The Emperor’s Formula for a Radiant Complexion

Xiao Niuxi Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 186.，For kidney deficiency with cold and wind-related symptoms.

Decoction for Clearing the Diaphragm and Relieving Stomach Distension，From *The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 5.，Stomach discomfort; lack of appetite.

Enhanced Shi Guogong Medicinal Wine，From *Formulas for Saving Lives*, Volume 6.，Obese individuals often suffer from damp phlegm and wind-phlegm. Due to qi deficiency, these substances cannot be properly channeled, causing them to overflow and accumulate in the meridians and joints. This results in pain, soreness, and numbness; difficulty moving the hands and feet; weakness and … Read more

Er Ding Pills，From *Compendium of Medicine*, Volume 38.，For children with breast lumps, food stagnation, and malnutrition-induced fever.

Diarrhea-Stopping Pills，From *Selected Precious Family-Transmitted Formulas by Ding Ganren*.，Diarrhea.

Wind-Dispelling Pill，*A Hundred Questions on Infants and Children*, Volume 2.，Pediatric wind-induced epilepsy.

Yin-Nourishing Powder，Formula from *Ming Yi Za Zhu* (Miscellaneous Writings on Medicine of the Ming Dynasty), Volume 1; name cited in *Yi Bian* (Medical Conveniences), Volume 1.，For consumptive disorders with sexual desire; persistent erection.

Male Black Soybean Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 68.，For pain from traumatic wounds with uncontrolled bleeding.

Dispersing Decoction，From *The Classic of the Pure Maiden*, cited in Volume 34 of *Wai Tai*.，For women with fatty masses (zhi jia) and lumps in the abdomen, resulting in the inability to conceive again; or for those who have never given birth.

“Lift-Head” Herb Paste，*Surgical Mysteries Revealed*, Volume 12.，For scrofula that has already ruptured.

Lian-Gui Pills，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 8.，For hemorrhoids with fistulas, rectal prolapse, and bloody stools.

Jiyin Junquan Pills，From *Huiyue*, Volume 2.，For yin deficiency with consumptive fever, bone-consumptive fever with sore throat, red urine, and nighttime restlessness.

Chicken Comb Blood-Activating Pill，From *Guide to Formulas*, cited in Volume 97 of *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，For conditions following illness where body fluids are severely depleted, and blood deficiency fails to nourish the tendons, resulting in weakness in one leg and knee, gradual wasting and emaciation, pain radiating upward to the flanks and downward to the … Read more

Fifteen-Ingredient Agarwood Pills，*Chinese Pharmacopoeia*, Volume 1.，Stagnation of qi and blood, chest pain, dry cough with shortness of breath, and insomnia.

Sugar-Decoction Powder，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 11.，Wind-heat toxin ascends to attack the eyes, causing redness, swelling, pain, blurred vision, and a sensation of dryness and difficulty opening the eyes.

Medication for Ulcers and Lumps to Be Held in the Mouth，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 18.，For abscesses and phlegm nodules.

San Yi Kidney Qi Pills，*Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 19.，Physical debility, weakness in the limbs, deficiency of qi and blood, and insufficiency of essence.

Eucommia and Four Substances Decoction，*Yi Tong*, Volume 83.，Blood-related epigastric fullness with acid regurgitation and vomiting of acidic fluid.

Bamboo Leaf and Lampwick Decoction，From *Records of Compassionate Insights on Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 8.，Dry retching during smallpox.

Peng’e Meng Decoction，*Compendium of Holy Remedies*, Volume 94.，Cardiac hernia. Chest pain; cold and weak limbs.

Wuling Powder with Added Malva Seed Decoction，*Haoyai Zunsheng*, Volume 13.，Hernia, difficulty urinating.

Cinnamon Twig and Aconite Decoction without Cinnamon Twig, plus White Atractylodes Decoction，*Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For cases on the 8th or 9th day of cold damage, where wind and dampness combine, causing body pain and restlessness, inability to turn over in bed, no vomiting or thirst, hard stools, and free flow of urine.

Eight Generals Pill，From *Collected Insights on Surgical Diseases: Formulas for Ointments, Pills, and Powders for Home Use*.，For all cases of abscesses that fail to erupt, carbuncles that do not break through, and necrotic tissue that does not slough off.

Cinnamon and Aconite Free and Easy Wanderer Powder，*Explorations in Medicine*, Volume 5.，Cold-type dysentery.

White Pigeon Meat，*Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 3.，For dry blood consumption.