Carp Paste

Shan Niu Decoction，From *Zhang’s Comprehensive Treatise on Medicine*, Volume 14.，Persistent headache caused by syphilis.

Carp and Poria Decoction，Formula from *Formulas for Emergency Use* (Zhouhou Fang), Volume 3; name cited in *Comprehensive Formulas for Universal Relief* (Puji Fang), Volume 193.，Swelling extending into the abdomen, causing a sensation of fullness and distension, and interfering with eating and drinking. Stone Water.

Acacia Pod and Sanguisorba Powder，From *Selected Essentials of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 5.，Five Types of Hemorrhoids.

Duanli Powder，From Shi Yuanduan’s Effective Formulas, citing a formula by Wang Guoxiang of Daming (see Medical Formulas Compilation, Vol. 141).，For diarrhea and abdominal pain that has persisted for a long time.

Pulse-Regulating Decoction，From *Essentials of Shanghan* (Volume 1).，For cases of shanghan occurring between the Start of Spring and before the Clear and Bright Festival, when yin energy is already strong, the pulse before the Guan position is weak, the pulse after the Guan position is strong, the patient avers wind, and there is no spontaneous sweating.

Cough-Relieving Powder，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For cough.

Swelling-Reducing and Stasis-Resolving Powder，*Science of Traumatology*.，For the early stage of injury, with marked swelling and pain caused by blood stasis.

Chengqi Yangrong Decoction，From *Treatise on Epidemic Diseases*, Volume 1.，In cases of epidemic fever with symptoms requiring purgation, where the pathogenic factors have not yet been completely eliminated and repeated purgation is unavoidable, there are occasional instances where the eyes become increasingly dry and gritty, the tongue turns dry and withered, saliva cannot reach the throat, … Read more

Cistanche Paste，*Compendium of Divine Remedies*, Volume 131.，For back abscesses and boils that have already ruptured but are not forming new tissue.

Xianxue Pills，From *The Collection of Immortal Insights*, Volume 2.，For nine types of chest pain.

Calomel Decoction，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 10), citing *Divine and Ingenious Formulas for Complete Healing*.，For spleen deficiency with cold, stagnant qi in the chest and abdomen, intermittent pain, discomfort in the chest and diaphragm, distension and fullness in both flanks, and inability to eat or drink.

Lan Yu San，*Concise Medical Compendium*.，Fire pathogen rises upward; the lung is overcome by the Metal element, causing a desire to weep and hiccups.

Dangui-Longjiu，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 3.，

Jiyang Fire-Expelling Decoction，*The Classic of Dian Dian*, Volume 1.，Headache, regardless of whether on the left or right side; toothache caused by stomach fire.

Pill for Clearing the Spirit，*Gujin Yijian* (A Mirror of Medicine Through the Ages), Volume 7.，For epilepsy.

Decoction of Equal Parts of Xieqing and Other Herbs，From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 1.，Exogenous pathogenic factors causing flank pain, cough with phlegm-like sounds. Wood and Fire overpower Metal, leading to internal injury with shoulder and back pain.

Harmonizing Decoction，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 3.，For cases of diarrhea that have persisted for some time.

Formula for the Two Qi，*Selected Precious and Secret Formulas Worth a Thousand Gold*，For all types of boils and abscesses, back sores, swollen and toxic lesions that have ulcerated and will not heal; tooth decay spreading upward, swollen tongue, chapped lips, and bites from rabid dogs.

Wanqi Ointment，*Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 10.，For all types of sores and ulcers—whether already ruptured or not yet ruptured, with continuous discharge of pus and fluid—as well as moxibustion sores that have not healed for a long time.

Golden Elixir，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 7.，

Modified Xiao Huang Powder，*Secret Manual on Throat Disorders*, Volume 1.，All throat disorders.

Tonifying Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 219), citing *Formulas from the Hall of Auspicious Bamboo*.，For pain in the lower back and knees.

Raw Polygonum Decoction，*Essentials of the Six Meridians in Ophthalmology*.，Heat in the blood, hemorrhage in the fundus, blurred vision, and decreased visual acuity.

Cardamom Qi-Regulating Decoction，From *San Yin*, Volume 11.，For deficiency-cold in the zang-fu organs, severe diarrhea leading to extreme emaciation, and for women suffering from life-threatening, profuse postpartum diarrhea.

Chaihu Shigao Decoction，From *Zheng’s Family-Transmitted Gynecological Prescriptions Worth Ten Thousand Gold*, Volume 5.，For women with vaginal pain and itching caused by damp-heat.