Decoction for Reducing Swelling and Relieving Throat Pain

Cypress Leaf and Astragalus Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 37); name cited in *Pujifang* (Vol. 188).，Hemoptysis that persists day and night.

White Oil Ointment，From *New Compilation for Longevity*, Volume Middle.，For chronic leg ulcers that have not healed for decades. Also treats scalp sores.

Decoction to Assist Yang, Harmonize Blood, and Tonify Qi，From *Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach*, Volume 2.，After an eye infection, there is heat congestion in the upper part of the eye; the sclera is red; there is excessive eye discharge and tearing; though there is no pain, the eye feels dry and gritty, making it … Read more

Pain-Relieving Wine，From *Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 3.，For pain caused by the combined effects of wind, cold, dampness, and fire, resulting in wandering pain throughout the tendons and bones, as well as pain associated with conditions such as Baihu and Lijie.

Toxicity-Eliminating Decoction，*Compendium of Holy Remedies*, Volume 169.，For childhood rashes accompanied by toxic symptoms and discomfort.

Chishexiang Pills，Quoted from *Shenshi Fang* in Volume 21 of *Wai Tai*.，Eye inflammation with tearing.

The Huainan King’s Secret Formula for Abstaining from Grain and Attaining Immortality，*Shenghui*, Volume 94.，

Corydalis Ash Decoction，*Experienced Effective Formulas*.，For abdominal edema.

Shun Jing Liang’an Decoction，From *Fu Qingzhu’s Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For women who, one day before menstruation, experience blood appearing in the stool due to a failure of the heart and kidney to communicate, causing menstrual blood to flow into the large intestine.

Spleen-Regulating and Toxin-Clearing Decoction，*Shenshi Yaohan*, Volume 4.，Both eyelids are swollen like balls, with slight damp-heat; in severe cases, there is tearing and redness and swelling.

Blood Stasis-Resolving Pill，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 5.，In the Taiyang Bladder Meridian, stagnant blood has accumulated and refuses to disperse. After noon, the patient vomits 1–2 bowls of sour fluid; by the Hour of the Goat (15:00–17:00), pain occurs in the chest; by the Hour of the Monkey (19:00–21:00), the pain becomes severe, … Read more

Inner Nourishment and Calming Powder，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 2.，After lancing a carbuncle and the pus has been drained, the patient may experience weakness of vital energy, palpitations during sleep, and restlessness of mind; or the remaining toxin may have entered the orifices of the heart, leading to forgetfulness.

Heart-Protecting Powder，From *Collected Insights from Reflection*.，For all types of carbuncles and toxic sores.

Liu Shen Pills，Volume 4 of *Formulas for the Living*.，For those suffering from five types of diarrhea—uncontrolled day and night, unstoppable watery diarrhea—accompanied by physical and mental exhaustion and a withered body and spirit.

Decoction for Dispersing Stagnant Blood and Promoting Blood Circulation，*Practical Orthopedics*.，Stasis and swelling in the foot joints.

Modified Stomach-Harmonizing Decoction，From *Essentials of Gynecology*, Volume 3.，For postpartum cases where excessive consumption of hot and toxic foods is followed by the ingestion of raw or cold foods, resulting in an imbalance between hot and cold and leading to dysentery characterized by tenesmus and a sensation of incomplete evacuation.

Yifu’s Secretly Transmitted “Chongxu” Precious Elixir，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 8.，At the onset of smallpox, when both qi and blood are deficient, the lesions collapse, become sunken and black, and fail to rise; the rash spreads indiscriminately; or the patient may experience coughing or diarrhea.

Pushen Zhihan Powder，Formula from *Qianjin* (Vol. 10); name cited in *Shenghui* (Vol. 14).，For post-typhoid debility and persistent night sweats.

Throat-Opening Powder，From *Mei’s New Compilation of Proven Formulas*, Volume 1.，For swelling and pain in the throat, with an inability to swallow even a drop of water.

Autumn Kidney-Tonifying Decoction，*Shenghui*, Volume 7.，Kidney deficiency.

Cinnabar Single-Grain Golden Pill，From *Remarkably Effective Formulas*, Volume 26.，For all cases of cold extremities and unbearable pain in the heart, small intestine, or bladder.

Ginger and Cinnamon Da Shun Powder，From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 2.，For vomiting sour fluid with a taut and slow pulse.

Mao Gen San，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 3.，Hidden heat injured by cold, restlessness of the mind, unrelenting thirst, rumbling in the intestines and abdominal pain, and loss of appetite.

Rescue-the-Middle Decoction，From *Treatise on Dampness-Related Diseases*, Volume 2.，Sudden onset of cold and dampness, internally accompanied by turbid, latent yin and dampness; dizziness and fainting to the point of near-collapse; cramping abdominal pain; a deep, tight, and slow pulse, which may become hidden in severe cases; a desire to vomit but unable to do so; a … Read more

Ear-Relieving Holy Powder，*Comprehensive Record of Holy Remedies*, Vol. 115.，Heaviness in the ears.