Sanmu Decoction

Cinnabar Formula for Eliminating Phlegm and Dampness，*Yi Tong*, Volume 50.，Phlegm obscures the orifices of the heart, causing palpitations and anxiety.

Saliva-Controlling Pill，From *Formulas for Saving Lives*, Volume 6.，For men and women who have long suffered from stagnant phlegm and accumulated fluid, latent beneath the flanks and between the lower back, kidneys, and digestive tract; over the years, this has moved with the flow of qi, causing pain that prevents bending or stretching, yet whose vital … Read more

Yi Jin San，From *Simple Formulas*, citing Li Bo-shan’s formula (see *Collected Medical Formulas*, Vol. 79).，Lung heat, nasal congestion, and thick nasal discharge.

Qianhu Decoction for Clearing Liver Heat，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 102.，Excessive heat in the liver, with red, dry, and sore eyes.

Fire-Nourishing and Light-Generating Decoction，From *Zhang Jiachun’s Diagnosis and Treatment of Ophthalmic Disorders*.，Heart deficiency with blurred vision. Caused by excessive worry damaging the heart and spleen, or by a decline in the fire of the Gate of Life, resulting in the inability of the spirit’s radiance to manifest. This manifests as eyes that are neither painful … Read more

Xingban Pills，Formula from *Danxi’s Heart Method*, Volume 2; name cited in *Complete Record of the Medical Section*, Volume 240.，For damp phlegm and leukorrhea caused by phlegm.

Liuhe Decoction of Gardenia，*Yuanrong*.，For pregnancy-related typhoid fever, where the patient cannot sleep after sweating or purgation.

Fragrant Jujube Pills，*Formulas of the Ruizhu Hall*, Volume 2.，Ten types of gu-induced illnesses.

Poppy-Elm Decoction，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 7.，Dysentery.

Miraculous Meridian-Activating Pill，*Selected Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For various forms of rheumatic arthralgia, pain in the tendons and bones of the shoulders, arms, lower back, and knees; facial paralysis; hemiplegia; difficulty walking; and stiffness of the tendons and meridians.

Stone Gall Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 117.，For painful mouth sores.

Three-Fragrance Internal Support Powder，*Complete Book of Experience in the Treatment of Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 2.，Three strings of mole crickets.

Xue’s Five-Leaf Reed Root Decoction，Formula sourced from *The Meridians and Collaterals of Warm-Heat Diseases*, citing *Xue Shengbai’s Treatise on Damp-Heat Diseases*; name found in *Treatment Methods for Damp-Warm Epidemics*.，Several days after a damp-heat syndrome, the damp-heat has subsided. Residual pathogenic factors obscure the clear yang, causing disharmony of the stomach qi, mild epigastric fullness, and … Read more

Powerful Tonifying Pills，From *Collected Formulas of the Crane-Feeding Pavilion*.，Deficiency and decline of the five viscera; various injuries from overwork. Physical weakness; soreness and weakness in the lower back and knees; blood stasis from falls; pain in tendons and bones.

Wind-Dispelling and Blood-Nourishing Decoction，*New Book on Smallpox Vaccination*, Volume 7.，For smallpox lesions accompanied by blood deficiency, or liver wind manifesting as pulling sensations in the hands and feet.

Changshan Seven-Treasure Decoction，*Hui Chun*, Volume 3.，For malaria in robust individuals.

Mugwort-Intestinal Paste，*Illustrated Treatise on Chinese Bone-Setting*.，For muscle spasms, bone sprains and contusions, as well as chronic pain from past injuries.

Medicinal Teas for the Four Seasons，From *New Compilation for Prolonging Life*.，For external invasion by wind-cold, manifested as fever and aversion to cold, swelling and pain in the head and eyes, soreness in the lower back and legs, common cold with cough, and clear nasal discharge; as well as food stagnation and phlegm retention, vomiting and … Read more

Jiyin Dazao Pills，*Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For insufficient fetal qi during pregnancy; or for lower back pain due to kidney deficiency long after childbirth.

Tiao Zhong San，From *Secret Methods for Cultivating Immortality*, cited in *Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 204.，Distension and fullness in the chest and diaphragm, with loss of appetite.

Eight Immortals Pill，*Formulary of Traumatology*.，For trauma and contusions.

Fragrant Throughout the Shop，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 195), citing *The Classic of Xiu Yue and Lu Ban*.，For the Five Labors and Seven Injuries, mountain mists and miasmas, pain in the chest and abdomen, consumptive diseases caused by “transmitted corpses,” wind-induced stagnation and accumulated heat, coughs with alternating chills and fever,excessive wind-phlegm, nasal congestion, gastric … Read more

Warm Bone Ointment，Quoted from *Secret Formulas Based on Clinical Experience* in *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 194).，Cold and painful bones.

Pills for Five Types of Urinary Disorders and Leucorrhea，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Datong Formula).，For gonorrhea with leukorrhea.

Reed Stem Pus-Draining Decoction，From *New Interpretations of Medical Formulas*.，Lung abscess, suppurative pneumonia, lobar pneumonia, pediatric pneumonia, acute bronchitis, chronic bronchitis, or bronchiectasis with infection, etc.Pulmonary abscess. Cough with sputum, fever, chest pain or tightness, yellow tongue coating, taut and rapid or deficient and rapid pulse, as well as epidemic conjunctivitis, sores with white nodules, white … Read more