The Tripod Formula

Clear Flow Decoction，From *The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 51.，For diarrhea and dysentery caused by yin deficiency complicated by heat, manifested as fever, aversion to cold, passage of pure bright red blood, or painful, reddish urination.

Clear Metal and Cool Liver Powder，*Essentials of the Silver Sea*, Volume 2.，Yellowish-red sclera.

Deer Antler Great Tonifying Decoction，*Zhi Zhi*, Volume 9.，

White Spot Formula，*A Concise Handbook of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Vitiligo.

Lu Xing Powder，From Dai Fangyu’s formula, cited in Volume 2 of *Zhu’s Collection of Proven Prescriptions*.，Malaria.

Toxin-Resolving, Swelling-Reducing, and Pus-Expelling Powder，From *Emergency Immortal Formulas*, Volume 1.，For boils and carbuncles on the back, mastitis, carbuncles, swollen and toxic sores, as well as all types of malignant sores and abscesses, and swelling and pain in the throat.

Essence-Nourishing Paste，From *Medical Formulas Compiled* (Vol. 153), citing *Formulas from the Ruizhu Hall*.，

Ginseng and Red Ocher Qi-Nourishing Decoction，*Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，For cases where central qi is deficient, causing stomach qi to fail to descend steadily; instead, it rises upward to exploit the weakness, causing phlegm and saliva to follow the rebellious qi upward, obstructing the cardia, and resulting in dysphagia, hiccups, and regurgitation.

Ling-Shu Decoction，From *Yu’an*, Volume 4.，For food stagnation that has congealed and accumulated in the stomach and intestines, accompanied by cold pathogens, resulting in unbearable abdominal distension and pain.

Decoction for Expelling Stagnant Blood from the Lower Abdomen，From *Corrections to Medical Literature*, Volume 2.，A painful mass in the lower abdomen, or a painless mass; or pain without a mass; or distension and fullness in the lower abdomen; or, prior to menstruation, lower back soreness and distension in the lower abdomen; or menstruation occurring 3–5 … Read more

Qingfeng Powder，From *Guide to Throat Disorders*, Volume 4.，For diphtheria, laryngeal inflammation, and all heat-related conditions.

Tianjiangzi Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 172.，For infantile convulsions and febrile convulsions.

Seven-Ingredient Decoction with White Fresh Bark，Quoted from *Formulas of Xu Renze* in Volume 4 of *Wai Tai*.，For newly onset jaundice, where the patient feels slight internal heat and restlessness, with no outward signs differing from normal, but the entire body is uniformly yellow; in severe cases, the eyes appear the color of cypress, and nasal … Read more

Five-Color Large String，From *Chuanyaba*, Volume 2.，For parasitic infestations, edema, and abdominal distension and pain in children.

Secret Formula for Resolving Stagnation Pills，*Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 3.，Indigestion and fullness after meals, diarrhea following a meal, cholera, vomiting, dysentery, abdominal pain due to qi stagnation, and malnutrition in children. All types of pain caused by qi stagnation and stagnant masses.

Medicinal Wine for Knee-Kneeling Wind，*A Study of Thirteen Surgical Formulas*.，For “Crane’s Knee Wind,” characterized by swelling and pain like needle pricks.

Miraculous Frost Pills，*Ji Feng*, Volume 14.，For intermittent malaria with severe thirst and fluctuating chills and fever.

Anzhong Pills，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 23.，For disharmony of the spleen and stomach, resulting in reduced intake of milk and food.

Liver-Clearing Ointment，From *Li Ye*.，Indicated for blood deficiency in the Liver Meridian accompanied by irritability and internal heat, or symptoms such as dizziness, headache, blurred vision, red eyes, tinnitus, deafness, pain in and around the ears, a sallow complexion, sour taste in the mouth, alternating chills and fever, frequent startles and insomnia, irritability, hemoptysis, chest fullness … Read more

Gentian and Antelope Horn Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，In cases of eclampsia with a predominance of wind-heat, prior to the onset of symptoms, patients may experience severe headache, a flushed complexion, dizziness and blurred vision, epigastric and abdominal pain, constipation, or vomiting; after the onset, they may exhibit convulsions and loss of consciousness, with a … Read more

Cinnamon and Apricot Pills，From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 66.，For coughing and inability to speak.

Elixir for Dissolving Pathogenic Accumulations，From *The Profound Secrets of the Cave Heaven*, Volume 15.，Damp-heat transforming into leprosy wind, i.e., leprosy.

Lotus Root Node Pills，*Puji Fang*, Volume 188.，For exhaustion and hemoptysis.

Decoction for Relieving Asthma and Calming Convulsions，*Treatise on Cold and Warm Diseases*.，For wheezing in warm diseases, where the breath comes from the Qihai acupoint below the navel.

Divine Immortal Treasure Pill，From *One Hundred Questions on Gynecology*, Volume 1.，For women with deficiency-cold in the Blood Sea (Xuehai) who are exposed to cold winds from the exterior, causing stagnation that fails to disperse and accumulates into masses or hard masses (jia); as well as for conditions where blood and qi surge, causing severe abdominal … Read more