External Decoction

White Reed Decoction，From *The Source of the Hearts of the Four Sages*, Volume 4.，For sporadic episodes of vomiting fresh blood.

Tendon-Relaxing and Blood-Activating Decoction for External Use，*Lecture Notes on Traditional Chinese Medicine Traumatology*.，Pain due to contracture of tendons and meridians following injury.

Rehmannia and Ophiopogon Decoction，Formula from *Qianjin* (Vol. 5). Name found in *Yibu Quanlu* (Vol. 422).，For children with alternating chills and fever, coughing and retching, masses in the diaphragm, regurgitation of milk, and loss of appetite.

Herbal Wash for Dispelling Wind-Dampness，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For pain in the tendons and bones.

Spleen-Regulating and Internal-Lifting Powder，*Records on Smallpox and Measles* (Dou Zhen Chuan Xin Lu), Volume 15.，Smallpox.

Plantain Seed Ointment Formula，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 94.，Swelling and retraction of a scrotal hernia.

Guanqing Formula，*The Collection of the Unsettled*, Volume 15 of the Upper Collection.，Persistent coughing with hemoptysis; yellow phlegm and stagnant qi.

Kanli Sand，*Manual of Chinese Herbal Formulations*.，For numbness in the limbs, pain in the lower back and legs, pain in the tendons and bones, small intestine hernia, and cold-induced abdominal pain caused by exposure to wind and cold.

Raw Egg Wine，Formula from *Qianjin* (Vol. 2); name cited in *Puji Fang* (Vol. 338).，Heart pain during pregnancy.

Gu Gen Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 3.，Loss of primordial yang in youth, compounded by premature sexual activity; failure to observe sexual abstinence, resulting in damage to the outer canthus; the canthal orifice fails to close, allowing wind and cold to penetrate; internal qi becomes deficient, making it difficult to ward off external … Read more

Ascending Immortal Ointment，From *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 4.，For lower back pain, deficiency of the lower jiao, the “Five Labors and Seven Injuries,” hemiplegia, bladder hernia, cold qi in the lower jiao, and prolapse of the small intestine; for leg and foot pain and numbness lasting two or three decades, erectile dysfunction; and for women suffering … Read more

Ocular Ointment，*Continuation of Stories of Medical Practice*, Volume 4.，For eye diseases.

Taiyi Red Pill，From *Treasures of Family Heritage*, Middle Volume.，For stroke, with accumulated phlegm beneath the diaphragm, resulting in paralysis of the limbs or loss of consciousness.

Chuanxiong-Huangqi Decoction，From *Puji Fang*, Volume 342, citing *Chanbao*.，Abdominal pain due to fetal injury, accompanied by yellow discharge.

Malefic Miasm-Dispelling Powder，From *Zhun Sheng: Yao Yi* (Vol. 2).，Boils, miasma toxins, snake bites, abdominal pain due to heat, and heat-induced sore throat.

Jingjie Fanduo Powder，From *Mirror of Surgical Medicine*.，For seasonal infectious throat pain, rash, swollen cheeks, wind-phlegm cough, headache, and fever.

Ear-Opening Pills，*Effective and Reliable Prescriptions*, Volume 58.，For sudden deafness and tinnitus due to kidney deficiency, characterized by sounds of wind and water or the ringing of bells inside the ears.

Cress Seed Pills，Formula from *Wai Tai* (Vol. 10), citing *Cui’s Formulas*; name found in *Pu Ji Fang* (Vol. 183).，For cough due to lung heat, accompanied by shortness of breath and severe wheezing, inability to sit or lie down, swelling of the body and face, and severe distension that prevents the intake of food and drink.

Toxicity-Dispelling Realgar Pills，Volume 8 of *Six Essentials of Medicine: Compendium of Treatment Methods*.，For laryngeal spasm and acute laryngeal obstruction, where the patient suddenly collapses, the jaw clenches tightly, and the patient loses consciousness.

Stomach-Clearing Gypsum Decoction，From *Comprehensive Treatise on Smallpox and Rashes*, Volume 5.，In children, following measles, with black and gangrenous tooth sores.

Ginseng Da Zai Zao Pill，From *Collected Formulas of the Feeding Cranes Pavilion*.，For stroke and cold-induced disorders, phlegm-induced qi collapse and syncope, facial paralysis, epilepsy and phlegm-related diseases, wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, paralysis and wind-rash, hemiplegia, joint pain, stiffness of tendons and meridians, numbness of the hands and feet, and difficulty walking; as well as acute and chronic … Read more

Si Xuan Powder，From *Direct Pointers with Addenda*, Volume 26.，For stroke with phlegm obscuring the orifices of the heart, mania, delirium, agitation, mental confusion, profuse phlegm and saliva, and the five types of epilepsy caused by heart wind.

Ginger and Angelica Powder，From *The Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，External sores; tinea of the eye.

Secret-Transmitted Wuyao Qi-Regulating Powder，From *Songya Medical Path* (Volume 2).，Gout.

Duhuo Tongjing Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，Attacked by wind and cold; menstruation has not occurred for several months; pale complexion; pain in the limbs; stiffness in the joints; cold pain in the lower abdomen; aversion to wind and cold; soreness in the lower back and chill in the back; may also present with headache, chest … Read more