Wind Pills

Scorpion-Doubled Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 55.，For otitis media with unceasing pus discharge.

Clove and Aconite Life-Saving Powder，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 36.，For cold-induced vomiting, gastric reflux, and vomiting shortly after eating.

Cinnamon Twig Decoction with Astragalus and Atractylodes，From *Six Books on Medical Essentials*, Volume 20.，For profuse sweating with a string-like and soft pulse.

Cicada Shedding and Pork Liver Powder，From *Definitive Treatise on Smallpox*, Volume 2.，For cases where, after smallpox, toxic heat rises and causes a membrane to obscure the pupils of both eyes.

Asthma-Relieving Elixir，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，Occasionally, when affected by wind-cold, one may experience sudden wheezing, shortness of breath accompanied by raised shoulders, phlegm being coughed up in a gushing manner, and a “waterfowl” sound in the throat.

Intestinal-Astringent Pills，From *Bai Yi*, Volume 6.，Chronic diarrhea.

Ephedra Decoction for Releasing the Exterior，*Golden Needles of Pediatrics*, Volume 1.，For pediatric shanghan characterized by high fever, headache, aversion to cold without sweating, a dry nose and coarse breathing, and pain in the eye sockets and joints.

Paste for Breaking Up Hard Masses and Eliminating Toxins，*The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 64.，For masses, toxic sores, and hemorrhoidal fistulas.

Pork Pancreas Wine，Formula from *Formulas for Emergency Use* (Zhouhou Fang), Volume 3; name cited in *The Holy Beneficence* (Shenghui), Volume 6.，For chronic cough with shortness of breath, fullness and distension in the chest and flanks, and frequent wheezing.

Xiao Cao Pills，From *Fan Wang’s Formulas*, cited in Volume 12 of *Wai Tai*.，For chest obstruction and heart pain, with counterflow qi in the diaphragm and inability to swallow.

Tianjiang，From *The Prescriptions of the Emaciated Immortal for Saving Lives*.，Effective for carbuncles, abscesses, back sores, and all types of unexplained swellings and toxic infections.

Pill of Purple Aster for All Diseases，*Yuanrong*.，For chronic abdominal masses as large as a bowl, as well as various jaundice-related conditions; whenever earth qi rises, causing qi to surge toward the heart and induce cramping pain around the navel; all insect bites; the ten types of parasitic diseases; the ten types of witchcraft-induced illnesses; as … Read more

Rice Sugar Paste，Formula from *The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 64; name cited in *The Collection of Immortal Prescriptions*, Volume 4.，For chronic, non-healing leg ulcers.

Cuscuta Seed Pills for Preserving Essence and Improving Vision，*Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 64.，For deficiency of both blood and qi, insufficient vitality, lack of blood to nourish the heart, soreness and weakness in the lower back and legs, weakness in the limbs; or for constitutional deficiency from childhood; or for impaired hearing and vision; or for low … Read more

Tongcao Pills，Quoted from *Shenshi Fang* in Volume 8 of *Wai Tai*.，For abdominal masses, retained fluid, undigested food, and alternating chills and fever with restlessness and constipation.

Tongguan Pills，From *Lan Shi Mi Cang*, Volume 2.，Heat in the blood of the lower jiao, with no thirst but difficulty urinating. Kidney deficiency with rising heat, weakness in the legs and knees, genital atrophy and genital sweating, upward surging of the Chong Pulse causing shortness of breath, and pathogenic heat in the lower jiao.

Liver-Clearing and Gallbladder-Dispersing Decoction，*Essentials of the Collection of Treatises on Syndromes, Causes, and Formulas*, Volume 4.，In cases of swollen cheeks, avoid mistakenly taking formulas that are excessively pungent and dispersing.

Thousand-Pound Red Jade Ointment，From *A Collection of Insights on Surgical Diseases: Formulas for Home Use—Ointments, Pills, and Powders*.，For wandering damp-toxin and unexplained swellings and abscesses that have not yet ruptured.

Formula for Harmonizing the Middle and Transforming Phlegm-Heat，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，Reduced appetite, chest fullness with excessive phlegm, acid regurgitation and vomiting, deficiency-cold stomach pain; heat in the lung and stomach, swelling and pain in the throat.

Bi Xie Qi Fu Decoction，From *Secret Manual on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Fungal Ulcers*, Volume 2.，Fungal sores with ulceration of the nasal bridge.

Ear-Clarifying and Fire-Suppressing Decoction，From *He’s Treatise on Saving Lives*, Volume 6.，For cases where phlegm-fire rises, causing the ear orifices to become blocked and inaudible.

Jianbu Huqian Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Tianjin Formula).，Pain in the limbs, weakness and flaccidity of tendons and bones, soreness in the lower back and legs, and cold-dampness in the scrotum.

Divine Rescue Decoction，From *Yi Pan Zhu*, Volume 9.，When smallpox is affected by cold pathogens, the lesions turn black, sink into the skin, and fail to rise.

Snail and Wasp Pill，From *The Profound Secrets of the Divine Realm*, Volume 9.，Alopecia.

Qin Wang’s Life-Sustaining Eight-Wind Powder，*Qianjin Yi*, Volume 16.，Various wind-related disorders, the “Five Sluggishnesses” and “Six Urgencies,” or edema with labored breathing and sighing, mild bi syndrome, wind-deficiency, and wind-induced wasting with distension and fullness.