Red Pills

Ginger, Poria, and Pinellia Decoction，From *Si Sheng Xin Yuan*, Volume 5.，For cough and wheezing due to phlegm and fluid retention.

Cow Bile and Gastrodia Powder，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 5.，Wind in the kidneys. Pain and stiffness in the lower back and spine, inability to bend forward or backward, slurred speech, and mental restlessness.

Pig’s Head Powder，From *De Xiao*, Volume 12.，For a soft boil that has healed but has recurred.

Great Thistle Powder，From *Ji Sheng*, Volume 2.，Consumption of pungent and hot foods leads to heat pathogens injuring the lungs, resulting in vomiting of blood amounting to 1 he or half a sheng; this is known as “lung abscess.”

Cow Bile Pill for Eliminating Accumulations，*Yi Ji*, Volume 8.，For bloating due to stagnant qi, edema, blood stasis, parasitic infections, phlegm, and food stagnation—all conditions involving obstruction and excess.

Goat Stomach Soup，From *Zhang Wenzhong’s Formulas*, cited in Volume 20 of *Wai Tai*.，For chronic illness causing emaciation, failure to gain muscle mass, fluid retention under the ribs, inability to eat, and heat in the limbs.

Deer Antler Shibao Pills，From *Hong’s Collection of Proven Formulas*, Volume 3.，For various conditions of deficiency and weakness, including weak heart and spleen qi, distension and tightness in the abdomen and flanks, borborygmi and diarrhea, abdominal pain, cold extremities, stubborn arthralgia, epigastric fullness and nausea, headache and aversion to cold, aching limbs, poor appetite, shortness of … Read more

Modified Ginseng and Oat Decoction，*Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For pregnant women experiencing restlessness, internal heat, and dry mouth.

Immortal-Transmitted Convulsions Pills，From *Experienced and Extraordinary Formulas*, Volume 1.，For all types of convulsions in young children.

Enhanced Shenghua Bu Zhong Yi Qi Decoction，*Essentials of Gynecology*, Volume 6.，Shortness of breath resembling wheezing after childbirth.

Zhishi Pills，From *The Secret Record of Longevity*, cited in Volume 15 of *The External Pavilion*.，When wind-heat arises, causing heat to surge to the head and face, with a wind rash appearing on the skin accompanied by severe itching and the formation of sores, and an inability to eat much.

Carp Soup，From *The Compendium of Medical Formulas* (Vol. 227), citing *The Heart Mirror of Dietary Medicine*.，During pregnancy, fetal movement indicates heat congestion in the Xuan Fu; this causes vomiting, inability to eat, and restlessness and oppression in the chest.

Ginseng and Poria Spleen-Strengthening Powder，From *Ren Yi Liang Fang*.，For children with spleen-stomach damage due to dietary indiscretion and prolonged diarrhea, or those with spleen-stomach deficiency.

Ginseng and Ophiopogon Decoction，From *Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 7.，Deficient heat with restlessness and thirst.

Zanyu Dan，*The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 51.，For impotence and diminished semen, as well as infertility due to deficiency-cold.

Inner Nourishment and Calming Powder，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 2.，After lancing a carbuncle and the pus has been drained, the patient may experience weakness of vital energy, palpitations during sleep, and restlessness of mind; or the remaining toxin may have entered the orifices of the heart, leading to forgetfulness.

Shen Medicine，From *Secret Collection on the Throat*.，

Universal Relief Revitalizing Pill，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，For children with internal heat and fever, common cold with headache, alternating chills and fever, and rashes that do not break through.

Fenxiao Kuanzhong Powder，*He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 4.，Spleen deficiency with abdominal distension.

Cotton-Wrapped Powder，From *Yin Hai Jing Wei*, Volume 1.，For eye conditions such as excessive tearing, corneal erosion, and corneal ulcers.

Er Chen Decoction with Huanglian and Zhizi，Formula from *Danxi’s Heart Method*, Volume 3; name found in *A Study of Medical Formulas*, Volume 4.，For epigastric distension with heat and restlessness.

San Jie Niu Huang San，Formula by Master Mao, cited in Volume 19 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For children with excess heat and tidal fever.

Aconite and Clove Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 36), citing *Ten Convenient and Effective Formulas*.，For conditions such as gastroptosis, nausea, vomiting, and cold-induced diarrhea.

Harmonizing the Middle and Nourishing the Stomach Decoction，From *The Secret Treasury of the Orchid Chamber*, Volume 2.，Abdominal pain in the Taiyin and Yangming channels; frequent loose stools; if not loose, then constipation with difficulty passing stools; later progressing to damp-heat toxin, with the passage of bright red blood, mild abdominal pain, tightness and contraction under … Read more

Enhanced Bu Zhong Decoction，*Straight Talk on Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，In cases of extreme debility in children, or when diarrhea leads to chronic convulsions with cold extremities.