Chixiexiang Decoction

Brocade Scale Ointment，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 19.，For children with persistent soft boils that do not heal.

Dongfang No. 1 Ointment，*Traditional Chinese Medicine: Science of Traumatology*.，For carbuncles, abscesses, and unexplained swellings and infections.

Magnolia Bark Decoction Pills，From *Meng Shi’s Shen Shen Formulas*, cited in Volume 22 of *Pu Ji Fang*.，

Cinnabar and White Lead Powder Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 77.，For intermittent dysentery, where symptoms alternately subside and recur.

Left Gold Decoction with Aged Rice，Formula from *Collected Explanations of Medical Formulas*; name cited in *Annotated Songs on Categorized Formulas from the Collection of Reflections*.，For lockjaw dysentery, where the patient vomits as soon as the decoction enters the mouth.

Twenty-Four-Ingredient Qingning Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Hangzhou Formula).，For accumulated heat in the zang-fu organs, damp-heat toxins, redness and swelling of the eyes, headaches caused by stagnant heat, sore throat and toothache, heat sores in the mouth and nose, abdominal pain due to food stagnation, damp-heat jaundice, early-stage dysentery with tenesmus and … Read more

Zhen Ni Decoction，From *A Synthesis of Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，Vomiting caused by gallbladder fire surging upward and stomach qi rebelling upward.

Decoction for Nourishing Yang and Harmonizing Yin，*Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 3.，For cases of warm disease where heat has entered the Blood Chamber; the physician has administered treatments to clear both Qi and Blood, eliminating half the pathogenic factor; the pulse is rapid; and the remaining pathogenic factor has not been … Read more

Modified Xin-Qiong Dao-Tan Decoction，*New Interpretations on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Miscellaneous Diseases*，Wind-phlegm, dizziness and vertigo.

Five Accumulations Qi-Harmonizing Pills，From *Wei Ji Bao Shu*, Volume 2.，For the five types of wind-toxin.

Jiemiao Dan，From *The Jade Key*, Volume 1.，For unilateral or bilateral nasal congestion.

Dragon Skin Powder，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 368.，For pediatric cases of typhoid fever and epidemic diseases characterized by fever, drowsiness, and labored breathing; cough due to wind-heat and phlegm-dampness obstruction; febrile convulsions and spasms; and heatstroke with dizziness and oppression.

Gypsum and Notopterygium Powder，*Xuanming Lun*, Volume 14.，For chronic loss of vision in both eyes; for recent or long-standing internal and external obstructions of the qi; for wind-induced dimness; for curled eyelashes; and for all eye diseases.

Jie Du Niu Huang Pills，Formula by Hu Mingqi, cited in *Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 34.，Effective for poison from bayberries, fetal toxins in infants, and lower-body sores.

Ephedra and Four Substances Decoction，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 44.，For women with cold-induced injury to the Ying aspect of the Taiyang channel, presenting with fever and absence of sweat.

Decoction for Relieving Stomach Distension and Regulating Qi，From *Medical Explorations* (Yixue Tanli Ji), Volume 5.，When stagnant qi accumulates in the central palace, it overflows from the zang-fu organs into the meridians, sometimes lodging in the chest or the stomach. Once an attack occurs, it causes unrelenting stabbing pain in the chest and flanks; in severe … Read more

Wind-Dispelling and Pain-Relieving Pills，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，For cold pain in the lower back and legs, pain in the limbs, numbness due to wind and cold, and weakness in the lower back and legs.

Qi-Nourishing and Blood-Activating Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 16.，For various postpartum deficiencies and insufficiencies, exhaustion and damage to blood and qi, internal weakness of the vital essence, fatigue in the limbs, and emaciation. Also for deficiency of the spleen’s vital essence, inability to digest food, vomiting, diarrhea, spontaneous sweating, or alternating chills and fever.

White Honey Decoction Pills，*Shenghui*, Volume 97.，For those who are emaciated, frail, and lacking in vitality.

Du Huo Decoction，From *Shenghui*, Volume 74.，For stroke during pregnancy, characterized by a lopsided mouth and face, slurred speech, and an inability to move the tongue.

Heart-Clearing Calamus Pill，*Compendium of Medical Principles*, Volume 17.，Epilepsy and mania, with unceasing drooling from the corners of the mouth, deviation of the mouth and eyes, and weakness and limpness of the hands and feet. Sudden onset of mental confusion and inability to speak, phlegm obstructing the pericardium, drooling from the corners of the mouth, restlessness, … Read more

Ten-Ingredient Bitter-Cold Rescue and Tonifying Decoction，Formula by Liang Yuyu, cited in Volume 2 of *Revised Comprehensive Treatise on Warm-Heat Diseases*.，Epidemic fever.

Steamed Rhubarb Pills，From *Qianjin*, Volume 2.，

Zhenyi Decoction，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 25.，

Drunken Red Powder，From *Treatise on the Causes and Formulas for Pediatric Diseases*, Volume 3.，For acute and chronic convulsions in children, characterized by spasms, excessive drooling, deviation of the mouth and eyes, and mental confusion.