Cinnabar Oil

Pinellia and Coptis Decoction，*Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Indicated for the “pi” syndrome in typhoid fever, where there is a constitutional deficiency of stomach qi; or where vomiting or purgation has damaged the body’s vital energy, leading to disharmony in the stomach and intestines, disorder of the ascending and descending functions, fullness and distension beneath the heart … Read more

Thunderbolt Pills，From *Xie Liheng’s Effective Household Prescriptions*.，For cholera with vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain, as well as all types of suffocating and obstructive shā syndromes.

Zhizhu Pills，*Effective Remedies*, Volume 7.，For diabetes insipidus: excessive alcohol consumption leads to the accumulation of heat, which scorches the five viscera, causing the body fluids to dry up, the blood to become thick and sticky, frequent urination, wasting of the muscles, and a strong craving for cold foods and beverages.

Moutan Bark Powder，*Essentials of Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For women with amenorrhea, disharmony of qi, stagnation of blood, deficiency of qi and blood, accompanied by external hot flashes, headache with a sensation of heaviness, fatigue in the limbs, heat in the palms and soles, palpitations with a flushed face, dry mouth and mental restlessness, soreness and pain … Read more

Decoction of Congshui Stone，From *The Comprehensive Record of Divine Remedies*, Volume 131.，For back abscesses and boils accompanied by intense, unquenchable thirst and a dry mouth.

Ju Xian Pills，From *Liangpeng Huiji*, Volume 5.，For nocturnal emissions.

Enhanced Toxin-Resolving Decoction，*Complete Book of Experience on Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 6.，For lower-body sores that have become gangrenous and sunken, forming a depression; or for the foreskin swollen like a chicken gizzard; or for skin manifestations resembling spots or rashes, indicating an impending outbreak of sores.

Cold and Heat-Clearing Granules，Part I of the *Chinese Pharmacopoeia*.，For wind-cold common cold characterized by headache, fever, chills, body aches, clear nasal discharge, and dry throat with cough.

Diao Teng Powder，*Direct Guide to Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，Night crying; cold in the child’s internal organs.

Almond-Infused Wine，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 11.，Symptoms include leg weakness, inability to move the limbs, and loss of voice.

Internal Moxibustion Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 187.，Cold in the viscera.

Eight-Treasure Revitalizing Decoction，*Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Zhu Family*, Volume 1.，For men and women suffering from all forms of deficiency and weakness; wind disorders causing blood and qi to attack simultaneously, leading to stagnation in the meridians; stiffness, spasms, and clenched fists; impaired ascension and descent of qi; paralysis and pain; excessive phlegm; disharmony of … Read more

Reed Pollen Poultice Formula，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 78.，For prolapsed rectum that cannot be retracted.

Oyster Paste，From *Collected Proven Formulas of the Zhu Family*, Volume 12.，For abscesses and swellings that have not yet formed pus.

Dendrobium Eye-Brightening Pills，*Beijing Standards for Traditional Chinese Patent Medicines*.，Indicated for dilated pupils, night blindness, blurred vision, pain associated with cataracts, dizziness, and mental fatigue caused by deficiency of both the liver and kidneys with rising deficient fire.

Aconite and Black Chicken Pills，From *New Compilation of Proven Prescriptions*, Volume 9.，For severe deficiency and extreme cold, where menstrual flow resembles green water and is entirely devoid of blood color; or for deficiency of qi and blood, where menstrual flow is entirely white, accompanied by heat in the palms, soles, and chest, and painful urination.

Formula for Dispelling Wind and Clearing the Upper Burden，*Selected Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，Headache concentrated in the forehead.

Liuwei Che’ao Powder，*Essentials of Surgery*, Volume 1.，For abscesses and carbuncles in their early stages; for sores with accumulated internal toxins, accompanied by severe constipation, in patients with robust vital energy.

Large Paste，From *The New Book on Infant Care*, Volume 28, citing *The Classic of the Stone Wall*.，For sudden-onset diarrhea.

Baoshou Powder，From *One Hundred Questions on Infants and Children*, Volume 10.，For infants suffering from feverish agitation, tidal fever, wind-heat, or deficiency-heat—manifesting as warmth or heat in the head and forehead, frequent crying day and night, clear nasal discharge due to dampness, and occasional clear phlegm in the throat and pharynx—restless sleep at night; small, hot, … Read more

Black Goose Liver Pills，From *Qili Leibian*, Volume 1.，

Cold-Descending Decoction，From *Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，Hemoptysis or epistaxis, with a pulse that is洪滑而长 (vigorous, slippery, and long), or extending upward to the fish-interval; this is due to heat causing the stomach qi to fail to descend.

Five-Gallbladder Ointment，The formula is from *Shenghui* (Volume 33); the name appears in *Dongyi Baojian: Chapter on External Forms* (Volume 1).，For blurred distant vision, frequent seeing of dark spots, and signs of developing cataracts.

Toxicity-Expelling and Harmonizing Ointment，From *Supplementary Compilation of Surgical Formulas*, Volume 2.，Phlegm-toxin in the neck and nape, with persistent skin discoloration, hardness, swelling, and pain.

Leopard Bone and Papaya Pills，From *National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Yuxian Formula).，Pain in the lower back, knees, and legs; stiffness in the feet and knees; weakness of tendons and bones; deficiency of both the liver and kidneys; numbness in both legs.