Kai Men San

Lung Abscess Decoction，From *The Authentic Treatise on Pulse and Symptoms*, Volume 1.，Lung abscess.

Modified Wei Rui Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For individuals with yin deficiency who have contracted a wind-heat common cold or suffer from winter-heat cough with phlegm accumulation in the throat.

Five Epilepsies Penetrating Clarity Pills，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 9.，Epilepsy.

Gui Ling Decoction，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 3.，For syphilitic sores, regardless of whether they are recent or chronic, but only in patients with deficient vital energy.

Tianqing Ointment，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 3.，For acute and chronic convulsions in children, as well as coughing and shortness of breath.

Formula for Internal Heat Arising from Yin Deficiency，*Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 24.，Yin deficiency with internal heat; fire-related diseases with deficiency.

Ginseng, Poria, and Buddha’s Hand Powder，*Essentials of Prenatal and Obstetric Care*, Middle Volume.，Failure of the pubic symphysis to separate during labor.

Distilled Water Gypsum Decoction，From *Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，For cases where there is pre-existing internal heat in the chest compounded by an external pathogen, resulting in extreme chest distress and rapid, labored breathing; the pulse is floating, full, and forceful but not firm upon palpation; and the tongue coating is white but not … Read more

Great Golden Tooth Wine，*Qianjin*, Volume 7.，For those afflicted by miasmatic toxins, wind-cold-damp paralysis, distorted facial features, hemiplegia, stiffness and contractures of the hands and feet, swollen and painful joints—and in severe cases, numbness in the lower abdomen—a condition known as “beriberi.” Anyone suffering from wind-deficiency or experiencing even slight sensations of wind-induced ailments in the … Read more

Dingluan Pills，From *Guidance on Epidemic Diseases*.，For summer-heat-induced cholera and epidemic febrile diseases that manifest promptly; for all types of cholera in the early stages, when one first feels numbness in the hands and feet, fullness and oppression in the chest, dizziness and blurred vision, and a dazed state of mind as if shrouded in clouds … Read more

Substitute for Didao Decoction，*Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 8.，For stagnant blood.

Qi-Regulating Zhi Shi Pills，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 4.，For bloating, fullness, and epigastric mass with difficulty swallowing.

Pueraria and Scutellaria Decoction，*Yi Ji*, Volume 7.，For typhoid fever where the Yangming meridian is affected by pathogenic heat, such as when the patient feels thirsty but does not seek to drink; or for diarrhea caused by wind.

Watermelon Paste for Clearing Metal and Relieving Cough，*Selected Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas from Beijing*.，For fluid retention in the Lung Meridian, external exposure to wind-cold, coughing and shortness of breath, excessive phlegm, and dryness of the mouth and tongue.

Rub-and-Drink Formula，*The Jade Case*, Volume 4.，Abdominal pain caused by damp phlegm.

The Finest Lower-Body Remedy in the World，From *The Living Heart Prescriptions of the Emaciated Immortal*, Volume 2.，For nocturnal emissions and wet dreams.

Ginger Tea Formula，From *De Xiao*, Volume 6.，Abdominal pain due to dysentery, with a hot abdomen that is too hot to touch.

Jingfangganju Decoction，From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 2.，For wind-heat phlegm-induced cough with a floating and rapid pulse.

Abdominal Pain Liuhe Decoction，*Yuanrong*.，For abdominal pain due to blood deficiency, accompanied by slight sweating and aversion to wind.

“Unchangeable Golden Elixir”，From *Medical Origins*, Volume Middle.，For facial paralysis due to stroke.

Decoction for Nourishing the Blood, Clearing Heat, and Harmonizing the Middle，From *The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 4.，Wind-heat stagnation, dizziness and blurred vision, cough.

Jian Dan Decoction，*Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，For deficiency and timidity of gallbladder qi, palpitations, and a restless, pounding sensation in the heart, as if someone were about to seize one.

Red Powder Ointment，*Comprehensive Guide to Medical Principles*, Volume 9.，For chronic sores and all types of non-healing ulcers.

Chai-Ling-Zhi-Zi Decoction，*Yi Tong*, Volume 18.，Jaundice.

Achyranthes Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 69.，For women with edema due to beriberi, restlessness and agitation, and amenorrhea.