Su Yuan San

Minor Bupleurum Decoction with Fangfeng，From *This Matter Is Hard to Know*.，For Shaoyang wind-spasm that persists after sweating or purgation, with alternating periods of calm and agitation, a fixed gaze, locked jaw, alternating chills and fever, and a string-like pulse.

Fulong Decoction，From *Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 216, citing *Immortal Traditions for Relieving Yin Deficiency*.，For women who, during pregnancy, have their lungs affected by wind-cold, resulting in coughing with phlegm and restlessness due to shortness of breath; or when a cold cough spreads to the spleen, causing the expulsion of phlegm—if treatment is delayed, this may … Read more

Green Cloud Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 141.，Hemorrhoids.

Ginseng, Licorice, Angelica, Peony, Ophiopogon, and Trichosanthes Decoction，*The Four Sages’ Pivot* (Volume 2).，For cold-type epidemic diseases presenting with Jueyin-type fever and excessive thirst.

Qi-Tonifying and Dysuria-Relieving Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，Several months into pregnancy, frequent and painful urination; urine output remains unchanged; urine is white or occasionally pale yellow; difficulty urinating; distension in the lower back; pale tongue with normal coating; slow and weak pulse.

Bi Zhu Powder，From *Yi Jian Fang Bian*, Volume 3.，For unbearable pain from festering sores; for skin lesions and flesh decay caused by scalding or burns, accompanied by unrelenting pain; and for women’s genital erosive sores and pain associated with childbirth.

Decoction for Relaxing Tendons and Promoting Blood Circulation，From *Golden Needles of Pediatrics*, Volume 2.，Damp-Arthralgia.

Tongchan Powder，From *Formulas of the Huizhitiang Hall*, Volume 4.，For women in labor whose pubic bones do not separate, resulting in a delivery delayed for 5–7 days; and for short, petite women whose pubic bones do not separate, placing them in imminent danger.

Burdock, Licorice, and Tangerine Peel Decoction，From *Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 4.，For facial toxicity where external pathogens have been expelled, but the ears and neck remain swollen, with mild heat, no redness, and pain.

Poplar Bark Wine，*Wai Tai*, Volume 19, citing *Bi Xiao Fang*.，Effective for beriberi and paralysis, as well as all types of wind disorders, including chronic wind-induced stiffness and spasms of the hands and feet. Also effective for abdominal distension with hard masses as solid as stone that have persisted for years without improvement.

Ten-Ingredient Nourishing Blood Decoction，*Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 10.，For women suffering from chronic fatigue due to deficiency of blood and qi in the zang-fu organs, deficiency of the Chong and Ren meridians, pain in the umbilical region and abdomen, alternating chills and fever, mental restlessness and confusion, anxiety and melancholy, a dull complexion, irregular menstruation, frequent … Read more

Decoction for Warming the Lungs and Relieving Asthma，*A Brief Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pediatric Diseases*.，Pediatric cold-type asthma, characterized by aversion to cold, pale complexion, cold extremities, coughing and wheezing, shortness of breath, absence of thirst, pale lips, pale tongue with a thin white coating, blue fingerprints, and a tight or slippery pulse.

Eye-Washing Decoction，From *Shenghui*, Volume 32.，For heat-toxin in the eyes causing eyelid swelling that obscures the pupils.

Siwu Decoction with Shenqu，*Compendium of Medical Essentials*, Volume 9.，For patients with spleen-stomach deficiency-heat who are unable to eat following recovery from measles.

Ginseng and Astragalus Decoction to Regulate the Defensive Qi，From *Secret Manual on Pregnancy and Childbirth*, Volume 2.，For postpartum cases characterized by extreme fatigue, profuse sweating, and a marked decline in both physical appearance and complexion.

Frankincense and Beeswax Ointment，*Direct Pointers*, Volume 24.，Chronic, persistent skin ulcers.

Motherwort Paste，*National Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas* (Jilin Formula).，Irregular menstruation or persistent lochia.

Five Plagues Pill，*Song of Life Preservation* (Baoming Ge Kuo), Volume 6.，

Silver Elixir Pill，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 251), citing *Secret Essentials for Preserving Childhood Health*.，For children who experience frequent nighttime startles, or suffer from diarrhea or dysentery, and have a lack of appetite.

Stinking Sumac Bark Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 60.，Hemorrhoids with atrophy and unstoppable discharge of pus and blood.

Baimuding Powder，*General Essentials of Health*, Volume 8.，For black, charred sores and rashes accompanied by convulsions and critical distress.

Gansong Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 120.，For wind-induced malnutrition where worms have eaten away all the flesh.

Great Sage Flower Snake and Calamus Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 7.，For drooping and slackness, deviation of the mouth and eyes, excessive salivation and slurred speech, weakness in the tendons and bones, difficulty walking, and pain throughout the body.

Guiyuan Decoction，From *Collected Works on Medicine*, Volume 2.，Age-related deafness.

Ginseng and Winter Pear Formula，From *Medical Records for the Masses*, Volume 2.，For phlegm-fire bone-steaming syndrome and blood deficiency with hemoptysis.