Six-Ingredient Deficiency Powder

Chaihu and Gegen Decoction，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 4.，For treating tooth toxicity. Indicated when the pathogen has not been fully expelled from the exterior, fever persists, and the affected area is red, swollen, hard, and painful.

Qingjie Decoction，*The Mysterious Pearls of Chishui*, Volume 25.，Pediatric “Biànzhēng” syndrome. Predominantly heat with minimal cold; flushed face and coarse breathing, resembling a common cold; no sweating on the surface or internally; may present with hives and cough.

Five-Yellow Qingbai Powder，*A Concise Compendium of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Pustular skin conditions.

Loufeng Decoction，*Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 8.，After drinking alcohol and being exposed to the wind, regardless of whether it is winter or summer, there is often sweating on the forehead.

Blood-Nourishing and Pathogen-Expelling Decoction，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 1.，Dysentery.

White Snake Wine，From *Useful Formulas*, cited in *The Great Yongle Encyclopedia*, Volume 13879.，For wind-induced paralysis, pain in the bone marrow, lower back, and legs, and slight difficulty walking; accompanied by wandering wind-toxin causing uncontrollable itching and pain of the skin.

Medicinal Shepherd’s Purse，From *Collected Formulas of the Crane-Feeding Pavilion*.，For dysentery with red and white stools.

Cinnabar and Precious Metal Decoction，From *A Thousand Family Remedies*, Volume 2.，Occasional exposure to cold that disturbs the mind and spirit.

Tianliao Porridge，*Shenghui*, Volume 24.，For severe wind disorders, stroke, hemiplegia, and hyperlordosis.

Summer-Heat-Clearing and Toxin-Eliminating Powder，From *Dongtian Aozi*, Volume 9.，For summer heat-induced boils and prickly heat.

Oyster Shell and Alisma Powder，*Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For those with water retention from the waist down following recovery from a serious illness.

Eupatorium Oleraceum Ointment，From *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 4, Part 1.，Boils, tinea, syphilis, and eczema.

Crimson Vermilion Dan，*General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 6).，For convulsions with phlegm and saliva, coughing, and shortness of breath.

Ancient Moon Powder，*Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhao Bingnan*.，Chronic and subacute pruritus.

Dragon’s Tooth Calming Pill，*Formulary of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 5 (Supplementary Collection of Empirical Secret Formulas from Various Bureaus).，For deficiency of Heart and Kidney Qi, manifesting as palpitations, forgetfulness, restless sleep, nocturnal emissions, pale complexion, and aching pain in the shins.

Muxiang-Huanglian Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 178.，For children with red-and-white dysentery, abdominal pain, and intense thirst.

Purple Quartz Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 161.，For women suffering from postpartum stroke, characterized by stiffness of the mouth and tongue, spasms, and opisthotonos; as well as for wind-cold-damp bi syndrome, presenting with stiffness and pain throughout the body.

Ten-Harmony Powder，From *The Universal Formulas for Relief* (Vol. 204), citing *The Family Treasure of Health*.，Effective for 10 types of diaphragmatic qi stagnation, chest fullness and oppression, difficulty swallowing, reduced appetite, and conditions that gradually become life-threatening.

Liver-Calming and Blood-Nourishing Decoction，*Bamboo Grove Gynecology*, Volume 3.，Postpartum invasion of pathogenic factors in the Jueyin channel, accompanied by vomiting, distension and fullness in both flanks, and bloody stools.

Gold Foil Pills，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 9.，For chronic stagnation in the epigastrium that has become obstructed and refuses to pass, as well as for children’s mammary nodules, intermittent malaria, and malaria.

Tianma Ointment，*The Book of Sincerity*, Volume 13.，

Chaihu-Lily Decoction，*Six Treatises on Cold Damage*, Volume 3.，After recovery from shanghan, if the patient experiences drowsiness, fever, thirst, incoherent speech, and mental confusion, as well as lily-induced post-recovery fatigue.

Seven-Attack Powder，From *Eight Notes on Nourishing Life*, Volume 18.，For tinea and skin sores.

Qinjiao-Baizhu Decoction，From *Zhengzhi Baojian*, Volume 9.，For hemorrhoids or anal pain.

Lü Zhu Dan，From *Complete Guide to Prescriptions for Preserving Life*, Volume 3.，Excessive mental strain and overuse of the mind cause the spirit to disperse and fail to settle; speech becomes indiscriminate toward both close and distant associates; one may cast aside one’s clothes and run about, climb heights to sing, or weep with a sense … Read more