Life-Sustaining Decoction Powder

Boiled Lung Soup，From *Qian Jin*, cited in Volume 12 of *Surgical Mysteries Revealed*.，For pulmonary atrophy: coughing up pus and blood; spontaneous sweating; vomiting; excessive thirst; and difficulty with urination and defecation.

Tongtian Zaizao Powder，From *Shíbiàn Liángfāng*, cited in *Pǔjì Fāng*, Vol. 110.，Severe wind-induced disorders.

Substitute-Needle Clove Pills，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 284.，For boils and abscesses where pus has formed and is about to rupture.

Great Golden Tooth Wine，*Qianjin*, Volume 7.，For those afflicted by miasmatic toxins, wind-cold-damp paralysis, distorted facial features, hemiplegia, stiffness and contractures of the hands and feet, swollen and painful joints—and in severe cases, numbness in the lower abdomen—a condition known as “beriberi.” Anyone suffering from wind-deficiency or experiencing even slight sensations of wind-induced ailments in the … Read more

Five-Spice Qi-Regulating Decoction，From *The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 4.，For nodular phlegm masses, yin-toxin, wandering toxins, and loach-like abscesses. These conditions result from the凝结 of damp-heat in the Liver and Spleen meridians, manifesting on the inner side of the calf as painful, swollen, and hard masses measuring several inches in length, shaped like loaches, and … Read more

Divine Rhinoceros Decoction，*Essentials of Infectious Diseases*, Volume 4.，When the heat-toxin of cholera rages intensely, it disturbs the mind, causing delirium, mania, and restlessness, with the patient flailing their arms and kicking their legs; in severe cases, they may grasp at the air while clutching their clothes.

Er Chen Xiao He Decoction，*One Hundred Effective Surgical Treatments*, Volume 2.，Phlegm- and Qi-type nodules; scrofula in its early stages.

Lian Gan Dan，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For “running horse tooth” malnutrition, where necrotic tissue fails to slough off.

Mangxiao Purple Pills，From *Qianjin*, Volume 5.，For children with undigested food, stagnant qi, phlegm-fluid retention, alternating chills and fever, loss of appetite, and emaciation.

Yuzhen Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 9.，For various deficiencies and insufficiencies in men and women.

Chrysanthemum Decoction to Clear Dryness，From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 68.，Pomegranate-shaped abscess, with intense swelling.

Pu Huang Vinegar Decoction，From *Ji Yin Gang Mu*, Volume 11.，For postpartum conditions, as well as all types of lochia and blood stasis.

Aqua Agallochae Decoction，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 14.，For diarrhea with five-colored stools, accompanied by tenesmus and abdominal cramping.

Stasis-Resolving and Blood-Activating Pill，*Practical Orthopedics*.，For trauma and contusions.

Modified Fangfeng Tongsheng San，*Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 1.，For disharmony of lung qi, with nasal congestion and difficulty breathing.

Qi-Dispersing Decoction Pills，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 20.，

Alum Application Formula，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 11.，For various wind-induced red and white hives that have persisted for years without healing, causing swelling all over the body with each outbreak, and which, if left untreated for too long, may penetrate the abdomen and cause harm.

Xiaoning Da Wan，From *Yuanji Qiwei*, Volume 2.，For a dark, bluish haze in the eyes resembling an injury; in severe cases, the sclera may appear as if streaked with blood, or there may be discharge, tearing, and a gritty sensation.

Nuzhen Dan，From *Fushou Jingfang*.，For yin deficiency of the liver and kidneys, dizziness, tinnitus, dry throat and nose, soreness and pain in the lower back and knees, and heavy menstrual flow.

Xiao Sheng San，From *Shi Yuan Duan Xiao Fang*, citing Zhao Yanhe’s formula (see *Yi Fang Lei Ju*, vol. 141).，For bloody and white cold dysentery with abdominal pain and a sensation of incomplete evacuation.

Bu Zhong Decoction，From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 4.，For chronic cold-induced diarrhea with persistent, dull abdominal pain; urine that is not reddish; lips that are not dry; and stools that are clear and white like duck droppings, in cases of severe deficiency-cold in the stomach and intestines.

Lian-Zhu Pills，*Yi Tong*, Volume 56.，Heart pain caused by heat.

Wuji Pills，From *Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 17, citing *Essentials of Medical Literature*.，For women with obstructed menstrual flow, red or white vaginal discharge, unstoppable metrorrhagia or menorrhagia, rectal bleeding, the five types of dysuria, postpartum blood stasis, and abdominal pain due to masses; for men with the five types of exhaustion and seven types of … Read more

Lücha Powder，*Selected Precious and Secret Formulas from the Thousand Gold Prescriptions*.，For skin ulcers and abscesses in the ear that ooze fluid.

Life-Saving Revitalizing Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 283.，For boils and abscesses.