Seven-Life Decoction

Baoyuan Pills，*Compendium of Medicine*, Volume 3.，For children with wind invading the spinal cord, resulting in kyphosis.

Formula for Reducing Swelling and Stabilizing the Fetus，*Six Books of Medical Essentials*, Volume 28.，For pregnancy-related swelling and shortness of breath with a deep and slippery pulse.

Toad Venom Powder，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，Boils and abscesses. Cases involving both yin and yang patterns, where there is neither redness nor swelling.

Decoction for Clearing Dampness and Draining the Liver，*Complete Book of Experience on Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 5.，Ulcers caused by turbid yin.

Agarwood Four Treasures Pill，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，Indicated for qi stagnation with discomfort, epigastric fullness and abdominal distension, acid regurgitation and a sensation of fullness, hiccups, and epigastric rumbling.

Zhike-Jie Powder，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 297.，Intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, and fistulas; as well as internal organ toxicity causing bloody stools and painful rectal prolapse.

Great Chest-Relieving Decoction，*Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Syndrome of Chest Constriction. Hardness and fullness extending from the epigastrium to the lower abdomen, with pain so severe that the area cannot be touched; constipation; afternoon tidal fever; or shortness of breath, restlessness, and irritability; dry tongue with thirst; and a deep, tight, and forceful pulse. Currently used for … Read more

Eight Generals Pill，From *Collected Insights on Surgical Diseases: Formulas for Ointments, Pills, and Powders for Home Use*.，For all cases of abscesses that fail to erupt, carbuncles that do not break through, and necrotic tissue that does not slough off.

Nagu Powder，From *Miscellaneous Remarks on Treating Uncommon Conditions: Essential Formulas for Emergency Use*.，For smallpox where the patient is not restless, the fever is not intense, the pustules are not dry, and the patient has no appetite.

Universal Remedy for All Illnesses，*Shenghui*, Volume 56.，For wind-corpse syndrome, flying corpse syndrome, wind-induced paralysis, body pain resembling needle pricks, vomiting, phlegm accumulation, and the five types of exhaustion and seven types of injury.

Enhanced Jade Dew Powder，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines*.，Various types of gastrointestinal heat; summer-heat and dampness-induced vomiting and diarrhea; dizziness and spontaneous sweating; abdominal pain and thirst.

Amber Powder，*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 8.，Hematuria.

Pestilence-Dispelling and Toxin-Resolving Powder，From *Collected Insights from Reflection*.，For all cases of throat swelling and pain, regardless of whether there is a throat abscess or not.

Copper Green Ointment，From *Ten Convenient and Effective Formulas*, cited in Volume 73 of *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，Redness of the eyes.

Donkey-Hide Gelatin and Coptis Decoction，*Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For pregnant women with dysentery, if measures to stabilize the pregnancy are taken, the dysentery worsens; if the dysentery is treated, the pregnancy may be at risk. This decoction should be taken.

Pill for Reversing Ulcers，From *Essentials of Surgical Medicine*, Volume 2.，For carbuncles.

Shengji Decoction，From *Ten Thousand Gold Prescriptions for Gynecology*.，Restlessness at night.

Resuscitation Powder，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Kunming Formula).，For wind-cold common cold, food stagnation with qi stagnation, nausea, and vomiting.

Unparalleled Hemorrhoid and Fistula Pills，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，For hemorrhoids, fistulas, anal swelling and pain, hard lumps that do not subside, and unbearable pain and itching.

Loquat and Di Yu Decoction，*A Concise Guide to Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Acute exudative eczema and dermatitis.

Xie Yong Dan，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 3.，For eye pain caused by blood stasis. For women who have not menstruated for three months and suddenly experience redness, swelling, and stabbing pain in the eyes.

Family Secret Stagnation-Relieving Decoction，*Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 2.，Food stagnation.

Decoction for Preventing Disease with Ox Bile，*Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 378.，For childhood anxiety and for treating epileptic seizures that other physicians have been unable to cure.

Baotong Bidan，From *Fu’s Formulas for Saving Infants*, cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 380).，For malnutrition-related accumulation and wasting, with a distended and swollen abdomen due to deficiency.

Single-Ingredient Scutellaria Decoction，Formula by Li Gao, cited in Volume 13 of *Compendium of Materia Medica*.，Bone-steaming fever, skin as if scorched by fire, coughing with phlegm, restlessness and thirst, floating and forceful pulse. In cases of wind-induced fatigue where the skin appears scorched by fire but feels cool upon firm pressure, symptoms worsen in the evening, … Read more