Formulas Name : Hernia-Resolving Decoction
Chinese Name : 破疝汤
Saussurea costus, Corydalis yanhusuo, Citrus reticulata seeds, Litchi seeds, Anise, Melia azedarach, Myrrh, Kochia scoparia seeds, and Green tangerine peel.
*Yidi*, Volume 4.
All types of hernias.
Boil the root of verbena to extract the juice, then decoct and drink.
Hernia-Resolving Decoction，*Yidi*, Volume 4.，All types of hernias.
Mr. Shen of the Iron Vessel’s Sympathetic Elixir，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 3.，When the heart’s blood is deficient and fire cannot descend to the kidneys, and when kidney qi is exhausted and water cannot ascend to the heart, the middle jiao becomes obstructed, and the nourishing and defensive qi are out of harmony. … Read more
Enhanced Sanren-Scallion-Fermented Soybean Decoction，Formula from *Pu Fuzhou’s Medical Experience*; name cited in *A Thousand Families’ Wonderful Formulas*, Volume 1.，Combined Wind, Summer-Heat, and Dampness Syndrome (Type B Encephalitis).
Scutellaria and Angelica Decoction，From *The Complete Record of Medicine*, Volume 165, citing *The Immortal’s Prescriptions for Growing Apricots*.，Pain in the brow ridge due to wind-heat.
Shengyang Powder，From *Songya Zunsheng* (Jin Zhang edition), Volume 9.，Dysentery complicated by external wind-pathogen, with chills, fever, and headache.
Zhonghuang Ointment，*Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 315.，For men and women suffering from rheumatic pain and beriberi, wind-cold cough, wind-cold low back pain, eye swelling, chest pain due to qi stagnation, chest pain from blows or strains, boils, abscesses, and toxic swellings, as well as sores on the buttocks caused by caning.
Miraculous “Thousand-Pound Pounded Cinnabar” Ointment，From *Experienced Formulas*, Volume 1.，Effective for sores, boils, carbuncles, leg ulcers, scrofula, and “eel-head” lesions.
Worm Accumulation Formula，From *Chuanyaya Bu*, Volume 2.，Convulsions and wasting in children.
Arsenic Sulfate Pills，*Compendium of Holy Remedies*, Volume 94.，Inguinal hernia, characterized by swelling, retraction, and pain.
Ginseng, Licorice, and Platycodon Decoction，From *The Heart Book for Saving Infants*, Volume 2.，For wind-heat common cold, with intense heat pressing on the body; toxic heat from smallpox lesions rising upward; swelling and pain in the throat; stagnant phlegm; coughing with loss of voice; and reduced appetite.
Poria, Alisma, and Peony Decoction，From *The Source of the Four Sages’ Hearts*, Volume 8.，Yellow discharge from the ear.
Decoction for Relieving Muscle Tension and Inducing Sweating，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 369.，Fever due to typhoid in children.
Divine Elixir Decoction，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 25.，
Li Zongzai’s Medicinal Wine，From *Essential Formulas for Prolonging Life*.，For coughs due to deficiency.
Xiang Sha He Zhong Decoction，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 3.，In the early stages of the illness, the patient’s spleen and stomach were damaged by food, leading to stagnation of damp phlegm and qi, food stagnation causing distension, and fullness in the chest and abdomen.
Seven Treasures Beard-Beautifying Pill，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 3.，
Zhengqi Powder，From *The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 4.，For severe cases of cold-induced fever or common cold.
Agarwood and Astragalus Powder，*General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 15).，For children with disharmony of the Nutritive and Defensive Qi, emaciation, night sweats, bone-consuming fever with excessive thirst, loss of appetite for breast milk or food, abdominal distension with diarrhea, and qi deficiency with weakness.
Pinellia and Tangerine Decoction，From *Ten Thousand Gold Prescriptions for Gynecology*.，Dizziness and vomiting.
White Descending Pill，From *Wang’s Medical Compendium*, Volume 14.，Boils, Abscesses, and Fistulas.
Five-Acacia Pills，From *Continuation of Stories of Medical Practice*, Volume 9.，For intestinal wind and internal toxins, as well as bloody diarrhea caused by alcohol.
Dai Dao Pills，*Extraordinary Formulas Beyond Surgical Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，For all types of swollen abscesses where internal pus has already formed, and the patient fears surgical incision.
Family Secret Liver-Kidney Pills，*Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 1.，Internal injury causing flank pain due to deficiency of the true yin of the liver and kidneys, with the “Dragon and Thunder” fire rising upward.
Xiangfuzi Pills，From *Experienced Effective Formulas*, cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 250.，Swelling and pain in the bladder.
Mutton Liver Congee，From *Yi Tong*, Volume 87.，For liver deficiency in the elderly.
Highly Effective Golden Thread Ointment，From *Discussions on the Care of Infants* (Vol. 20).，Mouth sores in children.
Hernia-Resolving Decoction,All types of hernias.