Essence-Consolidating and Semen-Retaining Pills

Astragalus Fourteen-Ingredient Pills，From *Xu Renze’s Formulas*, cited in Volume 27 of *Wai Tai*.，For diabetes. Frequent urination, copious urine output accompanied by thirst; gradually increased food and drink intake; gradual loss of muscle mass; lack of energy; and pale complexion.

Enhanced Lung-Rescuing Decoction Combined with Curcuma Decoction，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 40.，Hemoptysis and coughing up blood due to overwork.

Ginseng and Red Ocher Qi-Calming Decoction，*Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，For deficiency of both yin and yang, with shortness of breath, rapid and forced breathing, and a risk of collapse; also treats kidney deficiency failing to retain essence, causing Chong Qi to rise and obstruct, resulting in the failure of stomach qi to descend … Read more

Di Shu Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 77.，For spleen-toxin dysentery with bloody stools resembling goose or duck livers and unrelenting abdominal pain.

Persian Powder，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For genital sores and syphilis.

Frost-Descending Pills，From *Formulas for Saving Lives*, Volume 5.，For cases where the fire is intense and the metal is restrained, causing the source of fluids to dry up, the throat to become parched, and the epigastrium to be obstructed—manifesting first as regurgitation and gradually progressing to dysphagia.

Li’an Decoction，From *The Jade Case*, Volume 5.，For lower back pain due to kidney deficiency.

Soaking and Compressing Decoction，From *Shenghui*, Volume 92.，For children with difficulty urinating.

Zhu Zheng Decoction，From *The Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 2.，For pathogenic factors in the yang aspect, with fever during the day.

Aconite and Shenqu Pills，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 12.，For spleen deficiency with restlessness, abdominal distension, poor appetite, and weakness.

Black Wood Pill，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 296.，To treat visceral toxins, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, fistulas, and bloody diarrhea.

Modified Chen’s Mu Xiang Powder，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 58.，Symptoms of cold reversal during smallpox, arising from deficiency-cold of qi and blood, include pale fingernails, clear and copious urine, grayish and sunken smallpox lesions, diarrhea, and loss of appetite.

Cardamom Intestinal-Consolidating Pills，*Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 7.，Weakness of the spleen and stomach, frequent loose stools, loss of appetite, and abdominal rumbling and pain.

Decoction for Clearing Fire and Calming the Lungs，*Huiyue*, Volume 9.，Deficiency of fluids in the lower jiao causes fire to scorch the lung metal, resulting in an itchy throat and cough, with a slippery and rapid pulse at the cun position.

Coptis and Rhinoceros Horn Decoction，*Hui Chun*, Volume 2.，Shanghan Hu-Huo Syndrome. Sores on the lips and mouth, hoarseness, heaviness in the limbs, aversion to the smell of food, silent desire to lie down, closed eyes, white tongue coating, and a face with patches of blackness that appear and disappear unpredictably. When parasites erode the lower region, … Read more

Yizhi Decoction，*Ju Fang*, Volume 10.，All types of cold-induced disorders, vomiting, nausea, distension and stabbing pain in the umbilicus, abdomen, and flanks, fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, and reduced appetite.

Rhinoceros Horn and Curcuma Powder，From *The Complete Book of Experience in the Treatment of Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 2.，Toxic eruptions on the face.

Trichosanthes and Lycopodium Pills，From *The Golden Cabinet*, Volume Middle.，For those with difficulty urinating due to water retention, who suffer from thirst.

Decoction for Consolidating the Exterior，*Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 10.，For a cold caught in winter accompanied by sweating.

Newly Formulated Cinnamon and Poria Decoction，From *Jin Gui Yi* (Supplement to the Golden Chamber), Volume 6.，Kidney-reverse-stomach pain.

Gekko Antidote for Shortness of Breath，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 12.，For postpartum shortness of breath with impending depletion of qi and blood.

Gaotang Pills，From *Gujin Luyan*, cited in Volume 2 of *Wai Tai*.，For severe thirst and restlessness due to cold damage, with a sense of fullness and the feeling of impending death.

Twelve-Ingredient Kusan Pills，Formula by Xu Renze, cited in Volume 14 of *Wai Tai*.，When wind-heat has not yet subsided, frequent intake of decoctions and drinks is beyond one’s strength.

Heat-Clearing and Cough-Relieving Herbal Tea，From *Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，

Zhehuang Decoction，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 165.，Postpartum blood wind with generalized edema.