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Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang: Clearing Heat and Boosting Vitality
Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang comes from the Eastern Han Dynasty physician Zhang Zhongjing’s Shanghan Zabing Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases), later compiled into Shanghan Lun and Jin Gui Yao Lue. It is a variation of Bai Hu Tang, primarily used to treat warm diseases or cold damage with intense internal heat and deficient qi and yin.

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Wu Ji San: Versatile Formula for Cold, Phlegm, and Stagnation Relief
Wu Ji San comes from the Song Dynasty’s official medical text Taiping Huimin Heji Jufang (Prescriptions of the Bureau of People’s Welfare Pharmacies), the first state-issued pharmacopeia in China. It compiles clinically proven formulas, and Wu Ji San was used to treat conditions caused by external wind-cold, internal cold from raw food, and women’s issues like irregular periods, abdominal pain, and qi-blood disharmony.

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Bai Zi Ren Wan: Supporting Women’s Health with Heart-Nourishing Calm
Bai Zi Ren Wan is documented in several ancient medical texts, including Furen Liangfang (Good Prescriptions for Women) and Furen Daquan Liangfang (Complete Good Prescriptions for Women). These works are key resources in gynecology, compiling effective remedies for common women’s ailments. Historically, the formula was used to treat irregular menstruation, blood stasis, blood deficiency with heat, gradual cessation of periods, weight loss with tidal fever, and amenorrhea in

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Xiao Xu Ming Tang: A Lifesaving Formula for Stroke Emergencies
Xiao Xu Ming Tang comes from Sun Simiao’s Beiji Qianjin Yaofang (Essential Prescriptions for Emergencies), where it was described as a treatment for sudden stroke with life-threatening symptoms like body stiffness or weakness, facial asymmetry, rigid tongue, inability to speak, confusion, and disorientation. Sun Simiao himself used this formula to treat stroke, documenting his experiences, which adds to its credibility.

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Shi Liu Wei Liu Qi Yin: Strengthening Vitality and Relieving Swelling
Shi Liu Wei Liu Qi Yin comes from the Ming Dynasty physician Wang Ji’s book Yuji Weiyi (Subtle Meanings of the Jade Machine), a widely respected empirical formula. Yuji Weiyi is a significant medical text that compiles Wang Ji’s clinical experiences and unique insights. Historically, this formula was used to treat conditions like liver qi stagnation, blood stasis, or invasions of wind, cold, and dampness, leading to qi and blood disharmony, resulting in painless, unchanged-co

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Qing Hao Bie Jia Tang: Nourishing Yin and Clearing Hidden Heat
Qing Hao Bie Jia Tang comes from the Qing Dynasty physician Wu Jutong’s book Wenbing Tiaobian (Systematic Differentiation of Febrile Diseases), a cornerstone text in febrile disease theory and treatment. This formula is a key remedy for late-stage febrile diseases where yin is heavily depleted, and residual heat lingers deep in the yin level, causing symptoms like nighttime fever that cools by morning and fever resolving without sweating.

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Wu Zi Yan Zong Wan: Boosting Kidney Essence and Vitality
Wu Zi Yan Zong Wan is a classic remedy for nourishing kidney essence. Its origins are said to trace back to the Tang Dynasty, when the immortal Zhang Guolao presented the “Shou Xian Wu Zi Wan” to Emperor Xuanzong. Zhengzhi Zhunsheng is a comprehensive medical text that compiles many clinically proven formulas. Wu Zi Yan Zong Wan was historically used to treat kidney deficiency symptoms like seminal emission, impotence, premature ejaculation, dribbling urine after urination, i

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Shi Xiao San / Sudden Smile Powder
Shi Xiao San is indicated for pain due to blood stasis such as stabbing pain in the chest and abdomen, inhibited lochia, irregular menstruation, and acute pain in the lower abdomen.

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Xiao Ji Yin Zi / Field Thistle Drink
Blood strangury or bloody urine is due to the accumulation of heat in the lower jiao. This condition is marked by blood in the urine, and frequent painful urination that is hot with an unsmooth stream. The tongue is red and the pulse is rapid.

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Shi Hui San / Ten Charred Substances Powder
Shi Hui San is indicated for hemorrhages due to blood heat. Examples include vomiting of blood, spitting of blood, expectoration of blood, coughing of blood, nosebleed. If the color of the blood is bright red, the situation is acute and severe. The tongue body is red and the pulse is rapid.

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Gu Chong Tang / Penetrating Vessel-Securing Decoction
Gu Chong Tang is designed for the pattern of spleen and kidney deficiency with insecurity of the chong mai. Uterine bleeding may be profuse or it may routinely spot bleed in an irregular pattern. Profuse menstruation occurs with thin and pale menses, dizziness, cold extremities, palpitation, shortness of breath, mental fatigue, weakness, weak and aching waist and knees.

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Mu Li San / Oyster Shell Powder
Mu Li San is indicated for spontaneous sweating or night sweat in those with a deficient constitution. Symptoms include constant spontaneous sweating that is worse at night, palpitations, easy to become frightened, shortness of breath, vexation, and fatigue. The tongue body is pale or light red and the pulse is thready and weak.

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Si Shen Wan / Four Spirits Pill
Si Shen Wan is used to treat kidney diarrhea due to yang deficiency of the spleen and kidney. Chief symptoms include fifth-watch (diarrhea at dawn) diarrhea, reluctance to eat or drink, poor digestion and absorption, chronic unremitting diarrhea, abdominal pain, lumbar pain, cold limbs, mental fatigue, and lack of strength. Usually, the tongue is pale with a white and thin coating. The pulse is deep, slow and weak.

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Zhu Ye Shi Gao Tang: A Time-Honored Remedy for Cooling, Hydrating, and Restoring Vital Balance
Zhu Ye Shi Gao Tang: An ancient remedy for clearing away heat, promoting salivation, replenishing qi and soothing the stomach

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Xiao Xian Xiong Tang: An ancient recipe for clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, and relaxing the chest
Xiao Xian Xiong Tang: An ancient recipe for clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, and relaxing the chest

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