Decoction for Tonifying Deficiency and Strengthening the Lower Back

Dampness-Removing and Qi-Boosting Pills，From *Discrimination of Internal and External Injuries*, Volume 2.，Symptoms of dampness-induced facial swelling, fullness and oppression in the chest and abdomen, and heaviness in the limbs.

Trichosanthes and Burdock Decoction，*Jin Jian*, Volume 66.，For breast abscesses and breast boils caused by stagnation of stomach fire, presenting with aversion to cold, high fever, redness, swelling, heat, and pain.

Immortal Relief Pill，From Yi Fan’s formula, cited in Volume 8 of *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*.，At the onset of smallpox, if fever persists for 3–5 days without the rash appearing, accompanied by diarrhea and cough, sore throat, lower back pain, or if the patient exhibits smallpox symptoms or convulsions, convulsive wind with diarrhea, coughing, phlegm, and … Read more

Pan-Fried Carp，*Yi Tong*, Volume 44.，For shortness of breath, coughing, chest and diaphragm distress, and wheezing.

Double Ginger and Pinellia Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，For phlegm and fluid retention.

Life-Saving Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 15.，For physical weakness where the yang meridians are affected by wind, causing symptoms to ascend to the head and face, accompanied by profuse sweating, aversion to wind, and headache; as well as for stroke occurring immediately after washing one’s hair, resulting in loss of voice and inability to speak.

Rhubarb and Cold Water Powder，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 194), citing *Shi Yuan’s Effective Prescriptions*.，For burns caused by hot liquids or fire.

Compound Pine Cone Pills，*Beijing Standards for Traditional Chinese Patent Medicines*.，Chronic bronchitis in the elderly.

Gu Yuan Decoction，From *Essence of Ancient Formulas*, Volume 3.，For cases occurring after the third month of pregnancy where fetal movement is accompanied by vaginal bleeding, or where a miscarriage is threatened due to a fall.

Longevity and Fertility Pills，*Yi Bian*, Volume 1.，For young men who have lost their spouses, middle-aged men without children, and women with blood deficiency who are unable to conceive.

Horse Amaranth Powder，*General Essentials of Health Preservation*, Volume 20.，For various sores that have not healed for a long time and have developed into fistulas.

Golden Elixir for Throat Disorders，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，Throat Disorders.

True Yin Pill，*The Posthumous Writings of Shen Zhai*, Volume 5.，Yin-Yang Depletion.

Thousand Gold Internal Dissolving Powder，*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 15.，Intestinal abscess, anal abscess.

Infant Nourishing Powder，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Shenyang Formula).，For infants with regurgitation, wheezing, coughing, abdominal pain, bloating, indigestion, loss of appetite, heat accumulation with difficulty urinating, febrile convulsions due to extreme heat, chest distension and shortness of breath, internal obstruction by wind-phlegm, mouth sores and thirst, and phlegm congestion.

Hot Dip in Broth，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 65); name cited in *Pujifang* (Vol. 300).，Finger Swelling. When the qi of the five viscera flows into the twelve meridians and heat surges to the fingers without receding, the fingers first swell, becoming hot and painful to the touch, with a color that is not dusky; subsequently, pus … Read more

Qingxia Decoction，*A Concise Explanation of Medical Formulas*, Volume 3.，Blood in urine or stool, hematuria, and bleeding from the tongue.

Throat Fungus Powder，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，Throat Fungus.

Tianlong Pills，From *The Continuation of the Collection of Practical Experiences*.，Phlegm accumulation in children.

Baoyuan Dihuang Decoction，From *Straight Talk on Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，Pediatric kidney malnutrition results from an imbalance of the liver and spleen, compounded by a congenital deficiency of kidney yin. Patients are often thin and weak, with blurred vision and lethargy; they may experience alternating chills and fever, or frequent colds.

Shuangqi Decoction，From *Chuanxin Shiyong Fang*, Volume 4.，

Secretly Transmitted Formula for Eliminating Leprosy，From *Songya Medical Path* (Volume 2).，Yangmei sores.

Tiaoqing Powder，*Research on Medical Formulas*, Volume 6.，For smallpox-related boils and smallpox nodules in children.

Decoction of Two Atractylodes, Bupleurum, and Pueraria，Formula from *Ming Yi Za Zhu* (Miscellaneous Writings of a Ming Physician), Volume 2; name cited in *Yi Tong* (Compendium of Medicine), Volume 37.，For malaria.

Blood-Activating and Life-Sustaining Powder，From *Yuanhe Jiyong Jing*.，For deficiency syndromes.