Stomach-Supporting Decoction

Ma-Xing-Yi-Gan Decoction，*The Golden Chamber* (Jin Gui), Volume 1.，For rheumatic conditions caused by sweating in the wind or prolonged exposure to cold, presenting with pain throughout the body, fever, and symptoms that worsen in the late afternoon. For rheumatic urticaria with symptoms that worsen in the late afternoon.

Boiled Lung Soup，From *Qian Jin*, cited in Volume 12 of *Surgical Mysteries Revealed*.，For pulmonary atrophy: coughing up pus and blood; spontaneous sweating; vomiting; excessive thirst; and difficulty with urination and defecation.

Western Medicinal Wine，From *Feng’s Treasure Chest: Miscellaneous Disorders*, Volume 14.，Effective for food stagnation, gastric reflux, and all types of dysentery and watery diarrhea.

Plum Butter Cookies，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 10.，

Spleen-Clearing Sweet Dew Decoction，*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 4.，Damp-heat stagnation in the Spleen Meridian leads to the formation of blisters, accompanied by profuse and painful discharge from the lower body.

Rescue-in-Danger Upper Dan，*Collection of Treasures for Childbirth and Child-Rearing*, Volume 1.，For cases of excessive postpartum blood loss leading to extreme deficiency and the generation of wind, manifested by blue lips, cold flesh, sweating, dizziness, mental confusion, or wheezing and shortness of breath—the patient’s life hangs by a thread.

Astragalus Four Substances Decoction，*Compendium of Gynecology*, Volume 13.，Postpartum Deficiency of Qi and Blood.

Jingxiao Poria Decoction，*Zhun Sheng: Gynecology*, Volume 5.，For postpartum wind-deficiency headaches accompanied by slurred speech.

Astragalus and Jianzhong Decoction，*Essentials of the Golden Chamber*，Warms the middle and tonifies qi. Indicated for deficiency-related debility, abdominal cramping, spontaneous or night sweats, shortness of breath, fatigue in the limbs, and a weak and large pulse.

Beech Leaf Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 73.，For women with metrorrhagia and metrometra accompanied by discharge of five colors, or unceasing red and white discharge.

Bodhi Dew，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 69.，For severe, persistent pain caused by internal organ toxicity and swelling due to accumulated heat.

Substitute for Diding Pills，*Treatise on Cold and Heat Disorders*, Volume 4.，The Taiyang exterior syndrome persists, accompanied by phlegm-heat within the meridians; the pulse is faint and deep, yet there is no chest constriction. The patient exhibits mania due to heat in the lower jiao; the lower abdomen should be hard and distended, and urination is … Read more

Cotton Flower Ointment，*Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 4.，Various sores.

Enhanced Ginseng, Atractylodes, Poria, and Cinnamon Decoction，*Record of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 9.，Stomach qi rises in reverse, causing coughing, gasping, labored breathing, and a swollen appearance; phlegm is continuously coughed up, and the chest and diaphragm feel full and oppressed.

Cinnamon Twig and Gardenia Decoction，*General Treatise on Cold-Induced Diseases*, Volume 3.，For cases where a patient has recovered from shanghan but, upon exertion, the condition recurs as before, with a floating pulse and no sweating.

Dendrobium Dew，*Encyclopedia of Chinese Medicine*.，For cases following febrile diseases or smallpox, where body fluids are depleted, internal “empty fire” rages, or there is a congenital deficiency of true yin and unresolved stomach heat.

Decoction for Clearing Summer-Heat and Subduing Wind，*Family Instructions on Laryngology*, Volume 2.，Feverish conditions caused by wind-heat, characterized by fever, sweating, thirst, restlessness, aversion to heat rather than cold, redness and pain in the throat or severe white, putrid swelling, a洪大 pulse, and a yellow or dry tongue—indicating that the “mutual fire” of the Three Jiao … Read more

Luru Powder，From *Ghost Remnants*, Volume 5.，For boils and abscesses.

Toxin-Clearing Decoction，*The Direct Pointers*, Volume 23.，Swelling and hard lumps caused by anal abscesses.

Rejuvenating and Eliminating Wasting Disease Powder，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 69.，For lower-body sores that have become eroded and ulcerated.

Pregnancy Preservation and Fetal Stabilization Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Shenyang Formula).，For soreness and pain in the lower back and legs during pregnancy, spotting or bleeding, loss of appetite, habitual miscarriage, and fatigue and weakness.

Seven-Ingredient Bath Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 179.，For children with difficulty urinating, fever, and abdominal distension.

Five-Color Toad Venom Ink，*Formulas of the Hall of Cultivating Blessings*, Volume 4.，

Siwu Dry Ginger Decoction，From *Collection of Maternal and Prenatal Medicine*, Volume 2.，Postpartum liver deficiency with costal pain.

Strophanthus Wine，Formula from *Records of the Grand Historian* (Shiji), Volume 105; name cited in *A Study of Medical Formulas* (Yifang Kao), Volume 6.，For a woman who has given birth but is unable to lactate.