Decoction of the Four Gentlemen with Bamboo Sap

Snake Shed Skin Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 81.，For mastitis. For abscesses and swellings accompanied by pain, intermittent chills and fever, and moaning day and night.

Xiangfu Xuanfu Hua Decoction，*Treatise on Warm Diseases*, Volume 3, Article 41，Clears heat, regulates qi, and relieves pain.

Dragon-Tiger Health Ointment，From *Eight Essays on Nurturing Life*, Volume 18.，For all types of malignant sores, stubborn tinea, and chronic hemorrhoids with fistulas that have been difficult to treat for many years.

Raw Rhino Horn Powder，*Pocket Guide to Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，For children with bone-wasting fever and emaciation, flushed cheeks and thirst, day-and-night tidal fevers, night sweats, heat in the palms and soles, fatigue in the limbs, and failure to gain weight despite ample food intake; as well as residual fever that persists after a serious illness, or … Read more

Yu’a Powder，From *Commentary on Measles*.，Treats “running horse-tooth” (a type of oral thrush).

Hu Long Powder，From *Hui Zhi Tang Fang*, Volume 3.，Kidney leakage. The scrotum first swells, then ruptures, discharging yellow fluid; the ulcer resembles a fish’s mouth and can be life-threatening.

Pomegranate Juice，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 50.，Chronic diarrhea that does not heal, with intestinal debris passing. In children, diarrhea with stools of five colors.

Green Wind Antelope Decoction，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 77.，For internal cataracts with established symptoms of excess “Green Wind.”

Yinchen, Gardenia, and Fermented Black Bean Decoction，*The Great Compendium of Cold Damage*, Volume 3.，Internal yang heat and blood stasis, leading to jaundice.

Chain-Relieving Decoction，Formula attributed to Qi Zhongxian, cited in Volume 1 of *A Thousand Family Remedies*.，Streptomycin poisoning presenting with dizziness, head shaking, muscle stiffness, and restlessness—attributed to a disorder of the “mutual fire” of the Shao Yang channel within the San Jiao.

Kunlun Pills，From *He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 6.，Hernia.

Decoction for Clearing Dampness and Resolving Phlegm，*Hui Chun*, Volume 5.，Damp phlegm flows through the meridians; stiffness in the joints leads to wandering pain in the joints of the entire body and limbs, radiating to the chest and back. There may also be chills and fever, shortness of breath, coughing, and restlessness; or the formation of … Read more

Jinggu Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 296.，All types of hemorrhoids.

Da Fu Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 89.，For consumptive weakness, emaciation, and cough.

Cassia Seed Compound，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，For leprosy.

Astringent Intestinal Powder，From *One Hundred Questions on Infants and Children*, Volume 8.，For children with chronic dysentery and prolapsed large intestine that cannot be retracted:

Agarwood Phlegm-Resolving Pills，*Secrets of Infant Care*, Volume 3.，For coughs with phlegm obstruction.

Stewed Crucian Carp Formula，From *Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Zhu Family*, Volume 6.，Lockjaw dysentery.

Pear Seed Decoction，*Shenghui*, Volume 68.，For injuries caused by poisoned arrows, characterized by subcutaneous bruising, swelling, and pain.

Yin-Yang Decoction，From *Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 33.，Smallpox.

Ji Yin Powder，*Dian Dian Jing*, Volume 4.，Symptoms include redness and swelling of the eyes, profuse hot tears that do not dry, swelling and pain in both eyes, itching in the corners of the eyes, foul-smelling discharge from the nose, dizziness, lightheadedness, swelling of the head, and headache.

Fresh Lime Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 302.，Wounds from metal projectiles.

Xuanjing Stone Formula，*General Treatise on Cold Damage Diseases*, Volume 6.，Headache due to cold damage.

Pearl Corneal Opacity-Relieving Powder，From *Zhi Zhi*, Volume 20.，

Hundred Flowers Toxin-Removing Powder，From *Yi Fang Lei Ju* (Vol. 190), citing *Yan Xia Sheng Xiao*.，For sores and swellings.