微辛，平。清肺凉血，散热解毒。消肿，排脓，止痛。配莲房炭，治经血不止。得生赤
小豆末，和蜜捣涂一切疮毒。
（留头频换。）
或鲜捣，或阴干研末用。
根、叶、皮
治症与花同。
苦、微辛，温。入血分。治肠风下血，吐咯衄血。研末调麻油，涂汤火伤。入童便、姜
汁及酒调服，可代郁金。
取红者，阴干用。
甘、平、微寒。入足厥阴经。去肝家之燥热，消风眼之赤脉，青盲及疳气攻目，亦可施
治。配川柏根，治障翳。酒
浸，取出晒干，蜜蒸用。
（寓木类六种）
得甘草、防风、芍药、麦门冬、紫石英，疗五脏。马蔺为之使。畏地榆、秦艽、牡
蒙、龟甲、雄黄。恶白蔹。忌米醋、酸物。
甘、淡、平。入手足少阴、太阴、太阳经气分。性上行而下降，通心气以交肾，开腠理，
益脾胃。除呕逆，止泄泻，
消水肿，利小便。除心下结痛，烦满口干，去胞中积热，腰膝痹痛，及遗精、淋浊、遗溺、
带下，概可治之。（以其能利
三阴之枢纽，故治无不宜。）得人参，
通胃阳。得白术，逐脾水。得艾叶，止心汗。得半夏，治痰饮。得木香，治泄痢不止。配黄
蜡，治浊遗带下。君川连、花粉，治上盛下虚之消渴。加朱砂，镇心惊。（能利心经之热，
故可治惊。）
去皮。补阴，人乳拌蒸。利水，生用。补脾，炒用。研细入水，浮者是其筋膜，误服之
损目。上热阳虚，（虚阳上浮，
故热。）气虚下陷，心肾虚寒，汗多血虚，水涸口干，阴虚下陷，痘疹贯浆，俱禁用。
怪症∶手十指节断坏，惟有筋连，无节肉，出虫如灯心，长数寸，遍身绿毛卷，名曰血
余。以茯苓、胡黄连煎汤饮之愈。
皮
专行水，治水肿肤胀。（肿而烦渴，属阳水，宜五皮饮。若溏而不渴，属阴水，宜实脾，
不应利水。）配椒目，治水肿尿涩。
赤茯苓
甘、淡、平。入手少阴、太阳经气分。专利湿热。
茯神
抱松根生者
得、使、畏、恶、忌，与白茯苓同。
主治与茯苓同，但茯神入心之用多。治心虚健忘，疗虚眩，安神志。较茯苓之淡渗稍差，
然总属渗泄之物，心无火
而口干者，不宜轻用。得灯草，退心火。配金银，镇惊悸。配竹茹，利惊痰。佐沉香，消阴
气。使远志，逐心邪。使菖
蒲，散心气。
去皮、木用。恐燥，人乳拌蒸。
黄松节
即茯神中木
苦，温。治骨风，疗健忘，止指节痛，除血中湿。配乳香、木瓜，治
筋挛疼痛。
好酒浸透用。血虚者禁用。
Slightly acrid, neutral. Clears the Lung and cools the blood, dissipates heat and detoxifies. Reduces swelling, discharges pus, and relieves pain. Combined with carbonized Lotus Seedpod (Nelumbinis Nelumbofernum), it treats persistent menstrual bleeding. Mixed with raw powder of red adzuki bean (Vigna angularis) and honey, pounded and applied topically to treat all kinds of sores and toxins.
(Change frequently while keeping the head intact.)
Either pounded fresh or dried in shade and ground into powder for use.
Roots, leaves, and bark
Treat conditions same as the flower.
Bitter, slightly acrid, warm. Enters the Blood aspect. Treats wind in the intestines with lower rectal bleeding, vomiting, coughing up blood, and epistaxis. Ground into powder and mixed with sesame oil, applied to burns from scalding or fire. Mixed with child's urine, ginger juice, and wine for oral administration, it can substitute for Curcuma Aromatica Rhizome (Yujin).
Select the red ones, dry in shade for use.
Sweet, neutral, slightly cold. Enters the Foot Jueyin Meridian. Removes dryness-heat in the Liver, eliminates red veins in wind-eye disorders, and is also applicable for treating blindness (Qingming) and trachoma caused by infantile malnutrition attacking the eyes. Combined with Phellodendron Root (Chuanbai), it treats corneal opacity. Soaked in wine, taken out, sun-dried, and steamed with honey for use.
(Six types of wood-related substances)
Synergistic with Licorice Root (Gancao), Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng), Peony Root (Shaoyao), Ophiopogon Tuber (Maidong), and Purple Fluorspar (Zishiyinqing), it nourishes the five Zang organs. Iris Tatarica Rhizome (Malin) acts as its guide drug. Incompatible with Sanguisorba Root (Diyu), Gentian Root (Qinjiao), Montia fontana (Mumeng), Tortoise Shell (Guijia), and Realgar (Xionghuang). Detested by Ampelopsis Radix (Bailian). Contraindicated with rice vinegar and sour foods.
Sweet, bland, neutral. Enters the Qi aspect of the Hand and Foot Shaoyin, Taiyin, and Taiyang meridians. Its nature moves upward and downward, unblocking Heart Qi to communicate with the Kidney, opening the interstices (Couli), and benefiting the Spleen and Stomach. Eliminates nausea and vomiting, stops diarrhea, reduces edema, and promotes urination. Removes painful knots below the heart, fullness and irritability, dry mouth, clears accumulated heat in the uterus, bi-syndrome pain in the waist and knees, as well as seminal emission, turbid stranguria, urinary incontinence, and leukorrhea; generally all can be treated. (Because it can facilitate the pivot of the three Yin meridians, thus treatment is suitable for all.) Synergistic with Ginseng Root (Renshen), it unblocks Stomach Yang. Synergistic with Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome (Baizhu), it expels Spleen water. Synergistic with Mugwort Leaf (Aiye), it stops cardiac sweating. Synergistic with Pinellia Tuber (Banxia), it treats phlegm-fluid retention. Synergistic with Aucklandia Root (Muxiang), it treats persistent dysentery. Combined with beeswax (Huangla), it treats turbid seminal emission and leukorrhea. As the sovereign herb with Coptis Rhizome (Chuanlian) and Trichosanthes Root (Huafen), it treats thirst due to excess above and deficiency below. Added with Cinnabar (Zhusha), it calms the Heart and frightens the spirit. (It can drain heat from the Heart Meridian, thus it can treat fright.)
Remove the peel. To tonify Yin, mix with human milk and steam. To promote urination, use raw. To tonify the Spleen, stir-fry for use. When ground finely and put into water, the floating part is its fascia; accidental ingestion damages the eyes. Contraindicated in cases of upper heat with Yang deficiency (deficient Yang floating upward causes heat), Qi deficiency with sinking, Heart and Kidney deficiency-cold, excessive sweating with Blood deficiency, fluid depletion with dry mouth, Yin deficiency with sinking, and when measles/rubella pustules are filling with pus.
Strange condition: The ten finger joints are broken and damaged, only connected by tendons, without joint flesh, worms like rush pith emerge, several inches long, covered with green curly hair all over the body, named "Blood Remainder" (Xueyu). Decocting Poria (Fuling) and Picrorhiza Rhizome (Huhuanglian) in water and drinking it cures this.
Bark
Specifically promotes water metabolism, treats edema and abdominal distension. (Swelling with irritability and thirst belongs to Yang Water, suitable for Five-Bark Decoction (Wupi Yin). If loose stools without thirst, it belongs to Yin Water, suitable for fortifying the Spleen, not for promoting urination.) Combined with Pepper Seed (Jiaomu), it treats edema with difficult urination.
Red Poria (Chifuling)
Sweet, bland, neutral. Enters the Qi aspect of the Hand Shaoyin and Taiyang meridians. Specifically drains damp-heat.
Poria with Pine Root (Fushen)
Those growing embracing pine roots.
Synergies, guides, incompatibilities, detestations, and contraindications are the same as White Poria.
Main indications are the same as Poria, but Fushen has more application for entering the Heart. It treats Heart deficiency with forgetfulness, treats deficiency vertigo, and calms the Spirit. Compared to the bland and draining nature of Poria, it is slightly inferior, yet it still belongs to draining and leaching substances; those with no Heart fire but dry mouth should not use it lightly. Synergistic with Juncus Effusus (Dengcao), it drains Heart fire. Combined with Gold/Silver, it calms fright and palpitations. Combined with Bamboo Shavings (Zhuru), it benefits fright-phlegm. Assisted by Agarwood (Chenxiang), it dissipates Yin qi. Guided by Polygala Root (Yuanzhi), it expels Heart pathogens. Guided by Acorus Rhizome (Changpu), it disperses Heart qi.
Remove peel and wood for use. Fearing dryness, mix with human milk and steam.
Yellow Pine Joint (Huangsongjie)
Which is the wood inside Fushen.
Bitter, warm. Treats bone wind, heals forgetfulness, stops joint pain, and removes dampness in the blood. Combined with Frankincense (Ruxiang) and Papaya (Mugua), it treats tendon spasms and pain.
Soak thoroughly in good wine for use. Contraindicated in Blood deficiency.