Taiyi Life-Protecting Pills

Xinyi Powder，From *Pian Yu Xin Shu*, Volume 5.，In children, heat from the gallbladder ascends to the brain, causing nasal discharge—also known as “brain collapse”—with saliva and nasal secretions that are extremely foul-smelling.

Xuanbi Decoction，*Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 1.，For Taiyin damp-heat with qi stagnation and bi syndrome causing retching.

Jiaoteng Pills，From *The Classic of the Middle Storehouse*, Volume 2.，

Wu Ba Pills，From *Experienced Effective Formulas*, cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 165.，Chronic, stubborn phlegm in the chest and diaphragm causes harm, accumulating into phlegm-qi. The face and eyes appear pale and bluish; there is constant swelling; the patient cannot eat at all; the entire body aches; there is nighttime congestion; the patient cannot … Read more

Decoction for Lower Back Pain，From *The Authentic Treatise on Pulse and Symptoms*, Volume 1.，For lower back pain caused by emotional distress.

Sixteen-Ingredient Wintergreen Pills，*Chinese Pharmacopoeia*, Volume 1.，Indicated for chest fullness and abdominal distension, dizziness and edema, and cold-induced cough with phlegm and wheezing.

Decoction of Five Juices and One Branch，*Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For pathogenic heat in the pericardium: after the heat has been dispelled and the condition cleared, blood deficiency leads to restlessness, constant restlessness with no relief, discomfort in the chest, occasional vomiting of sticky phlegm, moaning, and incoherent speech.

Shu Mei Pills，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Vol. 355.，Postpartum dysentery with abdominal pain.

Brightness-Dispelling-Cloud Ingot，From *Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 12.，Effective for all eye diseases, both chronic and acute.

Formula for Nourishing Life，From *Yi Tong*, Volume 76.，Mute Malaria.

Child-Nourishing and Weight-Gaining Pills，From *Collection of Inherited Surgical Techniques*.，For children with malnutrition-induced accumulation and intestinal hemorrhage.

Fresh Water Powder，Formula from *Bai Yi*, Volume 13; name cited in *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 277.，For burns and scalds.

Five-Equal Decoction，From *Essentials for Those Unfamiliar with Medicine*, Volume 1.，For external invasion by wind-cold, manifested as nasal congestion, a heavy voice, difficulty speaking, coughing, shortness of breath, chest fullness, and sore throat.

Five Grains Elixir，*Compiled Medical Manuscripts*, Volume 13.，Weakness of the spleen and stomach, making it difficult to eat.

Zhun Ti Ointment，From *Compilation of Hua’s Medical Formulas*, Volume 2.，For all cases of yin toxicity in surgical conditions and toothaches.

Guanyin Whole Scorpion Powder，From *Remarkably Effective Formulas*, Volume 64.，For children with external invasion of wind-cold and internal injury to the spleen and stomach, leading to unceasing vomiting and diarrhea, which subsequently develops into chronic convulsions.

Miraculous Sophora Gum Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 7.，Treats mild wind disorders.

Su’e Decoction，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 8.，Throat obstruction in children.

Iron Dan Eye Drops，*Lecture Notes on Traditional Chinese Ophthalmology*.，Pepper Sores.

Wind-Dispelling Powder，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 3.，For common cold, headache, body aches, cough with excessive phlegm, and a floating pulse.

Purple Pills，*Qian Jin* (Thousand Gold), Volume 5.，For children with “bianzheng” (a type of childhood fever), where the fever persists and is accompanied by symptoms of typhoid or warm-type fever, or where the fever does not subside after sweating; as well as for those with phlegm-mass in the abdomen, inability to take breast milk, vomiting or … Read more

Xian Tao Pills，*Effective Remedies*, Volume 13.，For men and women suffering from numbness in the hands and feet, intermittent pain, stagnation of qi in the lower back and knees causing unrelenting pain; or a cold, numb body due to impaired circulation of blood and qi, accompanied by unbearable twitching and cramping, as well as paralysis and … Read more

Two-Aid Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 8.，Scrotal prolapse. In cases where prolapse occurs suddenly during a bowel movement, accompanied by fainting, eyes rolling upward, cold hands and feet, locked jaw, and inability to speak.

Mutton Pancakes，From *Yi Tong*, Volume 87.，Deficiency syndromes.

Zhen Dan，The formula is from *Formulas for Emergency Use* (Vol. 3); the name appears in *Ji Feng* (Vol. 14).，For all types of malaria characterized by chills and fever.