Kudzu Root and Burdock Seed Decoction

Aconite and Five-Flavor Powder，From *Xu Renze’s Formulas*, cited in Volume 25 of *Wai Tai*.，Water-and-grain dysentery; dysentery with no regular pattern; undigested food; abdominal pain; symptoms triggered by exposure to cold.

Xu Ling Decoction，From *Baoming Gejue*, Volume 3.，Diarrhea and vomiting during the summer season, accompanied by restlessness, thirst, and a desire to drink water. In children, a “yang-summer” syndrome with a weak pulse.

Gui Zhi Shi Gao Decoction.，The formula is from *Qian Jin* (Vol. 9); the name appears in *Huo Ren Shu* (Vol. 17).，In cases of sudden swelling due to cold damage—whether in the limbs, chest, or back—where the swelling is diffuse and puffy like a balloon, or affects the head, face, lips, mouth, neck, and nape; in … Read more

Decoction for Dispelling Dampness，From *Yu’an*, Volume 5.，Damp-heat lower back pain, with a heavy, sinking sensation as if weighed down by a belt worth several thousand qian.

Bile Alum Pills，From *Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 4.，Pain from a scorpion sting.

Millet Husk Powder，*Xu Ping’s Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 8.，For all types of hemorrhoids accompanied by pain; and for intestinal bleeding caused by “intestinal wind” that has not been stopped by other treatments.

Tong Sheng Cake，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 11.，For chronic convulsions in children.

Red Arrow Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 25.，Effective for all types of wind disorders.

Enhanced Dayuan Decoction，*Eight Methods of Medicine*, Volume 2.，In years when epidemics are rampant, if one accidentally contracts wind-cold that triggers the epidemic; or in years without epidemics, if one contracts severe wind-cold that presents entirely like an epidemic; or in the initial stage of wind-cold or epidemic infection, resulting in exterior symptoms such as headache, … Read more

Rhinoceros Horn and Pinellia Pills，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 64.，For headaches caused by wind-phlegm attacking the head.

Decoction for Warming the Meridians and Stopping Bleeding，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，For women with spleen qi deficiency presenting with sudden heavy menstrual bleeding or metrorrhagia; blood that is pale, clear, and watery; lower abdominal distension, pain, and coldness; preference for warm compresses; poor appetite and loose stools; a pale tongue with a white coating; and … Read more

Sweet Tengli Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 61); name cited in *Pujifang* (Vol. 285).，For all types of abscesses, boils, and toxic swellings.

Decoction for Restoring Yang and Rescuing the Stomach，*Collection of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 5.，For black, gangrenous sores extending to the lungs, where there is yin deficiency without yang, but stomach qi has not yet ceased.

Jusheng Qibao Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 7.，For all cases of chronic or recent intestinal bleeding, hemorrhoids with fistulas, and abscesses with a visible head.

Decoction for Clearing Heat and Promoting Transpiration，From *Zhang’s Comprehensive Treatise on Medicine*, Volume 15.，In children with measles that have not yet fully erupted, accompanied by severe fever and cough.

Shitingzhi Pills，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 44.，For all cases of deficiency-cold in the spleen and stomach, loose stools in the large intestine, greenish-white diarrhea, vomiting and regurgitation, and a sallow, waxy complexion.

Dried Pueraria and Stomach-Clearing Powder，*Etiology, Symptoms, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 2.，For fire rising from the spleen and stomach, presenting with dizziness and a rapid, forceful pulse at the right Guan position.

Wan’an Decoction，From *The Book of Care for Infants and Children*, Volume 2.，

Dou Shen San，From *Compendium of Medicine*, Volume 4.，

Yin-Nourishing and Fire-Reducing Decoction，From *Essentials and Secrets of Throat and Tongue Disorders*.，Throat disorders due to yin deficiency with excessive fire.

Universal Poison-Expelling Needle-Tip Pills，From *Selected Essentials of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 3.，For malignant sores on the back of the head.

Decoction for Eliminating Water Toxins，*Shenghui*, Volume 90.，For pediatric abscesses characterized by toxic, hard, and painful swelling, with redness radiating outward in all directions.

Pepper-Soft-Shelled Turtle Pills，*Selected Essentials of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 7.，For the first flogging.

Acorus juice，Formula from *Formulas for Emergency Use* (Vol. 1); name cited in *Comprehensive Record of Holy Remedies* (Vol. 38).，Sudden death or post-mortem convulsions. Cholera, with acute pain in the heart and abdomen as if struck by a malevolent spirit.

Zhi-Pu Pingwei Powder，*Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 4.，Food-induced cholera; the disease is localized in the middle jiao; fullness and oppression in the chest; distension, pain, and belching; alternating vomiting and diarrhea; vomiting of undigested food; foul-smelling, sour-tasting stools; a slippery and large pulse, or a deep and firm pulse.