Sweet Potato Porridge

Modified Four Saints Detoxifying Decoction，From *Pian Yu Dou Zhen*, Volume 8.，Fever associated with smallpox lesions, as well as itching during the “nourishing serum” stage, accompanied by a good appetite but constipation. Indicated for cases where pathogenic factors are internally excessive while the body’s vital energy is externally deficient.

Dragon Soaring Decoction，From *Treatise on Obstetrics*, Volume 1.，For pregnant women who experience intense anger leading to sudden qi reversal, accompanied by vomiting blood or nosebleeds, or sudden chest pain.

Ningqi Decoction，From *Remarkably Effective Formulas*, Volume 30.，For coughing that leaves one breathless.

Purple Kudzu Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 151.，Amenorrhea, a mass below the navel, gradual wasting away, and inability to eat or drink.

Alum Embryo Powder，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 55, citing *Hai Shang Fang*.，Pus discharge from the ear.

Earth-Strengthening and Metal-Consolidating Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Harbin Formula).，For spleen and lung deficiency-related debility, fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, undigested food, weakness and limpness in the limbs, stomach pain and diarrhea, coughing and shortness of breath, wheezing upon exertion, excessive phlegm, afternoon fever and aversion to cold, … Read more

Pepper Pods，*Remarkably Effective Formulas*, Volume 39.，Beriberi; all types of malaria, seasonal epidemics, and pathogenic wind-cold.

Decoction for Nourishing the Kidneys and Regulating the Liver，*Differential Diagnosis of Symptoms in Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Liver stagnation and kidney deficiency, resulting in irregular menstrual cycles.

Double-Nourishing and Diuretic Pills，*Compilation of Records for Saving Lives*, Volume 11.，Hernia: caused by a deficiency of both qi and blood in the liver and kidneys, leading to stagnant cold that fails to disperse and damp-heat that remains unresolved, resulting in cold and distended testicles, swelling of the scrotum, and scrotal abscess.

Longdan Xiehuo Decoction，*Dian Dian Jing*, Volume 4.，When the Five Yang energies surge to the head, lung qi runs rampant in the “Lake of Celestial Essence,” causing foul-smelling discharge from the nose, ruptured mouth sores, swelling and pain in the throat, as well as toothache and cerebral collapse.

Disinfecting Red Jade Ointment，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Vol. 347, citing *Formulas from the De Sheng Hall*.，Apply to swollen and painful breasts.

Glazed Sweets，*Qianjin*, Volume 17.，For deficiency of lung qi causing a dry, sore throat.

Xie Bai Powder，*Xingyuan*, Volume 3.，Lung heat.

Mutton Spine Tip，From *Chuanya Neibian*, Volume 3.，Bone-steaming and Transmitted Corpse Syndrome.

Shenming Pills，From *The New Book on the Care of Infants*, Volume 20, citing *The Immortal’s Water Mirror*.，For children suffering from bone fever and chronic wasting, who are gradually becoming emaciated and unable to eat.

Paste for Restful Sleep，From *Ren Cun’s Formulas*, cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 293).，For fistulas with unceasing discharge of pus and pain deep within the bone.

Jujube-Combined Pills，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 6.，For spleen and stomach deficiency with cold, dry retching, nausea, vomiting of saliva and froth, complete loss of appetite, and ten episodes of hiccups followed by five episodes of dysphagia.

Shen Su Nei Tuo Powder，Formula by Li Yufu, cited in *Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 16.，Boils and abscesses.

Moisturizing Decoction to Replace Tea，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For conditions of intense heat in warm diseases that scorch the yin fluids of the lung and stomach, causing dryness and thirst in the mouth, coughing up white foam, and a dry, stagnant, and unpleasant sensation.

Xiangfu Cake，*Elucidations on Surgery*, Volume 5.，For scrofula or wandering swellings, or when wind and cold invade the meridians, causing lumps or pain.

The Most Effective Remedy for Ringworm，From *Supplement to the Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 7, citing *Lost Formulas from the Treasure Manual*.，Tinea.

Eight Treasures Wine，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 4.，

Harmonizing the Middle and Strengthening the Spleen Pills，*Collected Explanations of Medical Formulas*.，For stomach deficiency with loss of appetite despite hunger.

Xinliang-Ganju Decoction，From *Essentials of the Collection of Formulas Based on Causes and Symptoms*, Volume 4, citing a formula by Wang Yungu.，For a robust constitution with swollen cheeks.

Liver-Draining Four-Ingredient Decoction，*The Jade Ruler of Gynecology*, Volume 4.，Excessive wind-heat in the postpartum period.