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Treats hematemesis (vomiting blood), epistaxis (nosebleed), metrorrhagia (uterine bleeding), leukorrhea with red and white discharge, and continuous bleeding from metallic wounds.
Burn to ash and grind into powder.

Repair bladder damage, wash ulcerated head sores. Combined with Carbonized Palme Fructus (Zonglüu Tan) and Carbonized Beijing Ink (Jingmo Tan), treats women's metrorrhagia. Combined with Cortex Moutan Radicis (Danpi) and Rhizoma Bletillae (Baiji) powder, treats ruptured bladder in postpartum women.
Stops bleeding; use after burning to ash. Woven from yellow silk spun by silkworms, not dyed.

Sweet, warm. Governs metrorrhagia and metallic wounds.

Pungent, hot. Slightly toxic. Governs malignant sores, scabies, and tinea. Burning damages the eyes.

Resolves toxicity of various substances. Treats epidemic heat irritability. Boiled with vinegar and applied externally, treats muscle spasms entering the abdomen. Combined with Ginger Juice, treats cholera-like disease.

(Thirteen species of oviparous insects)

Contraindicated with raw Allium fistulosum (Cong).

Sweet, neutral. Enters the Hand-Taiyin Lung Meridian and Foot-Taiyin Spleen Meridian. Moistens dryness, generates body fluids. Relieves mental restlessness, unblocks constipation, can soothe fire caused by dryness and urgency, and resolves various toxins.
Combined with Ginger Juice, treats early-stage dysentery. Mixed with Raw Rehmanniae Radix Juice,
treats stabbing pain in the heart and abdomen. Mixed with Rhizoma Allii Macrostemonis (Xiebai), applied to burns and scalds. Added with Semen Sinapis Albae mixed with Gleditsiae Sinensis Spina (Yazao), unblocks fecal impaction. (Boil honey into a paste, add a small amount of powdered Yazo, form into suppositories, insert into the anus, and stool will pass naturally.)
For every jin (approx. 500g) of honey, add four liang (approx. 200g) of water. Boil over mulberry wood fire, skim off floating foam, until it reaches the consistency where a drop forms a bead when dropped into water.
Yellow Beeswax (Huangla)
Incompatible with Genkwan Flower (Yuanhua) and Qige. Contraindicated with raw Cong.

Astringent, slightly warm. Enters the Foot-Yangming Stomach Meridian. Stops pain, promotes tissue regeneration. Treats dysentery, heals severe injuries. For any medicine that purges the Lower Jiao, wrap it in pills for swallowing to avoid damaging the Upper Jiao. Combined with Coptidis Rhizoma (Chuanlian) and Donkey-hide Gelatin (Ejiao), treats dysentery with abdominal pain.
Melt and stir in water more than ten times until the color turns white, also known as White Beeswax (Baila). Regulates Yang Qi, secures the fetus and stops leakage. Contraindicated in acute dysentery.

Incompatible with Dried Ginger (Ganjiang), Salvia Miltiorrhiza Radix et Rhizoma (Danshen), Scutellaria Baicalensis Radix (Huangqin), Paeonia Lactiflora Radix Alba (Shaoyao), and Ostrea Concha (Muli).

Sweet, neutral, toxic. Enters the Foot-Yangming Stomach Meridian. Drives out Liver Wind toxicity invading the Stomach, treats external ulcers with toxicity rooted in the Zang-Fu organs, facilitates the separation of pustules in smallpox, and treats convulsive epilepsy and dysentery. Combined with Ophichthidis Cutis Coriacea (Shetui) and Carbonized Human Hair (Fatan), taken with wine, dissipates carbuncles and swellings. Filled with Carbonized Arctii Fructus (Shuniuzi), taken with wine, treats mastitis. Burned to carbon and mixed with wine, applied to macroglossia (heavy tongue). Added with Salt Carbon (Yantan), rubbed on carious teeth.
Those hung on trees and exposed to wind and dew are superior. Grass wasp nests, about the size of a fist, can be used. Mountain wasp nests, ranging from one chi (approx. 30cm) to several zhang (approx. 3-10m), are highly toxic and should not be used. Ineffective for cases affected by "Thief Wind" (sudden wind pathogen). Contraindicated after abscesses have ulcerated.