Four-Ingredient Winter Malva Root Decoction

Decoction for Expelling Stagnant Blood Below the Diaphragm，From *Corrections to Medical Forest*, Volume 1.，For masses and lumps caused by stagnation, pain that remains localized, a sensation of abdominal heaviness when lying down, as well as kidney-related diarrhea and chronic diarrhea resulting from blood stasis.

Erxiang Qingchan Pills，From *General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 12).，For chronic malnutrition with accumulated heat, characterized by a sallow complexion, dry mouth, nail-biting, furrowing of the brow, craving for salt and soil, coughing, a distended abdomen with visible blue veins, and emaciation and weakness.

Labor-Inducing Life-Saving Pill，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 356.，

Qing Powder，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 9.，For spring-onset cold damage characterized by headache and fever.

Formula for Replenishing Fluids，From *Essence of Ancient Formulas*, Volume 1.，For bloody diarrhea flowing like a torrent, as well as abdominal pain at the onset of dysentery, with stools resembling cinnabar or the color of pork liver.

Guangling Dan，*Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack: The Gate of Elixirs*.，To treat toxic sores in the yin system.

Tianshui Intestinal Cleansing Decoction，*Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，For chronic diarrhea that has not healed, with the intestines so severely inflamed that they have become gangrenous, accompanied by intermittent sharp pain, and where the patient has become emaciated and weak due to prolonged illness.

Jinqi Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 72.，For women with chronic blood stasis and stagnation who experience pain below the navel whenever their menstrual period arrives.

Decoction for Dispelling Stagnant Blood and Relieving Pain，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 2.，Latent spleen fire combined with stagnant blood causes severe pain in the right flank, with swelling as large as an inverted cup; the area cannot be pressed, and pressing it intensifies the pain.

Madder and Thistle Decoction，From *The Collection of the Unsettled* (Volume 2), Volume 11.，For stagnant blood causing distension in the chest and back, accompanied by coughing up red sputum resembling rotten pig’s lung.

Tianma and Gou Teng Decoction，*General Essentials of Health* (Wei Sheng Zong Wei), Volume 5.，Due to vomiting and diarrhea, deficiency of the spleen and stomach gives rise to wind, which transforms into slow convulsions.

Ba’an’s Roasted Licorice Formula，*Direct Pointers*, Volume 22.，Boils, abscesses, and fistulas.

Bone-Healing Powder，*Zhun Sheng: Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 5.，Bone-Setting Horse (Qi).

Decoction for Draining the Lungs and Unblocking the Orifices，From *Yi Pan Zhu*, Volume 4.，Lung distension, fluttering of the nostrils, profuse sweating, chest tightness and shortness of breath, with a tight and rapid lung pulse.

Decoction of Aconite and Deer Antler，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 7.，Deficiency of liver and kidney qi, accompanied by pain in the limbs.

Scutellaria and Coptis Stomach-Harmonizing Powder，*Complete Book of Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 3.，Dampness accumulating in the stomach and intestines, causing the navel area to be intensely itchy without pain or swelling, with occasional discharge of yellow fluid, or spreading to form patches.

Xuanmai Dihuang Decoction，*Supplement to the Great Dictionary of Chinese Medicine*.，Yin deficiency, heart fire causing mania, and insufficiency of kidney water.

Eight Stones Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 23.，For cases of excessive yang in typhoid fever accompanied by restlessness, as well as summer heat-induced agitation.

Shi Xuan Powder，*Complete Book of Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 2.，For rashes accompanied by a swollen and painful throat.

Erxiang Decoction，*Complete Collection on Survival from Cold Damage*, Volume 4.，For heatstroke, vomiting, headache, diarrhea, chest fullness, or abdominal pain.

Seven-Qi Decoction，From *Formulas for Treating Injuries and Fractures*.，For chronic, long-standing damage that has penetrated the meridians, where medication has proven ineffective; characterized by stiffness and tightness in the lower back and spine, coughing with phlegm, episodes of wind-induced fatigue, progressive emaciation, and recurrence of the condition every autumn.

Secret-Transmitted Meridian-Following Pills，From *Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Zhu Family*, Volume 1.，For wind-pathogen, cold, and dampness affecting the meridians and collaterals, leading to stagnation of qi and blood, pain caused by impaired circulation, and cramping of tendons and vessels.

Treasure Life Pill，From *Puji Fang*, Volume 93, citing *Boji*.，For paralysis caused by wind and chronic paralysis.

Pus-Draining and Detoxifying Decoction，*Ren Duan Lu*, Volume 6.，For cases where the fever associated with smallpox has subsided but the lesions do not enlarge.

Newly Formulated Orchid Ointment Decoction，*Treatise on Warm Syndrome Caused by Sheep’s Wool*.，For warm pathogenic factors caused by sheep’s wool, resulting in deficiency of qi and blood; or latent toxic heat from sheep’s wool within half a month after childbirth, presenting with chest tightness and poor appetite, alternating chills and fever, pain in the head and … Read more