Four-Ingredient Decoction for Relieving Vertigo

Wu Chen Pills，*Yi Ji*, Volume 8.，For pain caused by qi reversal, or unstoppable bloody stools.

Night-Bright Pill，Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in *New Book on the Care of Infants* (Volume 23).，For abdominal distension due to the “Five Wastes” syndrome, accompanied by dry eyes and excessive sleepiness.

Cress Seed Pills，Formula from *Wai Tai* (Vol. 10), citing *Cui’s Formulas*; name found in *Pu Ji Fang* (Vol. 183).，For cough due to lung heat, accompanied by shortness of breath and severe wheezing, inability to sit or lie down, swelling of the body and face, and severe distension that prevents the intake of food and drink.

Formula from the West，*The Mystic Pearl of Chishui*, Volume 5.，Abdominal masses causing distension and pain, with difficulty in urination and defecation.

Nourishing the Organs Decoction，From *The Golden Mirror of Smallpox and Rash* (Vol. 1).，Dysentery.

Scutellaria and Atractylodes Four-Ingredient Decoction，From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 44.，For menstruation occurring earlier than expected with heavy bleeding caused by heat. When Liver Wood overpowers Earth, heat is accompanied by dampness, leading to excessive menstrual flow.

Zeling Powder，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 386.，A child with generalized edema, shortness of breath, and refusal to eat.

Crimson Silk Ointment，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 173.，In children with a pre-existing condition of malnutrition, compounded by weakness of the stomach and intestines, an invasion of cold pathogens may lead to diarrhea. If this persists without resolution, the stomach and intestines become increasingly depleted; cold and dampness then combine, causing parasites to become active due to this … Read more

Xuanbi Decoction，*Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 1.，For Taiyin damp-heat with qi stagnation and bi syndrome causing retching.

Honey Decoction，*Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For Yangming syndrome with spontaneous sweating; if the patient has been made to sweat and urination is unimpeded, this indicates internal depletion of body fluids. Although the condition appears severe, it must not be treated with purgation.

Blood-Nourishing and Fetal-Stabilizing Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Qingdao Formula).，For pregnant women with lower back and abdominal pain and fetal restlessness.

Rose Pills，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 123.，For heat in the upper burner, sores in the throat with red bases and white heads, thick and turbid phlegm and saliva, and a foul, fishy odor in the mouth.

Roasted Liver Powder，From *Guide to Formulas*, cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 228.，Excessive consumptive disease, weakness, and loose stools.

Dried Persimmon Porridge，Formula from *Classified Materia Medica* (Vol. 23), citing *Dietary Therapy Materia Medica*; name found in *Recipes for Longevity Medicinal Porridges*.，For hemorrhagic conditions such as autumn dysentery in children, hematemesis in the elderly, dry cough with blood, chronic dysentery with bloody stools, and bleeding from hemorrhoids.

Shiquan Kuai Ban Decoction，*Complete Book on Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 1.，For the initial stage of smallpox, when vomiting and diarrhea prevent food intake; subsequently, the diarrhea ceases, and the smallpox lesions appear grayish-white with flat tops.

Decoction for Clearing Heat and Resolving Dampness，From *Selected Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，Damp-heat in the Upper Jiao.

Chuanxiong-Danggui Baoyuan Decoction，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 57.，For smallpox with deficiency of qi and blood, where, at the time of the “guangjiang” stage, the pustule is round and full but shows no red halo at the base.

Tiding Pills，From *Yuji Weiyi*, Volume 15.，For life-threatening carbuncles accompanied by delirium; also treats scrofula.

Zhuge Liang’s Peace Powder，From *Insights into Medicine*, Volume 3.，In cases of dry cholera, where the patient feels the urge to vomit but cannot, or the urge to have a bowel movement but cannot, and the condition changes in the blink of an eye, it is called “intestinal agitation”; or if the entire body turns purplish-black, … Read more

Gypsum and Scutellaria Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 31.，Following a bout of cold damage, symptoms recur as before after consuming meat or exerting oneself: high fever, headache, restlessness, and a desire to vomit; urine is reddish-yellow.

Chicken-Herb Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu* (Renwei Edition), Volume 120.，For toothache due to kidney deficiency.

Auspicious Oil，*The Secret Teachings of the Blue Sack*.，For damp-toxin leg sores characterized by constant oozing of yellow fluid, frequent scab formation, and intense itching.

Black Bean and Garlic Soup，Zhang Wenzhong cited a formula by Tao (see *Wai Tai*, Volume 2).，For warm-toxin-induced diarrhea.

Intestinal-Drying Pills，From *Yunqi Zi’s Collection for Preserving Life*, Volume 2.，For cases of typhoid fever where, after sweating or purgation, urination and defecation are unimpeded but abdominal pain persists.

Ziyang Dan，From *Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 7.，For boils and abscesses.