Ephedra Life-Saving Decoction

Atractylodes and Sophora Decoction，*Zhun Sheng: Pediatrics*, Volume 5.，For children with smallpox who refuse to take milk or food.

Sichuan Pepper Decoction，From *The Comprehensive Record of Holy Remedies*, Volume 40.，Cholera with muscle cramps.

Cinnabar Decoction for Eye Application，From *Shenghui*, Volume 33.，For cases where the eye has been pierced by a needle and has since suffered from persistent heat, dryness, and pain, as well as blurred vision.

Egret Vine Powder，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 4.，Pain in the legs and knees.

Nanxing Powder for Reducing Swelling，From *Ophthalmology Essentials*, Volume 4.，For all types of eye inflammation characterized by swelling, pain, and difficulty opening the eyes.

Gui Xue San，*Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 20.，For men, women, the elderly, and children with blood in the urine.

Ginseng and Peony Decoction，From *Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Vol. 3).，Chronic dysentery that has persisted for years; both yin and yang in the lower jiao are deficient, resulting in an inability to consolidate and retain; qi stagnation in the lower abdomen, resembling a mass or mass-like condition.

Ear-Bottom Powder，From *Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Nanchang Formula).，Swelling, pain, and pus discharge from the ear; otitis media.

Jinxian Ointment，From *Li Ye*.，For conditions caused by wind, cold, heat, and dampness; disorders involving qi, blood, phlegm, and food stagnation; the six types of stagnation and five types of accumulation; spleen and stomach disorders in the Central Plains; seasonal exogenous pathogens and internal injuries; conditions where the exterior and interior are indistinguishable; and mixed patterns … Read more

Evil-Eradicating Decoction，From *Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 1.，Sudden exposure to wind-pathogen, causing cold to invade the Lung Meridian, resulting in sudden shortness of breath, heaving with raised shoulders, counterflow of qi, phlegm that cannot be expelled, and an inability to lie down.

Duchan Pills，From *Collected Verified Cases of Sores and Ulcers*, cited in Volume 6 of *The Correct Transmission of Medicine*.，For carbuncles, back abscesses, and all other types of abscesses and swellings in their early stages.

Black Soybean Powder，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 16.，For chronic migraines.

Supreme Primordial Elixir，From *Formulas for Transmitting and Applying Trustworthy Remedies*, Volume 2, citing a formula by Han Bocheng.，For deficiency-related debility and weakness.

Xuanshen Decoction，*Compendium of Divine Remedies*, Volume 117.，For heat stagnation in the heart and lungs, mouth sores, and phlegm rising from the chest and diaphragm.

Liver-Regulating and Stomach-Harmonizing Paste，From *Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，Indicated for symptoms of liver yin deficiency and disharmony of the spleen and stomach.

Soap Pod Pills，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 46); name cited in *Pujifang* (Vol. 160).，For coughing and shortness of breath, accompanied by a rattling sound in the throat.

Bamboo Joint Frost，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 24, citing *One Hundred Effective Remedies*.，When the glans penis develops a pustule due to heat-toxin or is chafed by coarse clothing,

Poria and Amber Powder，*Six Books of Medical Essentials*, Volume 25.，Hematuria. Characterized by a sensation of dryness and pain in the urethra, radiating to the flanks, with a string-like and涩 pulse.

Scallion White Ointment，From *Wai Tai*, Volume 20, citing *Gujin Luyan*.，For deficiency-heat or heat caused by taking mineral elixirs; sleeping exposed to wind and dew; cold and dampness injuring the muscles; or heat obstructing the interior, leading to the transformation into a “hot wind-water” disease. Symptoms include swelling and fullness in the chest and abdomen; shortness … Read more

Almond Cakes，*Compendium of Divine Remedies*, Volume 117.，For oral ulcers accompanied by heat sores.

Modified Huopu-Xia-Ling Decoction，*Gu’s Medical Pathways*, Volume 4.，Postpartum Damp-Heat. Caused by dampness latent in the middle jiao prior to childbirth, leading to a protracted postpartum condition resembling fever due to yin deficiency.

Silver Foil Pill，Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in Volume 9 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For cases of acute convulsions caused by latent heat and sudden fever.

Kharitaki Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 93.，For children with red-and-white dysentery, abdominal distension and pain, loss of appetite, and emaciation of the limbs.

Taiyi Shenying Ointment，*Secretly Transmitted Formulas for Surgical Conditions*.，For back abscesses and boils, malignant wounds from beatings, injuries, chest pain, beriberi, and lower back pain.

One-Stroke Elimination，*Gu’s Medical Pathway*, Volume 6.，For carbuncles and tubercles.