Taihe Powder

Smartweed Wine，*Qianjin*, Volume 7.，For coldness in the epigastrium, inability to eat or drink, impaired hearing and vision, a sensation of energy in the limbs, and cold feet while sleeping in winter.

Golden Centipede Pills，From *The Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For sores the size of a bayberry.

Gu (疒秋) Ling，From *Famous Prescriptions Through the Ages*.，Osteotuberculosis, joint tuberculosis, chronic osteomyelitis.

Shenghua Yqi Decoction，From *The Treasure of Childbirth*.，Postpartum shortness of breath—resembling but not quite wheezing, with interrupted breathing—may be accompanied by phlegm and heat, or by headache, fever, and aversion to cold, resembling an exogenous pathogen invasion.

Donkey Ointment，Formula from *Yi Shuo*, Volume 4; name cited in *Zhu’s Collection of Proven Formulas*, Volume 9.，Chronic deafness.

Liver-Nourishing Pills，*A Clear Illumination of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 25.，Tendon injury.

Black Plum Paste Pills，From *Secret Records for Prolonging Life*, cited in Volume 25 of *Wai Tai*.，For cold, white-pus dysentery and indigestion.

Three Yang Pill，From *The Treasure of Family Health*, cited in Volume 120 of *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，For men with weak vital energy, cold pain in the Dan Tian, and diarrhea; for women with cold pain in the Blood Sea, and all cold-related ailments.

Yisheng Ointment，*Proven Formulas for Surgical Treatment from the Immortals’ Traditions*，For newly formed abscesses and swellings.

Ten-Ingredient Tonifying Pills，*Feng’s Treasure Chest: Miscellaneous Disorders*, Volume 11.，For those with deficiency of kidney essence and weakness of the spleen and stomach.

Golden Powder and Rehmannia Ointment，*Compendium of Divine Remedies*, Volume 172.，For children with epigastric distension and malnutrition-induced thirst.

Hedgehog Skin Powder，From *Qianjin* (Vol. 22).，For abscesses and carbuncles with internal leakage of pus and blood; various types of suppuration and decay; back sores in men; breast sores in women; and the five types of hemorrhoids.

Voice-Restoring Ointment，*Thousand Gold Prescriptions*, Volume 18.，Cough with inability to speak. Sudden onset of cough leading to loss of voice and inability to speak. Fullness and oppression in the chest. This condition is caused by long-standing lung deficiency, wind-pathogen invading the lungs, or chronic cough.

Three Treasures Decoction for Nourishing Yin，*Zhun Sheng: Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，For children who, prior to the onset of smallpox, have contracted a wind-pathogen cold, resulting in a burning sensation throughout the body, headache, spontaneous sweating, and persistent cough; or for those in whom smallpox erupts while a cold-induced fever has not yet resolved, or whose vital … Read more

Ling Sha White Pills，From *Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Zhu Family*, Volume 5.，For deficiency of primordial qi, phlegm-qi rising to the upper burner, wind-phlegm obstruction, and unceasing vomiting.

Trifoliate Orange Peel Wine，Formula from *Elbow-Back Prescriptions* (Vol. 3); name cited in *Effective Remedies* (Vol. 13).，For stroke with body rigidity, inability to bend or stretch, and recurrent episodes.

Twenty-Four Ingredient Jianzhong Decoction，From *Simple Formulas*, citing *Treasures of Health* (see *Compilation of Medical Formulas*, Vol. 150).，For consumptive disorders characterized by physical fatigue, bone pain, emaciation, weakness, palpitations, chest fullness, epigastric distension, and loss of appetite; and for women suffering from blood-qi and wind-related debility, irregular menstruation, and infertility.

Enhanced Loquat Paste，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，For deficiency of both qi and blood, emaciation, aching and weak limbs, mental fatigue, lower back and spinal pain, and reduced appetite—all conditions characterized by deficiency and weakness.

Toxin-Seeking Five-Tiger Pill，*Lectures on Surgery*.，For syphilis sores and toxins affecting the bone marrow, tendons, and joints.

Cuscuta and White Calamine Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 98.，Cold dysuria.

Decoction of Gardenia Seeds for Nasal Drops，From *Shenghui*, Volume 37.，For wind-heat causing sores inside the nose.

Eight-Ingredient Warming Menstrual Decoction，*Essentials of Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For women aged twenty-one or twenty-two with irregular menstruation, accompanied by red or white vaginal discharge—which may resemble plum juice or appear in clumps—or who have missed their period for two or three months, along with tidal fever, cough, loss of appetite, and fatigue in the limbs.

Pearl and Cowhage Throat Powder，Volume 1 of the *Chinese Pharmacopoeia*.，Swelling, pain, and erosion of the throat, mouth, and tongue.

Authentic Formula: Five-Color Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 391), citing *Formulas for Infant Care*.，For all types of injuries in children; phlegm and saliva obstruction; chest and diaphragm discomfort; undigested breast milk or food leading to the formation of masses or accumulations; hardness in the flanks and ribs accompanied by pain on palpation; and all … Read more

Yellow Emperor’s Four-Fan Powder，From *The Great Clear Classic*, cited in Volume 26 of *The Prescriptions from the Heart of Medicine*.，