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Atractylodes Powder，From *Yuanhe Jiyong Jing*.，For the five types of exhaustion and a hundred kinds of debility, heaviness and sluggishness in the limbs, aching and pain in bones and muscles, failure to recover to normal after a serious illness, shortness of breath and fatigue upon movement, shallow and labored breathing, tightness in the lower abdomen, stiffness … Read more

Pine Resin Wine，*Shenghui*, Volume 95.，Severe skin disease.

Chai-Fu Decoction，*Differential Diagnosis of Symptoms in Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Amenorrhea due to liver qi stagnation following a miscarriage, accompanied by distension or distending pain in the lower abdomen, pain in the lower abdomen, or breast distension.

Realgar and Vermilion Powder，*Selected Formulas of Renowned Physicians*.，For smallpox sores unresponsive to other treatments, where the skin has turned black and sunken.

Cui Chao San，*Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 185, citing *Shi Yuanduan’s Effective Prescriptions*.，Needles, iron arrowheads, and other sharp objects that have penetrated the skin, flesh, tendons, or bones, causing harm and cannot be removed.

Evil-Dispelling Powder，*Mirror of Ancient and Modern Medicine*, Volume 12.，Malaria during pregnancy: extreme fever can harm the fetus.

Great Tendon- and Bone-Restoring Pill，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 188), citing *Shi Yuanduan’s Effective Prescriptions*.，For contusions and bruises, as well as fractures of tendons and bones.

Warming the Channels and Nourishing Vitality Decoction，*Yi Chun Sheng Yi*, Volume 4.，Wind-Bi. Blood fails to nourish the tendons; wind invades the joints and collaterals.

Ginger and Tangerine Peel Powder，From *Zhuang’s Family Tradition*, cited in Volume 29 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For bloody and white dysentery.

Ivory Powder，From *Supplementary Treatise on Surgical Diseases*, Volume 2.，For tongue calluses, whether ulcerated or not.

Indigo Juice，Formula from *Wai Tai* (Vol. 36), citing *Guang Ji Fang*; name found in *Sheng Ji Zong Lu* (Vol. 182).，Erysipelas in children.

Mistletoe Powder，*Secret Manual on Pregnancy and Childbirth*, Volume 1.，Pregnancy with spontaneous vaginal bleeding and irregular menstrual flow.

Fujing Pills，From *Zheng Yu’s Formulas*, cited in Volume 10 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For all types of convulsions in children.

Autumn Frost Powder，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 24.，Mouth and tongue sores.

Mugwort Ash Cake，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 18.，For children with uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea day and night.

Areca Nut Decoction，Formula from *Qianjin* (Vol. 18); name cited in *Puji Fang* (Vol. 164).，Phlegm-fluid retention in the chest, gurgling sounds in the intestines, undigested food, and vomiting of water.

Five-Spice Ephedra Decoction，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 9.，In cases of sudden swelling due to cold damage—whether affecting the limbs, chest, or back—the swelling is diffuse and puffy, as if inflated; it may also affect the head, face, lips, mouth, neck, and nape. In severe cases, it may be concentrated on one shin, appearing as thick … Read more

Stone Acorus Decoction，The formula is taken from *Yipan Zhu*, Volume 7, citing *Shishi Milu*; the name appears in *Weisheng Hongbao*, Volume 5.，For “Flower Epilepsy”: When a woman’s emotional desires go unfulfilled, causing the Liver’s Wood element to wither and internal fire to rage, she may suddenly suffer an epileptic seizure. Her pulse at the Cunkou … Read more

Stemona and Cinnamon Twig Decoction，From *Medical Case Records of Ma Peizhi*.，For the early stages of cold-damp “crane’s knee” (osteoarthritis of the knee), characterized by swelling and pain but no heat upon palpation.

Daqing Ointment，From *De Xiao* (Effective Treatments), Volume 11.，For acute convulsions in children, characterized by twitching of tendons and veins, excessive drooling, and restless sleep.

Dried Carmine Ointment，From *A Hundred Questions on Infants and Children*, Volume 4.，For children with chronic otitis media characterized by persistent discharge of pus and serous fluid:

Black Blood-Dissolving Formula，*Lectures on Traditional Chinese Medicine Surgery*.，For all yin-type conditions, or swollen sores of a mixed yin-yang nature.

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.

Ophiopogon and Sesame Seed Decoction，From *Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 2.，For malaria that has injured the stomach yin, manifesting as neither hunger nor satiety, difficulty with bowel movements, and tidal fevers; where eating further exacerbates the restlessness and fever, and body fluids have not been restored.

Peach Twig Decoction，*Shenghui*, Volume 31.，For bone-consumptive wasting disease with body pain and feverish restlessness.