Mao Medicine

Dragon’s Blood “Coffin-Shattering” Ointment，*Pocket Guide*, Volume 4.，For women suffering from postpartum blood stasis, blood-induced confusion, blood-induced fainting, blood-exhaustion, or hemoptysis; for men suffering from physical exhaustion, chronic cough, or hemoptysis.

Ben Tun Decoction，From *Treasury of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 9.，For kidney accumulation, where the lower abdomen feels as if a river dolphin is leaping upward.

Formula for Reviving Mental Dullness，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，For mental stupor. The patient remains shut indoors alone all day, muttering incomprehensibly. They may tightly sew their own clothes shut with needle and thread. They may or may not accept food and drink; they may go several days without eating without complaining of … Read more

Musk and Pig Gallbladder Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 18.，For children suffering from various forms of wasting disease and emaciation, ulcerated gums, or abdominal pain caused by intestinal parasites, who fail to gain weight despite ample intake of breast milk and food.

Modified Qi-Regulating Pills，From *Fushou Jingfang*.，For diarrhea with bloody stools.

Sugar and Fritillary Bulb Decoction，*The Collection of Immortal Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，Chronic cough.

Lung-Tonifying Powder，From *Yonglei Qianfang*, cited in *Pujifang*, Volume 286.，Lung abscess.

Chestnut Porridge，*Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 25.，All cases of vertigo and dizziness, hand tremors, muscle twitching, nausea and loss of appetite, qi deficiency with abdominal rumbling, wind-induced numbness and loss of sensation, and hemiplegia. Renal deficiency in the elderly, lower back soreness and pain, weakness in the legs and feet, and spleen deficiency with diarrhea.

Jujube and Bean Paste，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，Pain in the lower back and flanks.

Enhanced Scutellaria Decoction，*Medical Explorations* (Yixue Tanli Ji), Volume 3.，Typhoid fever with persistent diarrhea. In cases of prolonged typhoid fever where the patient fails to abstain from certain foods, consuming cold drinks and foods disrupts the spleen and stomach, leading to deficiency of spleen qi and the sinking of spleen dampness, resulting in abdominal pain and … Read more

Five-Branch Green Oil Ointment，From *Bao’s Formulas*, cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 292.，For scrofula that has become toxic, with pus, blood, and stagnant flesh.

Nourishing Yin and Eliminating Dampness Pills，From *Collected Essays on Surgery*, Volume 4.，When the eight-cornered louse (resembling a flower spider) bites the pubic hair or appears within the hair, this is caused by impure and turbid qi of the liver and kidneys. There may also be severe itching at the base of the penis; pouring boiling … Read more

Enhanced Great Tonifying Decoction，From *Huiyue*, Volume 15.，For postpartum deficiency of nourishing blood and failure of the defensive qi to maintain its protective function, resulting in an inability to cover the skin and hair or secure the pores, leading to easy sweating.

Three Bupleurum Decoction，*The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 51.，For those with a constitutional deficiency of yin, or those with insufficient blood in the Liver Meridian who have occasionally contracted wind-cold; or for cases where the pathogenic factor has not penetrated deeply and can be treated with a combination of tonification and dispersion; or for colds … Read more

Ginseng and Postpartum Golden Pill，*Collection of Inherited Surgical Formulas*.，For various gynecological disorders related to menstruation, leukorrhea, pregnancy, and childbirth.

Modified Cang Gong’s Decoction for Descending Qi，*Gujin Yijian*, Volume 12.，For abdominal distension and fullness during pregnancy.

Qilin Dragon’s Blood Ointment，*Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 1.，For pain caused by dampness, injuries, and toxic sores.

Pepper and Alum Decoction，*Songfeng on Epidemics*, Volume 2.，Epidemic-induced dental hemorrhage.

Winter Melon Rind Powder，*Collection of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 8.，Traumatic injuries.

Dragon-Tiger Decoction，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 4.，For weakness in the legs due to deficiency-related debility.

Puyuan Guben Qipai Pills，From *Formulas for Saving Lives*, Volume 4.，For chronic deficiency of the primordial qi of the spleen, lung, and kidney, where the clear yang fails to nourish the limbs and instead sinks beneath the extreme yin, unable to rise; resulting in frequent, uncontrollable diarrhea at dawn or before noon, which, if prolonged without … Read more

Pig Stomach and Poria Spleen-Nourishing Pills，From *The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 5.，

Wash Formula for Various Sores，From *Secrets of the Medicine Chest*.，Scabies, weeping sores, pustular sores, saddle sores, and damp tinea, etc.

Indigo Powder，From *Formulas of the Huizhitiang Hall*, Volume 1.，Swollen-Head Plague. Swelling of the neck and enlarged cheeks, resembling a toad.

Immortal Formula: Wan’an Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 194.，For men and women, regardless of age, this formula treats all deep-seated masses and accumulations; qi-induced, water-induced, and food-induced toxins; small intestine and bladder “ben-tun” syndrome; hernias and testicular torsion; kidney disorders; and beriberi;the “Ten Diaphragmatic Disorders” and “Five Types of Dysphagia,” gastric inversion with regurgitation … Read more