Decoction for Eliminating Boils and Neutralizing Toxins

Ten-Ingredient Iron-Band Powder，From *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 4.，Boils on the back, various swollen and toxic sores.

Ginseng and Purple Aster Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 157).，Chronic or recent cough with phlegm.

Soapberry Bark Decoction，From *The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 4.，For toxic abscesses and gangrene caused by bayberry, accompanied by pain in the tendons and bones.

Gardenia and Black Plum Decoction，From *The Complete Collection on Survival from Cold Damage*, Volume 4.，After recovery from shanghan, residual heat combines with the various yang energies; as yang energy has not yet recovered, insomnia occurs.

Rat Gallbladder Pill，From *Collected Proven Formulas for the Auspicious*.，For chronic, intractable deafness.

Divine Powder，*Compendium of Divine Remedies*, Volume 110.，For smallpox lesions affecting the eyes, causing a white film that obscures vision and produces unbearable stabbing pain:

Jade Dew Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For those who vomit blood due to pathogenic heat damaging the lung and stomach’s ying aspect, as well as for those with prolonged, unresolved hemoptysis or blood loss caused by excessive smoking and alcohol consumption.

Worm-Calming Decoction，From *Supplement to the Essentials of Formulas for Observing and Treating Diseases*, Volume 3, citing *One Hundred Effective Formulas for Pediatrics*.，When roundworms are active, the patient vomits clear saliva.

Willow Root Compress Formula，The formula is from *Formulas for Emergency Use* (Vol. 5); the name appears in *Thousand Gold Prescriptions* (Vol. 23).，For breast abscesses lasting two to three hundred days that have not healed despite various treatments, and which remain hard and purple-blue in color.

Aconite and Musk Oil，From *The Yongle Encyclopedia*, Volume 8841, citing *Essentials for Mountain Dwellers*.，

Lianmei Decoction，From *Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 3.，For cases of summer-heat pathogen deeply invading the Shao Yin channel causing excessive thirst, invading the Jue Yin channel causing numbness and paralysis, or severe heart heat with restlessness and mental confusion.

Anemarrhena and Pueraria Decoction，From *Illustrated Songs on Cold Damage and Essential Guidelines for Saving Lives*, Volume 4.，Wind-heat syndrome with a burning sensation throughout the body.

Twenty-Four-Ingredient Qingning Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Hangzhou Formula).，For accumulated heat in the zang-fu organs, damp-heat toxins, redness and swelling of the eyes, headaches caused by stagnant heat, sore throat and toothache, heat sores in the mouth and nose, abdominal pain due to food stagnation, damp-heat jaundice, early-stage dysentery with tenesmus and … Read more

Lianzi Hut Formula，*The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 60.，For freckles on the face and nose.

Pangolin Ointment，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 144.，For injuries involving fractures or sprains.

Intestinal Toxin-Resolving Pills，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 4.，For hemorrhoids with bleeding and dysentery with red and white stools.

Tuberculosis-Resolving Powder，From *One Hundred Effective Surgical Treatments*, Volume 2.，For scrofula, phlegm nodules, and wandering abscesses that have not yet ruptured.

Millet Flour，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 137.，Used as a substitute.

Yellow-Discharging and Appetite-Restoring Powder，*The Golden Mirror Record of Smallpox and Rashes*, Volume 1.，When the heat of the smallpox pathogen invades the stomach, causing dry, cracked lips and mouth, a greasy sensation in the mouth accompanied by thirst, and even a prickly rash on the tongue or a mouth black as coal; after the pus stage, … Read more

Cuttlefish Bone Ointment，From *The New Book on the Care of Infants* (Volume 9), citing *A Selection of Marvelous Medical Formulas*.，For chronic convulsions that have not responded to treatment.

Secretly Transmitted Modified Decongestant Decoction，From *Songya Medical Path* (Volume 2).，Stroke.

Bupleurum, Artemisia, and Wuling Powder，From *The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 54.，For febrile diseases caused by cold, dampness, and heat, where sweating or purgation occurred too early and the damp-heat has not been eliminated, resulting in generalized jaundice, dark red or black urine, restlessness, thirst, and fever.

Modified Shuiyao Huangzi Decoction，From *Formulas for Infants and Toddlers*, cited in Volume 28 of *New Book on the Care of Young Children*.，For children who have had diarrhea for 3–4 days.

Spleen-Tonifying and Detoxifying Decoction，From *Straight Talk on Pediatrics*, Volume 1.，For cases of post-smallpox deficiency of vital energy with residual toxins, manifesting as generalized swelling, or accompanied by abdominal distension and shortness of breath.

Turtle Shell Decoction，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 200), citing *Formulas for Protecting Life*.，Recurrent malaria. Symptoms include dry, brittle hair; irregular bouts of chills and fever; reduced appetite; emaciation; a bluish-black complexion; weakness in both legs; cold feet at inappropriate times; frequent urination; irregular bowel movements; and nocturnal emissions or seminal leakage.