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Cicada Shedding Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 173.，For children with malnutrition-related dysentery, characterized by stools that are either yellow or green, a thin neck, abdominal distension, sores in the mouth and nose, and progressive wasting.

Snake Shedding Pills，*Shenghui* (Volume 86).，For children suffering from the “Five Wasting Diseases” and emaciation.

Preparation of Prepared Trifoliate Orange Fruit，*Chuanyaya Waibian*, Volume 3.，For abdominal distension, vomiting or hiccups, chest fullness, pain in the flanks, and a sensation of fullness and discomfort.

Miraculous Pill for Deafness，*Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For deafness following recovery from typhoid fever or febrile diseases.

Modified Thousand Gold Peony Bark Decoction，*A Concise Explanation of Medical Formulas*, Volume 5.，For all types of internal abscesses during pregnancy.

Gualou-Lian Pills，From *Simple Formulas*, citing *Formulas for Health Preservation* (see *Compilation of Medical Formulas*, vol. 125).，For diabetes with frequent urination that is slippery like oil.

Yishou Bitian Ointment，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 4.，For deficiency-cold in the lower jiao, the five labors and seven injuries, hemiplegia, or deficiency-cold in the lower body, bladder disorders, soreness and numbness in the feet and knees, and erectile dysfunction. Also for red and white leukorrhea, sandy urine, metrorrhagia, and boils and abscesses.

Scutellaria and Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace Decoction，*Compendium of Holy Remedies*, Volume 33.，A case of labor-type malaria developing after a cold, which has persisted for a long time without resolution.

Twenty-Four Ingredient Spleen-Nourishing Pills，From *Formulas for Reliable and Practical Use*, Volume 1, citing a formula by Qin Lingjin.，For spleen and stomach disorders caused by exposure to wind, cold, and dampness, presenting with abdominal distension, fullness, and stabbing pain; borborygmi and diarrhea; vomiting and acid regurgitation; emaciation, lethargy, and weakness; and loss of appetite.

Ginseng, Aconite, and Motherwort Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 12.，For women who, immediately after giving birth, faint, become unresponsive, and suffer from simultaneous depletion of both qi and blood.

Warming the Middle and Tonifying Qi Decoction，End of *The Precious Treasure for the Treatment of Smallpox in Children*.，For smallpox on days 3–4, when the patient has a mild fever but feels lethargic and prefers to lie down, has no appetite, and the rash appears faint and pale with indistinct spots and grains, indicating that blood … Read more

Miraculous Bone-Dissolving Pill，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 4.，Multiple bone abscesses.

Worm-Calming Powder，*Zhang’s Comprehensive Treatise on Medicine*, Volume 14.，For heat-type symptoms with ascaris expulsion, where the worms are red, clumped together, and wriggling.

Amber and Pearl Pills，*Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 17.，For acute and chronic convulsions in children; phlegm stagnating in the Heart Meridian, causing it to rise upward and induce vomiting; eyes staring straight ahead; twitching of the hands and feet; as well as wind-induced epilepsy and convulsions, characterized by a flood of phlegm leading to confusion and … Read more

Soda Ash Pills，*Ming Yi Zhi Zhang*, Volume 4.，Blood masses.

Blood-Nourishing and Spirit-Calming Decoction，From *Huiyue*, Volume 15.，For postpartum deficiency of heart blood, resulting in restlessness of the spirit and palpitations.

Acorus juice，Formula from *Formulas for Emergency Use* (Vol. 1); name cited in *Comprehensive Record of Holy Remedies* (Vol. 38).，Sudden death or post-mortem convulsions. Cholera, with acute pain in the heart and abdomen as if struck by a malevolent spirit.

Li’an Pills，From *Ming Yi Zhi Zhang*, Volume 6.，For lower back pain; lower back pain due to kidney deficiency in the elderly or those with constitutional weakness, accompanied by an inability to turn over in bed; and for those with kidney deficiency complicated by dampness, presenting with heat and pain in the soles of the feet … Read more

Chai-Chen Wu-Ling Powder，*Huiyue*, Volume 11.，Damp-heat causing jaundice, dark red or black urine, restlessness, thirst, and fever.

Facial Pain Formula No. 4，*Differential Diagnosis of Symptoms in Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Facial pain due to qi deficiency and blood stasis: pale or white tongue, possibly with ecchymoses; deep, fine, and weak pulse.

Stomach-Soothing and Liver-Relieving Pills，*Selected Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas from Beijing*.，Indications: Stabbing pain in the epigastrium, fullness and discomfort with belching, distension of the flanks, vomiting, and regurgitation of acid.

Chuan Wutou Pills，Formula from *Classified Materia Medica* (Vol. 10), citing *Mei Shi’s Formulas*; name found in *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 323).，For women suffering from blood-wind deficiency and cold, irregular menstruation, or restlessness and heat in the palms and soles, or swelling and numbness in the head and face; it also treats wind-related disorders in … Read more

Wulong Powder，*Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 280.，Various forms of scabies and skin sores.

Artemisia Pills for Stopping Malaria，Formula taken from *The Collection of Reviving Life*, Volume 1, citing a formula by Yang Gengqi. The name appears in *The Great Treasure of Public Health*, Volume 1.，For malaria.

Jianlan Leaf Paste，*Formulas and Ingredients of Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，For coughing with choking and sticky phlegm; whooping cough in children.