Miraculous Formula for Blackening Beards and Mustaches

Alum Decoction，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 7.，Purple spots and white patches appear on the hands and feet, with the skin becoming dry, thick, and cracked.

Formula for Dissolving and Eliminating Internal Boils，From *Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 2.，For a boil in its early stages.

Bright Moon Pill，From *Su Shen’s Effective Prescriptions*, Volume 5.，For consumptive fever; and for restlessness and bone fever caused by typhoid fever.

Toad and Honey Paste，*Formulas of the Zongfutang*, Volume 3.，For mouth sores.

Modified Fu Chen Decoction，From *New Book on Treating Illnesses at Home*.，For lower abdominal pain preceding menstruation.

Modified Stomach-Soothing Decoction，From *Supplement to the Essentials of Formulas for Observing and Gathering*, Volume 3, citing *Tongzhi*.，Deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach, with vomiting of sour fluid.

Qingli Zikan Decoction，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 4.，This formula is indicated for symptoms of yin deficiency with internal heat and consumptive disease resulting from excessive sexual activity. Symptoms include fever, cough, sputum production, shortness of breath, night sweats, heat in the palms and soles, hemoptysis, epistaxis, hoarseness, nocturnal emissions, tinnitus, and blurred vision; the … Read more

Cold Water Gypsum，*Shenghui*, Volume 62.，For abscesses and boils on the back, where heat toxins violently attack the muscles, causing unbearable redness, swelling, and pain—whether on the verge of forming pus or already containing pus—as well as wind-heat toxins in the joints that are about to form an abscess.

Decoction for Eliminating Malnutrition and Regulating the Spleen，*Jin Jian*, Volume 52.，Spleen-related malnutrition. Yellow complexion, emaciation, fever, lethargy and excessive sleepiness, fullness and hardness in the epigastric region, reluctance to take milk or food, preference for a cool environment while sleeping, craving for soil, hard and painful abdomen, large head with a thin neck, occasional vomiting … Read more

Secretly Transmitted Effective Formula for Boiled Wine，*Direct Pointers with Supplements*, Volume 4.，For various wind-related disorders, rheumatic arthritis, and leg paralysis.

Black Jaundice Decoction，Formula from *A Clear Explanation of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 16; name cited in *The Great Dictionary of Chinese Medicine*.，Black jaundice.

Taiqing Decoction，*The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 51.，For stomach fire with restlessness and fever, accompanied by delirium, skin rashes, or vomiting.

Green Salt Qi-Descending Pills，From *Ren Cun’s Formulas*, cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 54.，For kidney qi deficiency with upward surging qi, manifesting as tinnitus or deafness.

Boiled Magnolia Bark Pills，From *One Hundred Questions on Gynecology*, Volume 2.，For cold in the viscera causing diarrhea and dysentery.

Nourishing Red Date Porridge，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 188.，For stroke, panic-induced palpitations (as if someone were about to seize you), and heaviness in the limbs.

Dampness-Clearing and Heat-Dispelling Decoction，From *The Mystic Pearl of Chishui*, Volume 14.，Damp-heat-induced convulsions.

Qinghua Decoction，From *The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 51.，For postpartum women experiencing fever due to “fire,” uncontrolled blood flow caused by blood heat, or various “fire” symptoms resulting from yin deficiency. Also for dysphagia caused by alcohol consumption.

Life-Preserving Elixir Superior to Gold，From *Liangpeng Huiji*, Volume 4.，Various deficiencies and debilities in men and women. For women before and after childbirth: blood deficiency, clotted menstrual blood, metrorrhagia and menorrhagia, and red or white vaginal discharge; for men: nocturnal emissions, cloudy semen, lower back pain and leg soreness, cold semen and erectile dysfunction, coughing with … Read more

Mu Xiang Qi-Regulating Powder，From *Ren Cun Fang*, cited in *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 241.，For beriberi, wandering wind-pathogen, wind-cold-dampness, and fine yellow blisters on the feet. For all types of damp sores.

Ginger and Purslane Formula，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 212.，For chronic, persistent diarrhea, whether red or white in color.

Taiyi Guihun Powder，From *The New Book on the Care of Infants*, Volume 10, citing *The Ji Family’s Inherited Formulas*.，Chronic conditions, convulsions, and various epileptic disorders.

Qi-Harmonizing Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 67.，For all conditions of deficiency-cold, distension and fullness in the abdomen and flanks, stagnation and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, vomiting of sour fluid, loss of appetite, loose stools, and pain in the navel and abdomen.

Formula for Nourishing Life，From *Yi Tong*, Volume 76.，Mute Malaria.

Scallion and Angelica Decoction for Edema，From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 62.，For boils, carbuncles, sores, and ulcers in the early stage of swelling just before rupture.

Tobacco Gum and Mercury Oxide Solution，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Goose-Paw Eczema.