Lingbao Fragrant Red Pills

Danggui Sini Decoction with Wu Zhu Yu and Ginger，*Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For cold and numbness in the hands and feet, a fine pulse nearly imperceptible, and chronic internal cold. Currently used for thromboangiitis obliterans, Raynaud’s disease, chronic urticaria, frostbite, etc.; it may also be used for chronic gastrointestinal diseases with severe pain and vomiting, headaches, … Read more

Yellow Hibiscus Powder，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 72.，For all kinds of malignant sores accompanied by unbearable pain.

Four-Grain Decoction，From *Shouqin Yanglao* (Caring for the Elderly), Volume 4.，For diarrhea in children.

Er Shi Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 186.，For chronic deficiency of the spleen and kidneys, chronic cold in the navel and abdomen, dim vision and ringing in the ears, heaviness of the body and pain in the feet, difficulty walking, and weakness in the legs and knees.

Diao Tan Ointment，From *Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 35, citing *Shenghui*.，Phlegm congestion in the chest.

Qingdai Decoction for Eliminating Spots，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 2.，When heat transmits to the interior, resulting in interior excess and exterior deficiency, blood heat fails to disperse; the heat then takes advantage of the deficiency to emerge through the skin as macules. In mild cases, they resemble a rash; in more severe cases, they appear like … Read more

Ginseng and Cardamom Powder，Formula by Master Shi, cited in Volume 8 of *Effective Prescriptions for Women*.，For chronic, persistent diarrhea that has not responded to other medications.

Houpo Liuhe Decoction，From *Yuanrong*.，For deficiency-related debility and weak qi, accompanied by coughing, wheezing, and chest fullness; or for deficiency-induced distension and fullness following sweating or purgation due to typhoid fever during pregnancy.

Five-Gallbladder Ointment，The formula is from *Shenghui* (Volume 33); the name appears in *Dongyi Baojian: Chapter on External Forms* (Volume 1).，For blurred distant vision, frequent seeing of dark spots, and signs of developing cataracts.

Upside-Down Wood and Metal Powder，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 43.，Chest pain caused by stagnation of qi, blood, heat, or chronic phlegm.

Su Xin Decoction，*Records of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 4.，There is a person suffering from a form of mental stupor who spends the entire day shut indoors, muttering to himself, often in an incomprehensible manner. He sews his own clothes tightly shut with needle and thread. When given food and drink, he sometimes eats and sometimes does … Read more

Ginger Wine，Formula from *Formulas for Emergency Use* (Vol. 2); name cited in *Comprehensive Record of Holy Remedies* (Vol. 40).，Note: For unstoppable dysentery accompanied by abdominal cramps so severe that the patient feels on the verge of death.

Dysentery Dietary Pills，From *Collection of Effective Formulas*, Volume 1.，For dysentery and watery diarrhea.

Cinnamon Twig and Nourishing the Blood Decoction，From *Collected Insights on Surgical Diseases: Compilation of Formulas*, Middle Volume.，For cases of cold stagnation and dampness retention with deficiency of qi and blood.

Stone Dragon Pill，From *The Secret Manual on Throat Disorders*.，For intense yin fire rising upward, with external chills and internal heat, and mild pain in the throat and pharynx.

Glycyrrhiza, Platycodon, and Arctium Decoction，*Compendium of Measles Disorders*, Volume 3.，Measles with sore throat; toxic fire rising, with fire stagnation in the lung.

Three Fresh Ingredients Decoction，From *Compilation of Medical Manuscripts*, Volume 8.，For cases of consumptive disease with blood in sputum accompanied by deficient heat.

Fetal-Qi-Regulating Pills，From *Song’s Gynecology*.，Difficult childbirth, or giving birth once a year.

Locust Shell Decoction，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 377.，For various types of wind-induced epilepsy and excessive phlegm in the chest.

Pine Resin Wine，*Shenghui*, Volume 95.，Severe skin disease.

Yudao Pills，From *Collected Formulas of the Crane-Feeding Pavilion*.，For women with instability of the Chong and Ren meridians and dysfunction of the Dai Meridian, presenting with red or white vaginal discharge and prolonged, scanty menstrual flow.

Formula for Treating Boil Erythema，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，For boils and carbuncles.

Dried Pueraria Stomach-Harmonizing Powder，*Etiology, Symptoms, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 2.，For internal injury with vomiting of bitter fluid mixed with undigested food, accompanied by a string-like and rapid pulse at the right Guan position; or for cold-damp dysentery with chest fullness, vomiting, and a sensation of fullness and oppression, accompanied by a long pulse.

Yin-Breaking Pill，*Ben Shi*, Volume 8.，For typhoid fever and epidemic diseases characterized by latent yang within yin. Although the body feels extremely cold, the patient does not wish to wear clothes; there is chest fullness and nausea, headache, and back pain; the fingertips are cold but there is internal heat and restlessness; the tongue coating is … Read more

Modified Qingzhou White Pills，From *Bai Yi*, Volume 5.，For sudden stroke caused by wind-pathogen, hemiplegia, deviation of the mouth and eyes, obstruction due to phlegm and saliva, shortness of breath, coughing, and hemoptysis, as well as fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm; for infantile convulsions; for women with blood-wind disorders; and for adults with … Read more