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Qi-Tonifying and Dryness-Moistening Pills，*Treasury of Diagnosis and Treatment*, Volume 7.，Constipation due to yin deficiency, with qi depletion, tenesmus, and a sensation of incomplete evacuation; nausea and dry heaving; thirst with a craving for water; and inability to eat or drink.

Pancreas-Strengthening Pills，From *Yi Ji*, Volume 8.，For masses, masses with fullness, and accumulations; intestinal obstruction; and accumulations that have formed outside the intestines at the Mu points.

Xiaofeng Shengshi Decoction，From *Medical Explorations* (Yixue Tanli Ji), Volume 4.，Swelling and pain on the top of the head—located on the crown, along the Governor Vessel, the Taiyang Meridian, or the Shaoyang Meridian—manifesting as a single swollen, painful mass. The pain resembles that of having a hair pulled out and is almost unbearable.

Shatoufu，From *Jiyuan*, cited in Volume 2 of *Xiannian Ji*.，For patients with long-standing rectal bleeding who are in critical condition.

Modified Artemisia and Softshell Turtle Carapace Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*，Postpartum yin deficiency with blood dryness, fever lasting several days, worse in the afternoon, hot skin and red cheeks, burning palms, restlessness and anxiety, pale tongue with a thin, faintly yellow, and dry coating, and a fine, rapid pulse.

Two Frost Pills，From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 211.，For red-and-white dysentery where symptoms have not fully subsided despite excessive medication.

Ephedra Decoction Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 20.，For paralysis caused by wind, swelling and fullness of the limbs, and pain in the joints.

Purple Aster and Apricot Kernel Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 65.，Qi stagnation in the lungs and incessant coughing in the throat are both caused by deficiency of the lungs, leading to invasion by pathogenic factors, or by cold in the stomach and heat above the diaphragm.

Immortality Formula for Prolonging Life and Promoting Progeny，*Supplements to the Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 8.，For kidney deficiency with blurred vision, characterized by excess in the upper part and deficiency in the lower part.

Kushen Decoction for Expelling Toxic Heat，From *Shān Fán Fāng*, cited in Volume 2 of *Wài Tái*.，If the epidemic rash persists for 5 days without abating—and before reaching 7 days—toxic heat affects the skin and flesh, causing pain in the limbs.

Muxiang-Huanglian Pills，*Comprehensive Essentials of Health Preservation*, Volume 11.，For children with alternating chills and fever, bloody or white diarrhea, tenesmus, cramping abdominal pain, as well as deficiency of qi in the stomach and intestines, or sudden injury from breastfeeding.

Decoction Pills with Gardenia Bark，From *Shenghui*, Volume 21.，For wind-toxin invading the body, causing unbearable pain in the limbs and joints.

Toxicity-Resolving and Abscess-Dissolving Decoction，From *Comprehensive Treatise on Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 4.，Toward the end of the smallpox eruption, abscesses and toxic sores appear on the hands, feet, and throughout the body.

Ephedra, Ginseng, and Peony Decoction，From *Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach*, Volume 2.，For chronic hemoptysis that recurs after recovery; hemoptysis caused by external invasion of cold pathogens and internal deficiency with latent heat.

Xingxing Pills，From *The Ten Convenient and Effective Formulas*, cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，For all types of wind-heat syndromes, restlessness, dry mouth, and deviation of the mouth and eyes.

Immortal Formula for Preserving Life Decoction，From *Ten Thousand Gold Prescriptions for Gynecology*.，For all types of heat-toxin-induced abscesses, boils, sores, and ulcers characterized by redness, swelling, heat, and pain, whether pus has formed or not.Idiopathic malignant sores, back abscesses, brain abscesses, temple abscesses, buttock abscesses, gangrenous ulcers, scrofula, syphilis, anal abscesses, scrotal abscesses, mastitis, smallpox carbuncles … Read more

Pig Stomach Spleen-Tonifying Pills，From *Convenient Formulas for Remote Villages*.，

Toxin-Expelling Powder，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulations* (Shenyang Formula).，For children with early-stage measles, characterized by alternating chills and fever, coughing and vomiting, nasal congestion and runny nose, dry and watery eyes, swollen and sore throat, shortness of breath, high fever and thirst, confusion and delirium, headache and limb twitching; where the rash … Read more

Detoxifying and Purgative Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Epidemic toxins.

Fuhu Dan，*Formulary of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 1 (Supplementary Collection of Empirical Secret Formulas from Various Bureaus).，For left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness.

Ointment for Mastitis，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Tianjin Formula).，For women with breast cancer, breast swelling and pain, breast tenderness upon touch, hardened breasts with nodules, initial redness and swelling accompanied by unbearable pain, and scrofula or tuberculosis.

Water-Fire Dispersing Decoction，*Collection of Good Friends*, Volume 3.，Heat stagnating in the heart and spleen, causing sores on the mouth and tongue.

Purslane Wine，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 159.，

Decoction for Dryness and Fluid Deficiency，*The Profound Secrets of the Divine Realm*, Volume 13.，Adult Isolated Bone Ulcer.

Decoction for Generating Body Fluids and Relieving Dryness，*Compendium of Miasma Disorders*, Volume 4.，Internal restlessness; depletion of body fluids; loss of appetite.