Preparation Method for the Five-Spice Pills

Apricot Kernel Powder Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 7.，For diarrhea and dysentery.

Formula for Applying to the Earth Pine，Formula from *Wai Tai*, Volume 29, citing *Bi Xiao Fang*; name found in *Sheng Ji Zong Lu*, Volume 134.，Lacquer-induced skin sores.

Miraculous Fumigation Formula，From *Shenghui*, Volume 60.，For chronic hemorrhoids and fistulas that have persisted for years.

Formula for a Wash to Nourish Tendons and Activate Meridians，From *Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For diseases of the tendons and bones.

Poppy Decoction，*General Essentials of Health* (Wei Sheng Zong Wei), Volume 11.，Treats bloody and non-bloody dysentery.

Modified Decoction for Nourishing Yin and Tonifying Qi，*Six Books on Medical Essentials*, Volume 26.，For bleeding during sexual intercourse accompanied by a soft and rapid pulse.

Puzhou，*Shenghui*, Volume 96.，For red-and-white dysentery, rest-induced dysentery, and cases that have persisted for a long time without healing. For stabbing pain in the chest and flanks, chest bi syndrome with heart pain, as well as angina pectoris caused by coronary heart disease.

Immortal Tumor-Dissolving Pills，From *Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 3.，For childhood chronic indigestion.

Ophiopogon Decoction with Additions，*Compendium of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 2.，Syndrome of internal blood heat due to lung deficiency.

Fragrant Ointment，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 169), citing *New Effective Formulas*.，For stubborn tinea, scabies, and leprosy, as well as all itchy sores.

Seven-Ingredient Coptis Decoction，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 9.，In the summer months, when a cold-heat syndrome strikes, causing alternating chills and fever, pain and restlessness in the limbs, and fever, the patient feels restless, experiences vomiting, and has a sensation of fullness in the chest, as if afflicted by a malevolent spirit.

Decoction for Relieving Exterior Symptoms and Clearing Fire，From *Pian Yu Dou Zhen*, Volume 8.，For smallpox eruptions where excessive fire causes the base of the lesions to be red, and the tips are also red with a vivid hue.

Decoction for Tonifying the Original and Nourishing Yin，From *The Posthumous Writings of Shen Zhai*, Volume 7.，For yin deficiency causing deafness, coughing, spitting, and groaning, with atrophy of muscles and bones and a hunched back.

Pregnancy Preservation and Fetal Stabilization Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Shenyang Formula).，For soreness and pain in the lower back and legs during pregnancy, spotting or bleeding, loss of appetite, habitual miscarriage, and fatigue and weakness.

Ba’an Pinellia Pills，*Xuanming Lun*, Volume 9.，For all types of coughs, whether chronic or acute; or for regurgitation of phlegm accompanied by wheezing; shortness of breath with wheezing; dry throat and intense thirst; difficulty passing urine and stool; pulmonary atrophy and consumptive weakness; fullness, distension, and acute pain in the chest and abdomen; diaphragmatic qi with … Read more

Supporting Formula，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For oral sores and inability to swallow liquids.

Tumor-Resolving Pill，*The Esoteric Teachings of the Celestial Caverns*, Volume 11.，For various tumors.

Clove Warming the Middle Pills，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 245), citing *Shi Yuan’s Effective Prescriptions*.，For children with vomiting, diarrhea, dysentery, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, and cold limbs.

Blood-Cooling Five-Flower Decoction，From *Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhao Bingnan*.，Indicated for erythema due to blood heat; the early stage of discoid lupus erythematosus caused by heat-toxin obstructing the meridians; pityriasis rosea (wind-eczema); erythema multiforme (blood-wind sores); and the early stages of all erythematous skin diseases where lesions are predominantly located on the upper body or are … Read more

Pungent-Cool Decongestant Decoction，*Family Instructions on Laryngology*, Volume 2.，Wind-heat obstructing the upper body, with sore throat and swelling; slight chills but severe fever; headache and dizziness; may present with profuse sweating, cough, red eyes, or yellow nasal discharge; tongue with a white coating tinged with yellow; pulse floating and rapid.

Lingxi Decoction，From *One Hundred Questions on Infants and Children*, Volume 6.，For children with bone-consuming fever, night sweats, cough, loss of appetite, excessive thirst, sallow complexion, emaciation, abdominal distension, and coarse breathing.

Da’an Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 200.，For chronic malaria that has not resolved, regardless of the severity of chills and fever.

Seven-Ingredient Physical Harmony Pills，From *Essentials of Shanghan* (Volume 2).，For cases of cold damage characterized by yang deficiency and yin excess, with cold in the stomach, fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, abdominal distension and pain, stiffness of the body, cold hands and feet, a deep and slow pulse in both hands (which may … Read more

Head Plague Decoction，From *Classified Treatments for Syndromes*, Volume 1.，Severe Head Plague. Damp-heat injures the crown of the head, causing swelling as large as a measuring bucket; the swelling is red and headless, or may form nodules with a base, leading to profuse sweating and a sensation of steam rising from the body. At onset, there … Read more

Ginger Bath Decoction，*Comprehensive Essentials of Health Preservation*, Volume 14.，For coughs in children.