Purple-Red Powder

Wubo Powder，From *Compilation of Medical Manuscripts*, Volume 21.，For scrofula and various forms of tuberculosis.

Red Thousand-Pound Paste，From *Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhu Renkang*.，For boils, sores, and abscesses that have not yet ruptured, or for “eel-head” (??) (a type of furunculous folliculitis).

Duke Shi’s Medicinal Wine Pills，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，For wind-cold-damp bi syndrome, numbness in the limbs, aching and pain in the joints, and hemiplegia.

Qingcong Pills，*Hui Chun*, Volume 5.，For tinnitus and a sensation of blockage in the ears, even leading to deafness.

Mind-Calming Amber Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 5.，When a stroke originates in the heart without the patient being aware of it, it gradually develops into epilepsy, accompanied by palpitations and a dazed state.

Dampness-Dispelling and Stomach-Harmonizing Powder，*Songs for Preserving Life* (Baoming Gejue), Volume 11.，Diseases caused by stagnant dampness.

Cinnamon Twig, Poria, and Ginseng Decoction，*Source of the Hearts of the Four Sages*, Volume 10.，Postpartum yang deficiency with mental confusion.

Formula for Tonifying Medicines by the Prefectural Judge，*The Treasure of Health* (Weisheng Baojian), Volume 15.，Leucorrhea.

Shang Tong Guang Ming Decoction，*Complete Book of Ophthalmology*, Volume 6.，Ingrown eyelashes.

Weilingxian Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 185.，For men with wind-deficiency in the spleen and kidney, exhaustion of qi and blood, reduced appetite, fatigue in the limbs, weak qi and palpitations, heat above and cold below, a bitter taste in the mouth, and a dry tongue.

Decreasing and Increasing Huanglian Decoction，*Lüfa*, Volume 5.，Obstructive Urination.

Huoxiang-Pupu-Weiling Decoction，Adapted from Mr. Fan Kaizhou’s empirical formula in *Treatment Methods for Damp-Heat Epidemics*.，Damp-type cholera. Symptoms include vomiting and diarrhea, chest fullness and abdominal pain, a greasy sensation in the mouth without thirst, scanty urine, a pulse that is mostly string-like and sluggish or deep and slow, and a white, slippery tongue coating. It also … Read more

Snow Pear and Hundred Flowers Paste，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 1.，For chronic cough with phlegm-fire, shortness of breath and wheezing, and lung atrophy with hoarseness.

Blood-Harmonizing Decoction，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 7.，Used for distension, tightness, and pain in the lower abdomen caused by stagnant blood, accompanied by frequent urination.

Cataract-Dissolving Powder，Quoted from *Dafang* in *The Great Compendium of the Yongle Era*, Volume 11413.，For opacities within the eye.

Secret Essence Pills，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 6.，In cases of inherent deficiency of kidney water and true yin, with excessive heart fire and uncontrolled yang, the heart’s desires are swiftly aroused; this affects the kidneys, leading to rapid discharge.

Blood-Activating and Hardness-Resolving Decoction，From *Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 2.，For all types of scrofula, goiters, and phlegm nodules in the early stages before suppuration.

Pangolin Scale, White Vitex, and Artemisia Decoction，Formula from *Zongfutang Formulas*, Volume 2; name cited in *Medicine Is Truly Easy*, Volume 5.，Arrow Wind, commonly known as “Ghost Arrow Strike,” or pain in the tendons and bones of the head, neck, hands, and feet, accompanied by hemiplegia.

Rabbit Blood Powder，From *Formulas for Preserving Life and Dispelling Confusion*, Volume 4.，Difficult labor.

Enhanced Dragon-Stone Powder，From *New Compilation for the Relief of the Masses*, Volume 3.，Dental caries.

Alum and Arsenic Pills，From *Formulas Following Viper Bites*.，For dysentery, watery diarrhea, epigastric pain, tinea and scabies, sitz sores, and weeping sores, etc.

Dermatomycosis Decoction，From *Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhu Renkang*.，Generalized neurodermatitis, pruritus, papular eczema.

Hemorrhoid-Drying Solution，*Traditional Chinese Medicine: Surgery*.，Hemorrhoids.

Blood-Cloud-Dispelling Decoction，*Essentials of Ophthalmology*, Volume 1.，Both eyes are red and swollen, with a sensation of dryness and pain, hot tears, and photophobia; gradually, red veins appear running through the pupils, and vision becomes intermittently blurred.

Newly Formulated Chai-Lian Decoction，From *Compendium of Ophthalmology*, Volume 1.，Sudden itching, swelling, redness, or pain in the eyes; after 1–2 days, severe aversion to wind and light may develop, with pain like needle pricks upon exposure to wind, or tears flowing like boiling water—this indicates a condition of wind combined with heat.