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Eight-Ingredient Pill for Red Eyes，From *Special Teachings on Ophthalmology*.，A membrane obscures the eyes, resembling a hanging curtain.

Clear Metal and Nourish Blood Decoction，From *The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 2.，For hemorrhoids with fistulas, swelling, and pain; dry, urgent stools; and tenesmus with a sensation of incomplete evacuation.

Wuji Ointment，*Collection of Good Friends*, Volume 4.，For women with deficient blood and qi, resulting in blocked meridians.

Essential Formulas for Pain and Diarrhea，Formula from *Danxi’s Heart Method*, Volume 2; name cited in *The Correct Transmission of Medicine*, Volume 2, citing a formula by Liu Caochuang.，Liver Qi overacting on the Spleen, causing persistent pain and diarrhea.

Dampness-Clearing and Toxin-Resolving Decoction，*The Profound Secrets of the Divine Realm*, Volume 11.，Damp-toxin foot sores.

Decoction for Lung Atrophy，From *Haojing Zhizhi*, Volume 2.，Ulceration of the lung lobes, coughing up foul-smelling phlegm, dull pain in the right flank, rapid and weak pulse at the right cun position; in severe cases, the pulse is hidden.

Yinchen-Poria-Atractylodes-Coptis Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 7.，Cardiac jaundice, characterized by restlessness, thirst, and a strong urge to drink; water stops immediately beneath the heart upon drinking, accompanied by occasional gurgling sounds; frequent sweating on the chest; the entire skin is yellow, while only the whites of the eyes remain white—this indicates deficient heat in … Read more

Four-Ingredient Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 71.，Chronic, long-standing “Bentun Qi” (a type of abdominal distension) that occasionally attacks the bladder, causing sharp pain.

Tianma Erchen Decoction，From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 1.，For headaches caused by internal injury, accompanied by nausea and vomiting, resulting from accumulated phlegm and retained fluid. For cold-induced headaches.

Stemona Ointment，From *Ten Methods of Surgery*.，Psoriasis.

Kidney-Tonifying Rehmannia Pills，*Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 13.，For diabetes.

Four Ashes Powder，*New Book on Smallpox Inoculation*, Volume 10.，For women who develop smallpox during menstruation.

Pill for All Diseases，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 378.，For recurrent convulsions in children, accompanied by dizziness, oppression, falling backward, or a tendency to approach hot liquids or fire.

Highly Effective Wind-Dispelling Decoction，From *Discussions on the Care of Infants and Children*, Volume 18.，For infants and young children presenting with the four syndromes of fright, fever, wind, and phlegm—which accumulate in the chest and epigastrium—causing the child to be drowsy, lethargic, and heavy; with blocked orifices and obstructed pulse energy; thus remaining silent, wanting to … Read more

Baojin Pills，*Formulas and Ingredients of Traditional Chinese Medicine* (Suzhou Formula).，For coughs caused by phlegm and fluid retention, and asthma with counterflow of qi.

Changshan Powder，*Direct Pointers on Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，For children with malaria accompanied by phlegm congestion and restlessness.

Pill for Protecting Infants from Scattered Measles，From *The Golden Mirror of Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 2.，Take this before the smallpox spots appear.

Red Rooster Noodle Cake，From *The Compendium of Medical Formulas*, Volume 227, citing *The Essential Guide to Dietary Medicine*.，For spontaneous vaginal bleeding and restlessness with a dry mouth.

Xiaoyao Ba Wu Decoction，*Mirror of Surgical Medicine*.，For vaginal erosion in women.

Tooth-Strengthening Stone Swallow Powder，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 7.，For loose gums and teeth, weak kidneys causing sparse teeth, or bleeding and erosion.

Si Shun Fu Zi Decoction，From *Effective Prescriptions for Women*, Volume 8.，Diarrhea consisting entirely of white stool resembling fish brains; cold pain in the navel and abdomen occurring day and night without pattern; cold extremities; or vomiting, inability to retain any food, preference for warm food and aversion to cold; the six pulses are faint and … Read more

Qingling Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 176.，For breast lumps in children.

Neixiao Woxue Decoction，*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 15.，For abscesses and carbuncles in the abdomen; back abscesses and abscesses within the five viscera; various swellings of the buttocks; abscesses of the small and large intestines; and toxic conditions of the anus—all in the early stages where pus has not yet discharged, and the … Read more

Sour Jujube Seed Pancakes，From *Shenghui*, Volume 96.，For wind-heat syndrome characterized by a sensation of heat in the head and face, mental confusion and drowsiness, and inability to sleep.

Formula for Ground Cinnamon Paste，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 136.，Sudden wind-induced swelling.