Inferior-Grade Pills

Alum Decoction，From *Shenghui*, Volume 89.，For children with sores, swelling, and pain around the eyes and inner corners of the eyes.

Pill for Nurturing the Essence and Protecting the Youth，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Jinan Formula).，For children suffering from cold or heatstroke, with abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, and fever.

Three-Seed Rehmannia Decoction，From *Zhang Jiachun’s Diagnosis and Treatment of Ophthalmic Disorders*.，Deficiency of essence and qi in the kidneys, manifested as dimmed visual clarity, black-hued visual hallucinations, inability to sustain prolonged visual focus, dizziness, tinnitus, and soreness and weakness in the lower back and knees.

Gardenia and Schizonepeta Decoction，From *Yi Tong*, Volume 66.，Sores on the head and face.

Enhanced Sesame Seed Powder，From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 84.，For wind-heat urticaria with itching, possibly accompanied by a red halo, chills and fever, and both physical and mental symptoms manifesting as excess.

Dragon’s Milk Ointment，From *Formulas of the Huizhitiang Hall*, Volume 2.，For all eye diseases.

Great Toxin-Eliminating Ointment，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，Abscesses, boils, sores, and ulcers that are hard and refuse to resolve; “fish-mouth” and “toilet” toxins; syphilis and scabies; nodular prurigo of the skin, etc.

Qi-Relieving and Liver-Clearing Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，For premenstrual flank distension and abdominal pain due to liver qi stagnation with heat, accompanied by irritability and quick temper, dizziness, a bitter and dry mouth, heavy red menstrual flow (possibly with clots), a yellow tongue coating, a red tongue body, and a string-like, rapid pulse.

Xie Bai Yi Yuan Powder，*Causes, Symptoms, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 2.，For summer heat-induced cough, body aches, thirst, and external chills.

Women’s Menstrual Ointment，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Nanjing Formula).，For women with yin deficiency accompanied by heat, characterized by early menstruation, irregular menstrual flow (either heavy or scant), dark purple menstrual blood, restlessness, bone-deep heat, night sweats, dry mouth, and burning sensation in the palms.

Rash-Relieving Decoction，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Urticaria.

Family Secret Powder for Dissolving Hardened Masses，*Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 1.，Abdominal pain due to stagnant masses. A lump in the epigastric region causing persistent pain.

Two Treasures Powder，From *Simple Formulas*, citing *Formulas for Nourishing Life* (see *Compilation of Medical Formulas*, Vol. 224).，In cases of an unstable pregnancy, with restlessness whether sitting or lying down.

Ginseng and Agastache Decoction，*Formulas of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 4 (Supplementary Collection of Empirical Secret Formulas from Various Bureaus).，For weakness of spleen and stomach qi, vomiting and retching, inability to retain food, cold hands and feet, and thick, sticky saliva and phlegm. It also treats symptoms resembling shortness of breath without actual shortness of breath, … Read more

Pine-Roasted Cake，From *New Book on the Care of Infants* (Volume 29), citing *Trustworthy Methods for Preserving Life*.，For all types of masses, stagnation, and accumulations—including qi and blood masses—that have persisted for 10–20 years; for adults and children with chronic dysentery accompanied by pus and blood, or intermittent dysentery.

White Stone Pigment Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 178.，Pediatric intestinal obstruction with discharge of pus and blood.

White Snow-Descending Powder，From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 66.，Sore throat with swelling and pain, making it difficult to speak.

Puxian Pills，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 321.，For women with a deficient spleen qi and weak stomach qi, who are unable to digest food and transform it into nutrients, resulting in loose stools.

Huanjin Decoction，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 56.，Nine Types of Chest Pain.

Modified Hei Shen San，*Gujin Yijian*, Volume 12.，Used when, 6–7 days into a febrile illness during pregnancy, extreme heat from the zang-fu organs scorches the fetus, causing fetal death in utero, and the cold fetus cannot be expelled spontaneously.

Aconite Yang-Revitalizing Decoction，From *Records of Benevolent Insights on Smallpox and Rash* (Volume 14).，For measles cases characterized by deficiency-cold.

Wound-Healing Pill，Formula from *Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 37; name found in *Formulas for Traumatic Injuries*.，For bleeding from traumatic wounds.

Dried Silkworm Paste，From *General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 16).，For children with red, scanty, and difficult urination; also treats hematuria and sand-like urination.

Fei Huang Dan，From *Formulas of the Ruizhutang*, Volume 2.，For pain caused by small intestine hernia.

Mutton and Rhubarb Decoction，*Compendium of Medical Essentials*, Volume 10.，For syphilis sores, fish-mouth sores, and kidney-related wasting disease in patients with robust constitutions.