Yang-Suppressing and Summer-Heat-Clearing Decoction

Decoction for Releasing the Exterior and Attacking the Interior，From *Jie Wei Yuan Sou*, Volume 4.，Severe leprosy.

Single-Stroke Outline，Formula by Zhou Hexian, cited in Volume 8 of *The Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*.，All types of swollen abscesses.

Wind-Dispelling, Qi-Regulating, and Phlegm-Resolving Pills，From *Formulas of the Rui Zhu Hall*, cited in Volume 94 of *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，For coughs with stagnant qi, vomiting of phlegm and saliva, dizziness and blurred vision, hemiplegia, paralysis on one side of the body, and facial paralysis—where other medications have failed to provide relief.

Zhi Shi Pills for Eliminating Dampness，*Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 8.，For phlegm-fluid retention and fluid retention damaging the spleen and stomach.

Mustard-Cinnabar Pills，From *Resolving the Source of the Yuan* (Vol. 4).，For severe, purplish-black, gangrenous sores.

Wulong Pills，From *Collected Insights on Surgical Diseases: Formulas for Home Use—Ointments, Pills, and Powders*.，For wandering abscesses, leg boils of a mixed yin-yang nature, as well as fish-mouth abscesses and anal abscesses. Also for鹤膝风 (crane-knee wind).

White Scallion Pain-Relieving Decoction，*Six Books of Medical Essentials*, Volume 28.，For pregnant women with low back pain and a floating pulse.

Five Spicy Herbs to Relieve Diaphragmatic Stagnation Decoction，From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.，Chronic cold accumulation, stabbing pain in the chest and abdomen, distension and fullness in the flanks, vomiting and nausea, belching with a sour taste and regurgitation of acid, fatigue, and loss of appetite.

Huangma Powder，Formula from *Shenghui* (Vol. 36); name cited in *Puji Fang* (Vol. 55).，For malignant sores in the ear.

Pill for Removing Corneal Opacities，*Compendium of Ophthalmology*.，This formula treats horizontal opacities and internal cataracts caused by wind-heat toxins attacking the Liver and Kidney meridians, resulting in the gradual formation of a blue-white opacity over the pupil—a single layer as thin as paper, resting within the “Golden Well” of the pupil, without spreading beyond it.

Xiao Li Pills，From *Yi Fang Lei Ju* (Vol. 102), citing *Yu Yi Cuo Yao*.，

Purple Ointment，From *The Great Treasure of Health*, Volume 2.，For internal deficiency-induced sore throat, or when it progresses to laryngeal candidiasis.

Ground-Leaf Waterwort Powder，*Zhun Sheng: Treatise on Sores and Ulcers*, Volume 3.，Toxic swelling on the middle finger of the hand, with redness, swelling, and pain.

Ice Pool Powder，From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 10.，Redness of the eyes.

Immediate Throat-Opening Drink，*Guide to Throat Disorders*, Volume 4.，For acute conditions such as a swollen and painful throat with inability to swallow liquids.

Da Si Shi Pills，Quoted from Zhang Chengzu in Volume 2 of *Bai Yi*.，For gastroptosis.

Xianling Powder，From *San Yin*.，For skin lesions affecting the eyes.

Water-Perilla Formula，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 47.，Dizziness caused by wind.

Achyranthes and Black Plum Four-Ingredient Decoction，*Eight Methods of Medical Practice*, Volume 4.，For women with excessive uterine bleeding (bengzhong) caused by damage to the yang collaterals, resulting in blood rising to the upper body and manifesting as vomiting or nosebleeds.

Gui-Yu Decoction，From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 5.，Postpartum vaginal erosion.

Hupao Spring，From *Resolving the Source of the Yuan* (Volume 4).，Leprosy with contracted fingers.

Secretly Transmitted Great Penetrating-the-Skin Powder，*Zhun Sheng: Pediatrics*, Volume 4.，Smallpox.

Sophora Fruit Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 94.，Swelling and retraction of a testicular hernia.

Gardenia Six-Ingredient Powder，From *Formulas of Xu Renze*, cited in Volume 3 of *Wai Tai*.，For epidemic diseases or typhoid fever where the condition persists after sweating and purgation induced by chicken-egg decoction.

Leek Root Powder，From *Classified Collection of Medical Formulas*, Volume 50, citing *Shenghui*.，Used for cases following typhoid fever where yin and yang are easily disrupted, presenting with a heavy head, pain in all joints subsiding, shortness of breath and weakness, inability to get out of bed, and in severe cases, clenched fists and feet, as well … Read more