Life-Saving Pills

Pain-Relieving Decoction，From *The Classic of Dian Dian*, Volume 3.，For skin conditions caused by alcohol poisoning, such as scabies and ringworm, characterized by ulceration, necrosis, pus formation, and unrelenting pain.

Meshizi Ointment，From *The New Book for Young Children*, Volume 14, citing *The Ji Family’s Inherited Formulas*.，For children suffering from convulsions complicated by typhoid fever.

Atractylodes Decoction for Dispelling Dampness，From *Compendium of Medical Essentials*, Volume 6.，For cold-damp foot paralysis and beriberi complicated by cold, resulting from exposure to rain or prolonged dampness.

Hai Fu Decoction，From *Essentials of Obstetrics*, Volume 2.，For cases where slight pain persists after pus has drained from an intestinal abscess.

Plum and Black Bean Decoction，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 8.，For intestinal abscesses with alternating chills and fever, as well as lung abscesses with unceasing coughing up of pus and blood.

Deer Fragrance Powder，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 9.，Treats leg sores.

Soul-Nurturing Pill，*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 7.，For all conditions of convulsions, epilepsy, and other forms of mental disturbance, as well as disorders characterized by palpitations, startle, fear, and anxiety.

Huan Yuan Ming Mu Decoction，*Clinical Notes on Ophthalmology*.，For the “cloud and mist obscuring the eyes” syndrome, where the whites and blacks of both eyes are slightly distinguishable, with no pain or redness, but the pupils are slightly dilated, and floating black specks are frequently seen drifting about.

Cnidium Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 65.，Malignant sores.

Saposhnikovia Porridge，From *Therapeutic Medicinal Porridge*.，Common cold due to wind-cold, fever with aversion to cold, aversion to wind with spontaneous sweating, headache and body aches, wind-cold-damp bi syndrome, aching joints, and intestinal rumbling with diarrhea.

Powder for Neutralizing a Hundred Poisons，From *Elbow-Back* (Volume 7).，For gu poison.

Stomach-Harmonizing Paste，From *General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 10).，For infants who cry incessantly, experience choking or obstruction due to milk-induced qi reversal, or suffer from a weak stomach with impaired qi circulation, resulting in fullness and distension in the chest and diaphragm, as well as frequent vomiting; or for cases of regurgitation.

Cough-Relieving and Clearing Pill，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Shenyang Formula).，For children with the common cold presenting with alternating chills and fever, phlegm congestion with shortness of breath, persistent coughing, regurgitation of milk, fever, and hoarseness.

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

Kehua Decoction，From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 11.，Effective for alcohol-induced intoxication.

Zengban Decoction，From Danxi’s formula, cited in *Complete Record of Medicine*, Volume 335.，For stomach deficiency with internal cold, stagnant phlegm and retained fluid, accompanied by vomiting and hiccups.

Xianju Decoction，From *Dongtian Aozi*, Volume 8.，For severe pain from traumatic wounds.

Yang-Enhancing Decoction，From *Ye’s Gynecology*, Volume 4.，Chicken essence.

Tonifying and Warming Magnolia Bark Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 44.，For spleen deficiency resulting in inability to eat or drink.

Ghost Arrow Decoction，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 166.，For lack of breast milk after childbirth, or scant milk supply.

Restoring Yang Ointment，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For cold-induced yin shā.

Chinese Yam and Aconite Pill，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 7.，For men suffering from the “Five Labors and Seven Injuries,” with weakness, emaciation, constipation, and a sensation of fullness and oppression in the lower abdomen.

Ping Xue Yin Decoction，*One Hundred Effective Surgical Formulas*, Volume 1.，For painful abscesses on the back and initial stages of unexplained swellings and toxic lesions.

Black Ginseng Decoction，From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 65.，Excessive fire in the Heart Meridian, manifested by a deep red color in the inner canthus and occasional pain.

Shunshi Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 8.，For consumptive disease.