Five Gentlemen Decoction

Snake Head Pills，From *The Complete Infant Formulas*, cited in *The Yongle Encyclopedia: Collection of Medicine*, Volume 978.，For acute and chronic convulsions in children, excessive salivation, phlegm obstruction, and intermittent convulsive spasms—regardless of whether the condition is classified as “yin” or “yang”—as long as it presents as a convulsive syndrome.

Decoction for Clearing Heat and Draining Dampness，From *Yu’an*, Volume 2.，Dampness attacks the limbs, causing generalized swelling; the complexion is sallow and listless; and urination is difficult.

Lamb Liver Sandwich，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 21.，For eye conditions such as cataracts and corneal opacities, as well as night blindness and eye weakness in children.

Green Tangerine Peel Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 43.，Unbearable abdominal pain, sweating, and inability to eat.

White Rice Decoction，From *Nourishing the Elderly and Honoring Parents*.，When the elderly have difficulty swallowing—food becomes stuck in the throat as soon as it enters the mouth, causing a sensation of blockage and difficulty in swallowing, along with shortness of breath—

Intranasal Administration of Tribulus Juice，Formula from *Qianjin* (Vol. 6); name cited in *Shenghui* (Vol. 37).，Nasal congestion; inability to smell odors for many years; unceasing discharge of clear fluid.

Stops Bleeding，*Clinical Manual of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas*.，Gastrointestinal hemorrhage, pulmonary hemorrhage.

Earth-Nourishing Pill，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 9.，Deficient yang qi in the spleen and stomach, decline of the fire of the Gate of Life, thin and cold semen; although sexual intercourse is possible, it is often interrupted midway or ejaculation occurs immediately upon penetration.

Poria and Four Reversals Decoction with Pinellia，*Selected Essentials of Medicine*.，For cold-induced epidemics characterized by Shao Yin syndrome with cold extremities, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Divine Immortal Emergency Pill，From the formula of Master Ci Ying of Qingyuan Prefecture, cited in Volume 2 of *Wei’s Family-Treasure Formulas*.，For deficiency of spleen and kidney qi, characterized by intermittent rumbling in the abdomen, distension and fullness in the abdomen and flanks, loss of appetite, constriction and stagnation in the chest and diaphragm, irregular bowel … Read more

Wheat and Red Bean Drink，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 188.，For diabetes.

Gui Jing Fo Shou San，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 12.，For pregnant women who, following a fit of intense anger, experience blood failing to return to its proper channels, resulting in sudden abdominal pain and subsequent miscarriage; or for those who continue to experience abdominal pain after a miscarriage.

San-Wu-Qi Powder，From *De Xiao*, Volume 3.，For dizziness due to yang deficiency, accompanied by headache, aversion to cold, tinnitus, or deafness.

Purple Aster Ointment，Formula from *Ben Cao Yan Yi* (Commentary on the Materia Medica), Volume 18; name cited in *De Xiao* (Effective Remedies), Volume 5.，For chronic cough due to lung heat, with a body feeling as if scorched, emaciation, and signs of impending pulmonary tuberculosis.

Powder for Inducing Vomiting of Breast Milk，From *Collected Insights from Reflection*.，For children with stagnation in the spleen and stomach: vomiting after consuming milk or food; vomiting due to exposure to cold; vomiting due to exposure to dampness; vomiting due to exposure to heat.

Modified Wei-Ling-Wu-Pi Decoction，*Baoming Ge Kuo*, Volume 26.，Various types of edema and shortness of breath.

Three-Ingredient Jianzhong Decoction，From *The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 53.，For exterior deficiency with spontaneous sweating.

Coix Seed Decoction，From *Selected Formulas of Renowned Physicians*.，For cases where blood is present in the vomit, or where corneal opacities have developed, or where blindness has occurred.

Black Plum, White Vitex, and Asarum Pills，*Commentary on the Treatise on Malaria*.，Liver malaria.

Decoction for Restoring Yang and Softening Hardened Masses，From *Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhao Bingnan*.，For chest abscesses, axillary abscesses, and all cases of yin-type abscesses characterized by swollen, hard, and nodular masses without changes in the surface skin.

Qilixiang Decoction，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 12.，Swelling and sores on the legs and knees.

Paulownia Leaf Powder，From *The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 4.，Severe leprosy.

Pinellia Decoction Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 187.，Chest obstruction (xiongbi), with choking, pain, and oppression.

Decoction for Raising Yang and Harmonizing the Middle，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 4.，Yang deficiency with excessive Yin; no wind pathogen is present. The patient experiences numbness throughout the body when closing the eyes, which is less severe during the day and worsens at night; the numbness gradually subsides upon waking and opening the eyes. Occasionally, there … Read more

Bamboo Leaf Powder，From *The Complete Infant Formulas*, cited in Volume 388 of *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，For children with blood in the stool or pure bloody stools.