Siwu Diyu Decoction

Yu Shui Decoction，From *Supplement to the Essentials of Formulas for Observing and Collecting*, Volume 2.，For water-induced edema and distension; damp-heat causing heaviness in the lower back and limbs, and difficulty urinating.

Atractylodes and Sanguisorba Decoction，*Collection for Preserving Life*, Middle Volume.，For diarrhea where blood is passed before stool. Dampness invades the Spleen meridian, causing bloody dysentery.

Master Lü’s Ruyi Pills，From *Experienced Effective Formulas*.，For epidemic pathogens, common colds, wind-phlegm, typhoid fever, and indigestion.

Miraculous Frost Pills，*Ji Feng*, Volume 14.，For intermittent malaria with severe thirst and fluctuating chills and fever.

Winter Melon Porridge，From *Therapeutic Porridge Formulas*, citing *The Porridge Manual*.，Edema and abdominal distension; difficulty urinating; including acute and chronic nephritis, edema, ascites due to cirrhosis, edema caused by beriberi, obesity, summer heat-induced restlessness, dry mouth and thirst, lung-heat cough, and phlegm-induced wheezing.

Sea Cucumber Porridge，From *Lao Lao Heng Yan*, Volume 5.，Impotence. Deficiency of essence and blood, physical weakness, diminished sexual function, nocturnal emission, and frequent urination due to kidney deficiency.

Great Calming Pill，*San Yin*, Volume 9.，For epilepsy, convulsions, delirium, confusion, unconsciousness, and spitting of saliva and froth; as well as for heart palpitations, fear, inability to sleep despite being awake, or pain in the left flank.

Jingluan Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 7.，Dysentery.

Deer Blood Pills，From *Yifang Leiju*, Volume 150, citing *Xu Jisheng*.，For various deficiencies and debility, where both essence and blood are depleted; blood deficiency fails to nourish the tendons, and essence deficiency fails to strengthen the bones; resulting in atrophy and weakness of tendons and bones, a sallow and dark complexion, tinnitus and shortness of breath, … Read more

Yin-Nourishing Decoction，*The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 51.，Deficiency of body fluids and dryness of yin, with excess yang fire, resulting in difficult urination, painful and turbid urine.

Toon Bark Powder，*Compendium of Sacred Remedies*, Volume 143.，For chronic intestinal bleeding with blood in the stool, undigested food in the stool, and a yellow, emaciated physique.

Raw and Prepared Rehmannia Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 311.，Swelling and pain in the groin.

Modified Diguipi Powder，Formula attributed to Qian, cited in *Compendium of Medicine*, Volume 21.，For upper-body consumption.

Anti-Wheezing Decoction，Formula attributed to Zhuang Yizhou, cited in *A Thousand Family Remedies*.，For bronchial asthma resulting from deficient lung qi and an unstable defensive qi, with warning signs preceding an attack.

Life-Preserving and Child-Protecting Pills，From *Secret Essentials for Protecting Children*, cited in *Classified Collection of Medical Formulas*, Volume 254.，Malnutrition.

Yi Sao Formula，From *Supplementary Treatise on Surgical Diseases*, Volume 2.，For all types of scabies, whether dry or moist.

Three Yin Decoction，*The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 51.，For deficiency of the liver and spleen, insufficiency of essence and blood, and blood loss due to deficiency of the nutritive qi. For all cases of stroke where blood fails to nourish the tendons, as well as malaria with profuse sweating that disperses the pathogen yet fails … Read more

Tangerine Peel Qi-Regulating Decoction，*Thousand Gold Prescriptions*, Volume 11.，When the tendons are extremely taut, coughing occurs; coughing causes a pulling pain beneath both flanks; when the pain is severe, the patient cannot turn over.

Formula for Immortals to Reduce Sleep and Enhance Vitality，From *Shenghui*, Volume 94.，For seasonal cold and epidemic diseases throughout the four seasons.

Life-Saving and Head-Clearing Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 87.，For all types of malnutrition in children, including emaciation, weakness, and mental confusion.

Cinnabar and Snow Pill，The formula is from *The Complete Collection of Surgical Life-Saving Methods*, Volume 2; the name appears in *The Collection of Immortal Prescriptions*, Volume 3.，For acute and chronic convulsions.

Decoction for Dissolving Masses and Harmonizing the Stomach，From *Compendium of Medicine*, Volume 25.，After drinking alcohol and experiencing anger, pain occurs under the left flank at the level of the navel. From then on, a small mass gradually forms; it may or may not become prominent. When prominent, it causes pain; when the pain subsides, it … Read more

Malaria-Clearing Powder，*Zhunsheng: Categorized Formulas*, Volume 7.，For malaria-induced eye disorders and redness and swelling of the eyelids, with a membrane obscuring the pupil.

Plantain Cake，From *Shenghui*, Volume 32.，Heat-toxin ascending to the eyes, causing redness, swelling, and pain.

Ginseng and Atractylodes Spleen-Fortifying Decoction，From *Six Essentials of Medicine: Compendium of Treatment Methods*, Volume 6.，Chronic diarrhea with anal prolapse.