Modified Four-Ingredient Decoction

Formula for Steaming the Navel with Seeds，From *Extensive Collection of Clinical Experience*, Volume 3.，For men with cold-induced impotence and weakness, accompanied by cloudy white discharge and nocturnal emissions; for women with a cold and deficient uterus, accompanied by red or white vaginal discharge.

Red Bean Powder，*The Yongle Dadian*, Vol. 1037, citing *The Great Formulas*.，Fire-red rash encircling the waist.

Ointment for Vitiligo，From *Jiyao Fang*, cited in Volume 4 of *Yixin Fang*.，For vitiligo.

Rehmannia Decoction with Modifications，*Compendium of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 8.，Yin deficiency with excessive fire, accompanied by turbid stools.

Fever-Reducing and Sedative Pills，From *Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Wuhan Formula).，For wind-heat phlegm obstruction, facial paralysis, dental abscesses and sore throat, cholera, malaria, and dysentery; blood heat with bloody stools; leg sores and swollen abscesses; and carbuncles attacking the heart.

Weeping Willow Ointment，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 130.，For all types of sores and swellings.

Fute Decoction，From *Yu’an*, Volume 4.，Swelling and pain in the arms due to stagnation of damp-phlegm, damp-fire, or wind-cold that fails to disperse.

Cheek-Relaxing Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 6.，For stroke-induced lockjaw, stroke in women occurring while washing their hair resulting in clenched jaws, and acute or chronic convulsions in children.

Scrophularia Detoxifying Powder，From *Compendium of Miasma Disorders*, Volume 4.，For measles syndrome characterized by excessive heat in the lung and stomach, intense dark and murky toxins, epistaxis, and pathogenic fire penetrating inward.

Neem Decoction，Formula from *Qianjin* (Volume 22); name cited in *Shenghui* (Volume 65).，For chronic skin sores and eczema that have persisted for years without healing.

Eight-Ingredient Yang-Restoring Decoction，*Huiyue*, Volume 3.，In cases of typhoid fever where the pulse is weak and on the verge of ceasing, and yin and yang are about to collapse; or in diphtheria, where the pain is severe, there are no white patches, the color is purplish-red, and the pulse is deep and tight.

Enhanced Diguipi Powder，*Zhun Sheng: Pediatrics*, Volume 6.，For a rash accompanied by persistent fever and inability to eat; also treats unrelenting shortness of breath.

Small Tangerine Peel Pills，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 3.，Indicated for epigastric fullness and oppression, distension and fullness in the abdomen and flanks, slow digestion, retching and nausea, a bitter taste in the mouth with loss of appetite, restlessness and fatigue in the limbs, irregular bowel movements (alternating between constipation and diarrhea).

Qi-Regulating Decoction，Quoted from *Shenshi Fang* in Volume 8 of *Wai Tai*.，Chest fullness and difficulty swallowing. Diaphragmatic qi stagnation, throat obstruction, chest and diaphragm fullness, and loss of appetite.

Decoction for Dispelling Wind and Relieving Stagnation，From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 3.，For blood deficiency during pregnancy, or a pre-existing blood stasis, complicated by an exogenous infection from an epidemic; characterized by sudden redness and severe swelling of the head and face, with the entire scalp covered in nodules forming clusters or patches, … Read more

Wu Shen San，*Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 18.，For children with dental caries, swollen and painful gums, and delayed tooth eruption following the loss of baby teeth.

Pork Kidney and Go-Stone Soup，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 190.，For women with blood stasis, chronic fatigue, cold symptoms, and persistent lower abdominal pain.

Deer Antler Shibao Pills，From *Hong’s Collection of Proven Formulas*, Volume 3.，For various conditions of deficiency and weakness, including weak heart and spleen qi, distension and tightness in the abdomen and flanks, borborygmi and diarrhea, abdominal pain, cold extremities, stubborn arthralgia, epigastric fullness and nausea, headache and aversion to cold, aching limbs, poor appetite, shortness of … Read more

Blood-Activating Ointment，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，For contusions and bruises, boils, abscesses, and carbuncles—whether already ruptured or not—characterized by severe redness, swelling, and protrusion; those that have become ulcerated over time; and those that have failed to heal for a long period.

Oatmeal Poultice Recipe，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 140.，Remove any impurities.

Menstrual Regulation and Pain Relief Powder，*Guide to Gynecology*.，Menstrual pain.

Dissolving Licorice Decoction，From *Yixin Fang*, Volume 20, citing *Shenshi Fang*.，After taking the Stone-Dispersing Decoction, restlessness and agitation persist.

Qi-Refreshing Pill，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 1.，Diseases of the Liver Meridian, distension and fullness in both flanks, acid regurgitation and heartburn.

Glue and Maltose Decoction，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 11.，When pathogenic factors invade the liver qi and intrude upon the heart, the blood becomes stagnant and altered; qi cannot flow smoothly, leading to pain in the liver and heart, abdominal pain, and a pallid complexion resembling dead ashes. The patient is unable to sigh deeply all day, … Read more

Xianglian Ointment，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 78.，For corneal opacities.