Gourd Root Powder

Bai Zi Yang Xin Pills，From *Collected Effective Formulas*, cited in *Medical Compendium*, Volume 70.，For excessive mental exertion leading to a wandering mind; one experiences dreams upon closing one’s eyes and suffers from irregular nocturnal emissions.

Zhongru Jianspleen Pills，*Formulae of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 6.，For men and women suffering from deficiency and emaciation, a heavy sensation in the body, cold and weak spleen and stomach, indigestion, abdominal distension with rumbling sounds, and persistent diarrhea; it also treats intestinal deficiency with cold accumulation, diarrhea containing undigested food, or pure white stools, abdominal … Read more

Scabies Ointment，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Fushun Formula).，For dry sores, purulent scabies, syphilitic scabies, damp scabies, broken skin, painful and itchy pustules, and oozing lesions.

Purple Stone Pills，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 32.，Kidney deficiency, emaciation, loss of appetite, wasting of skin and bones with weakness, and pain in the lower back and legs.

Mao Gen Gan Ge Decoction，From *The Complete Collection on Shanghan and Preservation of Life*, Volume 2.，For warm diseases with fever, where drinking cold liquids causes retching.

Fragrant Nong Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，For small intestine colic characterized by stabbing, fullness, distension, and unbearable pain.

Seven Qi Mass-Dissolving Powder，From *Essentials of Miscellaneous Diseases*, citing *Comprehensive Principles of Medicine*.，For the initial stages of pain or distension caused by the mutual aggression of accumulated masses.

Peony and Areca Nut Powder，Formula from *Classified Materia Medica* (Vol. 8), citing *Bo Ji*; name found in *The Mystic Pearl of Chishui* (Vol. 15).，For the five types of dysuria.

Chuanlian-Hedgehog-Skin Pills，*Selected Essentials of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 5.，For hemorrhoidal fistulas.

Cinnamon Twig and Poria Decoction，*Source of the Hearts of the Four Sages*, Volume 10.，For bleeding during pregnancy accompanied by clots and fetal tissue.

Warming and Descending Decoction，From *Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，Vomiting and epistaxis, with a weak, soft, and slow pulse; food stagnates in the stomach and cannot be digested—this is caused by cold impeding the descent of stomach qi.

Decoction for Dispelling Wind and Nourishing Blood，From *Zhun Sheng: Categorized Formulas*, Volume 4.，Stiffness and pain in the neck and shoulders.

Yinchen Zhuyu Decoction，*Essentials of Shanghan* (Volume 2).，For yin-type jaundice, administer this decoction when symptoms have not subsided after taking Yinchen-Fuzi Decoction and the pulse is hidden.

Formula for Exterminating Demons and Burning Medicinal Substances，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 9.，For a woman who has had sexual relations with a ghost.

White Rooster Powder，*Jie Wei Yuan Sou*, Volume 4.，Black swellings, patches, red tinea, goose-foot eczema, wild-goose-coming eczema, and festering skin sores.

Tianqing Ointment，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 3.，For acute and chronic convulsions in children, as well as coughing and shortness of breath.

Self-Formulated Formula for Women，From *Essentials of Laryngology*, Volume 2.，For various throat conditions, as the swelling gradually subsides, a white, dry, putrid-like crust may form, or it may turn grayish-black.

White Hen Soup，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 80.，Shortness of breath, coughing, and retching in the chest, accompanied by edema due to water retention.

Agastache, Ginseng, and Tangerine Peel Decoction，From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 4.，For heatstroke with diarrhea, accompanied by a weak and fine pulse.

Decongesting and Lifting the Metal Powder，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Yifang Leiju), Volume 154, “Divine Formulas for Longevity” (Shouyu Shenfang).，For the Five Exhaustions and Seven Injuries, chronic cough, and cases where other medications have proven ineffective.

Bear Bile Ointment Pills，*Zhun Sheng: Categorized Formulas*, Volume 7.，For wind-heat ascending to the head, causing blurred vision, excessive eye discharge (eye mucus) and tearing, a sensation of grittiness, tightness, and dryness, unbearable itching, fleshy growths encroaching on the cornea, a gritty sensation making it difficult to open the eyes, a membrane covering the pupil, and … Read more

Jingfang Shengdi Decoction，From *Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 2.，For unbearable itching of the body.

One Pinch of Golden Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 123.，For a “corpse throat” or “riding-horse throat” obstruction, or an abscess in the throat.

Butter Ointment，*Shenghui*, Volume 76.，For difficult labor, or when childbirth proceeds abnormally, and no amount of remedies has brought relief.

Lamb Liver Sandwich，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 21.，For eye conditions such as cataracts and corneal opacities, as well as night blindness and eye weakness in children.