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Scrophulariae Radix (Xuanshen): Bitter and salty in flavor, slightly cold in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats abdominal accumulations caused by the aggregation of cold and heat pathogens, residual diseases in women after childbirth, tonifies Kidney Qi, and enhances vision. It treats sudden onset of Shanghan (Cold Damage), fever with chest and hypochondriac fullness, mania, warm malaria, blood masses (Xuejia), expels lower jiao stagnant blood, removes qi stagnation in the chest, promotes urination, relieves thirst and irritability, dissipates cervical nodules, treats carbuncles and sores, heart and abdominal pain, and softens hard masses. *Yaoxing Lun* states: It acts as an assistant or guide. It can treat sudden accumulation of heat pathogens, primarily wind-heat headache, recurrence of fatigue after Shanghan, and dissipates tumors, goiters, and scrofula. It is incompatible with Scutellariae Radix (Huangqin), Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens (Ganjiang), Jujubae Fructus (Dazao), and Corni Fructus (Shanzhuyu). It is contraindicated with Veratrum Radix (Lilu).

Cibotii Rhizoma (Gouji): Pungent in flavor, warm in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats leukorrhea (red and white discharge) in women, blood obstruction, genital swelling, alternating chills and fever, tearing due to wind invading the head and eyes, promotes skin growth, moistens the skin, treats wind pathogens, prolonged thirst, and vomiting. *Yaoxing Lun* states: It acts as the sovereign drug. It treats stabbing pain in the heart and abdomen, dispels wind pathogens, treats metrorrhagia in women, and treats dribbling dysuria and lower back pain. Ri Hua Zi states: It treats red eyes, ptosis, and stabilizes the fetus to prevent miscarriage; it breaks old blood and tonifies new blood, treats mastitis, back carbuncles, scrofula, intestinal wind (blood in stool), drains pus, and stops pain. Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Danggui) serves as its assistant. It is incompatible with Inulae Flos (Xuanfuhua).

Epimedii Folium (Yinyanghuo): Commonly known as Xianlingpi. Pungent in flavor, cold in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats impotence, severe injuries, pain in the urethra, promotes urination, boosts Qi and strength, strengthens sinews and bones, treats scrofula, red carbuncles, and sores in the lower body. *Yaoxing Lun* states: It primarily strengthens sinews and benefits bones. Ri Hua Zi states: Ganoderma (Zizhi) serves as its assistant; it is effective when taken with wine. It treats cold wind and consumptive disorders, tonifies the waist and knees, strengthens heart power, treats male yang exhaustion with inability to erect, female yin exhaustion with infertility, sinew and bone spasms, and numbness of the four limbs. Ganoderma (Zizhi) serves as its assistant. Origin: Shang Commandery.

Dioscoreae Hypoglaucae Rhizoma (Bixie): Bitter and sweet in flavor, neutral and slightly warm in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats stiffness of the waist and back, laxity and tightness of joints, generalized bi syndrome due to cold-dampness, knee pain, and is particularly beneficial for the elderly. It treats urinary incontinence, joint issues, weakness of the legs and lower back pain in men, wind-damp leakage, shortness of breath, dim vision, internal injury in women, and heaviness of the joints. *Yaoxing Lun* states: Bitter and pungent in flavor, hot in nature. It treats toxic wind and soft feet in men and women, pathogenic damp-bi syndrome, weak Kidney Qi, tonifies men, and reconnects sinews and bones. Dioscoreae Hypoglaucae Rhizoma (Bixie) serves as its assistant. It is incompatible with Patriniae Radix (Baijiang).