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Ginseng and Black Plum Decoction，From *Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 3.，Chronic diarrhea has depleted yin, resulting in thirst, a dry tongue, a slight fever, and a mild cough.

Newly Formulated Yin-Yang Attack Accumulation Pills，*Essential Readings on Medicine*, Volume 7.，For the Five Accumulations and Six Aggregations, the Seven Masses and Eight Masses, abdominal masses and parasitic accumulations, as well as phlegm and food stagnation—regardless of whether the condition is yin or yang in nature.

Citrus-Fritillaria-Pinellia Pills，*Shanghai Pharmaceutical Standards*.，Cough with excessive phlegm, difficulty expectorating, shortness of breath, and chest tightness.

Kidney-Nourishing Pills，*Xingyuan*, Volume 6.，For kidney deficiency where qi fails to return to its source, causing a cough that agitates the entire body, with a sensation of qi rushing upward from below the navel.

The Drunken Potion，Formula from *History of the Song Dynasty: Biography of Qian Yi*, Volume 462; name cited in *Yicaoting*.，For those with stagnation of liver and gallbladder qi, whose eyes remain wide open and cannot close.

Mu Xiang Da’an Pills，*Essentials of Smallpox Treatment*, Volume 23.，For children with smallpox or measles complicated by indigestion. Children who indulge in rich, sweet, or cold foods that the body cannot properly digest, resulting in stagnation in the stomach and intestines; symptoms include a warm head, abdominal heat, sour-smelling stools, belching, loss of appetite, restlessness and … Read more

Red and Yellow Thunderbolt Powder，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 4.，For lumps appearing all over the body—whether internal masses resembling nuts or external growths resembling mushrooms, porcini, or wood ear fungus.

Women’s Angelica and Aconite Pills，From *Ji Yin Gang Mu*, Volume 6.，

Powder Substitute Decoction，*Six Books of Medical Essentials*, Volume 22.，For qi reversal with phlegm congestion, epilepsy with a string-like pulse.

Three Sages Decoction (Pills)，Formula from *Qianjin* (Vol. 18); name cited in *Yixue Zhengzhuan* (Vol. 4).，Exhaustion-induced fever gives rise to parasites, which manifest as a disease in the lungs.

Enhanced Ginseng and Ophiopogon Decoction，From *Wan’s Gynecology*, Volume 3.，For cases of excessive blood loss after childbirth, internal depletion of body fluids, sudden deficiency of stomach qi, and resulting internal heat, with a dry mouth, dry throat, and thirst.

Deer Antler Dew Pills，From *The Universal Remedies* (Vol. 222), citing *The Family Treasure of Health*.，Deficiency of vital essence and slippery condition; the true qi is not connected.

Fritillary Bulb, Cimicifuga, and Soft-shelled Turtle Carapace Decoction，*Source of the Four Sages’ Hearts*, Volume 8.，For throat sores with pus formation.

Frost Plug Qingjia Powder，From *Zongfu of Laryngology*, Volume 4.，For all cases of tonsillitis caused by wind-fire excess patterns.

Mulberry Leaf Porridge，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 190.，Hemorrhoids with unstoppable bleeding.

Pinellia, Southern Star, and White Aconite Pills，*Classified Compilation of Medical Manuscripts*, Volume 10.，For phlegm-induced dizziness, headache, nausea, and vomiting of sour fluid.

Erzi Powder，*Selected Essentials of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 5.，Hemorrhoids; heat and swelling of the large intestine.

Pills for Jaundice and Abdominal Distension，From *Collected Formulas of the Feeding Cranes Pavilion*.，For jaundice with abdominal distension.

Divine Detoxification Decoction，From *Comprehensive Treatise on Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 3.，When smallpox lesions have appeared for 3 days, accompanied by fever, flushed cheeks, dry and scaly skin, red and dry lesions that stick together, thirst with a desire to drink water, restless sleep, and dark, scanty, and painful urination.

Moistening the Organs Decoction，From *Qian Jin*, Volume 15.，Constipation lasting 6–7 days, with dry feces in the abdomen, alternating chills and fever, restlessness and urgency, shortness of breath, sweating, and abdominal distension; also treats obstruction of both urination and defecation.

Areca Nut and Black Jujube Decoction，*Yi Tong*, Volume 76.，Mountain mist and miasma; alternating chills and fever with vomiting; abdominal distension; loss of appetite.

Lian’ai Decoction，From *Songfeng on Epidemics*, Volume 2.，For plague patients with lockjaw and diarrhea.

Chen Xiaoyao Water-Wine Powder，*Essentials of Obstetrics from the Family Treasure of Health*, Volume 7.，For all pregnancy-related ailments.

Jiao Ling Dan，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 83), citing *Family-Treasure Formulas*.，Indicated for the condition of seeing double.

Universal Treasure Ointment，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Hangzhou Formula).，Traumatic injuries, strained lower back from heavy lifting, pain in tendons and bones, weakness and soreness in the legs and knees, paralysis and rheumatic arthralgia, numbness in the hands and feet; as well as boils and abscesses on the back, wandering nodules, chest and … Read more