Yi Sao Formula

Life-Saving Pill，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 8.，For boils and abscesses on the back, carbuncles, mastitis, anal abscesses, all types of unexplained swellings and toxic sores, and umbilical wind in children.

Single-Horse Break-Through Powder，*Zongfu of Laryngology*, Volume 4.，Acute laryngeal obstruction.

Pills to Calm the Shock，From *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.，For various types of convulsions in children.

Chaihu Tongsei Decoction，From *Qian Jin*, Volume 20.，Heat in the lower jiao with obstruction of urination and defecation.

Three-White Cake，From *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Asthma caused by excessive consumption of pickled foods, triggered by cold food or drink.

Four-Ingredient Zhi Shi Powder，From *Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 7.，Deficiency of liver qi, pain in both flanks.

Dendrobium Dew，*Encyclopedia of Chinese Medicine*.，For cases following febrile diseases or smallpox, where body fluids are depleted, internal “empty fire” rages, or there is a congenital deficiency of true yin and unresolved stomach heat.

Songluo Decoction，*Shenghui*, Volume 52.，For malaria with phlegm-obstruction, where attacks occur at irregular times—whether in the morning or at night—and the patient gradually loses the ability to eat.

Qiyang Zishen Dan，*Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 3.，Excessive self-abuse depletes the kidney’s fluids day by day, and the kidney’s fire also gradually wanes, leading to impotence and a lack of vitality.

Qisheng Pills，From *Effective Emergency Remedies*.，For all life-threatening cases of shā syndrome.

Minor Bupleurum Decoction with Rehmannia，From *Shenghui*, cited in *Pujifang*, Volume 318.，For women and young maidens with typhoid fever who have just begun or just ceased menstruation; they are lucid during the day but delirious at night, behaving as if seeing ghosts. It also treats cases where postpartum lochia has just begun but suddenly ceases.

Chaihu-Gui-Jiang-Banxia Decoction，*Selected Essentials of Medicine*.，Cold epidemic. The Shaoyang channel transmits to the Taiyin zang organ, causing fullness and distension in the chest and flanks, and vomiting.

Gold Coin Decoction，From *Yin Hai Jing Wei*, Volume 1.，Redness and ulceration of the eyelid margins. This results from the accumulation of damp-heat in the spleen earth, which fails to transform dampness; the interplay of damp and heat then manifests between the eyelid margins, causing photophobia and tearing, with fluid accumulating within the eyelid margins, leading … Read more

Decoction to Support the Gallbladder and Promote Urination，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 8.，Gallbladder qi is obstructed due to fright; essence cannot be discharged, leading to white turbid discharge and pain in the urethra, as if pricked by needles.

Modified Qingxin Decoction，From *Xingyuan*, Volume 7.，Excessive heat in the heart causing restlessness; red, turbid discharge resembling fatty grease.

Pill for Promoting Digestion and Eliminating Dampness，*Wai Tai*, Volume 20, citing *Gujin Luyan*.，For water-retention disorders characterized by mild swelling throughout the body, a distended abdomen, and undigested food and drink.

Green Cloud Ointment，From *The Correct Transmission of Medicine*, Volume 6.，For scrofula that has spread and metastasized to the armpits, flanks, hands, and feet.

Atractylodes Paste，*General Essentials of Health Preservation*, Volume 10.，For children suffering from summer heat or latent heat due to heatstroke, presenting with dizziness, headache, vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal distension and bloating, restlessness, excessive thirst, and difficulty urinating; also treats children with disharmony of the spleen and stomach, abdominal distension and bloating, and poor appetite for breast … Read more

Clove and Melia Fruit Pills，*Medical Inventions*, Volume 1.，For disorders of the kidneys and liver; in men, the seven types of hernias with unbearable pain; in women, masses and leukorrhea.

Dan-Di-Wu-Mei Si-Wu Decoction，*Eight Methods of Medical Practice*, Volume 4.，Blood deficiency with irregular menstruation, unpredictable timing, or blood depletion with amenorrhea, accompanied by shortness of breath, cough, and bone-steaming fever.

Compound Lei Pi Pills，Formula adapted from Leng Baizhi’s prescription in *Clinical Treatment of Internal Medicine in Traditional Chinese Medicine*.，For hookworm infection.

Decoction for Dispelling Wind and Clearing the Liver，*The Golden Mirror*, Volume 65.，Ulcers with exudate.

Alum Ointment，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 181.，For a membrane on a child’s cornea.

Young Bull Horn (Jiao Si) Powder，From *Qianjin Yi*, Volume 8.，Vaginal Discharge in Women (Five Categories): External excess, internal deficiency. First: Bleeding following a febrile illness; second: Bleeding accompanied by alternating chills and fever; third: Bleeding due to sexual intercourse while menstruation has not yet ceased; fourth: Bleeding caused by lifting heavy objects during menstruation, injuring … Read more

Mulberry, Orange, and Apricot Kernel Decoction，*Yi Ji*, Volume 7.，Pathogenic factors invade the Lung Meridian; stagnant heat transforms into fire, or Wood and Fire overcome Metal, resulting in blood in the phlegm.