Great Thistle Decoction

Zhishi Xiao Pi Pills，From *Ming Yi Zhi Zhang*, Volume 5.，For food stagnation with a sensation of fullness and distension beneath the heart that is painful on palpation.

Asafoetida and Thunder Pill Powder，From *Qianjin Yi* (Volume 21), citing *Qibofang*.，For leprosy.

Wild Boar Intestines，From *Essentials of Dietary Therapy*, Volume 2.，Chronic hemorrhoids. Persistent rectal bleeding; swelling and fullness in the anus.

Ephedra Qi-Directing Decoction，*Qianjin*, Volume 17.，Excessive consumption of the lungs, shortness of breath with flaring nostrils, and severe swelling of the face and eyes.

Eye-Brightening Golden Wave Ointment，*Bo Ji*, Volume 3.，Redness and erosion of the eyelids and inner corners of the eyes, with tearing when exposed to the wind, accompanied by itching or pain.

Liuwei Zhui Feng Powder，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 6.，For tetanus, with locked jaw, loss of voice, inability to speak, foaming at the mouth, and gurgling sounds in the throat.

Enhanced Xianglian Decoction，*Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology*, Volume 1.，Dysentery in pregnant women.

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

Modified Pingmiao Yangpi Pills，*Secrets of Infant Care*, Volume 2.，For chronic malaria with convulsions caused by liver-spleen dysfunction.

Forsythia and Tangerine Peel Decoction，*Guide to Gynecology*.，Lumps of phlegm and nodules beneath the crown of the head.

Powder for Inducing Labor and Preventing Malpresentation，From *Shenghui*, Volume 77.，Difficult labor. When delivery has not occurred after 2–3 days, accompanied by irregular breathing and abdominal pain.

Liu Sheng Powder，From *Wai Tai*, Volume 15, citing *Gujin Luyan*.，Wind-induced mania.

Coptis and Wu Ling Powder，From *Records of Smallpox and Measles by Ren Duan*, Volume 11.，For internal heat, or foul-smelling diarrhea caused by indigestion, with heat in the palms and soles, red and scanty urine, and smallpox lesions that are red, cracked, and inflamed.

Zao Dou，*Qianjin*, Volume 6.，Apply to dry hands; it leaves a slightly smooth, greasy feel.

Ginkgo and Trichosanthes Powder，*Medical Classifications*, Volume 7.，Abscess in the epigastric region, tenderness below the chest, and vomiting of pus.

Jujube and Arsenic Pill，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，Treats “running horse-tooth” (a type of oral thrush).

Heart-Cooling Decoction，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 168.，Wind-heat in children.

Frankincense and Huang Gao Ointment，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 313.，Ulcers and sores.

Dubu Powder，From *Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 14, citing *Extraordinary Formulas Beyond the Canon*.，Pain in the heart and spleen caused by qi stagnation; stagnation in the epigastric region; a single point of pain in the soft area of the chest—arising from qi and cold—which may persist for life.

Xiantu Decoction，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 8.，For summer colds caused by summer heat.

Ginkgo and Guanzhong Decoction，*Formulary of Chinese Medicine*.，For hookworm infection.

Poria and Four Reversals Decoction with Added Mineral Pitch，*Selected Essentials of Medicine*.，For cold-induced epidemic disease with diarrhea in the Taiyin pattern.

Rice Flour Pill，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 210, citing *Xu Yi Jian*.，For dysentery with malaria-like symptoms and chronic dysentery.

Pills for Relieving Convulsions，From *Yu Ji Wei Yi*, Volume 50.，For wind-heat erysipelas in children, as well as acute and chronic hoarseness and convulsions.

Decoction for Nourishing the Wei and Nourishing the Blood，From *Treatment of Latent Heat Syndrome*.，For the late stage of latent heat syndrome, characterized by mild fever, slight thirst, mild pain in the head and neck, weakness and paralysis of the limbs, inability to sit up, and a rapid yet weak pulse.