Decoction for Harmonizing the Middle and Transforming Turbidity

Four-Ingredient Crucian Carp and Common Carp Pills，*Zongfutang Formulas*, Volume 3.，For all types of unexplained swellings and abscesses, and scrofula.

Wei Bi San，From *Mirror of Surgical Medicine*.，For abscesses on both arms that have already ruptured.

Spring Harmony Ointment，From *Selected Precious and Secret Formulas from the Thousand Gold Prescriptions*.，For yin-cold phlegm-toxin and breast abscesses.

Hundred-Ton Tonifying and Nourishing Yin Pills，*Selected Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas from Beijing*.，For women suffering from various deficiencies and debility, scanty menstrual flow, rising deficient fire, lower back pain, and tinnitus.

Goat Gallbladder Pills，*Chinese Pharmacopoeia*, Volume 1.，Cough with blood in the sputum; whooping cough.

Universal Pill for Dissolving Breast Masses，*Collected Effective Prescriptions*, Volume 1.，For breast abscesses, breast ulcers, and breast nodules; apply externally and internally to the affected breast.

Yellow Hen Dumplings，*Nourishing the Elderly and Honoring Parents*.，For elderly patients with dysphagia, inability to swallow food, and fullness and oppression in the chest and flanks.

Lapis Lazuli and Frankincense Pills，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 18.，For vomiting, progressive emaciation, and rapid, labored breathing—these symptoms result from a blockage between yin and yang preventing the descent of qi, with insufficient internal yang to warm the body, causing fluids from food and drink to be expelled. The pulse is present when felt superficially but … Read more

Pimple-Clearing Decoction，*Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 3.，

Zhuangyuan Pills，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 106), citing *The Classic of Xiu Yue and Lu Ban*.，For diaphragmatic qi stagnation, alcohol-induced diaphragmatic disorders and food stagnation, phlegmy cough with abdominal pain, vomiting, and epigastric fullness.

Soaking Powder，*Formulas of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 7 (Supplementary Collection of Empirical Secret Formulas from Various Bureaus).，Deficiency of the Liver Meridian, with external heat and wind obstructing and rising upward, causing red and dry eyes, pain in the cornea, erosion of the eyelids, photophobia, excessive tearing while sleeping at night, sudden and severe redness during … Read more

Major Malaria Pill，*Secret Transmission from the Blue Sack*.，For malaria.

Decoction of Raw and Cooked Herbs，*Effective Prescriptions for Women*, Volume 21.，For postpartum malaria with predominant cold symptoms.

Decoction for Resolving Stagnation，*Compendium of Medicine*, Volume 3.，Stomach pain accompanied by distension and tenderness to pressure indicates a “full” type of pain.

Zijinpi Pills，*Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 310.，For contusions and injuries.

Gu Gen Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 3.，Loss of primordial yang in youth, compounded by premature sexual activity; failure to observe sexual abstinence, resulting in damage to the outer canthus; the canthal orifice fails to close, allowing wind and cold to penetrate; internal qi becomes deficient, making it difficult to ward off external … Read more

Muscle-Relaxing Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 8.，For blood deficiency and qi deficiency complicated by wind-dampness, resulting in stiffness of the tendons and meridians, tightness and pain in the neck and shoulders, inability to turn the head, and pain extending to the ears.

Blood-Activating and Tendon-Strengthening Pill，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Yuxian Formula).，For pain in the tendons and bones, numbness throughout the body, hemiplegia; facial asymmetry, and paralysis on the left or right side.

Nan Teng Wine，*Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 25.，

Brain-Strengthening and Anti-Epileptic Elixir，*New Formulas for Trial Use in Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Pediatrics*.，Pediatric epilepsy.

Great Calf Bile Pills，From *The New Book on the Care of Infants* (Volume 19), citing *The Zhang Family’s Inherited Formulas*.，For children with wind-induced stagnation and phlegm accumulation, presenting with headache, tightness in the eyes, palpitations, nausea, mental confusion, slurred speech, stiffness in the neck and shoulders, and numbness in the hands and feet; or with … Read more

Yinqiao Mahuang Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Cough with phlegm caused by wind-pathogen invading the lungs.

Ting for Washing Tinea，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Fungal nail infection.

Ginseng and Astragalus Internal Support with Ten-Declaration Powder，*Complete Book of Experience in the Treatment of Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 2.，For abscesses caused by the “flowing and stagnation” pattern.

Wood Fragrance Qi-Regulating Pills，From *Wang’s Collection of Prescriptions*, cited in Volume 21 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，Symptoms: Qi reversal; sallow-white complexion; reduced milk production; nighttime crying and regurgitation; general lack of vitality; avoid turning the infant, as doing so will worsen the condition. Caused by the nursing mother’s distress and anxiety, leading … Read more