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Pills for Food Stagnation and Abdominal Distension，From *Secret Transmission of Proven Internal and External Prescriptions*.，For abdominal distension due to food stagnation.

Secretly Transmitted “Ten Thousand Spirits” Single-Pill Nine-Transformation Elixir，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 7.，Effective for headaches and fever due to cold damage; yin-type symptoms such as chills and spontaneous sweating; stroke with facial paralysis; acute and chronic convulsions in children; postpartum pain caused by blood stasis; irregular menstruation and reddish vaginal discharge in … Read more

Mountain Tiger Decoction，From *Yi Chuan Sheng Yi*, Volume 3.，Cough originating from the Kidney Meridian, characterized by choking or wheezing, with phlegm that tastes salty and contains black specks.

Enhanced Tea-Adjusting Powder，From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 54.，For headaches due to stomach heat, dry nose, eye pain, and pain in the gums and cheeks.

Pei Tu San，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 11.，A woman of naturally calm and unassuming disposition, who eats and drinks sparingly; when she eats or drinks too much, she feels unwell, experiences vomiting and diarrhea, and feels fullness and distension in the chest.

Two-Ingredient Paper-Separated Ointment，*The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 64.，Leg sores, damp-toxin sores.

Platycodon and Apricot Kernel Decoction，From *The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 51.，For coughing up pus, sputum mixed with blood, or dull pain in the chest and diaphragm, indicating an impending lung abscess.

Family Secret Meridian-Regulating Decoction，From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 2.，For internal injury-induced vomiting of blood and epistaxis caused by yin deficiency with rising fire, resulting in blood rising with the fire and irregular menstrual flow.

Ephedra Warm-Dampness Decoction，From *A Thousand Family Remedies*, Volume 1, citing a formula by Fan Guo (Mu Liang).，For cases where wind, cold, and dampness pathogens invade the meridians, causing stagnation in the joints, resulting in joint swelling and pain.

Enhanced Tianran Powder，From *A Study of Thirteen Surgical Formulas*.，After a scrofula ulcer has ruptured.

Doujin Pills，From *Chuanyaba*, Volume 2.，For all types of colds, indigestion with chest fullness, abdominal masses, and diarrhea.

Ointment for Moisturizing Sores and Promoting Tissue Regeneration，*Shenghui* (Volume 63).，For all types of boils and abscesses on the back where the skin fails to regenerate, accompanied by dryness, tightness, and pain.

Smoke-Absorbing Powder，From *Selected Formulas of Renowned Physicians (Sequel)*.，For toxic sores caused by fungal infections, urinary tract infections, hemorrhoids, rectal prolapse, scabies, and abscesses or boils caused by wind-toxin.

Dú Bái Powder，*Compendium of Medical Essentials*, Volume 10.，For bone and joint injuries from falls or blows, damage to internal organs, and stagnant blood.

Ginseng and Astragalus Pills，From *Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 35.，For scabies and pus-filled sores.

Bone-Renewing Pills，From *Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 8.，For leprosy and all types of scabies, tinea, and skin diseases.

Dampness-Resolving Powder，From *The Comprehensive Record of Holy Remedies*, Volume 28.，In cases of internal stasis-heat from cold damage, where dampness is stagnant and fails to disperse, causing it to affect the muscles, resulting in difficulty urinating and jaundice.

Jing Dai Decoction，From *The Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 1.，For symptoms of counterflow, where fire is stagnant and cannot be released, causing restlessness and agitation—this formula must be administered without delay.

Xuanling Powder，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 4.，Boil on the back.

White Fresh Bark Tincture，*A Concise Handbook of Traditional Chinese Dermatology*.，Seborrheic dermatitis.

Tuoli Chonghe Decoction，*Essentials for Infant Care*, Volume 15.，Ulcers and sores fall into the category of being half-yin and half-yang—seeming to ulcerate but not yet ulcerated, seeming to swell but not yet swollen—resulting from deficiency of original qi and a failure to provide adequate tonification and support.

Zhengzhen Decoction，*Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，Imbalance between yin and yang, failure of qi to rise and fall, deficiency of the lower jiao, and phlegm stagnation in the upper jiao.

Great Sage’s Life-Saving Golden Pill，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 373.，For infants suffering from acute or chronic convulsions, epilepsy, “heavenly fishing” (a type of seizure), foreign body obstruction, or “evil influence”; as well as for newborns with umbilical wind causing clenched jaws, fetal convulsions or epilepsy, locked jaws, convulsions with phlegm-heat, convulsive twitching and trembling, rolling … Read more

Pemphigus Pills，From *Treatise on the Treatment of Blisters*, cited in Volume 8 of *The Treasure of Eastern Medicine: Miscellaneous Diseases*.，For pemphigus and syphilis.

Bi Xie Sheng Jin Pills，From *Formulas Recorded in History*, Volume 1.，For cold in the kidneys manifesting as loose stools, heaviness of the body, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, inability to lift the limbs; in severe cases, profuse discharge of red and white fluids; soreness and pain in the lower back and knees; and weakness in … Read more