Purslane Formula

Shenmai Liuwei Pills，From *Formulas Collected at the Feeding-Cranes Pavilion*.，Deficiency of true yin, concurrent deficiency of metal and water elements; lung damage with cough; thirst, dry tongue, and sore throat; bone-steaming fever, night sweats, seminal emission, and turbid urine.

Red Kesi Pills，*Wai Tai*, Volume 28 (Annotation), citing *Fan Wang’s Formulas*.，For diarrhea caused by the “Five Gu” toxins; removes fat and blood.

Guxian Tablets，Formulated by Guangzhou Zhongsheng Pharmaceutical Factory.，Osteophytosis, as well as osteophytosis of the knee joint, lumbar spine, thoracic spine, cervical spine, and other bones and joints.

Li’an Pills，From *Ming Yi Zhi Zhang*, Volume 6.，For lower back pain; lower back pain due to kidney deficiency in the elderly or those with constitutional weakness, accompanied by an inability to turn over in bed; and for those with kidney deficiency complicated by dampness, presenting with heat and pain in the soles of the feet … Read more

Sheng-Ge Decoction，From *The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 2.，Mastitis, breast toxicity, breast abscess, and breast carbuncle.

Baoshou Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 9.，For wind-heat rashes where the body is not painful, the limbs are not stiff, the mind is clear, and the patient is occasionally able to speak.

Epilepsy Heart-Calming Pill，*Compendium of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas* (Suzhou Formula).，For phlegm-fire obscuring the mind, resulting in mental confusion, dizziness, and sudden collapse; as well as all types of epilepsy characterized by excessive phlegm, loss of consciousness, and convulsions of the limbs.

Integrated Sanhe Fetal-Preserving Pills，*Collected Works on Infant Care*, Volume 1.，For those with a history of habitual miscarriage.

Dingli Dan，From *Selected Marvelous Ancient Formulas*, cited in Volume 396 of *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，For children with chronic diarrhea that has not healed.

Eye-Brightening Pill，From *The Classic of the Middle Cavities*, Volume 2.，For consumptive wasting disease characterized by emaciation, a sallow complexion, vomiting blood, and persistent coughing.

Purple Dragon Pill，From *Comprehensive Treatise on Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 3.，For smallpox lesions oozing pus for 3 days.

Benzoin Ointment，From *The New Book on the Care of Infants* (Volume 10), citing *The Zhuang Family’s Inherited Prescriptions*.，For abdominal distension, internal hernias, pain caused by intestinal parasites, external hernias, and pain in the chest and abdomen.

Cang-Gui-Wu-Ling Powder，From *Collected Explanations of Medical Formulas*.，Cold-dampness. Intestinal bi syndrome.

Iron Filings Powder，*Wai Tai*, Volume 24, citing *Fan Wang’s Formulas*.，Boils, back abscesses.

Lingyuan Pill，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 78.，For men and women with corneal opacities and films, itching, dryness, and photophobia; red veins and a bluish halo; internal and external cataracts with stasis; and wind-heat red eye.

Scutellaria and Atractylodes Fetal-Stabilizing Decoction，*Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology*, Volume 1.，Restless Fetal Movement.

Difu Pills，*Complete Book of Ophthalmology*, Volume 6.，Blindness resulting from “qingmang” (loss of vision).

Decoction for Clearing Heat from the Stomach，From *Yi Chun Sheng Yi*, Volume 4.，For toothache caused by kidney deficiency complicated by stomach fire.

Soft-Shelled Turtle Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 7.，Weakness of stomach qi, inability to digest food; occasionally, hard food remains in the stomach and, over time, transforms into a tangible mass. There is chaotic movement in the abdomen; when it moves, the pain is unbearable, but it subsides after eating. Later, the mass gradually … Read more

Pepper-Kidney Pills，*Shenghui* (Volume 29).，For deficiency-related wasting diseases, internal injury, deficiency and cold of kidney qi, dribbling urine, and seminal emission.

Gardenia and Cinnamon Pills，From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 76.，For hernias that are not painful upon palpation.

Purple Jade Hairpin Ointment，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 27.，Corn.

Pediatric Convulsions Powder，*Chinese Pharmacopoeia*, Volume 1.，For infantile convulsions, characterized by convulsions and loss of consciousness.

Kan Water Decoction，*Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，Extreme heat leading to mania, climbing heights to shout, abandoning farmwork to flee, shortness of breath, and profuse sweating.

Pill for Reviving the Dying and Rescuing the Moribund，From *The Mystic Pearl of the Red Water*, Volume 28.，When smallpox lesions appear grayish-white, with cold qi rising upward, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, vomiting, abdominal pain, watery diarrhea, and cold hands and feet.