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Ginger Juice Pills (from Yang's Family Preserved Formulas): Treats Lung Qi stagnation and excess. Manifestations include wheezing, chest fullness, cough, vomiting of food and drink, and difficulty in urination and defecation.
Ingredients: Pinellia Rhizoma (Banxia) (washed seven times with decoction), Dried Ginger (Gan Jiang) (each 1 liang). Croton Seed (Badou) (2 qian, peeled, heart and membrane removed, oil expressed to obtain the paste). Grind the above two ingredients into fine powder, add the Badou paste, and grind again until uniform. Use ginger juice to mix with thin flour paste to form pills, size like millet seeds. Take 10 pills per dose, administered with Ginger Decoction after meals.

Er Mu Tang (Two Mother Decoction) (from Medical Questions): Treats cough caused by Lung Qi heat stagnation.
Ingredients: Anemarrhenae Rhizoma (Zhimu), Fritillariae Bulbus (Beimu) (each 0.5 liang, stir-fried together with 7 unshelled Croton Seeds until yellow, then remove the Croton Seeds and do not use them). Grind these two ingredients into powder. Slice fresh ginger,夹 (sandwich/hold between slices) the powder, chew thoroughly, and swallow with light ginger water. Dry chewing is also acceptable.

Formula for Main Lung Qi Stagnation, Redness at the Sides of the Nose, and Upward Reversal Qi with Vomiting (from Yu Jushi's Selected Strange Formulas).
Ingredients: Loquat Leaf (Pipaye) (10 pieces, hairs removed), Akebia Caulis (Mutong), Aster Root (Ziwan), Mulberry Root Bark (Sangbaipi), Rhubarb (Dahuang), Apricot Seed (Xingren), Farfleur Flower (Kuandonghua) (all in equal proportions). Pound and sieve the ingredients into powder.

Pinellia Pills (from Yan's Ji Sheng Fang): Treats Lung organ heat stagnation. Phlegm-cough leading to orthopnea (relying on something to breathe), inability to lie down and sleep.
Ingredients: Trichosanthis Fructus (Gualouzi) (extract flesh and grind separately), Pinellia Rhizoma (Banxia) (soaked in decoction seven times, dried, and powdered; each 1 liang). Mix the above ingredients evenly. Use ginger juice paste to form pills, size like Sophora Seed (Wutongzi). Each... [Text missing specific dosage instruction here, strictly following source text].

Ophiopogon Powder (from Yang's Family Preserved Formulas): Treats Lung stagnation causing failure of Qi ascending and descending. Phlegm in Zhongwan (epigastrium), dry mouth and tongue, dry eyes, red face with sores, spirit... [Text possibly incomplete].
Ingredients: Ophiopogon Tuber (Maimendong) (heart removed), Platycodon Root (Jiegeng) (radicle removed), Red Peony Root (Chishaoyao), Licorice Root (Gancao), Peucedani Radix (Qianhu) (radicle removed), Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng) (radicle removed), Inula Flower (Xuanfuhua), Tribulus Fruit (Bajili) (stir-fried, thorns removed), Cimicifugae Rhizoma (Shengma) (the above nine herbs, each 0.5 liang), Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizoma (Baizhu), Pinellia Rhizoma (Banxia) (soaked in decoction seven times, processed with ginger juice), Apricot Seed (Xingren) (peeled, pointed ends removed, double-kernel ones stir-fried), Schisandra Fruit (Wuweizi), Chrysanthemi Flos (Juhua), Trichosanthis Radix (Gualougen), Vitex Fruit (Manjingzi), Lycii Cortex (Digupi) (the above eight herbs, each 1 liang). Pound and sift. Take 5 qian per dose. Add 1.5 bowls of water and 3 slices of ginger. Decoct until 1 bowl remains, strain. Take after meals.

San Cai Wan (Three Talents Pill) (from Yang's Family Preserved Formulas): Treats Lung Qi disharmony, upper Jiao stagnation and excess. Manifestations include heavy and dizzy head and eyes.
Ingredients: Gastrodia Rhizoma (Tianma) (rhizome removed), Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma (Renshen) (radicle removed), Prepared Rehmanniae Radix (Shudihuang) (washed and dried). Grind the above ingredients in equal proportions into fine powder. Use refined honey to form pills. One liang... [Text implies quantity per pill or batch, literally "Each one liang makes ten pills"]. Take one pill per dose, dissolve slowly in the mouth before sleep.

Treating Lung Dryness-Heat and Large Intestine Constipation (from Ben Cao / Materia Medica).
In September and October, collect the pulp of Trichosanthis Fructus. Mix with dried Puerariae Radix powder (Ge Fen), dry it, and stir-fry slowly in a silver or earthenware vessel until cooked. Grind into powder. After meals and before bed, take 1-2 qian mixed with boiling water.

Treating Lung Heat and Wasting-Thirst (Xiao Ke) (from Ben Cao / Materia Medica).
Take Donggua (Winter Melon/Pugua), peel it. Chew and eat 2-3 liang after each meal. Doing this 5-7 times a day is effective.

Treating Frequent Urination. Liver and Lung Heat. Pain resulting from this. It is suitable to take this formula to resolve Liver and Lung Heat-Toxin (Yang Zijian's Protection Life Formula).
Ingredients: Apricot Seed (Xingren), Moutan Cortex (Mudanpi) (heart removed), Scutellaria Root (Huangqin), Polygonum Cuspidatum Rhizoma et Radix (Huzhang), Ephedrae Herba (Mahuang) (roots and joints removed), Aucklandiae Radix (Muxiang), Paeoniae Radix (Shaoyao), Bupleuri Radix (Chaihu), Cimicifugae Rhizoma (Shengma), Aster Root (Ziwan), Fritillariae Bulbus (Beimu), Schizonepeta Spike (Jingsheisui), Forsythiae Fructus (Lianqiao), Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix (Qianghuo) (all in equal proportions). Pound and sift finely. Take about 2 qian per dose. Add 1-2 small slices of ginger. Decoct together to obtain 0.8 portions. After meals and before sleeping, strain and drink slowly while hot. After taking this medicine, one should prepare warm green onion soup in a foot basin, scoop water with hands to wash the anus (Gudao), facilitating interaction between Large Intestine and Lung Qi, connecting interior and exterior, upper and lower, guiding water pathways, transferring to Large Intestine, and gradually excreting via stool. Bowel movements will decrease, and urination will become painless. Once the Large Intestine is unblocked, take the subsequent formulas, then take the formula for resolving accumulation and stagnation, to achieve complete safety. If the large bowel remains unblocked, use half a liang of Pharbitidis Semen (Qianniu) and half a liang of Gleditsiae Sinensis Fructus (Zaojiao), pound into fine powder. Fill an old brush tube with 2 qian-bi (approx. 2 qian) of powder, insert one cun into the anus, and blow the powder in to induce evacuation.

Treating Lung Dryness-Wheezing-Heat and Large Intestine Constipation. Moisturizing the Five Zang Organs. (from Ben Cao / Materia Medica).
Take Apricot Seeds, remove skins, and grind one sheng. Add 1.5 sheng of water, repeatedly squeeze to extract thick juice. Add four liang of raw honey and one stem of Licorice Root (approx. 1 qian). Slowly boil in a silver or earthenware vessel into a thin paste. Store in porcelain vessels. After meals, before bed, take one spoonful mixed with boiling water. If the above symptoms are absent, adding salt for administration is even better.