Luffa Vegetable Porridge

Seven-Star Sword，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 2.，For the initial stage of the thirteen types of carbuncles, characterized by aversion to cold and fever, nausea and vomiting, numbness in the limbs, extreme itching and pain, restlessness and agitation, and in severe cases, confusion and the spread of carbuncle toxin to the spleen.

Life-Saving Ointment，From *Hong’s Collection of Proven Formulas*, Volume 2.，For swollen and toxic sores on the back, and all types of abscesses and boils.

Amber Pain-Relieving Pills，From *Selected Precious Family-Transmitted Formulas by Ding Ganren*.，For various sores and swellings accompanied by unrelenting pain.

Sacred Pills for Diarrhea and Dysentery，*Li Ye*.，Dysentery.

Yizhizi Decoction，*Supplement to the Omissions of the Inner Canon*, Volume 3.，Kidney deficiency with involuntary urination.

Xuanmai Dihuang Decoction，*Supplement to the Great Dictionary of Chinese Medicine*.，Yin deficiency, heart fire causing mania, and insufficiency of kidney water.

Achyranthes Wine，Quoted from *Chuanxin Fang* in Volume 13 of *San Yin*.，For kidney-related wind-toxin invasion causing piercing pain, unbearable lower back pain, or lower back pain due to damp-heat, accompanied by a taut and rapid pulse.

Ming Dynasty Zihuaizi Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 33.，For eye heat and blurred vision.

Lung-Regulating Ginseng Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 86.，Pulmonary Consumption. Caused by exposure to cold or consumption of cold liquids damaging the lungs, or by hemoptysis following alcohol consumption, accompanied by coughing up turbid sputum, intermittent chills and fever, inability to tolerate food, and progressive emaciation.

Fennel and Trifoliate Orange Peel Pills，*Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 4.，For central fullness with lower-body weakness, distension and fullness in the abdomen and flanks, and impaired qi circulation.

Lai Fu Dan，*The Heart Book of Bian Que: Divine Formulas*.，For spleen damage caused by improper diet, resulting in pain in the heart and abdomen, fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, and cold extremities; also treats cold-syndrome manifestations of typhoid fever, women’s blood-and-qi stabbing pain (whether affecting the heart and abdomen or the lower … Read more

Modified Eight-Ingredient Rehmannia Decoction，From *Feng’s Treasure Chest: Miscellaneous Disorders*, Volume 12.，For cases of persistent cough, dry and withered sputum, fever, bone pain, dizziness, and eye distension; or occasional aversion to cold; with the six pulses being taut and rapid; daily wasting of the muscles; inability to sleep at night; and, in severe cases, swelling and … Read more

Gelatin, Mugwort, and Pomegranate Peel Decoction，Formula from *Qianjin* (Vol. 2); name cited in *Zhang’s Medical Compendium* (Vol. 15).，Persistent diarrhea during pregnancy.

Formula for Breaking Through the Blockage at Cockcrow，From *Zongfu of Laryngology*, Volume 3.，For diphtheria where the white coating does not subside.

Decoction for Strengthening the Righteous Qi and Expelling Pathogenic Factors，*Fu Qingzhu’s Treatise on Andrology*, Volume 1.，For cases where deficiency of the body’s vital energy allows pathogenic factors to invade, presenting with headache and fever, and a stronger pulse in the right cun position than in the left.

Si Xuan Powder，From *Direct Pointers with Addenda*, Volume 26.，For stroke with phlegm obscuring the orifices of the heart, mania, delirium, agitation, mental confusion, profuse phlegm and saliva, and the five types of epilepsy caused by heart wind.

Decoction for Regulating Qi, Harmonizing Blood, and Dispelling Wind，*Treasury of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 8.，For post-dysentery wind syndrome characterized by generalized body pain, stiffness and spasms in the hands and feet, and an inability to move or get out of bed.

Imperial Palace Divine Formula，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 2.，Swollen head plague, with swelling of the face and neck.

Seven-True Decoction，From *Feng’s Treasure Chest: Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 14.，When smallpox lesions fail to swell and become filled with pus.

Zhi-Ju Powder，*Compendium of Medicine*, Volume 3.，Pain in the right flank.

Black Tiger Powder for the Tongue，From *Collection of Inherited Surgical Techniques*, citing a formula by Tai Meichu.，Tongue disorders.

Frost-and-Ink Pills，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 35.，Chronic malaria.

Longevity Wine: A Divine Formula，From *Eight Notes on Nourishing Life*, Volume 17.，For men and women of advanced or young age suffering from various deficiencies and debilities, the Five Labors and Seven Injuries, paralysis on the left or right side, unilateral or bilateral headaches, facial asymmetry, hemiplegia, slurred speech, stiffness of tendons and meridians, numbness in … Read more

Thistle and Aster Decoction，Volume 11 of the Lower Collection of *Bu Ju Ji*.，For coughing with red sputum mixed with stasis blood, indicating excess in the upper and deficiency in the lower.

Qi-Generating and Stomach-Nourishing Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.，For spleen deficiency with cold phlegm, gastric reflux, and inability to tolerate food or medicine.