Decoction for Clearing Heat and Resolving Dampness

Hun Jin Dan，From *Huiyan Guanzheng*, cited in Volume 16 of *Youyou Xinshu*.，For coughs in adults and children.

Chuanwu Wine，*Puji Fang*, Volume 350.，Postpartum stroke, with the body arched like a bow and the mouth clenched shut, unable to speak.

Gold and Silver Calming Decoction，*Yi Tong*, Volume 49.，Heart wind causing loss of mental composure, with erratic behavior and rambling speech.

Musk and Piper longum Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 45.，For cold qi in the spleen causing sharp, cramping pain in the chest and abdomen; cold extremities; cholera with vomiting; loose stools; fullness and distension in the epigastrium; and loss of appetite.

Water-Nourishing Decoction，*Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 3.，For cases where blood invades the urinary tract, resulting in prolonged hemoptysis that has not responded to all attempts at treatment.

Blood-Stagnation Syncope Decoction，*Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 3.，Postpartum blood-induced fainting.

Saibao Pill，*Secrets of Ophthalmology*, Volume 1.，A red thread-like membrane obscures the pupil.

Shouyang Biyun Ointment，From *Yi Tong*, Volume 61.，For ingrown eyelashes and swollen, ulcerated blepharitis.

Phytolacca Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 149.，For cases of Shigong poisoning with alternating chills and fever.

Modified Ginseng Decoction for Draining the Heart，From *Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 2.，Malaria damages the stomach’s yang; qi rebels and fails to descend; heat thickens the gastric juices; the patient feels neither hungry nor full; food intake does not relieve constipation; thirst is present but the patient does not wish to … Read more

Eye-Brightening Four-Ingredient Decoction，*Lu Fu’s Prohibited Formulas*, Volume 3.，For blood deficiency with dim vision and floaters.

Goat Liver Pills，From *Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica*, citing *Chuanxin Fang* (see *Classified Materia Medica*, Volume 7).，For deficiency of the Liver Meridian, with wind-toxin rising to the head, causing blurred vision, photophobia with tearing, difficulty opening the eyes due to dryness and stickiness, corneal opacities leading to blindness, and pterygium.

Divinely Inspired Frankincense Decoction，From *Yi Shuo*, Volume 3, citing *Yi Jian: Ji Zhi*.，Fracture of the lower back caused by falling from a ladder.

Modified Six-Ingredient Pills，Quoted from *Formulas for Emergency Use* in *Wai Tai* (Vol. 11, Annotations).，Treats thirst and internal heat.

Muxiang Jieli Pills，*General Essentials of Health*, Volume 12.，For malnutrition with jaundice and emaciation, night sweats, abdominal distension with diarrhea, undigested food stagnation, and shortness of breath with wheezing.

Enhanced Chaihu-Guizhi Decoction，From *The Complete Collection on Treating Cold Damage* (Shanghan Quansheng Ji), Volume 3.，Fever with slight aversion to cold, pain in the limbs and joints, mild vomiting, and fullness and oppression in the epigastrium.

Baohe Wengwei Pills，From *Six Books on Medical Essentials*, Volume 20.，For food stagnation in the epigastrium that suppresses the clear yang, causing fullness and distension in the chest and diaphragm, unrelenting aversion to cold, and a deep, firm pulse.

Sophora Pod Pills，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 8.，For intestinal wind and hemorrhoids, with difficult and sluggish bowel movements, stagnant qi and obstruction, diminished appetite, sallow complexion and emaciation, or unstoppable bleeding—which may occur before, during, or after a bowel movement.

Liver-Regulating and Lactation-Promoting Decoction，From *Fu Qingzhu’s Gynecology*, Volume 2.，For postpartum swelling and pain in both breasts with blocked milk flow.

Three-Spice Kelp Pills，*General Essentials of Health*, Volume 17.，For hernia with one testicle hanging lower than the other.

Ten-Ingredient Minor Bupleurum Decoction，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 7.，Qi deficiency with hiccups.

Sophora Fruit Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 94.，Swelling and retraction of a testicular hernia.

Seven-Part Decoction，*Treatise on Epidemic Diseases*, Volume 1.，For patients who, after recovering from an epidemic disease, exhibit deficiency of the true yang of the Mingmen, with a slow, fine, and weak pulse, and who experience diarrhea at dawn or after midnight.

Wujiapi Pills，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 6.，For bi syndrome caused by a combination of wind, cold, and dampness, manifesting as pain throughout the body, difficulty turning over in bed, stiffness of tendons and meridians, inability to flex or extend the limbs, dizziness and blurred vision, distension and fullness in the chest and abdomen, … Read more

Hawthorn Decoction，From *Clinical Medical Case Studies and Formulas*.，For dysentery.