Five-Color Decoction

Wuyao Qi-Regulating Powder，*Complete Book of Experienced Formulas for Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 1.，For throat inflammation causing tongue stiffness, hoarseness, and an inability to speak, often accompanied by the habit of holding the throat with one’s hand.

Si Shun Qing Liang Decoction，*Compendium of Epilepsy Disorders*, Volume 4.，Constipation, with heat stagnation and blood dryness, leading to depletion of body fluids.

Scutellaria and Atractylodes Powder，From *Formulas After a Viper Bite*.，

Decoction for Consolidating the Essence and Eliminating Toxins，From *Pian Yu Dou Zhen*, Volume 9.，For cases where the color of smallpox lesions turns grayish-white due to diarrhea during the “nourishing serum” stage of the disease.

Four-Processed Cypress and Atractylodes Pills，*The Jade Case*, Volume 2.，

Wind-Returning and Organ-Nourishing Decoction，*Yichun Shengyi*, Volume 3.，Excessive external wind-yang causes lung heat to spread to the large intestine, resulting in coughing and involuntary defecation.

Fragrant Jujube Pills，*Formulas of the Ruizhu Hall*, Volume 2.，Ten types of gu-induced illnesses.

Ginseng and Cyperus Powder，*San Yin*, Volume 13.，Restless heart qi, various deficiencies and debility, heaviness in the limbs, melancholy, frequent strange dreams at night, night sweats and seminal emission, fear and palpitations, unpredictable mood swings, dry mouth and throat, thirst with a desire to drink water, reduced appetite, emaciation, gradually progressing to consumptive disease.

Li Zhong Poria Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 175.，For children with abdominal distension due to deficiency and spleen dysfunction.

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.

Internal Elimination and Support Powder，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 174), citing *Simple and Effective Formulas*.，For all types of boils and abscesses.

Dampness-Removing Stomach-Poria Decoction，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 4.，Damp-heat obstructing the Spleen and Lung meridians leads to the formation of fire sores, causing ulceration and pain. Fire sores encircling the waist (commonly known as “snake-string sores”) of the damp variety appear yellowish-white, with blisters of varying sizes that ulcerate and ooze fluid; those that are drier … Read more

Infant-Nurturing Pill，*The Heart Book of Bian Que*.，For children with a sallow complexion, a distended abdomen with visible blue veins, diarrhea, and various types of “five types of malnutrition” and food stagnation.

Compound Boxwood Tablets，Formula cited from the Wuhu Traditional Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Factory in *Famous Formulas Through the Ages*.，Rheumatic pain, chest and abdominal distension, and trauma. Chronic coronary insufficiency, heart failure, and myocarditis.

Purple Anti-Swelling Powder，*Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhao Bingnan*.，Chronic erysipelas with swelling (unknown swollen abscess), erythematous and nodular conditions (gua teng chan).

Disheng Ointment，*Shenghui*, Volume 67.，

Safflower and Angelica Pills，*Song Family Gynecology*.，For women with deficiency and depletion of the blood, irregular menstruation, or amenorrhea; stagnant blood forming masses; stabbing pain in the lower back and abdomen; and emaciation of the limbs.

Cervicitis Powder，*Obstetrics and Gynecology*.，Chronic cervicitis.

Reed Root Stomach-Clearing Decoction，*Collection of Pearls*, Volume 2.，For feverish illnesses accompanied by vomiting, loss of appetite, and restlessness.

Shenbao Ji Ji Dan，*Direct Pointers on Pediatrics*, Volume 2.，Chronic convulsions in children.

Lead and Gold Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 14.，For wind-pathogen affecting the heart.

Perilla Seed and Apricot Kernel Decoction，From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 3.，Phlegm obstructing the lung orifices, making it impossible to lie down.

Longevity Elixir，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 211.，For chronic or recent cases of bloody or white diarrhea and dysentery.

Scrophularia and Cimicifuga Decoction，From *The Treasure of Health* (Vol. 8).，After a stroke, there is a sensation of obstruction and fullness in the throat, swelling behind the epiglottis, and a red tongue; speech is clear and fluent in the morning but slightly hoarse in the afternoon; this is known as “throat obstruction” (喉痹).

Shiquan Yin Gan San，*Fu Qingzhu’s Gynecology: Postpartum Section*, Volume 2.，Genital (hidden insect) sores, which may be painful or itchy, with a crawling sensation, oozing thick discharge, and near-complete erosion of the genitalia, caused by restlessness and stagnation in the heart and kidneys, weakness of stomach qi, and stagnation of qi and blood.