More Herbs Formulas
Dysentery and Diarrhea Pills,From *Experienced and Extraordinary Formulas*, Volume 1.,For dysentery and diarrhea.
Jingang Powder,From *Secret Formulas for Immediate Relief from the Blue Sack*, Volume 2.,Swelling and toxicity, scrofula, and carbuncles.
Rhubarb and Euphorbia Decoction,From *The Golden Chamber* (Volume 2).,For women after childbirth, where fluid and blood have congealed in the blood chamber, causing the lower abdomen to feel full and hard like a lump; as well as for men and women suffering from abdominal distension, urinary retention, or urinary tract infections, accompanied by pain and … Read more
Citron Paste,From *The Zheng Family’s Inherited Gynecological Prescriptions Worth Ten Thousand Gold*, Volume 5.,Effective for chronic phlegm-fire coughs, hoarseness due to thick phlegm, and irregular breathing.
Five-Ingredient Tonifying Pills,From *Xian Chuan Ji Yin Fang*, cited in *Yi Fang Lei Ju*, Volume 214.,For women with constitutional deficiency who have contracted wind-damp-toxin pathogens, presenting with generalized itching and pain, numbness and loss of sensation, and blurred vision.
Decoction for Dual Treatment of the Spleen and Stomach,*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 3.,Vomiting is caused by spleen deficiency; when the spleen qi fails to descend, it inevitably rises upward, leading to vomiting.
Scutellaria and Anemarrhena Decoction,Formula from *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 2; name cited in *Yi Tong*, Volume 44.,Fire-induced cough. A summer cough characterized by audible phlegm, fire-induced redness of the face.
Cinnamon Twig Decoction with Aconite and Safflower,From *Yunqizi’s Collection for Preserving Life*, Volume 2.,For women with typhoid fever involving both the Taiyang exterior syndrome and the Shaoyin root syndrome, presenting with exterior deficiency, spontaneous sweating, a cool body, stiffness and rigidity in the limbs, a deep and slow pulse, and menstruation that has just ceased.
Eighteen-Ingredient Astragalus Jianzhong Decoction,From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 4.,For disharmony of the Nutritive and Defensive Qi, heat in the palms and soles resembling labor-induced malaria, a bitter taste in the mouth and dry tongue, loss of appetite, and all forms of deficiency.
Lian Shi Powder,Formula from *Supplement to the Elbow-Back Prescriptions* (Vol. 5), citing *Minor Formulas*; name found in *Thousand Gold Prescriptions* (Vol. 22).,For abscesses that are hard and swollen like stone, or as large as a walnut, with no change in color, or for “stone abscesses” that do not resolve. Toxic swelling causes unbearable pain.
Zhu Xi San,*Effective Remedies*, Volume 10.,For “Zhong’e,” “Zhongwu,” and “Ghost Qi”—symptoms manifest when, late at night, one goes to the toilet, ventures into the wilderness, wanders through empty, cold rooms, or enters places where no one goes, and suddenly sees ghostly apparitions or inhales foul odors through the nose and mouth. The patient suddenly collapses … Read more
Decoction for Dispelling Wind and Relieving Stagnation,From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 3.,For blood deficiency during pregnancy, or a pre-existing blood stasis, complicated by an exogenous infection from an epidemic; characterized by sudden redness and severe swelling of the head and face, with the entire scalp covered in nodules forming clusters or patches, … Read more
Cardamom Cake,Formula by Tu Mingzhong, cited in Volume 8 of *Effective Formulas for Women*.,For bloody and white dysentery with stabbing pain in the umbilical region and abdomen that persists without resolution; highly effective for treating cold dysentery.
Rheumatism-Dispelling Formula,*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 3.,Spasms, with contracted legs and tight muscles, inability to stand, with or without pain, and difficulty getting out of bed throughout the year.
Ban Ti Dan,*The Great Dictionary of Chinese Medicine*.,Sores and abscesses.
Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace and Coptis Pills,*General Essentials of Health* (Wei Sheng Zong Wei), Volume 12.,For children suffering from various forms of wasting disease, emaciation, fever, night sweats, alternating chills and fever, a distended abdomen with thin legs, refusal to take breast milk or food, coarse and rapid breathing, and disharmony of the spleen and stomach.
Fetal Retention Powder,From *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 340.,For diarrhea with red and white discharge during pregnancy, pain in the heart and abdomen, and difficult urination.
Bloating-Relief Pills,From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 10.,For bloating caused by witchcraft.
Ai Fu Nü Zhen Pills,From *Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 7.,For women with excessive qi and deficient blood, characterized by irregular menstrual cycles (occurring either early or late), with predominantly dark purple menstrual flow and little pale flow, red or white vaginal discharge, metrorrhagia or metrometra, a sallow complexion and emaciation, weakness in the limbs, fatigue … Read more
Fetal Vitality and Harmonizing Qi Decoction,From *Zheng’s Family-Transmitted Gynecological Prescriptions Worth Ten Thousand Gold*, Volume 2.,During the fourth or fifth month of pregnancy, when the fetal qi is depleted, causing fatigue, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, excessive sleepiness, dizziness, and weakness in the limbs.
Er Yu San,From *The Jade Ruler of Gynecology*, Volume 3.,Ectopic pregnancy.
Modified Qianghuo Decoction,*Huiyue*, Volume 3.,For wind-cold invasion manifesting as headache, body aches, aversion to cold, high fever, a floating and tight pulse, and absence of sweat; also for pathogenic factors arising from seasonal imbalances.
Wei’ai Pills,*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 1.,For abscesses, boils, and ulcers accompanied by spleen and stomach deficiency, aversion to all flavors of food, and cases where previous treatments to stimulate appetite and promote eating have been ineffective.
Red Ointment,From *Collection of Inherited Surgical Techniques*.,For pilonidal abscesses and all types of boils.
Chaihu Cong’er Decoction,From *Lan Shi Mi Cang*, Volume 1.,Dryness and blockage in the ear, tinnitus, and deafness.
Throat-Soothing Powder,Swollen and sore throat due to measles.