Cold Aconite Decoction

Soft Blue Ointment，Quoted from *Liu’s Family Tradition* in *The Great Compendium of the Yongle Era*, Volume 978.，For acute and chronic convulsions in children, spasms, and all cases of convulsive disorders accompanied by drooling.

Yigong Kuai Ban Decoction，From *The Complete Book of Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 1.，For smallpox with persistent vomiting and diarrhea, where the lesions are ash-white with flat tops.

Castor Seed Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 83.，For children suffering from stroke with uncoordinated limbs, where other medications have proven ineffective.

Qingying Decoction，From *Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Vol. 1).，For summer-heat or warm diseases where the pathogenic factor has entered the Hand Jueyin Meridian, presenting with a weak pulse; symptoms do not manifest at night; restlessness and thirst; a red tongue; occasional delirium; eyes that remain open and do not close, or a preference for keeping them … Read more

Bee Paste，Formula from *Qianjin* (Vol. 6); name cited in *Puji Fang* (Vol. 300).，For black, swollen lips accompanied by unbearable pain and itching; also treats drooping lips.

Spleen-Revitalizing Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 395.，For vomiting and diarrhea in infants.

Stomach-Nourishing and Toxin-Resolving Decoction，From *Pian Yu Dou Zhen*, Volume 9.，When smallpox lesions have formed pus and the patient vomits with visible contents.

Lung-Nourishing Pill，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 8.，Excessive talking depletes vital energy, leading to coughing and phlegm production; if prolonged, this results in deficient vital energy, heat in the lungs, shortness of breath, a tendency to lie down, loss of appetite, stiffness and pain in the spine, nocturnal emissions and seminal leakage, tidal fever … Read more

Lead Yellow Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 53); name cited in *Shengji Zonglu* (Vol. 58).，For diabetes insipidus. Excessive thirst and an unquenchable desire to drink water.

Decoction for Regulating the Nutritive and Defensive Qi，From *Formulas for Saving Lives*, Volume 3.，For those who have exhausted their bodies through hard labor or heavy lifting, resulting in disharmony of qi and blood, obstruction of the meridians, pain in the tendons and bones that moves unpredictably, fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, loss … Read more

Grilled Licorice Root Paste，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 9.，For a suspended abscess that has already formed and cannot be resolved internally with medication.

Xiao Zhike Pills，From *Shenghui*, cited in *Pujifang*, Volume 166.，For stomach disharmony, retained cold and fluid retention, fullness and distension in the chest and abdomen, stabbing pain in the flanks, vomiting of phlegm and fluid, and loss of appetite.

Shixing Pills，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 10.，For men who have long suffered from internal stagnation and are unable to conceive a child.

Xianchuan Ointment，From *Compilation of Extraordinary Formulas*, Volume 2.，For severe injuries from blows, stagnant blood, hiccups with refusal to eat, and cases accompanied by tissue necrosis.

Achyranthes Paste，From *The Correct Transmission of Medicine*, Volume 6.，For dysuria, difficulty urinating, excruciating pain in the penis, and in women, hard, painful blood stasis.

Rhubarb and Calomel Decoction，From *The Golden Chamber* (Volume Middle).，Damp-heat jaundice, with a vivid, tangerine-like yellow complexion; abdominal distension with sweating; thirst; constipation; scanty urination; a thick, yellow tongue coating; and a deep, full, or slippery, rapid pulse; or damp-heat-induced turbid dysuria, etc. Restlessness, a burning sensation in the chest, abdominal distension with a sensation of … Read more

Jia Su San，*Insights into Medicine*, Volume 3.，Qi-type dysuria.

Yijia Fumai Decoction，From *Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 3.，For warm diseases of the Lower Jiao characterized solely by loose stools.

Astragalus and Five-Flavor Powder，From *Xu Renze’s Formulas*, cited in Volume 25 of *Wai Tai*.，Dysentery. A mixture of pus and blood in the stool that is not very watery; each episode involves the simultaneous passage of pus, blood, and food, accompanied by mild abdominal pain.

Eight Immortals Tea，*Chuanya Waibian*, Volume 3.，

Rhubarb and Cold Water Powder，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 194), citing *Shi Yuan’s Effective Prescriptions*.，For burns caused by hot liquids or fire.

Experienced Guangsi Pill，From *Formulas of the Huizhitiang Hall*, Volume 1.，For men suffering from exhaustion and emaciation, erectile dysfunction in middle age, low energy, premature graying of hair and beard before the age of fifty, and difficulty walking; and for women with deficiency and cold in the lower jiao, resulting in prolonged infertility.

Pain-Relieving Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 81.，For a thirty-year history of beriberi, characterized by intermittent pain and numbness, making walking difficult.

Rabbit Liver Powder，From *Qianjin Yi*, Volume 11.，Blindness.

Lung-Regulating Ginseng Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 86.，Pulmonary Consumption. Caused by exposure to cold or consumption of cold liquids damaging the lungs, or by hemoptysis following alcohol consumption, accompanied by coughing up turbid sputum, intermittent chills and fever, inability to tolerate food, and progressive emaciation.