Seven-Ingredient Zhi-Shu Decoction

Lin Zhong Pills，From *Formulas for the Family School*.，For restlessness and constipation.

Ophiopogon Juice，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 69.，For vomiting blood, hemoptysis, and epistaxis.

Civet Bone Pills，From *Fan Wang’s Formulas*, cited in Volume 13 of *Wai Tai*.，For consumptive diseases, bone heat and body pain, mental confusion, restless sleep, reddish-yellow urine, dry mouth, and dry eyes.

Electrically Processed Ointment，From *Pocket Guide*, Volume 3.，For eye diseases.

Fish Net Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 124.，For fish bones lodged in the throat.

Toxin-Extracting Extraordinary Efficacy Powder，From *The Complete Collection on Diphtheria*.，Acute diphtheria.

Decoction for Clearing Dampness and Eliminating Toxins，*Dongtian Aozi*, Volume 12.，Syphilis, foul-smelling skin sores.

Modified Four Substances Decoction，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 408.，For blood heat manifesting as sores, swelling, and itching all over the body, as well as for those with chronically weak spleen and stomach who cannot tolerate cold-natured herbs such as rhubarb.

Hai Tong Pi Wine，Quoted from *Collected Effective Formulas for Wind Disorders* in *The Great Compendium of the Yongle Era*, Volume 13879.，For damp-bi syndrome characterized by weakness in the hands and feet, contracture of tendons and vessels, pain and numbness in the joints with loss of strength, and inability to walk.

Black Toad Pill，Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in Volume 23 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For children suffering from wind-induced malnutrition and emaciation, who shake their heads and rub their eyes, with all meridians stiff and tense.

Double Immortals Toxin-Resolving Ointment，From *Miscellaneous Remarks on Treating Uncommon Conditions: Essential Formulas for Emergency Use*.，If a child develops a toxic sore on the third day after birth—fine as needle-pricks, red as a crimson cloud—which merges into a single patch after three days, causing the skin to peel off at the slightest touch and the entire … Read more

Ephedra and Aconite Decoction，*The Golden Chamber* (Volume Middle).，In cases of water retention, the pulse is deep and small.

Oyster Shell Powder，From *Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 19.，For snake venom.

Tonic Decoction for Relaxing Tendons and Activating Meridians，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Leprosy.

Cinnamon, Aconite, Poria, and Atractylodes Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，Kidney Deficiency Syndrome. Several months into pregnancy, with facial and limb edema, a sallow and dull complexion, palpitations and shortness of breath, aversion to cold in the lower limbs, distension in the lower back and abdominal fullness, a pale tongue with a thin, white, and moist … Read more

Decoction for Resolving Discharge and Draining Dampness，*Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 11.，For women with damp-heat in the Conception Vessel, characterized by yellow vaginal discharge resembling the strong brew of yellow tea, with a fishy odor.

Di Xian Powder，*The Treasure of Health* (Vol. 5).，For accumulated heat in the heart manifesting as dry mouth, restlessness and thirst, flushed cheeks, a rough tongue, and residual heat after sweating.

Blood-Cooling and Qi-Nourishing Decoction，From *Xingyuan*, Volume 8.，Pain from hemorrhoids due to deficiency of qi and blood.

Zhi-Jie-Zhi-Chi Decoction，*Methods for Treating Damp-Heat Epidemics*.，For damp-heat epidemics where heat predominates over dampness and the condition is triggered by concurrent exposure to wind pathogens.

Eucommia Wine，*Qianjin Yi*, Volume 16.，For wind-induced debility with cold deficiency, manifested as pain and weakness in the lower back and legs.

Ephedra Pills，From *Yixin Fang*, Volume 13, citing *Xiaoyan Fang*.，For uncontrollable sweating due to physical exertion.

Shen Shen Pills，From *Rumen Shiquin*, Volume 15.，For women who are childless due to disharmony of the Chong and Ren meridians, weakness of the uterus, or failure of qi to recover after menstruation or miscarriage.

Sacred Ointment Powder，From Volume 35 of *The New Book on the Care of Infants*, citing a formula by Zheng Yu.，Da Yun Dan for all kinds of poisonings.

Chicken Broth Congee，*Chinese Cuisine*.，For the elderly and frail, those emaciated after illness, and all conditions of debility caused by deficiency of qi and blood.

Minor Tongsheng Powder，*Effective Remedies*, Volume 13.，For wind-heat ascending to the head, causing red eyes, headache, sore throat, swelling and fullness of the teeth and cheeks, dry mouth, restlessness, and a tight, rapid pulse; for sudden convulsions in children; and for alcohol intoxication.