Chen’s Kushen Pills

Summer Heat Decoction，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，

Black Chicken Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 161.，Postpartum residual blood that has not been fully expelled,凝结 into lumps, causing hardness and pain, with distension and fullness in the abdomen and flanks.

Hundred Herbs Pill，From *The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 2.，Hemorrhoids with bleeding.

Ten-Xuan Powder for Dissolving Toxins, Draining Pus, and Nourishing Internally，*Jufang* (Official Formulary), Volume 8 (Shaoxing Supplementary Formulas).，For all types of abscesses, boils, sores, and carbuncles. For smallpox lesions in children where the root of the toxin lies internally—whether due to deficiency of qi and blood, or invasion by wind-pathogens and foul toxins—causing the toxin to … Read more

Harmonizing the Blood and Resolving the Double Decoction，From *Yi Chun Sheng Yi*, Volume 3.，Malaria pathogen resides in the营 (Ying) level, with attacks occurring every other day.

Dampness-Resolving Powder，From *Medical Explorations* (Yixue Tanli Ji), Volume 6.，For damp-stagnation carbuncles below the ankle where there is a sensation of impending suppuration.

Nourishing the Blood Decoction，From *Guanju Fang*, Volume 6, citing *Shi’er Xianfang*.，Excessive sweating; inability to speak.

Eclipta and Plantain Paste，The formula is from *The Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion for Nourishing Life*, Volume 3; the name appears in *The Great Treasure of Health Preservation*, Volume 1.，Malaria.

Heather Pills，From *The Bureau Formulas*, Volume 5.，For wind-toxin causing weakness and lack of strength in the legs, heaviness, pain, and numbness in the legs, swelling and sores on the legs, dull pain in the soles of the feet, inability to step on the ground, cramping of the leg and knee tendons preventing flexion and extension, … Read more

Cardamom Honey Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 77.，Qi-type dysentery. Due to deficiency in the stomach and large intestine, which cannot control the condition, symptoms occur day and night without restraint, gradually causing jaundice and emaciation; food fails to build muscle; the patient feels exhausted, heavy, and weak; and the eyes are dim and dry. This condition has … Read more

Shengsu Powder，From *One Hundred Questions on Infants and Children*, Volume 10.，For children with a rash and fever, when the condition is unclear, use this formula to resolve it.

Cao Dan Powder，Formula from *Zhi Zhi* (Vol. 21); name cited in *Yi Tong* (Vol. 62).，For rosacea and nasal skin tags, as well as facial acne and freckles.

Jieji Decoction，*Treatise on the Subtleties of Cold Damage*, Volume 1.，For cases of shanghan where both yin and yang are in excess, with a floating and rapid pulse in both hands—or a tight or slow pulse—and strong pulses in all three positions; accompanied by absence of sweat and aversion to wind; occurring from the beginning of … Read more

Ma Shi Shu Yang Decoction，*Records of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 5.，Spring Warmth.

Mallow and Talc Powder，*Comprehensive Essentials of Health Preservation*, Volume 16.，Difficulty urinating accompanied by restlessness and agitation.

Divinely Inspired Ointment，From *Li Yue*.，For unnamed swellings and toxic sores, boils, carbuncles, and abscesses.

Nourishing Vitality and Regulating the Spleen Decoction，*Feng’s Treasure Chest: Miscellaneous Disorders*, Volume 11.，For all cases of fever due to overwork, coughing with hemoptysis, symptoms resembling malaria but not malaria, loss of appetite and fatigue, with a forceful pulse at the cun position and a weak pulse at the chi position.

Lung-Clearing Platycodon Decoction，From *Shortcuts in Surgical Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 2.，Lung Abscess.

Flying Crow Ointment，Quoted from *Collected Proven Formulas* in Volume 34 of *Wai Tai*.，For women and young girls with small, shallow, hot sores on the nipples: when scratched, yellow fluid oozes out and the sores spread; despite numerous treatments, they do not heal and may persist for years—this is known as “jealous breast.” It also treats … Read more

Huangxiang Oil，From *Essentials of the Crimson Pouch*.，For bald sores and oozing sores.

Lung-Nourishing Snow Pear Paste，Formula by Hu Zai-zi, cited in *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For dry cough with hemoptysis due to lung dryness, hemoptysis due to pulmonary atrophy, and lung abscess where the acute phase has subsided but residual heat remains.

Tiao Rong San，From *Gu Songyuan’s Medical Mirror*, Volume 9.，Swelling due to blood stasis, or isolated abdominal distension, with no aversion to food, red urine, and black stools.

Poria, Schisandra, and Ophiopogon Decoction，From *Xingyuan*, Volume 5.，Excessive sleep due to gallbladder heat, with mental confusion and drowsiness.

Jing Sanling Decoction Pills，From *Bo Ji*, cited in *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 168.，For the five types of accumulation and six types of mass, blood and qi masses that come and go unpredictably, and all cases of disharmony due to qi accumulation.

Ox Bile and Tiannanxing Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 12.，For conditions caused by the combined action of wind and heat, characterized by twitching of the muscles, dizziness and vertigo, stiffness of the tendons and meridians, profuse salivation and convulsions, mental confusion, a stiff tongue and slurred speech, aching and pain in the limbs and joints, and discomfort … Read more