Five-Decoction Paste

Compound Mulberry Paste，*Zhejiang Provincial Drug Standards*.，Blood deficiency and yin deficiency; neurasthenia; dizziness and blurred vision; soreness and pain in the lower back and waist.

Cinnamon Twig and Atractylodes Decoction，*Medical Lamp of Transmission*, Volume 1.，For rheumatic pain throughout the body, accompanied by sweating, shortness of breath, aversion to wind, and reluctance to remove clothing, with a deep, fine, slow, and weak pulse.

Schisandra Wine，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 9.，This formula treats a condition characterized by deficiency of the Nutritive Qi and excess of the Defensive Qi, resulting in numbness of the muscles; the disease is known as “Rou Ke.”

Cypress Decoction Pills，*Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 398.，For childhood convulsions and wasting disease, characterized by fever, red cheeks, dry and brittle hair, dry skin, restlessness, bloating, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Four Substances Decoction with Tianma and Gou Teng，From *Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 3.，Blood deficiency in the Liver Meridian gives rise to wind and heat.

Appendicitis Anti-inflammatory Pills，Formula sourced from *Beijing Standards for Traditional Chinese Patent Medicines* (Volume 2); name listed in *Compendium of Traditional Chinese Medicine Preparations*.，Acute appendicitis.

Abdominal Pain Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 393.，For children with malnutrition, abdominal distension, labored breathing, or intestinal rumbling and diarrhea.

He Rong Yi Qi Decoction，From *Yu’an*, Volume 3.，Pain in the chest and abdomen caused by injuries from falls or impacts.

Mulberry Branch Decoction，*Shenghui*, Volume 25.，For pain in the hands and feet caused by wind-toxin, possibly accompanied by redness, swelling, or numbness of the skin.

Dragon and Tiger Yin-Nourishing Pill，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 7.，For nocturnal emissions.

Changshan and Licorice Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 35.，Phlegm-induced malaria with alternating chills and fever.

Pig Gallbladder Slice，From *Ghost’s Legacy*, Volume 4.，For abscesses and carbuncles in the first 1–2 days, when pain is mild.

White Sophora Bark Decoction，From *Wei Ji Bao Shu*, Volume 2.，Ulcers and sores.

Realgar and Wood Fragrance Pills，From *Bo Ji*, Volume 2.，For men and women alike suffering from all types of cold qi, piercing pain, or conditions that have developed into masses—which may appear and disappear irregularly and cause severe pain when they flare up.

Purple Pills，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 5.，For children with “bianzheng” (a type of childhood fever), where the fever persists and is accompanied by symptoms of typhoid or warm-type fever, or where the fever does not subside after sweating; as well as for those with phlegm-mass in the abdomen, inability to take breast milk, vomiting or … Read more

Xiao Yu Pills，*Ji Feng*, Volume 19.，For diabetes with uncontrolled urination.

Cow Bile Detoxifying Powder，From *Essentials for Infant Care*, Volume 12.，For fetal toxicity manifesting as scaly rashes on the head and face—or spreading to the entire body—accompanied by itching, pain, restlessness, and persistent, spreading lesions that do not heal, as well as sores between the eyebrows and carbuncles.

Modified Kaiyu Erchen Decoction，*Bamboo Grove Gynecology*, Volume 1.，A woman who is obese, with phlegm stagnation causing amenorrhea.

Ginseng and Dried Ginger Decoction，From *Yifang Yijian*, Volume 2.，Uterine prolapse.

Aged Perilla Powder，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 242.，For beriberi, scanty and difficult urination, abdominal distension and fullness, phlegm rising, and loss of appetite.

Yuanzhi Decoction for Children，From *Ji Sheng*, Volume 1.，For deficiency-cold due to mental exhaustion, characterized by palpitations, confusion, forgetfulness, restlessness, and nightmares.

Resuscitation Powder，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Kunming Formula).，For wind-cold common cold, food stagnation with qi stagnation, nausea, and vomiting.

Emergency Mung Bean Pills，From *Comprehensive Treatise on Smallpox and Measles*.，For heatstroke and heat exhaustion during the summer months, abdominal pain, cholera with muscle cramps, “sheep’s wool” carbuncles, intestinal colic, and dysentery.

Xianglian Decoction，From *Explanations of Ophthalmology*, Volume 3.，Eye pain that worsens at night.

Double-White Pill，*Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 14.，For accumulated cold in the spleen and stomach, deficiency of yin and yang, uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea, and diarrhea with pus and blood.