Pu Xuan Water

Decoction for Clearing Fire and Resolving Phlegm，From *Pulse Patterns, Causes, and Treatments*, Volume 1.，Cough due to fire rising against the normal flow.

Family Secret Lung-Moistening Decoction，From *Methods of Diagnosis Based on Symptoms, Causes, and Pulse* (Vol. 3).，For wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath, with lung congestion preventing sleep, caused by lung dryness and deficiency of body fluids.

Tiger Bone and Bear Oil Ointment，*Collection of National Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Shenyang Formula).，For pain in the tendons and bones, numbness and loss of sensation, abdominal pain due to masses, stiffness in the limbs, rheumatic pain in the shoulders and back, and cold pain in the lower back and legs.

Cooked Mugwort Formula，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 18.，Severe Leprosy.

Heart-Calming Ointment，From *He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 5.，For those who cannot sleep all night.

Decoction for Nourishing Water and Tonifying the Liver，From *The Posthumous Writings of Shen Zhai*, Volume 7.，Yin deficiency of the Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian manifests as “fire eye,” with sudden swelling; or along the inner side of the instep from the big toe, one cun from the inner ankle, extending into the abdomen near the navel … Read more

Polygonatum and Euryale Decoction，Formula by Leng Baizhi, cited in *Clinical Treatment of Internal Medicine in Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Indicated for middle-consumption syndrome due to spleen yin deficiency.

Single-Ingredient Gua Di Decoction，From *The Golden Cabinet*, Volume 1.，For heatstroke affecting the Taiyang channel, characterized by fever, body aches, and heaviness, with a faint and weak pulse—this is caused by exposure to cold water during the summer months, resulting in water stagnation beneath the skin, and swelling of the body, face, and limbs.

Decoction for Tonifying the Middle and Benefiting Qi (with Modifications)，From *Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 2.，Dizziness due to qi deficiency.

Earthworm Mud Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 133.，For sores caused by descending pathogenic factors. When pathogenic wind-dampness descends to the area between the feet, knees, and shins, causing the skin to become swollen and hard, forming nodules that develop into sores with a continuous discharge of pus and fluid, persisting for years and recurring after healing.

Scutellaria-Coptis-Pinellia Decoction，From *The Treasure of Eastern Medicine: Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 10, citing *Yonglei Qianfang*.，Morning sickness, characterized by fullness and pain in the chest and back.

Hand-Rub Pills，The formula is from *Qian Jin* (Vol. 5); the name appears in *Wei Sheng Hong Bao* (Vol. 3).，For children suffering from external pathogenic factors, vomiting or passing green, yellow, red, or white fluids, abdominal pain, as well as arching the back, lying on their side, and wheezing resembling epilepsy—but without rolling their eyes upward … Read more

Wang’s Decoction for Clearing Summer-Heat and Tonifying Qi，The formula is from Volume 4 of *The Meridians and Collaterals of Warm-Heat Diseases*; its name is cited in *Lecture Notes on Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas*.，For patterns of damp-heat where damp-heat has injured the qi, presenting with fatigue in the limbs, diminished vitality, fever with a high pulse, … Read more

Ophiopogon and Coptis Decoction，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 6.，For severe fever in typhoid fever, with a blue-black tongue bearing prickles.

Qi-Restoring Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 2.，Feng Yi. Qi deficiency resulting in inability to sustain vital energy; sudden collapse to the ground, followed by sudden loss of consciousness.

Gan’s Pine Resin Ointment，From *Formulas for Emergency Use* (Zhouhou Fang), Volume 5.，For hot sores; heat-toxin in the spleen and kidneys causing nodules on the lips accompanied by swelling and pain.

Prescription for Applying Pig Fat，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 134.，Burns from fire.

Wind-Dispelling and Qi-Regulating Decoction，Formula from *Essentials of Danxi’s Therapeutic Methods*, Volume 1; name cited in *Treasury of Eastern Medicine: Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 2.，For stroke caused by a pre-existing deficiency of original qi, compounded by external pathogens and excesses such as alcohol and sexual indulgence, presenting with facial asymmetry, slurred speech, drooling from the corners of … Read more

Oil-Based Powder，From *General Essentials of Health*, Volume 18.，For children with sores inside the ear, or with pus discharge.

Cimicifuga Blood-Harmonizing Decoction，From *The Song of Preserving Life: Annotations*, Volume 8.，For bloody diarrhea, which constitutes a separate category: when the stool is expelled with a hissing sound, forcefully and with great range, scattering in all directions like a sieve, accompanied by pain in the intestines.

Bone Broth-Boiled String Cake Formula，From *Shenghui*, Volume 97.，For debility and emaciation, chronic cold in the lower jiao, blurred vision, and deafness.

Wood Fragrance and Pig’s Cheek Powder，From *Selected Essentials of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 7.，For a large goiter in the neck.

Musk Toxin-Expelling Powder，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Shenyang Formula).，For epidemic rashes where macules and papules fail to erupt, with internal toxic heat, mental confusion and restlessness, alternating chills and fever, vomiting, and red, swollen muscles.

Pill for Dispelling Yin and Aiding Smallpox，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 14.，For smallpox in children presenting with a “yin syndrome,” where the lesions are hollow and pale in color, itchy and sunken in the center, accompanied by chills, incessant teeth-gnashing, abdominal distension, vomiting, and diarrhea, with a deep, fine, and weak pulse.

Dasheng Decoction，From *Compilation of Extraordinary Formulas*, Volume 2.，