Fire-and-Vinegar Pills

Apricot Kernel Powder，From *Formulas for Guiding the Way to Complete Life*, Volume 4.，Cough with counterflow of qi, labored breathing with shortness of breath, flared nostrils; the patient is unable to lie flat; a sound like a waterfowl in the throat, coming and going intermittently.

Ox Bile Toxin-Dispelling Pills，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 119.，For internal heat causing chest and diaphragm discomfort; or generalized itching, sores on the lips, and difficulty swallowing; or sores on the shins that are festering, foul-smelling, and persistent.

Miraculous Walnut Wine，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 249.，For small intestine colic and external abscesses in women.

Seven-Grind Powder，From *Formulas of the Huizhiting Hall*, Volume 2.，Food stagnation in the elderly and the frail.

Shaoyin Ganju Decoction，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 2.，For Shao Yin syndrome characterized by sore throat, dizziness, a deep and fine pulse, and persistent fever. For chronic laryngitis with pain and thirst occurring after noon.

Formula for Washing the Head，Formula taken from *Formulas for Emergency Use* (Vol. 6); the name appears in *Thousand Gold Prescriptions* (Vol. 13).，In cases of extreme deficiency and cold in the pulse, where the hair at the temples and sides of the head has fallen out and will not regrow.

Nine-Return Golden Elixir Pill，From *The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 62.，For men and women with excessive phlegm and shortness of breath; stroke-induced aphasia; facial asymmetry; left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness; and locked jaw; as well as for children with acute convulsions, hand and foot spasms, loss of consciousness, and excessive phlegm with shortness of breath.

Heart-Clearing and Toxin-Eliminating Powder，From *Huoren Xintong*, Volume 3.，Burning sensation in the mouth; swelling and pain in the throat.

Pain-Relieving and Bone-Healing Purple Gold Pill，*Compendium of Medical Principles*, Volume 20.，For injuries caused by falls or blows.

Peach Kernel and Gypsum Decoction，From *Straight Talk on Pediatrics*, Volume 5.，For children with typhoid fever who, between the 80th and 90th day of the illness, have developed a pathogen transmission to the Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian, presenting with constipation, reddish urine, abdominal pain, coma, and excessive thirst.

Gu Shou Decoction，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 1.，Headache.

Decoction with White Liquor，From *Yuan Bing Shi*, Volume 2.，Yellow swelling.

Honeysuckle Wine，*Essentials of Surgery*, Volume 1.，All types of abscesses and boils.

Miraculous Light-Foot Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 8.，Relieves rheumatic arthralgia, weakness and stiffness in the legs and knees, pain in the lower back and legs, swelling and fullness in the shins, numbness and loss of sensation, or persistent sores.

Gypsum and Dried Alum Ointment，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Scrotal eczema.

New Formula，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For oral sores.

Kexiao Jiaotai Sacred Cake，From *The Universal Remedies* (Vol. 141), citing *The Family Treasure of Health*.，In cases of cold-induced chest constriction where the pulse is floating and purgation is contraindicated; if purgation is administered, death is certain.

Calm-the-Mind Pill，*Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 11.，For children with restlessness of the mind, excessive drowsiness and sleepiness, as well as phlegm and saliva congestion causing a dazed and unsettled state.

Chaihu Liuwei Dihuang Decoction，*Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 1.，For prolonged malaria where the fever has not subsided, accompanied by a dry mouth and parched lips.

Yellow Edema Remedy，*Medical Discourses*, Volume 8.，Patients with “Yellow Edema” will inevitably vomit yellow fluid, have hair that stands on end, or crave raw rice, tea leaves, soil, or charcoal.

Formula for Stopping Sweating，*A Hundred Questions on Infants and Children*, Volume 9.，For spontaneous sweating due to superficial deficiency.

Hand-Rub Pills，The formula is from *Qian Jin* (Vol. 5); the name appears in *Wei Sheng Hong Bao* (Vol. 3).，For children suffering from external pathogenic factors, vomiting or passing green, yellow, red, or white fluids, abdominal pain, as well as arching the back, lying on their side, and wheezing resembling epilepsy—but without rolling their eyes upward … Read more

Miraculous Three-Wonder Powder，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 4.，Ulcers with pus-filled sores.

Shengyang Yijing Decoction，*The Golden Mirror of Ophthalmology*, Volume 2.，Symptoms associated with night blindness.

Curcuma Decoction，*Compendium of Epilepsy Disorders*, Volume 4.，Wind-phlegm-induced convulsions.