Lei’s Method for Promoting Penetration and Clearing the Membranes

Liver-Harmonizing, Spleen-Revitalizing, and Dampness-Transforming Pills，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For spleen and stomach disorders.

Yin-Nourishing Licorice and Platycodon Decoction，*Essentials of the Collection of Discussions on Causes and Formulas*, Volume 4, citing Wang Yungu.，For physical weakness with swollen cheeks.

Tiao Zhong Decoction，From *Miscellaneous Remarks on Treating Uncommon Conditions: Essential Formulas for Emergency Use*.，For patients who, prior to the onset of measles, first experienced internal deficiency due to vomiting and diarrhea, subsequently contracted the epidemic measles, and now present with sunken eye sockets and a listless demeanor.

Decoction for Promoting Rashes，From *Treatise on Epidemic Diseases*, Volume 1.，When a plague rash appears and is followed by severe purgation, resulting in weakened vital energy and the internal penetration of the rash’s toxin.

Decoction for Relieving Depression and Clearing the Liver，*Zhang Jiachun’s Diagnosis and Treatment of Ophthalmic Disorders*.，Wind-Wheel Protrusion. Caused by anger injuring the liver, with qi and blood carrying stagnant fire surging upward; the eyeball is swollen and painful, the sclera shows red threads and purple swelling, the “wind-wheel” protrudes, and sudden cracks appear on the surface … Read more

Peach Blossom Qi-Regulating Pills，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 4.，For warm-damp wind-toxin lodged in the meridians, causing qi stagnation and blood stasis; oppressive pain in the limbs; restlessness, irritability, and high fever; qi rushing upward and rebelling; fullness and distension in the chest and abdomen; heavy pain in the lower back and spine; difficulty lifting the feet … Read more

Weiyao Shenying Dan，From *Yizong Shuoyue*, Volume 6.，Treats conditions where disharmony of qi and blood leads to stagnation manifesting as sores—characterized by severe swelling, redness, and pain—accompanied by phlegm, stagnation, dampness, or cold.

Secret-Recipe Baolong Pills，*Compilation of Hua’s Medical Formulas*, Volume 3.，For infantile convulsions with clenched jaw, phlegm-induced wheezing, and cough.

Decoction for Resolving Stagnation and Softening Hardened Masses，From *A Thousand Family Remedies*, Volume 2, citing a formula by Li Congfu.，Mammary lobular hyperplasia due to liver qi stagnation and stagnation. Hard lumps in both breasts that do not move upon palpation; skin color is normal; there is a dull ache; the lumps enlarge before menstruation and … Read more

Lotus, Apricot, Gypsum, and Licorice Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，After recovery from typhoid fever, when latent heat has not yet been completely eliminated, a new pathogenic factor is contracted; the pathogenic factor becomes stagnant internally, causing the illness to recur, with restlessness, headache, fever, aversion to wind or chills, a dry tongue, thirst, … Read more

Menstrual Regulation and Pain Relief Powder，*Guide to Gynecology*.，Menstrual pain.

Fennel Decoction for Dispelling Stagnation，*Mirror of Ancient and Modern Medicine*, Volume 8.，For all types of dysuria, as well as red and white vaginal discharge in women.

Feilong Pill，*Complete Collection of Surgical Life-Preserving Formulas*, Volume 4.，For boils, carbuncles, and abscesses.

Bai Datong Pills，From *The Universal Remedies* (Vol. 116), citing *The Family Treasure of Health*.，Effective for all types of wind-induced disorders, including left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness, facial and oral asymmetry, limpness and flaccidity of the limbs, and slurred speech; also treats both unilateral and bilateral headaches, as well as wind-induced arthralgia and leg disorders.

Blistering Ointment，From *Ophthalmology Essentials*, Volume 4.，For cataracts, glaucoma, epidemic conjunctivitis, conjunctival inflammation, and smallpox lesions affecting the eyes.

Ginseng and Bamboo Sap Decoction，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 3.，Characterized by deficiency-type malaria with lethargy and confusion, profuse sweating, excessive phlegm, a swollen tongue, slurred and incoherent speech, and a weak, large, and feeble pulse.

White Scallion and Psoralea Decoction，*Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 5.，For cases of internal accumulation of cold qi before childbirth, bladder contractions during labor, postpartum abdominal distension as if a drum, difficulty urinating, and a sense of suffocation and confusion so severe as to feel as if one were about to die.

Decoction for Nourishing Body Fluids and Relieving Obstruction，From *Treatment of Latent Epidemic Fever*.，For the late stage of latent epidemic fever, when the patient has regained mental clarity but fever persists, accompanied by thirst, a dry tongue, severe headache, pain and distension in the neck muscles, inability to turn the body, absence of general sweating except … Read more

Perilla and Notopterygium Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 16.，When wind-pathogen arises, causing dizziness and vertigo, acute pain in the eye muscles, and in severe cases, loss of balance leading to falling.

Purple Stone and Asparagus Root Pills，*Zhun Sheng: Gynecology*, Volume 4.，

Qinjiao-Biejia Pills，From *The Precious Mirror of Health* (Vol. 5).，For yin deficiency and blood deficiency, where an external invasion of wind-pathogen transmits inward and transforms into heat, leading to wind-consumptive disease, bone-steaming fever and tidal fever, emaciation of muscles and flesh, red lips and flushed cheeks, coarse breathing, mental fatigue and weakness, and night sweats. Amenorrhea. … Read more

Garlic and Freshly Drawn Water Formula，From *Formulas of the Zongfu Hall*, Volume 2.，Heatstroke, summer heat illness.

Ginseng Detoxification Decoction，*New Book on Smallpox Vaccination*, Volume 4.，For cases where the toxic heat of smallpox sores has not yet dissipated, causing a burning sensation in the stomach and loss of appetite, and where the vital energy is deficient, resulting in a sore throat after the scabs have fallen off.

Decoction for Clearing Fire and Purifying the Metal，*Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 31.，For fire-induced wheezing.

Depression-Relieving Decoction，*Fu Qingzhu’s Gynecology*, Volume 2.，Used for depression during pregnancy, stagnation of liver qi, resulting in a suspended fetus, restless fetal movements, and tightness and pain in both flanks, as if a bowstring were being drawn.