Dancao Powder

Lord Taicang’s Plague-Repelling Pill，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 2.，

Tonifying Small Eupatorium Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 70.，For women suffering from deficiency due to overwork and exposure to cold, characterized by reduced appetite, a dull complexion, and intermittent abdominal pain; and for young women with irregular menstrual cycles, shortness of breath, and weakness.

Red Lynx Powder，*Guide to Throat Disorders*, Volume 4. An alternative name for “Yan’s Red Qilin Powder” in *The Jade Key*, Volume 1.，

Milk-Promoting and Edema-Reducing Decoction，From *Collected Insights from Reflection*.，For women with mastitis or breast abscesses, characterized by hardened lumps, redness, swelling, pain, and alternating fever and chills, resulting from stagnation of qi and blood.

Agastache Stomach-Soothing Powder，”Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach,” Volume 2.，For spleen and stomach deficiency with inability to retain food and vomiting before food is digested.

Miraculous Formula，From *The Jade Key*, Volume 1.，Effective for all types of toothaches.

Yellow Cow Brain Wine，From *Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 3.，For chronic or recent-onset headaches, whether unilateral or bilateral.

Gardenia and Evodia Pills，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 7.，For chest pain due to qi stagnation.

Mugwort Smoke Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 104.，Red eyes.

Eye-Brightening Fangfeng Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 111.，For cases where hot wind rises to the head and face, or where a film forms over the eyes due to consumption of alcohol, roasted flour, or fermented soybean paste, or where the eyes appear bloodshot and dim.

Four-Ingredient Menstrual-Regulating Decoction，From *Ten Thousand Gold Prescriptions for Gynecology*.，For women aged 25–26 with deficiency of blood and qi leading to coldness, irregular menstruation, sudden pain, or leukorrhea resembling blood mixed with brain matter or rice water, occurring regardless of the menstrual cycle, with persistent trickling discharge upon onset, a sallow complexion, weakness in the limbs, … Read more

Weilingxian Powder，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 7.，For early-stage swollen abscesses and malignant sores.

Su-Ge Decoction，From *Six Books on Medical Essentials*, Volume 30.，For postpartum pain and distension in both flanks, with a rough, large, and floating pulse.

Liver-Soothing and Stomach-Harmonizing Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Jinan Formula).，Indicated for nausea and vomiting, epigastric discomfort with acid regurgitation, and distension and fullness in the chest and flanks.

Tea Substitute，From *The Complete Book on the Treatment of Rashes*, Volume 2, citing *Formulas for Nourishing Life*.，For summer-related deficiency syndromes.

Yuan Shuang Pill，From *Selected Precious and Secret Formulas Worth a Thousand Gold*.，In cases of sudden, severe throat obstruction with phlegm surging like a tide, where life hangs by a thread.

Six-Ingredient Muscle-Relieving Decoction，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 9.，Fever and body pain due to cold damage.

Black Rice Ointment，*Resolving the Source of the Disease*, Volume 4.，For those suffering from severe wind-induced contractures.

Dang Gui and Huang Qi Decoction，From *Zhang’s Comprehensive Treatise on Medicine*, Volume 15.，For brain abscesses and back boils characterized by severe toxicity and swelling; and for toxic conditions affecting the anus in deficient patients. The sores and ulcers cause a dull, throbbing pain; due to qi deficiency, they cannot erupt, and the color turns purplish-black.

Five-Kidney Pills for Diarrhea，From *Collected Proven Formulas of the Auspicious People*.，For kidney-related diarrhea occurring at the fifth watch that has persisted for a long time.

Pepper and Aconite Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 48.，Cold hernia. Pain in the chest and abdomen as if being stabbed; inability to eat or drink; spontaneous sweating; near loss of consciousness.

Yanghe Qipi Ointment，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，Chronic spleen deficiency affecting the kidneys.

Jie Jin Pills，The formula is from *Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices* (Vol. 6); the name appears in *The Treasure Mirror of Eastern Medicine: Chapter on the Inner Landscape* (Vol. 4).，For dysentery with locked jaw.

Five Seeds Powder，*Yi Tong*, Volume 87.，For the elderly with weakened constitutions, insufficient intestinal fluids, or constipation caused by wind-toxin leading to dryness and涩ness.

Ginseng Decoction for Stopping Vomiting，From *Shān Fán Fāng*, cited in Volume 6 of *Wài Tái*.，For heat in the lower jiao, qi reversal with interrupted flow, persistent vomiting, and a constant urge to eat.