Life-Saving Elephant Skin Pills

Xingxiao Pills，From *Complete Collection of Surgical Life-Preserving Methods*, Volume 4.，For abscesses and swellings, as well as anal fistulas that have become chronically ulcerated and beyond treatment.

Licorice, Wheat, and Jujube Decoction，From *The Golden Chamber* (Jin Gui), Volume 2.，Zangzao. Mental confusion, frequent feelings of sadness and the urge to cry, inability to control oneself, restless sleep; in severe cases, abnormal speech and behavior, frequent yawning, red tongue with little coating.Currently used for hysteria and neurasthenia attributed to deficiency of both the heart … Read more

Zhenyang Decoction，From *A Concise Explanation of Medical Formulas*, Volume 4.，Erectile dysfunction.

Liver-Regulating and Stomach-Harmonizing Paste，From *Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，Indicated for symptoms of liver yin deficiency and disharmony of the spleen and stomach.

Saliva-Regulating Pill，*The Profound Principles of the Divine Realm*, Volume 13.，Sore on the child’s hip bone.

Amber, Wax, and Alum Pills，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 1.，Boils and carbuncles, back abscesses, sebaceous cysts, scrofula, phlegm nodules, hemorrhoids with fistulas, and syphilitic sores. For boils and carbuncles—whether or not pus has formed—where there is concern that toxic qi cannot escape and will inevitably attack the body internally. Sores all over the body resembling … Read more

Pear Tree Branch Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 47); name cited in *Pujifang* (Vol. 203).，For unrelenting vomiting and diarrhea due to cholera, accompanied by muscle cramps and the onset of milkstone.

Sure-Effect Decoction，From *Bai Yi*, Volume 6.，Chronic or acute dysentery with red or white stools.

Baiyi Kuai Ban Decoction，From *The New Book on Smallpox Vaccination*, Volume 12.，For smallpox toxin obstruction preventing eruption.

Soybean Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 186.，

Decoction for Expelling Evils and Resolving Phlegm，*The Classic of Dian Dian*, Volume 2.，Following an epileptic seizure caused by alcohol intoxication, the patient is in a dazed state, eats and drinks as if in a stupor, and experiences cold extremities.

Extra-Effective Decoction for Clearing the Middle，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 61.，For headaches caused by cold damage, swelling and pain in the throat, sores in the mouth and on the tongue, and all types of swollen and toxic conditions.

Siming Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 107.，For wind-toxin rising upward, causing blurred vision, as well as unilateral or bilateral headaches, and a gradual sensation that the eyes are becoming smaller; also for headaches accompanied by brain-wind pain, and eye conditions characterized by wind and cold.

Decoction for Moistening Dryness and Stabilizing the Fetus，*Record of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 12.，Pregnant women in their third or fourth month of pregnancy who suffer from fluid deficiency may experience a dry mouth and tongue, a slight sore throat, and a lack of saliva to moisten the throat. This can lead to fetal restlessness and, in … Read more

Jiyin Dazao Pills，*Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For insufficient fetal qi during pregnancy; or for lower back pain due to kidney deficiency long after childbirth.

Red Snow，From *Essentials of the Treatment of Beriberi*, Volume 2.，For beriberi, toxic qi, internal and external feverishness, sores, swelling, and delirious screaming; as well as various mineral toxins, epidemic miasmas, and all forms of wind-heat.

Taibai Decoction，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 45.，Spleen deficiency with cold, accompanied by rumbling in the abdomen.

Black Plum Pills，*Thousand Gold Prescriptions*, Volume 10.，Liver-related heat manifesting as malaria-like symptoms causes the patient’s complexion to turn ashen, with shortness of breath and a suffocating sensation, appearing as if dead; or, in cases of prolonged fever with slight tremors resembling malaria, the condition may persist for years without resolution.

Cinnamon, Aconite, Poria, and Atractylodes Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，Kidney Deficiency Syndrome. Several months into pregnancy, with facial and limb edema, a sallow and dull complexion, palpitations and shortness of breath, aversion to cold in the lower limbs, distension in the lower back and abdominal fullness, a pale tongue with a thin, white, and moist … Read more

Fragrant Throughout the Shop，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 195), citing *The Classic of Xiu Yue and Lu Ban*.，For the Five Labors and Seven Injuries, mountain mists and miasmas, pain in the chest and abdomen, consumptive diseases caused by “transmitted corpses,” wind-induced stagnation and accumulated heat, coughs with alternating chills and fever,excessive wind-phlegm, nasal congestion, gastric … Read more

Nine Treasures Decoction，From *Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 16.，For abscesses and boils accompanied by obstruction and stagnation in the viscera.

Trace-the-Source Kidney-Rescuing Decoction，From *Feng’s Treasure Chest: Miscellaneous Disorders*, Volume 20.，For postpartum yin deficiency with fever, body pain, spontaneous sweating, loss of appetite, headache, dry mouth, and aversion to both cold and heat.

Toxicity-Eliminating and Swelling-Resolving Decoction，From *Xingyuan*, Volume 7.，Goiter manifesting in the neck and nape.

Green Cloud Pill，From *Experienced Formulas*, cited in Volume 5 of *Classified Materia Medica*.，For wind-induced drooling in children.

Spleen-Strengthening Decoction，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.，Weakness of the spleen and stomach, diarrhea due to organ dysfunction, cold stagnation in the chest and diaphragm, and loss of appetite.