Lü Xiao San

Descending and Tonifying Decoction，From *Fu Qingzhu’s Treatise on Men’s and Women’s Diseases*.，For atrophy syndrome. When internal fire rages intensely, drying up the kidney’s yin, rendering the patient unable to rise from bed and effectively incapacitated.

Chai Chang Decoction，*Yidi*, Volume 6.，For common malaria, after 3–4 attacks.

Ginger, Aconite, Red Ocher, and Cinnabar Pill，From *This Matter Is Hard to Know*.，Frequent and uncontrollable urination; palpitations and forgetfulness; persistent nightmares; deficiency-cold in the lower jiao; enuresis; seminal leakage; or unceasing seminal leakage due to yang deficiency; or kidney qi deficiency-cold; spleen-induced diarrhea and kidney-induced diarrhea.

Decoction for Nourishing Yin and Strengthening the Kidneys，*Huiyue*, Volume 14.，For those with kidney damage due to excessive sexual activity, resulting in instability of the Chong and Ren meridians and irregular menstruation.

Clove and Five Spices Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.，

Qi-Regulating and Mass-Dissolving Pills，From *The Song of Preserving Life* (Baoming Ge Kuo), Volume 24.，For conditions caused by emotional distress, characterized by fullness and distension beneath the heart and loss of appetite.

Tianyi Powder，*The Secret Treatise on the Throat*.，Used for sores caused by accidental ingestion of poisonous ants.

Twelve-Ingredient Decoction with Coix Seed，Formula by Xu Renze, cited in Volume 14 of *Wai Tai*.，For various wind-related conditions where wind-heat has not subsided after taking the Raw Pueraria Root and Two-Ingredient Decoction or the Aconite Decoction.

Anti-inflammatory and Cataract-Removing Pills，*Selected Cases in Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Red, swollen, and painful eyes; corneal opacity (corneal ulcer).

Bi Ying Decoction，From *A Clear Illumination of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 6.，Various types of chest pain—whether caused by cold, phlegm, parasites, or food—ascend to affect the pericardium, causing the pericardial membrane to contract and result in pain.

Blood-Activating and Menstrual-Regulating Powder，*Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 7.，For women with qi deficiency leading to stagnation, where blood stasis prevents proper circulation, resulting in delayed or irregular menstruation, occasional abdominal pain, and eventually amenorrhea.

Gui-Hui Decoction，*Medical Hierarchy*, Volume 8.，For spasms caused by blood deficiency complicated by wind, or dizziness due to liver wind and cold extremities; and for injuries complicated by wind.

Miraculous-Speed Powder，From *Yu’an*, Volume 4.，For all types of headaches.

Face-Changing Powder，From *Supplement to the Omissions of the Inner Canon*, Volume 3, citing *Immortal Formulas from the Sea*.，Epidemic wind.

Chuanxiong Buzhong Decoction，Quoted from *Ji Sheng*, citing *Corrections to the Eighteen Treatises on Prenatal Conditions by Contemporary Scholars* (see *Collected Medical Formulas*, Vol. 224).，For cases of pregnancy complicated by deficiency of blood and qi, resulting in an inability to sustain the fetus and leading to miscarriage after several months—known as “partial miscarriage”—or cases where excessive … Read more

Frankincense Meridian-Opening Pills，From *Ren Cun Fang*, cited in Volume 94 of *Pu Ji Fang*.，For stroke caused by wind, cold, and dampness; hemiplegia; numbness and stiffness in the hands and feet; bone pain and swelling of the feet; chills and fever; conditions gradually developing into beriberi; or sprains and injuries to tendons and bones; hernias in … Read more

Three Golds and Walnut Decoction，*A Thousand Family Remedies*, Volume 1.，Ureteral stones. Due to kidney deficiency and impaired bladder qi transformation, damp-heat accumulates in the lower jiao. Over time, the urine is subjected to the scorching effects of damp-heat, causing turbid substances to coagulate and form stones.

Aconite Root Formula，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 15.，Insects in the ear.

Seven Injuries Qi-Regulating Powder，*Hui Chun*, Volume 3.，Effective for ten types of diaphragmatic obstruction and five types of dysphagia, as well as long-standing accumulations of qi and masses in the abdomen causing weakness, vomiting, and distension; also treats childhood convulsions with phlegm-induced wheezing and upward-straying of the “heavenly hook” (a symptom of convulsions), which resolve upon … Read more

Shi Xuan Tuo Li Powder，*Records on the Transmission of Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 15.，For smallpox toxin in children that has spread to both shoulders and arms, with smallpox lesions resembling bran—thin, lacking luster, and adhering without peeling off.

Dujang Pills，From *Tongshou Lu*, Volume 4.，For swollen, toxic sores that have not yet ruptured.

Epidemic-Clearing Cooling Powder，From *Insights into Medicine*, Volume 3.，When epidemic pathogens invade the interior, causing abdominal distension, fullness, and oppression, delirium, and mania, with parched lips and intense thirst.

Aconite Plugs for Worm Holes Pills，From *Shān Fán Fāng*, cited in Volume 22 of *Wài Tái*.，For dental caries.

Gui-Pi Yang-Rong Decoction，*Complete Book of Experience in the Treatment of Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 1.，For persistent, non-healing chapped lips.

Lian Sha San，From *Nangmi Hou Shu*.，Wind-heat throat disorders.