Redness-Relieving Decoction

Felt Root Decoction，From *Jifeng*, Volume 18.，Wind-heat rising from the Lung Meridian, causing acne, prickly heat, and red, itchy rashes on the face.

Cinnabar and Iron Powder Powder，*Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 16.，For children with high fever, sudden convulsions and spasms, excessive saliva causing obstruction, and confusion with loss of consciousness.

Hemp Pills，From *Qianjin Yueling*, cited in *Yifang Leiju*, Volume 96.，For conditions following a stroke, characterized by wind obstruction and qi stagnation, yin deficiency and fluid depletion, hard and dry stools, emaciation, cold pain in the lower back and knees, weakness in the limbs, and generalized itching due to deficiency. Also for beriberi and all wind-related … Read more

Jinshui Liujunzi Decoction，From *Yimen Rufa*, Volume 2.，Cough.

Equisetum Powder，Formula from *San Yin* (Vol. 12); name cited in *Zhi Zhi* (Vol. 14).，Rectal prolapse that has persisted for years without healing. Small intestine hernia.

Xiaoyao Powder，From *The Mystic Pearl of the Red Water*, Volume 20.，Day and night deficiency heat, with a faint and fine pulse.

Lead Red Powder，From *Xuanming Lun*, Volume 3.，Wind-heat ascends to attack the Yangming meridians, causing lung wind, and results in a purplish-red rash on the face and nose.

Huangqi Gu Zhen Decoction，From *Collected Works on the Care of Infants* (Youyou Jicheng), Volume 4.，For children with qi deficiency and spontaneous sweating.

Huangqin Dingluan Decoction，*Treatise on Cholera*, Volume 4.，In cases where a warm disease has progressed to cholera, with no abdominal pain but cold limbs and a hidden pulse; or where the limbs are not cold, but there is thirst, a yellow tongue coating, scant urination, and restlessness.

Suosha Decoction，From *The Heart Book for Saving Infants*, Volume 2.，For pain in the chest and abdomen.

Gushen Pill，*The Handy Guide*, Volume 3.，For the elderly with deficient stomach qi who are unable to eat or drink.

Soft-Shelled Turtle Head and Leg Pills，From *New Book on the Care of Infants* (Volume 22), citing *Prescriptions for Infants*.，For children with abdominal cramping and hardness under the ribs.

Qingre Rusheng San，From *Secrets of Laryngology*, Volume 2.，For sores in the mouth and on the tongue, or swelling under the tongue with a nodule from which yellow pus oozes, and which recurs after healing.

Yellow Hen Soup，From *Shenghui*, Volume 81.，For women suffering from postpartum weakness and abdominal pain.

Meiqing Pills，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 5.，

Rhubarb and Dried Lacquer Decoction，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 3.，For postpartum bleeding accompanied by severe abdominal pain.

Wind-Dispelling Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 2.，Stroke. The patient’s vital energy is not yet depleted; suddenly struck by wind-pathogen, they collapse abruptly, spew phlegm and saliva, become delirious and scream, sit and stand on their own, walk unaided, fail to recognize people, develop spots on the body, which turn into sores and boils after … Read more

Xinrong Pills，From *Meng Shen’s Formulas*, cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 336).，For women whose uterus has long been affected by wind and cold, resulting in an unstable pregnancy and frequent miscarriages.

Modified Kudzu Flower Decoction，*Yichun Shengyi*, Volume 3.，For those who cough due to excessive thirst damaging the lungs.

Atractylodes and Astragalus Decoction，From *The Collection of Life-Preserving Formulas*, Volume Middle.，Even after taking the Peony Decoction and the dysentery has subsided, this formula should still be used to consolidate the treatment.

Modified Xiang Sha Liu Jun Zi Decoction，*Medical Explorations* (Yixue Tanli Ji), Volume 3.，Food-induced relapse in typhoid fever.

Xanthium Seed Ointment，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Leg sores.

Honeysuckle Bath，From *Collected Works on the Care of Infants*, Volume 5.，Smallpox lesions that have sunken inward and turned black, failing to rise.

Coriander and Perilla Decoction，From *Golden Needles of Pediatrics*, Volume 2.，Smallpox with “reverse-gate” syndrome in children. Symptoms include delirium and rambling speech, restlessness and agitation, convulsions of the hands and feet, bulging eyes, abdominal distension, a faint and weak pulse, deep unconsciousness; or spots that disappear immediately upon being seen; or bleeding from the mouth, nose, … Read more

Modified Yinyu Wine，From *Effective Formulas for Women*, Volume 3, citing *Formulas for Resolving Confusion*.，For women suffering from “thief wind” (a type of wind-induced disorder), hemiplegia, paralysis of one side of the body, dry muscles, gradual wasting away, or occasional aching pain.