Formulas Name : Niu Lang Chuan
Chinese Name : 牛郎串
Black Chou (ground into powder) and areca nut, each in equal parts.
*Chuanya Bu*, Volume 2.
Grind into a powder; do not expose to fire.
Abdominal distension due to food stagnation.
Take 2 qian per dose, washed down with plain hot water. Stop after 3 bowel movements.
Niu Lang Chuan，*Chuanya Bu*, Volume 2.，Abdominal distension due to food stagnation.
Fei Dan Powder，*The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 51.，For sores on the feet and legs caused by cold-dampness or wind-dampness.
Soft Pork Stomach，*Compendium of Ancient and Modern Medicine*, Volume 87.，For elderly patients with diabetes, characterized by internal heat causing uncontrollable thirst and excessive urination; also treats fever due to overwork.
Spleen Accumulation Pills，From *One Hundred Questions on Infants and Children*, Volume 8.，For malnutrition syndrome.
Magpie’s Nest Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 58); name cited in *Shengji Zonglu* (Vol. 95).，Involuntary urination.
Shenjie Decoction，From *Gujin Yijian* (A Mirror of Medicine Through the Ages), Volume 14.，For children with fever, on the verge of developing smallpox, and experiencing lower back pain.
Worm-Expelling Pills，From *Insights into Medicine*, Volume 3.，For consumptive disease caused by a contagious pathogen.
Emerald Cake，*Yi Tong*, Volume 61.，Eye disorders.
Nasal Ulcer Powder，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，Various forms of nasal and frontal bone malnutrition.
Small Areca Nut Pills，From *Rumen Shiquin*, Volume 12.，For shortness of breath and abdominal distension.
Ginseng Regulating the Middle Decoction，*Wai Tai*, Volume 6, citing *Shan Fan Fang*.，Uncontrollable diarrhea due to cholera, with a throbbing sensation above the navel, indicating kidney qi deficiency.
Dew-on-Cheeks Ointment，From *Wen’s Effective and Time-Tested Formulas*.，For childhood rashes where the eruption has not appeared on both cheekbones.
Waist-Relieving Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 2.，For lower back pain that is worse during the day and milder at night, accompanied by difficult and scanty urination, but with normal appetite and digestion.
Softens Hardened Masses Decoction，*Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 9.，Chronic phlegm that has accumulated over a long period, thick and sticky, making it difficult to cough up.
Cinnamon Twig Decoction with Astragalus, Anemarrhena, and Gypsum，From *Danxi’s Heart Method*, Volume 2.，Malaria.
Decoction for Cooling the Blood and Relieving Intestinal Stagnation，From *Xingyuan*, Volume 8.，Swollen and painful hemorrhoids with dry, hard stools.
Bear Gall and Ginseng Decoction，*Selected Formulas for Emergency Treatment*.，Deficiency of original qi, epilepsy, syncope, and convulsions.
Throat Fungus Powder，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，Throat Fungus.
Appendicitis Blood Stasis-Resolving Decoction，*New Acute Abdominal Disorders*.，For the early stage of stasis-type appendicitis, presenting with fever, abdominal pain, localized tenderness in the right lower abdomen, and rebound tenderness; or after the inflammation of the appendix has subsided, when fever is not prominent but there is epigastric distension and fullness, belching, and loss of appetite.
Liu Liu Pills，*Treasury of Eastern Medicine: Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 8.，Pemphigus, syphilis.
Pure Heart Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 404.，For smallpox lesions affecting the eyes.
Ice-Penetrating Pill，From *Bo Ji*, Volume 4.，For all wind-toxin conditions that ascend, causing discomfort in the chest and heart, dryness and涩ness of the mouth and tongue, wind-deficiency with phlegm congestion, and loss of appetite; as well as wind-toxin descending to cause pain in the lower back and legs, spleen deficiency with jaundice, kidney failure with weak … Read more
Mud-and-Oil Ointment，*Zhun Sheng: Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 3.，Ulcer on the upper arm.
Modified Bamboo Shavings Decoction，From *The Complete Collection on Shanghan and Preservation of Life*, Volume 2.，For cases of shanghan (typhoid fever) with retching and stagnant heat in the stomach, as well as gastric disorders with phlegm-heat causing vomiting and retching.
Household Formula: Purple Gold Sand Powder，From *Secret Mirror on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Syphilis*, Volume 2.，For the early stages of purulent dysuria, where pus frequently oozes out—resembling a woman’s leukorrhea—or where pus leaks from a small opening at the base of the glans.
Cigu Decoction，*The Esoteric Teachings of the Celestial Caverns*, Volume 8.，Various types of carbuncles.
Niu Lang Chuan,Abdominal distension due to food stagnation.