Life-Saving Elixir

Palm Decoction，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 215.，Blood in the urine.

Decoction for Clearing White Discharge and Eliminating Toxins，*Complete Book on Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 2.，For swollen and painful throat or sores in the throat during smallpox, accompanied by a hoarse voice.

Family Secret Chuanxiong-Danggui Decoction，*Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 1.，Headache due to internal injury and blood deficiency.

Enhanced Eight-Ingredient Decoction，From *Ye’s Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For pale menstrual blood due to blood deficiency.

Tooth-Cleaning Powder，From *Bo Ji*, Volume 3.，For loose teeth that are exposed and painful.

Cinnamon Decoction，Formula from *Shenghui*, Volume 47; name cited in *Pujifang*, Volume 202.，For dry cholera.

Liuwei Boyun Powder，From *Clinical Notes on Ophthalmology*.，Sword-Spine Obstruction Syndrome (sword-shaped corneal opacity).

Yinchen Shigao Decoction，*Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 2.，Yellow sweat.

Angelica and Ligusticum Decoction，*Explanation of Ophthalmology*, Volume 3.，For eye disorders in thin individuals characterized by blood deficiency combined with heat.

Xiang Sheng Po Di Pills，*Yi Tong*, Volume 46, citing *Yi Lin*.，For cases of voice loss and inability to speak caused by excessive vocal strain.

Modified Danxi’s Prenatal Decoction，*Revised Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology*, Volume 2.，Malaria in Pregnant Women.

Gushen Pill，*The Handy Guide*, Volume 3.，For the elderly with deficient stomach qi who are unable to eat or drink.

Qingyin Dan，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 159), citing *Effective Formulas Based on Clinical Experience*.，For chronic cough and hoarseness.

Tissue-Regenerating Powder No. 2，*Integrative Dermatology: Chinese and Western Medicine*.，All types of suppurative wounds and ulcers, indurated erythema, ulcers caused by allergic vasculitis, gangrenous pyoderma, and pressure sores, etc.

Atractylodes and Poria Decoction for Regulating the Middle，From *Yu’an*, Volume 3.，Excessive dietary indiscretion, loose stools, dysentery, and abdominal distension.

Processed Ginger Powder，*Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 3.，Excessive alcohol consumption or stagnation from raw and cold foods, resulting in vomiting, nausea, and loss of appetite.

Female Gold Pills，*Chinese Pharmacopoeia*, Volume 1.，Irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, lower abdominal distension and pain, and aching in the lower back and legs.

Enhanced Diaphragm-Cooling Powder，*Commentary on the Compilation of Smallpox Medicine*, Volume 4.，Acute convulsions in children.

Four Wonders Nurturing the Unicorn Pills，From *The Secret Manual of Ningkun*, Volume 2.，

Xuanwu Pill，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For epidemic measles.

Three Generals Pills，From *The Later Collection of Formulas Continuing the Easy and Simple Prescriptions*, Volume 1.，For persistent beriberi with pain radiating upward and causing cramping, vomiting and wailing, beriberi affecting the heart, constipation, pain and numbness, and shortness of breath with a feeling of suffocation as if on the verge of death.

Sugar Cane Juice Porridge，Formula from *Compendium of Materia Medica* (Vol. 33), citing a recipe by the Dong family; name found in *Recipe Collection for Longevity Medicinal Porridges*.，For cough due to deficiency-heat, with dry mouth, runny nose, and excessive saliva. Also for regurgitation and vomiting, as well as for the later stages of febrile diseases in … Read more

Secret Formula: Poria Decoction，From *Baoguang Dao’s Collection of Ophthalmic Formulas: Longshui Ji*.，Frequent visual disturbances such as black specks resembling a rope being pulled, or occasional floating specks like fly wings.

Radish Powder，*National Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas* (Shenyang Formula).，For elderly patients with phlegm-induced wheezing that flares up in winter, or those with qi stagnation causing vomiting and a sensation of fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm; or for young patients with cough accompanied by a pattern of excess in gastric disorders.

Mysterious Decoction，*Medical Inventions*, Volume 4.，If the patient must not lie down—and experiences shortness of breath when lying down—it is because water qi has risen upward and overwhelmed the lungs; the lungs, filled with water, become buoyant, obstructing the free flow of qi, and the pulse is deep and large.