Cimicifuga and Scutellaria Decoction

Elixir of the Immortals Who Never Get Drunk，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 2.，

Winter Melon Drink，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 58.，For diabetes insipidus, characterized by a strong appetite but excessive thirst, with urine resembling flakes of fat or bran, and frequent urination day and night without regularity.

Life-Saving Revitalizing Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 283.，For boils and abscesses.

Throat-Blowing Pill，*The New Book on Smallpox Vaccination*, Volume 4.，When smallpox lesions in the throat have ulcerated and formed pits.

Seven Saints Ointment，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 22.，Scabies and ringworm.

Fragrant Fermented Soybean Pills，Formula by Xu Ming, cited in Volume 9 of *Wai Tai*.，For chronic cough due to rising qi and chronic cold-induced arthralgia.

Hair-Growth Ointment，From *Formulas for Prolonging Life*, cited in Volume 32 of *Wai Tai*.，Effective for headaches, dandruff, and itchy skin.

Mind-Clearing and Soul-Restoring Decoction，From *Compilation of Effective and Miraculous Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，For postpartum hemorrhage with the patient in a state of confusion and near death, or in a state of syncope with clenched jaws.

Ten-Hua Powder，*The Treasure of Health* (Weisheng Baojian), Volume 5.，For fatigue and weakness due to excessive alcohol consumption; cholera with vomiting and diarrhea; hemiplegia with stubborn numbness, paralysis, and pain; and edema caused by beriberi, resulting in an inability to walk.

Pills for Strengthening the Root and Tonifying the Spleen，From *Formulas for Saving Lives*, Volume 2.，For spleen and stomach deficiency, belching of undigested food, epigastric fullness and discomfort, bloating, and diarrhea caused by food stagnation.

Decoction for Dispelling Pathogenic Factors，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 1.，For patients with pre-existing cold pathogens in the Shao Yang channel who contract cold damage during the winter months, resulting in Yang Ming fire pathogens failing to disperse, and who develop malaria-like symptoms after two days of fever.

Coix Seed Pills，*New Book on Child Care*, Volume 2.，For children with delayed walking due to a congenital weakness of liver qi, resulting in contracted legs and weak, outstretched arms.

Large Pepper Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 187.，For cold-induced contraction of the leg tendons and intractable arthralgia.

Shenxi Powder，From *Records of Compassion for Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 14.，If the smallpox lesions resemble silkworm eggs and black spots appear, the condition is critical.

Black Pepper Cake，*Zhunsheng: Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 6.，For arrowheads or bamboo/wood splinters embedded in the flesh that cannot be removed.

Pneumonia Decoction，*Clinical Medical Case Studies and Prescriptions*.，Pneumonia affecting the large lobes. High fever with shortness of breath, coughing and chest pain, expectoration of rust-colored sputum, flaring nostrils, a full, forceful, and rapid pulse, white or yellow tongue coating, and scant saliva.

Tortoiseshell and Curcuma Decoction，*Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Heat has sunk into the Pericardium, transforming body fluids into phlegm, which obscures the orifices of the heart. The patient experiences delusional speech and hallucinations, suspects ghosts and spirits, is in a state of mental confusion, and has difficulty expectorating phlegm.

Disinfecting and Enhanced Rhinoceros Horn Decoction，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 404.，For children with toxic qi stagnation, high fever, and restlessness; where rashes have appeared but have not yet broken out evenly; and where sores on the mouth and tongue prevent them from suckling.

Three Fragrances Decoction，*Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 2.，Damp-heat enters through the mouth and nose, travels directly along the central channel from the Mu points, causing a lack of appetite and inability to eat, and impaired sensory functions.

Ephedra Asthma-Relieving Decoction，From *Zhang’s Comprehensive Treatise on Medicine*, Volume 13.，For cases of cold enveloping internal heat, characterized by asthma, phlegm, and cough that are triggered by cold exposure, with a floating, tight, and rapid pulse.

Three Ginseng Decoction，*Treasury of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 10.，Double-Breast Moth.

Malaria-Clearing Powder，*Zhunsheng: Categorized Formulas*, Volume 7.，For malaria-induced eye disorders and redness and swelling of the eyelids, with a membrane obscuring the pupil.

Gypsum and White Discharge Powder，From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 2.，Dry heat injuring the lungs, causing cough and shortness of breath.

Er Shen San，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 188.，Hemoptysis, hematochezia, hematuria, and uncontrollable menorrhagia in women.

Chaiqing Xiegan Decoction，*Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 25.，A man with extreme liver fire, resulting in swelling and cracking of the penis, with persistent rigidity.