Decoction for Restoring Yang and Releasing the Exterior

Raw Aconite Decoction，From *Xingyuan*, Volume 7.，Cold dysuria, which may result from excessive water intake, cold-dampness, or heart deficiency with mental exhaustion. Symptoms include difficult and scanty urination, frequent attempts to urinate without success, pain in the urethra, and intense aversion to cold.

Spleen-Strengthening Powder，From *Yi Tong*, Volume 23.，

Tongue Turns Scarlet，From *The Comprehensive Treatise on Surgical Diseases*, Volume 7.，For carbuncles and unexplained toxic swellings.

Fuzi Liu Yi Decoction，From *Zhengzhi Baojian*, Volume 11.，Chest pain accompanied by a burning sensation that has persisted for a long time without resolution.

Digu Baipi Decoction，*Shenghui*, Volume 24.，Wind-induced urticaria.

Large Tangerine Peel Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For the early stage of damp-heat syndrome, where dampness predominates over heat, or where dampness suppresses latent heat.

Cimicifuga and Rehmannia Powder，*Ji Feng*, Volume 21.，For cases where wind-pathogen ascends, causing toothache and swelling of the gums extending to the cheeks, with tightness in the cheeks.

Pig Gallbladder Ointment for Hemorrhoids，From *Remarkably Effective Formulas*, Volume 51.，Hemorrhoids.

Da Gui Ming Powder，From *Pocket Guide to Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，For infants and young children suffering from indigestion, typhoid fever, or common cold; typhoid fever complicated by fright; night sweats and deficiency heat; a flushed complexion; clear nasal discharge; a warm and robust body; heat in the palms and soles; weak, coarse breathing with a wheezing … Read more

Pus-Inducing Powder，From *The Complete Book on the Treatment of Rashes*, Volume 2.，For cases where pus-forming toxins have already formed after smallpox and cannot dissipate on their own.

Spleen-Nourishing and Mass-Resolving Pills，*Elucidations on Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，For childhood malnutrition and food stagnation.

Xingban Anzhong Decoction，From *The Mystic Pearl of the Red Water*, Volume 4.，Pain caused by phlegm accumulation.

Crucian Carp Sashimi，From *The Compendium of Medical Formulas*, Vol. 238, citing *The Essential Guide to Dietary Medicine*.，Postpartum dysentery with bloody and white stools, pain in the navel and abdomen, and loss of appetite.

Stalactite Lung-Nourishing Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 8.，For lung deficiency with persistent cough leading to progressive emaciation.

Genuine Cinnabar Powder，From *Qianjin*, Volume 6, citing *Shanfan Fang*.，For wind-induced tearing affecting the white of the eye. For a film covering the pupil, causing the eye to be unable to see objects.

Reversal Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 7.，Severe abdominal pain so intense that the abdomen cannot be pressed; sudden, profuse diarrhea; food and drink are regurgitated immediately upon swallowing; undigested food passes through the system; the diarrhea is unstoppable and uncontrollable, like a galloping horse; dozens of episodes occur within moments; approximately one hundred … Read more

White Tiger Combined with Detoxifying Decoction，*Zhun Sheng: Pediatrics*, Volume 6.，For cases where measles have erupted and the patient suffers from severe thirst due to stomach heat; for residual heat following febrile illnesses or smallpox; or for cases on the verge of developing dental caries.

Anmai Powder，*Compendium of Traumatology*, Volume 7.，Headache due to brain sinking.

Homemade Si Ni Cheng Qi Decoction，*A Concise Explanation of Medical Formulas*, Volume 2.，For dry cholera.

Xianglian Zhizhong Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Indicated for cases where liver yang descends forcefully and spleen yang is also deficient, presenting with loose stools, intestinal rumbling and abdominal pain, a desire to defecate that cannot be fully satisfied, and even when defecation occurs, it is accompanied by tenesmus and a sensation of sinking … Read more

Fu Juan Decoction，From *Collected Explanations of Formulas and Medicines for Smallpox* (Vol. 6).，Foul-smelling, festering mouth sores following smallpox.

Pueraria and Scutellaria Decoction，*Yi Ji*, Volume 7.，For typhoid fever where the Yangming meridian is affected by pathogenic heat, such as when the patient feels thirsty but does not seek to drink; or for diarrhea caused by wind.

Scallion White Ointment，From *Wai Tai*, Volume 20, citing *Gujin Luyan*.，For deficiency-heat or heat caused by taking mineral elixirs; sleeping exposed to wind and dew; cold and dampness injuring the muscles; or heat obstructing the interior, leading to the transformation into a “hot wind-water” disease. Symptoms include swelling and fullness in the chest and abdomen; shortness … Read more

Chen’s Kushen Pills，From *Ma Ke Huo Ren*, Volume 4.，For generalized itching, tinea, scabies, boils, and sores.

Motherwort Powder，Formula from *Effective Prescriptions for Women*, Volume 12; name cited in *Compilation of Medical Formulas*, Volume 224, quoting *Emergency Formulas for Pregnancy and Childbirth*.，For a pregnant woman who falls from a height, resulting in abdominal pain, vaginal bleeding, and restlessness.