Ginseng and Pinellia Decoction

Talc and Apricot Kernel Decoction，*Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Volume 2)，Clears heat and removes dampness; promotes circulation and facilitates diuresis. Indicated for summer-heat and latent summer-heat affecting all three burners, manifested by a grayish-white tongue, chest fullness and oppression, tidal fever, vomiting and nausea, restlessness and thirst, spontaneous diarrhea, sweating, and scanty urine.

Liver-Harmonizing and Detoxifying Decoction，*Guide to Throat Disorders*, Volume 4.，For “Running Horse Teeth” Stomatitis.

Civet Bone and Anemarrhena Powder，The formula is from *Qian Jin* (Volume 23); the name appears in *Pu Ji Fang* (Volume 293).，”Rat Ulcer”: It first appears on the neck, has no head or tail, resembles a field mouse, and is accompanied by chills, fever, and wasting of flesh. This condition results from rat venom, and its … Read more

Inner-Supporting Astragalus Powder，From *Jin Jian*, Volume 64.，For cases of “Zhongda Shou” (a syndrome characterized by deficiency of qi and blood, preventing the ulcer from developing and growing). For a hanging abscess that has already ruptured.

Ginseng Internal Tonifying and Dispersing Decoction，*Essentials of Surgery*, Volume 2.，For abscesses and boils accompanied by deficiency of qi and blood.

Fetal Rabbit Pills，From *Shenshi Yaohan*, Volume 4.，For children suffering from residual toxins after smallpox, affecting one or both eyes, with protruding black pupils, a membrane obscuring the cornea, redness, swelling, pain, and a mixture of eye discharge and tears.

Pimple-Clearing Decoction，*Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 3.，

Su Ji San，*Effective Remedies*, Volume 9.，Berket (Foot Qi) is caused by the combined influence of wind, cold, heat, and dampness on the Yin meridians. Symptoms include alternating chills and fever, or headache, followed by sudden weakness in the legs, with a single tendon running from the shin bone to the buttocks and lower back, causing … Read more

Baozhong Decoction，*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 5.，Persistent vomiting; inability to retain food.

Decoction for Calming Agitation，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 3.，When the kidneys fail to harmonize with the heart, causing extreme heart fire, the patient may suddenly hear sounds of wind and rain, or noises resembling the blare of drums and horns.

Hu’s Peony Powder，*Effective Prescriptions for Women*, Volume 21.，For women who, after childbirth, are emaciated and weak, with fever and spontaneous sweating, at risk of developing postpartum exhaustion; or those with blood and qi stagnation, irregular menstrual cycles, or alternating chills and fever, accompanied by spontaneous sweating and emaciation.

Decoction for Clearing Obstructions and Transforming Turbidity，*Yi Chun Sheng Yi*, Volume 4.，Distension of the small intestine. Distension in the lower abdomen, radiating to the lower back with pain.

Liver-Soothing and Phlegm-Clearing Decoction，*Surgical Case Records of Ma Pei*.，Six to seven days after the onset of liver abscess, there is slight swelling in the flanks, possibly accompanied by coughing and constipation.

Oyster Shell and Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace Powder，*Medical Classifications*, Volume 7.，For pathogenic factors lingering beneath the flanks, or internal accumulation of dampness, as well as fullness and pain in the flanks.

Yingyu Ointment，From *The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 4.，For wounds from beatings and leg ulcers.

Dried Meat Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 99.，Pinworm.

Mu Xiang Hua Zhi Decoction，From *Yi Tong*, Volume 36, citing *Ju Fang*.，For patients with a weak constitution suffering from dysentery with red and white stools, abdominal pain, tenesmus, and a sensation of incomplete evacuation, accompanied by excessive heat and stagnation.

Amber Menstrual Regulation Powder，*The Jade Case*, Volume 5.，Postpartum edema.

Quanhuo Decoction，From *Dongtian Aozi*, Volume 10.，After recovery from typhoid fever, sores develop on both feet, oozing fluid and pus.

Yan Hong Wen Wei Decoction，*Essence of Ancient Formulas*, Volume 1.，All types of bleeding disorders.

Shengchao Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 44); name cited in *Puji Fang* (Vol. 155).，Cold qi from the bladder attacking the lower back and hips, causing pain; lower back pain due to kidney deficiency; dull pain in the lower back caused by a strain or sprain, rendering the patient unable to move.

Soil-Nourishing Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 10.，A disease caused by sudden invasion of pathogenic factors, manifesting as sudden, frenzied shouting and screaming, cursing at anyone in sight, intense thirst with a craving for fluids, and profuse sweating—resembling symptoms of yang collapse.

Nourishing and Activating the Meridians Decoction，From *Fu Qingzhu’s Gynecology: Postpartum Chapter*, Volume 1.，Postpartum blood deficiency, locked jaw, stiff neck, and muscle twitching—symptoms resembling a stroke.

Decoction for Clearing Heat and Regulating the Middle，From *Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，

Decongest and Harmonize the Middle Pills，*Formulas for Saving Lives*, Volume 3.，For the early stage of malaria, where external pathogenic factors such as wind, cold, heat, and dampness have invaded the body, combined with internal injury from the accumulation of raw, cold, and starchy foods, and further complicated by stagnant phlegm and fluid retention, resulting in … Read more