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Liuwei Anxiao Jiaonang (Six-Ingredient Peaceful-Dispersing Capsules) is a common Chinese patent medicine. Its composition is six herbs: zangmuxiang (Aucklandia Radix, Tibetan), dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma), shannai (Kaempferiae Rhizoma), hanshuishi (Gypsum Rubrum), hezi (Chebulae Fructus), and jianhua (alkaline ash). The formula comes from the 2010…

Wuji Baifeng Wan (Black-Boned Chicken White-Phoenix Pill) is a famous gynecologic formula. Many know it as the classic formula for common women's diseases such as menstrual irregularity, uterine bleeding and leukorrhea, but few know it has many other "clever uses." The prescription comes from the…

Zhang's Comprehensive Medicine in Suits of Clinical Cases (Zhangshi Yitong) records a formula for "leprosy with burning swelling, itching and pain" called "Jiulong Wan" (Nine-Dragon Pill). Its composition is: danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) and kushen (Sophorae Flavescentis Radix), each 2 liang; fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix), jingjie…

Chai Guang Jiedu Wan is a compound I devised during the 2022 COVID epidemic to relieve post-COVID symptoms; I have already published the formula on my official account and personal website. During the epidemic it relieved symptoms in many patients; after COVID ended, some readers…

Lianzhao (Forsythiae Fructus) is known as the "divine herb for sores and swellings" and is the first choice of TCM external medicine for treating tumoral sores. Traditional TCM holds that lianzhao clears heat and resolves toxin, disperses swelling and dissipates nodules, and scatters wind-heat. Modern…

I was born in the seventh lunar month of 1979 in a clan village in eastern Hubei, and now live in Beijing, near the National Library of China. Before eighteen I studied in my hometown and rarely traveled far. I can farm; I have a…

Yuanhu Zhitong Pian (Corydalis Pain-Relieving Tablets) is a modern Chinese patent medicine; its formula is recorded in Part I of the 2005 edition of the Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China. Its composition is: vinegar-processed yanhusuo (Corydalis Rhizoma, also called yuanhu) 445 g, and…

Humanity has entered an age of great transformation. Over the past two or three hundred years, the development of human society has been shaped by science and technology more than in any earlier period. Deng Xiaoping once said that science and technology are the primary…

In Introduction to Medicine (Yixue Rumen) there is a pill formula named "Qingtan Wan" (Phlegm-Clearing Pill). Its composition is: cangzhu (Atractylodis Rhizoma) 2 liang (60 g); xiangfu (Cyperi Rhizoma) 1 liang 5 qian (45 g); gualouren (Trichosanthis Semen) and banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma), each 1 liang…

On November 26, 2024, Guinness World Records announced that the world's oldest living man, Britain's John Tinniswood, had died the previous day at a nursing home in Southport, in northwest England, at the age of 112. A statement from his family said: "His last day…