Precious Life-Saving Pill

Qi-Regulating and Nourishing Blood Decoction，From *Medical Case Records of the Yi Family*.，Chronic infertility.

Decoction for Clearing Heat and Relieving Stagnation，From *Clinical Medical Case Studies and Formulas*.，Chronic hepatitis, heat-stagnation pattern. Pain in the liver region, sensation of heat, heat in the palms and soles, red tip of the tongue, and a string-like, faint, and rapid pulse.

Garlic and Bean Paste，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 140.，For bamboo or wooden splinters embedded in the flesh; malignant sores.

Jade Lock to Secure the True Elixir，From *De Xiao* (Effective Remedies), Volume 7.，Insufficiency of heart qi, excessive worry, deficiency of the kidney meridian, instability of true yang, resulting in frequent dribbling of urine; urine has been cloudy for years—sometimes pale red, sometimes thick and greasy. Nocturnal emission; in severe cases, the body feels stiff and … Read more

Iron Pot Ointment，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 314.，Effective for all types of malignant sores with internal toxins, as well as intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, and fistulas.

Restore and Consolidate the Root Pills，*The Complete Book of Madness*.，For those aged 40 or older with faint and fine pulses and deficiency of qi and blood.

Wuli Da Huang Decoction，From *Mirror of Surgical Medicine*.，Abscess in the large intestine.

Qiong Ye Ointment，Formula from *The Lean Immortal’s Prescriptions for Saving Lives*, Volume 2; name cited in *Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 70.，This formula treats all eye diseases, both chronic and acute.

Great Sage Universal Truth Pills，From *Xian Chuan Ji Yin Fang*, cited in *Yi Fang Lei Ju*, Volume 212.，For women suffering from seasonal and miscellaneous illnesses, as well as various types of stroke characterized by locked jaw, opisthotonos, and dragging of the hands and feet.

Pinellia “Drawing the Sword” Formula，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 190.，For women with abdominal masses, blood stagnation, and sour fluid regurgitation.

Pneumonia Decoction，*Clinical Medical Case Studies and Prescriptions*.，Pneumonia affecting the large lobes. High fever with shortness of breath, coughing and chest pain, expectoration of rust-colored sputum, flaring nostrils, a full, forceful, and rapid pulse, white or yellow tongue coating, and scant saliva.

Zengsun Sancai Pills，*Compendium of Medical Principles*, Volume 35.，For women who are thin, have no blood in the uterus, and are infertile.

Bamboo Six，Formula from *Yu Heng on Shā and Distension*, Middle Volume; name found in *Complete Book of Shā Syndromes*, Lower Volume.，Purple-blistered shā, where the toxic qi of shā remains in the muscles and skin.

Scorpion Tail and Pinellia Pills，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 1.，For wind-obstruction and phlegm-congestion, characterized by coughing, nasal congestion, dizziness, headache, numbness in the hands and feet, stiffness in the neck and shoulders, and restricted movement of tendons and meridians.

Harmonizing Four Substances Decoction，From *Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 3.，For common cold and flu, with fatigue in the limbs, dizziness and headache, and fever.

Mulberry Twig Wine，*Shenghui*, Volume 25.，Wind.

Decoction of Minor Pinellia with Poria, Further Augmented with Magnolia Bark and Apricot Kernels，*Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 1.，For summer-heat conditions affecting both Taiyin channels, presenting with cough, a heavy and hoarse voice, copious phlegm, mild thirst, and a reluctance to drink even when thirsty.

Tiger-Tortoise Pills，From *Principles of Medicine*, cited in Volume 4 of *Supplement to the Omissions of the Inner Canon*.，Weakness and atrophy of the legs and knees. Damp-heat stagnation causes yin fire to rise, resulting in weakness, softness, and pain in both legs, or a sensation as if being roasted by fire, with the pain surging upward … Read more

Hua Si Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 3.，Fire in the kidneys surges upward to the throat; heart fire clashes with lung metal; blood is coughed up with phlegm in the form of blood threads—less during the day and more at night—with unceasing coughing that often prevents sleep.

Decoction for Draining Redness and Resolving Toxins，From *Pian Yu Dou Zhen*, Volume 12.，After the smallpox has subsided, pathogenic heat attacks the heart; however, the heart—as the sovereign organ—refuses to accept the pathogen, which then transmits to the pericardium, causing the patient to remain in a coma for days on end, uttering delirious speech; or, when … Read more

Gallbladder-Tonifying Powder，From *Special Teachings on Ophthalmology*.，For gallbladder deficiency with opacities on the cornea and lens, both internal and external.

Liangxiao Decoction，*The Book of Sincerity*, Volume 16.，For children with feverish restlessness and fetal convulsions with internal agitation.

Heat-Clearing and Asthma-Relieving Decoction，From *A Brief Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pediatric Diseases*.，Heat-type asthma.Latent internal heat combined with an external invasion of wind-pathogen; the interaction of wind and heat scorches the Lung (Metal), transforming body fluids into phlegm. Phlegm obstructs the airways, causing the Lung to lose its ability to disperse and descend. … Read more

Touluo Pills，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 6.，For sudden stroke, characterized by sudden collapse, confusion, slurred speech, and phlegm obstruction; or for childhood epilepsy, characterized by fever, convulsions, and rigidity with opisthotonos.

Zi-Gui Oil，From *Complete Book of Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 2.，For swollen lips caused by blood damage resulting from emotional disturbances that stir internal heat: small blisters form on the lips, gradually swelling and enlarging to resemble a silkworm cocoon, or the area below the lips swells to the size of a black jujube, accompanied … Read more