Zhuge’s Dry Rations

Decoction for Clearing the Blood and Eliminating Toxins，From *Medical Extracts*.，Rash. For example, in cases of warm diseases accompanied by a rash that suddenly erupts all over the body in patches of red or purple, with flaring nostrils, shortness of breath, high fever with a desire for coolness, and delirious or incoherent speech.

Qiangfang Xingbi Decoction，From Gu Songyuan’s empirical formula, as cited in *Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，For “Xingbi” (painful arthralgia).

Ointment for Damp Sores with Realgar，From *Zhao Bingnan’s Collection of Clinical Experience*.，For acute eczema (rheumatic sores), creeping rash (burn-like sores), and seborrheic dermatitis (facial heat and wind-toxin).

Liver-Nourishing Wine，*Qian Jin*, Volume 11.，It is effective for liver deficiency with cold, or miscellaneous ailments such as excessive tearing.

Tiao Yuan Jian Bu Pills，From *The Complete Works of Jingyue*, Volume 54.，For yin deficiency with blood deficiency, complicated by damp-heat, resulting in weakness in the legs.

Seven-Treasure Powder for Expelling Toxins，From *Ji Feng*, Volume 21.，For eye heat, redness, and pain.

Enhanced Qinglong Decoction，From *Zheng’s Family-Transmitted Gynecological Prescriptions Worth Ten Thousand Gold*, Volume 4.，Due to inadequate postpartum care, the Lung Meridian became deficient, allowing wind-cold to invade, resulting in shortness of breath, coughing, and excessive phlegm.

Wind-Dispelling and Cough-Relieving Powder，*Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 7 (Jinzhang Publishing House, lithographic edition).，For common cold with nasal congestion and cough.

Sulfur-Aconite Pills，From *Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 6.，For cold extremities; also treats chronic spleen wind and cold limbs.

Stinking Yellow Ointment，*Shenghui*, Volume 65.，For wind sores, scabies, and tinea that have not healed for a long time.

Cangbai Gancao Decoction，*Records of Differential Diagnosis*, Volume 2.，Abdominal pain caused by qi stagnation, with severe and urgent pain; a sensation of distension and fullness in both flanks; a bitter taste in the mouth accompanied by nausea; acid regurgitation and diarrhea, yet the stool remains undischarged.

Black Dog Skull Powder，*Shenghui*, Volume 67.，For contusions, bruises, and sores that have not healed for a long time.

Du’s Decoction of Deer Antler Gelatin，From *Collected Formulas of the Crane-Feeding Pavilion*.，For aching and pain in the limbs, dizziness and blurred vision, metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, and seminal emission; and all cases of deficiency of primordial yang and exhaustion due to overwork.

Decoction for Dispelling Delusions，*Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 4.，For patients with heart heat, scattered mental state, prone to sudden joy or laughter, delirium and rambling speech, and hallucinations.

Qianqiu Powder，*Chuanya Bu*, Volume 2.，For all miscellaneous pediatric conditions, food stagnation, malnutrition, distended abdomen with visible blue veins, vomiting, diarrhea, and general weakness.

Fan Jing Pill，*Special Teachings on Ophthalmology*.，For cases of deficiency and depletion of the heart and kidneys, where water and fire fail to harmonize, leading to the gradual development of an internal cataract.

Two Fragrances, Five Seeds, and Three Ju Pills，From *Yonglei Qianfang*, Volume 11.，Lower back pain.

Newly Modified Guizhi Zuojing Decoction，From *Baoming Ge Kuo*, Volume 14.，Beriberi. The Four Pathogenic Qi flow into the Foot Taiyin Meridian, causing restless pain in the joints, stiffness in the limbs, spontaneous sweating, shortness of breath, difficulty urinating, abdominal distension and fullness, and undigested food.

Modified Wuling Decoction，*Straight Talk on Pediatrics*, Volume 5.，Cholera with vomiting and diarrhea in summer and autumn, accompanied by latent summer heat; red face and lips, with a sensation of thirst.

Pine-Lacquer Pills，*The Great Compendium of Surgery*, Volume 4.，Leprosy, leprosy-like conditions, and purpuric dermatitis.

Si Shun Fu Zi Decoction，From *Effective Prescriptions for Women*, Volume 8.，Diarrhea consisting entirely of white stool resembling fish brains; cold pain in the navel and abdomen occurring day and night without pattern; cold extremities; or vomiting, inability to retain any food, preference for warm food and aversion to cold; the six pulses are faint and … Read more

Shuilun Powder，From *Zhuang’s Family Tradition*, cited in Volume 25 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.，For children with erythema that flows like a fiery red flame.

Dragon’s Blood Ointment，From *Essentials of Surgery*, Volume 2.，Boils and abscesses.

Ten-Ingredient Cangbai Powder，Formula from *Danxi’s Heart Method* (Vol. 4); name cited in *Introduction to Medicine* (Vol. 7).，Hernia pain.

White Snake Wine，From *Useful Formulas*, cited in *The Great Yongle Encyclopedia*, Volume 13879.，For wind-induced paralysis, pain in the bone marrow, lower back, and legs, and slight difficulty walking; accompanied by wandering wind-toxin causing uncontrollable itching and pain of the skin.