Rehmannia Decoction with Modifications

Ban Huang Pills，From *A Clear Explanation of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 1.，Cough due to heat phlegm. Heat phlegm stagnates internally, causing coughing, a flushed face, chest fullness, and persistent heat in the chest, abdomen, and flanks, though the feet may occasionally feel cold; the pulse is洪滑 (hong-hua).

He Che Zong Yu Pills，*The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 61.，

Sesame Oil and Wine，*Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 8.，For all types of severe toxic conditions, such as abscesses, carbuncles, boils, and furuncles.

Miraculous Secret Pill for Croup，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 3.，Asthma.

Mengling Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 102.，For those with deficient liver qi, clouded vision due to a film over the eye, and prolonged inability to see clearly. For those with accumulated heat in the five viscera, resulting in blurred vision and inability to see clearly.

Jade Spoon Opening Powder，*Secrets of the Medicine Chest*.，Throat inflammation, throat abscess, tonsillitis.

Perilla Pills，From *Bamboo Grove Gynecology*.，For women who frequently cough during their menstrual period.

Waxed Tea Powder，*The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 8.，For sores on the scrotum that are painful, weep, and have not healed for a long time.

Lingji Pills，From *The Song of Life Preservation* (Baoming Ge Kuo), Volume 14.，When beriberi spreads through both feet and ascends to cause pain in the lower back and legs, making it impossible to turn over in bed.

Chuanxiong-Danggui Baoyuan Decoction，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 57.，For smallpox with deficiency of qi and blood, where, at the time of the “guangjiang” stage, the pustule is round and full but shows no red halo at the base.

Modified Chai-Ling Decoction，*Straight Talk on Pediatrics*, Volume 5.，For children with a common cold and cough, presenting with a pale face and white lips, and general weakness. May also be accompanied by loose stools.

Red Dragon Skin Decoction，*Formulas from the Elbow-Back* (Vol. 5).，For breast sores and various festering ulcers.

Jiedan Decoction，From *Classification of Syndromes and Treatment Methods*, Volume 2.，For phlegm-heat invading the lungs, causing severe wheezing and shortness of breath, leading to loss of voice.

Yuanji Pill，*Compendium of Medicine*, Volume 3.，For cholera where heat in the drink has turned to cold.

Deer Head Soup，From *Essentials of Dietary Therapy*, Volume 1.，Pain in the legs and knees.

Ginseng and Astragalus Great Tonifying Decoction，From *The Complete Book of Experience in the Treatment of Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 3.，For ulcers that have already ruptured.

Single-Ingredient Atractylodes Pill，From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 18.，Vomiting clear fluid.

Ningzhong Ointment，From *Ru Yi Fang*, cited in Volume 349 of *Pu Ji Fang*.，For postpartum restlessness, depletion of heart blood, and symptoms of delirium and hallucinations of ghosts.

Raw Rehmannia Pills，Quoted from *Guangji Fang* in Volume 17 of *Wai Tai*; the name appears in Volume 227 of *Pu Ji Fang*.，Five Exhaustions, Seven Injuries, Six Extremes, Eight Winds, Twelve Bi Syndromes, diabetes, and epigastric masses.

Opium Powder，*The Mysterious Pearls of Chishui*, Volume 28.，For children with smallpox who, as the sores swell and fill with pus, experience uncontrollable diarrhea.

Liver-Soothing and Stomach-Harmonizing Decoction，Formula by Guan Youbo, cited in *Selected Readings from Original Works of Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，For chronic, protracted hepatitis with persistently elevated transaminase levels, classified as the “Liver-Stomach Disharmony” pattern. Symptoms include nausea and the urge to vomit, hiccups and belching, epigastric distension and fullness after meals, occasional epigastric pain, shooting pain in … Read more

Bai Zi Fu Gui Pills，*The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 11.，For imbalances of yin and yang, deficiency of qi and blood, infertility, conditions before and after childbirth, irregular menstruation, and various symptoms of excess or deficiency.

Decoction for Nourishing Yin and Harmonizing the Lungs，From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 31.，Used for shortness of breath caused by yin deficiency with fire rising from below.

Menstrual Regulation Liuhe Decoction，From *Zheng’s Family-Transmitted Gynecological Prescriptions Worth Ten Thousand Gold*, Volume 1.，For women with stagnation of qi and blood, amenorrhea accompanied by abdominal masses, and heaviness and pain in the lower back and legs.

Weiru Decoction，Quoted from *Xu Renze’s Formulas* in Volume 3 of *Wai Tai*.，In cases of post-epidemic fatigue—whether caused by physical labor, slightly excessive eating, excessive talking, or overexertion of the senses—presenting symptoms similar to those of cold damage, first take the Seven-Ingredient Decoction with Scallion Whites. If no improvement is felt, this formula should be prepared … Read more