Family Recipe: Yellow Ointment

Green-Dissolving Decoction，From *Shenghui*, cited in Volume 300 of *Puji Fang*.，Nail abscess. This may result from cutting the nails and injuring the skin, or from overgrown nails invading the flesh, leading to a swollen, painful sore. Later, due to friction from official boots, the area around the nail swells and reddens, with yellow pus oozing out; … Read more

Ten-Ingredient Revitalizing Pills，From *He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 2.，For consumptive diseases.

Cock’s Comb Blood Formula，*The Continuation of the Medical Lamp*, Volume 16.，A child dies suddenly without any apparent cause.

Gardenia, Fragrant Black Bean, and Bamboo Leaf Decoction，*Commentary on the Treatise on Malaria*.，Cardiac malaria.

Heqi Decoction with Additions，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 212.，Clears blockages in both the upper and lower bowels; treats white diarrhea.

Cow Bile Double-Dissolving Decoction，From *The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 64.，This formula is indicated for anal abscesses caused by internal heat toxins combined with external wind pathogens, or by excessive sexual restraint leading to the intermingling of vital energy and semen, resulting in congestion, swelling, pain, or constipation of both the large and small bowels.

White Blowing Powder，*Secret Formulas Based on Clinical Experience*, Volume 2.，For cases of centipede poisoning where the tongue protrudes.

Peppermint and Burdock Decoction，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Urticaria.

Minor Wolf-Toxin Pills，*Qian Jin* (Vol. 11).，Used for hard, stubborn masses in the chest and flanks, or in the epigastrium.

Minor Bupleurum Decoction with Rhubarb，*Collected Formulas for the Very Young*, Volume 2.，For pediatric shanghan with internal heat, aversion to heat, sticking one’s head out and exposing the face, flailing arms and kicking legs, restlessness, dry stools, and lifting one’s clothes with heavy breathing.

Cinnabar Saliva-Reducing Pills，From *Ru Men Shi Tiao*, Volume 15.，For the five types of epilepsy.

Shen Tong Powder，From *Yu’an*, Volume 6.，For intestinal abscesses, whether fully formed or not.

Ephedra and Pueraria Decoction，From *The Book of Saving Lives*, Volume 17.，On the first or second day of shanghan, there is stiffness and pain in the head, neck, lower back, and back, along with general feverishness and aversion to cold. There is severe spasm without sweating.

Ginger-Scented Pills，*Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 6.，All diseases of the spleen and kidneys.

Four-Yellow Life-Saving Pill，From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 3.，During pregnancy, latent fire in the Heart and Spleen meridians rises upward, causing a swollen and painful tongue, or a “wooden tongue,” a “double tongue,” lips as if coated with cinnabar, a tongue with a soot-black halo, a tongue protruding beyond the teeth and lips … Read more

Aconite and Red Ocher Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 7.，For the elderly and those with a deficient constitution suffering from cold deficiency in the stomach and intestines, resulting in uncontrollable diarrhea.

Fragrant Tea Powder，*Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 2.，For headaches caused by a surge of qi to the brain.

Recipe for Lamb Dish，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 189.，For watery diarrhea.

Liver-Clearing and Vision-Improving Powder，From *Compilation of Remarkable Formulas*, Volume 1.，

Shengyang Tiaoyuan Decoction，From *Wan’s Gynecology*, Volume 3.，For frequent urination and involuntary urinary incontinence after childbirth.

Medicine for Mild Convulsions，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 374), citing *Fu’s Formulas for Saving Infants*.，

Lianhe Root Decoction，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 56); name cited in *Shengji Zonglu* (Vol. 147).，For vomiting blood due to gu poison.

Quartz Decoction，*Qianjin*, Volume 19.，For men and women suffering from the “Five Labors” and “Seven Injuries,” emaciation and wasting, wind-induced deficiency and chronic cold, low vitality, sallow complexion, and inability to move; a bitter taste in the mouth and dry throat; restless sleep; nightmares and anxiety.

Ling-Shu Decoction，From *Yu’an*, Volume 4.，For food stagnation that has congealed and accumulated in the stomach and intestines, accompanied by cold pathogens, resulting in unbearable abdominal distension and pain.

Cinnabar and Snow Pill，The formula is from *The Complete Collection of Surgical Life-Saving Methods*, Volume 2; the name appears in *The Collection of Immortal Prescriptions*, Volume 3.，For acute and chronic convulsions.