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[Juemingzi (Cassiae Semen)] Salty, bitter, and sweet in taste; neutral in nature, slightly cold, non-toxic. It primarily treats blindness (Qingmang), eyelid swelling with redness and white membranes on the eye surface, red painful eyes with tearing. It treats bluish lips and mouth. Long-term consumption enhances vitality and vision, lightens the body. Grows in the streams and marshes of Longmen. Shijueming (Haliotidis Concha) grows in Yuzhang, harvested on the 10th day of the 10th lunar month, dried in shade for 100 days.

[Miwu (Angelicae Dahuricae Folium et Radix)] Pungent in taste, warm in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats wind-stroke with pathogenic factors entering the brain, headache, cold-bi syndrome, tendon spasms or flaccidity, metallic wounds, amenorrhea in women, infertility, movement of cold qi, wandering wind on the face, tearing, excessive nasal discharge and saliva, mental confusion resembling drunkenness, various cold pathogens, hardness and pain in the heart and abdomen, sudden onset of evil pathogens, acute swelling, wind-pain in the hypochondrium, warms the middle and dispels internal cold. Also known as Huqiong, also known as Xiangguo. Its leaves are named Miwu. Grows in the valleys of Wugong, west ridge of Xiegu, harvested in March, dried in the sun.

[Xiongqiong (Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizoma seedling)] Pungent in taste, warm in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats cough and rebellious qi, calms fright and qi stagnation, expels evil influences, removes gu poison and ghostly infections, eliminates three types of parasites. Long-term consumption opens the spirit, treats chronic internal wind, and chronic wind-dizziness in the head. Also known as Wei Wu, also known as Jiang Li. It is the seedling of Xiongxiong. Grows in the streams and marshes of Yongzhou and Yuanju, leaves harvested in April and May, dried in the sun.

[Jiegumu/Xuduan type] Bitter and pungent in taste, slightly warm in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats shanghan (cold damage), tonifies deficiencies, treats metallic wounds, carbuncles, fractures and dislocations, reconnects sinews and bones, treats difficult labor in women, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, internal bleeding from metallic wounds, relieves pain, promotes flesh regeneration, treats traumatic blood stasis, lower back pain, and joint stiffness or flaccidity. Long-term consumption boosts qi and strength. Also known as Longdou, also known as Shezhe, also known as Jiegut, also known as Nancao, also known as Huai. Grows in the valleys of Changshan, harvested in July and August, dried in shade.

[Yunyuan/Yunying type] Bitter and pungent in taste, warm in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats dysentery and intestinal disorders, kills gu poison. Removes evil stagnant qi, relieves pain, dispels cold and heat, treats polydipsia. Seeing spirits, excessive consumption causes manic running. Kills spirits, descends water, burning it attracts ghosts. Long-term consumption lightens the body, opens the spirit, and prolongs life. Also known as Yuanshi, also known as Yunying, also known as Yaodou. Grows in the valleys of Hejian, harvested in October, dried in the sun.

[Shuzhi/Baiben type] Sweet in taste, slightly warm in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats chronic ulcerating sores from carbuncles, drains pus and relieves pain, treats severe leprosy, five types of hemorrhoids and scrofula, tonifies deficiency, treats various ailments in children, wind-pathogens in the uterus of women, expels evil blood from the five zang organs, tonifies deficiency in men, treats five labors and emaciation, stops thirst, abdominal pain and dysentery, boosts qi, benefits yin qi, clears coldness in white water, tonifies. Its stems and leaves: treat thirst and tendon spasms, carbuncles, and sores. Also known as Daishen, also known as Daishen, also known as Dushen, also known as Jicao, also known as Shuzhi, also known as Baiben. Grows in the valleys of Shujun, Baishui, and Hanzhong, harvested on the 10th day of the 2nd lunar month, dried in shade.