Substitute Five Treasures Powder

Chaihu Xianxiong Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*, Volume 2.，Indicated for Shaoyang chest constriction characterized by all symptoms of the Shaoyang syndrome, fullness and distension in the chest and diaphragm, and tenderness on palpation, where treatment with Chaihu Zhiji Jiegeng Decoction has been ineffective. Currently used for acute exacerbations of chronic cholecystitis and acute … Read more

Life-Saving Cold-Repelling Decoction，*Records of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 1.，For cases of direct invasion by yin cold, where the kidney meridian is uniquely affected, causing tremors in the body and hands—this is due to cold in the Fire of the Gate of Life, which is unable to ward off the cold.

Soapberry and Fragrant Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 8.，For food stagnation.

Descending and Tonifying Decoction，From *Fu Qingzhu’s Treatise on Men’s and Women’s Diseases*.，For atrophy syndrome. When internal fire rages intensely, drying up the kidney’s yin, rendering the patient unable to rise from bed and effectively incapacitated.

Tongtai Pills，From *Huoren Xintong*, Volume 2.，For damp-heat jaundice characterized by a yellow complexion, yellow urine, and yellow sweat, accompanied by thirst and fullness and oppression beneath the heart.

Yanghe Shenghua Decoction，From *Essence of Ancient Formulas*, Volume 3.，For postpartum lochia retention, pain in the lower abdomen, all types of blood-related fainting, and miscarriage.

Luo Wen Powder，*Bu Ju Ji*, Upper Collection, Volume 14.，For hemoptysis and deficiency syndromes.

Baoyuan Tuoneng Powder，From *Straight Talk on Pediatrics*, Volume 2.，For children with smallpox accompanied by heat syndrome on the 6th, 7th, 8th, or 9th day, who have previously been treated with blood-cooling and detoxifying herbs, and whose toxic symptoms have subsided somewhat and the color of the lesions has lightened slightly.

Scallion Oil Decoction，From *Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 2.，For abdominal pain caused by intestinal parasites, accompanied by thirst or a desire to drink water, and vomiting of clear fluid.

Warming the Middle and Regulating Qi Decoction，*Complete Book of Experienced Treatments for Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 2.，Ulcers caused by wind-toxin.

Green Salt Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 249.，Chronic accumulation of cold in the small intestine causing cramping pain.

Stewed Kidney and Aconite Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 185.，Kidney deficiency and exhaustion, nocturnal emissions, night sweats, and wet dreams.

White Wall Ointment，From *New Treatise on Fungal and Contagious Diseases*.，For chronic skin sores, anal abscesses, all types of ulcers, and hemorrhoids.

Trichosanthes and Pinellia Pills，From *Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 5.，For cough and wheezing with chest fullness.

Liver-Cooling Powder，From *Yin Hai Jing Wei*, Volume 1.，In children who were exposed to toxins in utero, when rashes or smallpox erupt, all five viscera exhibit signs of heat attacking the body; or, if the liver is severely affected by heat, the rashes or smallpox may spread to the eyes.

Secretly Transmitted Sixteen-Ingredient Qi-Regulating Decoction，From *The Complete Book of Experience in the Treatment of Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 4.，For boils and abscesses.

Daqingdan，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 373, citing *Yi Fang Miao Xuan*.，For children suffering from recurrent convulsions that persist without remission.

Tooth-Strengthening, Hair-Darkening, and Rejuvenating Pill，From *The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 9.，

Chronic hemorrhoids and carbuncles，*Traditional Chinese Medicine: Surgery*.，Hemorrhoids.

Black Flower Snake Powder，From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 15.，For tetanus, convulsions due to excessive phlegm, and a cold body.

Golden Thread Ointment，*Wei Family’s Prescriptions*, Volume 9.，For red eyes caused by wind-toxin, as well as corneal opacities and red, congested corneas.

Two-Citrus Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 46.，

Osteophyte Pills，*Science of External Injuries*.，Indicated for hypertrophic spondylitis, cervical spondylosis, loose bodies in joints, bone spurs, heel pain, and chronic aches and pains resulting from incomplete healing of muscle and bone injuries.

Xi Mu Pills，From *Chengne’s Formulas*, cited in Volume 11 of *Zhenglei Bencao*.，Stroke.

Elephant-Skin Ointment，From *Supplement to the Essentials of Traumatology*, Volume 4.，For bruises, fractures, and lacerations.