Qingxu Pills

Cuckoo Pills，*Effective Formulas of Su and Shen*, Volume 7.，For internal eye disorders, blindness, corneal opacities, and sudden or temporary blurred vision—all eye diseases.

Red Horse-Tong Juice，*Shenghui*, Volume 37.，Prolonged, unstoppable epistaxis; yellowing of the body and face.

Modified Decoction of Raw and Prepared Rehmannia，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 8.，Deficiency of liver blood leads to stagnation of liver qi, resulting in irritability, fullness and oppression in both flanks, headache with heat, and distending pain in the chest and diaphragm.

Dao Chi Pills，*Formulas of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 6 (Supplementary Collection of Empirical Secret Formulas from Various Bureaus).，Stagnation in the heart and kidneys, heat in the bladder, and difficulty urinating; wind and heat combining to cause a dribbling, obstructed flow; or excessive intake of tonic herbs leading to a constricted urinary passage, scant and frequent … Read more

Realgar Cake Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 307.，For snake bites where the patient is near death.

Blood-Stopping Pill，*Record of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 12.，For women whose fetus shows no movement and whose abdomen is pain-free, yet who experience occasional vaginal bleeding.

Modified Zhenwu Decoction，*Medical Explorations* (Yixue Tanli Ji), Volume 3.，For the elderly who occasionally contract a cold pathogen, presenting with headache and aversion to cold but no fever, accompanied by abdominal pain.

Astragalus, Atractylodes, and Coix Seed Decoction，*Yi Chun Sheng Yi*, Volume 1.，Relieves spasms. Indicated when heat pathogens are retained by dampness, causing heaviness in the body, stiffness in the joints, and fever that persists despite sweating.

Peach Blossom Decoction，*Qian Jin*, Volume 15.，Cold, white, and stagnant dysentery with abdominal pain; chronic dysentery leading to debility and coldness.

Decoction for Nourishing the Organs and Restoring Vitality，From *Preserving Life and Nourishing the Essence*, Volume 3.，For dysentery in which the patient has previously taken excessive amounts of purgative medications, followed by ineffective treatments involving aggressive or purgative agents, resulting in extreme weakness of the body and vital energy, with no respite from symptoms, and the … Read more

Anti-Wheezing Decoction，Formula attributed to Zhuang Yizhou, cited in *A Thousand Family Remedies*.，For bronchial asthma resulting from deficient lung qi and an unstable defensive qi, with warning signs preceding an attack.

Jade Complexion Xi Shi Powder，From *Yi Lin Fang*, cited in *Yi Bu Quan Lu*, Volume 131.，Effective for all types of facial acne, wind-induced rashes, and dark spots.

Five-Yellow Ointment，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 272.，All types of sores and swellings; eczema; impetigo.

Divinely Inspired Xiangsu Powder，*Summary of the Song of Life Preservation*, Volume 6，For external invasion by wind-cold with internal qi stagnation, manifested as aversion to cold with fever, headache without sweating, fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, belching, and loss of appetite; as well as for pregnancy-related cholera, retained placenta, and food stagnation caused … Read more

Donkey-Hide Gelatin and Mugwort Decoction，Formula from *De Xiao* (Vol. 14); name cited in *Pu Ji Fang* (Vol. 344).，For spontaneous abortion with vaginal bleeding, upward surging of the fetus, and cold extremities with a sense of impending death

Salt and Rice Wine，From the *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2, citing a formula by the Cheng family.，Toothache.

Dried Ginger Wine，Formula from *Formulas for Emergency Use* (Vol. 3); name cited in *Nurturing the Elderly and Honoring Parents*.，For sudden loss of vital energy, failure of the breath to return, shoulder breathing, cold qi rising in the elderly, constricted chest pain, and inability to move.

Essence-Consolidating and Semen-Retaining Pills，From *He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 5.，For men with yin deficiency manifesting as night sweats and nocturnal emissions.

Scatter-Epidemic Decoction，*Record of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 10.，Epidemic fever. Symptoms include headache and dizziness, distension of the chest and diaphragm, expectoration of yellow phlegm, discharge of turbid fluid from the nose, or the appearance of red macules on the body; or skin turning charred black; or vomiting saliva resembling red blood; or the abdomen swollen as … Read more

Cistanche Powder，From *Qian Jin*, Volume 20.，

Sweat-Stopping Pill，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 7.，In cases of excessive stomach qi, profuse sweating occurs from the head and neck down to the face and between the neck and forehead during meals.

Stele-Inscription Pill，*National Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas* (Jilin Formula).，Pain in the epigastric region caused by excessive alcohol or indigestion.

Tiankan Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 7.，Due to deficiency-cold in the Mingmen, the patient suffered from chronic diarrhea, with 2–3 episodes of painful diarrhea at dawn every day; in severe cases, 5–6 episodes; yet no diarrhea occurred during the day.

Gelatin and Mugwort Powder，Formula from *Qianjin* (Vol. 12); name cited in *Puji Fang* (Vol. 190).，Heat in the Upper Jiao, injury to the diaphragm, vomiting blood, nosebleeds, or bloody stools persisting for several days without ceasing.

Yuzhong Decoction，From *Collection of Maternal and Prenatal Medicine*, Volume 2.，Postpartum edema.