Four Gentlemen Pills

Wind-Dispelling and Muscle-Relieving Pills，From *Gai Weng’s Record of Proven Formulas*.，For rheumatic conditions manifesting as red rashes over the entire body that feel hot to the touch.

Shengyang Jiebiao Decoction，*The Great Explanation of Cold Damage*, Volume 4.，Exogenous pathogenic factors combined with food stagnation; external pathogenic factors remain unresolved, presenting with fever and chest fullness.

Great Wind-Calming Pearl，*Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 3.，For cases where pathogenic heat has lingered for a long time, depleting true yin; or due to improper treatment of the exterior or reckless purgation; resulting in mental fatigue, emaciation, a weak pulse and vital energy, a crimson tongue with scant coating, and a … Read more

Shiquan Yuzhen Decoction，*Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，For consumptive disorders characterized by a string-like, rapid, fine, or faint pulse; rough, scaly skin; emaciation; inability of food to strengthen the muscles and bones; spontaneous sweating; coughing and retching; shortness of breath; irregular episodes of chills and fever; frequent and chaotic dreams; and instability of vital … Read more

Ox Bile Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 14.，For wind-induced palpitations, mental confusion, and hemiplegia.

Dangfeng San，From *The Compendium of Medical Formulas*, Volume 65, citing *The Treatise on the Eye by Bodhisattva Nagarjuna*.，For eye conditions caused by wind-induced tearing.

Astragalus and Atractylodes Menstrual Regulation Powder，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 11.，In women whose liver fails to store blood and whose spleen fails to govern blood—particularly those over 50, or even those aged 60–70—sudden menstrual bleeding may occur, manifesting as clots of purplish blood or a trickle of red blood; this is a precursor … Read more

Xie Dan Decoction，*Secret Transmission of Proven Internal and External Prescriptions*.，Chronic nasal discharge with foul-smelling mucus.

Fei Bai Powder，From *Resolving the Root of Illness*, Volume 4.，Patchy skin peeling.

Decoction for Nourishing Yin and Clearing Heat，From *Huiyue*, Volume 3.，Residual heat from cold damage, with thirst, dark urine, restlessness, and hard stools; pulse is洪 (Hong).

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.

Chai-Ge Pingwei Powder，From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 4.，For damp-heat malaria presenting with a string-like and long pulse on the right side, accompanied by vomiting, retching, and chest fullness.

Modified Hongmian Powder，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 8.，For children with smallpox complicated by wind-cold, presenting with fever and convulsions.

Bai Lao San，The formula originates from a prescription introduced by Jia, the Deputy Magistrate, citing Kang, the Junior Magistrate (see *Xuanming Lun*, Volume 9); the name appears in *Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 23.，Chronic cough with spontaneous sweating.

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

Stuffed Mutton Tripe，From *Shenghui*, Volume 97.，Weak spleen qi, resulting in inability to digest food.

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

Bamboo Sap Paste，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Shanghai Formula).，For phlegm and saliva rising upward, shortness of breath preventing lying down, and wheezing with cough.

Erling Decoction，*Treatise on the Subtleties of Cold Damage*, Volume 2.，Retained fluid in the body, fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, frequent vomiting and retching, pain in the limbs and joints, pain beneath both flanks, and rumbling in the abdomen.

Formula for Pearl Application，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 182.，For children with “fire-smoke rash,” which begins on the back or spreads to the arms and legs, appearing red as fire.

Sumu Decoction，*Ji Feng*, Volume 16.，Postpartum blood stagnation causing confusion and dizziness, a sallow-black complexion, or lochia rising to the heart causing unbearable pain, accompanied by intermittent chills and fever, vomiting, and loss of appetite.

Gardenia and Fermented Black Bean Decoction，*Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For cases of Shanghan where, after sweating, vomiting, or purgation, the patient experiences restlessness due to deficiency, inability to sleep, mental distress, fullness and distension in the chest and epigastrium, inability to eat despite hunger, a rapid pulse, and a thin, yellow, greasy tongue coating; or for … Read more

Cinnamon and Evodia Decoction，From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 73.，Chest fullness with belching, coldness in the lower abdomen, and pain in the umbilical region and abdomen.

Angelica and Rehmannia Nourishing Blood Decoction，*Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 2.，For cases of Shanghan with a “ruined syndrome,” characterized by fever and thirst, with a tongue coating and tongue resembling a roasted pork kidney.

Rehmannia Decoction with Ginseng to Cool the Blood，*Complete Book on Measles*, Volume 2.，For women with measles who, during the fever phase, experience heat entering the blood chamber, causing their menstrual period to arrive prematurely and persist for four days or more.