Sichuan-Style Five-Seed Pills

Two-Ingredient Disinfecting Powder，*Compendium of Surgical Medicine*, Volume 1.，For sores and ulcers caused by wind-damp-heat toxins, eczema, redness, swelling, itching, and pain, as well as venomous insect bites; hot boils, heat rash, acne, scabies, rashes, and itchy sores caused by wind-damp; throat inflammation caused by a snake coiling around the throat; and damp-heat toxins. Also for … Read more

Cinnabar and Poria Pill，From *The Precious Mirror of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 2.，For mania caused by excessive emotional distress.

Eucommia Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 79.，For postpartum debility, lower back pain, weakness in the limbs, and inability to eat or drink.

Purple Anti-Swelling Ointment，*Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhao Bingnan*.，Chronic erysipelas, wandering erysipelas, nodular erythema (Guatengchan), and neonatal scalp hematoma (Touxuan).

Decoction for the Prosperity of Mother and Child，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，For kidney deficiency and lung dryness, chronic cough that does not heal, spitting of white foam, and breath with a bloody odor.

He’an Powder，From *Direct Pointers to Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，For children with an imbalance between cold and heat, characterized by excess in the upper burner and diarrhea.

Fetal Cleansing Powder，*Six Books of Medical Essentials*, Volume 29.，For a stillbirth in utero accompanied by unrelenting pain, a sensation of heaviness and sinking in the lower abdomen, and a tight, fine pulse.

Double-Resolving Precious Gold Pill，*The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 1.，For various toxic abscesses on the back characterized by severe oppression, hardness, constipation, and a deep, firm pulse.

Golden Elixir of the Five Essences Pills，From *The Collection of the Unsettled*, Volume 2 of the First Collection.，

Divine Immortal Nine-Qi Decoction，From *Supplement to the Lost Formulas of the Inner Canon*, Volume 3, citing *Compendium of Health Preservation*.，Skin distension.

Great Chest-Relieving Pills，*Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Heat-induced solid chest obstruction, characterized by hardness, fullness, and pain in the chest; stiffness in the neck and nape; spontaneous sweating; constipation; and a deep, firm pulse. In Taiyang syndrome, if purgation is administered improperly, heat may penetrate and cause chest obstruction; in such cases, the neck is also stiff, … Read more

Perilla and Hemp Seed Pills，From *The Great Dictionary of Chinese Medicine*. This is an adaptation of the “Hemp Seed and Perilla Seed Porridge” recipe from Volume 10 of *Pu Ji Ben Shi Fang*, reformulated as a pill.，Regulates qi and promotes bowel movements. Indicated for postpartum women with depression, profuse sweating, and constipation, as well as … Read more

Herbal Wine Infusion，From *Huo Ren Xin Tong*, Volume 1.，For chronic malaria that has not responded to other treatments.

Duckweed and Groundsel Decoction，*A Concise Handbook of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Wind-cold type urticaria. The rash is pale white, scattered, small, and slightly red; it flares up when exposed to cold and subsides with heat; the patient fears wind and presents with concomitant exterior syndrome symptoms; the tongue coating is thin and white; the pulse is floating … Read more

Wolf’s-bane Ointment，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 131.，For boils on the back. The sore resembles a bunch of grapes; after rupturing, it leaves countless sores.

Mercury Ascending Ointment，From *The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 2.，For bone-attaching abscesses accompanied by pain.

Xian Tian Da Zao Pills，*Xu Ping’s Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 7.，When wind, cold, and dampness toxins invade the meridians, the initial presentation may show no change in skin color, with diffuse swelling without a defined center; or when yin deficiency allows external cold to penetrate, the initial presentation may involve pain in the tendons … Read more

Lotus Pod Decoction，From *Explanation of the Classic of Warm-Heat Diseases*.，For women with metrorrhagia.

Daliang’s Mysterious Left Meridian Decoction，*San Yin*, Volume 3.，Wind, cold, heat, and dampness flow through the Three Yang Meridians of the Foot, causing stiffness and pain in the hands and feet, difficulty walking, aversion to cold with fever, spontaneous sweating and aversion to wind, dizziness, heaviness in the lower back, and sharp pain in the joints; … Read more

Purple Silver Tea，*Complete Collection of Surgical Life-Preserving Methods*, Volume 4.，For toxicity from bayberry and recurrent malignant sores.

Kidney-Nourishing and Heart-Nourishing Pills，From *Huo Ren Xin Tong*.，Deficiency of Heart and Kidney Qi; obesity with weakness and blood deficiency; ascending deficient fire; mouth sores; and cases where symptoms persist despite prolonged use of cooling medications.

Formula for Western Wind and Heavy Rain，*Zongfu of Laryngology*, Volume 4.，A condition of “worm throat” caused by dampness and accumulated heat in the spleen, which stagnates and steams upward to dry the throat; over time, the throat becomes ulcerated and infested with worms, accompanied by itching and pain.

Toxic-Expelling and Life-Preserving Decoction，*Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*, Volume 8.，Gangrene results from deep-seated cold and chronic chill, with yin toxins attacking the joints of the toes. If the toe cannot be extended when flexed, the disease lies in the tendons; if it cannot be flexed when extended, the disease lies in the bones. It … Read more

Great Yang-Consolidating Decoction，From *De Xiao* (Effective Formulas), Volume 8.，Syndrome of Yang Depletion. This may occur after severe vomiting or diarrhea, resulting in cold extremities, depletion of vital energy, and loss of consciousness; or it may result from engaging in sexual activity too soon after recovering from a cold, causing tight pain in the lower abdomen, … Read more

Wax and Poria Pill，*Zhi Zhi*, Volume 17.，For diabetes. For women with a cold Blood Sea meridian, leukorrhea, vaginal discharge, and cloudy vaginal discharge.