一名金灯
甘、微辛、寒。有小毒。入足阳明经。清热散结。治疔肿、恶疮、瘰 ，解诸毒。配茶
清，
吐风痰痫病。配苍耳草，治痈疽疔肿。
去毛壳用。敷肿毒，醋磨。
甘，寒。入手少阴、太阴，兼入足太阴、阳明经。善理血病。治吐衄诸血，瘀血血闭，
经水
不调，淋沥崩中。除伏热烦渴，胃热哕逆，肺热喘急。消水肿黄胆，通五淋，解酒毒。配葛
根，治温病热哕。汁煮猪肉，治五种黄胆。配枇杷叶，治冷 （因热盛饮水，暴作冷 。）
止血、治产淋，用花亦良。痈疖未溃者，用针，酒煎服，一针溃一孔，二针二孔。消瘀血，
童便浸捣汁用。
贯众、赤小豆为之使。恶地黄、防葵。
大苦，大寒。入足少阳、厥阴经气分。泻二经之邪热，治下焦之湿肿。杀蛔虫，疗黄胆，
通
淋秘，愈惊疳，止泻痢，消疮痈，去喉痛，除目赤。得苍耳子，治耳病。（湿热除也。）得柴
胡，治目疾。配防风，治小儿盗汗。佐大麦芽，治谷疸。和鸡子清，治伤寒发狂。拌猪胆汁
，治病后盗汗。
甘草水浸一宿，曝干用。生用，下行。酒炒，上行。蜜炒，中行。猪胆汁拌炒，降火愈
速。
空心禁服。（令人溺不禁，太苦则下泄也。）
大损胃气，无实火者禁用。
[Stemona tuberosa / Terra Bellis] Taste: Very bitter. Nature: Cold. Resolves toxicity and transforms phlegm, disperses stagnation and eliminates heat. Treats breast abscess (acute suppurative inflammation of the mammary gland) and acne toxin.
[Stemona japonica / White Vine], also known as Jin Deng. Taste: Sweet, slightly pungent. Nature: Cold. Slightly toxic. Enters the Foot-Yangming Stomach Meridian. Clears heat and dissipates nodules. Treats carbuncles, malignant sores, scrofula (tuberculosis of cervical lymph nodes), and resolves various toxins. When combined with clear tea water, it induces vomiting to expel wind-phlegm causing epilepsy. When combined with Xanthium herb, it treats carbuncles and sores. Use by removing the hairy shell. For external application on swollen toxins, grind with vinegar.
[Lycium bark / Root bark of Goji berry] Taste: Sweet. Nature: Cold. Enters the Hand-Shaoyin Heart Meridian and Hand-Taiyin Lung Meridian, and concurrently enters the Foot-Taiyin Spleen Meridian and Foot-Yangming Stomach Meridian. Excels at regulating blood diseases. Treats hematemesis, epistaxis, and various bleeding disorders; blood stasis and amenorrhea; irregular menstruation, dripping leukorrhea, and metrorrhagia. Eliminates latent heat causing vexation and thirst; stomach heat causing hiccups; lung heat causing rapid panting. Reduces edema and jaundice; unblocks the five types of stranguria (frequent, short, painful urination); resolves alcohol toxicity. Combined with Pueraria root, it treats hiccups caused by heat in warm diseases. Boiling its juice with pork treats five types of jaundice. Combined with Loquat leaf, it treats cold hiccups (sudden onset of cold-type hiccups due to excessive drinking of water from intense internal heat). Using the flowers is excellent for stopping bleeding and treating postpartum stranguria. For unruptured boils and furuncles, puncture with a needle and administer wine-decocted medicine orally; one puncture ruptures one pore, two punctures rupture two pores. To resolve blood stasis, soak in child's urine, then crush and extract juice.
Asarum sieboldii and Adzuki bean act as guides. Avoid Rehmannia root and Anchusa officinalis root.
[Gentiana scabra / Gentian root] Taste: Very bitter. Nature: Very cold. Enters the Qi level of the Foot-Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian and Foot-Jueyin Liver Meridian. Drains pathogenic heat from these two meridians and treats damp swelling in the lower jiao. Kills roundworms, treats jaundice, unblocks stranguria and urinary retention, cures infantile convulsion with accumulation, stops diarrhea and dysentery, reduces sores and ulcers, relieves sore throat, and clears redness of the eyes. Combined with Xanthium fruit, it treats ear diseases (because damp-heat is eliminated). Combined with Bupleurum root, it treats eye diseases. Combined with Saposhnikovia root, it treats night sweats in children. Assisted by Hordeum vulgare malt, it treats grain jaundice (jaundice due to dietary indiscretion). Mixed with egg white, it treats mania caused by cold damage. Stir-fried with pig bile, it treats night sweats after illness. Soak in licorice water overnight, then dry in the sun before use. Raw use directs action downward. Wine-fried use directs action upward. Honey-fried use keeps action central. Stir-fried with pig bile reduces fire more rapidly. Forbidden on an empty stomach (causes urinary incontinence because extreme bitterness leads to downward purging). Severely damages stomach qi; forbidden for those without excess heat.