Li Ben Decoction

Wash for Cane Wounds，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 75.，Injuries caused by being crushed.

Minor Life-Saving Powder，*Reviving Spring*, Volume 8.，For brain abscesses, malignant boils, and unexplained swollen abscesses.

Iron-Foot Pills，*Xuanming Lun*, Volume 15.，For obstruction of urination and defecation; lower abdominal distension; difficulty urinating; and stagnation of qi.

Dampness-Dispelling Cake，*The Correct Transmission of Medicine*, Volume 4.，For chronic beriberi where the shins are swollen like a gourd.

Jing-Su Decoction，*Zhi Zhi*, Volume 8.，Loss of voice.

Instant Toothache Relief Powder，From *Medical Case Records of Ding Ganren*.，Toothache.

Goji Root Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 34.，Exposed gums, pus and blood, and bad breath.

Rhubarb and Astragalus Decoction，*San Yin*, Volume 8.，Extreme deficiency of body fluids; heaviness of the body and lethargy; reluctance to move the limbs; joint pain; lack of appetite; coughing upon eating; pain under the right flank when coughing, radiating to the back and shoulder, making movement impossible.

Euphorbia Decoction，From *Yixin Fang*, Volume 10, citing *Fan Wang Fang*.，Sudden, severe swelling of the body and face.

Jade-Red Paper-Lined Ointment，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 37.，For wounds from caning and severe torture involving wooden clubs, as well as injuries from falls and blows.

Wind-Dispelling Four-Ingredient Decoction，*Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 3.，During pregnancy, stagnant heat in the liver allows wind to invade the brain, causing dizziness and blurred vision, sudden loss of vision, and swelling with nodules in the cheeks, neck, and nape.

Pork Liver Paste，*Shengji Zonglu*, Vol. 12.，For internal eye opacities, blindness, and wind-induced red corneal opacities.

Dogspine Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 57.，Nine Worms.

Wuchengzi’s Firefly Pills，From *Qianjin Yifang*, Volume 10.，It wards off diseases, noxious vapors, and the poisons of tigers, wolves, snakes, vipers, bees, and scorpions.

Xianggan Powder 60439，*A Clear Illumination of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 6.，Various pains caused by anger.

Raffinated Fat Ointment，*Insights into Surgical Medicine*, Volume 12.，Lung-wind sores.

Dampness-Removing and Qi-Boosting Pills，From *Discrimination of Internal and External Injuries*, Volume 2.，Symptoms of dampness-induced facial swelling, fullness and oppression in the chest and abdomen, and heaviness in the limbs.

Eight-Spirit Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 186.，Heaviness in the limbs, weakness in the feet and knees, and cold pain in the bone marrow.

Cimicifuga Heat-Clearing Decoction，From *Shenghui*, Volume 36.，For heat in the heart and spleen, resulting in sores and cracks on the mouth and tongue, and red, chapped lips.

Decoction for Dispelling Pathogenic Factors，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 5.，Spring fever: headache, body heat, thirst with a strong desire to drink, macules on the limbs; symptoms resembling mania but not quite mania, resembling agitation but not quite agitation; the disease spreads from household to household, with transmission occurring between family members.

Decoction for Nourishing Water and Opening Yin，*Secret Treatise on the Throat*, Volume 2.，For cases of incipient consumption where the voice suddenly becomes hoarse and there is a cough with phlegm.

Rickets Decoction，Formula from *Essentials of Clinical Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine*; name cited in *Famous Formulas Through the Ages*.，Rickets; weakness in the head and neck; flaccid mouth and lips; weak chewing ability; sluggishness in grasping, lifting, standing, and walking; intellectual disability; occasional muscle spasms; pale and white lips and tongue; weak pulse.

Rabbit Meat Pill for Reducing Smallpox，*New Book on Smallpox Inoculation*, Volume 12.，

Fangji-Huangqi Decoction，*The Golden Chamber* (Jin Gui), Volume 1.，For qi deficiency in the muscles and skin, with wind and dampness intermingling and lodging in the skin, resulting in a heavy sensation throughout the body, weakness in the limbs, aching joints, occasional spontaneous sweating, and a gradual aversion to wind, with a reluctance to remove clothing; as … Read more

Fulong Decoction，From *Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 216, citing *Immortal Traditions for Relieving Yin Deficiency*.，For women who, during pregnancy, have their lungs affected by wind-cold, resulting in coughing with phlegm and restlessness due to shortness of breath; or when a cold cough spreads to the spleen, causing the expulsion of phlegm—if treatment is delayed, this may … Read more