing Weixian Oil，Quoted from *Shanju Beiyong* in Volume 884 of the *Yongle Dadian*.，

Miaoying Ointment，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 142.，For intestinal hemorrhoids with lumps around the anus, accompanied by pain, chills and fever, and the formation of sores.

Warming Powder for Rubbing the Skin，*Miscellaneous Remarks on Remedies for Specific Ailments*, Volume 10.，For uncontrollable sweating.

Postnatal Nourishing Pills，From the *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 1, citing a formula by Lian Zhuang.，For disharmony of the spleen and stomach, bloating, and diarrhea or dysentery resulting from failure to adapt to the local climate and loss of appetite; also for children suffering from indigestion, diarrhea, or dysentery.

Rhubarb Paste Wash Formula，*Thousand Gold Prescriptions*, Volume 22.，For wind-induced swelling and itching of the head and face.

White Eye-Clearing Ointment，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 76.，

Kidney-Tonifying Anus-Navel Pills，*Shenghui*, Volume 7.，For kidney qi deficiency, emaciation of the skin and muscles, a sallow complexion, weakness in the legs and knees, and frequent, watery urination.

Taoxi Huiyang Pill，From *Puji Fang*, Volume 88, citing *Jianyi*.，Sudden onset of wind-induced or qi-induced stroke, resulting in paralysis, inability to move the limbs, slurred speech, deviation of the mouth and eyes, tight and contracted tendons and veins, inability to lift one side of the body, and loss of consciousness.