Sheep Spine Soup

Crab Claw Decoction，Formula from *Qianjin* (Vol. 2); name cited in *Shengji Zonglu* (Vol. 159).，For threatened miscarriage and difficult labor; fetal death in utero; and in cases of twin pregnancies where one fetus has died and the other is alive—this formula helps expel the dead fetus and ensure the safety of the living one.

Snake Alum Powder，*Selected Precious and Secret Formulas from the *Qian Jin**.，Pus discharge from the ear.

Five Ginsengs Pill for Harmonizing the Middle，*Qianjin Yi*, Volume 19，For vomiting lasting ten years, restlessness in the hands and feet, emaciation with a sallow complexion, failure of food to build flesh and muscle, and indigestion following a heavy meal.

Household Formula: Purple Gold Sand Powder，From *Secret Mirror on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Syphilis*, Volume 2.，For the early stages of purulent dysuria, where pus frequently oozes out—resembling a woman’s leukorrhea—or where pus leaks from a small opening at the base of the glans.

Forsythia and Cimicifuga Decoction，From *Formulas for Sores and Rashes*, cited in *Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 265.，For childhood rashes. When the rash first appears, the lesions are dense and pinpoint-sized, and the condition is severe.

Chen Sha Pills，From *Direct Decisions on Pediatric Medicines and Syndromes*, Volume 2.，For infantile convulsions, profuse salivation with paroxysmal episodes, and unceasing vomiting due to stomach heat.

Menstrual Stabilizing Ointment，From *Li Yue*.，For women with blood deficiency accompanied by heat, who experience early menstruation, excessive menstrual flow, irregular cycles, prolonged menstruation, metrorrhagia, metrorrhagia with clots, leukorrhea due to damp-heat, or those who continue to menstruate after the age of fifty.

Mendong Decoction，From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 2.，For dryness-induced cough and shortness of breath, thirst with parched lips, restlessness and heat prompting a desire to drink, difficulty expectorating phlegm (which may contain traces of blood), and reddish tints in urine and stool.

Lengshui Dan，From *New Compilation on Prolonging Life*.，For malaria.

Pingmiao Yangpi Pills，From *Guide to Pediatrics*, Volume 1.，For chronic malaria that persists without remission, administer the pills once every two days or once every three days.

Four Substances Toxin-Resolving Decoction，*Complete Book of Smallpox and Rash*, Volume 2.，For smallpox lesions with blood deficiency; after eruption, the pustules are swollen and contain clear fluid, resembling blisters.

Modified Five-Bark Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，For pregnancy with retained water and dampness, manifesting as chest fullness, palpitations, swelling of the limbs, soreness in the lower back, and weakness in the legs, accompanied by a white, greasy tongue coating and a deep, slippery pulse.

Yin-Toxin Internal Elimination Ointment，From *Ji Ming Lu*.，For all early-stage yin-type abscesses and toxic sores—such as oral ulcers, back sores, scrofula, tinea of the breast, and anal abscesses—that do not present with redness, swelling, burning heat, or pus, and where the skin color remains unchanged with diffuse swelling without a defined center.

Dendrobium Wine，*Shenghui*, Volume 95.，For weakness and numbness in the lower back and legs, and wandering wind in the head and face. For lower back pain with stiffness, making it impossible to bend forward or backward.

Flying Snake Powder，*A Concise Handbook of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Acute eczema.

Enhanced Sheng Tie Luo Decoction，*Miscellaneous Golden Records of Medicine*.，Most suitable for insomnia with frequent dreaming caused by “deficient fire.”

Modified Cang Sha Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，For cold blood and qi stagnation, delayed menstruation, dark menstrual blood, scant flow, lower abdominal pain, lumbar distension, slight aversion to cold, white tongue coating, and slow pulse.

Green Tangerine Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 57.，Cold qi fails to disperse, causing abdominal distension and rigidity.

Celestial Frost Powder，From *Yuji Weiyi*, Volume 50.，For children suffering from sudden convulsions or stroke, as well as acute convulsions with clenched jaws, violent tremors, profuse drooling, and unconsciousness with inability to speak.

Enhanced Dragon-Musk-Purple-Gold Pill，*Zhengzhi Baojian*, Volume 10.，For wind-heat in the upper burner, swelling and pain in the throat, sores in the mouth and on the tongue, obstruction of the Lung Meridian, hoarseness, and excessive phlegm.

Membrane-Healing Powder，From *Supplement to the Essentials of Traumatology*, Volume 3.，For external eye injuries resulting in protrusion of the oily membrane.

Amaranth Root Poultice Recipe，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 182.，Genital sores in children.

Cherry Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 115.，For wind-induced disorders of the hands and feet.

Dongchu San，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 54.，Heat accumulation in the middle jiao, resulting in redness and ulceration of the eyes and face.

Purple Blister Powder，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Lower limb ulcers.