Iron-Foot Pills

Decoction for Warming the Interior and Expelling Pathogenic Factors，From *The Collection of Compassionate Guidance*, Volume 2.，Malaria affecting the Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian: In the early stages, both chills and fever are severe, accompanied by stiffness of the spine, lower back pain, and thirst. The cold rises from below, starting with cold feet, then spreading to … Read more

Thirteen Grand Protectors，From *Chuanyaba* (Supplement to the Elegant Collection), Volume 1.，For epilepsy and paralysis, boils and abscesses, back sores, scrofula, and toxic swellings.

Chaihu Jia Xixin Decoction，*Commentary on the Treatise on Malaria*.，Shaoyin Persistent Malaria.

Pasheng Ointment，From *The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 8.，For all kinds of malignant sores, as well as scrofula and early-stage rat sores.

Jisheng Pill，From *Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 22, citing a formula by Wei Yuanjun.，For leukorrhea in men.

Herbal Formula for Relaxing Tendons and Promoting Blood Circulation，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，Pain in tendons and bones; soreness in the lower back and hips.

Miraculous Decoction for Reducing Ascites，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 1.，For abdominal distension caused by qi stagnation, blood stasis, food accumulation, or parasitic infestation—cases that have persisted for years without resulting in death.

Decoction of Agarwood to Harmonize the Middle，*Formulary of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 3.，For sudden pain in the heart and abdomen, fullness and distension in the chest and diaphragm, shortness of breath and restlessness, phlegm rising and nausea, loss of appetite, and general fatigue.

Decoction of Kudzu Root for Regulating the Middle，*Compendium of Sacred Remedies*, Volume 179.，For children who, in the spring, summer, fall, or winter—whether in the morning or evening—experience sudden chills that cause their limbs to stiffen; who are unable to release heat, resulting in high fever; or who have cold qi entering the stomach, leading to … Read more

Modified Stomach-Soothing Decoction，From *Supplement to the Essentials of Formulas for Observing and Gathering*, Volume 3, citing *Tongzhi*.，Deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach, with vomiting of sour fluid.

Laolong Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 219), citing a formula by Cui Mo.，For advanced age with declining vitality and physical depletion; rheumatic pain in the legs; deficiency of the lower jiao leading to infertility due to essence deficiency; the “Five Labors and Seven Injuries” causing soreness and pain in the lower back and knees; … Read more

Liver-Kidney Pills，*Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 4.，Yin deficiency with difficulty urinating.

Enhanced Decoction for Draining Phlegm and Dampness，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，Indicated for women with masses (zheng) and phlegm accumulation. Symptoms include obesity, habitual phlegm production, a pale complexion with a waxy sheen, dizziness, tinnitus, mental confusion, and insomnia;muscle twitching and muscle spasms that come and go intermittently, profuse leukorrhea, amenorrhea; if the condition persists for … Read more

Orange Peel Decoction，Formula from *Formulas for Emergency Use* (Vol. 3); name cited in *Direct Pointers* (Vol. 5).，Sudden loss of voice; voice choked and unable to speak. Various types of stabbing pain, as well as initial symptoms resulting from exposure to wind, cold, heat, or dampness. Also effective for conditions caused by excessive alcohol or food, … Read more

Su Fang Powder，*Zhun Sheng: Ulcer Medicine*, Volume 4. An alternative name for the “Su Fang Mu Powder” cited in *The Correct Transmission of Medicine*, Volume 6, from *The Collection of Sores and Ulcers*.，To treat anal abscesses.

Cold-Repelling Decoction，From *Lan Shi Mi Cang*, Volume 1.，Cold and wind pathogens invade the skin and hair, causing nasal congestion, coughing, and wheezing.

Enhanced Yi Gong Decoction，*Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 3.，Malaria pathogens persisting for a long time, leading to consumptive disease due to malaria, which in turn develops into consumptive malaria; pain due to deficiency of the collaterals, distension due to yang deficiency, malaria “mother” in the flanks, and pathogens lingering while damaging … Read more

Infant Protection Powder，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Shenyang Formula).，For pediatric convulsions and epilepsy, characterized by convulsions, wheezing, fever, shortness of breath, chapped lips, sore throat, swollen tongue, heat-toxin rashes, high fever following a rash, and lung-fire cough.

Yi Liang Powder，*The Definitive Edition of Surgical Treatises for Saving Lives*, Volume 2.，For the initial stage of erythematous facial dermatitis, where the face is red, swollen, and raised.

Zhubi Dan，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 2.，For cases where wind, cold, and dampness are simultaneously concentrated in the large intestine, causing pain radiating to both feet; accompanied by slightly loose stools; the patient is unable to sleep; when lying down, the feet are drawn up and cannot be extended—and if extended, the pain worsens.

Sichuan Pepper and Magnolia Bark Spleen-Strengthening Powder，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 6.，For stomach upset and abdominal pain.

Three-Yellow Wash，*Science of Traumatic Injuries*.，For dermatitis and furuncles caused by the accumulation of wind-heat and damp-toxin; simple skin itching; ear itching due to wind-heat and damp-toxin, ear sores, and conditions where the affected area is red, swollen, burning, painful, itchy, and exuding fluid; acute skin diseases and furuncles characterized by redness, swelling, burning, itching, and … Read more

Lead Powder Powder，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 2.，Cold carbuncles occur on the feet; initially, they appear as purple-white blisters with excruciating pain; they gradually become gangrenous, forming deep, purple-black ulcers with foul-smelling bloody discharge, and remain chronic.

Ginseng and Dioscorea Pills，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 7.，For consumptive disorders, kidney deficiency, external wind invading the limbs, causing restlessness, fullness, and heaviness in the limbs; stiffness in the lower back and waist, making it impossible to bend forward or backward; body heat and heaviness; toxic wind rising upward, causing oppression and fullness in the chest … Read more

Ginseng, Astragalus, and Rehmannia Decoction，*Treasury of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 7.，Intestinal abscess. Severe deficiency of qi and blood; pain actually increases after the abscess ruptures, with persistent oozing.