Gastric Elixir

Stone Marrow Pingyuan Powder，From *Yi Ji*, Volume 8.，For wind-heat in the liver and gallbladder that stagnates in the brain, causing a deep cavity; with intermittent discharge of foul-smelling yellow fluid that, over time, becomes chronic like a leak, accompanied by severe pain in the head and brain.

Tongtian Zaizao Powder，From *Shíbiàn Liángfāng*, cited in *Pǔjì Fāng*, Vol. 110.，Severe wind-induced disorders.

Tortoise Shell and Cypress Pill，Formula from *Danxi’s Heart Method*, Volume 2; name cited in *Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 7.，For chronic bloody stools leading to deficiency, with weakness and pain in the lower back and legs, as well as bleeding from leprosy sores and ulcers.

Boiled Barley Powder，From *Bo Ji*, Volume 1.，Imbalance of the Nutritive and Defensive Qi, frequent night sweats, aching and soreness in the limbs, fluctuating appetite, emaciation, and a sallow complexion.

Malefic Miasm-Dispelling Powder，From *Zhun Sheng: Yao Yi* (Vol. 2).，Boils, miasma toxins, snake bites, abdominal pain due to heat, and heat-induced sore throat.

Trichosanthes and Burdock Decoction，*Jin Jian*, Volume 66.，For breast abscesses and breast boils caused by stagnation of stomach fire, presenting with aversion to cold, high fever, redness, swelling, heat, and pain.

Hē Qǐ San，*General Essentials of Health Preservation*, Volume 5.，For children who develop wind due to vomiting and diarrhea, leading to chronic convulsions or chronic spleen wind.

Light Spot Powder，From *The Mystic Pearl of the Red Water*, Volume 27.，Use before smallpox spots appear.

Acquired Qinglong Powder，From *Selected Precious Family-Transmitted Formulas by Ding Ganren*.，For all cases of redness and swelling of the throat, and ulcerated mouth sores.

Mysterious Pill，From *The Jade Case*, Volume 3.，Toothache.

Soapberry Thorn and Rhubarb Decoction，From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 55.，For children with blood in the stool due to the initial onset of visceral toxicity, accompanied by anal swelling and pain; or for children with excessive accumulated heat causing anal swelling, difficult bowel movements, and anal prolapse that cannot be reduced despite straining.

Decoction for Enuresis，From *The Authentic Treatise on Pulse and Symptoms*, Volume 1.，For enuresis due to qi sinking.

Moisturizing Decoction to Replace Tea，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For conditions of intense heat in warm diseases that scorch the yin fluids of the lung and stomach, causing dryness and thirst in the mouth, coughing up white foam, and a dry, stagnant, and unpleasant sensation.

Dried Kudzu and Atractylodes Decoction，*The Great Exposition on Cold Damage*, Volume 3.，Damp-heat in the Yangming channel obstructs and stagnates the middle jiao; stomach yang cannot be distributed, resulting in sweating only on the head and no sweating throughout the body.

Goat Tibia Ash Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 398.，Persistent diarrhea and dysentery in children that does not resolve, with significantly reduced intake of milk and food.

Zhi Ming Gao，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 10.，For sudden redness and pain in the eyes, excessive tearing and eye discharge, heat rising to the eyes, and blurred vision.

Deep Red Dragon’s Blood Ointment，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 313.，For pain in the joints caused by falls from heights, being thrown from a horse, or falling from a cart.

Harmonizing the Middle and Nourishing the Stomach Decoction，From *The Secret Treasury of the Orchid Chamber*, Volume 2.，Abdominal pain in the Taiyin and Yangming channels; frequent loose stools; if not loose, then constipation with difficulty passing stools; later progressing to damp-heat toxin, with the passage of bright red blood, mild abdominal pain, tightness and contraction under … Read more

Decoction for Tonifying Deficiency and Consolidating the Root，From *Medical Explorations* (Yixue Tanli Ji), Volume 5.，For atrophy.

Yellow-White Great Dan，From *Resolving the Source of the Yuan* (Volume 4).，For the initial onset of leprosy.

Platycodon and Apricot Kernel Pills，*Ji Feng*, Volume 18.，For cold masses in the abdomen, stagnation of food and fluids, phlegm retention beneath the heart, fullness and distension in the flanks, rumbling sounds upon palpation, and difficulty in eating and drinking.

Rhubarb and Calomel Decoction，From *The Golden Chamber* (Volume Middle).，Damp-heat jaundice, with a vivid, tangerine-like yellow complexion; abdominal distension with sweating; thirst; constipation; scanty urination; a thick, yellow tongue coating; and a deep, full, or slippery, rapid pulse; or damp-heat-induced turbid dysuria, etc. Restlessness, a burning sensation in the chest, abdominal distension with a sensation of … Read more

Cat’s Brain Bone Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 66.，Rat fistula.

Scallion and Fermented Black Bean Yi Yuan Powder，From *Ma Ke Huo Ren*, Volume 3.，Restlessness and inability to sleep due to deficiency.

Enhanced Qi-Tonifying Decoction，*Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 82.，Qi deficiency, with numbness in all ten fingers and the face and eyes.