Decoction for Lower Back Pain

Nine-Return Golden Elixir Pill，From *The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 62.，For men and women with excessive phlegm and shortness of breath; stroke-induced aphasia; facial asymmetry; left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness; and locked jaw; as well as for children with acute convulsions, hand and foot spasms, loss of consciousness, and excessive phlegm with shortness of breath.

Gu Jing Long Dan Powder，*Zhun Sheng: Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，For children with wind-heat syndrome presenting with redness and swelling of both eyes, photophobia, and unbearable stinging pain, accompanied by the onset of smallpox.

Great Life-Saving Pills，From *The Universal Remedies* (Vol. 176), citing *The Family Treasure of Health*.，For the three types of thirst disorders, where the patient drinks water day and night without ceasing, even after a hundred cups; for “mother-and-child” sores, which may appear on the back or between the temples; and for the five types of oozing … Read more

Eight-Ingredient Reduced Pills，From *Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 66, citing *Divine and Ingenious Formulas for Complete Cure*.，For eye disorders.

Decoction for Moderately Tonifying Deficiency，*Huiyue*, Volume 2.，For those with deficiency of both qi and blood, deficiency of both spleen and kidney, and symptoms of physical fatigue and mental dizziness.

Pill for Calming the Mind and Preserving Life，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 374.，For infantile convulsions.

Xiao Mangcao Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 25.，Effective for all types of wind disorders.

Qianyang Huoxue Decoction，From *Zhang Jiachun’s Diagnosis and Treatment of Ophthalmic Disorders*.，“Cloud and Mist Obscuring the Eyes” Syndrome. Yin deficiency with excessive fire; blood fails to follow the meridians; faint red phantoms; dizziness and vertigo; redness of the cheekbones and tongue; insomnia and night sweats; fine and rapid pulse.

Purslane Paste，From *The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 2.，For scrotal eczema caused by wind-heat in the middle and lower Jiao, characterized by itchy lumps that become painful when scratched; or for women with sores extending from below the navel to the genital area, shaped like a sabre, accompanied by pain and the discharge of yellow … Read more

Mutton Spine Bone Soup，Formula from *Classified Materia Medica* (Vol. 17), citing *The Mirror of the Dietary Physician*; name found in *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 31).，Kidney deficiency with cold, resulting in inability to move the lower back and spine.

Pinellia, Trifoliate Orange, and Atractylodes Pills，*Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach*, Volume 2.，For food stagnation and internal injury.

Calm and Harmonize Decoction，From *San Yin*, Volume 5.，In the years of the Dragon and Dog, for symptoms of body fever, headache, vomiting, stagnant qi with abdominal distension, drowsiness, shortness of breath, weakness in the legs, bloody or purulent diarrhea, and skin ulcers that develop into boils and abscesses.

Modified Shu Nian Zi Decoction，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 4.，For smallpox and carbuncles.

Wood Fragrance, Dried Ginger, Bitter Orange, and Atractylodes Pills，From *Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach*, Volume 2.，

Papaya and Areca Nut Powder，*Complete Book of Experience in the Treatment of Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 3.，Heat in the Heart Meridian; injuries to the foot caused by uneven terrain or falls; blood stasis forming an abscess; and a boil on the foot.

Toxic Abscess Clearing and Ulcer-Healing Pills，From *The Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For toxic abscesses causing ulceration of the ears, nose, and penis.

Decoction of Stomach-Regulating and Qi-Receiving Decoction with White Peony and Duckweed，From *Si Sheng Xuan Shu*, Volume 4.，For pediatric warm epidemics where Yangming fu syndrome has already developed but the exterior syndrome has not yet resolved.

Three Flowers Decoction，*Complete Book of Madness*.，Leprosy.

Ma-Gui-Shu-Gan Decoction，*Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 3.，Abdominal distension due to cold and dampness; heaviness of the body, chills, and absence of sweat.

Belamcanda and Burdock Decoction，From *Records of Smallpox and Measles by Ren Duan*, Volume 10.，Hoarseness following smallpox.

Eighth-Grade Powder，From *Qianjin Yi*, Volume 19.，Indigestion.

Intestinal-Lifting Decoction，*Record of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 10.，Due to weakness of yang qi, which fails to lift and support, the anus prolapses and cannot retract during bowel movements; over time, this leads to dryness and pain.

Saposhnikovia and Schizonepeta Powder，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 11.，When wind-toxin attacks the eyes, it often causes blurred vision and unceasing cold tears.

Great Tonifying Liver and Kidney Pills，*A Concise Explanation of Medical Formulas*, Volume 3.，For atrophy and numbness due to deficiency of qi and blood.

Divine-Combination Gold Pills，From *The Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*, citing *Guide to Clinical Practice*.，For all childhood illnesses.