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Newly Formulated Wu-Fu Pills，From *Jin Gui Yi* (Supplement to the Golden Chamber), Volume 6.，Chest pain. A stabbing, attacking pain that occurs as soon as one holds one’s breath.

Indigo Powder Paste，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 24.，For severe canker sores eroding the lips, nose, and mouth, with life-threatening symptoms.

Blood-Cooling Hedgehog-Quill Pills，From *Huo Ren Xin Tong*, Volume 3.，Hemorrhage from hemorrhoids or fistulas, tenesmus, and unbearable pain.

Kuan Zhong Wan，From *Danxi’s Heart Method with Appendices*, Volume 3.，For fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, and food stagnation.

One-Character Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 80.，For generalized swelling and distension caused by water retention, shortness of breath, and scanty urination.

Dìfú Wine，*Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 4.，For carbuncles; apply to the breast.

Tooth-Retaining Powder，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 24.，A foreign body in a child’s eye.

Fan Zheng Decoction，From *Yichun Shengyi*, Volume 3.，Severe malaria affecting the viscera, with an attack every three days.

Decaying Grass Powder，From *De Xiao*, Volume 11.，For smallpox lesions that have been scratched until they form open sores, oozing pus and blood.

Eight-Ingredient Tissue-Regenerating Powder，From *Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Harbin Formula).，When the toxic energy from the ulcer has been completely eliminated but new tissue has not formed, and the wound has not healed for a long time.

Huanglian Wumei Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 7.，Due to irregular diet and disharmony of the Nutritive and Defensive Qi, pathogenic wind invades the viscera, leading to weakness of the stomach and intestines, diarrhea, borborygmi, distension of the abdomen and flanks, tenesmus, frequent bowel movements day and night, and loss of appetite.

Chai-Ling Ping-Wei Decoction，*Yi Bian*, Volume 2.，In the early stages of malaria, fever predominates over chills.

Rhubarb and Astragalus Decoction，*San Yin*, Volume 8.，Extreme deficiency of body fluids; heaviness of the body and lethargy; reluctance to move the limbs; joint pain; lack of appetite; coughing upon eating; pain under the right flank when coughing, radiating to the back and shoulder, making movement impossible.

Tongyin Powder，The formula is from *Qian Jin* (Volume 17); the name appears in *Sheng Ji Zong Lu* (Volume 66).，For lung deficiency with cold, hoarseness due to injury, difficulty speaking, tremors, sluggishness, emaciation, and wind invading the lungs.

Three-Yellow Pills for Dissolving in the Mouth，From *Pocket Handbook*, Volume 3.，Indicated for accumulated heat in the Triple Burner, swelling and tightness in the throat, restlessness in the chest and diaphragm, red and scanty urine, and severe constipation.

Jade Milk Powder，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 141); also found in *Smoke and Mist: Formulas of Divine Efficacy*.，For bloody dysentery.

Modified Rehmannia Decoction，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 1.，Pulmonary Consumption. Excessive fire in the Upper Jiao, phlegm gushing like a spring, red face and sore throat, aversion to covering the upper body with clothing, yet the lower body is ice-cold—this is a syndrome of “false heat, true cold.”

Hua Yi Bu Gan Decoction，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 77.，Indicated for slippery opacities and internal cataracts caused by liver wind surging upward and cerebral fat flowing downward. A small spot in the center of the pupil resembles a drop of mercury, with a slight yellowish tint; it is neither itchy nor painful, produces no tears, yet … Read more

Heqi Pills，From *Formulas of the Ruizhu Hall*, Volume 2.，For small intestine colic and low back pain; hernias characterized by a transverse, hard, and taut mass that encircles the navel and radiates outward, accompanied by stabbing pain in the lower abdomen.

Oil Coin Powder，*Formulas for Childbirth*.，For women with blood-wind disorders.

Decoction for Relieving Syncope，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 1.，For cold-induced fever in winter accompanied by cold extremities; where cold extremities are followed by fever; where cold extremities predominate over fever; or where cold symptoms predominate over fever—indicating that the body’s vital energy cannot overcome the pathogenic factors.

Water Melon Powder，From *Formulas of the Huizhitiang Hall*, Volume 2.，For small intestine colic that encircles the navel and radiates to the heart.

Xiao Yuan Men，From *Chuanya Bu*, Volume 1.，For trauma and contusions.

White Incense Powder，From *Nourishing the Elderly and Honoring Parents*.，For all types of malignant sores accompanied by unbearable pain.

Decoction for the Prosperity of Mother and Child，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，For kidney deficiency and lung dryness, chronic cough that does not heal, spitting of white foam, and breath with a bloody odor.