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Tribulus Seeds (Jili Zi): Bitter and pungent in flavor, warm in nature with slight coldness, non-toxic. It primarily treats evil blood (stagnant blood), breaks up mass formations and accumulations (abdominal masses), relieves throat obstruction (swollen and blocked throat), addresses difficult lactation (inability to breastfeed), body wind itching (skin itching caused by wind pathogens), headache, lung injury (damage to lung qi), lung flaccidity (withered lungs), stops vexation (relieves irritability), and directs qi downward. For infantile head sores (sores on the scalp), carbuncles, and yin hernias (swelling or hernia of the genital area), it can be processed into a powder for external application. Its leaves treat wind itching. *Yaoxing Lun* states: As a sovereign drug. Sweet in flavor, slightly toxic. It treats various sores and ulcers caused by wind pathogens, breaks up old blood stasis, treats expectoration of pus, addresses difficult labor, and removes restlessness and heat. Ri Huazi states: It treats ben tun (a condition where qi rushes from the lower abdomen to the chest and heart), kidney qi deficiency, lung qi deficiency, fullness in the chest and diaphragm, induces labor, and causes abortion. It tonifies essence and qi, treats swellings and toxins, coldness of the water organ (kidney), frequent urination, stops dribbling urine, prevents seminal emission, and stops hematuria. When used in medicine, whether for pills or powders, it must be stir-fried to remove spines. Aconite (Wutou) serves as its guiding herb.

Huang (referring to Astragalus/Huangqi based on context, though text says "Huang"): Sweet in flavor, slightly warm in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats carbuncles and sores, chronic ulcerative wounds, expels pus and relieves pain, addresses severe leprosy-like diseases (such as leprosy), five types of hemorrhoids, and shu lou (scrofula/lymphatic tuberculosis). It tonifies deficiency, treats myriad ailments in children, wind-pathogen invasion of the uterus in women, drives out evil blood among the five zang organs, tonifies deficiency and damage in men, treats emaciation due to the five labors, stops thirst, abdominal pain, and dysentery, benefits qi, and promotes the flow of yin qi. Those produced in Baishui have a cold-tonifying property. Its stems and leaves treat thirst and tendon spasms, as well as carbuncles and sores. *Yaoxing Lun* states: It treats back carbuncles (carbuncle on the back). Internal tonification, it primarily treats deficient wheezing, kidney failure, deafness, and alternating chills and fever. Those produced in Longxi are considered lower-tonifying; those from Shu Baishui with red skin are slightly cold. Ri Huazi states: It assists qi, strengthens sinews and bones, promotes flesh growth and blood nourishment, breaks up mass formations, treats scrofula, goiters and warts, intestinal wind (blood in stool), metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, bloody and white dysentery, all conditions before and after childbirth, irregular menstruation, xiao ke (wasting-thirst syndrome/diabetes symptoms), phlegm-cough, and also treats head wind, heat toxins, and red eyes. In terms of tonifying properties among herbs, it is referred to as mutton (implying its warming and tonifying nature is like mutton). Furthermore, Chishui Huang (Astragalus from Chishui) is cool and non-toxic. It treats blood disorders and clears heat toxins; its other functions are the same as above. Mu Huang (another type of Astragalus) is cool and non-toxic. It treats vexation and expels pus, but its efficacy is weaker than that of Huang (Astragalus); if scarce, double the dosage. Antagonistic herb: Tortoise Shell (Guijia).

Cistanche (Rou Cong Rong): Sweet, sour, and salty in flavor, slightly warm in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats the five labors and seven injuries, tonifies the middle jiao. It eliminates cold-heat pain in the urethra, nourishes the five zang organs, strengthens yin, benefits essence and qi, enhances fertility, treats gynecological mass formations (abdominal masses), clears pathogenic qi from the bladder, relieves lower back pain, and stops dysentery. *Yaoxing Lun* states: As a minister drug. It tonifies marrow, beautifies complexion, treats metrorrhagia in women, strengthens yang, doubles sexual capacity per day, greatly tonifies qi, and treats bloody and white dysentery. It repairs damaged essence, darkened complexion, and exhaustion. Recipe: Use four liang of Cistanche, boil until soft, slice thinly, grind finely, mix with fine mutton meat, divide into four doses, add five spices, cook with rice into porridge, and take on an empty stomach. Ri Huazi states: It treats male impotence (failure to erect), female infertility due to extreme yin deficiency, moistens the five zang organs, promotes muscle growth, warms the waist and knees, treats seminal emission, hematuria, dribbling urine, and painful leukorrhea in women. Origin: Yanmen, Hexi region.