For carbuncles and ding sores (toxic furuncles), it can soften hardness and treat hemorrhoids. For rice or wheat awns stuck in the throat, chewing them thoroughly and swallowing brings immediate relief.
The stems and leaves remain evergreen throughout the four seasons and do not wither in winter. For snakebites, crush the plant to extract juice for drinking, and apply the residue topically; healing is immediate.
Steamed after mixing with salt water, it nourishes insufficient kidney yin, strengthens yin and secures essence, primarily functioning as an astringent.
After removing the skin and hairs, slice and bake. It is slightly cold in nature and treats breast abscesses (acute mastitis) and ding toxins.
Sun-dried after mixing with wine, it resolves damp-heat stagnation, unblocks intestinal constipation, kills parasites, and eliminates accumulations.
It treats stubborn internal heat, relieves dry lips and thirst, and cures heat-toxin carbuncles by promoting pus discharge.
Cold in nature, moistened with wine, it treats bladder accumulated heat, promotes urination and defecation, and treats red carbuncles in the lower body.
Slightly cold in nature, it opens blocked menstruation, promotes urination, harmonizes blood vessels, clears latent heat, dissipates carbuncle swelling, and promotes lactation.
To eliminate toxin from carbuncles, take the live vine, decoct into a paste, mix with flowers, and sun-dry. Its detoxifying power is a hundred times stronger than that of the flowers alone. In summer, take about one qian daily, dissolve in boiling water, and drink as tea.
Promotes urination and acts on the kidneys and bladder. Contraindicated for those who already have functions of draining turbidity.
Cold in nature. The claim that it is a miraculous drug for treating scrofula (cervical lymphadenitis) is erroneous; it should be strictly contraindicated.
Remove the skin and take only the white flesh to kill various worms in the abdomen. Varieties with red skin are contraindicated.
In early May, take the tender parts, crush them, and decoct with vinegar into a paste to treat tinea. Used raw, it penetrates carbuncles; without vinegar, it can treat buboes (inguinal lymphadenitis).
Relieves irritability and heat, unblocks orifices, treats wind-stroke, mouth ulcers, eye pain, and phlegm-heat toxins in the chest. Sold in pharmacies, the leaves resemble bamboo leaves and are very thin; the stems resemble twigs, are very fine, and about seven cun long. It is lamentable that modern physicians mistakenly use plants with green flowers.
Treats pediatric convulsive phlegm. Take two qian each time, add one qian each of realgar powder and morning glory seed powder, grind uniformly, bind with dough to make pills the size of millet seeds. Take five pills per dose, delivered with mint decoction. Treats aphonia and inability to speak.
Soak in hot water seven times to remove all bitterness and acridity. Treats sores; used raw or stir-fried and ground.
Stir-fried and ground, it eliminates cold-phlegm nodules located between the skin and fascia; no other herb can resolve them.
Effective for various gynecological conditions. Invigorates blood, breaks blood stasis, regulates menstruation, stops pain, and reduces edema by promoting water metabolism.
Sprinkled with wine and baked. In small doses, it unblocks meridians and invigorates blood; in large doses, it breaks blood and removes blood stasis.
Steeped in wine and stir-fried. Slightly warm in nature, enters the liver meridian, reconnects bones and tendons, assists qi and blood, dissipates blood clumps, and is used for postpartum conditions and traumatic injuries to promote blood circulation and stop bleeding.