Secret Formula: Cicada Flower Powder

Secret Formula for Curing Insanity，From *Songya Medical Path* (Volume 2).，For all wind-related disorders, unilateral or bilateral headaches, hemiplegia; as well as various malignant sores and toxins, dysentery with red or white stools, and gout.

Enhanced Xianglian Pills，From *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 1.，For bloody and white dysentery.

Qi-Dispersing Powder，From *Jisheng*, cited in *Pujifang*, Volume 216.，Difficulty urinating, with sharp pain in the abdomen and around the navel.

Decoction for Clearing the Middle and Relieving Stagnation，*Ming Yi Za Zhu* (Miscellaneous Writings of a Ming Physician), Volume 6.，For children with spleen qi deficiency, food stagnation, stagnant heat generating phlegm, or a reddish rash on the body.

Miraculous Efficacy Pills，Formula taken from Volume 16 of *Compendium of Materia Medica*, citing a formula by Danxi; the name appears in *Miraculous Formulas for Han Medicine*.，For nocturnal emissions and loose stools.

Diuretic and Spleen-Strengthening Decoction，*Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 2.，Dampness arises internally, manifesting as swelling of the face and eyes, chest fullness and shortness of breath, loose stools, scanty and涩urine, and swelling of the legs and knees; the pulse is deep and slow.

Modified Kudzu Root and Ephedra Decoction，*General Treatise on Cold-Induced Diseases*, Volume 3.，Stiff-and-Soft Spasms.

Pregnancy-Preserving Atractylodes Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 155.，For abdominal pain during pregnancy (??).

Coptis and Bamboo Shavings Decoction，*Hui Chun*, Volume 3.，Stomach heat with restlessness, thirst, and vomiting.

Ginseng and Aconite Decoction，*Records of Smallpox and Measles by Ren Duan*, Volume 10.，For smallpox with sunken lesions and transmission to the Yin stage.

Elixir to Disperse Stagnation，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 6.，The condition of mental dullness resembles dementia: the patient remains silent, appears dazed and absent-minded, seems on the verge of madness but cannot fully lose control, and desires to act wildly but dares not. At times, the patient sleeps for several days without waking; at … Read more

Papaya and Cinnamon Bark Decoction，Formula by Xu Renze, cited in Volume 6 of *Wai Tai*，For cholera with vomiting and diarrhea.

Qiangzhi Pills，From *Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Zhu Family*, Volume 8.，White turbid discharge due to deficiency.

Puxiao Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 28.，Toxic qi from cold damage is congested in the upper jiao; toxic heat fails to dissipate, causing mania with a desire to run, or occasional prostration on the ground; the pulse at the left cun position is洪数 (thunderous and rapid).

Goose Feather Pill，*He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 6.，For various eye diseases and eye discharge.

Immortal Pearl Powder，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 89), citing *Secret Formulas from Clinical Experience*.，Pain in the heart and spleen.

Six-Ingredient Muscle-Relieving Decoction，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 9.，Fever and body pain due to cold damage.

Double-Action Antiseptic Powder，From *The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 2.，Swelling of the neck due to “big head wind.”

Ben Tun Decoction，From *Treasury of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 9.，For kidney accumulation, where the lower abdomen feels as if a river dolphin is leaping upward.

Proven Bone-Setting Pill，From *Mei’s New Compilation of Proven Prescriptions*, Volume 6.，Traumatic injuries.

Huolian Decoction，From *Collected Works on the Care of Infants*, Volume 3.，Persistent fever-induced vomiting in children. In cases of fever-induced vomiting, the face is flushed and the lips are red; vomiting occurs infrequently but in large volumes; the milk curds have disappeared and the vomit is yellow; the child has a fever throughout the body and … Read more

Ejiao Zhuche Pills，*Compendium of Dysentery and Malaria*, Volume 9.，For disharmony between cold and heat, injury to the Three Yin channels, and abdominal pain with discharge of pus and blood.

Method for Avoiding Cold，From *The Medical Heart Formula* (Volume 26), citing *The Formulas of Divine Wonder*.，

Lianmei Decoction，From *Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 3.，For cases of summer-heat pathogen deeply invading the Shao Yin channel causing excessive thirst, invading the Jue Yin channel causing numbness and paralysis, or severe heart heat with restlessness and mental confusion.

Qianghuo Xiangru Decoction，From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 3.，A sudden stroke caused by the summer heat, resulting in dizziness, collapse, opisthotonos, loss of consciousness, and possible convulsions in the hands and feet.