Medicinal Thread

Saposhnikovia, Schizonepeta, and Licorice Decoction，From *Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 6.，For Taiyang syndrome characterized by aversion to cold, fever, shortness of breath, and dark urine, with slow and painful eruption of smallpox.

Jujube and Arsenic Pill，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，Treats “running horse-tooth” (a type of oral thrush).

Four-fold Yam Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 185.，

Nine-Return Golden Elixir Pill，From *The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 62.，For men and women with excessive phlegm and shortness of breath; stroke-induced aphasia; facial asymmetry; left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness; and locked jaw; as well as for children with acute convulsions, hand and foot spasms, loss of consciousness, and excessive phlegm with shortness of breath.

Wu Xu Pills，From *Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 50, citing *The Secret Treasures of Heaven and Earth*.，For men and women suffering from various deficiencies and bone-steaming tidal fevers.

Sanling Huaji Pills，Formula by Li Jiuhé, cited in Volume 6 of *The Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*.，For abdominal masses.

Tangerine Seed Pills，*Songs on Preserving Life* (Baoming Gejue), Volume 16.，For men with kidney deficiency (Wood element) and women with yin deficiency.

Platycodon Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 5.，Chronic accumulation of cold qi in the spleen causing wandering cold, hollow rumbling in the abdomen, distension and fullness in both flanks, and reduced appetite.

Yuntai Seed Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 67.，For injuries to tendons and bones caused by crushing, or internal injuries from falls, where stagnant blood causes distension, fullness, and confusion in the chest and abdomen; this formula expels pathogenic blood.

Pills to Overcome Natural Limitations，From *Collected Formulas of the Crane-Feeding Pavilion*.，Five Labors and Seven Injuries, the Nine Types of Chest Pain, various forms of bloating, chest, diaphragm, and abdominal pain, deficiency-induced edema, internal injury and exhaustion, trauma from falls and blows, shortness of breath upon walking, pain throughout the body, seminal emission and impotence, bloody … Read more

Miraculous Gold-Surpassing Pill，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Jilin and Harbin Formulas).，For deficiency of qi and blood leading to collapse, weak central qi, spontaneous sweating, emaciation, pale complexion, brittle nails, and dry skin; sudden heavy menstrual bleeding or persistent spotting, lower back soreness, weak legs, dizziness, and shortness of breath; accumulated dampness causing … Read more

Menstrual-Stopping Pills，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 14.，For women over fifty who still have menstrual periods, whether heavy or accompanied by heat.

Black Plum, White Vitex, and Asarum Pills，*Commentary on the Treatise on Malaria*.，Liver malaria.

Scorpion Tail Pills，From *New Book on the Care of Infants* (Vol. 10), citing a formula by Zheng Yu.，For children with convulsions accompanied by drooling, intermittent high fever, twitching of the hands and feet, restless sleep, and clenched jaws.

Mangcao Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 24.，For wind-induced conditions characterized by itching of the skin as if insects were crawling on it, and dizziness and heaviness in the head and eyes.

Modified Huo Fu Decoction，From *Wan’s Gynecology*, Volume 2.，When a pregnant woman experiences scant urination accompanied by burning pain, it is termed “pregnancy dysuria”; this formula also treats hematuria.

Sichuan Pepper Decoction，From *The Comprehensive Record of Holy Remedies*, Volume 40.，Cholera with muscle cramps.

Da Yi Han Pill，*Yuanrong*.，For yin-syndrome patients treated with Si Ni-type formulas who experience restlessness in the chest and thirst; or those with constipation for several days and scanty, red, and painful urination.

Dysentery-Stopping Powder，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Shenyang Formula).，For bloody dysentery that has persisted for a long time without healing, rectal prolapse with bloody stools, qi deficiency with sinking of the viscera, and chronic diarrhea or dysentery.

Decoction for Unblocking Meridians and Opening Orifices，From *Jie Wei Yuan Sou*, Volume 3.，Early stage of wind-epidemic.

Chuanxiong-Danggui Lizhong Decoction，*Collection of Obstetrics and Pregnancy*, Volume 2.，Postpartum blood stasis and qi stagnation, complicated by cold, leading to pain in the chest and abdomen.

Decoction for Regulating Qi and Stabilizing the Fetus，*The Zheng Family’s Inherited Gynecological Prescriptions Worth Ten Thousand Gold* (Volume 3).，For pregnant women with abdominal distension, a protruding navel, a puffy face, and swollen feet.

Jingfang Fandou Powder，*Guide to Pediatrics*, Volume 2.，For children with measles presenting fever, a dry face, red cheeks, red eyelids, yawning and restlessness, alternating chills and fever, coughing and sneezing, slightly cold hands and feet, and frequent startles and drowsiness.

Warming the Meridians and Nourishing the Original Qi Decoction，*Six Treatises on Cold Damage*, Volume 4.，For severe debility following sweating due to Shanghan, manifested by dizziness, trembling so severe as to feel one might fall to the ground, and twitching of the muscles and tendons; or for cases where excessive sweating has led to deficiency of … Read more

Pimpinella Ointment，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 133.，For all types of chronic, cold sores.