Liver-Warming Decoction

Red Ointment，From *Collection of Inherited Surgical Techniques*.，For pilonidal abscesses and all types of boils.

Purslane Paste，From *Medical Explorations* (Vol. 6).，For “Pillow Fire Sores”—lesions appearing on the head and neck or within the hair, where as one heals another erupts, continuing unceasingly; the more they heal, the more arise; and which discharge only toxic fluid without breaking open to release turbid pus.

Willow Branch Powder，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 9.，Various dental ailments.

Fuqu Powder，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 16.，Prolonged, unstoppable uterine bleeding.

Peony and Rehmannia Decoction，From *Xiaopin Fang*, cited in Volume 2 of *Wai Tai*.，Heat disturbing the heart’s nutritive blood, resulting in mental confusion and delirium, with purplish-black rashes and a crimson tongue with raised papillae; heat entering the blood, causing hemoptysis, epistaxis, hematuria, and hematochezia;blood stasis leading to mania, reluctance to swallow water after rinsing the … Read more

Tong’ai Powder，*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 9.，For sore throat with sores and hoarseness.

Zuo Jin Pills，From *Danxi’s Heart Method*, Volume 1.，Liver fire invading the stomach, causing epigastric discomfort, acid regurgitation, vomiting, flank pain, muscle spasms, abdominal distension and mass, and cholera with muscle cramps.

Miraculous Phlegm-Fire Ointment，*Lu Fu’s Prohibited Formulas*, Volume 1.，Phlegm-Fire.

Er Jiang San，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 34.，For persistent cold malaria.

Garlic Decoction，*Compendium of Sacred Remedies*, Volume 162.，Postpartum stroke, with opisthotonos and inability to speak.

Yin Hua Powder，From *Selected Essentials of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 3.，For “running horse tooth” stomatitis that has become gangrenous and is near death.

Intestinal-Clearing Powder，From *The Mystic Pearl of Chishui*, Volume 28.，Constipation.

Rice Spoon Powder，From *He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 4.，Chronic diarrhea.

Formula for “Scattering Beans to Form Soldiers”，From *Throat Medicine: Sowing Blessings*, Volume 4.，Tonsillitis.

Winter Melon Seed Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 160.，For postpartum conditions where blood surges upward to the heart, causing oppression and suffocation, with unbearable pain in the abdomen and flanks, and retained lochia that fails to discharge or forms clots.

Scutellaria and Reed Flower Decoction，*Xingyuan*, Volume 5.，For cases of extreme heat in the upper burner accompanied by epistaxis.

Herbal Wash for Clearing Heat and Improving Vision，From *Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，Eye disorders.

Stagnation-Resolving Pill，*Hui Chun*, Volume 3.，For women experiencing belching and chest tightness, with more than 10 consecutive belches that do not subside; belching brings slight relief to the chest, but the tightness returns when belching stops.

Taiping Pills with Wine，*Treatise on Cold and Warm Diseases*, Volume 5.，For patients who, after recovering from a warm disease, have not yet regained their vital spirit, and experience weakness in the lower back and legs, along with generalized soreness and limpness.

Wild Ramie Soup，From *Continuation of the Easy and Simple* (Xu Yijian), Volume 2.，For unexplained bleeding before childbirth, accompanied by unbearable abdominal pain, or the discharge of yellow fluid resembling lacquer or the juice of small beans.

Cough-Relieving Pills，Formula from *Collected Works on Infant Care* (Vol. 3); name cited in *The Great Treasure of Health* (Vol. 3).，For children with the “100-Day Cough” and coughing with wheezing due to phlegm congestion.

Black Mustard Pills，Formula from *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 167; name cited in *Ben Cao Gang Mu*, Volume 26.，For cold phlegm and epigastric fullness.

Decoction to Induce Labor and Regulate Qi，From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 4.，When a woman in labor suddenly experiences the fetus rising upward and pressing against the heart, this is caused by qi stagnation, or by the amniotic fluid drying up prematurely, causing the birth canal to become dry and constricted, making it … Read more

Astragalus Heat-Clearing Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 10.，Deficiency of qi and blood, with alternating cold and heat symptoms, and weakness in the limbs.

Earthworm Powder and Frost Pill，From *The Profound Secrets of the Divine Realm*, Volume 10.，For sores caused by the “Flipping Flower” variety of bayberry.