Cuckoo Pills

Golden Cicada Shedding Its Shell Wine，From *Effective Formulas for People and Themselves*.，For syphilis sores.

Angelica, Peony, Licorice, and Wheat Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，Postpartum spontaneous lactation; sallow-yellow complexion with occasional flushing; restlessness and irritability; dizziness and distension in the flanks; yellow tongue; taut and rapid pulse.

Stomach-Protecting Chengqi Decoction，*Treatise on the Differentiation of Warm Diseases*, Volume 2.，For cases of warm disease where, several days after purgation, the fever has not subsided or has not fully subsided, accompanied by a dry mouth and throat, a dry black or golden-yellow tongue coating, and a deep, forceful pulse.

Pharbitis Porridge，Formula from *Wai Tai* (Vol. 20), citing *Jin Xiao*; name found in *Sheng Ji Zong Lu* (Vol. 188).，Dampness.

Tiger Stomach Powder，From Volume 4 of Nian Shi’s *Collected Proven Effective Formulas*.，For dysphagia.

Black Rhinoceros Horn Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 126.，For the initial stage of scrofula, where lumps on the side of the neck are hard as stone, and the skin and flesh exhibit alternating chills and fever with redness and swelling.

Wondering Stone Divine Pill，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 4.，Stone-induced dysuria. Stones of five colors are passed in the urine; severe pain occurs before urination, and slight relief is felt afterward.

Five Immortals Bath Decoction，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 1.，For severe wind-toxin conditions.

Jade Milk Powder，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 141); also found in *Smoke and Mist: Formulas of Divine Efficacy*.，For bloody dysentery.

Tonifying and Laxative Dendrobium Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 45.，Beriberi.

Tear-Stopping Pill，From *The Complete Book of Ophthalmology*, Volume 6.，

Modified Ancient Formula Five-Juice Decoction，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，Sore throat, red eyes, restlessness, thirst, cough, loss of appetite, and nausea.

Beef Tripe，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 3.，Insanity and mania.

Divine Skin-Transforming Pills，*Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 4.，For wind-heat affecting the skin, such as flea or louse bites, causing unbearable itching.

Pile-Dissolving Pill，*Ji Feng*, Volume 24.，

Wolf’s Tooth Lotion，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 149.，When a snail stings a person.

Decoction for Nourishing the Kidney Essence，From *Records of Insights into Miscellaneous Disorders*, Volume 2.，Yin-type jaundice.

Ginseng, Kanqi, and Euryale Seed Pills，*Gu’s Medical Path* (Volume 6).，Sore throat due to overwork damaging the ascending yang.

Peony Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 151.，For young women with irregular menstruation and pain in the lower back and abdomen.

Spleen-Nourishing Decoction，*Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 3.，When kidney water is depleted, stomach earth is deficient, and spleen fire rages, it leads to unstoppable spitting of blood; however, if only a mouthful is spat and not much more, the condition appears mild but is actually severe.

Cicada Shedding Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 173.，For children with malnutrition-related dysentery, characterized by stools that are either yellow or green, a thin neck, abdominal distension, sores in the mouth and nose, and progressive wasting.

Divine Heart-Nourishing Pill，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 6.，Deficiency of heart qi, mental instability, a dazed and easily startled state, restlessness due to deficiency, insomnia, a withdrawn disposition, aversion to human voices, and all symptoms of heart deficiency.

Dermatitis Ointment，*Science of Traumatic Injuries*.，Subacute dermatitis, eczema.

Oil-Based Scalp Crust Ointment，*Insights into Surgical Mysteries*, Volume 12.，Blood-wind sores.

Golden Pellet，From *Eight Essays on Nurturing Life*, Volume 18.，Effective for various wind-induced disorders, left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness, numbness and stiffness of the hands and feet, hemiplegia, deviation of the mouth and eyes, pain in the tendons and bones due to cold and dampness, and unilateral hernias.