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Moxibustion treats various diseases. If moxibustion is used to treat various wind-cold-dampness disorders, adding a small amount of Sulfur powder (Liu Huang) is particularly effective.

Treats throat obstruction (Hou Bi, characterized by sore throat and difficulty swallowing), applied externally for metal weapon injuries. For infants with pathogenic heat in the Heart causing incessant night crying, take two or three pills, mix with Jiaxin Decoction (Decocted Scirpi Fluviatilis Caulis), apply to the breast for the infant to suckle.

(Nine Varieties)

Sweet, neutral. Treats dysentery of cold-heat, red-white types, abdominal pain due to heat-toxin knotting, and hematochezia. Also resolves various drug poisonings, meat poisoning, He Kou Pepper poisoning, and wild mushroom poisoning. Combined with Coptidis Rhizoma (Huang Lian), it treats pica (eating soil) in children.

Sweet, warm. Treats excessive dampness in the Spleen and Stomach, vomiting, diarrhea, and cholera. (Benefiting from the effect of frequent sun exposure, it guides the Qi of true fire to generate, tonifies Earth to overcome dampness, thereby stopping vomiting and diarrhea.)

Decocted as a bath for infants to expel fright and epilepsy, and to remove sores and scabies.

Also known as Liu Yi Ni.
Sweet, sour, cold. Treats chronic red-white hot dysentery; burn until ash, wash with water, filter the liquid, and drink. Combined with Raw Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma juice and Calomelas powder, mix and apply to sudden red, swollen, hot, and painful scrotum in infants. Mixed with rice vinegar, apply externally for mastitis (breast abscess). Mixed with Mung Bean Powder, apply externally for sores on the external genitalia.

Also known as Hai Er Cha.
Bitter, astringent, neutral. Clears heat from the upper diaphragm, transforms phlegm, and generates fluids. Applied to all sores to promote tissue regeneration, relieve pain, stop bleeding, and absorb dampness. Combined with Calomelas and Borneol, apply to chancre sores on the genitals. Paired with Realgar and Fritillariae Bulbus, apply to canker sores and gum infections.

Also known as Zao Xin Tu.
Bitter, pungent, warm. Regulates the middle jiao, dries dampness, reduces swelling, and stops bleeding. Treats leukorrhea (red and white discharge), stops hematuria and spermatorrhea. Combined with Scutellariae Radix (Huang Qin) and Asini Corii Colla (E Jiao), treats post-defecation bleeding. Combined with Asini Corii Colla and Bombyx Batryticatus (Can Sha), treats uterine bleeding in women. Mixed with vinegar, apply externally for genital swelling. Mixed with egg white, apply for erysipelas. Grind fine and use wet-milling method (water flying).

Sweet, cold. Treats trauma and fractures, resolves severe heat in the heart.
Stir-fried five times with vinegar, grind into powder for use.

Pungent, warm. Stops bleeding and promotes tissue regeneration. Ground with wine and taken orally to treat retained placenta. Ground with vinegar and taken orally to treat metrorrhagia. Ground with well water and taken orally to treat persistent epistaxis. Taken with earth slurry to treat Ke Wu (sudden illness caused by external evil qi). Taken with Rehmanniae Radix juice to treat incessant hematemesis.
Calcined and ground for use, or ground directly.