Decoction for Clearing Heat and Resolving External Swelling

Ginger-Regulating-the-Middle Decoction，From *Baoming Gejue*, Volume 19.，For cholera without thirst.

Zhu Lian San，*New Book on Child Care*, Volume 7.，After a child’s convulsions have subsided, if the child is hoarse and unable to speak:

Bamboo Leaf and Scutellaria Decoction，*Wai Tai*, Volume 16, citing *Shan Fan Fang*.，For extreme heat due to essence depletion, characterized by blurred vision, scorched teeth, hair loss, physical decline, body aches, and generalized deficiency heat.

Da Dao Gu Chang Pills，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 7.，Indicated for intestinal weakness with loose stools, undigested food passing directly through the system, chronic cold accumulation, distension and fullness in the chest and abdomen, loss of appetite, lethargy and a tendency to lie down, fatigue, and weakness; also treats leukorrhea with a deep … Read more

Siming Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 107.，For wind-toxin rising upward, causing blurred vision, as well as unilateral or bilateral headaches, and a gradual sensation that the eyes are becoming smaller; also for headaches accompanied by brain-wind pain, and eye conditions characterized by wind and cold.

Spring Kidney-Tonifying Decoction，*Shenghui*, Volume 7.，Kidney deficiency.

Lizhong Huatan Pills，*Ming Yi Za Zhu* (Miscellaneous Writings of a Ming Physician), Volume 6.，For deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach with internal retention of phlegm, manifesting as vomiting and poor appetite; or loose stools, difficulty digesting food, and coughing up phlegm.

Lung-Regulating Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 163.，For wheezing and coughing, stabbing pain in the flanks, and inability to sleep.

Decoction of Atractylodes to Eliminate Phlegm，*Ji Feng*, Volume 19.，For retained fluid causing shortness of breath, inability to lie down, bodily swelling and fullness, and difficulty urinating.

Enhanced Astragalus and Cinnamon Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 10.，Crane-Knee Wind: the shins gradually become thinner, the feet and knees gradually swell, there is aching pain in the bones, and the body gradually becomes thin and weak.

Fragrant Powder，From *Honglu Dianxue*, Volume 1.，Pain in the right flank.

Guan Ding Powder，*Shenghui* (Volume 17).，For febrile illnesses accompanied by unbearable headaches.

Zhongxian Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 3.，For chest constriction due to cold damage, with unbearable hardness and pain beneath the heart.

Cow Bile Diaphragm-Opening Decoction，*Treasury of Health* (Weisheng Baojian), Volume 8.，For cases of wind-stroke diagnosed within 1–2 days as a “full” pattern, caused by wind-phlegm.

Jiehuang Pills，Formula from *Chuanya Neibian*, Volume 1; name cited in *Qingnang Mituan*.，For spleen accumulation with jaundice and swelling.

Qianjin Appetite-Promoting Pills，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 12.，For disharmony of the spleen and stomach, delayed digestion of food and drink, cold in the middle burner with weak qi, distension and fullness in the chest and abdomen, phlegm, spitting, and vomiting, a bitter taste in the mouth with loss of appetite, a tendency to lie down with … Read more

Pig Stomach and Coptis Pills，*Wai Tai*, Volume 11, citing *Zhou Hou Fang*.，Frequent urination; heat-induced skin eruptions with widespread ulceration; or low-grade fever with abdominal distension; or thirst.

Zhaoyuan Powder，From *Gujin Yijian* (A Mirror of Medicine Through the Ages), Volume 11.，For red and white vaginal discharge, cold pain in the abdomen and navel, and uterine deficiency-cold.

Gardenia and Curcuma Decoction，Volume 11 of *The Collection of the Unsettled: Lower Collection*.，Deficiency syndromes, with accumulated phlegm and blood stasis.

Enhanced Four Ling Powder，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 5.，Summer-heat stagnation in the Heart Meridian, manifested by red, turbid urine accompanied by fever.

Yuanmiao Decoction，From *Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 8.，In cases of extreme yang deficiency, with malaria attacks occurring every four days, persisting for months or even years without resolution—characterized by fever without chills, sweating without thirst, and attacks occurring primarily at night.

Scallion and Perilla Powder，From *Yi Ji*, Volume 7.，For cases of pathogenic factors contracted before or after childbirth, where all symptoms of an exterior syndrome are present.

Coptis and Tangerine Peel Decoction，Quoted from *Gujin Luyan* in Volume 4 of *Wai Tai*.，Winter heat has not yet manifested as illness; by spring, the body is overcome by accumulated cold, preventing the disease from breaking out. By summer, when heat arrives, the spring cold dissipates, and the winter heat toxin begins to emerge from the … Read more

Great Sage Life-Preserving Pill，*Formulae of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 1 (Supplementary Collection of Empirical Secret Formulas from Various Bureaus).，For all wind-related disorders characterized by deficiency of both qi and blood, imbalance of yin and yang, sudden stroke, rigidity and unconsciousness, profuse drooling with convulsions, trembling and flopping of the limbs, loss of consciousness, stiff tongue … Read more

Zefu Ointment，From *Yi Tong*, Volume 55.，For skin that is dry and scaly like fish scales.