Decoction for Clearing Metal and Subduing Fire

Cat Feces Powder，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 9.，For abdominal masses causing severe, sudden pain that has not responded to other treatments.

Immortal Duck，From *New Compilation of Proven Prescriptions*, Volume 11.，For weakness due to overwork. Those without illness may also consume it.

Deer Antler Shavings and Fermented Soybean Decoction，From *Qianjin Yi*, Volume 6.，For women who have had a miscarriage and are suffering from retained blood and a sense of oppression and restlessness.

Five Bupleurum Decoction，From *The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 51.，Deficiency of central qi, failure to dispel external pathogens; typhoid fever, malaria, smallpox.

Modified Qi-Tonifying Decoction，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 5.，Qi deficiency with numbness.

Lip Balm，Formula by Master Mao, cited in Volume 7 of *The New Book on Infant Care*.，For night crying in children.

Red Peony Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 45.，For spleen-related fever with internal organ heat, parched lips, foul breath, and uncontrollable thirst.

Li Chong Decoction，From *Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，For women with amenorrhea, or postpartum lochia that fails to resolve and congeals into masses (zheng-jia), leading to yin deficiency causing heat and yang deficiency causing cold, accompanied by poor appetite, fatigue, and cough—with a succession of deficiency symptoms. Also for unmarried women with amenorrhea due … Read more

Zhengyuan Pill，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 185.，Treats chronic cold accumulation in the lower jiao.

Three-Ingredient Aloe Pill，*Revealing the Subtleties of the Original Mechanism: Appendix*.，For black water-induced corneal opacities and internal cataracts that are neither painful nor itchy, accompanied by mild dizziness, a sensation of fullness, and blurred vision.

Fragrant Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace Powder，From *The Universal Remedies* (Vol. 232), citing *The Family Treasure of Health*.，For deficiency-related exhaustion of the five viscera with qi stagnation, weakness in the limbs, soreness and pain in the hands and feet, stiffness in the back and spine, progressive weakness, fullness of qi beneath the heart, and loss of appetite.

Perilla Qi-Regulating Decoction，From *The Complete Book of Experience in the Treatment of Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 3.，Renal Qi Wandering Wind. Wind-toxin injures the kidneys; the toxic qi wanders, descending to the legs and abdomen.

Formula for Thinning Mustache and Sideburns，From *Formulas of the Auspicious Bamboo Hall*, Volume 3.，

Five-Depression Decoction，*Yi Tong*, Volume 26.，Various types of stagnation.

Qi Pi Pills，From *Gujin Luyan*, cited in Volume 12 of *Wai Tai*.，For cold-induced stagnation and accumulation, with blockage and knotted mass; severe pain around the navel; abdominal distension and fullness; and chest oppression and fullness; as well as when wind invades the viscera, due to accumulated anxiety and resentment, overexertion, injury to tendons and vessels, … Read more

Nasal Cicada Shell Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 381.，Itchy nose due to malnutrition in children.

Decoction of Small Pinellia，*Shenghui*, Volume 55.，For yellowish urine, unchanged urine color, a desire to defecate but inability to do so, abdominal distension, and shortness of breath—vomiting is inevitable.

Donkey-Hide Gelatin and Egg Yolk Decoction，Formula cited from Shen Yue-ting in *Methods for Treating Damp-Heat Epidemics*.，Acute epidemic diseases.

Nourishing the Original Lotus Root Starch，From *Liangfang Hebi*, Volume 1.，

Decoction for Clearing the Middle and Eliminating Malaria，*Medical Forest Pointing to the Moon*.，Early-stage malaria.

Head Plague Decoction，From *Classified Treatments for Syndromes*, Volume 1.，Severe Head Plague. Damp-heat injures the crown of the head, causing swelling as large as a measuring bucket; the swelling is red and headless, or may form nodules with a base, leading to profuse sweating and a sensation of steam rising from the body. At onset, there … Read more

Mu-Bin Decoction，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 8.，Postpartum chest pain caused by emotional distress, with concurrent blood and qi disorders.

Chenpi-Houpo Decoction，From *Yu Heng on Shā and Distension*, Volume 2.，For shā syndrome caused by qi stagnation.

Decoction for Damp-Wind and Gout，From *Jie Wei Yuan Sou*, Volume 4.，Gout.

Di Yu Pills，From *Yan Nian Mi Lu*, cited in Volume 25 of *Wai Tai*.，Cold dysentery; indigestion; abdominal distension and pain; bloating preventing food intake.