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Late Silkworm Moth Powder，From *Shenghui*, Volume 90.，Mouth sores in children.

Baiqian Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 24.，For shortness of breath and cough following an episode of cold damage.

Miraculous Decoction for Lung Abscess，*Essential Readings on Medicine*, Volume 6.，Lung Abscess. Caused by overwork damaging qi and blood, with internal accumulated heat and external exposure to wind-cold; symptoms include chest fullness and tightness, dull pain, dry throat and mouth, occasional discharge of turbid, foul-smelling sputum, and vomiting pus resembling rice porridge—in such cases, the prognosis … Read more

Yellow Earth Decoction，*Thirteen Essays on Medicine*, Volume 11.，For cholera with vomiting and diarrhea, and cholera with muscle cramps.

Angelica and Jianzhong Powder，From *Ji Yin Gang Mu*, Volume 13.，Postpartum exhaustion and weakness due to overwork. Abdominal pain, shortness of breath, tightness in the lower abdomen, pain radiating to the lower back, occasional spontaneous sweating, and loss of appetite.

Musk Qi-Harmonizing Pills，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 20.，For congestion and obstruction of the respiratory tract, accompanied by body aches and fatigue.

Decoction for Relieving Arthralgia，From *Comprehensive Treatise on Medicine Through the Ages*, Volume 2.，Weakness and numbness.

Fragrant Throughout the Shop，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 195), citing *The Classic of Xiu Yue and Lu Ban*.，For the Five Labors and Seven Injuries, mountain mists and miasmas, pain in the chest and abdomen, consumptive diseases caused by “transmitted corpses,” wind-induced stagnation and accumulated heat, coughs with alternating chills and fever,excessive wind-phlegm, nasal congestion, gastric … Read more

Three Stones Powder，*Lectures on Traditional Chinese Medicine Surgery*.，For all types of eczema and burns.

Dispersion Decoction for Eliminating Dampness and Regulating Qi，*Huoren Xintong*, Volume 1.，Syndrome of bi caused by wind, cold, and dampness, with the body feeling as stiff as a board, numbness and loss of sensation, or soreness and weakness in the hands and feet.

Tongue-Protecting Pill，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 3.，When heart fire is excessively intense and the water of the kidneys fails to counterbalance it, causing unstoppable bleeding from the tongue, the tongue will inevitably become red and ulcerated. Red marks will appear within the cracks, and blood will flow from these marks. Although this condition … Read more

Three-Flower Pill，*The Mystic Pearl of Chishui*, Volume 27.，For smallpox lesions about to erupt.

Navel-Soothing Powder，*Direct Guide to Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，For children with discharge from the navel or redness and swelling.

Modified Shunqi Powder，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 23), citing *Secret Formulas Based on Clinical Experience*.，For men suffering from stroke-induced paralysis, with clenched fists and feet, a crooked mouth and eyes, hemiplegia, dizziness and vertigo, excessive phlegm, slurred speech, and difficulty walking.

Cangyu Qianlong Decoction，From *Yichun Shengyi*, Volume 2.，In cases of yin deficiency with excessive yang, where the “dragon and thunder” fire violently assaults the Stomach Meridian, causing bleeding from between the teeth without the teeth themselves being affected; in severe cases, blood may fill a cup, occurring more than ten times a day and night, accompanied … Read more

Huanglu Powder，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 386).，For children with unrelenting fever and thirst.

Stomach-Clearing Powder，From *Longmu Lun*, cited in Volume 33 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，When a child develops an external opacity on the eyelid—a condition that arises at the onset of the eye disease due to toxins accumulating in the spleen and stomach and surging to the eyes—a fleshy growth appears at the corner … Read more

Niulang Pills，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 192.，Edema and abdominal distension caused by water retention.

Persimmon Essence Powder，From *Xian Nian Ji*, Volume 2.，For corneal opacities.

Giraffe-Bear Calming Decoction，*Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For mania resulting from typhoid fever, where phlegm-heat and wind-fire are particularly severe.

Cinnamon, Ligusticum, and Angelica Powder，From *Introduction to Obstetrics*, Volume 3.，For women with retained placenta after childbirth.

Decoction for Resolving Blood Stasis and Stopping Bleeding，*Differential Diagnosis of Symptoms in Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，Hemoptysis due to blood stasis in the epigastric region, characterized by purple-colored blood mixed with clots, often accompanied by stabbing pain in the epigastric region at a fixed location that is tender to pressure, a sallow complexion, and a涩 pulse.

Sichuan Pepper and Aconite Pills，*Formulae of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 5 (Supplementary Collection of Empirical Formulas from Various Bureaus).，Deficiency of the Lower Jiao with internal accumulation of cold; a taut and tight sensation in the abdomen and navel; pain radiating to the lower back; fatigue in the limbs; a sallow, dark complexion; dry lips and … Read more

Modified Spleen-Regulating, Heat-Clearing, and Dampness-Removing Ointment，*Selected and Commented Medical Formulas of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu*.，

Miraculous Formula for Verifying Fetal Vitality Powder，From *Medical Compendium*, Volume 35, citing a formula by Wang Haicang.，If a woman has not menstruated for two or three months and suspects she may be pregnant, or suspects blood stasis, accompanied by restlessness, alternating chills and fever, and a dazed state,