Five-Depression Decoction

Jade-Dust Paste，*San Yin*, Volume 9.，For hematuria, the five types of dysuria, and urinary calculi accompanied by unbearable pain.

Amber and Ginseng Pills，From *Zhang’s Comprehensive Treatise on Medicine*, Volume 13.，Blood-related parasitic infestation.

White Plum Powder，Formula from *The Correct Transmission of Medicine*, Volume 8; name cited in *The Comprehensive Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pediatric Diseases*.，Mouth sores in children.

Enhanced Xianyi Liang Powder，From *Fushou Jingfang*.，For chronic pain caused by a long-standing wind-dampness invasion affecting the tendons and bones.

Blood-Stasis-Expelling Decoction，From *Supplement to the Essentials of the Guanjù Formulas*, Volume 9.，For women with stagnant blood causing generalized severe swelling.

Zhengqi Powder，From *The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 4.，For severe cases of cold-induced fever or common cold.

Modified Ginseng and Perilla Decoction，From *Wan’s Gynecology*, Volume 2.，For cough during pregnancy, where the condition first manifests as aversion to wind and cold, fever with a cold sensation in the nose, or a runny nose with clear discharge.

Zhishi-Binlang Pills，From *Xuanming Lun*, Volume 11.，For masses, lumps, or abdominal fullness resembling pregnancy; for women with a “ghost fetus” presenting with a涩数 pulse.

Horse-Reins Ash Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 140.，For gunshot wounds and cases where an arrow has penetrated the flesh and cannot be removed, accompanied by swelling and pain.

Apricot-Ginseng Powder，*Formulas of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 4 (Supplementary Collection of Empirical Secret Formulas from Various Bureaus).，Fullness and distension in the chest and flanks, shortness of breath and wheezing, inability to lie down or sleep due to labored breathing, and mental confusion.

Xiaoxia Po Xue Decoction，*Zhun Sheng: Yao Yi* (Treatise on Surgical Medicine), Volume 6.，Injury to the lower diaphragm.

White Tiger Decoction with Angelica Dahurica，*The Precious Mirror of Health*, Volume 9.，Yangming-type headache, fever, aversion to cold, and thirst.

Cold-Cooling Fire-Reducing Decoction，From *Essential Treatise on Measles*.，Rashes caused by suppressed heat that fails to dissipate, resulting in cracked lips, obstruction of urination and defecation, drowsiness with intense fever, or bodily distension and pain, often accompanied by shortness of breath and wheezing.

Bu Gong Pills，From *The Heart Book of Bian Que: Divine Formulas*.，For women with chronic uterine coldness and irregular menstruation, resulting in lower abdominal pain accompanied by lower back pain, sallow complexion, emaciation, weakness in the limbs, loss of appetite, fever, frequent night sweats, and red or white vaginal discharge.

Stomach-Soothing and Nourishing Decoction，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 3.，For distension and fullness in the chest and diaphragm, with reduced appetite.

Decoction for Cold and Dampness Combined，From *The Authentic Treatise on Pulse and Symptoms*, Volume 1.，Syndrome of combined cold and dampness.

Egg-String Cake，From *Shenghui*, Volume 97.，For debility and emaciation.

Gooseberry Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 54.，For latent heat in the lower jiao (stomach and intestines); and for women experiencing fetal heat leading to difficult labor.

Peach Kernel and Artemisia Decoction Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 177.，For children under 15 years of age suffering from bone-consuming fever, night sweats, body heat, cough, restlessness, and thirst.

Enhanced Neituo Shixuan Powder，From *Miscellaneous Remarks on Treating Uncommon Ailments*, Volume 10.，For smallpox with deficiency of both qi and blood, resulting in insufficient serous fluid; this leads to residual toxins after the eruption, manifesting as white rather than red lesions that lie flat without elevation, show no heat upon palpation, and cause a deeply distressed … Read more

Perilla and Frankincense Decoction，*General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 14).，For coughs caused by lung congestion in children.

Polygala Decoction，From *Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 3.，Deficiency of the Heart and Kidney, mental confusion, and nocturnal emissions.

Blood-Nourishing and Vitality-Enhancing Decoction，From *Compendium of Mumps Disorders*, Volume 3.，Blood deficiency manifesting as numbness and pallor, emaciation, and a sallow complexion.

Pill for Reviving the Dying and Rescuing the Moribund，From *The Mystic Pearl of the Red Water*, Volume 28.，When smallpox lesions appear grayish-white, with cold qi rising upward, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, vomiting, abdominal pain, watery diarrhea, and cold hands and feet.

Weiyang Ganzao Decoction，*Essentials of the Collection of Discussions on Symptoms, Causes, and Formulas*, Volume 1.，When Yin fails to support Yang, the patient remains awake until dawn.