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(The herb) has a sweet taste and slightly cold nature. It enters the Foot-Taiyin Spleen Meridian, Foot-Shaoyin Kidney Meridian, Foot-Jueyin Liver Meridian, and Hand-Yangming Large Intestine Meridian. It alleviates painful and difficult urination (dysuria) and astringes the sliding diarrhea of the Large Intestine. For those that are red, they should be quenched in vinegar, ground into fine powder, and used.

(The herb) has a sweet, sour, and pungent taste with an astringent nature. It enters the Hand-Shaoyin Heart Meridian, Foot-Taiyin Spleen Meridian, and Hand-Yangming Large Intestine Meridian. It consolidates the intestines and stomach to stop diarrhea, protects the Heart as the master of the mind to relieve pain.

(The herb) has a bitter taste and cool nature. It enters the Foot-Taiyin Spleen Meridian and Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian. It clears Ding Fire (Heart Fire) to reduce fever, and benefits Ren Water (Kidney Water) to drain dampness.

(The herb) has a bitter taste and slightly cold nature. It enters the Hand-Taiyin Lung Meridian. It clears the Lungs and transforms phlegm, descends rebellious Qi to stop coughing.

(The herb) has a sweet taste and cold nature. It enters the Hand-Taiyin Lung Meridian and Foot-Yangming Stomach Meridian. It descends rebellious Qi to stop vomiting, clears heat and relieves irritability.

(The herb) has a bitter taste. It enters the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian. It clears Metal (Lung) to drain heat, and promotes urination to treat strangury (difficulty in urination).

(The herb) has a sweet taste and slightly cold nature. It enters the Hand-Taiyin Lung Meridian and Foot-Yangming Stomach Meridian. It descends rebellious Qi to stop vomiting, clears heat and relieves irritability.

(The herb) has a pungent taste and slightly cool nature. It enters the Hand-Taiyin Lung Meridian and Foot-Jueyin Liver Meridian. It cools the Liver and clears the Lungs, reduces swelling and resolves toxicity.

(The herb) has a bitter taste, slightly sweet, and cold nature. It enters the Foot-Shaoyin Kidney Meridian and Foot-Jueyin Liver Meridian. It clears the Liver and drains heat, cools the bones to eliminate bone-steaming tidal fever.

(The herb) has a bitter taste, slightly salty, and slightly cold nature. It enters the Hand-Taiyin Lung Meridian and Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian. It cools Metal (Lung) to drain heat, clears the Lungs and relieves irritability.

(The herb) has a bitter taste and cold nature. It enters the Foot-Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian and Foot-Jueyin Liver Meridian. It clears lower-jiao heat to stop diarrhea, resolves steaming oppression to cool the blood.

(The herb) has a bitter taste and cold qi. It enters the Foot-Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian and Foot-Jueyin Liver Meridian. It clears Ministerial Fire to stop lower-jiao diarrhea, drains Jia Wood (Gallbladder) Qi to stop upper vomiting, removes Pi-heat (stagnant heat) of the Shaoyang, and retreats steaming oppression of the Jueyin.

(The herb) has a bitter taste and cold nature. It enters the Hand-Shaoyin Heart Meridian. It clears the Heart and reduces fever, drains fire and relieves irritability.

(The herb) has a bitter taste and cold nature. It enters the Hand-Shaoyin Heart Meridian, Foot-Taiyin Spleen Meridian, Foot-Jueyin Liver Meridian, and Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian. It clears Heart Fire to relieve vexation and depression, drains Spleen Earth to expel damp-heat, induces vomiting to expel turbid stasis from the chest and diaphragm, and reduces malarial yellow discoloration of the skin.

(The herb) has a bitter taste and cold qi. It enters the Foot-Jueyin Liver Meridian and Foot-Taiyin Spleen Meridian. It drains damp-heat of Ji Earth (Spleen), clears steaming oppression of Yi Wood (Liver), regulates dysentery with tenesmus, and treats jaundice with abdominal fullness.