Decoction for Clearing Heat and Overcoming Dampness

Lung-Regulating and Surface-Releasing Decoction，From *The Great Explanation of Cold Damage*, Volume 1.，For symptoms of alternating chills and fever, wheezing, coughing, and absence of sweating.

Ten-Ingredient Heart-Tonifying Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For cases of blood loss due to cold damage—such as vomiting or hemoptysis—where bleeding has ceased but there is deficiency of heart blood.

Vinegar-Decoction Powder，From *Ten Thousand Gold Prescriptions for Gynecology*.，For retained placenta after childbirth, with blood stagnation causing a sensation of pressure in the chest. For cramping pain in the lower abdomen during menstruation, and for retained lochia after childbirth.

Lung-Nourishing and Cough-Relieving Decoction，*Six Books on Medical Essentials*, Volume 19.，For internal injury with pathogenic factors trapped within, accompanied by alternating chills and fever and cough, with a string-like and floating pulse.

New Method Pinellia Decoction，*Formulae of the Imperial Medical Bureau*, Volume 3 (New Formulas Added in Baoqing).，For disharmony of the spleen and stomach, qi stagnation in the epigastrium, retained cold and fluid retention, undigested food stagnation, stabbing pain in the chest and abdomen, distension of the flanks, vomiting of phlegm and water; belching and acid regurgitation, … Read more

Fire-Strengthening Pill，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 9.，Those with a weak Mingmen fire, suffering from cold without wind, who feel chilly before autumn and, when faced with the ice and snow of severe winter, remain cold despite wearing heavy furs; upon sexual intercourse, after just a few cycles, they experience incontinence.

Liver-Regulating, Tendon-Relaxing, and Hardness-Softening Pills，From *Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，Indicated for deficiency of kidney yin, stagnation of liver qi, concurrent damage to the spleen and stomach, lower back pain with loose stools, shooting pain in both flanks, hiccups and belching, and fullness and distension epigastrically.

Liu’s Ointment for Traumatic Injuries，*Compendium of Traumatology*, Volume 8.，Traumatic injuries.

Decoction for Clearing the Heart and Moistening the Lungs，From *Secret Manual of Prenatal and Childbirth Care*, Volume 1.，For severe heat accumulation during pregnancy, manifesting as restlessness and thirst.

White Lead Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 172.，For children with malnutrition-related dysentery and unrelenting thirst.

Fan Zhi Shen Qu，From *The Great Treasure of Health*, Volume 1.，For disorders caused by irregular seasonal energies, such as colds with fever, dizziness, and cough; as well as indigestion with abdominal pain, fullness and distension, vomiting, and diarrhea; travel-related digestive upset; miasma; malaria; dysentery; and the initial onset of smallpox.

Decoction for Dispelling Pathogenic Factors，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 5.，Spring fever: headache, body heat, thirst with a strong desire to drink, macules on the limbs; symptoms resembling mania but not quite mania, resembling agitation but not quite agitation; the disease spreads from household to household, with transmission occurring between family members.

Ginseng and Stomach-Nourishing Decoction，From *Lan Shi Mi Cang*, Volume 2.，Headache; mild pain upon exertion; loss of appetite; lethargy in the limbs; restlessness, heat, and shortness of breath; loss of sense of taste; abdominal rumbling; slightly loose stools; general drowsiness and lethargy; feeling thirsty but aversion to cold foods.

Fu Ling Wu Pi San，*Compendium of Miasma Disorders*, Volume 4.，Edema; spleen deficiency with diarrhea and dysentery.

Silver-Black Ointment，From *Comprehensive Collection of Proven Formulas for Internal and Surgical Diseases*.，For scrofula and all types of unexplained swellings and abscesses.

Seven-Ingredient Motherwort Decoction，From *Introduction to Obstetrics*, Volume 4.，Postpartum fever.

Muxiang Liqi Pills，*The Compendium of Life-Saving Principles*, Volume 2.，Abdominal pain due to food stagnation, prolonged fullness and discomfort, and pent-up heat.

Fire-Clearing Decoction，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 6.，For those with Yangming fire-heat who have become delirious.

Proven-Effective Toad Venom Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 34.，For unbearable toothache:

Goji Berries Soaked in Wine，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 8.，For stroke, where the body is arched like a bow, and for all types of blood-related wind disorders in women, whether rising upward or descending downward.

Fengqi Dan，From *Formulas of the Huizhitiang Hall*, Volume 1.，For dysentery with watery diarrhea and leukorrhea in women.

Spirit-Restoring Supreme Decoction，*Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，Stupor. The patient remains silent all day, neither eating nor drinking; suddenly laughs or sings, then suddenly becomes sad or cries. When offered fine food, they refuse it; when offered filth, they accept it without complaint; when offered clothing, they refuse to wear it; yet when offered … Read more

Cinnamon, Ligusticum, and Angelica Decoction，*Ji Yin Gang Mu*, Volume 11.，For a postpartum mother with deficient vital energy and retained placenta.

Double-Benefit Tonifying Ointment，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 153), citing *Secret Formulas Based on Clinical Experience*.，For men with deficiency-cold in the lower jiao and depleted yang qi; for women with chronic uterine cold, long-standing infertility, and red or white vaginal discharge.

Spotted Dragon Black-and-White Divine Pill，From *Eight Essays on Nurturing Life*, Volume 17, citing the *Daozang*.，For deficiency-related weakness, the “Five Labors and Seven Injuries,” deficiency of both qi and blood, and a haggard complexion.