Five Corpses Pills

Eucommia and Dried Tangerine Peel Pills，From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 18.，For vomiting.

Disinfecting and Rejuvenating Pills，*The Great Treasure of Health*, Volume 1.，For epidemic-induced headaches and pain in the tendons and bones, characterized by chills followed by fever; a white tongue coating at the onset, turning yellow on the 3rd–4th day, and developing black, spiky projections on the 5th–6th day; constipation or watery diarrhea; scanty, yellowish-red urine; and, … Read more

Shenqu Wine，From *De Xiao*, Volume 3.，For sudden, sharp lower back pain; lower back pain caused by food stagnation.

Pear Syrup，*Selected Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas from Beijing*.，For coughs due to lung heat, characterized by a dry mouth, hoarseness or loss of voice, and shortness of breath or wheezing.

Astragalus, Atractylodes, and Coix Seed Decoction，*Yi Chun Sheng Yi*, Volume 1.，Relieves spasms. Indicated when heat pathogens are retained by dampness, causing heaviness in the body, stiffness in the joints, and fever that persists despite sweating.

Chaihu Siwu Decoction，*Medical Levels*, Volume 7.，Women suffering from stroke, with alternating chills and fever, excessive heat, and irregular menstruation, leading to heat entering the Blood Chamber; lucid by day, delirious at night.

Asafoetida and Thunder Pill Powder，From *Qianjin Yi* (Volume 21), citing *Qibofang*.，For leprosy.

Wound-Healing Pill，Formula from *Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 37; name found in *Formulas for Traumatic Injuries*.，For bleeding from traumatic wounds.

Experienced Tuhe Powder，From *A Concise Compendium on the Plague*.，Plague; carbuncles; and in children, boils with white blisters or weeping sores.

Fangfeng and Dried Kudzu Decoction，*Causes, Symptoms, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 1.，Pathogenic factors invade the Yangming channel; wind affects the right side, causing a deviated mouth and eyes; the pulse at the right Guan position is string-like and long.

Ju Xian Pills，From *Liangpeng Huiji*, Volume 5.，For nocturnal emissions.

Shenlong Powder，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 24.，For “running horse” thrush.

Life-Nourishing Pill，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 381), citing *Fu’s Formulas for Saving Infants*.，When the five types of malnutrition affect the internal organs, causing sores on the tongue and mouth.

Mo Yun Powder，*Outline of Surgical Treatise on Ulcers*, Volume 2.，For redness and corneal opacities.

Danggui Sini Decoction with Wu Zhu Yu and Ginger，*Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For cold and numbness in the hands and feet, a fine pulse nearly imperceptible, and chronic internal cold. Currently used for thromboangiitis obliterans, Raynaud’s disease, chronic urticaria, frostbite, etc.; it may also be used for chronic gastrointestinal diseases with severe pain and vomiting, headaches, … Read more

Cuo Kou San，From *Pocket Guide*, Volume 4.，For infant umbilical wind causing clenched mouth.

Wind-Dissolving Pills，From *Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 1.，For men and women suffering from left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness, facial and ocular deviation, hemiplegia, slurred speech, numbness in the hands and feet, difficulty walking, and pain throughout the body.

Wood Fragrance and Large Belly Pills，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 67.，Chronic accumulation of cold qi.

Qi-Dispersing and Stomach-Relieving Powder，From *Secret Manual of Prenatal and Childbirth Care*, Volume 1.，For cases where, due to excessive anger during pregnancy, the chest and diaphragm feel full and oppressed, or where the use of qi-regulating or qi-depleting medications has been excessive, leading to a further increase in fullness and oppression.

Great Sage Ze Lan Powder，*Six Books on Medical Essentials*, Volume 30.，For postpartum mania with a pulse that is洪, 数, 软, and 涩.

Cinnabar Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 199.，Malarial Fevers.

Artemisia Capillaris Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 28.，For acute jaundice with abdominal pain.

Chuanxiong, Danggui, and Shouwu Decoction，From *The Collection of Compassionate Guidance*, Volume 2.，Malaria in pregnant women, with unceasing chills and fever.

Immortal’s Golden Thread Powder，From *The Great Compendium of Medical Formulas*, Volume 9, citing a formula by Xu Tongzhi.，For women after childbirth suffering from blood-induced fainting, blood deficiency, stagnant blood that fails to disperse, alternating chills and fever, epigastric discomfort, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, joint pain, and skin ulcers caused by blood stasis.

Decoction for Nourishing the Nutritive and Defensive Qi，*Medical Inventions* (Renwei Edition), Volume 6.，In cases of sores and swellings, damp-heat stagnates in the Shao Yang channels of the hands and feet, causing the blood vessels to stagnate and reverse flow. This weakens the Nourishing and Defensive Qi throughout the body, resulting in a flushed, red, and … Read more