Purging Decoction

Shi Pi Pills，*Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 10.，For children with spleen deficiency who lack appetite; also treats indigestion of milk and food, and jaundice with emaciation.

Soybean Bran Formula，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 97.，For various forms of wind-damp arthralgia, muscle spasms and knee pain, accumulated heat in the stomach, mouth sores and restlessness, and difficult bowel movements.

Rhinoceros Horn, Antelope Horn, Bamboo, and Gypsum Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Red Diaphragm Typhoid Fever. In cases of wind-damp seasonal toxins that first affect the Shaoyang and Yangming channels and are subsequently triggered by sudden exposure to cold, resulting in a combined disorder of the Three Yang channels, the symptoms resemble those of … Read more

Knot-Breaking Pill，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 4.，For cases of Yin-Yang reversal leading to chest constriction, where constipation has persisted for 5–6 days and neither purgation nor drainage is effective.

Lung-Clearing and Toxin-Resolving Decoction，*Huiyue*, Volume 4.，For throat swelling due to yang-toxin, or sores and abscesses with pus and blood, accompanied by constipation and a firm pulse.

Black Feather Powder，*The Treasure of Health* (Weisheng Baojian), Volume 13.，For accidental penetration of the skin by a needle or piece of iron.

Neem Bark Juice，*General Essentials of Health*, Volume 13.，In children, when worms are active, causing pain in the chest and abdomen.

Yellow Snake Powder，From *Formulas of the Huizhitiang Hall*, Volume 3.，For abscesses and ulcers of the toenails, where the red flesh around the nail protrudes; or for ingrown toenails that frequently bleed and cause unbearable pain.

Xiang Sha San，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 101, citing *Ten Convenient and Effective Formulas*.，The patient’s mind is restless; they crave climbing heights and facing danger, use abusive language and curses without regard for kinship or acquaintance, walk forcefully day and night, speak and laugh to themselves, or climb heights to shout angrily; their behavior … Read more

Nourish the Kidney and Generate the Liver Decoction，*Annotated Collection of Effective Formulas for Women*, Volume 8.，Depression and anger injure the liver and spleen, leading to blood deficiency and qi stagnation. Symptoms include scanty and painful urination, irregular menstruation, distension and fullness in the flanks, lower abdominal pain, alternating chills and fever, pain in the chest … Read more

Powder to Clear Heart Heat，From *The Compendium of Life-Saving Principles*, Volume 1.，For prolonged heat stagnation following typhoid fever, manifesting as delirium and mania.

Chai Xiang San，*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 6.，A mass of qi in the epigastrium causing mild pain, as well as epigastric pain and distension accompanied by alternating chills and fever.

Eucommia Bath Decoction，*Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 16.，For deficiency-cold in the lower jiao, pain in the navel and abdomen, leukorrhea of five colors, heavy menstrual bleeding or metrorrhagia, and persistent, dripping urinary discharge.

White Snake Decoction，From *New Treatise on Fungal and Contagious Diseases*.，To treat toxic reactions from bayberries and chronic, debilitating illnesses.

Lithospermum and Musk Root Decoction，From *The Book of Caring for Children* (Volume 2).，

Pig Gallbladder Slice，From *Ghost’s Legacy*, Volume 4.，For abscesses and carbuncles in the first 1–2 days, when pain is mild.

Taiqing Four-Fan Pill，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 200.，Effective against all types of noxious qi and malaria; also treats pain in women caused by blood and qi surging to the heart.

Safflower Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 335.，For women experiencing stabbing pain in the abdomen due to blood and qi stagnation, with absent menstruation.

Golden Needle Pills，*Xuanming Lun*, Volume 13.，For cases of yang depletion with stagnant qi, where the chest and abdomen are unbearably distended.

Baotong Pills，From *The New Book on the Care of Infants* (Volume 39), citing *Infants and Children*.，For various childhood ailments: in children over 1 year of age suffering from unexplained malnutrition due to dampness, sudden onset of abdominal pain, convulsions, epidemic red eye, or jaundice.

Hemoptysis Powder，Formula from Volume 3 of Nian’s *Collected Proven Effective Formulas*; name cited in *Ji Ren’s Collection of Proven Formulas*.，Hemoptysis.

Miraculous Decoction for Treating Tuberculosis，*Records of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 8.，For consumptive wasting disease: the patient is frequently startled while sleeping at night or experiences excessive fear; the heart feels constantly anxious and unsettled; breathing is labored as if the breath were about to run out; erotic dreams occur from time to time; night sweats increase … Read more

White Angelica Instant-Effect Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 381), citing *Fu’s Formulas for Saving Infants*.，Itching sores caused by malnutrition, and festering lesions on the flanks and thighs.

Pepper-Boron Powder，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，Tooth decay.

Tiger Bone Gel Pills，From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 81.，For “crane-knee wind” and various symptoms of paralysis.