Topical Application

Fragrant Ink Solution，*Ji Sheng*, Volume 4.，Uncontrollable nosebleeds.

Toad Cake，From *Ten Methods of Surgery*.，Effective for carbuncles, brain abscesses, mastitis, bone-invading abscesses, and buttock abscesses—regardless of whether the condition is painless, extremely painful, or accompanied by numbness.

Yin-Nourishing and Yang-Enhancing Decoction，*The Classic of Dian Dian*, Volume 4.，Pulse is forceful and rapid in all three positions; profuse sweating like rain; physical weakness; inability to sleep day or night; restlessness in the chest and diaphragm; shortness of breath.

Formula for Reducing Smallpox with Toad，*Feng’s Treasure Trove: Smallpox* (Volume 14).，

Six-Ingredient Decoction Without Moutan, with Phellodendron and Anemarrhena，*A Concise Explanation of Medical Formulas*, Volume 5.，For pregnant women with constipation caused by blood dryness and excessive fire.

Decoction for Dispelling Pathogenic Factors，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 1.，For cold damage occurring in the winter months, when the pathogenic factor attempts to return to the Taiyang channel but is unable to do so, resulting in a fever lasting 6 days without resolution through sweating, and symptoms of the Taiyang channel persist.

Throat-Clearing and Wind-Dispelling Powder，From *Xianchuan Surgical Collection of Proven Formulas*.，For sores in the throat, swelling and pain, throat obstruction due to wind, single or double throat nodules, acute throat wind, foreign threads lodged in the throat, double tongue, and stiff tongue.

Carp Poultice，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 180.，Enlarged “wood tongue” in children.

Toad Venom Ink，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For all types of abscesses and boils.

Garlic Paste for Drawing Out Toxins，*Guide to Throat Disorders*, Volume 4.，Acute throat conditions.

Silver-Reed Compound，*Formulary of Chinese Medicine*.，For lung abscesses in the suppurative stage.

Muscle-Relaxing Decoction，*Principles of Surgical Treatment*, Volume 5.，Arm pain. Tendons are contracted, preventing flexion and extension; pain worsens with exposure to cold; pulse is tight and fine.

Oil-soaked Knots，*Complete Collection of Surgical Life-Preserving Methods*, Volume 4.，Fatty sores on the head and face.

Fish Glue Decoction，Recipe from *Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 24; name cited in *The Great Treasure of Health*, Volume 2.，Fish Mouth.

Shengyang Yijing Decoction，*The Golden Mirror of Ophthalmology*, Volume 2.，Symptoms associated with night blindness.

Four-Grain Decoction，From *Shouqin Yanglao* (Caring for the Elderly), Volume 4.，For diarrhea in children.

Poria Sclera Congee，*Shenghui*, Volume 96.，Stagnation of qi in the chest and heart, restlessness and fever, or thirst, accompanied by delirium and palpitations.

Wu Jin Ingot，From *Experienced and Extraordinary Formulas*, Volume 1.，For abscesses and sores in their early stages, characterized by intense heat and redness and swelling.

Divine Qi-Guiding Powder，*Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 10.，For acute small intestine colic with unbearable pain, and for beriberi.

Qianghuo and Danggui Powder，From *Essentials of the Treatment of Infectious Ulcers*, Volume 2.，For wind-toxin and blood-heat manifesting as sores on the head and face—which may present as redness and swelling, lumps, or itchy hives with oozing pus and fluid.

Magnolia Bark and Gypsum Emergency Decoction，From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 4.，For a woman in labor who suddenly experiences fetal death in utero; or where the fetus has previously suffered from a febrile illness, leading to fetal atrophy; or where menstruation is irregular, postpartum recovery is delayed, obstructing the flow of qi and … Read more

Five Bi Powder，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 9.，For swelling and obstruction of the throat.

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

Astragalus Balancing Decoction，From *Yuanhe Jiyong Jing*.，For the five types of exhaustion and a hundred forms of debility; heaviness and sluggishness in the limbs; aching of bones and muscles; inability to move as before following a serious illness; shortness of breath, labored breathing, and low vital energy; tightness in the lower abdomen; stiffness and pain in … Read more

Cicada Shell Pills，From *Shenghui*, Volume 86.，For all types of wind-induced wasting in children, characterized by progressive emaciation, fever, anxiety, head-shaking, nose-rubbing, restlessness in the limbs, yellowish-black skin, and dry, brittle hair, which has not healed over a long period.