Winter Melon Soup

Mugwort Powder，*Zhun Sheng: Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 6.，For falls, blows, bites, finger bites, and cuts from knives or axes.

Spleen-Strengthening, Diuretic, and Metabolism-Promoting Decoction，*New Book on Pregnancy and Childbirth*.，For women who have passed their blood clots after childbirth but are suffering from diarrhea.

Decoction for Clearing Blue and Red Toxins，From *Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 7.，Twitching of the hands and feet; internal and external heat. Heart and liver fire; pain in the shoulders, armpits, elbows, arms, wrists, and hands.

Rehmannia Cake，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 119.，Toothache.

Diaphragm-Relieving Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 9.，Phlegm accumulates above the diaphragm, causing severe fullness and obstruction; qi is blocked and cannot rise, and the herbs are too mild to descend.

Modified Toxin-Eliminating Powder，*Pian Yu Xin Shu*, Volume 5.，For children with urticaria characterized by intense itching upon eruption, or without redness.

Xiao Xianxiong Decoction，From *Shanghan Dabai*, Volume 3.，For heat pathogens affecting both the exterior and interior of the Shaoyang channel, accompanied by phlegm accumulation.

Qianjin Shegan Decoction，*A Hundred Questions on Infants and Children*, Volume 6.，For a child’s cough accompanied by wheezing like the call of a water rail.

Li Sheng Dan，From *Treatise on Warm Diseases*, Volume 2.，Suffering from summer heat, cholera, shā syndrome, malaria, dysentery, diarrhea, heart pain, stomach pain, abdominal pain, regurgitation of sour fluid, and all conditions caused by yin cold; chest constriction; cold spasms in children; scorpion and bee stings; retained dead fetus.

Sending the Fetus Decoction，From *Fu Qingzhu’s Gynecology*, Volume 2.，For retained placenta after a normal delivery, accompanied by restlessness and occasional fainting spells.

Atractylodes and Amomum Powder，From *Zheng’s Family-Transmitted Gynecological Prescriptions Worth Ten Thousand Gold*, Volume 3.，Spotting or vaginal bleeding during pregnancy.

Ginseng, Atractylodes, and Lotus Seed Decoction，From *Secret Manual on Pregnancy and Childbirth*, Volume 2.，For postpartum diarrhea, persistent diarrhea, or spleen-related diarrhea.

Crucian Carp Decoction，*The Secret Teachings of the Blue Sack*.，For all types of unexplained swellings and abscesses.

Wind-Bi Powder，From *Qianjin Yi*, Volume 16.，For a 30-year history of wind-damp arthralgia, accompanied by bald patches, hives developing into sores, blocked meridians, and a loss of sensation of pain or itching when scratching.

Toxin-Binding Bandage，*Ji Ming Lu*.，For swelling and toxicity in the early stages, or for abscesses and sores caused by heat toxins that manifest in the yang aspect—characterized by a hard, swollen, painful, and red lesion.

Mosquito-Clam Powder，From *Pian Yu Dou Zhen*, Volume 12.，After the smallpox lesions on a child’s face have subsided, “running teeth” may develop.

Xuanbao Pills，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 248.，For swelling and pain in the external genitalia.

Goai Wuhai Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Xi’an Formula).，For goiters in the early stages, where the skin color remains unchanged but the mass gradually grows larger, as well as for scrofula.

Yizhi Gu Zhen Decoction，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 5.，For nocturnal emissions.

Accumulation-Resolving Powder，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 3.，For food stagnation in children, characterized by a hard abdomen and blue-tinged tendons, and for expelling parasitic accumulations.

Epilepsy-Relieving Powder，*Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，For epilepsy in pigs and sheep, characterized by frequent falls and loss of consciousness.

Malaria-Dispelling Ointment，*Compendium of Surgical Medicine*, Volume 4.，For severe abscesses and malaria-induced abscesses.

Decoction of Huangxiao for Washing Hemorrhoids，From *Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 23.，Swelling and pain from hemorrhoids.

Golden Lock Surpassing Heaven Ointment，From *Formulas of the Huizhitiang Hall*, Volume 4.，For back abscesses, boils, unexplained swellings and toxins, carbuncles, rat-bite sores, scrofula, purple scabies with red threads, “crow’s flame” eye discharge, and other such sores; blood wind in the legs; internal and external leg sores; “fish-mouth” anal abscesses; syphilitic nodules;wounds from weapons or beatings, … Read more

Hui Cao Decoction，From *Fan Wang’s Formulas*, cited in Volume 2 of *Wai Tai*.，For typhoid fever with fever and bloody diarrhea.