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Shenzhen Decoction，*A Clear Illumination of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 18.，Repeated episodes of anger cause Liver Yang to rise and surge upward; Qi surges and the heart becomes hot, leading to choking, coughing, and hemoptysis; when the Qi descends, it results in seminal emission; there is evening fever and morning sweating; the … Read more

Five-Lamp-Head Grass Ointment，From *Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For scrofula that fails to heal, swollen abscesses, and eczema.

Dill Pills，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 395.，For children with abdominal distension, cholera with vomiting and retching, cold abdomen, inability to swallow food, and pain in the flanks.

Poria and Alisma Decoction，From *The Golden Cabinet* (Volume Middle).，For gastric reflux with vomiting and a thirst for water. For cholera, following vomiting and diarrhea, with restlessness, thirst, and a desire to drink water.

Pills for Clearing the Metal, Stopping Cough, and Resolving Phlegm，*Selected Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas from Beijing*.，For severe heat in the lung and stomach, accompanied by coughing, hoarseness, thick and sticky phlegm, and dryness of the mouth and tongue.

Toxin-Clearing and Pus-Expelling Powder，From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 190), citing *The Classic of Xiu Yue and Lu Ban*.，Swelling and abscesses.

Qianhu Xiegan Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 108.，For toxicity from cinnabar and mineral pigments rising upward, causing red eyes, restlessness, heat sensations, and a vague sensation of fullness in the chest.

Decoction of Two Ingredients，*Zhi Zhi*, Volume 18.，For “ben tun” hernia and stabbing, wandering pain.

Ginseng and Black Plum Decoction，From *Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 3.，Chronic diarrhea has depleted yin, resulting in thirst, a dry tongue, a slight fever, and a mild cough.

Grass Ash Powder，*New Compilation of Mei’s Proven Formulas*, Volume 5.，For smallpox lesions that have become ulcerated.

Golden Phoenix Phlegm-Resolving Ointment，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 64.，Phlegm-induced eruption. It appears along the spine; upon palpation, it feels hard as wood and is slightly tender, with no heat or redness, and the skin color remains normal.

Three-Yellow Ointment，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 12.，For sores, ringworm, scabies, and nodular eruptions; as well as vitiligo.

Red Reishi Powder，*General Essentials of Health*, Volume 2.，When a child’s eyebrows and eyelashes fall out and fail to regrow due to tinea, it is called “infantile tinea of the cheeks.”

Harmonizing Four Substances Decoction，From *Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 3.，For common cold and flu, with fatigue in the limbs, dizziness and headache, and fever.

Black Plum, White Vitex, and Asarum Pills，*Commentary on the Treatise on Malaria*.，Liver malaria.

Decoction for Nourishing Blood and Strengthening the Spleen，*The Transmission of the Lamp of Medicine*, Volume 2.，For abdominal abscesses caused by stagnant heat, which form a coating on the tongue and result in dryness,涩ness, and difficulty in defecation.

Malaria-Stopping Pills，From *The Secret Transmission of the Blue Sack*.，For malaria.

Detoxifying and Eruption-Promoting Decoction，From *Family Instructions on Laryngology*, Volume 2.，For wind-heat and warm-toxin epidemics where pathogenic heat has penetrated deeply into the Yangming Blood Vessel; presenting with thirst, sore throat, red eyes, swollen lips, coarse breathing, restlessness, a crimson tongue with dry teeth, phlegm-related cough, and even mental confusion, delirium, and yellow watery diarrhea.

Cooling Four-Ingredient Decoction，*Essentials of Formulas and Syndromes*, Volume 3.，Hemoptysis, hematemesis.

Scutellaria and Coptis Stomach-Harmonizing Decoction，From *Jin Jian*, Volume 63.，Swallow’s Nest Sores. These appear on the lower jaw, resembling clusters of millet or beans; they are itchy, hot, and painful, and resemble weeping sores that have broken open.

Oat Paste，*Li Ye*.，Swelling and pain in the parotid gland.

Convulsions Decoction，From *Shenshi Yaohan*, Volume 3.，Fish-Egg-and-Pomegranate Syndrome.

Yirong Ointment，From *Shenghui*, Volume 40.，For facial sores and (black, dry) dark, itchy rashes.

Perilla and Platycodon Large Pills，From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.，During the summer months, excessive consumption of raw and cold foods leads to the accumulation of dampness internally.

Cuixia Ointment，From *Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 191, citing *Secret Formulas Based on Clinical Experience*.，For all kinds of malignant sores.