Zhuangben Dan

Ephedra and Cnidium Powder，*A Concise Handbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine Dermatology*.，For excessive sweating, heat rash, and hives.

Ear-Base Eight-Treasure Oil，From *Selected Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing*.，Persistent pus discharge from the ear, or swelling, pain, and bleeding.

Decoction for Nourishing Yin and Strengthening Yang，*Huiyue*, Volume 9.，Weak pulse in the right cun position indicates deficiency of the true yang of the Gate of Life, resulting in the kidneys’ inability to transform qi, with upward surging energy resembling shortness of breath.

Pain-Relieving Two-Ginger Pills，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Shenyang Formula).，For epigastric pain, abdominal distension and pain, cold stagnation and congestion, and lower abdominal hernia pain.

Sneeze-Inducing Pills，From *The New Book on Infant Care*, Volume 9, citing *Zhang’s Family Tradition*.，For acute and chronic convulsions in children.

Qianghuo and Danggui Powder，From *Essentials of the Treatment of Infectious Ulcers*, Volume 2.，For wind-toxin and blood-heat manifesting as sores on the head and face—which may present as redness and swelling, lumps, or itchy hives with oozing pus and fluid.

Formula for Dispelling Wind and Clearing Spleen Dampness，From *Shenshi Yaohan*, Volume 4.，Miliary eruption syndrome. Wind-heat in the Spleen Meridian causes miliary or pepper-like eruptions on the eyelids; the patient experiences excessive tearing and difficulty opening the eyes, a gritty sensation, and pain upon rubbing the eyes; the miliary eruptions resemble millet grains and are yellow … Read more

Qingjing Ointment，From *Special Teachings on Ophthalmology*.，Heat in the Heart Meridian surges upward to the brain, causing the eyes and temples to swell and ache as if pricked by needles.

Divinely Inspired Gaoqing Pills，From *Nourishing the Elderly and Honoring Parents*.，For elderly patients with spleen-related diarrhea, disharmony of the heart qi, mental fatigue, and loss of appetite.

Decoction for Generating Yang from the Yin，*Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 24.，Internal heat due to yin deficiency; consumptive disease.

Seven Hernia Pills，From *Yixin Fang*, Volume 10, citing *Gujin Luyan*.，Seven Types of Hernia. A severe condition in the abdomen accompanied by cold extremities, heart pain, and cold feet, with food being regurgitated and unable to be swallowed, is called “Jue Hernia”; abdominal distension with pain throughout the epigastrium, and a mass as large as an … Read more

Sixteen-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill，From *Ci You Xin Chuan*, Volume 1.，For children with spleen and stomach deficiency.

Atractylodes and Aconite Decoction，Formula from *Danxi’s Heart Methods*, Volume 4; name cited in *Medical Compendium*, Volume 60.，Pain caused by a hernia.

Zihe Decoction，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 6.，For atrophy syndrome. The patient is obese, has a fondness for drinking, and has always been sensitive to heat. Upon onset of the disease, there is profuse spontaneous sweating, atrophy of all four limbs, aversion to cold, scanty and reddish urine, stools that are either loose or hard, … Read more

White Tiger Decoction with Scrophularia, Barley, and Duckweed，From *Si Sheng Xuan Shu*, Volume 4.，For children with an epidemic rash in its early stages, where the Yangming channel is inherently vigorous, presenting with restlessness, fever, and dry thirst.

Ginseng and Atractylodes Chest-Relieving Decoction，*Zhun Sheng: Pediatrics*, Volume 8.，For children with blue veins and malnutrition, accompanied by abdominal pain and spitting up after feeding.

Cold-Dispelling Decoction，From *Secret Records of the Stone Chamber*, Volume 3.，Wind-cold invades the lung, causing nasal congestion, sneezing, persistent cough, and sputum resembling rotten cotton.

Hengshan Black Plum Decoction，From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 197), citing *Formulas for Emergency Treatment*.，Malaria with phlegm obstructing the diaphragm, preventing vomiting.

Ginseng, Angelica, and Cimicifuga Decoction，*Hui Chun*, Volume 4.，For individuals with deficiency syndrome presenting with difficulty urinating.

Decoction for Dispelling Pathogenic Factors，*Record of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 1.，For patients with pre-existing cold pathogens in the Shao Yang channel who contract cold damage during the winter months, resulting in Yang Ming fire pathogens failing to disperse, and who develop malaria-like symptoms after two days of fever.

Fennel Pills，*Xuanming Lun*, Volume 13.，For men and women with persistent stabbing pain in the umbilical region and abdomen, radiating to the chest and diaphragm, indicating chronic cold in the lower jiao.

Cinnamon Bark Porridge，*Nourishing the Elderly and Honoring Parents*.，For elderly patients suffering from dysphagia, chest pain and tightness, qi stagnation in the diaphragm, and inability to swallow food.

Qingjie Decoction，*The Mysterious Pearls of Chishui*, Volume 25.，Pediatric “Biànzhēng” syndrome. Predominantly heat with minimal cold; flushed face and coarse breathing, resembling a common cold; no sweating on the surface or internally; may present with hives and cough.

Five-Ash Decoction，Quoted from *Gujin Luyan* in Volume 29 of *Wai Tai*.，Black moles, warts.

Qingfeng Huanjing Powder，From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 77.，For chronic cataracts that have progressed to a deficiency of “blue wind.”