Menghu Decoction

Purple Gold Ointment，From *Shenghui*, Volume 67.，For falls from heights, falls from horses or carts, wrist fractures, bone fractures, and tendon injuries.

Ding Sheng Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 85.，For acute convulsions in children, characterized by high fever throughout the body, disharmony of tendons and meridians, convulsive twitching of the hands and feet, clenched jaw and cyanotic face, congestion of phlegm and saliva, as well as emaciation caused by malnutrition.

Kidney-Tonifying and Continuation-Root Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 102.，Blurred vision; everything appears hazy and dim.

Xiangfu Pill，Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in Volume 6 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For children whose teeth do not erupt.

Chu Yin Pills，From *Ji Ming*.，Epigastric pain. Caused by cold in the stomach leading to fluid retention, manifested as aversion to cold foods, aversion to sweet tastes, craving for sour foods, regurgitation of water, and intermittent pain beneath the heart.

Elixir of Eternal Youth，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 4.，For all forms of deficiency and debility, as well as the “Five Labors” and “Seven Injuries.”

Goat Kidney Stew，*Shenghui*, Volume 97.，For deficiency of the lower jiao, emaciation, severe pain in the lower back and hips, or frequent urination.

Decoction for Dispelling Dampness and Clearing Heat，*Essentials of the Silver Sea*, Volume 1.，Curled Eyelashes.

Steamed Garlic Formula，Formula from *Qianjin* (Vol. 15); name cited in *Dexiao* (Vol. 6).，Bloating and constipation.

Secret-Transmitted Meridian-Following Pills，From *Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Zhu Family*, Volume 1.，For wind-pathogen, cold, and dampness affecting the meridians and collaterals, leading to stagnation of qi and blood, pain caused by impaired circulation, and cramping of tendons and vessels.

Large Poria Pill，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 198.，

Ginger Juice Liu-Yi Pills，From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 36.，For real fire and fluid accumulation causing gastric reflux.

Longevity and Vitality-Strengthening Pill，From *Compilation of Remarkable Formulas*, Volume 2.，

Decoction for Restoring Vitality，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 11.，A woman whose menstrual period arrives earlier than usual and experiences extremely heavy flow is often thought to suffer from extreme blood heat. Yet who would have known that this is actually due to an excess of water and fire in the kidneys? When fire is … Read more

Five Poisons Ingot，From *Li Ye*.，For all types of toxic swellings and insect or scorpion stings.

Muxiang Xiaogu Pills，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 4.，For deficiency of both the spleen and stomach, resulting in inability to digest food and drink; fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm; intermittent distension of the abdomen and flanks persisting for months or years; reduced appetite and a tendency to lie down; a bitter, … Read more

Intestinal Astringent Pills，*Yuji Weiyi*, Volume 50.，For children with bloody or mucoid diarrhea accompanied by frequent tenesmus.

Black Rhinoceros Horn Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 126.，For the initial stage of scrofula, where lumps on the side of the neck are hard as stone, and the skin and flesh exhibit alternating chills and fever with redness and swelling.

Lithospermum and Magnolia Decoction，*Zhun Sheng: Pediatrics*, Volume 6.，For smallpox lesions accompanied by restlessness, fullness, and distension; or lesions that are hard and taut; or lesions that are clustered and refuse to disperse.

Decoction of Two Resins，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 32.，For loss of voice due to typhoid fever.

Atractylodes and Wood Fragrance Powder，*Xuanming Lun*, Volume 8.，For wheezing, coughing, swelling, and distension that are on the verge of developing into a water-retention disorder, accompanied by an inability to lie down, an inability to eat, and urinary retention.

Raw Ingredients Pingwei Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 390.，Following malaria, with spleen and stomach deficiency, a haggard complexion, loss of appetite, and facial edema.

Yunshi Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 59.，For chronic bloody or white dysentery that does not heal, accompanied by emaciation and exhaustion.

Liver-Harmonizing and Dysentery-Clearing Decoction，*Collected Works of Ci Hang*, Volume 2.，For cases occurring between summer and autumn, where the illness begins with abdominal pain, progresses to diarrhea, and then develops into dysentery.

Chuanxiong-Atractylodes-Perilla Powder，*The Treasure of Health: Supplement*，Headache and fever, or nasal congestion with a hoarse voice.