Cypress Branch Decoction

Gate-Opening Pill，From *Li Ye*.，For diaphragmatic obstruction, where food cannot be ingested and, if ingested, is regurgitated.

Mountain Gardenia Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 6.，For sudden stroke.

Wax and Alum Pills，From *The Compendium of Life-Saving Principles*, Volume 1.，For chronic wind-phlegm cough.

Qi-Consolidating and Wind-Repelling Decoction，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 7.，For wind-heat shoulder and back pain, with frequent and scanty urination.

Persimmon Coin Powder，Formula from *Classified Materia Medica* (Vol. 12), citing *Concise Formulas for the Relief of the Masses*; name found in *Jiegu’s Family Treasures*.，For unceasing coughing and belching due to cold damage, as well as persistent retching.

Mu Xiang Hua Zhi Decoction，From *Yi Tong*, Volume 36, citing *Ju Fang*.，For patients with a weak constitution suffering from dysentery with red and white stools, abdominal pain, tenesmus, and a sensation of incomplete evacuation, accompanied by excessive heat and stagnation.

Formulas for Universal Relief，From *Li’s Medical Mirror*, Volume 2.，For a blocked throat with sores, laryngeal obstruction, and tonsillitis.

Seven-Star Powder，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 8.，Deficiency of lung qi with cold, resulting in persistent cough that gradually develops into a consumptive condition.

Decoction for Relieving Intestinal Adhesions，From *New Acute Abdominal Disorders*.，Mild (Qi Stagnation and Blood Stasis) adhesive or partial intestinal obstruction; restoration of gastrointestinal function following gastrointestinal surgery.

Placenta Pill，From *The Authentic Transmission of Medicine*, Volume 3, citing *The Blue Sack Formulas*.，For possession by wandering spirits, consumptive weakness and emaciation, and wheezing, coughing, and phlegm.

Regulating and Tonifying Decoction，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 28.，Severe leprosy.

Two Frost Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 211.，For red-and-white dysentery where symptoms have not fully subsided despite excessive medication.

Coptis and Cimicifuga Powder，Formula from *Qian Jin* (Vol. 6); name cited in *Wei Sheng Bao Jian* (Vol. 11).，For sores in the mouth and on the tongue.

Perilla and Borneol Powder，From *Ten Thousand Gold Prescriptions for Gynecology*.，For nosebleeds and hemoptysis in men and women.

Taiyang “Flowing Pearl” Pill，*Shenghui*, Volume 95.，It treats all chronic cold and wind-related conditions, masses and lumps, women’s blood and qi disorders, red and white vaginal discharge, intestinal wind with bloody stools, long-standing dysentery, abdominal masses, frequent vomiting of clear fluid, and regurgitation.

Wood Turtle Ointment，*New Book on Smallpox Vaccination*, Volume 12.，For corneal opacities.

Like the “Sacred Relief from Suffering Powder”，From *Yanxia Shengxiao*, cited in *Yifang Leiju*, Volume 191.，Effective for all types of malignant sores, as well as red and white diarrhea and dysentery, and coughing up pus and blood.

Autumn Frost White，From *A Study of Thirteen Surgical Formulas*.，For ulcers that have already ruptured, with no pus or exudate, and where the wound is dry and red.

Heart-Nourishing Pills，From *Yu’an*, Volume 3.，For persistent eye pain that has lasted for a long time and resulted in loss of vision.

Decoction for Tonifying Qi and Nourishing Blood，From *A Compendium of Ancient Formulas*, Volume 2.，For abscesses that have been swollen and diffuse for many days, with the edges spreading and the center flattened.

Complete Vitality Poria Powder，From *The Handy Guide*, Volume 4.，Difficulty urinating or painful, scanty, and reddish urine during pregnancy.

Adzuki Bean Porridge，*Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 25.，

Modified Decoction for Clearing Toxins and Removing Cataracts，*Definitive Treatise on Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 4.，For cases where, following a smallpox eruption, the patient develops corneal opacity, redness and swelling of the eyes, and ulceration of the eyelids.

Poria and Akebia Decoction，*The Great Compendium of Shanghan* (Volume 4).，Heat accumulation in the Yangming channel.

Decoction of Gold and Minerals to Clear the Heart，*Supplementary Explanations to Chen Su’an’s Gynecology*, Volume 1.，Women with deficiency of both qi and blood are prone to anger, which stirs liver fire. When excessive blood is lost during menstruation, wind-heat takes advantage of this vulnerability; external heat and internal fire clash, causing mental confusion and drowsiness. … Read more