Moistening Pills

Elm Bark String Cake，From *Shenghui*, Volume 96.，For the five types of dysuria; pain and obstruction in the small intestine; and difficulty urinating.

Shi Xuan Nei Tuo Powder，*Complete Book on Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 1.，For smallpox lesions where the eruption has nearly run its course, but the lesions appear flat and sunken, with a withered, black color.

Gui Zhi Jia Gui Decoction，*Treatise on Cold Damage*.，If a needle is heated and used to induce sweating, and the needled area is exposed to cold, causing a raised, red swelling, this will certainly trigger a “rushing pig” syndrome, where qi surges upward from the lower abdomen toward the heart.

Four Yin Decoction，*The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 51.，Yin deficiency with consumptive disease, excessive “ministerial fire,” depletion of body fluids with restlessness and thirst, cough, hemoptysis, epistaxis, and excessive heat.

Thistle Leaf Decoction，Formula from *Shenghui*, Volume 18; name cited in *Puji Fang*, Volume 188.，For hemoptysis in febrile diseases.

Atractylodes and Coptis Pills，*The Correct Transmission of Medicine*, Volume 3.，For epigastric discomfort.

Internal Tonifying Decoction of Bamboo Leaves and Astragalus，From *Gui Yi*, Volume 4.，Boils.

Pelle-Rouge Toad Venom Pills，From *Formulas and Ingredients of Traditional Chinese Medicine*: Suzhou Formula.，For heatstroke or exposure to filth, accompanied by abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Decoct Sichuan Aconite，From *Ji Feng*, cited in *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 185.，Wind-induced arthralgia, pain in the bones and joints.

Secret Formula No. 10: Bu Wan，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 322.，For women suffering from various forms of deficiency and debility, disharmony of the Nuturing and Defensive Qi, emaciation, sallow complexion, fatigue, bitter taste in the mouth, dry tongue, palpitations, excessive sweating, blood deficiency with excess Qi, alternating chills and fever, all types of menorrhagia and … Read more

Kidney-Tonifying Deer Antler Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 114.，Following kidney deficiency due to overwork, one often hears sounds resembling bells, chimes, or the wind and rain in the ears.

Minor Bupleurum Decoction with Gardenia，*Yuji Weiyi*, Volume 45.，Jaundice, alternating chills and fever, with the entire body turning yellow.

Ten-Ingredient Tonifying and Supporting Powder，From *Zheng’s Family-Transmitted Gynecological Prescriptions Worth Ten Thousand Gold*, Volume 3.，If a pregnant woman experiences swelling in the lower abdomen that is superficial, thin, and shiny, this indicates the formation of an abscess within the abdomen, known as a “pregnancy abscess.”

Two Fragrances, Five Seeds, and Three Ju Pills，From *Yonglei Qianfang*, Volume 11.，Lower back pain.

Small Aconite Pills，From *Gujin Luyan*, cited in Volume 12 of *Wai Tai*.，Chronic cold accumulation in the chest and abdomen, causing severe pain around the navel and an inability to eat or drink.

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

Lip Balm，Formula by Master Mao, cited in Volume 7 of *The New Book on Infant Care*.，For night crying in children.

Ginseng and Bupleurum Decoction，*General Essentials of Health* (Wei Sheng Zong Wei), Volume 7.，For children with constitutional weakness who have been affected by cold pathogens, presenting with high fever throughout the body, dizziness and heaviness in the head and eyes, stiffness in the neck and back, pain in the limbs, dry retching, and vomiting; or alternating … Read more

Huanglian Jiedu Combined with Tianshui Powder，*Collected Works on the Care of Infants*, Volume 6.，In cases of measles accompanied by spontaneous diarrhea, abdominal cramping, and a sensation of incomplete evacuation, with signs of impending dysentery.

Li Zhong Jia Ban Xia Decoction，*Huiyue*, Volume 4.，Deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach, acid regurgitation, cold saliva and froth in the throat, vomiting.

Scallion and Perilla Powder，From *Yi Ji*, Volume 7.，For cases of pathogenic factors contracted before or after childbirth, where all symptoms of an exterior syndrome are present.

Five-Spice Decoction with Added Cornus and Rhinoceros Horn Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Vol. 138.，For malignant pulse-related swellings and toxins: when toxic qi attacks the pulse, causing sudden swelling and pain that forms a nodule, or appears as a scattered pattern resembling boils, but is not a typical boil; it may also cause headaches, chills and fever, and … Read more

Four-Spirit Stomach-Clearing Pills，*New Book on Child Care*, Volume 10.，Food stagnation caused by raw, cold, or hard foods that cannot be properly digested, resulting in fullness and pain in the chest and abdomen.

Difu Pills，*Complete Book of Ophthalmology*, Volume 6.，Blindness resulting from “qingmang” (loss of vision).

Ma Xing Gan Shi Decoction，From *Compendium of Mashi Syndrome*, Volume 4.，For ma syndrome characterized by fever, distension and pain, and persistent coughing, resulting from the accumulation of cold and toxins leading to obstruction of the exterior.