Four Sages Decoction

Miaohua Dan，Formula by Liu Binqi, cited in Volume 16 of *The Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*.，For scorpion stings and snake bites.

Bear Bile Powder，*Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 10.，Hemorrhoidal fistulas. The wound does not close; the pus is thin and watery; the swelling is hard and persistent.

Winter Melon Seed Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 33.，Blurred vision, with a hazy, indistinct appearance.

Muxiang Zhengqi Powder，*Golden Needles of Pediatrics*, Volume 1.，Abdominal pain in children accompanied by heat, with a flushed face, high fever, restlessness in the limbs, and hot palms.

Weilingxian Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 185.，For men with wind-deficiency in the spleen and kidney, exhaustion of qi and blood, reduced appetite, fatigue in the limbs, weak qi and palpitations, heat above and cold below, a bitter taste in the mouth, and a dry tongue.

Old Cypress Bark Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 33.，For night blindness, where one cannot see anything after dusk.

Modified Ganju Decoction，From *Selected Essentials on Measles and Rashes*.，For cases of choking due to a cold contracted after a rash.

Water-Sinking Gold-Thread Ointment，From *Rumen Shiquin*, Volume 15.，For all types of malignant sores.

Eternal Light Wine，*Formulas of the Hall of Cultivating Blessings*, Volume 2.，Hemorrhoidal fistula.

Hai Tong Pi Pills，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 8.，For stroke: uncoordinated movement of the hands and feet, body pain, and stiffness in the shoulders and back.

Snakehead Fish Soup，*Shenghui*, Volume 54.，Sudden swelling of the face and body, dryness in the small intestine, difficult bowel movements, and shortness of breath.

Zicheng Decoction，From *The Collection of Bu Ju*, Volume 10.，For consumptive disorders with seminal emission and night sweats; poor appetite and diarrhea; menstrual blood failing to follow its normal course; women with unstoppable metrorrhagia and menorrhagia; and those with consumptive disorders who cannot tolerate Atractylodes, Poria, Angelica, or Rehmannia.

Pills for Holding in the Mouth and Swallowing，*Shenghui*, Volume 35.，For sore throat.

Three-Ingredient Modified Shenghua Decoction，From *Secrets of Gynecology*, Volume 6.，For postpartum conditions characterized by profuse sweating, a stiff neck, locked jaw, clenched teeth, and muscle twitching—symptoms resembling those of typhoid fever.

Flaxseed and Poria Flour，From Volume 87 of *Yi Tong*, citing a formula by Su Shi.，Hemorrhoids.

Sheep’s Hoof Root Powder，From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 74.，All types of tinea.

Jiebi Decoction，From Hua Tuo’s formula, cited in *Qianjin Yi* (Supplement to the Thousand Gold Prescriptions), Volume 22.，Toxicity from minerals may manifest 20 or 30 years after exposure; symptoms may include shivering as if from cold, an appetite for food, or a loss of appetite. If toxicity arises from ingesting purple quartz, symptoms include feverish oppression, … Read more

Orifice-Opening Decoction，*Rejuvenation*, Volume 5.，If one cannot smell pleasant or foul odors, there is wind-heat in the Lung Meridian; in cases of wind-cold common cold, there is nasal congestion, a heavy voice, and a runny nose.

Gardenia-Coptis-Erchen Decoction，*Essentials for Treating Children* (Huoyou Xinfang), Volume 3.，For smallpox cases where, upon the onset of pus discharge, toxic fire rises upward, causing vomiting with a sour and bitter taste accompanied by sound; the patient feels relieved after vomiting; and the smallpox lesions appear red-purple.

Dog Gallbladder Pills，*Shenghui*, Volume 72.，For women whose menstrual flow has ceased for a long time, who are gradually wasting away and developing blood-consumption, as well as for pain caused by stagnation of blood and qi.

Realgar and Vermilion Powder，*Selected Formulas of Renowned Physicians*.，For smallpox sores unresponsive to other treatments, where the skin has turned black and sunken.

Five-Kidney Pills for Diarrhea，From *Collected Proven Formulas of the Auspicious People*.，For kidney-related diarrhea occurring at the fifth watch that has persisted for a long time.

Peony and Rehmannia Decoction，From *Xiaopin Fang*, cited in Volume 2 of *Wai Tai*.，Heat disturbing the heart’s nutritive blood, resulting in mental confusion and delirium, with purplish-black rashes and a crimson tongue with raised papillae; heat entering the blood, causing hemoptysis, epistaxis, hematuria, and hematochezia;blood stasis leading to mania, reluctance to swallow water after rinsing the … Read more

Castor Bean and Garlic，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，Deafness.

Coptis and Euphorbia Decoction，From *Shenshi’s Formulas*, cited in Volume 6 of *Wai Tai*.，For epidemic toxic diseases, or persistent diarrhea, or sore throat.