Five-Bark Decoction for Draining Dampness

Qi Snake Wine，*Selected Ancient Formulas Tested by Yu*.，For stroke caused by alcohol consumption, hemiplegia, deviation of the mouth and eyes, numbness and stiffness of the skin, and pain in the bones and joints; as well as chronic scabies, tinea, and malignant sores and leprosy.

Five-Smoke Divine Pill，*Selected Essays on Surgical Diseases*, Volume 5.，For chronic, intractable sores that have formed fistulas and have not responded to any other treatments.

Boil-Resolving and Mind-Nourishing Pill，From *Collected Works on Surgery*, Volume 1.，For abscesses and boils: if not yet ruptured, this formula disperses them; if already ruptured, it promotes healing.

Pill for Tonifying Deficiency, Regulating the Middle, and Dispelling Wind，*Qian Jin*, Volume 13.，For a weak pulse, irregular and erratic palpitations that come and go, and cold in the small intestine.

Plantain Seed Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 103.，For wind-heat in the liver and kidneys, manifested as redness, swelling, drooping, and pain in the eyes, with the formation of a protruding membrane.

Yinchen-Fuzi Decoction，From *The Book of Saving Lives*, cited in Volume 6 of *The Treasure of Eastern Medicine: Miscellaneous Diseases*.，Yin-type jaundice with coldness throughout the body.

Immortal Formula: Rehmannia Powder，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 9.，Yellow, discolored teeth.

Schisandra Pill，*Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 4.，Diarrhea due to deficiency of both the spleen and kidney; diarrhea occurs repeatedly at the fifth watch, or pain arises around the navel, radiating to the lower back; the abdomen and knees feel cold, and the pulse at the Shou-zhong position is soft.

Silver Oil Ointment，From *Selected Precious and Secret Formulas Worth a Thousand Gold*.，For gangrene of the leg exposing the bone.

Reed Leaf Decoction，Formula from *Wai Tai* (Vol. 10, Annotations), citing *Treatise on Cold Damage*; name found in *Sheng Ji Zong Lu* (Vol. 50).，For lung abscess characterized by aversion to cold, dry mouth, a dull ache in the chest, coughing with chest fullness, occasional discharge of foul-smelling sputum, and—if prolonged—vomiting of pus resembling rice porridge, with … Read more

Qing San Decoction，From *Three Hundred Collected Effective Formulas*.，For cases where deficient fire in the Liver Meridian manifests externally, causing yellow swelling in the lower abdomen, which develops into Hu Lou Dan.

Jichong Pills，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 9.，For all parasitic infections.

Pills for Treating Blood Clots，From *Danxi’s Heart Method*, Volume 3.，For masses caused by phlegm, food stagnation, or stagnant blood.

Polygala, Green Onion, and Honey Cake，*Essence of Ancient Formulas*, Volume 3.，For abscesses that have been swollen and diffuse for many days, with the edges spreading and the center flattened; or breasts hard as stone.

Miraculous Thousand-Pound Ointment，*The Golden Mirror of Medical Orthodoxy*, Volume 62.，For sores and ulcers, early-stage carbuncles, scrofula, leg sores in adults, and “crab-head” sores in children. Indicated for redness, swelling, hardness, scrofulous nodules, and leg sores that have ulcerated and remain unhealed for years.

Clam Shell Powder，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，Pain in the stomach.

Cinnamon Twig, Trichosanthes, and Polygonum Multiflorum Decoction，*Source of the Hearts of the Four Sages*, Volume 10.，For cases where wind injures the Wei Qi, leading to muscle spasms, fever, and sweating.

Fei Ling Dan，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 265.，

Jujube and Atractylodes Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 198.，

Alum and Rhubarb Pills，From *Formulas for the Family School*.，For unknown toxic swellings, vitiligo, scabies, and tinea.

Goose-Yellow Powder，From *Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 3.，Syphilis sores. For extensive ulceration with profuse, foul-smelling pus and severe pain.

Rhinoceros Horn and Rehmannia Decoction to Clear the Meridians，*Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Heat has invaded the pericardium, causing mental confusion.

Ginseng and Coptis Decoction，Formula from *Danxi’s Heart Method*, Volume 2; name cited in *Huichun*, Volume 3.，For dysentery with locked jaw and severe heat in the stomach.

Fangji, Jiaomu, Tingli, and Da Huang Pills，From *The Golden Cabinet* (Volume Middle).，Water retention in the intestines, abdominal distension, and dryness of the mouth and tongue.

Anemarrhena and Bupleurum Decoction，From *The New Book on the Care of Infants* (Volume 19), citing *Essentials for Nourishing Life*.，For adults and children with excess heat, red eyes, mouth sores, as well as restlessness and thirst following typhoid fever, and heat in the hands and feet.