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Inflammation-Resolving Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 2.，The muscles are extremely hot; the body feels as if mice were running over it; the lips and mouth are cracked and split; over time, they shrink inward; and the skin and hair all turn red and black. This is extreme heat giving rise to wind; it … Read more

Si Shun Li Zhong Pills，*Collected Medical Formulas*, Vol. 212, citing *Xian Chuan Ji Yin Fang*.，For postpartum women with exposed hands and feet, who are emaciated, weak, short of breath, and prone to spontaneous sweating.

Aconite Paste，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 145.，Fractures and injuries of the wrist.

Qi-Regulating and Vitality-Restoring Powder，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 8.，Phlegm-fluid retention, stagnation of blood and qi, food stagnation, impaired ascension and descent of qi, and distending pain from masses.

Divine Speech-Restoring Pill，*Effective Prescriptions for Women*, Volume 3.，For cases where the Heart and Spleen meridians are affected by wind, resulting in slurred speech, a stiff tongue that cannot move, and profuse drooling; or where pathogenic factors attack the Yin, causing internal mental stagnation, obstruction of the Heart meridian, and sudden inability to speak.

Four Treasures Pill，Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in Volume 26 of *The New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For various forms of wasting disease, emaciation, dry and yellow hair, and sores around the mouth and nose.

Miraculous Qingzhen Decoction，*Lu Fu’s Prohibited Formulas*, Volume 1.，For epidemic diseases characterized by severe swelling of the head and face, difficulty swallowing, dry tongue and mouth, aversion to cold, and high fever.

Red Lotus Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 368.，For children with convulsions, coughing, shortness of breath, fever, and palpitations.

Modified Three-Yellow and Gypsum Decoction，*Treatise on Cold and Warm Diseases*, Volume 4.，For severe heat in the Triple Burner due to warm disease, manifested as restlessness and heat in the palms, soles, and chest, eyes burning like fire, dry nose and flushed face, yellow tongue coating and parched lips, body appearing as if coated with cinnabar, … Read more

Ji Yin Yun Yang Feng Han Decoction，*Treatise on Cold and Warm Diseases*.，Following purgation for a warm disease, if symptoms include sweating on the forehead accompanied by shortness of breath, or sweating on the head accompanied by free flow of urine, or even sweating on the forehead like a string of pearls.

Floating Duckweed Decoction，From *Si Sheng Xuan Shu*, Volume 2.，For Taiyang-type epidemic fever with fever and headache.

Chaihu Xianxiong Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*, Volume 2.，Indicated for Shaoyang chest constriction characterized by all symptoms of the Shaoyang syndrome, fullness and distension in the chest and diaphragm, and tenderness on palpation, where treatment with Chaihu Zhiji Jiegeng Decoction has been ineffective. Currently used for acute exacerbations of chronic cholecystitis and acute … Read more

Chicken Stomach and Intestine Powder，*Shenghui* (Volume 72).，Frequent urination in women.

Immediate-Relief Decoction，From *The Profound Secrets of the Divine Realm*, Volume 14.，Boils and abscesses on the back, or on the head and neck, or on the hands, feet, arms, legs, waist, and navel, or in the area between the genitals and the anus, as well as lung abscesses and intestinal abscesses.

Mulberry Twig and Polygonum Cuspidatum Decoction，*Clinical Manual of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas*.，Rheumatic diseases, numbness in the limbs, and aching of the tendons and bones.

White Mustard Seed Pills，*The Holy Beneficent* (Shenghui), Volume 3.，Liver wind causing stiffness and spasms of the tendons and meridians, with pain in the bone marrow.

Dissolving Formula，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 24.，After taking the formula, intense heat and excess manifest, with red urine and stools.

Wound-Sealing Formula，*Zhun Sheng: Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 6.，For injuries caused by knives or axes, such as slashed throats, severed ears, split lips, lacerated abdomens, or crushed scrotal skin from falls.

Purpura Decoction，*Clinical Medical Case Studies and Formulas*.，Purpura (thrombocytopenic or allergic purpura): purpuric lesions appear on the skin, reddish-purple in color, most commonly on the lower limbs; may be accompanied by hematemesis, epistaxis, hematochezia, or hematuria; red tip of the tongue; thin yellow coating on the tongue; fine and rapid pulse.

Toujing Decoction，*One Hundred Questions on Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For women suffering from bodily pain.

Redness-Relieving Powder，*Shenshi Yaohan*, Volume 3.，This condition arises when heat invades the lung, causing the lung qi to become impure; blood, heated and uncontrolled, fails to follow the meridians, resulting in a patch or spot of red blood on the sclera—resembling rouge—appearing at the top, bottom, left, or right.

Pillow-Lifting Decoction，*Six Books of Medical Essentials*, Volume 30.，For postpartum cases where the Chong and Ren meridians are affected by wind, which spreads to the Yangming meridian, causing stagnant blood to congeal; consequently, lochia fails to discharge, pain occurs in the umbilical region and abdomen, and the pulse is floating, sluggish, and涩 (thready).

Jieying Powder，From *Compendium of Medical Sciences*, Volume 20.，Dampness in the feet has caused sores that are unbearably itchy; scratching them causes a yellowish fluid to ooze.

Dongfang Jia-Yi Dan，From *Selected Precious and Secret Formulas from the Thousand Gold Prescriptions*.，Throat ailments, oral ulcers, and tongue swelling.

Spirit-Preserving Pills，From *A Plate of Pearls*, Volume 2.，For distending pain under the ribs and constipation.