Ghost Head Ailment

Liver-Warming Decoction，*Compendium of Medicine*, Volume 2.，For cold invading the Jueyin channel, characterized by sudden collapse and loss of speech, a pale face and white lips, vomiting of clear fluid, abdominal pain with cramping, and a curled tongue with retracted scrotum.

Qiangqi Powder，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 107.，Wind-heat in the heart and liver, causing profuse tearing.

Ear-Protecting and Detoxifying Decoction，*The Profound Essentials of the Divine Realm*, Volume 5.，Yin and Yang abscesses and boils behind the left and right ears.

Ginseng, Astragalus, and Aconite Decoction to Restore Yang，From *Essentials of Miscellaneous Diseases*, citing *A Concise Explanation of the Medical Canon*.，Sudden syncope with abrupt collapse and a weak, reversed pulse.

Damp-Toxin Powder，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For lower-body sores.

Enhanced Ma-Xing-Shi-Gan Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For intense fever and phlegm congestion in cases of shanghan.

Pain-Relieving Pills，*Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 89, citing *The Complete Book of Essential Remedies*.，For unbearable pain from small intestine colic or bladder colic; for beriberi.

Enhanced Five-Benefit Paste，Formula from *Essence of Ancient Formulas*, Volume 2; name cited in *The Great Treasure of Health*, Volume 2.，For cases of “Crane Knee Wind” caused by deficiency.

Gui Ming Ointment，From *Bai Yi*, Volume 16.，For boils on the back—whether red or not, with or without a head, itchy or painful.

Cypress Resin Ointment，From *The Treasure of Health* (Volume 13), citing a formula by Yan Heqing.，For dry and wet tinea.

Pills to Suppress Convulsions，From *Direct Pointers on Pediatrics*, Volume 1.，For various forms of startle and anxiety due to deficiency.

Stinking Sumac Bark Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 60.，Hemorrhoids with atrophy and unstoppable discharge of pus and blood.

Wood Fragrance Pain-Relieving Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，Small Intestinal Colic.

Eight Treasures Decoction with Akebia and Arctium Decoction，*Compendium of Medical Essentials*, Volume 9.，For smallpox on days 11–12, when the pus has filled the blisters, the heat-toxin has dissipated, and the scabs are forming but the smallpox lesions have not yet dried up for several days.

Aconite and Asarum Decoction，From *Xingyuan*, Volume 5.，Headache of the Shao Yin pattern, cold in the feet with counterflow of cold qi, and a fine pulse.

Pain-Relieving Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Shenyang Formula).，Indicated for liver qi rebellion with fullness, distending pain in both flanks, epigastric distension and pain, various types of hernia with swelling and pain, stabbing pain in the chest and diaphragm, menstrual pain in women, pain in the lower back and legs, and hemoptysis … Read more

Ink Slave Pills，Formula taken from *Wai Tai* (Vol. 28), citing *Fan Wang’s Formulas*. The name appears in *Qian Jin* (Vol. 17).，For sudden onset of severe abdominal pain; sudden onset of abdominal distension due to food stagnation.

Mugwort Smoke Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 104.，Red eyes.

Ginseng Detoxification Decoction，*New Book on Smallpox Vaccination*, Volume 4.，For cases where the toxic heat of smallpox sores has not yet dissipated, causing a burning sensation in the stomach and loss of appetite, and where the vital energy is deficient, resulting in a sore throat after the scabs have fallen off.

Xiao’anwei Pills，From *Collected Formulas of the Crane-Feeding Pavilion*.，Pain due to stomach qi disturbance; vomiting caused by rising liver qi.

Bai Bu Gou Jing Pills，Formula attributed to Immortal Ge Xuan, as cited in *The Classic of the Middle Storehouse*.，For nocturnal emissions and uncontrollable seminal leakage.

Cinnabar Tooth-Brushing Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 34.，

Zhiye Wine，From *Yi Tong*, Volume 59.，For beriberi in Lingnan, characterized by swelling and fullness extending from the feet to the shins, accompanied by pain in the bones.

Stone-Extracted Yellow Seed Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 127.，Excessive worry, anxiety, and anger originate in the gallbladder, leading to floating sores and fistulas that first appear on the neck, about the size of two fingers, causing chills, fever, and a desire to lie down.

Ginger Tea Powder，From *Continuation of Simple and Effective Formulas*, Volume 4.，For bloody and white dysentery.