Eight-Spirit Ointment

Gypsum and Scutellaria Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 31.，Following a bout of cold damage, symptoms recur as before after consuming meat or exerting oneself: high fever, headache, restlessness, and a desire to vomit; urine is reddish-yellow.

Yi Zui Powder，From *Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Zhu Family*, Volume 12.，Jaundice.

Eye-Brightening and Pain-Relieving Pills，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，For liver hyperactivity and blood heat, redness of both eyes, blood pooling in the pupils, pterygium obscuring the cornea, and pain from trauma.

Silver Powder Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 22.，Epilepsy. For chronic cases that have not healed over the years, with symptoms during an attack including confusion, drowsiness, foaming at the mouth, or bellowing like a cow.

Evil-Dispelling Decoction，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 14.，For the early stage of malaria.

Milk and Oyster Shell Powder，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 94), citing *Proven Effective Formulas*.，For pain in the heart and spleen that does not respond to other medications.

Jinhua Schisandra Decoction，*Xingyuan*, Volume 5.，Cough with phlegm containing streaks of blood indicates that fire is overpowering metal; this condition is extremely difficult to cure.

Huangma Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 36); name cited in *Puji Fang* (Vol. 55).，For malignant sores in the ear.

Kezhi Pi Shenghua Decoction，From *The Treasure of Childbirth*.，For women who experience diarrhea immediately after childbirth.

Styrax Wine，From *Shouqin Yanglao* (Caring for the Elderly), Volume 4.，

Kidney-Revitalizing Pills，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 7.，For kidney deficiency without pain.

Xuanbai Powder，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 3.，For the early stages of dysentery, characterized by tenesmus, a sensation of incomplete evacuation, abdominal pain, and the passage of pus and blood.

Gaiyun Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 188.，Hemoptysis.

Jiyin Rehmannia Pills，From *Zhun Sheng: Categorized Formulas*, Volume 7.，Deficiency of the Three Yin Meridians of the Foot, with deficient fire rising upward, resulting in dilated pupils, blurred vision, hazy and dry eyes with a sensation of tightness, pain, and photophobia; or yin deficiency with dry heat, causing cracked lips resembling cocoons.

Poria Transformation Cake，From *The Treasure of Eastern Medicine: Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 4, citing *A Collection of Medical Formulas*.，For internal injuries, spleen and stomach deficiency, and loss of appetite.

Heart-Clearing and Diaphragm-Cooling Powder，*The Classic of Warm-Heat Diseases*, Volume 5，Clears the heart and cools the diaphragm; disperses the lungs and promotes the eruption of rashes. Treats the initial stage of epidemic rashes.

Peach Leaf Decoction，Formula from *Wai Tai* (Vol. 26), citing *Zhou Hou Fang*; the name appears in *Sheng Ji Zong Lu* (Vol. 38).，Three types of parasites. For cholera with abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Ginseng and Dried Kudzu Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 22.，For epidemic fever with unresolved exterior syndrome, accompanied by high fever and aversion to cold.

Qi-Regulating and Pain-Relieving Decoction，From *Collected Insights from Reflection*.，For all cases of deficiency-cold in the stomach and kidneys, with qi surging upward, or vomiting and unbearable pain.

Crimson Ointment，*The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 1.，For all types of established swellings and toxic lesions.

Moistening the Lungs and Harmonizing the Liver Paste，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For imbalance in the liver and lung meridians, resulting in occasional coughing.

Tissue-Repairing and Swelling-Reducing Ointment，*Zhun Sheng: Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 6.，For contusions, bruises, falls, blows, and injuries from knives or axes, as well as tiger attacks and bites from muntjacs or oxen.

Purification Pills，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 35.，Ghost Malaria.

Decoction for Stimulating Appetite and Relieving Stagnation，*Treasury of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 11.，Abdominal pain, with a knotted or hidden pulse; pain radiating to both flanks and the shoulders and back; inability to bend forward or backward; attributed to qi stagnation; with mild symptoms and no chills or fever.

Jinsha Dan，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 1.，For stroke with excessive salivation, loss of voice and inability to speak, flushed face, a large, rapid, and forceful pulse, confusion and drowsiness, and deviation of the mouth and eyes—all of which are conditions caused by wind-heat—as well as hemiplegia; or for typhoid fever with severe spasms … Read more