Silkworm Sand Powder

Bai Shuang Powder，*The True Explanation of Surgery*, Volume 2.，For sycosis (tinea), characterized by a foul, fishy odor over the entire body; or dry patches with white scales; or cracked skin oozing red fluid.

Yu Ling Dan，From *The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 4.，For trauma and contusions.

Decoction of Tangled Hair，From *Xiaopin Fang*, cited in Volume 6 of *Wai Tai*.，Cholera with vomiting and diarrhea, accompanied by restlessness.

Honeysuckle Decoction，From *Introduction to Obstetrics*, Volume 4.，For scanty postpartum lochia, abdominal distension and fullness, and constipation or difficulty passing both urine and stool. For women with absent menstruation for 2–3 months, accompanied by abdominal distension and fullness, and constipation or difficulty passing both urine and stool.

Guaranteed-to-Work Ointment，From *Essentials for Infant Care*, Volume 14.，For painful, festering, and ulcerated lower sores.

Miraculous Meridian-Activating Pill，*Selected Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For various forms of rheumatic arthralgia, pain in the tendons and bones of the shoulders, arms, lower back, and knees; facial paralysis; hemiplegia; difficulty walking; and stiffness of the tendons and meridians.

Five Flavors and Five Barks Decoction，*Essentials of Formulas and Syndromes*, Volume 2.，Severe edema, distended and tense abdomen, inability to urinate, and severe shortness of breath.

Unique-Effect Bitter Clove Powder，Formula from *Yonglei Qianfang*, Volume 13; name cited in *Puji Fang*, Volume 18.，In cases of extreme fright or anxiety, where phlegm invades the pericardium, leading to sudden onset of heart disease and unceasing delirium.

Jigangzi Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 172.，For children suffering from innocent malnutrition, characterized by a sallow complexion, straight hair, frequent high fevers, and failure to gain weight despite eating.

Qi-Generating and Stomach-Nourishing Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.，For spleen deficiency with cold phlegm, gastric reflux, and inability to tolerate food or medicine.

Jade Powder Decoction，From *Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 4.，Stubborn pemphigus sores.

Qi-Dispersing Decoction，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 8.，For smallpox eruptions that fail to break out due to stagnant qi and phlegm accumulation.

Aconite and Areca Nut Powder，From *Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 18, citing *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，Unbearable qi stagnation with a surging, rushing sensation; abdominal distension; edema; and parasitic infestation.

Throat-Clearing and Lung-Nourishing Decoction，*Special Treatise on Measles*.，For children with lingering fever and hoarseness following measles.

Miraculous Pill for Dissolving Toxins，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 7.，For sudden, unprovoked diarrhea accompanied by unrelenting abdominal pain; a pale face and black lips, with the patient nearly losing the will to live; the area around the anus feels as if cut by a knife; and profuse, torrential diarrhea.

Shenjiao Pills，*Ji Feng*, Volume 11.，For skin itching caused by lung wind, as well as hives, scabies, or tinea.

Agastache Stomach-Nourishing Decoction，*San Yin*, Volume 9.，Stomach deficiency leading to loss of appetite, weakness and atrophy of the limbs, and inability to walk or stand—all result from Yangming deficiency, whereby the tendons and ligaments lack nourishment, thus leading to atrophy and paralysis. Deficiency of the Yangming Meridian fails to nourish the muscles and flesh, causing sores … Read more

Huanglian Xiangru Decoction，From *A Clear Explanation of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 3.，Cholera. Fever, restlessness, thirst, labored breathing, bitter taste in the mouth, dry teeth, scanty and reddish urine—all resulting from summer heat.

Secretly Transmitted Immortal Formula: Fangying Plaster，*Direct Pointers with Supplements*, Volume 22.，For all types of swollen abscesses, syphilitic ulcers, malignant sores, wind-induced joint pain, masses caused by stagnation, and lower back pain from sudden strain.

“Hundred-Segment Brocade” Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 180), citing *Zheng Family’s Inherited Formulas for Thirst and Turbidity*.，Indicated for kidney deficiency, cloudy white urine, and turbid urine without thirst.

Jade Green Ointment，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 7.，For boils and carbuncles on the back, scrofula and sword-shaped sores, mastitis and breast tumors, wandering sores and abscesses, swellings caused by wind-toxin, transverse abdominal masses, hemorrhoids and fistulas, scrotal abscesses, winter melon abscesses, bone-adhering ulcers, all toxic boils on the waist, back, buttocks, and … Read more

Ten-Ingredient Toxin-Resolving Decoction，*Collected Works on the Care of Infants*, Volume 6.，For smallpox with deficiency of both qi and blood, characterized by swollen pustules containing clear fluid like blisters.

Zi-Gui Oil，From *Complete Book of Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 2.，For swollen lips caused by blood damage resulting from emotional disturbances that stir internal heat: small blisters form on the lips, gradually swelling and enlarging to resemble a silkworm cocoon, or the area below the lips swells to the size of a black jujube, accompanied … Read more

Scorpion and Pinellia Pills，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 406.，For mumps and wind-phlegm in children.

Nourish the Kidney and Restore Vision Decoction，From *Zhang Jiachun’s Diagnosis and Treatment of Ophthalmic Disorders*.，For deficiency of kidney essence, resulting in impaired vision, dryness and soreness in the eyes, dizziness, tinnitus, lower back pain, and seminal emission, with a fine and weak pulse.