Four Aged Herbs Decoction

Women’s Blood-Nourishing Pills，*Manual of Chinese Herbal Formulations*.，For women with blood deficiency, irregular menstruation that comes and goes intermittently, scanty and pale menstrual flow, abdominal pain and lower back soreness, mental fatigue, afternoon hot flashes, coughing, and spontaneous sweating.

Xanthium Decoction，From *Shenghui*, Volume 23.，Relieves wind-induced numbness, skin distension due to deficiency, and weakness and limpness in the limbs.

Ginger-Regulating-the-Middle Decoction，From *Baoming Gejue*, Volume 19.，For cholera without thirst.

Wanfu Dan，From *The Profound Secrets of the Divine Realm*, Volume 12.，For bleeding from a wound caused by a sharp blade.

Miltoseng Pills for Sucking，From *Shenghui*, Volume 46.，Chronic lung-related wheezing and cough.

Ma Guan’s Wine from Changshan，*Qian Jin*, Volume 8.，For ailments affecting the lower back and knees.

Houpo Sanwu Decoction，*Jin Gui* (The Golden Chamber), Volume 1.，Abdominal distension and pain, constipation. Abdominal distension and fever lasting over 10 days. Heat in the abdomen, difficult bowel movements. Abdominal pain due to summer-dampness, hard stools. Pain from food stagnation; sudden abdominal pain caused by excessive consumption of cold foods; pain resembling a piercing sensation; or … Read more

Compound Formula for Dispelling Wind and Unblocking Meridians，Formula from *Selected Clinical Experiences of Guan Youbo*; name found in *A Thousand Family’s Wonderful Formulas*.，Brainstem demyelinating disease characterized by yin deficiency with yang hyperactivity and wind-phlegm obstructing the meridians. Symptoms include dizziness, a sensation of fullness in the head, tinnitus, numbness in the face and right limb, … Read more

Zhen Ting Powder，From *Xuanming Lun*, Volume 14.，For children with convulsions and wheezing, abdominal distension, and cough.

Eye-Tightening Pill，*Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 3.，Deficiency of both qi and blood, causing eye pain; the pupils are larger than the iris; vision is impaired, perceiving small objects as large.

Well Spring Stone Powder，Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in Volume 25 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，Eye sores: Pathogenic heat attacks the eyes, causing opacities that damage the cornea and pupil.

Decoction of Malvaseeds for Expelling the Placenta，Formula from *Qianjin* (Vol. 2); name cited in *Yilue Liushu* (Vol. 30).，For a stillborn fetus retained in the womb, or when the mother is ill and requires its expulsion. Also for postpartum blood stasis obstruction, a dry uterus, and a涩 pulse.

Jiangzhen Longgu Powder，From *Yi Tong*, Volume 79.，For fractures caused by blows or falls.

Cane-Free Pills，Formula from *Classified Materia Medica* (Vol. 11), citing *Collected Effective Formulas*; name cited in *Classified Materia Medica* (Vol. 11), citing *Sun Zhao’s Formulas*.，Accumulation of wind-toxin in the kidneys, causing heaviness in the lower back and knees. Cold stagnation in the abdomen; long-standing accumulation of phlegm and fluid in the heart and diaphragm; masses, lumps, … Read more

Dampness-Resolving Elixir，From *The Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 3.，Dampness has invaded both kidneys, causing lower back pain that prevents bending forward, pain along the spine, and soreness in both legs.

Divinely Bestowed Supreme Life-Preserving Pill，From *General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 6).，For all types of convulsions, epilepsy, wind-induced spasms, and stroke, as well as fetal convulsions with internal agitation, abdominal rigidity, nighttime crying with fever, acute and chronic convulsive wind, severe and distressing symptoms, upward staring with convulsive twitching, opisthotonos, falling backward and losing consciousness, and … Read more

Glutinous Rice Flour (Chu)，*Essentials of Diet and Nutrition*, Volume 1.，

Cart-Pusher’s Powder，*Yizong Shuoyue*, Volume 5.，Hemorrhoidal fistula.

Qinggu San，From *De Xiao*, Volume 9.，For women, young boys, and young girls who first show signs of consumptive disease.

Family-Secret Pig Manure Powder，From *Jiyuan Fang*, cited in Volume 24 of *Wai Tai*.，For chronic abscesses and deep ulcers—those that are deeply gangrenous, blue-black in color, with firm edges, and from which pus, blood, and foul discharge ooze from the center, or from which fragments of bone may occasionally emerge—first wash the affected area with Red … Read more

Cloud-Dispelling Pill，*Resolving the Source of the Origin*, Volume 4.，In cases of severe leprosy causing unbearable numbness throughout the body.

Rhinoceros Horn Ointment Formula，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 149.，Poison from the arrow-toad.

Mild Stone-Expelling Decoction，Formula cited from Guang’anmen Hospital of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in *Famous Formulas Through the Ages*.，Urinary tract stones.

Lingxi Pill，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 1.，For all types of wind disorders, slurred speech, and mental confusion.

Cinnamon Twig and Peach Kernel Decoction，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 17.，For women with absent menstruation, severe abdominal pain, or a mass below the navel. Cold qi lodges in the blood chamber, causing blood to congeal and fail to flow; the accumulated blood is impacted by qi, and fresh blood clashes with stagnant blood, thus obstructing the … Read more