Method for Avoiding Cold

Itch-Relieving Pill，From *Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhao Bingnan*.，Itching of the skin, chronic eczema.

Luo Mian Dan，From *Pulse Causes and Treatment*, Volume 1.，Internal damage causing hemoptysis.

Almond and Peach Porridge，From *New Compilation for the Relief of the Masses*, Volume 7.，

Angelica and Dragon’s Blood Pills，*Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 7.，Postpartum blood stasis forming a mass in the abdomen.

Pepper-Flour Porridge，From *Nourishing the Elderly and Honoring Parents*.，For spleen and stomach deficiency-cold, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and vomiting; irregular diarrhea and dysentery with loss of appetite; chronic cold qi with knotted pain in the chest and abdomen; and in the elderly, difficulty swallowing and a sensation of fullness in the chest and flanks.

Night-Closing Branch Powder，From *Shenghui*, cited in *Pujifang*, Volume 311.，In cases of falls from horses accompanied by stagnant blood accumulating in the abdomen and stomach, causing difficulty in defecation, taking medication often leads to vomiting, as the blood congeals into lumps that press against the heart.

Milk Toxin Pills，From *The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 2.，Mastitis.

Large Moth Powder，*Essentials of Surgical Medicine*, Volume 2.，Injuries caused by knives or axes.

Yan’s Red Qilin Powder，*The Jade Key*, Volume 1.，Effective for all cases of throat obstruction, throat constriction, single or double tonsillar swelling, and other severe throat conditions.

Summer Heat-Clearing Decoction，*Secrets of Infant Care*, Volume 3.，For infants under one year of age suffering from heatstroke.

Jiling Gel，*Mirror of Treating Deficiency* (Volume 2).，For deficiency-related wasting disease with internal heat and bone-steaming fever.

Pine Needle Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 159.，For postpartum women whose placenta has not been expelled, with qi and blood surging to the heart, causing confusion, drowsiness, and a sense of impending death.

Modified Raw Four Substances Decoction，*Eight Methods of Medical Practice*, Volume 3.，For turbid urine, yin deficiency with fluid depletion, restlessness and insomnia due to deficiency, and relatively severe heat symptoms.

Modified Kudzu Root and Ephedra Decoction，*General Treatise on Cold-Induced Diseases*, Volume 3.，Stiff-and-Soft Spasms.

Tiao Zhong Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 32.，Persistent indigestion following a cold.

Rheum Six-He Decoction，*Yuanrong*.，For typhoid fever during pregnancy presenting with hard stools, reddish urine, abdominal distension, and a deep, rapid pulse—indicating a primary Yangming or Taiyang syndrome—and for cases of visceral constipation with difficult, scanty bowel movements.

Qi-Tonifying and Mind-Clarifying Decoction，From *Dongyuan’s Proven Formulas*, Volume 5.，Due to irregular diet and physical overexertion, the spleen and stomach become deficient, leading to internal opacity of the eye, tinnitus, or long-standing dim vision and inability to see clearly.

Black Mazi，*Proven Formulas for Boils and Abscesses*.，Boil toxicity. Sudden onset of red spots on the face or body, or itching.

Ba’an Ointment，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 130.，All types of sores and swellings.Boils on the back, scrofula, fistulas, carbuncles, wind-induced swelling, dry tinea, tinea of the breast, tinea of the genitals, hair loss at the temples, hair loss on the scalp, tooth eruption, snake and insect bites, fractures and sprains, arrows lodged in the bone, throat obstruction, difficult … Read more

Platycodon and Licorice Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 25.，For coughs associated with cold damage, accompanied by chest and diaphragm congestion and restlessness of the mind.

Ginseng, Aconite, and Poria Revitalizing Decoction，From *Records of Insights into Miscellaneous Disorders*, Volume 2.，Excessive and sudden loss of qi and blood following childbirth.

Musk and Realgar Decoction，From *Mei’s New Compilation of Proven Prescriptions*, Volume 7.，Boil.

Modified Shuiyao Huangzi Decoction，From *Formulas for Infants and Toddlers*, cited in Volume 28 of *New Book on the Care of Young Children*.，For children who have had diarrhea for 3–4 days.

Cocoon Ash Powder，From *Selected Precious and Secret Formulas of the Thousand Gold*, citing Xu Huixi’s secret formula.，For oral ulcers and white sores.

Double-Action Antiseptic Powder，From *The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 2.，Swelling of the neck due to “big head wind.”