Pingzhong Decoction

Seaweed Soaked in Wine，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 136.，For edema that moves erratically—sometimes swelling like a clam, sometimes as large as a bowl, sometimes appearing on the abdomen or back, or on the arms or legs.

“Moving Mountains and Crossing Seas” Pill，*Complete Book on the Treatment of Rashes*, Volume 2.，For abscesses or boils that develop in life-threatening locations following smallpox.

Ephedra Decoction for Releasing the Exterior，*Golden Needles of Pediatrics*, Volume 1.，For pediatric shanghan characterized by high fever, headache, aversion to cold without sweating, a dry nose and coarse breathing, and pain in the eye sockets and joints.

Ginseng and Astragalus Great Tonifying Decoction，From *The Complete Book of Experience in the Treatment of Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 3.，For ulcers that have already ruptured.

Aged Tea Porridge，From *Therapeutic Porridge Formulas*, citing *Dietary Therapy Materia Medica*.，Indigestion, excessive consumption of greasy foods, excessive alcohol intake, dry mouth and intense thirst, excessive sleepiness, and dysentery with red and white stools.

Milk-Based Cinnabar Pill，*Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 160, citing *Continuation of Formulas for Saving Lives*.，For epilepsy with convulsions.

Clear Metal and Strengthen Water Pills，From *Zhang’s Comprehensive Treatise on Medicine*, Volume 16.，Deficiency of Water and Excess of Fire in the Kidneys, resulting in steaming heat and cough.

Compound Gallnut Formula，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Thrush.

Xiang Sha Kuan Zhong San，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For cases of stagnation and fullness due to impaired Qi circulation.

Dufan Pills，From *Yifang Yijian*, Volume 2.，For dysentery.

Ganlu Jiedu Decoction，*The Complete Book of Smallpox* (Volume 2).，For smallpox where the rash fails to break out due to excessively thick clothing and bedding in the summer months, causing heat to accumulate and obstruct the eruption.

Decoction for Expelling Phlegm and Dampness，*Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 167.，For phlegm-fluid retention, headache, back pain, and aversion to food with vomiting.

Pain-Relieving Powder，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.，Cold qi attacks the heart, causing unbearable pain.

Zirong Tiao Zhong Decoction，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 5.，Pain in the arms and soreness in the lower back, or occasional bouts of pain.

Yigan Powder，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 8.，For cases where body fluids are not retained, excessive sweating occurs, the pores are not closed, the skin is porous, and profuse, uncontrollable sweating persists.

Zhui Chong Dan，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 12.，Ghost Fetus.

Small Clove Powder，From *Bo Ji*, cited in *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 207.，For intestinal weakness with diarrhea and dysentery.

Wheat Porridge，From *Therapeutic Porridge Formulas*, citing *Discussions on Diet and Nutrition*.，Deficiency of heart qi, neurogenic palpitations, restlessness, insomnia, women’s zangzao syndrome, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, and spleen deficiency-induced diarrhea.

Camptothecin Honey Pills，*Compendium of Traditional Chinese Medicine Preparations*.，Gastric cancer, etc.

Liuhe Decoction of Gardenia，*Yuanrong*.，For pregnancy-related typhoid fever, where the patient cannot sleep after sweating or purgation.

Disinfecting Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 13.，Intestinal wind with external hemorrhoids, nodules, accompanied by itching or pain.

Angelica and Cnidium Powder，From *Waihe*, Volume 7, citing *Guangji Fang*.，For the nine types of chest pain, as well as pain caused by roundworms and cold qi, which first manifests as cramping pain in the flanks, chest, and back, accompanied by a desire to vomit.

Guxia Ginseng Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For cases where excessive cold and cooling agents have injured the spleen and stomach, leading to the collapse of spleen yang; aversion to food; diarrhea of undigested food; discharge of pus and blood; unstoppable chronic diarrhea; cold limbs; a pale complexion; sweating upon exertion; talking to oneself … Read more

Hanming Powder，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 12.，

Fuhu Erqi Dan，*Formulary of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 5 (Supplementary Collection of Empirical Secret Formulas from Various Bureaus).，For deficiency of the True Essence, depletion of vital essence, insufficiency of kidney qi, dark complexion and scorched ears, lower deficiency with upper excess, dizziness and vertigo, stabbing pain in the chest and abdomen, gastric reflux and vomiting, … Read more