Dioscorea and Pinellia Porridge

Cang Re Liang Ge San，From *The Complete Book on the Treatment of Rashes*, Volume 2.，For severe malnutrition-related toothache following a rash.

Decoction for Nourishing Yin and Strengthening the Kidneys，*Huiyue*, Volume 14.，For those with kidney damage due to excessive sexual activity, resulting in instability of the Chong and Ren meridians and irregular menstruation.

Chou’s Formula，*Secret Collection on the Throat*.，Mucosal ulcers in the mouth.

Lianyang Decoction，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 7.，For ascariasis in children.

Bone-Setting Purple Gold Pill，From *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 4.，For injuries from falls or blows, blood stasis attacking the heart, fever, and loss of consciousness.

Fever-Relieving and Plague-Repelling Pill，From *Secret Formulas for Immediate Relief from the Blue Sack*, Volume 2.，For epidemic fever: initially characterized by chills, followed by high fever, heaviness in the head, nausea, chest tightness, restlessness, and absence of thirst.

Ox Bile Baolong Pill，*Songs and Summaries of Medical Formulas*.，Liver startle syndrome.

Da Piaoli Powder Formula，*Resolving the Root of the Affliction*, Volume 3.，For men and women suffering from leprosy-induced paralysis, facial asymmetry, a face that appears as if crawled over by insects, body pain as if being cut, or unbearable itching of the skin and flesh, which over time leads to hyperextension of the hands and feet.

Piper longum，*Ji Feng*, Volume 12.，Disharmony between the spleen and stomach, delayed digestion, a sensation of fullness and blockage in the chest and diaphragm, difficulty belching, vomiting and nausea, abdominal distension and pain around the navel, and irregular bowel movements—alternating between diarrhea and constipation.

Pangolin Scale Internal Dispersing Decoction，From *Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 3.，For “fish-mouth” sores, fecal toxins, “horse-riding” abscesses, and transverse abdominal masses in the early stages before pus has formed. For mid-epigastric ulcers that are purple and hard.

Soap and Peach Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 286.，Swelling and pain; relief is felt after half a month.

Water Willow Decoction，*Yi Tong*, Volume 83.，For women who have engaged in excessive sexual activity, or who suffer from unfulfilled sexual desire, or who have been injured by unreasonable circumstances, resulting in a growth in the genital area accompanied by itching, pain, and a pulling sensation radiating to the lower back and abdomen.

Chaihu Zhike Xiong Decoction，From *Xingyuan*, Volume 6.，For pain in the flanks accompanied by fever.

White Dragon Bone Pills，*Yi Tong*, Volume 87.，Cloudy, whitish urine.

Ginseng and Hedgehog Skin Pills，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 47); name cited in *Pujifang* (Vol. 36).，For regurgitation, retching, and inability to eat.

Cassia Seed Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 33.，For wind-heat in the liver, blurred vision, and dry, painful eyes.

Pills for Regulating Qi and Harmonizing the Stomach，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 47.，For cold in the stomach and heat in the intestines, with abdominal distension, diarrhea, and dysentery.

Golden Jade Ointment，”Treatise on the Principles of Treating Boils on the Back and Mouth.”，For abscesses on the back or in the groin where the necrotic tissue has been cleared but the wound has not healed for a long time.

Lantern Flower Pills，*General Essentials of Health*, Volume 15.，For children with startled crying or nighttime crying.

Lianjiao Powder，From Zhang Huan’s formula, cited in Volume 20 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For children with bone fever and emaciation.

Enhanced Sanxing Decoction，*The Profound Essentials of the Divine Realm*, Volume 5.，Yang-type abscess.

Laxative Decoction，From *Yu’an*, Volume 5.，Pregnancy-induced bladder compression resulting in urinary retention.

Bai Hua Yu Dan，From *The Collection of the Unsettled* (Volume 19, Part 1).，For nocturnal emissions and leukorrhea.

Peanut Porridge，From *Therapeutic Medicinal Congee*, citing *The Congee Manual*.，For dry cough due to lung dryness with little or no phlegm; spleen deficiency with regurgitation; anemia; and insufficient breast milk after childbirth.

Cicada Flower Pills，From *The Universal Remedies* (Vol. 78), citing *The Family Treasure of Health*.，For long-standing and recently developed eye disorders of all kinds—whether internal or external, caused by wind toxins or pathogenic qi, including corneal opacities, red blood vessels, horizontal and vertical obstructions, pterygium invading the cornea, redness and ulceration of the eyelids, excessive pus … Read more