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Ping Sou Wan，From *The Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For chronic cold coughs with counterflow of qi and excessive phlegm, which flare up upon exposure to cold.

Dinggui Powder，From *Collection of Inherited Surgical Techniques*.，For headaches caused by intangible cold and dampness, or by pathogenic factors that have penetrated the bones and are spreading.

Clear-Steamed Return to the Red，From *He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 2.，For chronic cough due to overwork.

Pengxian Pills，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 361.，For children with stabbing pain in the chest and abdomen, crying and restlessness, cold intestines with green stools, sparse hair, a sallow complexion, and abdominal distension.

Decoction for the Three Hernias，From *The Treasure of Eastern Medicine: External Disorders*, Volume 4, citing *Compendium of Medicine*.，Pain due to bladder distension.

Gui-Ling-Shu-Fu Decoction，*Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 2.，For fluid retention syndromes caused by deficiency-cold.

“Priceless” Stomach-Relieving Ointment，From *Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 3.，For chronic childhood ailments and all types of masses in men and women.

Miraculous Deer Fetus Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Jilin and Harbin Formulas).，For kidney deficiency-induced impotence, irregular menstruation, a cold uterus, and consumptive disease.

Blood-Nourishing and Spirit-Calming Pills，*Beijing Standards for Traditional Chinese Patent Medicines*.，Deficiency of heart blood; mental fatigue; insomnia and forgetfulness; restless sleep with frequent dreams; kidney deficiency with lower back pain; dizziness and weakness.

Binlian Decoction，From *Yu’an*, Volume 4.，For cases of long-standing parasitic infestation causing abdominal distension.

Pregnancy-Stabilizing and Diuretic Decoction，From *Direct Pointers to Hao Jing*.，For women in their eighth or ninth month of pregnancy who experience generalized swelling, difficulty urinating, and are unable to move about.

Atractylodes Decoction Pills，*Ji Feng*, Volume 10.，Excessive dietary indiscretion leads to cold in the stomach, which is unable to digest and metabolize food; the ingested food and qi rise together, causing blood vomiting, abdominal colic, sweating, chest distress, and vomiting.

Heart-Opening Cinnabar Pills，From *The Essentials of Charity* (cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 88).，For all cases of wind-induced drooling and sudden onset of symptoms, leading to delirious speech, resembling a heart wind disorder.

Fortified Pork Stomach，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，For diabetes.

Modified Detoxifying Decoction，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 3.，Jaundice syndrome, where both the body and mouth appear golden in color, and the urine resembles thickly boiled birch sap.

Blood-Nourishing Pills，From *Fu Qingzhu’s Treatise on Andrology*.，Exhaustion of the blood, with a large pulse in the left wrist.

Pill for Eye Infections，From *Rumen Shiquin*, Volume 15.，For external eye obstructions.

Soul-Soothing and Spirit-Stabilizing Pill，*Shenghui* (Volume 95).，For sudden onset of evil spirits, epilepsy, epidemic febrile diseases, and mental derangement.

Pine-Lacquer Pills，*The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 4.，Leprosy, leprosy-like conditions, and purpuric dermatitis.

Xuanlou Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 45.，For one-sided or bilateral headaches.

Sedge Root Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 10.，For wandering wind-induced pain that travels along the meridians, as well as severe pain in the lower back and knees.

Chuanwutou Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 248.，For inguinal hernia with abdominal and lower back pain, cold extremities, and body aches—cases that cannot be treated by acupuncture, moxibustion, or other medications.

Decoction for Warming the Middle and Relieving Dysentery，From *The Collection of Compassionate Guidance*, Volume 2.，In the early stage of dysentery with cold symptoms, if bitter-cold herbs are mistakenly used, cold may凝固 in the stomach. With no yang in the stomach, this leads to cold-induced shivering, a pale, bluish-yellow complexion on the face and lips, cold … Read more

Decoction for Regulating and Harmonizing Zheng Qi，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 103), citing *Formulas for Protecting Life*.，For those afflicted by cold wind who, after taking the “Tou Feng Qi San” pills, feel heat in the upper jiao.

Peony and Sanguisorba Decoction，From the *Collection of Medical Formulas*, citing a formula by Hejian.，For diarrhea with pus and blood, and even rectal prolapse.