The “Three-Yellow Powder” from the “Forty-Eight Signs”

Pills for Treating Stomach Pain Due to Food Stagnation，From *The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 6.，For food stagnation.

Xianggui Pill，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 150.，For women with blood-wind syndrome, stagnation of the nutritive and defensive qi, irregular meridians, dull complexion, heat in the limbs, dizziness and blurred vision, and aching joints.

Cooling and Dampness-Draining Ointment，Formula by He Xiushan, cited in *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For abscesses. Caused by damp-heat descending to the lower part of the body; initially presenting with redness, swelling, and pain, as if scalded by boiling water or burned by fire.

Restoring Yang Emergency Powder，*Methods for Treating Damp-Heat Epidemics*.，When external yin cold combines with internal injury from raw and cold foods, it results in cold-type cholera, characterized by vomiting and diarrhea of clear fluid often accompanied by a fishy odor; a tight and full sensation in the chest and diaphragm; severe pain in the epigastrium and … Read more

Recipe for Boiled Sheep’s Head and Hooves，*Shenghui*, Volume 97.，For the five types of exhaustion, the seven types of injury, and general debility.

Bone-Penetrating Detoxifying Decoction，From *The Mystic Pearls of Chishui*, Volume 28.，For smallpox in children accompanied by chills and teeth-chattering.

Sleep-Inducing Pill，*Record of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 4.，For excessive dryness of liver qi; following periods of worry and sorrow, one feels drowsy all day long, yet at night the eyes refuse to close—one longs to close them but cannot.

Moonlight Pills，*Insights into Medicine*, Volume 3.，For yin-deficiency cough.

Tinea Solution，From *Collected Clinical Experiences of Zhu Renkang*.，Psoriasis, tinea corporis, neurodermatitis.

Pinellia Paste and Sprout Decoction，*Yi Tong*, Volume 24.，Food stagnation, excessive phlegm and saliva, and unceasing vomiting.

Sweat-Stopping Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 7.，After a serious illness, when profuse sweating occurs throughout the body without apparent cause and becomes a daily occurrence, this indicates a deficiency of yang qi, causing it to leak outward while the pores are unable to close on their own.

Sanqi Decoction，*Comprehensive Essentials of Health Preservation*, Volume 11.，White dysentery in children.

Baosheng Dan，From *Hui Chun*, Volume 4.，For nocturnal emissions occurring every night for ten days, or recurring after a single night’s rest.

Modified Kudzu Root Decoction，From *Compilation of Medical Principles* (Yizong Jiren Bian), Volume 3.，Pediatric fever with signs of impending smallpox: cold ears, cold buttocks, cold feet, eyes appearing watery, and reluctance to speak or smile.

Bìyī Decoction，*Essentials of Smallpox Treatment*, Volume 23.，Itchy hives and nodules.

Li Zhong Decoction with Clove and Persimmon Calyx Powder，From *Wind-Consumption and Ascites*.，For patients with deficiency-cold in the stomach following an illness, resulting in hiccups occurring in a continuous series of 8–9 sounds.

Pei Yuan Da Bu Pills，*Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 4.，For deficiency and exhaustion due to overwork, dizziness and vertigo, tinnitus and fatigue, a tendency to lie down and reluctance to speak, and all symptoms of qi deficiency and weakness.

Formula for Relieving Drug Toxicity，From *The Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Zhu Family*, Volume 14, citing *Classified Compilation*.，For wolfsbane poisoning.

Qi-Regulating Fragrant Perilla Decoction，*Wind-Consumption and Ascites*，In cases of edema caused by Qi stagnation, the pulse is deep and hidden, or there may be abdominal distension and shortness of breath.

Pearl and Amber Infant-Protecting Pill，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Harbin Formula).，For pediatric acute convulsive disorders caused by internal accumulation of phlegm-fire combined with external invasion by wind-pathogen, presenting with sudden, violent convulsions, high fever with shivering, opisthotonos, phlegm obstruction and breath-stopping, convulsive twitching of the limbs, deviation of the mouth and … Read more

Intestinal-Destroying Powder，From *Discussions on the Care of Infants and Children*, Volume 19.，For infants and young children with deficiency-cold in the stomach and intestines, chronic cold in the viscera, and persistent diarrhea.

Golden Jujube，From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 1.，For stroke-induced aphasia, left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness, deviation of the mouth and eyes, and loss of consciousness; as well as tetanus with locked jaw and opisthotonos; or bites from rabid dogs.

“No Worries for Ten Thousand Illnesses” Powder，From *Medical Essentials* (Yixue Qiewen), cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 256.，For heavy, stagnant masses; edema; blood-induced parasitic infections; abdominal distension; lateral prolapse of the small intestine or bladder; “Bentun Qi” syndrome; gastric distension; beriberi; qi rising from below the diaphragm causing gastric reflux and vomiting of … Read more

Deer Meat Stew，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 190.，Lack of breast milk after childbirth.

Fetal-Qi-Regulating Pills，From *Song’s Gynecology*.，Difficult childbirth, or giving birth once a year.