Kidney-Opening Decoction

Zi-Gui Oil，From *Complete Book of Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 2.，For swollen lips caused by blood damage resulting from emotional disturbances that stir internal heat: small blisters form on the lips, gradually swelling and enlarging to resemble a silkworm cocoon, or the area below the lips swells to the size of a black jujube, accompanied … Read more

Qianzheng Decoction，From *Treasury of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 1.，Stroke, with a crooked mouth and eyes.

Immortal Elixir，From *The Jade Case*, Volume 3.，For throat obstruction (throat bi) affecting the Yin meridians, where taking cooling medications actually exacerbates the pain.

Medicine for Removing Tendons，*Formulas and Ingredients of Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Relieves sudden gas and relaxes tight tendons; also treats infantile convulsions.

Lithospermum and Akebia Powder，From *The New Book on Smallpox Vaccination*, Volume 12.，For smallpox with fever and scanty, reddish urine.

Poria and Five-Flavor Pills，Formula by Xu Renze, cited in Volume 6 of *Wai Tai*.，Chronic vomiting and retching; accumulated heat in the stomach; vomiting and retching with inability to retain food.

Zixia Ointment，From *Collected Insights on Surgical Diseases: Formulas for Ointments, Pills, and Powders for Home Use*.，For toxic sores in the elderly that have perforated and refuse to heal.

Harmonizing Qi and Nourishing Blood Decoction，*Hui Chun*, Volume 5.，For hernia pain with underlying deficiency. The hernia flares up whenever the patient engages in physical labor; the pulse is deep and tight, hollow and large with no strength; the pain is mild but accompanied by a sensation of heaviness, sinking, and pulling.

Three-Ingredient Decoction with Raw Pueraria Root，From *Formulas of Xu Renze*, cited in Volume 14 of *Wai Tai*.，Stroke resulting from excessive alcohol consumption, characterized by inability to speak, uncoordinated limbs, and mental confusion, occurring 1–2 days after the onset of the illness.

Daqing Powder，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 106.，Severe heat in the liver and lungs rising upward, causing the whites of the eyes to cover the pupils.

Modified Raw Rehmannia Decoction，*Complete Book of Skin Diseases*.，For patients with scrofula resulting from hematemesis due to a febrile syndrome.

To Eliminate Phlegm and Fluid Retention，From *Yu’an*, Volume 3.，Phlegm flows into the limbs, obstructing the meridians, causing extreme pain.

Gold-Weighing Pill，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 7.，

Scattered Flower Pills，*New Book on Smallpox Inoculation*, Volume 3.，

Minor Yinchen Decoction，From *Essentials of Shanghan* (Volume 2).，Symptoms of a yellow urine with a dark yellow hue, a deep, fine, and slow pulse, and coldness in the limbs and throughout the body.

Dispersing and Draining Formula，*Danxi’s Heart Method with Appendices*, Volume 10.，Epilepsy: sudden onset of phlegm due to wind, with blocked breathing and collapse.

Modified Cangbai Decoction，*A Concise Handbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine Dermatology*.，Athlete’s foot.

Clear Metal and Soothe the Lungs Pills，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 2.，Lung abscess. Prolonged cough with persistent purulent sputum, fever, and emaciation, gradually progressing to consumptive disease.

Diuretic Powder，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 133), citing *Effective Formulas Based on Clinical Experience*.，All types of dysuria.

Deficient Wind Pills，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 5.，For all conditions involving deficiency-wind, such as mental confusion and drowsiness, dizziness and vertigo, ringing in the ears, coldness and numbness of the lips and face, facial paralysis, slurred speech, stiffness at the base of the tongue, clouded consciousness, and uncontrollable drooling.

Galangal Pills，*Shenghui*, Volume 45.，For beriberi, distension and fullness in the chest and abdomen, and pain in both knees.

Frankincense Tendon-Relaxing Pills，From *The Universal Remedies* (Vol. 93), citing *The Family Treasure of Health*.，For left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness, deviation of the mouth and eyes, wandering wind disorders, numbness in the lower back and legs, all wind-related diseases, red eyes, and white-headed wind sores.

Aconite and Codonopsis Decoction，From *Yi Jian*.，Persistent loose stools.

Huanglian Jiedu Decoction，*Illustrated Manual for Saving Lives in Cases of Cold Damage*, Volume 4.，Severe fever with vomiting, moaning, and inability to sleep.

Tiger Bone and Papaya Pills，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 1.，For excessive alcohol consumption leading to stagnation of cold and dampness, disharmony of the meridians, damage to qi and blood, and pain radiating to the tendons and bones—with pain being milder during the day and worse at night—or for pain caused by exposure to … Read more