Xuanhu Liuhe Decoction

Mass-Dissolving Life-Restoring Pill，*Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 1.，For conditions where dryness penetrates the lower jiao, accumulates in the blood, and forms masses. When the mass is undispersed, there is no pain; when it manifests, the pain is severe; blood-obstruction syndrome; the excess pattern of women’s dry-blood consumption syndrome; malaria with left-flank … Read more

Qinghao Powder，*A Hundred Questions on Infants and Children*, Volume 8.，Constipation in newborns.

Seven-Star Heart-Cleansing Powder，From *The Great Compendium of the Yongle Era*, Volume 8020, citing *Experienced and Universal Remedies for All Conditions*.，For adults and children suffering from bone-consuming fever and exhaustion, with dry and withered skin, thick and sticky phlegm, pain in the limbs, a flushed face and dry lips, restlessness, disturbed sleep, or occasional coughing.

Heart-Nourishing and Kidney-Strengthening Hundred-Tonics Pill，*Song Family Gynecology*.，For those with an internal deficiency of true essence, leading to weak stomach qi, deficiency and exhaustion of the lower jiao, as well as nocturnal emissions, spontaneous sweating, dizziness, darkened vision, tinnitus, and weakness in the limbs.

Baoyuan Huazhi Decoction，*Corrections to Medical Forest*, Volume 2.，For children with smallpox 5–6 days into the course, presenting with dysentery that is white, red, or a mixture of red and white; and for adults with acute or chronic dysentery.

Silkworm and Soft-Shelled Turtle Powder，From *Dongtian Aozi*, Volume 13.，For tetanus sores.

Su Fang Powder，*Zhun Sheng: Ulcer Medicine*, Volume 4. An alternative name for the “Su Fang Mu Powder” cited in *The Correct Transmission of Medicine*, Volume 6, from *The Collection of Sores and Ulcers*.，To treat anal abscesses.

Black Soybean Pills，From *Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Zhu Family*, Volume 3.，Stabbing pain.

Chuanwu Wine，*Puji Fang*, Volume 350.，Postpartum stroke, with the body arched like a bow and the mouth clenched shut, unable to speak.

Two-Sand Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 171.，For childhood convulsions and epilepsy.

Raw Rehmannia Porridge，From *Shenghui*, Volume 96.，For restlessness due to deficiency of the heart and diaphragm, dry mouth and intense thirst, poor appetite, and dark, scanty urine.

White Lotus Powder，*Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 8.，For dark spots or blue-black discoloration.

Almond and Talc Decoction，*Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 2.，For summer-heat and latent summer-heat affecting all three burners, presenting with a grayish-white tongue, chest fullness and oppression, tidal fever, nausea and vomiting, restlessness and thirst, spontaneous diarrhea, sweating, and scanty urine.

Agastache and Pinellia Powder，*Formulae of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 3.，Stomach deficiency with internal cold, stagnant phlegm and retained fluid, retching and vomiting, chest fullness and epigastric distension, shortness of breath and fatigue, inability to retain food.

Gardenia, Coptis, Trifoliate Orange, and Platycodon Decoction，*The Great Compendium of Cold Damage*, Volume 3.，Pain in the chest and flanks due to internal heat, obstruction of the respiratory tract, alternating chills and fever, cough with counterflow of qi, sweating, and a deep, rapid pulse.

True Yin Pill，*The Posthumous Writings of Shen Zhai*, Volume 5.，Yin-Yang Depletion.

Jade Medicine Pill，*Formulas for Universal Relief* (Pujifang), Volume 249.，Small Intestinal Colic, with unbearable pain and a sense of impending death.

Ephedra Decoction for Relieving Exterior Syndromes，From *The Complete Book of Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 1.，In the severe cold of winter, when one contracts wind-cold from external sources, the smallpox lesions are suppressed by external pathogens and do not erupt easily.

Talc, Alum, and Licorice Powder，From *Fang Ji*.，For painful dysuria and difficulty urinating.

Galangal Powder，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 55.，Cardiac pain with cold extremities. The complexion is bluish-black; the eyes stare straight ahead; pain and distension extend from the heart and abdomen to the lower ribs.

Peach and Pepper Seed Pills，*Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 1.，Menstrual flow ceases first, followed by the onset of swelling.

Li Feng Dan，*Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*, Volume 28.，Snake-skin epilepsy, scaly epilepsy, and hairy epilepsy.

Eye-Brightening and Pain-Relieving Pills，*Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing*.，For liver hyperactivity and blood heat, redness of both eyes, blood pooling in the pupils, pterygium obscuring the cornea, and pain from trauma.

Crystal Pill，From *The Heart Book for Saving Infants*, Volume 2.，For conditions caused by shock, food stagnation, or parasitic infestation, characterized by abdominal distension, restlessness, crying, nausea, loss of appetite, and a sallow complexion; also for cases following acute shock where wind-phlegm has not been fully resolved, to prevent the development of mental disorders.

Ginseng and Astragalus Four-Ingredient Decoction，*The Continuation of the Medical Lamp*, Volume 2.，Blood deficiency, where qi cannot harmonize with it, resulting in shortness of breath and rapid breathing, spontaneous sweating, aversion to cold, a pale complexion, and a floating pulse that feels hollow and涩 upon palpation; or in cases where the patient has previously experienced blood … Read more