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Gardenia Detoxifying Decoction，*New Book on Smallpox Vaccination*, Volume 11.，For measles with severe accumulation of heat toxins, intense heat and steam, dry muscles and skin, red eyes and purple lips, scorched and bristling hair, restlessness and thirst, agitation, delirium, and both constipation and difficult urination.

Purity-Restoring Powder，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，For purple patches across the face the size of a coin.

Nasal Plug Pill，From *Li Yue*.，For sore throat and ulcerated throat, with an inability to swallow liquids.

Tou Gu Dan，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For abscesses on the back that have ruptured and are oozing pus, as well as abdominal pain due to stomach cold.

Angelica and Donkey-Hide Gelatin Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Vol. 154.，Spontaneous abortion with unstoppable vaginal bleeding.

Qi-Descending Pill，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 3.，For summer heat combined with cold injury, resulting in a disruption of yin and yang, epigastric fullness and distension, headache, and nausea.

Coptis Wine，*Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 141), citing *Wang’s Collection of Proven Formulas*.，For bloody diarrhea caused by alcohol consumption.

Black Donkey Head Formula，*Nourishing the Elderly and Honoring Parents*.，For elderly patients with stroke who experience dizziness and vertigo, stiffness and rigidity of the body, pain in the tendons and bones, heat in the hands and feet, and restlessness of the mind.

Formula for Nourishing the Mother and Prolonging the Child’s Life，*Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth*, Volume 1.，For women who repeatedly give birth to stillborn children, or whose children do not live long; for those with deficient qi and blood, unstable pregnancies, or recurrent miscarriages.

Red Safflower Wine，Formula from *Wai Tai* (Vol. 34), citing *Jin Xiao Fang*; name found in *Fu Ren Liang Fang* (Vol. 18).，For postpartum blood-induced fainting, incoherent speech, retained lochia, cramping abdominal pain, or a stillbirth.

Stomach-Warming and Spleen-Strengthening Pills，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 12.，For spleen deficiency with cold in the flanks, poor appetite, and fatigue.

Black Spirit Pills，*Bo Ji*, Volume 3.，For persistent coughs that have lasted for many years.

Prepared Sheep’s Head and Hooves，Formula from *Compendium of Materia Medica* (Ben Cao Gang Mu), Volume 50, citing *Thousand Gold Prescriptions* (Qian Jin). Name found in *Compendium of Medicine* (Yi Tong), Volume 87.，For the “Five Labors” and “Seven Injuries.”

Puyuan Guben Qipai Pills，From *Formulas for Saving Lives*, Volume 4.，For chronic deficiency of the primordial qi of the spleen, lung, and kidney, where the clear yang fails to nourish the limbs and instead sinks beneath the extreme yin, unable to rise; resulting in frequent, uncontrollable diarrhea at dawn or before noon, which, if prolonged without … Read more

Ginger, Atractylodes, and Pinellia Decoction，From *Pujifang*, Volume 137, citing *Baosheng Huiche Lun*.，For vomiting due to cold damage.

Ox Marrow Paste，From *Yi Bian*, Volume 4.，

Swim Bladder Wind Powder，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 9.，Epilepsy.

Milk-Inducing Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 400), citing *Formulas for the Care of Infants*.，For infants who are pale and emaciated from drinking their mother’s breast milk.

Zhi-Shu Decoction，From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 48.，For conditions caused by retained fluid, postpartum mild deficiency with edema, and distension and fullness in the chest and heart—known as “qi-division” disorders.

Great Warming White Pills，*Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，For anger, resentment, and pent-up emotions leading to stagnation of the Triple Burner Qi, with a sensation of blockage in the throat and esophagus, distension of the flanks, pain in the chest and abdomen, shortness of breath and wheezing, regurgitation and vomiting, and loss of appetite; as well … Read more

Master Lü’s Miraculous Ointment，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 7.，For all types of boils, abscesses, swellings, and toxic sores; various kinds of pain; chronic leg ulcers and stubborn tinea; external symptoms of blood-induced madness; and tumors.

Cramp-Relieving Pills，From *Yijianzhi Yi* (Volume 3).，For muscle cramps caused by liver blood deficiency.

Wuyao Qi-Regulating Decoction，*San Yin*, Volume 3.，For ascending foot qi causing shortness of breath and chest fullness; as well as cases of one of the five zang organs being excessively dominant, resulting in disharmony of the qi, shortness of breath, coughing, palpitations, restlessness while sitting or lying down, dizziness, weakness in the legs, and a condition … Read more

Nine Winds Decoction，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 115.，Various wind-related disorders.

Sichuan Achyranthes Decoction，*San Yin*, Volume 3.，Due to deficiency of the liver and kidneys, one is afflicted by the toxins of wind, cold, and dampness, which flow down to the legs and knees, causing pain in the joints that feels like being pierced by an awl, a knife, or a hot iron—an indescribable agony.