More Herbs Formulas
Birth-Inducing Oak-Bran Decoction,*Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 36, citing *The Treasure of Childbirth*.,For women experiencing difficult labor. For women with transverse or breech presentations, or with a stillborn fetus in the abdomen that has become swollen and putrid and cannot be expelled.
Raw Rehmannia Eight-Ingredient Decoction,From *Insights into Medicine*, Volume 3.,Central Consumption.
Xiangru-Poria Summer-Heat Clearing Decoction,*Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 3.,During pregnancy in the height of summer, while confined to the inner chambers, one may seek excessive coolness by wearing light clothing and indulge in raw, cold fruits and vegetables. With a constitution prone to cold, one becomes vulnerable to the invasion of summer-heat pathogens, … Read more
Ten Deities Detoxifying Decoction,From *The New Book on Child Care*, Volume 4.,Smallpox lesions, accompanied by fever, dry and brittle hair, dry skin, red cheeks, red spots on the forehead, restlessness and thirst with a strong desire to drink, restless sleep, and dark, scanty, and painful urination.
Five-Canker Mass-Resolving Powder,From *The Golden Mirror of Smallpox and Rash* (Volume 1).,For malnutrition. Symptoms include bone fever, a scorched sensation in the head, chest distress, night sweats, dry and brittle hair, a distended abdomen with sores on the feet, blackened and decayed teeth, sores all over the body, accompanied by diarrhea or dysentery, and a … Read more
Silver Sand Pills,From *The Yongle Encyclopedia*, Volume 975, citing *The Liu Family Tradition*.,Excessive phlegm and heat in the diaphragm; cough with heavy phlegm and convulsions; wind accumulation and tidal fever.
Cicada and Chrysanthemum Powder,*Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Zhu Family*, Volume 9.,For skin rashes affecting the eyes or corneal opacities developing after an illness.
Eighteen Grand Protectors’ Heroic Pill,Quoted from the Shaolin Temple’s secret formula in *Famous Prescriptions Through the Ages*.,For contusions and injuries, uncontrollable bleeding, or areas where the skin has turned black or purple without a visible wound; or for unbearable pain and swelling caused by being crushed by a heavy object.
Longevity and Essence-Consolidating Pills,From *Compilation of Remarkable Formulas*, Volume 2.,
Black Chicken Wine,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 188.,For acute stroke: stiff back, locked jaw, stiff tongue preventing speech, eyes unable to move, restlessness, fever, and intense thirst; or a sensation of heaviness in the body, or itching.
Fang Kui Pills,*Shenghui*, Volume 28.,For consumptive disorders with mass accumulation, fullness and distension under the flanks, abdominal distension with loss of appetite, and abdominal pain.
Shanying White Ointment,From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 12.,For boils and abscesses on the back, all types of swollen, toxic, and malignant sores, joint pain, stiffness of tendons and meridians, and various injuries from blows or falls.
Secret-Transmitted Decoction for Clearing Dryness,From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 3.,For women suffering from restlessness.
Coriander Root Juice,Formula from *Wai Tai*, Volume 28, citing *Bi Xiao Fang*; name found in *Sheng Ji Zong Lu*, Volume 147.,Poison from witchcraft.
Raw Rehmannia Decoction Pills,*Shenghui* (Volume 31).,For bone-consumptive wasting disease, characterized by restlessness, fever, dry mouth, flushed cheeks, cough, chills and fever, night sweats, and emaciation of the limbs.
Tuoli Qingzhong Decoction,*Essentials of Surgery*, Volume 4.,For skin ulcers accompanied by spleen-stomach deficiency, impure phlegm-qi, and poor appetite.
Deer Antler Porridge,From *The Prescriptions of the Emaciated Immortal for Saving Lives*, Volume 1.,
Fenxiao Decoction,From *Medical Lamp of Transmission*, Volume 2.,For the early stages of damp diarrhea, with no abdominal pain and watery stools; or when the entire body is swollen, accompanied by fever and a rapid pulse.
Human Milk Ointment,The formula is from *Qianjin* (Volume 22); the name is found in *Concise Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.,For abscesses with pus that have been allowed to rupture, or for long-standing breast cancer that has ulcerated but from which pus does not easily drain.
Mugwort for Umbilical Closure,From *Medical Formulas Compiled by Category* (Vol. 153), citing *Formulas from the Ruizhu Hall*.,For pain in the lower back and knees, cold pain in the navel and abdomen, and diarrhea in the elderly, the frail, women, and children.
Immortal Elixir,From *The Jade Case*, Volume 3.,For throat obstruction (throat bi) affecting the Yin meridians, where taking cooling medications actually exacerbates the pain.
Inner Support and Harmonizing Qi Powder,*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 33.,Initial fever of smallpox.
Lin Zhong Pills,From *Formulas for the Family School*.,For restlessness and constipation.
Black Fish Soup,*Complete Book of Experience on Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 6.,Ringworm.
Yuzhi Pills,From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 396), citing *Fu’s Formulas for Saving Infants*.,For all types of dysentery.
Gengyi Rhubarb Pills,For children with a distended abdomen accompanied by rumbling sounds, as well as internal heat causing hard stools and inability to defecate.