Decoction for Stopping Diarrhea and Regulating the Middle

Scrophularia Paste，*Shenghui*, Volume 90.，In children with cerebral fever, scrofula, swelling and pain extending to both ears, alternating chills and fever, and restlessness whether sitting or lying down:

Eupatorium Oleraceum Ointment，From *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 4, Part 1.，Boils, tinea, syphilis, and eczema.

Wen’s Eight-Ingredient Pill，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For unexplained swellings and abscesses, boils, and carbuncles.

Fire-Harmonizing Decoction，From *New Book on Child Care*, Volume 2.，A child has a dry earwax plug in the ear, with neither pus nor discharge, and pain like a needle prick; if left untreated for a long time, the ear may become scorched and withered, leading to deafness.

Er Chen Xiang Cang Pills，*Treatment Based on Pulse and Symptoms*, Volume 1.，For clearing phlegm and relieving abdominal pain, with a slippery pulse.

Xiangfuzi Decoction，*Collected Proven Formulas of the Zhu Family*, Volume 10.，Heart pain in women.

Medicine for Treating Boils，*Complete Book of Experience on Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 4.，Painful abscesses, back boils.

Ascaris Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Vol. 127.，All types of cold fistulas.

Fire-Clearing and Disinfecting Pill，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 10.，For children with stagnant heat in the stomach, characterized by alternating red and white discharge that comes and goes unpredictably.

Coptis Oil Ointment，*A Concise Handbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine Dermatology*.，Acute eczema.

Dried Ginger and Aconite Decoction，From *The Complete Collection on Survival from Cold Damage*, Volume 2.，For restlessness arising from yin deficiency, or following sweating or purgation, characterized by insomnia during the day and calmness at night, with a deep and fine pulse.

Scabies-Relieving Pill，*The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 4.，For the five types of scabies and eight types of tinea that have persisted for a long time without healing.

Goat Peach Root Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 62.，For scalp conditions.

Coriander Pill，*Pulse Causes and Treatments*, Volume 2.，Gastroesophageal reflux.

Fu Yuan He Zhong Ointment，*Selected Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For chronic spleen deficiency with poor appetite, chest tightness, dry retching, a sensation of fullness and discomfort, and undigested food.

Coptis and Asinine Decoction for Expelling Roundworms，*Essentials of Smallpox Treatment*, Volume 8.，Ascaris infection with heat syndrome.

Evil-Eradicating Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 8.，For malaria-induced fever, headache, dry nose, thirst with a desire to drink water, restlessness during the day preventing sleep, and in severe cases, irritability, aversion to firelight, and aversion to loud voices.

Chen’s Cough and Wheezing Ointment，From *Wen’s Experienced Effective Formulas*.，For chronic cough and shortness of breath.

Dried Willow Bark Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 61); name cited in *Pujifang* (Vol. 287).，For an abscess that has not yet formed a head, presenting with redness, swelling, and pain.

Coptis Disinfecting Powder，*Dongyuan Shixiao Fang*, Volume 3.，Indicated for brain abscesses, back abscesses, bone-adhering abscesses, external throat boils, ear boils, and bone-channel wind, among others.

Dugu Decoction，From *Zhi Zhi*, Volume 6.，Wind-cold invades the spleen, causing counterflow qi to rise and attack, resulting in abdominal pain.

Kidney-Warming Decoction，Formula cited from Huang Jinfang in *Essentials of the Collection of Discussions on Symptoms, Causes, and Formulas*, Volume 3.，Spring fever, with a burning sensation throughout the body and a thirst for cold drinks, caused by summer heat disturbing the internal qi.

Coptis and Ophiopogon Decoction，From *Classified Compilation of Smallpox Medicine*, Volume 3.，For restlessness, thirst, and intense internal heat, with uncontrollable thirst and constant drinking of water.

Iron Claw Long Spoon Powder，*Compendium of Various Secret Formulas Based on Experience*.，For extremely critical cases of diphtheria with severe swelling and obstruction.

Warming the Middle and Tonifying the Spleen Decoction，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 51.，Chronic Spleen Wind. Due to prolonged vomiting and diarrhea, spleen qi has been severely depleted, resulting in earth deficiency that fails to generate metal, and weak metal that fails to restrain wood. Consequently, liver wood becomes excessively vigorous and overpowers the spleen; hence it … Read more