柏实为之使。畏人参、苦参、空青。恶麦门冬。伏丹砂、粉霜、硫黄、 砂。
辛，温。入足厥阴经。除风湿，破坚症，通关节，疗肿毒。得莱菔子，治一切痰气。
去筋膜。酥炙，烧炭，酒炒绞汁，依方法制。
核
甘，温。腥。除风热，治瘰 。得枳壳，治里急后重。得槐实，治肠风下血。
煮熟，去皮用。
苦，温。入足少阴经。治肠虚冷痢，阴疮阴汗，摄精固齿，乌须发，生肌肉。配甘草，
掺口疮。
去虫食者炒研，或泡，或用浆水于沙盆中研末，焙干用。
一名诃子
苦、酸、温。入手太阴、阳明经。敛肺降火。止胎漏，疗崩带。治肾气奔豚，止痰嗽喘
急，收泻血脱肛，去心腹胀
满。
得橘皮、浓朴，泄气。配乌梅、五味子，敛血。佐肉果，止水泻。佐白术，浓肠胃。
六路纹者良，或多或少，便是他种。酒蒸去核取肉用。清金行气，生用。温胃固肠，煨用。
元气虚陷者，当避其苦降之性。嗽痢初起，肺与大肠实热，俱禁用。
皮
消腹中之恶物。
即木耳
苦、辛、平。入足阳明经。调中理气。除痰涎，止反胃。
胃虚弱者禁用。
苦，寒。入足阳明、厥阴经。去风热，除湿痹。
治黄胆，煮服。熨肿痛，酒煮。
叶
苦，寒。治天行热疮，疗劳瘵骨蒸。下水气，除白浊。煎汤洗诸恶疮。
阴干为末，入姜汁于铁器中调摩，治眉毛脱落。
Bai Shi (Platycladi Semen) serves as its guiding herb. It is incompatible with Ren Shen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma), Ku Shen (Sophorae Flavescentis Radix), and Kong Qing (Azurolite). It is antagonistic to Mai Men Dong (Ophiopogonis Radix). It can suppress the properties of Dan Sha (Cinnabar), Fen Shuang (Calomel), Liu Huang (Sulfur), and Pi Sha (Arsenic Trioxide).
Acrid, warm. Enters the Foot-Jueyin Liver Meridian. Dispels wind-dampness, breaks up firm accumulations, unblocks joints, and treats swellings and toxins. When combined with Lai Fu Zi (Radish Seed), it treats all kinds of phlegm-qi stagnation.
Remove the tendinous membranes. Process with butter roasting, char into carbon, or stir-fry with wine and squeeze for juice, according to specific methods.
Nut
Sweet, warm. Fishy odor. Dispels wind-heat, treats scrofula. When combined with Zhi Qiao (Aurantii Fructus), treats tenesmus. When combined with Huai Shi (Stemonariae Semen), treats intestinal wind bleeding.
Cook until soft, remove the peel, and use.
Bitter, warm. Enters the Foot-Shaoyin Kidney Meridian. Treats cold dysentery due to intestinal deficiency-cold, yin sores and yin sweating, secures essence and strengthens teeth, darkens beard and hair, generates flesh. Paired with Gan Cao (Licorice Root), sprinkled on mouth ulcers.
Stir-fry and grind after removing insect-eaten parts, or soak, or grind into powder in a sand basin with fermented grain water, then dry by baking.
Also known as He Zi
Bitter, sour, warm. Enters the Hand-Taiyin Lung Meridian and Hand-Yangming Large Intestine Meridian. Astringes lung qi and descends fire. Stops fetal leakage, treats metrorrhagia and leukorrhea. Treats kidney qi rushing upward (Ben Tun), stops phlegm cough and asthma, retracts prolapse due to bloody diarrhea, removes epigastric and abdominal fullness.
Combined with Ju Pi (Citrus Peel) and Hou Po (Magnolia Bark), it drains qi. Paired with Wu Mei (Mume Fruit) and Wu Wei Zi (Schisandra Berry), it astringes blood. Assisted by Rou Dou Kou (Nutmeg), it stops watery diarrhea. Assisted by Bai Zhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome), it thickens the intestines and stomach.
Those with six distinct lines are superior; more or fewer lines indicate other species. Steam with wine, remove the pit, and use the flesh. Raw use clears metal (lung) and moves qi; baked use warms the stomach and secures the intestines.
For those with deficient and sinking yuan qi, avoid its bitter-descending nature. For initial stages of cough and dysentery with excess heat in the lung and large intestine, it is strictly contraindicated.
Peel
Eliminates evil substances in the abdomen.
Bitter, neutral. Moves qi and blood. Crush and extract juice to treat chronic dysentery with red and white discharge.
Root
Crush raw and apply topically to treat mastitis.
Refers to Wood Ear Mushroom
Bitter, acrid, neutral. Enters the Foot-Yangming Stomach Meridian. Regulates the middle jiao and regulates qi. Eliminates phlegm-saliva, stops reverse flow (vomiting/regurgitation).
Strictly contraindicated for those with weak stomach qi.
Bitter, cold. Enters the Foot-Yangming Stomach Meridian and Foot-Jueyin Liver Meridian. Dispels wind-heat, removes damp-bi.
Treats jaundice, decoct and take orally. Apply hot compress for swelling and pain, decoct with wine.
Leaf
Bitter, cold. Treats epidemic heat sores, treats consumptive fever with bone-steaming sensation. Drains downward water qi, eliminates white turbidity. Decoct soup to wash various malignant sores.
Dry in shade, grind into powder, mix with ginger juice in an iron vessel, and massage to treat eyebrow loss.