The World’s Best Formula for Blackening the Beard

Ointment for Damp Sores and Leg Sores，From *Selected Essentials of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 6.，For all types of weeping sores and leg ulcers.

Miraculous Insect-Blue Mulberry Branch Powder，*Remarkably Effective Formulas*, Volume 22.，Consumptive diseases.

Sandalwood Ointment，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 315.，Effective for all types of contusions, bruises, and injuries; swelling and pain caused by trauma; stagnant blood that fails to dissipate; as well as chronic and recent sores and swellings, and heat sores throughout the body.

Fresh Agastache Dew，From *Formulas and Ingredients of Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Stagnation of summer-dampness, chest tightness, and nausea.

Toxic-Clearing Jingfang Decoction，*Compendium of Measles Disorders*, Volume 3.，Used for the “manifest” stage of measles.

Shengsu Powder，From *One Hundred Questions on Infants and Children*, Volume 10.，For children with a rash and fever, when the condition is unclear, use this formula to resolve it.

Houchang Dan，Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in Volume 29 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，Bloody dysentery with intestinal weakness. Rectal prolapse.

Female Elixir，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，Indicated for uterine cold, irregular menstruation, abdominal pain, lower back soreness, and weakness in the limbs.

Blood-Dispersing and Wind-Relieving Decoction，From *One Hundred Effective Surgical Formulas*, Volume 1.，For various sores caused by blood stasis and wind, such as yellow blisters, accompanied by swelling, heat, pain, and itching.

Peony and Four Substances Decoction for Relieving Muscle Tension，*Qian Jin*, Volume 5.，For children with typhoid fever presenting with restlessness, fever, and pain in the head and body.

Musk and Aloe Vera Pills，From *Formulas for the Protection of Infants*, cited in Volume 380 of *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，For children with a thin, emaciated spleen and jaundice, a tendency to eat dirt, a distended abdomen with visible blue veins, hair growing in strands, or intestinal parasites.

Iron Pillar Staff Pills，From the formula of Mr. Zhang of Linqing, cited in *Yanxia Shengxiao Fang* (see *Yifang Leiju*, Vol. 238).，For postpartum blood-wind syndrome in women, with pain in the lower back and legs; for boils on the back; and for headaches.

Cinnamon and Aconite Paste，From *Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Wuhan Formula).，Pain radiating from the buttocks, spine, lower back, and abdomen.

Guang Meng Kui Jian Pills，*Treasure of Health* (Weisheng Baojian), Volume 19.，For children with food stagnation, fullness in the abdomen and flanks, fever, coughing, shortness of breath, and loss of appetite.

Guaranteed-to-Work Wine，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 139.，For wounds and stroke.

Forsythia and Astragalus Decoction，From *Zhun Sheng: Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 2.，For carbuncles caused by consuming cattle or sheep that died from miasma, resulting in a large carbuncle on the foot that feels like a nail driven into the flesh, with unbearable pain.

Lithotriptic Ointment，From *Li Ye*.，For accumulated heat in the bladder, dysuria, and hematuria.

Fragrant Poria Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 193), citing *Effective Formulas Based on Clinical Experience*.，Dampness-related conditions, swelling of the limbs, fullness and distension in the abdomen and flanks, and difficult, dry bowel movements.

Eggplant Stem Ash Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 38), citing *Formulas for Emergency Treatment*.，Intestinal bleeding that persists for a long time; hemorrhoids with bleeding.

Roasted Scallion Powder，*Formulas of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 3 (Newly Added Secret Formulas from Various Bureaus).，Deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach, manifesting as a pounding sensation in the heart and abdomen, accompanied by stabbing pain extending to the flanks; fullness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm; stiffness and pain in the back, shoulders, and … Read more

Ephedra and Du Huo Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 81.，Beriberi.

Wind-Dispelling and Toxin-Eliminating Powder，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 279.，Toxic swelling.

Linggui Powder，From *The Great Compendium of the Yongle Era*, Vol. 13879, citing *The Great Formulas*.，For blood-wind偏注 and pain in the tendons and bones.

Guanyin’s Salvation Ointment，*The Collection of Divine Remedies*, Volume 4.，One-sided or bilateral headaches; redness and swelling of the eyes; pterygium and ingrown eyelashes; single or double pharyngeal tumors; laryngeal obstruction; edema of the head and face; pain caused by wind-fire; nine types of pain in the heart, stomach, and abdomen; stroke; malaria; dysentery; consumptive disease; cough … Read more

Decoction for Dissolving Radish and Unblocking Stagnation，*Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，For chronic constipation with hard stools and prolonged obstruction, accompanied by general weakness.