Great Four-Divine Pill

Kushen Decoction，From *Shenghui*, cited in Volume 111 of *Puji Fang*.，For tinea versicolor and skin rashes.

Grass Ash Powder，*New Compilation of Mei’s Proven Formulas*, Volume 5.，For smallpox lesions that have become ulcerated.

Phlegm-Dampness Pills，*Research on Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment of Common Diseases*.，For chronic cough, shortness of breath, copious thin phlegm, and susceptibility to illness due to exposure to cold; may be used for chronic bronchitis in the elderly.

Pig Gallbladder and Coptis Pills，From *Hu’s Family Tradition*, cited in Volume 25 of *The New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For children suffering from wasting disease; particularly effective for treating liver-related wasting that causes eye disorders, such as a white membrane obscuring the pupil, where other medications have failed to cure the condition.

Bai Ji Pills，*The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 3.，Chronic nasal discharge.

Intestinal Expulsion Decoction，*Differential Diagnosis of Symptoms in Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Phlegm-dampness masses (Changtan), abdominal masses that typically enlarge upward from one side of the lower abdomen, are spherical in shape, mobile, and non-tender.

Shen Gong Dan，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 331.，For women with red and white vaginal discharge.

Scutellaria and Gypsum Decoction，*Source of the Hearts of the Four Sages*, Volume 8.，Toothache and swollen gums.

Toon Pod Powder，*Compendium of Sacred Remedies*, Volume 143.，Intestinal wind with bloody diarrhea.

Secretly Transmitted Toxin-Eliminating Powder，From *Songya Medical Path* (Volume 2).，For back abscesses, boils, carbuncles, furuncles, scrofula, and fecal toxicity.

Diaphragm Decoction，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 151), citing *Formulas for Prolonging Life*.，For pathogenic qi imbalances in all four seasons; for typhoid fever where symptoms have not yet been differentiated; for rashes that are about to erupt but have not yet appeared; and for spleen-cold resembling malaria, characterized by intermittent fever, intense fever as if … Read more

Schizonepeta and Rehmannia Decoction，The formula is from *Shenghui* (Vol. 37); the name appears in *Jingui Yi* (Vol. 2).，For vomiting blood; wind-heat invading the collaterals, causing blood to overflow from the collaterals; sudden chills and fever; coughing with a dry mouth; and restlessness.

Purple Snow，From *Qianjin Yueling*, cited in *Yifang Leiju*, Volume 195.，Effective for a hundred wind-heat disorders, warm malaria, epidemics, and the five types of stagnation and convulsive epilepsy.

Medicinal Wine for Gout，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 28.，Inability to lift the limbs.

Enhanced Rhino-Antelope White Tiger Decoction，*Essentials of Infectious Diseases*, Volume 4.，

Instant Relief Pills，From *One Hundred Questions on Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For cough due to lung heat, accompanied by shortness of breath and wheezing so severe that the patient cannot sit or lie down, with swelling of the body and face, and an inability to eat or drink.

Pus-Expelling Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 61.，For boils, abscesses, and all types of sores and swellings.

Stone Lotus Seed Decoction，From *Straight Talk on Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，For chronic dysentery with deficiency of vital energy, internal summer-heat, red lips, restlessness, and locked jaw, resulting in an inability to consume water or rice.

Jingjin Dixian Pills，Formula attributed to Tao Yinju, cited in *Yi Jian* (see *Yongle Dadian*, vol. 11620).，For men and women suffering from the “Five Labors” and “Seven Injuries,” with deficient kidney qi. Symptoms include mental exhaustion, difficulty walking, loss of appetite, ringing in the ears and blurred vision, and dry skin. For women with cold internal … Read more

Scrofula Pills，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 18.，Scrofula.

Clove Stomach-Harmonizing Powder，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 6.，For abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Chuanlianzi Pills，*Comprehensive Essentials of Health Preservation*, Volume 17.，Hernia with one testicle hanging lower than the other, one large and one small.

Xu’s Sulfur-Poria Pill，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 7.，For heat above and cold below, with nocturnal emissions.

Tribulus and Fritillary Bulb Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 65.，Chronic cough.

Supreme Holy Life-Preserving Pill，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 8.，For infantile convulsions with internal agitation, a hard abdomen, eyes rolling upward, twitching of the hands and feet, opisthotonos, phlegm-heat cough, and all acute and chronic forms of convulsions.