Immediate-Effect Powder

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

Atractylodes and Tangerine Peel Decoction，From *Huo Ren Xin Tong*, Volume 1.，Chronic diarrhea caused by spleen deficiency.

Recently Formulated Decoction for Clearing Summer-Heat and Tonifying Qi，*Six Essentials of Medicine: Compendium of Treatment Methods*, Volume 4.，For summer-time exogenous damp-heat, presenting with fatigue in the limbs, low energy, reluctance to move, chest fullness and shortness of breath, heavy and painful joints, or high-pitched wheezing, fever and restlessness, distension and fullness epigastrically, scanty and yellow … Read more

Ben Tun Pills，From *Dongyuan’s Prescriptions of Proven Efficacy*, Volume 2.，Accumulations in the kidneys manifest in the lower abdomen and extend upward to the epigastrium, resembling a piglet; they may move up or down unpredictably. If left untreated for a long time, they cause shortness of breath, bone atrophy, and weakness; this formula also treats internal … Read more

Sure-Effect Ointment，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 183.，It treats abscesses and boils, as well as toxic sores on the back, relieving pain and drawing out pus.

Decoction for Relieving Muscle Tension and Dispelling Summer-Heat，*Guide to Autumn Malaria*, Volume 1.，Wind-malaria complicated by summer-heat malaria. Alternating chills and fever, headache, thirst, dark urine, scorched-yellow tongue coating, and in severe cases, delirium; pulse is floating, slippery, and rapid.

Hair-Removing Pills，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 9.，For chronic lung pain and prolonged coughing; dreaming of deceased relatives; or dreaming of eating and drinking; loss of vital essence and blood; frequent anger and little sleep; inability to eat; and gradual wasting away; as well as bone-consuming consumptive disease and infection by “ghostly qi.”

Minor Bupleurum Decoction with Sodium Sulfate，From *The Book of Saving Lives*, cited in *The Treasure of Public Health: Supplements*.，Exogenous fever and headache; internal heat caused by stagnation of phlegm and fluid retention; or epigastric fullness and distension, vomiting, nausea, abdominal distension, and absence of bowel movements for several days.

Euryale and Lotus Pill，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，Disconnection between the heart and kidney, resulting in inability to sleep day or night, with severe restlessness and agitation.

Tonifying Morinda Root Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 20.，For yang deficiency and yin excess, with bi syndrome and chills.

Prescription from *Bai Yuchan’s Legacy*，From *Jie Wei Yuan Sou*, Volume 3.，For various wind-induced conditions such as numbness and paralysis, as well as severe cases of paralysis, gangrene, contractures, and swelling; also for “da ma” (severe numbness), “ji zhao shen ye” (dragging of the feet like a chicken’s claws), and “lu guo leng ma” (cold numbness … Read more

Decoction of Two Ginsengs to Restore Vision，From *Zhang Jiachun’s Diagnosis and Treatment of Ophthalmic Disorders*.，Lung and kidney deficiency, or spleen and stomach weakness, resulting in the inability of essence and qi to ascend and nourish the eyes; or wind-heat in the liver channel depleting essence and fluids, leading to a lack of moisture in the … Read more

Lotus Leaf Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 160.，For postpartum blood-induced fainting and loss of consciousness, with blue lips and mouth, and loss of consciousness.

Reduced Orpiment Formula，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 7.，Female Exhaustion Jaundice. This condition arises from excessive sexual activity, leading to deficiency of kidney qi. Symptoms include soreness and pain in the limbs, nightmares and fright, mental fatigue, loss of appetite, weakness in movement, distension and fullness in the chest and abdomen, weakness and laxity in … Read more

Summer Heat-Clearing and Dysentery-Relieving Decoction，From *The Collection of Compassionate Navigation*, Volume 2.，During the three summer months, people suffer from dysentery.

Five-Spice Forsythia Powder，*Collected Proven Formulas of the Zhu Family*, Volume 12.，For wind-induced sores.

Hibiscus Porridge，From *The Essential Guide to Dietary Medicine*.，For heat-induced dysuria.

Danggui Sini Decoction with Wu Zhu Yu and Ginger，*Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For cold and numbness in the hands and feet, a fine pulse nearly imperceptible, and chronic internal cold. Currently used for thromboangiitis obliterans, Raynaud’s disease, chronic urticaria, frostbite, etc.; it may also be used for chronic gastrointestinal diseases with severe pain and vomiting, headaches, … Read more

Kai Jin San，From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 22.，For dysentery, vomiting, and inability to eat; chronic dysentery in the debility-prone.

Kushen Decoction for Expelling Toxic Heat，From *Shān Fán Fāng*, cited in Volume 2 of *Wài Tái*.，If the epidemic rash persists for 5 days without abating—and before reaching 7 days—toxic heat affects the skin and flesh, causing pain in the limbs.

Lingli Carapace Decoction，Quoted from *Xiaopin Fang* in Volume 5 of *Wai Tai*.，Mountain Malaria. In the southern mountains and along stream sources, toxic miasma arises, causing unpredictable bouts of fever and chills, jaundice, swelling, and fullness, as well as numbness and weakness in the limbs.

Miraculous Decoction for Lung Abscess，*Essential Readings on Medicine*, Volume 6.，Lung Abscess. Caused by overwork damaging qi and blood, with internal accumulated heat and external exposure to wind-cold; symptoms include chest fullness and tightness, dull pain, dry throat and mouth, occasional discharge of turbid, foul-smelling sputum, and vomiting pus resembling rice porridge—in such cases, the prognosis … Read more

Malaria-Curing Wine，*Essential Techniques for the Common People*, Volume 7.，For all types of malaria.

Egg Drink，From *New Compilation of Proven Prescriptions*, Volume 11.，Indicated for conditions such as intestinal abscess, back abscess, visceral toxicity, and “fish-mouth” sores.

Evil-Eradicating Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 8.，For malaria-induced fever, headache, dry nose, thirst with a desire to drink water, restlessness during the day preventing sleep, and in severe cases, irritability, aversion to firelight, and aversion to loud voices.