Five-Weakness Decoction

Five Spicy Herbs to Relieve Diaphragmatic Stagnation Decoction，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.，Chronic cold accumulation, stabbing pain in the chest and abdomen, distension and fullness in the flanks, vomiting and nausea, belching with a sour taste and regurgitation of acid, fatigue, and loss of appetite.

Pill for Tonifying the Extra Meridians，*Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 5.，For malaria, leukorrhea, and irregular menstruation.

Coptis and Four Substances Decoction，*Secrets of Infant Care*, Volume 3.，Pediatric diarrhea consisting entirely of blood.

Decoction for Dissolution and Tonification，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 7.，For masses and lumps associated with pregnancy, as well as cases where the condition is unclear whether it is related to pregnancy or not.

Eye-Dropping Decoction，*Treatise on General Diseases of Cold Damage*, Volume 3.，Internal cataracts causing blindness, resulting from careless consumption of alcohol, wheat products, roasted foods, or pungent spices following an illness.

Clearing and Moistening Decoction，*The Jade Case*, Volume 6.，For all types of hemorrhoids and fistulas.

Single-Stroke Outline，Formula by Zhou Hexian, cited in Volume 8 of *The Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*.，All types of swollen abscesses.

Sheep’s-thistle Pills，*Shenghui*, Volume 37.，For nasal polyps causing obstruction.

Incense-Burning Diaphragm-Penetrating Powder，*Xuanming Lun*, Volume 9.，For chronic cough due to overwork, with chest and diaphragm congestion, fullness, and distension.

Great Musk Pills，From Hua Tuo’s formula as cited in *Shen Shi Fang* (see *Wai Tai*, Volume 20).，Edema. In cases of triple burner leakage, where fluid accumulates outside the flanks and the abdomen is uniquely distended, or where fluid accumulates within the abdomen.

Real Lacquer Paste，*Yi Tong*, Volume 85.，For all types of postpartum blood-related pain and various pains associated with the postpartum period.

Deep-Probing Pill，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 3.，Chronic nasal discharge. Yellowish-turbid nasal discharge, resembling pus or marrow, with a foul odor so strong it is unbearable to smell.

Sliced Pork Pancreas，From *Shou Shi Qing Bian*.，For lung damage with coughing up blood or hemoptysis, and lung abscess.

White Atractylodes Pills for Eliminating Fluid Retention，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 63.，For phlegm-induced masses, phlegm retention from alcohol consumption, abdominal masses with difficulty in elimination, vomiting, blurred vision, deafness, and gurgling sounds in the intestines.

Gardenia Powder，From *Zhun Sheng: Shanghan* (Volume 6), citing *Sun Zhao’s Formulas*.，In cases of intense heat-toxin inflammation, with spots appearing all over the body; in severe cases, sores resembling peas may develop.

Spleen-Fortifying Pills，*General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 12).，For children with malnutrition, chronic weakness, and cold deficiency, presenting with white dysentery, diarrhea, and cold hands and feet.

Cooling Seven-Ingredient Decoction，*Six Books of Medical Essentials*, Volume 30.，Hemoptysis; pulse: weak and soft at the Cui position, with a rapid rhythm.

Pepper-Filled Pills，From *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 1.，For chronic dysentery with spleen-related watery diarrhea and bloody stools.

Wind-Dispelling and Intestinal-Moistening Pills，From *The Pocket Guide*, Volume 1, citing *The Holy Beneficence*.，Disharmony of the Three Jiao, chest fullness and oppression, impaired ascension and descent of qi, slow digestion of food, dryness and涩ness in the stomach and intestines, and hard, constipated stools.

Hairline Powder，*Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhu Renkang*.，For folliculitis, impetigo, or infected eczema.

Two-Milk Decoction，Formula from *Qianjin* (Vol. 5); name cited in *Puji Fang* (Vol. 365).，For lockjaw in children.

Three-Ingredient Black Snake Powder，*Compendium of Sacred Remedies*, Volume 137.，All types of dry and wet tinea.

Lingzao Pill，From *Yu’an*, Volume 6.，Treats “running horse teeth” sores and all types of oral sores.

Qingxia Formula，From *Ophthalmology Treasure Chest*, Volume 4.，Eye disorders—whether painful or painless, involving corneal opacities or blindness, accompanied by headaches or tinnitus—all fall under the category of “fire rising upward.”

Emergency Mutong Decoction，From *Ge Yazi Zun Sheng*, Volume 13.，Constipation with unbearable abdominal pain.