Decoction for Preventing Night Sweats

Mild Warming Meridian Decoction，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 7.，A young woman experiencing her first menstrual cycle; due to inadequate care, she contracted a cold, causing disharmony in her blood and qi. She presents with distension and fullness in the chest and abdomen, aversion to cold and fever, and widespread pain in the head and … Read more

Decoction for Expelling Pathogenic Factors，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 8.，Malaria. Malaria affecting the Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian: During an attack, both chills and fever are severe, accompanied by lower back pain and stiffness of the spine, thirst, and coldness rising from below. The feet become cold first, followed by the legs, then the cold … Read more

Great Warming White Pill，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 9.，For men and women suffering from abdominal masses and chronic masses as large as a cup or bowl; jaundice and undigested food; morning vomiting; fullness and shortness of breath; abdominal distension; a hard, knotted mass beneath the heart; qi attacking the stomach and flanks extending to the back; … Read more

Chaihu, Ginger, and Cinnamon Decoction，*The Transmission of the Lamp of Medicine*, Volume 2.，Malaria caused by sleeping in the open air or taking cold baths, resulting in pathogenic cold invading the Nutritive and Defensive Qi; characterized by more cold than heat, with a洪弦无力 pulse.

Seed Oil Fumigation Formula，*Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhao Bingnan*.，Psoriasis (white patches), ichthyosis (snake-skin syndrome), and cutaneous amyloidosis (pine-bark dermatosis).

Maleficent Miasma-Dispelling and Pain-Relieving Powder，*Zhun Sheng: Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 3.，For snake-bite boils and all abdominal snake-related miasmas.

Lian Dan Wan，From *Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 6.，For the Five Wasting Diseases in Children.

Ruihong Powder，From *Wang’s Collection of Prescriptions*, cited in Volume 10 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For various types of convulsions in children.

Shewei and Qumai Powder，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 18.，For the five types of urinary disorders.

Fuhu Erqi Dan，*Formulary of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 5 (Supplementary Collection of Empirical Secret Formulas from Various Bureaus).，For deficiency of the True Essence, depletion of vital essence, insufficiency of kidney qi, dark complexion and scorched ears, lower deficiency with upper excess, dizziness and vertigo, stabbing pain in the chest and abdomen, gastric reflux and vomiting, … Read more

Miraculous Hedgehog Skin Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 66.，Fistula caused by a wolf bite, with continuous discharge of pus and serous fluid, alternating chills and fever, and aching pain in the limbs and joints.

White Powder Formula，*Zhun Sheng: Surgical Treatise on Ulcers*, Volume 6.，For contusions and injuries, fractures and torn tendons, blood stasis with swelling and pain, paralysis and intractable arthralgia, aching in the limbs, and all forms of gout.

Floating Pearl Pills，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 392.，For childhood abdominal masses.

Shuilun Powder，From *Zhuang’s Family Tradition*, cited in Volume 25 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For children with erythema that flows like a fiery red flame.

Balanced Tonifying Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，For those with a constitutional deficiency of yin qi who, when further agitated by emotional distress, occasionally contract wind-pathogen, thereby developing a cough.

Heart-Nourishing and Stomach-Harmonizing Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，Qi deficiency with stomach heat; a history of epileptic seizures; incessant mumbling; frequent episodes of confusion; alternating between shouting and cursing and singing; spitting phlegm resembling that of a centipede.

Almond Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 36.，Sores in the mouth and on the tongue.

Winter Hemp Seed Porridge，*Shenghui*, Volume 96.，Five Types of Dysuria: scanty, painful, and difficult urination.

Divine Dragon Embracing the Pearl Elixir，From *Collection of Ointment Formulas*, citing *Essentials of Surgical Medicine*.，Effective for wind, cold, heat, and dampness; malignant sores and severe toxins; falls, blows, sprains, and strains; the “Five Labors” and “Seven Injuries”; and aching pain in the back, chest, shoulders, arms, waist, and knees.

Ginseng and Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace Powder，From Hu’s Formula, cited in *Effective Prescriptions for Women*, Volume 21.，For women who, less than one hundred days after childbirth, suffer from physical debility and weakness of blood and qi, and who, due to improper postpartum care or overexertion, develop postpartum exhaustion. Symptoms include emaciation, alternating between sitting up and … Read more

Five Ginseng Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 51.，Effective for alcohol-induced skin eruptions and facial sores.

Mandarin Fish Gallbladder Decoction，*Compendium of Divine Remedies*, Volume 124.，For all cases of bone lodged in the throat or bamboo/wood splinters that cannot be swallowed.

Salted White Plum Powder，From *Yi Tong*, Volume 63, citing a formula by Danxi.，Mouth sores.

Moisturizing Five-Seed Pills，*He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 5.，Constipation due to dryness.

Taiyin Xuanjing Pills for Sucking，From *Shenghui*, Volume 15.，For epidemic heat toxins attacking the throat.