Four Substances and Indigo Decoction

Guiyuan Decoction，From *Collected Works on Medicine*, Volume 2.，Age-related deafness.

Cucumber Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 30.，For bone-consuming fever, dry skin, mental restlessness and heat, dry mouth, and reddish-yellow urine.

Shuyu Pills，From *The Jade Case*, Volume 4.，For all cases of qi stagnation.

Tonifying Medicinal Wine，*Yifang Yijian*, Volume 10.，For various conditions resulting from falls, blows, or knife wounds, as well as for those with physical weakness or the elderly.

Angelica Sinensis Stagnation-Resolving Powder，From *Medical Discoveries*, Volume 3.，For injuries from falling from a horse or a cart, contusions and bruises with blood stasis, constipation, redness, swelling, and dark discoloration; pain and drowsiness; and life-threatening internal blood stasis.

Aconite and Mung Bean Decoction，*San Yin*, Volume 14.，Cold invades the skin, causing it to become hard and shell-like; the abdomen is distended and the body swollen; when pressed, the indentation does not rebound, and the complexion remains unchanged.

Emergency Qi-Restoring Decoction，From *Secrets of Gynecology*, Volume 7.，For postpartum deficiency of central qi, abdominal distension, or belching and a sensation of fullness due to qi deficiency; also for life-threatening distension caused by the erroneous use of qi-depleting or qi-regulating medications.

Cooling and Internal-Resolving Ointment，*The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 8.，For boils, back abscesses, carbuncles, and large and small furuncles.

Decoction for Clearing the Skin, Drying Dampness, and Eliminating Toxins，*Complete Book of Experience in the Treatment of Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 3.，Purple Scabies. Accumulated toxins in the five viscera and six腑 rise to the skin and hair, causing purple scabies that may be painful or itchy and appear anywhere on the body. The crown of … Read more

Medicine for Removing Tendons，*Formulas and Ingredients of Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Relieves sudden gas and relaxes tight tendons; also treats infantile convulsions.

Sichuan Pepper Oil，*Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhao Bingnan*.，Acute eczema.

Enhanced Raw-Ingredient Five Accumulations Powder，From *De Sheng Tang Formulas*, cited in *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 185.，Rheumatic Cold Bi Syndrome. Caused by living in damp, shaded environments or on boats in watery regions, resulting in stiffness throughout the body—including the hands, feet, and limbs—making it impossible to bend or stretch them, with unbearable pain.

Miraculous Tumor-Dissolving Powder，*Compendium of Surgical Medicine*, Volume 4.，For goiters.

Rhinoceros Horn and Ginseng Decoction，*Thousand Gold Prescriptions*, Volume 16.，For vomiting and retching, deficiency of stomach qi, pathogenic wind-heat, and inability to eat.

Poria Heart-Nourishing Decoction，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 4.，For profuse sweating from the heart.

Eye-Brightening Pills，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 10.，For sudden redness of the eyes, accompanied by pain, swelling, and redness of the cornea.

Enhanced Gelatin and Mugwort Four-Ingredient Decoction，*Jin Jian*, Volume 46.，Lower back and abdominal pain during pregnancy.

Neihua Dan，*Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 13.，An abscess in the small intestine, with pain in the left abdomen; the affected leg cannot be bent, and pressure on the area causes unbearable pain—this indicates that the abscess has formed outside the intestine.

Scallion-Peach Powder，From *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 1.，For the early stages of a common cold, characterized by headache, fever, nasal congestion, and aversion to cold.

Enhanced Xiangru Pills，From *Nian’s Collection of Proven and Effective Formulas*, Volume 3.，For summer colds caused by heat, characterized by thirst, restlessness, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and abdominal pain associated with cholera.

First Menstruation Powder，From *Dongtian Aozi*, Volume 12.，For sores caused by “jealous essence” and various types of malnutrition-related sores.

Miraculous “Thousand-Pound Pounded Cinnabar” Ointment，From *Experienced Formulas*, Volume 1.，Effective for sores, boils, carbuncles, leg ulcers, scrofula, and “eel-head” lesions.

Ginger and Cardamom Powder，*Direct Pointers*, Volume 17.，Symptoms include chest fullness and abdominal distension, uncontrollable severe diarrhea, and occasional dry heaving.

Dysentery-Relieving Powder，*Encyclopedia of Chinese Medicine*.，Due to a weak spleen, internal obstruction by damp-heat, or cold stagnation injuring the middle jiao, resulting in dysentery with red and white stools.

Immortals’ Formula for Prolonging Life with Tribulus Seeds，From *Shenghui*, Volume 94.，Effective for all types of wind-related ailments, pheasant-chicken hemorrhoids, malignant sores, and tinea; for men, genital sweating and hernias; and for women, excessive vaginal discharge and lactation disorders.