Decoction for Clearing Heat

Cang’er Decoction for Resolving Abscesses，*The Red Water Mystic Pearl*, Volume 25.，Intestinal abscess. Pain in the lower abdomen, aversion to cold, tightness in the abdomen, and inability to take a single step.

Toxicity-Cleansing Decoction，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 10.，For various sores that are painful, hard, and refuse to resolve; or, after breaking open, continue to ooze pus and fluid without ceasing, with necrotic tissue not yet shed and healthy tissue not yet regenerated.

Calm the Spirit and Nourish the Will Pills，From *Yu’an*, Volume 4.，Epilepsy.

Sixteen-Ingredient Diaphragm-Clearing Powder，From *Essentials for Infant Care*, Volume 18.，Thick, sticky nasal discharge and sputum; wheezing, coughing, and excessive phlegm; fever and dry nose; normal bowel movements; yellowish-red urine.

Liver-Clearing and Dysuria-Relieving Decoction，*Fu Qingzhu’s Gynecology*, Volume 1.，Red Vaginal Discharge. Vaginal discharge that is red in color, resembling blood but not blood, and flows continuously in a trickle.

Perilla Decoction，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 80.，Water retention.

Xiaotong Wuhuang Decoction，*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 11.，For women experiencing fever in the afternoon that subsides after sweating.

Traumatic Injury Pills，*Manual of Chinese Herbal Formulations*.，Indicated for sprains and strains of tendons and bones caused by trauma, blood stasis, redness, swelling, pain, and conditions such as sudden lower back strain or rib strain.

Astragalus Decoction for Treating Wind，From *Secretly Transmitted Treatise on Ophthalmology: The Theory of Dragon Wood*, Volume 4.，Pus discharge from the eye due to external obstruction. At the onset of the condition, there is slight dizziness and drowsiness, with the limbs feeling as if exhausted. An accumulation of wind and toxic stagnation in the five viscera … Read more

Tianma Herb Decoction，*Wai Tai*, Volume 34, citing *Ji Yan Fang*.，For mastitis, spreading, yellow, festering, and hot sores; genital ulcers with itching and dampness; and scalp sores in children.

Modified Xiao Chengqi Decoction，*Medical Explorations* (Yixue Tanli Ji), Volume 3.，When the heat-toxin of cold damage has spread to the interior, causing excessive internal heat and obstruction in the central region, with no aversion to cold externally, but only red eyes, a red tongue coating, and a洪大 pulse that is not very forceful—particularly in patients with … Read more

Sacred Great Ease Ointment，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 291.，Scrofula. Also treats eighty types of malignant sores.

Hejin Decoction，*Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，Deficiency of fluids and excess of fire; lung stagnation; cough with counterflow of qi; distension and fullness in the chest and flanks; pain radiating to the lower abdomen; inability to turn over in bed; dry tongue and throat; sallow, pale complexion; shortness of breath preventing sleep; sputum thick … Read more

Xianglang Powder，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 1.，For pain caused by displaced stomach qi; also treats parasitic accumulations.

Pu Ji San，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，For cold-induced fever where the exterior and interior stages have not yet been distinguished.

Mulberry Root Decoction，From *Yixin Fang*, Volume 8, citing a formula by Su Jing.，Beriberi. Generalized fullness of the body. Difficulty urinating. Shortness of breath, a sensation of fresh water in the epigastrium, and inability to eat. Those who experience bloating and fullness after eating.

Male-Female Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 34); name cited in *Shengji Zonglu* (Vol. 121).，For teeth that have long failed to erupt, even after more than ten years.

Alum Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 79.，For water-related disorders.

Decoction for Reviving the Withered and Restoring Vitality，*Fu Qingzhu’s Gynecology and Andrology: Andrology*, Volume 1.，Symptoms of atrophy: Weakness in both legs, inability to stand, but normal appetite; upon even slight hunger, the head and face become hot, accompanied by persistent coughing.

Jing Sanling Powder，*General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 17).，For pediatric hernias with one testicle descending and the other remaining undescended.

Taiyi Rescue-from-Suffering Pill，From *Collected Formulas of the Crane-Feeding Pavilion*.，For symptoms during epidemics, such as chest oppression and mental confusion; delirium due to cold damage; chest and diaphragm congestion; latent summer heat with alternating chills and fever; cholera with vomiting and diarrhea; wind, miasma, and malaria; and various forms of convulsions, malnutrition, and dysentery in children.

Raw Gold Decoction，From *Formulas for Infants and Toddlers*, cited in Volume 10 of *The New Book on the Care of Young Children*.，If a child, seven days after birth, suddenly develops a bluish discoloration around the mouth and nose, slight restlessness, a cold sensation in the chest, and a tendency to look upward.

Chu Bai Pi Pills，From *The Handy Guide*, Volume 4.，Leucorrhea.

Chaihu-Gui-Jiang-Banxia Decoction，*Selected Essentials of Medicine*.，Cold epidemic. The Shaoyang channel transmits to the Taiyin zang organ, causing fullness and distension in the chest and flanks, and vomiting.

Er-Qiong Cake，From *Jisheng*, cited in Volume 81 of *Yifang Leiju*.，Indicated for qi-induced syncope; excess in the upper and deficiency in the lower; phlegm, fluid retention, wind, and cold latent in the yang meridians; unilateral or bilateral headaches with pain at the crown of the head; vomiting, nausea; and blurred vision and deafness.