Formula for Treating Boils

Chongwei Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 32.，Pain in the eyes caused by wind-milia, with occasional tearing.

Gourd Powder，*Essentials of the Crimson Sack*.，Abdominal distension and jaundice with edema.

Tendon-Relaxing and Blood-Activating Wash，From *Lin Rugao’s Experience in Bone Setting*.，For lower limb fractures and late-stage dislocations characterized by stagnant blood and tight, inextensible tendons.

Spring Breeze Powder，From *The Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 9.，For swollen and painful throat, and laryngeal obstruction caused by “choking wind.”

Siwu Jiaohuo Decoction，From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 1.，Low back pain due to blood deficiency and internal injury.

Chinese Yam Pills，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，For lower back pain with cold legs, numbness in the hands and feet, pain in the limbs, and stiffness in the tendons and meridians.

Mangosteen Vinegar Tincture，*Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhao Bingnan*.，Neurodermatitis (chronic tinea), pruritus (urticaria).

Cold-Dispelling and Pain-Relieving Powder，From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 77.，Cold-damp beriberi.

Golden Dragon Pills，From *The Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，Effective for all types of carbuncles, swellings, and toxic sores; falls, sprains, and strains; chest and flank pain; and abscesses close to the bone. Also treats scrofula of all sizes in men and women, as well as tubercles, nodules, phlegm-qi stagnation, hardened masses that have become … Read more

Unchangeable Gold-Rubbing Pouch，*Yi Tong*, Volume 87.，For wind-toxin-induced dry itching all over the body so severe that one cannot stop scratching, as well as heat-induced scrofula, hives, or small sores on the scalp—conditions for which no other medication provides immediate relief.

Cangqin Pills，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 7.，Fever due to damp-heat.

Bitter Shepherd’s Purse Decoction，From *Treatise on General Diseases of Cold Damage*, Volume 3.，For typhoid fever on the 7th–8th day, with intense fever that does not subside.

External Dissolving Ointment，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 166.，Postpartum breast tuberculosis, with pain or swelling, on the verge of forming an abscess.

Qu-Shu Decoction，*The Three Causes*, Volume 16.，Due to exposure to wind and cold while bathing, resulting in hives all over the body; upon scratching, the affected area swells and protrudes; dizziness and retching.

Stone Acorus Decoction，The formula is taken from *Yipan Zhu*, Volume 7, citing *Shishi Milu*; the name appears in *Weisheng Hongbao*, Volume 5.，For “Flower Epilepsy”: When a woman’s emotional desires go unfulfilled, causing the Liver’s Wood element to wither and internal fire to rage, she may suddenly suffer an epileptic seizure. Her pulse at the Cunkou … Read more

Hua Jian Decoction，From *Supplement to the Essentials of Medicine*, Middle Volume.，Mammary abscess refers to a nodule forming in a woman’s breast; initially the size of a plum, it gradually grows to the size of a plum, causing little pain, and only begins to suppurate after a prolonged period.

Elixir for Reviving from All Illnesses，Chapter 8 of *Miraculous Formulas of Han Medicine*.，For stroke-induced aphasia, sudden confusion, and loss of consciousness; for acute and chronic convulsions in children, with limb spasms threatening death; for severe throat constriction, locked jaws, profuse phlegm and saliva, and a sensation of the throat being sawed; for malaria; for phlegm-induced … Read more

Ginger and Ink Pills，From *Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 7, citing *Elbow-Back* (Zhouhou).，For bloody or white diarrhea.

Goose-Pear Decoction，From *Yichun Shengyi*, Volume 3.，For cases where wind-phlegm has entered the lungs, resulting in prolonged, hoarse coughing. For asthma caused by phlegm rising with heat and obstructing the chest and diaphragm.

Soft-Shelled Turtle Head Pills，*Qian Jin*, Volume 5.，For children with epigastric fullness and hard, painful masses in the lower abdomen or under the ribs.

New Sanmiao Powder，From *Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhao Bingnan*.，Acute eczema, infantile eczema, allergic dermatitis, and pustular dermatitis.

Scutellaria Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 62.，For severe heat causing abscesses on the back or in the groin area.

Lily Pill，Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in Volume 6 of *New Book on Infant Care*.，Pectus carinatum in children.

Liu Miao Pills，*Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Zhu Family*, Volume 11.，Malnutrition.

Horsefly Powder，From *Collected Essays on Surgery*, Volume 8.，For trauma and contusions with internal stagnation of blood.