Gansong Decoction

Wild Camel Fat Wine，From *Classified Collection of Medical Formulas*, Volume 24, citing *The Heart’s Mirror of Dietary Medicine*.，For stubborn rheumatic arthralgia and the “Five Sluggishnesses and Six Urgencies.”

Rhubarb Decoction Pills，Quoted from *Cui’s Formulas* in Volume 13 of *Wai Tai*.，For children suffering from involuntary twitching, or from dry scrofula on the head with yellow, bristly hair that stands apart, or from diarrhea that alternates between episodes of illness and remission.

Dingtu Pills，From *Tan Shi Shu Sheng*, cited in Volume 27 of *Youyou Xinshu*.，For children with food-induced convulsions, gastric discomfort, vomiting of milk or food, or heat in the chest and heart.

Fish Paste Soup，From *Effective Remedies*, Volume 6.，For children with chronic intestinal obstruction, dysentery with pus and blood of five colors, or “rotten fish intestines”—characterized by the absence of bowel movements, unbearable cramping pain in the intestines, and moaning and crying audible from outside the room—

Nasal Blowing Dragon Bone Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 37.，For unstoppable nosebleeds accompanied by dizziness and a feeling of impending death.

Decoction for Expelling Pinworms，*Formulary Science*.，Pinworm infection.

Ear-Clarifying Aloe Pills，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 4.，For liver and gallbladder fire manifesting as a cicada-like ringing in the ears, gradually progressing to severe hearing loss where no sounds can be heard.

Yueju Baohe Pills，*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 4.，Excessive worry and anxiety damage the spleen and stomach, leading to stagnation and discomfort, hiccups, and chest fullness.

Tobacco Paste Powder，*Classified Collection of Medical Formulas*, Volume 78, citing *Continuation of Formulas for Saving Lives*.，Ear discharge.

Divine Ash Powder，From *Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 2.，For difficulty urinating.

Bi Xue Frost，*Simple and Easy Medical Formulas*, Volume 5.，Effective for all types of accumulated heat, sores on the mouth and tongue, restlessness and a constricted throat, dry heat with swelling and pain, and epidemic fevers.

Powder to Stop Malnutrition，From *Three Hundred Collected Effective Formulas*, Volume 1.，For children with heart heat and excessive spleen fire, where damp-heat rises upward, causing oral malnutrition and excessive drooling.

Formula for Nasal Inhalation of Cinnamon Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 6.，Wind-induced hysteria. Confusion, stiff tongue, and slurred speech.

Chuanxiong-Danggui-Yimucao Pills，From *Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Mo Bao Zhai*, Volume 1.，Fetal restlessness.

White Bark of the Chinese Tallow Tree Powder，From *Effective Remedies*, Volume 6.，For dysentery that has not responded to other treatments.

Donkey-Hide Gelatin and Peony Decoction，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 37); name cited in *Shengji Zonglu* (Vol. 97).，Persistent rectal bleeding.

Qilin Pills，*Ji Feng*, Volume 17.，For women suffering from blood-wind and qi deficiency, manifested as body heat and a sallow complexion, blood stasis and blood clots, weakness in the limbs, general fatigue, and loss of appetite.

Sweat-Constricting Pills，From *The Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 2.，If sweat pours from the head like rain at every meal, this indicates excessive stomach fire, not residual kidney fire.

Divine Efficacy Precious Pill，From Volume 9 of *Supplements to the Compendium of Materia Medica*, citing a formula by Wang Qiujuan.，For oozing, festering sores; abscesses; scrofula; generalized skin conditions such as leprosy, hives, scabies, and tinea; severe itching; numbness and loss of sensation; various wind-induced conditions causing aching in the hands and feet; skin ulcers; extreme … Read more

Formula for Dissolving Masses，From *Wang’s Medical Compendium*.，For abdominal masses.

Bone-Setting and Qi-Regulating Decoction，*Illustrated Treatise on Bone Setting*.，Various types of contusions and injuries.

Wind-Dampness-Dispelling Powder，From *Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For skin diseases caused by blood heat.

Chuanxiong-Danggui Liver-Soothing Decoction，From *A Concise Explanation of Medical Formulas*, Volume 6.，Mastitis, breast cancer.

Powder of Two Shed Skins，*Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 13.，For hemorrhoids with fistulas that have not healed for a long time.

Citrus Peel and Pinellia Decoction，*Formulas of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 4 (supplemented by Wu Zhige with renowned formulas from various schools).，For weakness of the lung and stomach, a preference for sour and cold foods, stagnation of cold phlegm, vomiting, nausea, and thick, sticky saliva; or for chronic vomiting where even congee or medicine cannot be … Read more