Remedies for Seasonal Epidemics

Herbal Aconite Pills，*Qianjin Yi*, Volume 15.，For stagnation and cold accumulation, impotence, blood in the stool, and unstoppable postpartum bleeding in women.

Xunxing Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 7.，Caused by the toxin of summer heat and dampness, heat accumulates in the bladder and qi fails to transform; fluids and food are expelled in a torrent, with 70–80 bowel movements in a day and night. The stool is thick and sticky, mixed with pus and blood; … Read more

Ping’an Powder，From *The Collection of Beaded Pearls*, Volume 2.，Diarrhea during pregnancy; shortness of breath, muscle spasms, and joint pain.

Xiangsu Baidu Powder，*Comprehensive Treatise on Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 4.，For the initial onset of smallpox, presenting with symptoms resembling typhoid fever.

Miraculous Chaihu Powder，*Appendix to the Classic of the Middle Treasury*.，For adults and children with bone fever, feeling as if steaming at night.

Medicinal Paste Cake，*Shenghui*, Volume 97.，For the Five Labors and Seven Injuries, deficiency and cold of kidney qi, pain in the lower back and knees, and dribbling of urine.

Xiao’anwei Pills，From *Collected Formulas of the Crane-Feeding Pavilion*.，Pain due to stomach qi disturbance; vomiting caused by rising liver qi.

External Protective Pill，From *The Profound Secrets of the Divine Realm*, Volume 12.，For sores on the glans penis.

Red Arrow Pills，*Shenghui* (Volume 74).，For stroke during pregnancy, characterized by paralysis of the hands and feet, fluctuating muscle tone, slurred speech, and loss of sensation in the skin.

Maoxiang Powder，*Shenghui* (Volume 5).，For vomiting and retching due to heat stagnation in the spleen and stomach, accompanied by unrelenting restlessness and thirst.

Magpie’s Nest Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 58); name cited in *Shengji Zonglu* (Vol. 95).，Involuntary urination.

Modified “Chasing Boils and Averting Death Decoction”，*Zhun Sheng: Treatise on Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 2.，For carbuncles, as well as abscesses, back sores, and malignant ulcers characterized by intense redness, swelling, and pain, or for “purple wandering wind” and “red wandering wind.”

Er Bao Powder，From *The Mystic Pearl of Chishui*, Volume 28.，Purple-colored smallpox lesions, accompanied by fever, epistaxis, blood in the urine, thirst, delirium; the tops of the lesions are white, the surrounding skin is red and swollen but the lesions themselves are not swollen, or they are black, sunken, and fail to rise.

Sancai Jiangyun Pills，*Zhunsheng: Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 3.，Effective for scrofula, hemorrhoids with fistulas, the “Six Tumors,” and malignant sores.

Cold-Dispelling Decoction，From *Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 3.，Wind-cold invades the lung, causing nasal congestion, sneezing, persistent cough, and sputum resembling rotten cotton.

Harmonizing Qi and Unblocking Essence Pills，*Shenghui*, Volume 28.，For consumptive disorders.

Qianghuo Shengfeng Decoction，From *Yuanji Qiwei*, Volume 2.，Sudden onset of wind-heat causing eye pain.

Pharbitis Decoction Pills，*Shenghui*, Volume 48.，For excess dampness and qi, stagnant masses that do not disperse, distension and fullness in the abdomen and flanks, vomiting of sour fluid, and reduced appetite.

Women’s Nourishing the Blood Pills，*The Great Dictionary of Chinese Medicine*.，For women with yang deficiency and yin weakness, irregular menstruation, persistent vaginal discharge, amenorrhea with abdominal pain, poor appetite, sallow complexion, hair loss, emaciation, prolonged inability to conceive, as well as unstoppable menstrual bleeding, and all blood-related disorders.

Jinfeicao Decoction，*Six Books of Medical Essentials*, Volume 30.，For postpartum wind-induced cough with a floating pulse.

Highly Effective Wind-Dispelling Decoction，From *Discussions on the Care of Infants and Children*, Volume 18.，For infants and young children presenting with the four syndromes of fright, fever, wind, and phlegm—which accumulate in the chest and epigastrium—causing the child to be drowsy, lethargic, and heavy; with blocked orifices and obstructed pulse energy; thus remaining silent, wanting to … Read more

Tian Dong Decoction，From *The Collection of Bu Ju*, Volume 14 of the First Series.，Weakness of the spleen and stomach, shortness of breath and weak breathing, lack of vitality, nosebleeds, and hematemesis.

Spring Fern Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 165.，For postpartum dysentery.

Alum and Sulfur Powder，From *Yi Tong*, Volume 66.，Wind-heat ascends to attack the Yangming meridian, causing a purplish discoloration of the face and nose, accompanied by prickling sensations and hidden rashes.

Nanhua Dan，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，Phlegm-fluid retention.