Vanguard Formula

Master Sun’s Five-Juice Ointment，From *Compilation of Miraculous and Effective Prescriptions: Supplement*.，For phlegm-fire in the elderly.

Red Oil，From *Complete Collection of Surgical Life-Preserving Methods*, Volume 4.，Goose-palm eczema and all forms of mental disorders.

Qinghua Dan，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 28.，For cholera with abdominal distension, cold-induced chest pain, intestinal wind, deficiency of blood and qi with cold symptoms, and chronic malnutrition in children.

Decoction for Harmonizing Blood and Subduing Fire，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 2.，Stroke. Caused by sitting too close to a fire indoors, resulting in one side feeling hot and the other cold, which led to sweating on the left cheek. Upon occasionally stepping outside, the patient was struck by a sudden gust of wind, … Read more

Ma-Gui Warming Meridians Decoction，*Supplement to Traumatology*, Volume 3.，Chronic injuries complicated by wind-dampness.

Toxin-Clearing and Yin-Nourishing Decoction，From *Zhao Bingnan’s Collection of Clinical Experience*.，Skin and surgical infectious diseases; cases of toxic heat damaging qi and yin, where the body’s vital energy has already been compromised but the toxic heat has not yet been fully eliminated—corresponding to the late stage of sepsis.

Gunjin Pills，From *Bai Yi*, Volume 5.，Phlegm and fluid retention.

Immediate-Effect Ointment，*Yang Family’s Private Collection of Prescriptions*, Volume 13.，For hemorrhoids with active fistula discharge, accompanied by sudden, uncontrollable bleeding from the anal opening.

Green Onion, Fermented Black Bean, and Pueraria Root Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*, Volume 11.，After recovery from typhoid fever, when latent heat has not yet been fully resolved and a new pathogen is contracted, resulting in headache, fever, aversion to wind or chills, a dry tongue, thirst, or possibly accompanied by cough.

White Salt Formula，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 53.，Sudden onset of a wind-induced illness, with sudden, dizzying pain in the ear.

Qin Gui Decoction，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 302.，For a person wounded by a poisoned arrow.

Pain-Relieving Taiyi Ointment，From *Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 3.，For all types of ulcerated sores that have not healed for a long time, as well as moxibustion burns that have not healed over time.

Kudzu Root and Bupleurum Decoction，*Essentials of Shanghan* (Volume 1).，Shanghan. When the pulse in both hands is floating, rapid, and taut; if the pulse strength is weak before the Guan position and strong after it; with aversion to wind but no spontaneous sweating; and the illness occurred between Qingming and Mangzhong.

Copper Powder Pill，From *Shenghui*, Volume 95.，

Blood-Cooling Raw Rehmannia Decoction，*Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Gynecology*.，For women with blood heat complicated by stasis, presenting with menorrhagia characterized by bright red blood with clots, a foul-smelling odor, abdominal pain, a crimson tongue with a yellow coating, and a string-like, rapid pulse.

Warming and Nourishing the Meridians Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 11.，For women with delayed menstruation and heavy flow.

Fox Yin Pills，Quoted from *Guangji Fang* in Volume 26 of *Wai Tai*.，For hernia due to kidney deficiency, cold pain in the lower back and knees, and swelling and itching of the scrotum.

Phlegm-Resolving Decoction，From *Medical Explorations* (Yixue Tanli Ji), Volume 5.，For epilepsy characterized by a dazed and bewildered state, with emotions—joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure—manifesting inappropriately; or forgetfulness of past events and confusion about the present; or incoherent speech; or unwarranted outbursts of joy or anger; or sudden bursts of crying that stop just as abruptly; particularly … Read more

Brain Incense Powder，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 244), citing *Proven Effective Formulas*.，Vomiting in children.

Gypsum and Atractylodes Decoction，From *The Great Treatise on Cold Damage*, Volume 1.，Damp-heat with body pain.

Chaihu Pinggan Decoction，*The Transmission of the Lamp of Medicine*, Volume 2.，Qi stagnation caused by anger in the lower jiao leading to a qi hernia, presenting with no pain or itching, but a sensation of swelling and heaviness.

Houpo Xianglian Pills，From *Selected Works on Pediatrics*, Volume 5.，For children with malnutrition-related dysentery.

Spleen-Nourishing Pills，*San Yin*, Volume 11.，For consumptive weakness and emaciation, heaviness of the body, cold stomach, indigestion, persistent diarrhea, or sluggish stools that, over time, become foul-smelling and take on five colors.

Detoxifying and Life-Saving Decoction，From *Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 2.，For the early stages of gangrene, characterized by aversion to cold, fatigue, fever, thirst, swelling, purplish discoloration, numbness, or pain, as well as weakness in the limbs and mental confusion and restlessness.

Five-Spice Qi-Regulating Pills，From *Mei’s New Compilation of Proven Prescriptions*, Volume 2.，For all cases of food stagnation and qi stagnation, disharmony of the five viscera, obstruction of the nine orifices, constipation, chest fullness and distension, and pain in the heart and stomach caused by qi.