Eight-Ingredient Aster Decoction

Shuli Decoction，*Huiyue*, Volume 10.，For food stagnation, fluid retention, phlegm congestion, and qi stagnation, manifesting as abdominal distension and pain; or for damage to the internal organs caused by raw, cold, or damp foods; or for severe, exogenous pathogenic factors causing cholera; or for the initial stage of diarrhea.

Pill for Nourishing Yin and Strengthening the Marrow，From *The Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 3.，Insufficiency of kidney yin, excessive Yangming fire, and depletion of bone marrow lead to weakness and inability to stand.

Scutellaria Lung-Clearing Decoction，*Medical Lamp of Transmission*, Volume 1.，Burning heart fire, exacerbated by stomach fire; with vital energy (yuanqi) undamaged and true essence (zhenjing) undepleted. This may result from heat accumulated due to alcohol consumption or from external invasion by intense heat (real fire), manifesting as red eyes, sore throat, chest fullness, and shortness of breath.

Tongdao Powder，*Complete Book of Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 4.，For critical conditions resulting from severe trauma, with obstruction of urination and defecation.

Beetle Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 88.，For children with bone fever, jaundice, emaciation, loss of appetite, and excessive drowsiness.

Fetal-Stabilizing Four-Ingredient Decoction，*The Jade Ruler of Gynecology*, Volume 2.，Various types of pain during pregnancy.

Sheng Jiu Dan，From *Formulas for Childbirth*.，For uterine deficiency and cold that has persisted for months or years, with stagnant blood accumulating internally for half a lifetime.

Tannic Acid Powder，From *A Clear Explanation of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 23.，For swelling of the tooth root accompanied by severe pain, slight redness, white blisters, and a cracked tip of the tongue.

Warm-the-Middle Magnolia Decoction，From *The Comprehensive Record of Holy Remedies*, Volume 17.，For chronic wind invading the stomach and intestines, causing abdominal distension and loose stools.

Stone-Carved Kidney-Nourishing Pills，From *Collected Formulas of the Crane-Feeding Pavilion*.，For deficiency of vital energy, resulting in nocturnal emissions and seminal leakage, loose stools and frequent urination, weakness in the lower back and knees, aversion to cold, and insufficiency of all yang energies.

Decoction for Restoring Yang and Rescuing Yin，*Collection of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 5.，For a back abscess nearing recovery where the wound has not yet closed, presenting with symptoms of yin deficiency masquerading as yang excess.

Danggui-Lian Decoction，*Explanation of Ophthalmology*, Volume 3.，Excessive heat generates phlegm; when phlegm accumulates over a long period, it obstructs the chest and diaphragm, causing turbid qi to rise to the eyes. Mild cases result in blurred vision; severe cases lead to corneal opacities.

Fever-Reducing and Cooling Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 85.，For children with high fever on the verge of a seizure.

Junzi Decoction，*Essentials of Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For women experiencing postmenstrual hot flashes who have accidentally consumed raw or cold foods, leading to the accumulation of phlegm and fluid retention, abdominal and chest distension, qi rising to the diaphragm, loss of appetite, and the formation of abdominal masses.

Wind Sweeping the Clouds，*New Book on Child Care*, Volume 6.，Smallpox in the eye.

Floating Duckweed Pills，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 36); name cited in *Pujifang* (Vol. 299).，For mouth sores that have not healed for a long time.

Ginseng and Poria Great Tonifying and Nourishing Decoction，*Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology*, Volume 2.，For cases where postpartum blood clots have dissipated, pain has subsided, but diarrhea persists with undigested food in the stool.

Secretly Transmitted Nine Spirits Pill，From *Tong Shou Lu*, Volume 2.，For severe cases of dysphagia.

Jinghuai Powder，*Zhi Zhi*, Volume 21.，Bleeding or pain from the gums.

Black Bean Oil Ointment，*Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhao Bingnan*.，

Uterus-Clearing Decoction，*Qianjin Yi*, Volume 5.，For women who have been infertile intermittently for 20–30 years, those who have been barren since birth, and those who have suffered repeated miscarriages.

Ginseng and Cardamom Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 44.，Deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach, vomiting and nausea with loss of appetite, pain in the umbilical region and abdomen, and loose stools.

Winter Kidney-Tonifying Decoction，*Shenghui*, Volume 7.，Kidney deficiency.

White Coptis Powder，*Treasury of Public Health*, Volume 10.，For earwax, pus discharge, and spreading sores.

Lajixiang Ointment，*Treasury of Eastern Medicine: Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 8.，Chilblains.