Licorice, Platycodon, and Cimicifuga Decoction

Cinnamon Bark Porridge，*Nourishing the Elderly and Honoring Parents*.，For elderly patients suffering from dysphagia, chest pain and tightness, qi stagnation in the diaphragm, and inability to swallow food.

Silver Flower, Hawthorn, Scutellaria, and Coptis Decoction，*Explanation of Warm-Heat Diseases*.，For heat-type dysentery characterized by red stools—whether initially white then turning red, or predominantly red with only a small amount of white—as well as for dysentery with trismus, where food is vomited immediately after ingestion and vomiting occurs even without eating.

Three-Retreat Paper，From *Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 19.，Ant-nest sores. Caused by rheumatic conditions, these sores often appear on the hands and feet, resembling ant nests or pinpricks. They cause excruciating itching and may rupture, oozing a greasy fluid.

Sac for Guiding Symptoms，From *Chongqing Tang Miscellaneous Notes*, Volume 1.，In women, blood obstructed by cold congeals into a mass.

Secretly Transmitted Five Wasting Diseases Powder，From *The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 10.，For children suffering from the “Five Wasting Diseases” with intermittent fever, sallow complexion, emaciation, restlessness, thirst, vomiting, and diarrhea; a distended abdomen with visible blue veins; hands and feet as thin as sticks; and mental fatigue and palpitations.

Pearl and Gold Pill (Long-Acting Formula)，*A Concise Guide to Dermatology in Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，For vitiligo.

Immortal Formula: Rehmannia Powder，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 9.，Yellow, discolored teeth.

Stone Lotus Seed Decoction，From *Straight Talk on Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，For chronic dysentery with deficiency of vital energy, internal summer-heat, red lips, restlessness, and locked jaw, resulting in an inability to consume water or rice.

Blood-Dissolving Ointment，*Zhun Sheng: Categorized Formulas*, Volume 7.，For red, swollen eyes that cannot open, eye pain, and hot tears streaming profusely.

Iron Ring Powder，*Essentials of Danxi’s Therapeutic Methods*, Volume 6.，Boils, carbuncles, and swollen abscesses.

Qi-Relieving Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 7.，When the lung fails to perform its function of clearing and descending, and the bladder’s transformation of qi is impaired, damp-heat accumulates, leading to lung jaundice, nasal congestion, yellowing of the head and face, a bland taste in the mouth and dry throat, and difficulty urinating.

Kidney Qi Decoction，*Treasury of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 9.，Kidney Accumulation.

Blood-Nourishing Angelica Paste，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Wuhan Formula).，For a sallow complexion, emaciation, and menstrual irregularities in women.

Boiled Pills，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 11.，For chronic illness with inability to eat or drink, chest and diaphragm filled with phlegm, excessive phlegm and coughing, increased nausea and restlessness, and dizziness and pain in the head and eyes.

Jianpu Houpo Decoction，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 7.，For wind-toxin invasion, weakness and lack of strength in the legs, stubborn arthralgia, numbness in the limbs, loss of voice and inability to speak, and toxin invading the heart; also treats coughs caused by clear qi and vomiting caused by counterflow qi.

Bai Ze Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 9.，For deficiency-cold in the zang-fu organs, instability of the true essence, loose stools due to intestinal weakness, cramping pain in the chest and abdomen, qi reversal with vomiting, and spontaneous sweating.

Alum and Frankincense Powder，From *General Essentials of Health*, Volume 18.，For children with sores inside the ear caused by otitis, or with pus discharge.

Cardamom Spleen-Nourishing Decoction，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.，

Lotus Pod Powder，Formula from *Effective Prescriptions for Women*, Volume 1, citing *Experienced Prescriptions for Women*; the name appears in *Danxi’s Heart Method with Appendices*, Volume 20.，Unstoppable menstrual bleeding.

Flaxseed Wine，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 9.，Hemiplegia. Paralysis of the hands and feet; deviation of the mouth and face.

Red and Blue Flower Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 37); name cited in *Pujifang* (Vol. 190).，Extreme heat in the heart and lungs causing unstoppable hemoptysis.

Essence-Retaining Golden Lock Pill，From *The Classic of the Middle Storehouse*, Volume 2.，

Spleen-Diarrhea Pills，*Six Essentials of Medicine: Compendium of Treatment Methods*, Volume 3.，For the elderly and children with chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency preventing proper digestion and transportation.

Chicken Horn Powder，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 167), citing *Proven Effective Formulas*.，For bites by a sky snake.

Toad Venom Eight-Treasure Pill，*Records of Compassionate Insights on Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 14.，For smallpox that fails to erupt or develop, or for sunken heads and mania.