Sheng-Shao Decoction

Wind-Expelling Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 370, citing *Formulas for the Care of Infants*.，For acute and chronic convulsions in children, characterized by fever, clenched jaw, loss of consciousness, heat in the palms, phlegm and drooling, coughing, and chest congestion with shortness of breath.

Tuofan Powder，*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 16.，For tetanus that has not healed after 45 days, progressing to opisthotonos and locked jaw.

Musk and Buddha’s Hand Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 55.，For five types of ear discharge—including pus, blood, and serous fluid—as well as smallpox lesions appearing on a child’s cheeks.

Wulingzhi Powder，From *General Essentials of Health*, Volume 13.，When worms are writhing and causing excruciating chest pain, to the point of feeling as if one might die.

Songhuang Tongyou Decoction，From *Gu’s Medical Pathways*, Volume 4.，After conception, if spleen yin is insufficient to nourish the fetus, it leads to excessive spleen yang, causing the qi of the viscera to become dry and resulting in severe constipation. This destabilizes the fetus, often leading to a partial miscarriage around the fifth month.

Spleen-Reviving Decoction，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 51.，Chronic convulsions caused by qi deficiency complicated by phlegm; mild cases of yin-type epilepsy, characterized by cold and numb hands and feet, lying supine with muscle rigidity, a pale-blue complexion, spitting of phlegm-foam, a faint voice, and a deep, fine pulse.

Licorice, Wheat, and Jujube Decoction，*Essentials of the Golden Chamber*，Nourishes the heart and calms the spirit; harmonizes the middle and alleviates urgency. Indicated for Zangzao. Symptoms include mental confusion, frequent feelings of sadness and the urge to cry, inability to control oneself, inner restlessness, and disturbed sleep; in severe cases, abnormal speech and behavior, frequent yawning, … Read more

Hongxue Tongzhong Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 5.，Effective for wind-induced disorders and all conditions involving stagnation and obstruction; also treats typhoid fever.

Tonic Agarwood Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 96.，Indicated for deficiency-cold in the lower jiao, characterized by frequent, scanty urination, loss of appetite, distension and fullness in the abdomen and flanks, or occasional pain.

Decoction for Replenishing Fluids and Extinguishing Fire，*Records of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 2.，When kidney qi fails to communicate with the heart and cold pathogens invade, the heart cannot function properly, leading to chest pain.

Enhanced Si Ling Decoction，From *Six Books of Medical Essentials*, Volume 26.，For women with diffuse swelling of the vulva and a string-like pulse.

Shengmai Powder Combined with Ganju Decoction，*Elucidations on Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，Chronic Cough Due to Lung Deficiency.

Tiger Bone Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 10.，Pain in the lower back and legs due to wind, with stiffness and tightness of the tendons and meridians.

Sacred Decoction，*Qian Jin*, Volume 15.，For bloody or white diarrhea caused by the presence of large intestinal parasites.

Toad Tongue Paste，*Complete Book of Experience in the Treatment of Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 2.，For a boil at the fish navel.

Liver-Calming and Qi-Regulating Decoction，*Hui Chun*, Volume 5.，For pain in the flanks, as well as pain in the lower abdomen extending to the area around the navel, and for internal and external pain associated with hernias.

Decoction for Eliminating Malnutrition and Removing Corneal Opacities，From *Zhang Jiachun’s Diagnosis and Treatment of Ophthalmic Disorders*.，For earth deficiency with excessive wood, liver fire rising, and a white membrane completely obscuring the cornea; indicated for cases with erosion, desiccation, and protrusion.

Proven Recipe for Yellow Chicken Decoction Pills，*One Hundred Questions on Infants and Children*, Volume 8.，For children suffering from chronic malnutrition, bone-wasting fever, night sweats, emaciation, abdominal distension, sallow complexion, failure to gain weight despite eating, constant crying day and night, excessive thirst, and poor appetite:

Tiger-Head Bone Decoction，Quoted from *Cui’s Formulas* in Volume 35 of *Wai Tai*.，

White Snow Cake，From *Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 2.，Abdominal distension.

Five-Mineral Regenerating Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 38.，For men suffering from the “Five Labors and Seven Injuries,” chronic weakness and emaciation, and conditions that have not responded to prolonged medical treatment.

Equisetum Powder，Formula from *San Yin* (Vol. 12); name cited in *Zhi Zhi* (Vol. 14).，Rectal prolapse that has persisted for years without healing. Small intestine hernia.

Six-Ingredient Powder for Cooling the Blood and Eliminating Toxins，From *Essentials for Infant Care*, Volume 19.，Wart-induced wheezing.

Summer-Heat-Clearing Decoction with Additions，From *Supplement to the Essentials of the Guanjù Formulas*, Volume 1.，Heatstroke.

Ziping Compound，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Leprosy.