Formula for Phlegm-Fire

Family Secret Zhi Ke Huang Lian Decoction，*Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 4.，Diarrhea due to internal heat. Fever and thirst; dry lips and teeth; dark, scanty, and painful urination; abdominal pain followed immediately by diarrhea, which stops as soon as it begins; pain and diarrhea recur shortly thereafter; a burning sensation in the anus; stools … Read more

Tinnitus Pills，From *Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing*.，Indicated for deficiency of kidney yin, rising liver heat, tinnitus and hearing loss, severe constipation, and dark yellow urine.

Longevity and Vitality-Preserving Paste，*Selected Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas from Beijing*.，For men: qi deficiency, nocturnal emissions, and testicular hernia. For women: abdominal pain due to cold blood, leukorrhea, and pain in the lower back and legs.

Tangerine Peel Phlegm-Resolving Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Tianjin Formula).，For cough due to deficiency-heat, shortness of breath and wheezing, excessive phlegm, and chest tightness with pain.

Dragon-Shedding Cake，*Continuation of the Easy and Simple Formulas*, Volume 5.，For smallpox in children where residual toxins ascend to the throat, causing the voice to fail.

Spleen-Nourishing Decoction，*Dian Dian Jing*, Volume 2.，Excessive alcohol and food damage the spleen, causing an inability to retain fluids and excessive sleepiness.

Enhanced Da Zao Decoction，From *Fu Qingzhu’s Gynecology: Postpartum Section*, Volume 2.，Postpartum bone-consumptive fever.

Spleen-Assisting Pills，From *Danxi’s Heart Method*, Volume 3.，For abdominal masses.

Da Lou Pills，*Selected Essentials of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 5.，Fistulas and sores.

Eight Immortals’ Miraculous Response Pill，*Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 18.，For men, women, and children suffering from external pathogens or internal injuries that cause food and fluid to stagnate in the stomach and intestines, leading to the formation of worms and masses, nausea, vomiting, acid regurgitation, abdominal discomfort, malaria, dysentery, jaundice, edema, abdominal distension, and … Read more

Frankincense Poultice Formula，*Compendium of Sacred Remedies*, Volume 131.，For a boil on the back.

Qi-Tonifying and Dysuria-Relieving Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，Several months into pregnancy, frequent and painful urination; urine output remains unchanged; urine is white or occasionally pale yellow; difficulty urinating; distension in the lower back; pale tongue with normal coating; slow and weak pulse.

Xanthium Seed Powder，*Jisheng Fang*，Dispels wind and relieves pain; clears and opens the nasal passages. Indicated for nasal discharge with persistent turbid mucus. The original formula is used for nasal discharge caused by ascending wind-pathogen. Clinically, this formula may be modified to treat acute and chronic rhinitis, sinusitis, and allergic rhinitis—provided the condition is attributed to … Read more

Decoction for Tonifying the Lungs and Strengthening the Spleen，From *Essentials for Medical Practice*, Volume 2.，Nasal Bleeding Due to Deficient Fire.

Huangqin Xie Bai San，From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 1.，Excessive and unguarded sexual activity causes “fire in water” to harm the Metal element, resulting in internal injury and pain in the armpits; heat in the Lung meridian leads to heat accumulation and difficulty in urination. It treats flank pain caused by latent fire in … Read more

Wood Fragrance and Pinellia Pill，From *A New Book on the Care of Infants* (Vol. 16), citing *A Selection of Excellent Medical Formulas*.，For coughs caused by cold in the stomach in children.

Warming the Meridians and Dispelling Wind-Cold Pill，From *Complete Collection of Emergency Treatments for Sha Syndrome*, Volume 2.，Shā syndrome results from excessive consumption of cold and cool substances, causing shā toxins to become obstructed and remain latent without surfacing.

Yuzhong Decoction，From *Collection of Maternal and Prenatal Medicine*, Volume 2.，Postpartum edema.

Elixir of Eternal Life，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 6.，

Decoction for Relieving Dysuria，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 9.，Heat accumulation in the bladder causing dysuria and urinary retention; difficulty in urination; pulling pain in the testicles extending to the small intestine, causing radiating pain.

Talc and White Fish Powder，From *The Golden Chamber* (Volume Middle).，For diabetes insipidus, difficulty urinating, and lower abdominal distension and pain with blood stasis.

Kidney-Nourishing and Du Meridian-Opening Pills，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For asthma due to deficiency-cold, with difficulty expectorating phlegm, chest tightness and oppression, and only 1–2 coughs producing phlegm mixed with slight traces of blood.

Jingju Powder，*Yuanhe Jiyong Jing*.，Treats heart deficiency with cold, headaches, abnormal temperament and behavior, slurred speech, stiff joints, paralysis of the heart and hands, alternating chills and fever in the bones, tearing eyes, and poor growth of teeth and hair.

Purple Aster and Apricot Kernel Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 65.，Qi stagnation in the lungs and incessant coughing in the throat are both caused by deficiency of the lungs, leading to invasion by pathogenic factors, or by cold in the stomach and heat above the diaphragm.

Ephedra Warm-Dampness Decoction，From *A Thousand Family Remedies*, Volume 1, citing a formula by Fan Guo (Mu Liang).，For cases where wind, cold, and dampness pathogens invade the meridians, causing stagnation in the joints, resulting in joint swelling and pain.