Stick-Removing Decoction

Zhuge Xingying Powder，From *Compendium of Medical Essentials*, Volume 6.，For summer heat and miasma; sudden collapse; obstruction of the meridians; cholera with colicky pain; a bluish tinge on the face, nails, and fingernails; uncontrollable spontaneous sweating; and cases where death is imminent.

Aristolochia Root Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 147.，Five types of gu poison.

Wuti Wine，*Complete Book of Experience in the Treatment of Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 7.，For chronic atrophy and contractures, leprosy lasting thirty years, bed sores, various forms of malignant wind disorders, and eyebrow loss.

Method for Confirming Pregnancy，From *Medical Compendium*, Volume 35, citing *Ling Yuan*.，A woman whose menstrual cycle has ceased for three months.

Yusheng Cake，From *The Collection of Marvelous Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 5.，Diseases of the spleen and stomach.

Enhanced Yi Gong San，*Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 4.，For postpartum indigestion characterized by acid regurgitation, foul-smelling belching, and a sensation of fullness and oppression.

Knife-Sharpening Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 377.，For all types of wind-induced epilepsy.

Disinfecting Divine Efficacy Powder，*A Compendium of Ancient Formulas*, Volume 2.，For back abscesses, boils, breast abscesses, and all external ailments.

Da Hong Pills，From *The Comprehensive Compendium of Medical Principles*, Volume 7.，blood clots, blood-induced parasitic infections, and all types of stagnation and mass in both adults and children.

Scabies Powder，From *The Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For scabies.

Supreme Thirst-Quenching Powder，Quoted from Wang’s work in Volume 28 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For children with vomiting and diarrhea due to qi deficiency, resulting in depletion of body fluids, leading to malnutrition, restlessness, and unquenchable thirst; they drink water incessantly, have a swollen face and puffy feet, a distended abdomen and a … Read more

Seed Oil Fumigation Formula，*Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhao Bingnan*.，Psoriasis (white patches), ichthyosis (snake-skin syndrome), and cutaneous amyloidosis (pine-bark dermatosis).

Baoyuan Guben Ointment，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，Deficiency of the spleen and kidneys; gastrointestinal dysfunction.

Saposhnikovia and Angelica Decoction，From *Xuanming Lun*, Volume 12.，Deficiency and damage to the true yin of the Spleen and Kidney; severe stagnation of wind-heat in the Liver and Heart; excess of yang and deficiency of yin; pathogenic factors rising against the natural order; excess above and deficiency below; resulting in weakness and inability to withstand external … Read more

Mandarin Orange and Ginger Decoction，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 136, citing *Bai Yi*.，For fever, dizziness, and heaviness in the head, where the nature of the illness (yin or yang) has not yet been determined, and conditions complicated by dampness, such as cold, heat, or summer-heat diseases.

Ox Bile Palace-Clearing Pill，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，For wind-cold common cold, internal heat from epidemic pathogens, soreness and weakness in the limbs, headache, and fever.

Pancreas-Strengthening Pills，From *Yi Ji*, Volume 8.，For masses, masses with fullness, and accumulations; intestinal obstruction; and accumulations that have formed outside the intestines at the Mu points.

Musk and Golden Toad Pills，From *Experienced Effective Formulas*, cited in *Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 255.，For all types of malnutrition in children; food stagnation with vomiting; abdominal distension due to spleen deficiency; loss of appetite; intestinal worms in children; and dysentery with red or white stools.

Decoction of Two Roots，*Insights into Surgical Medicine*, Volume 12.，Hemorrhoids.

Miraculous White Lead Pills，*Formulary of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 6.，For cases of gastrointestinal weakness and loose stools, uncontrolled diarrhea with a mixture of red and white discharges, pain in the navel and abdomen, tenesmus and a sensation of incomplete evacuation, loss of appetite and emaciation, or conditions that have persisted for a long time without … Read more

Eight-Ingredient Herba Smilacis Decoction，From *Wai Tai*, Volume 27, citing *Formulas by Xu Renze*.，For diabetes with frequent urination; lung-related wasting syndrome with scant fluid intake and profuse urination; and cold dysuria with chills, burning, and pain.

Cinnamon Twig and Ephedra Decoction，From *Tong Zhenzi’s Essentials of Shanghan*, cited in *Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 54.，Yangming wind-stroke: headache, bitter taste in the mouth, abdominal distension, slight shortness of breath, fever with aversion to cold, and a floating yet taut pulse; in cases where purgation results in difficulty urinating;Yangming disease, from the 5th–6th day to … Read more

Lotus Root Juice with Honey，*General Essentials of Health*, Volume 7.，For fever and thirst associated with cold damage.

Lung-Welding Pill，*Hui Chun*, Volume 5.，Lung abscess.

Yuxian Formula，From *Compendium of Medical Principles*, Volume 12.，Effective for all types of gout, stiffness in the hands and feet, pain in the tendons and bones, facial paralysis, and slurred speech.