Decoction for Resolving Exterior and Interior Pathogens

Single-Ingredient Toad Decoction，*Effective Prescriptions for Humans and Themselves*，Dingxi and Bulou: Critical Conditions. Characterized by small hands and feet, a long neck with protruding bones, no flesh on the buttocks, a distended abdomen with a protruding navel—this is called “Dingxi.” If, after each meal, the patient experiences increased vomiting and retching, the skull splits open, they … Read more

Regulating and Tonifying Pills，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 28.，Severe leprosy.

Essence-Preserving Decoction，*Bu Ju Ji*, Volume 19 of the First Collection.，For nocturnal emissions and seminal leakage.

Enhanced Shengyang Sanhuo Decoction，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 39.，Heat-type bi syndrome. For cases where the muscles feel as hot as fire.

Appetite-Stimulating and Life-Saving Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 13.，Abscess of the large intestine.

Bing-Bong Powder，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For all throat disorders and various oral conditions.

Rushing Qi Decoction，Formula from *Elbow-Back Prescriptions* (Vol. 3); name cited in *Thousand Gold Prescriptions* (Vol. 17).，Ben-tun syndrome arises from sudden fright, terror, or persistent worry; the qi surges downward in fits and starts, rushing between the heart, chest, and navel, with periodic, throbbing pulsations. If left untreated, it is fatal. When the qi surges upward … Read more

Blood-Activating and Pain-Relieving Ointment，*Commonly Used Chinese Patent Medicines*.，Sprains, bruises, rheumatic joint pain, and lower back and back pain.

Agarwood and Peach Blossom Powder，From *The Jade Balance of Rash and Distension*, Volume 2.，Shā toxin has affected the kidneys.

Ointment for Vitiligo，From *Jiyao Fang*, cited in Volume 4 of *Yixin Fang*.，For vitiligo.

Willow Bean Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 34.，For wind-induced swelling of the gums.

Jade Dust Powder for Eye Application，*Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 70, citing *Secret Formulas Based on Experience*.，

White Scallion and Psoralea Decoction，*Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 5.，For cases of internal accumulation of cold qi before childbirth, bladder contractions during labor, postpartum abdominal distension as if a drum, difficulty urinating, and a sense of suffocation and confusion so severe as to feel as if one were about to die.

Tongzhong Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 92.，For children with constipation, pain and distension in the epigastrium, and restlessness and shortness of breath upon lying down.

Green Bean Paste，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 368.，For nasal congestion due to cold damage.

Dried Rehmannia Pills，*Qian Jin*, Volume 8.，Kidney deficiency, moaning, prone to anger and irritability, abnormal temperament, weak yang qi, stiffness and tightness in the lower back and spine, and cold marrow.

Huai Gan Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 132.，For toxic and malignant sores.

Blood-Activating Safflower Powder，From *Yin Hai Jing Wei*, Volume 1.，For cases of excessive heat in the heart and blood, with a blood opacity covering the cornea and causing pain.

Five Accumulations Intermingled Powder，*Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 7.，A woman aged 34–35, during her menstrual period, sat or lay in a drafty place without taking proper precautions, causing her pores to become vulnerable and allowing external pathogens to invade. She experienced numbness throughout her body and was unable to turn over; the lung meridian was … Read more

Yinchen-Fuzi Decoction，From *The Book of Saving Lives*, cited in Volume 6 of *The Treasure of Eastern Medicine: Miscellaneous Diseases*.，Yin-type jaundice with coldness throughout the body.

Four-Ingredient Platycodon Decoction，Formula from *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 2; name cited in *Yi Tong*, Volume 44.，A dry cough indicates phlegm stagnation and fire pathogen in the lung. Those who are frustrated or dissatisfied may suffer from this condition.

Water Chestnut and Prepared Rehmannia Decoction，*Records of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 3.，When kidney yin fails to nourish the large intestine, resulting in excessive fire that causes bleeding in the stool—either with blood appearing before the stool or after it.

Powder for Treating Hemorrhoids，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 4.，For hemorrhoidal fistulas accompanied by unbearable swelling and pain.

Eight-Spirit Ointment，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 22.，For all types of malignant sores.

Yuan Shou Pill，Formula by Zhang Hanggu, cited in *Collected Insights on Surgical Diseases*, Volume Middle.，For mastitis in its early stages or when it has already ruptured.