Pepper and Cinnabar

Moisturizing Skin Powder，From *Zongfutang Formulas*, Volume 4.，Effective for all types of sores and boils that have formed a scab and become dry and painful, as well as for frostbite on the hands and feet during winter and burns from hot liquids or fire.

Toxicity-Expelling Decoction，*Ji Sheng*, Volume 5.，For cases where heat-toxin rises to the head, causing profuse bleeding and unbearable swelling and pain in the gums.

Saliva-Dissolving Pills，*Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 17.，For all types of epilepsy and excessive phlegm in the blood vessels.

Danggui-Longan Wine，From *Yilin Zuanyao*, Volume 8.，For men and women with deficient blood and qi.

Han Jiao Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 163.，For coughing and severe shortness of breath that prevents sitting or lying down.

Blood-Cooling and Blood-Activating Decoction，*Differential Diagnosis of Symptoms in Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Blood-heat white patches caused by heat stagnating in the blood of the Heart and Liver meridians, which scorches the skin, resulting in red spots with a distinctly red base, abundant silvery-white scales on the surface, and petechiae visible after peeling; the condition develops rapidly.

Thousand Gold Unchanging Pill，*The Great Dictionary of Chinese Medicine*.，For hemorrhoids.

Jianxuan Pills，From *The Collection of Beaded Strings: Treatment of Pregnancy and Childbirth Disorders*, Volume 2.，Cold qi lodges at the uterine orifice; qi flow is obstructed, menstruation does not occur, and the uterus becomes hard as stone.

Tianma Bath Decoction，From *General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 1).，For various childhood ailments such as constitutional weakness, excessive fetal development, and fetal heat.

Five-Ingredient Realgar and (艹闾) Paste，From *The Essential Effective Formulas*, cited in Volume 34 of *Wai Tai*.，For women with lactation disorders and slow-healing boils and sores.

Duck Fat Ointment，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 127.，Earthworm Fistula.

Mulberry Parasite Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 44.，For five types of lower back pain, as well as weakness in the legs preventing walking or standing.

Raw Dioscorea Wine，From *The Compendium of Medical Formulas*, Volume 136, citing *The Essential Guide to Dietary Medicine*.，Deficiency-cold in the lower jiao, frequent urination, and weakness.

Green Olive Cough-Relieving Pills，*National Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas* (Yuxian Formula).，For wind-cold coughs with excessive phlegm and dry heat in the Lung Meridian.

Soap and Peach Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 286.，Swelling and pain; relief is felt after half a month.

Pills for Nourishing the Heart, Regulating the Spleen, Relieving Depression, Clearing the Lungs, and Soothing the Liver，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，

Xuanfu-Dai Zhe Decoction，*Compendium of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 5.，For unceasing vomiting caused by the true qi rebelling and failing to descend, use this formula to calm and settle the qi.

Seven Qi Mass-Dissolving Powder，From *Essentials of Miscellaneous Diseases*, citing *Comprehensive Principles of Medicine*.，For the initial stages of pain or distension caused by the mutual aggression of accumulated masses.

Tooth-Brushing Shell Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 121.，

Tooth-Strengthening Tooth-Brushing Powder，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For liver and kidney yin deficiency, premature graying of hair, and loose teeth.

Convulsions-Relieving Powder，*Ji Feng*, Volume 24.，Wind-induced convulsions.

Moistening the Vessels Decoction，From *Bamboo Grove Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For women aged 27–28 who experience physical fatigue, poor appetite, irregular menstruation that drips incessantly—sometimes in patches, sometimes as a discharge of red, white, or yellow fluid—a sallow-yellow complexion, dizziness, blurred vision, and aching limbs, indicating an impending condition of metrorrhagia or menorrhagia.

Whole-Body Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 2.，For hemiplegia resulting from sudden collapse.

Decoction for Restoring Yang and Lifting Collapsed Qi，From *Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，For those with yang deficiency of the heart and lungs, accompanied by sinking of the vital qi, presenting with a cold sensation in the heart, tightness in the back, aversion to cold, and a constant sensation of shortness of breath.

Yin-Nourishing and Fire-Reducing Decoction，*Hui Chun*, Volume 7.，In children with yin deficiency, pain in the coccyx.