Gansui Cake

Eye-Clarifying Borax and Sodium Carbonate Solution，From *Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，For sudden eye redness, swelling, and pain; excessive pterygium at the corners of the eyes; gradually developing corneal opacities; or dryness and blurred vision caused by internal heat.

Labor-Inducing Motherwort Pills，*New Book on Childbirth*, Volume 5.，

Jade Complexion Pills，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 4.，For men and women with freckles, rosacea, rough skin, or itchy skin.

Ginseng Lung-Harmonizing Decoction，From *The Collection of Bu Ju*, Volume 4 of the Lower Series.，For cough caused by summer heat.

Five-Mineral Regenerating Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 38.，For men suffering from the “Five Labors and Seven Injuries,” chronic weakness and emaciation, and conditions that have not responded to prolonged medical treatment.

Great Tonifying Astragalus Decoction，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 4.，For spontaneous sweating and debility.

Spots-Resolving Powder，*New Book on the Care of Infants*, Volume 18, citing *Zhang’s Family Tradition*.，Sores and rashes with inverted rashes, headache, and dizziness. Spots on a child’s skin.

Pei Bu Bao Yuan Pills，*Huiyue*, Volume 2.，For all cases of physical weakness and a deficient pulse, kidney deficiency with mental fatigue, as well as blood loss, cough, nocturnal emissions, internal heat, scanty and reddish urine, and dryness of the throat and tongue.

Asarum and Rhubarb Decoction，From *Direct Pointers on Pediatrics*, Volume 2.，For pediatric wind-epilepsy with internal heat.

Decoction for Regulating Qi and Nourishing the Blood，*Medical Case Studies of the Lu Family Through Three Generations*, Volume 5.，For women with stagnant liver and gallbladder fire, presenting with clotted menstrual flow and fever.

Fuyuan Powder，From *Medical Explorations* (Vol. 4).，Epistaxis.

Wind-Dispelling and Congestion-Resolving Decoction，From *Formulas for Saving Lives*, Volume 3.，Whether caused by exposure to wind or heat, or—in severe cases—by extreme heat giving rise to wind, symptoms manifest externally as headache, brain distension, nasal congestion, and runny nose; internally as a dry throat, sore throat, thick phlegm, and a restless cough.

Decoction for Clearing Turbidity，*Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，Red and white leukorrhea.

Four Gold Pill，From *The Treasure of Family Health*, cited in Volume 165 of *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，For wind-phlegm obstruction causing persistent cough.

Kun Yuan Shi Bao Dan，From *Ken Tang Medical Treatise*, Volume 2.，For a pregnant woman with typhoid fever who is at risk of miscarriage.

Tuoli Dimao Powder，From *Wei Ji Bao Shu*, Volume 2.，Boils and abscesses.

Paste of Two Gallbladders，*Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 13.，For hemorrhoidal fistulas.

Nasal-Blowing Powder to Clear the Head，*Shenghui*, Volume 37.，Nasal congestion; inability to smell pleasant or unpleasant odors.

Tiger Bone Ointment，From Hua Tuo’s formula, cited in Volume 8 of *Formulas for Emergency Use*.，Effective for black pig sores, toxic wind-induced swelling, saddle sores, and ox neck sores.

Dissolving Phlegm Powder，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 6.，A person who has always been healthy in eating and drinking suddenly develops diabetes, drinking several dou of water daily, eating twice as much as usual, and urinating frequently; taking medications for diabetes only worsens the condition—this indicates deficiency-heat in the spleen.

Decoction for Releasing the Exterior and Draining Dampness，*The Classic of Dots and Dashes*, Volume 2.，Alcohol has damaged the meridians, causing numbness throughout the body, paralysis, and loss of motor function.

Secret-Transmitted Ten Seeds Pills，From *The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 2.，For men with deficient kidney essence, women with insufficient liver blood, as well as the “Five Labors and Seven Injuries,” mental confusion, nocturnal emissions, and phantom sexual encounters; hemorrhoids and hernias; and various debilitating ailments.

Yángmíng Decoction，From *Selected Formulas of Renowned Physicians: Continuation*.，For presbyopia, weakness of the eyes, deficient middle qi, and inability to eat or drink.

Seven-Branch Decoction，Formula from *Compilation of Extraordinary Formulas*, Volume 1; name cited in *Collection of Immortal Remedies*, Volume 1.，For long-standing paralysis due to stroke. Pain in the tendons and bones.

Palm-Hair Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 331.，For red and white vaginal discharge, excessive menstrual bleeding, prolonged uterine coldness, and pain in the navel and abdomen.