Modified Ginseng and Astragalus Decoction

Ginseng, Astragalus, and Aconite Decoction，*Huiyue*, Volume 6.，Pale face and cold nose indicate severe deficiency of yang qi. Spontaneous sweating.

Stomach-Harmonizing Paste，From *General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 10).，For infants who cry incessantly, experience choking or obstruction due to milk-induced qi reversal, or suffer from a weak stomach with impaired qi circulation, resulting in fullness and distension in the chest and diaphragm, as well as frequent vomiting; or for cases of regurgitation.

Guanxue Dan，*Proven and Effective Prescriptions from the Classic of Medicine*.，For all eye disorders.

Tiger Stomach Powder，From Volume 4 of Nian Shi’s *Collected Proven Effective Formulas*.，For dysphagia.

Needle-Tip Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 290.，For boils and abscesses.

Secretly Transmitted Miraculous Life-Saving Decoction，From *Collection of Good Friends*, Volume 5.，For swollen abscesses.

Enhanced Shengmai Powder，*A Clear Illumination of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 2.，Deficiency of original qi leading to shortness of breath.

Four-Ingredient Decoction with Coptis and Thin Paste，From *The External Pavilion*, Volume 24, citing *The Simplified Formulas*.，For abscesses that have already ruptured.

Decoction for Expelling Deficiency，From *The Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 4.，Qi deficiency complicated by wind-dampness, resulting in numbness of the hands.

Mercury Oxide Powder，*Treatise on Formulas for Smallpox in Children*.，When a child develops smallpox and a membrane forms over the eye:

Chaihu Jia Gui Decoction，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 4.，For half-exterior, half-interior syndrome, night sweats, and fever with an aversion to removing clothing; or for cases where the abdomen is neither distended nor hard but there is a sense of fullness and oppression beneath the heart—known as “zhi jie”—and for Shao Yang malaria with alternating chills and … Read more

Recipe for Boiling Beans in Vinegar，This formula is from *Qian Jin* (Vol. 25), and its name appears in *Sheng Ji Zong Lu* (Vol. 139).，For restlessness caused by traumatic wounds.

Atractylodes and Aconite Decoction，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 241, citing *Hai Shang Fang*.，For cold-damp beriberi and all types of pain in the tendons, bones, hands, and feet.

Four Ling Powder for Draining Dampness，Formula from *Compendium of Medicine*, Volume 23; name cited in *Jiyang Compendium*, Volume 22.，For diarrhea.

Tangerine Peel Pills，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 2.，

Bai Zhong San，From *Shuijian*, cited in Volume 24 of *Youyou Xinshu*.，For children with hair that is scorched, yellow, or reddish, and who are becoming increasingly pale and thin.

Aloe Vera Pills，Formula by Master Mao, cited in Volume 24 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，Pediatric malnutrition.

Iron-Foot Pills，*Xuanming Lun*, Volume 15.，For obstruction of urination and defecation; lower abdominal distension; difficulty urinating; and stagnation of qi.

Hanmu Yangrong Decoction，*Yichun Shengyi*, Volume 2.，The liver is affected by dry heat; the blood is parched; tendons contract and fingernails become brittle.

Lychee Porridge，Formula from the fourth collection of *Quanzhou Bencao*; name found in *The Recipe Book of Longevity Medicinal Porridges*.，For elderly people with diarrhea at dawn and bad breath.

Psoriasis Pills，*A Concise Guide to Dermatology in Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Psoriasis.

Purple Aster Pollen Decoction，From *Ji Sheng*, Volume 2.，Excessive eating, or “exhausting one’s qi through shouting,” or consuming fried or stewed foods, causes pathogenic heat to injure the lungs, resulting in coughing, an itchy throat, copious phlegm, hemoptysis, shortness of breath, pain in the chest and flanks, and an inability to sleep peacefully.For cases where the … Read more

Biliary Stone-Expelling Decoction No. 2，From *New Acute Abdominal Disorders*, citing a formula from Zunyi Medical College.，Biliary tract infections; damp-heat pattern of cholelithiasis.

Soapstone and Alum Pill for Relieving Food Stagnation，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Xi’an Formula).，Pediatric indigestion, poor appetite and weak digestion, chronic anemia, sallow complexion and emaciation, intestinal parasitic infections, pica (eating soil or charcoal), diarrhea, and enteritis.

Decongestant Decoction，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 14.，For women with severe pain in the navel and abdomen.