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Bees collect the essence of flowers, grasses, trees, and various herbs, combining it with clear, moist dew possessing the spring-generating qi. Through morning and evening exhalation harmonized by Yang Qi, they ferment this into floral nectar. Therefore, its nature is clear and harmonious, its taste purely sweet. When applied to the spirit, Qi, blood, deficiency/excess, cold/heat, Yin/Yang, and internal/external conditions of the human body, it is suitable for all diseases. The *Classic* states: "For insufficiency in the interior, use Sweet flavors to tonify." Sweet flavor is transformed from Earth Qi; Earth is the mother of all things. Moreover, various toxins are neutralized when encountering Earth. Stone Honey (Shimi, raw honey) possesses the most sweet taste between Heaven and Earth; thus, it can calm the Five Viscera, tonify various deficiencies, eliminate numerous diseases, resolve various toxins, and harmonize hundred medicines. White Beeswax has a sweet and bland taste, is slightly warm, and is non-toxic. It is the substance formed where Stone Honey condenses at the bottom. Honey has a slow-acting nature and soft texture, with strong aroma and flavor, belonging to Yin; thus, it tonifies the Spleen and primarily moistens the Zang-Fu organs and meridians. Beeswax has an astringent nature and hard texture, with faint aroma and flavor, belonging to Autumn (Metal); thus, it nourishes the Stomach and treats chronic dysentery characterized by tenesmus and passage of pus and blood. Sweetness benefits blood and tonifies the center; Warmth unblocks the meridians. Thus, beeswax primarily aids in healing severed tissues, tonifying Yang, generating flesh, relieving pain, and treating metal wounds. Consuming it with raw green onions harms the person. Consuming it with lettuce causes diarrhea. Eating honey after being full can cause sudden death.

Stone Honey clears heat, benefits Qi, tonifies the middle, moistens dryness, resolves toxicity, relieves pain, tonifies the Five Viscera, generates spiritual energy, eliminates numerous diseases, harmonizes hundred medicines, moistens Zang-Fu organs, regulates the Spleen and Stomach, harmonizes Ying and Wei, kills pinworms. Excessive consumption generates internal wind and abdominal fullness; those with loose bowels should avoid it. White Beeswax benefits Qi, stops diarrhea and dysentery, tonifies the middle, heals severe injuries, treats metal wounds, relieves pain from carbuncles and swellings, and governs muscle tissue. For medications that purge the Lower Jiao, wrap them in this to prevent injury to the Upper Body.

Main Indications (Integration of Smallpox and Rashes): Mix Stone Honey with sesame oil to moisten and loosen dry, firmly adhered smallpox scabs; it can also be used mixed with Taimie Ban San (Scar Eliminating Powder).

Bees have toxic properties; their sting causes extreme pain because they possess excessive Fire Qi. Therefore, Bee Comb tastes bitter, salty, and acrid, has a neutral temperature, and is toxic. Bitterness drains heat; Acridity disperses nodules; Saltyness softens hardness. Thus, Bee Comb treats convulsions, epilepsy, gu poison, mastitis, scrofula, intestinal hemorrhoids, and dysentery. Treating wind-toxin swelling utilizes the principle of "similar qi attracting similar qi" and "using toxicity to combat toxicity." Some combine Bee Comb with disordered hair and snake skin, burn them to ash, and take with wine to treat malignant ulcers, deep-seated abscesses (Fugu Yong), joint swellings rooted in the viscera, carbuncles, and malignant pulses/toxins. Boiling water with Bee Comb for gargling stops wind-worm toothache; washing with it treats mastitis, bee stings, and malignant sores, all utilizing its ability to attack toxins, disperse pathogens, and kill parasites. Furthermore, obtaining the coldness of Yin Dew, it also carries the meaning of shedding/molt. For dense smallpox rashes, using it to separate the pustules relies on symbolic analogy. It is contraindicated after carbuncles and ulcers have ulcerated.

Dew Bee Comb (Lufengfang), remove the outer coarse skin, soak in wine, stir-fry, and administer. It treats convulsions, evil Qi, Gui Zhu (ghostly afflictions), Gu poison, red-and-white dysentery, bee venom, mastitis, scrofula, perforating carbuncles and ulcers, intestinal hemorrhoids, malignant sores, and toothache.

Main Indications (Integration of Smallpox and Rashes): Disperses wind, resolves toxicity, promotes heat clearance to thin out smallpox rashes, effectively separates pustule clusters. For dense rashes, use on days 2, 3, or 4 to separate the clusters.