Wu-Wu Pills

Sulfur Cup，*Compendium of Materia Medica*, Volume 11.，For women with a cold and depleted Blood Sea, accompanied by red or white vaginal discharge.

Immortal Pills with Ginseng and Donkey-Hide Gelatin Powder，From *Supplement to the Essentials of Guanjù Formulas*, Volume 2, citing *Ye’s Record of Proven Formulas*.，For dysentery with five-colored stools, resembling fish brains or soybean milk.

The “105 Powder”，*Medical Mirror of Ancient and Modern Times*, Volume 15.，For fish-mouth sores in the initial 3–5 days.

Remedies for Seasonal Epidemics，*Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 7.，For epidemic diseases presenting with fever and swollen lumps in the throat, accompanied by aversion to cold, high fever, headache, and redness and swelling of the head and face, resembling a “thunderhead.”

Three-Qi Decoction，*The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 51.，For deficiency of blood and qi, with the three pathogenic factors—wind, cold, and dampness—invading the body through a state of vulnerability, resulting in extreme pain and stiffness in the tendons, bones, and joints, as well as “crane-knee” pain following dysentery.

Donkey-Hide Gelatin Powder，*Zhunsheng: Gynecology*, Volume 4.，Fetal movement during pregnancy, abdominal pain, and loss of appetite.

Shen’s Heatstroke Decoction，*A Clear Explanation of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 12.，For cases where summer-heat pathogens directly affect the Heart and Liver meridians, presenting with no headache, no fever, occasional restlessness, a short tongue, and twitching of the hands and feet.

Pepper Melon Pills，*Direct Pointers*, Volume 4.，Internal symptoms of beriberi.

Lacquer Yellow Pills，From *Zhang’s Comprehensive Treatise on Medicine*, Volume 14.，For infectious wind-induced redness and swelling that is hard, painful, and non-itchy.

Xuanjie Decoction，*Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，For a cold that has lingered in the Taiyang channel, causing heat to accumulate in the bladder and resulting in red, scanty, and painful urination; or for cases where constipation is followed by loose stools; also effective for the initial stage of damp-heat syndrome, characterized by aversion to … Read more

Youth-Restoring Pill，*Direct Pointers*, Volume 9.，Heart deficiency and kidney cold; seminal leakage and leukorrhea; nocturnal emissions.

Yanghua Powder，*Supplement to Traumatology*, Volume 4.，

Chengqi Huadu Decoction，From *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 6.，In cases of smallpox characterized by mania and restlessness, where the hands and feet should be warm but are instead cold—a condition where extreme yang manifests as yin—this is termed “yang-type collapse.”

Wind-Dispelling and Clear-the-Upper-Burning Powder，From *Shenshi Yaohan*, Volume 3.，Wind-heat ascending, causing pain along the brow ridge.

Enhanced Shenling Shenghua Decoction，*Secrets of Gynecology*, Volume 6.，Postpartum diarrhea.

Heat-Clearing Honeysuckle Pills，*Song of Preserving Life: Summary* (Vol. 11).，Diseases caused by heat stagnation.

Heat-Reversal Decoction，*Concise Medical Compendium*, Volume 3.，Heat-induced hiccups. Characterized by fever, restlessness, thirst, constipation, and a rapid pulse.

Mulberry, Moutan, and White-Discharging Decoction，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Liver fire drying the lungs, resulting in cough accompanied by pain in the flanks, inability to turn over in bed, and in severe cases, hemoptysis, or sputum mixed with blood streaks or droplets.

Ginseng Warming the Middle Pills，From *Discussions on the Care of Infants and Children*, Volume 19.，For infants and young children experiencing convulsive vomiting or fever-induced vomiting, mental agitation, epigastric discomfort, progressively worsening anxiety and palpitations, and a dazed, unfocused state.

Pì Huà Dān，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 393.，For disharmony of the spleen and stomach, or due to frequent startles and crying, resulting in the formation of a hard mass (suanpi) and pain under the ribs.

Six-Ingredient Decoction with Ginseng and Ophiopogon Powder，*Discussions on the Treatment of Smallpox*.，For smallpox cases with fever and mild thirst; or when the smallpox rash is accompanied by persistent wheezing and unrelenting thirst.

Bamboo Leaf and Gypsum Decoction，From *Gu’s Medical Pathways*, Volume 5.，Excessive thirst following a febrile illness.

Gui Zhi Yi Bai Hu Er Decoction，*Commentary on the Treatise on Malaria*.，Yangming malaria.

Zhen Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 146.，For cases of mild gu poisoning that have long since developed into “ghost malaria”; or for qi stagnation with pathogenic factors; or phlegm-mass accumulation in the chest; or bleeding from the eyes; or sudden illness (zhong’e); or night terrors (jingyan); or the interplay of the Eight Pathogenic Factors; or retained placenta … Read more

Drumskin Decoction，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 88); name cited in *Shengji Zonglu* (Vol. 177).，For children poisoned by gu. The abdomen feels as hard as stone; the face and eyes appear sallow and yellow; urination is dribbling and irregular.