Eight Generals Pill

Chuanxiong-Danggui-Erchen Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，Phlegm obstruction combined with dampness, resulting in scanty menstrual flow that is pale, thick, and sticky; excessive phlegm with nausea and vomiting; chest discomfort; epigastric distension; a bland and greasy taste in the mouth; and a slippery pulse.

Rush Pollen Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 404.，Restlessness and shortness of breath following the eruption of sores and rashes, with difficulty urinating.

Hui Shou San，*Gujin Yijian* (A Mirror of Medicine Through the Ages), Volume 9.，For stiffness and tension in the head and neck, muscle pain, or a sprained neck making it impossible to turn the head.

Ginseng, Aconite, and Three Whites Decoction，*Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Yin-type rashes. In cases of internal injury to spleen yang, where yang is suppressed by yin, the spots are faint and sparse, mostly pale red in color, sometimes mixed with pale gray or a whitish sheen. There may be as many as six or seven … Read more

Enhanced Magnolia and Scutellaria Pills，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，For food and fluid stagnation, chest fullness and constriction, depressed mood with abdominal pain, and distension of the flanks.

Three Generals Pills，From *The Later Collection of Formulas Continuing the Easy and Simple Prescriptions*, Volume 1.，For persistent beriberi with pain radiating upward and causing cramping, vomiting and wailing, beriberi affecting the heart, constipation, pain and numbness, and shortness of breath with a feeling of suffocation as if on the verge of death.

White Poplar Bark Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 172.，For acute malnutrition in children causing erosion of the lips, mouth, and nose.

Three-Ingredient Cornus Leaf Decoction，From *Miraculous Formulas of Han Medicine*.，All types of sores and ulcers.

Decoction of Two Fragrances and Three Jians，From *Jisheng*, cited in Volume 1 of *Xiu Zhen*.，For stroke with extreme deficiency, slurred speech, paralysis of one side of the body, and all six pulses being faint.

*Collection of Spiritual Formulas*，*Extensive Notes*, Volume 2.，For weakness.

Immortal Formula: Crucian Carp Powder，From *The Mystic Pearl of Chishui*, Volume 30.，Severe leprosy.

Silkworm Sand Wine，*Supplement to the Inner Canon*, Volume 1.，Prolonged amenorrhea; wind-induced sluggishness and stubborn arthralgia; uncoordinated joints; chronic abdominal pain.

Zhangqi Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 3.，Bleeding from the navel; the bleeding is not particularly heavy, mixed with water, and the patient is not in severe distress.

Five Bi Pills，*Essential Formulas for Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 3.，For those suffering from stroke with severe pain, whether throughout the body or in the hands and feet.

Talc Powder，From *Ji Yin Gang Mu*, Volume 14.，Postpartum hematuria.

Myrrh and Egg Wine，From *Shenghui*, Volume 67.，For persistent pain in the tendons and bones following a fall from a carriage or horse.

Stomach-Regulating and Stomach-Harmonizing Powder，From *Huoyou Kouyi*, Volume 19.，For infants and young children with disharmony in the middle burner, irregular stomach qi, cold or heat affecting the stomach, vomiting, restlessness, mental fatigue, lack of energy, poor appetite, weakness, drowsiness, and restless sleep.

Medicinal Wine for Generalized Skin Ulcers，From *The Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 35, citing a formula by Wang Qiaoqiu.，For pus-filled sores covering the entire body.

Wulingzhi Pill，From *Selected Marvelous Medical Formulas*, cited in Volume 390 of *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，For chronic cough that has gradually led to weakness and emaciation, with a risk of developing consumptive disease.

Jingfang-Baiju Powder，From *The Complete Collection of Qingnang*, Volume 1.，Traumatic injuries to the eyes.

Angelica Decoction，From *The Collection of Life-Preserving Formulas*, Volume Middle.，For malaria characterized by fever and eye pain, with more heat than cold, restless sleep, and a long pulse—in cases where residual pathogenic factors remain after treatment with Da Chai Hu Decoction.

Angelica Blood-Cooling Decoction，From *The Complete Book of Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 2.，For smallpox lesions that have been scratched open and are bleeding.

Xiao Gui Zhi Wan，*Qianjin Yi*, Volume 19.，For cold in the stomach causing a sensation of fullness; for women suffering from postpartum cold in the abdomen, with rumbling in the abdomen—swallow vinegar; for indigestion.

Gourd Powder，*Essentials of the Crimson Sack*.，Abdominal distension and jaundice with edema.

Lung-Moistening Paste Pills，From *Wang’s Collection of Prescriptions*, cited in Volume 16 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For children with cough due to cold stagnation.