Crucian Carp Soup

Toxin-Resolving and Expelling Powder，From *Xianchuan Wai Ke Ji Yan Fang*.，Acute obstruction caused by wind-heat ascending to the throat, with swelling and pain in the cheeks; also effective for bilateral or unilateral parotitis, laryngeal swelling, tongue swelling, and wooden tongue.

Cinnamon Heart Pills for Sucking，From *Shenghui*, Volume 46.，For cough, dry throat, and loss of voice.

Turtle and Deer Kidney-Nourishing Pills，From *Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing*.，For kidney qi deficiency, impotence with cold semen, frequent dreaming during sleep, nocturnal emissions, and night sweats.

Chen’s Cough and Wheezing Ointment，From *Wen’s Experienced Effective Formulas*.，For chronic cough and shortness of breath.

Rusheng Weidu Ointment，From *Family Instructions on Laryngology*, Volume 1.，For external redness, swelling, and burning pain of the throat; wind-toxin causing mumps; warm-toxin, epidemic inflammation, and various toxins; also treats erysipelas.

Four Substances Decoction with Additions，From *Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 1.，For cases of “crane-knee wind” with yin deficiency.

Lithospermum Pill，From *Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Shenyang Formula).，For cases where smallpox is about to erupt or has not yet erupted, accompanied by headache, vomiting, fever, mental confusion, coughing, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, internal invasion by the rash toxin, drowsiness resembling convulsions, and dark, scanty, and painful urination.

Chicken-Dung Alum Poultice Formula，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 173.，For children with malnutrition-related sores that have eroded the mouth, nose, or lower regions and are in a critical condition.

Five Ginsengs Pill for Harmonizing the Middle，*Qianjin Yi*, Volume 19，For vomiting lasting ten years, restlessness in the hands and feet, emaciation with a sallow complexion, failure of food to build flesh and muscle, and indigestion following a heavy meal.

Pinellia Paste，From *Shenghui*, Volume 66.，Rat-bite ulcer.

Rose Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 407.，For lunar-eclipse sores in children.

Dragon-Tiger Toxin-Resolving Pill，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Hangzhou Formula).，For bites from rabid dogs or venomous snakes, as well as typhoid fever, stroke, skin ulcers, convulsions, and various critical febrile conditions.

Suo’s Sanhe Decoction (Triple-Dose Formula with Added Atractylodes)，*Outline of Medicine*, Volume 24.，Lower abdominal distension.

Modified Xi Ben Decoction，From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 41.，Lung stagnation.

Lianzi Liu Yi Decoction，From *Zhi Zhi*, Volume 10.，Heart heat, with red and turbid urine.

Raw Rehmannia and Forsythia Powder，From *The Purple Treasure Collection of Laryngology*, Volume 1.，For conditions such as heat in the heart and spleen, phlegm obstruction causing qi stagnation, and wind-bi-induced swelling and obstruction.

Spleen-Consolidating Pills，From *Nourishing the Elderly and Honoring Parents*.，In the autumn, the viscera of the elderly become deficient and cold, leading to erratic, loose stools.

Ice Ointment Resembling Snow，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 74), citing *Formulas from the De Sheng Hall*.，In cases of sudden onset of eye inflammation, with redness, swelling, and the formation of a membrane inside the eye.

Five-Yellow Powder，From *Essentials of Life-Saving Methods*.，For pain from blows, lacerations, and swelling and pain caused by heat toxins.

Eucommia Decoction，*A Clear Explanation of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 29.，When beriberi affects the abdomen, causing severe shortness of breath and a near-fatal condition.

Winter Sanhuang Decoction，*Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 2.，For Yangming warm disease with no sweating, where the excess pattern is not yet severe, purgation is contraindicated, and urination is difficult.

Toxicity-Clearing Pill，*Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 403.，Used when smallpox eruptions are obstructed by a clash of blood and qi, causing slow eruption.

Cinnamon Twig and Transformative Decoction，From *A Concise Explanation of Medical Formulas*, Volume 6.，Excessive sweating after childbirth, blood deficiency giving rise to wind, clenched jaw and grinding of teeth, opisthotonos—this is known as spasm disorder.

Decoction for Clearing Blue and Dispelling Black，From *Ye’s Gynecology*, Volume 3.，Postpartum cyanosis of the hands and feet, with the entire body turning black, indicates the most severe yin cold and the most virulent toxic qi; or, if the feet are entirely cyanotic with pain beneath the heart, this indicates cold toxin attacking the heart.

Xiao Chaihu Decoction without Ginseng, with Qingpi，*Songs and Summaries of Contemporary Prescriptions*, Volume 1.，Early stage of malaria.