一名油菜
伏蓬砂。
辛，温。入手太阴经。破血散结。治游风丹肿，产后血风，乳吹乳痈。配蔓荆根、鸡子
清，
贴风热肿毒。和蜜，治血痢腹痛。捣汁调大黄、芒硝、生铁衣，涂天火热疮。（初起似痱，
渐如水泡，似火烧，疮赤色，急速能杀人。）
酒拌蒸，治风。醋拌蒸，治血。阳气虚，腰脚痼疾者，禁用。
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辛，温。行血破气，消肿散结。止遗泄，治梦交，及一切赤丹热肿，血痔金疮，产难，
产后心腹诸疾。配当归、桂心、赤芍，等分酒服，治产后心腹诸痛。配炙甘草，治脏毒。（
子生用。）配生地、姜酒、童便，治产后血逆。治产难歌∶黄金花结粟米实，细研酒下十五
粒，露丹功效妙如神，难产之
时能救急。
或童便蒸，或酒蒸，或炒用。血虚者禁用。
辛，温。入手太阴经。利膈开胃，通肺豁痰，能除肾经邪气。
多食昏眼发疮。同鲫鱼食发水肿。
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辛，热。入手太阴经。利九窍，通经络，温中散寒，下气豁痰。治呕吐咳嗽，麻痹痈肿
，及妇人经闭。研末水调涂顶囟，止衄血。调猪胆，涂痈毒肿痛。捣汁晒浓，擦小儿唇紧。
捣生姜，涂扑损瘀血。
炒用。多食动火昏目，泄气伤精。阴虚火盛、气虚久嗽者禁用。
怪症∶手足指甲，忽生倒肉刺，痛不可忍，此湿气结于脾土也。煮芥菜常食之。
[You Tai (Rapeseed)]
Also known as You Cai (Oilseed Rape).
Pungent, warm. Enters the Hand-Taiyin Lung Meridian. Breaks blood stasis and dissipates nodules. Treats You Feng Dan Zhong (sudden skin redness, swelling, heat, and pain), postpartum Blood Wind syndrome, Ru Chui (breast duct obstruction), and Ru Yong (breast abscess). Paired with Man Jing Gen (Vitexis Trifoliae Radix) and Ji Zi Qing (Ei Albumen), applied externally to treat wind-heat swelling and toxicity. Mixed with honey, treats bloody dysentery with abdominal pain. Juice extracted by pounding, mixed with Da Huang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma), Mang Xiao (Natrii Sulfas), and Sheng Tie Yi (Iron Rust), applied topically to treat Tian Re Huo Chuang (burn-like sores caused by extreme heat). (Initially resembles miliaria, gradually developing into blisters, feeling like burning fire, with red sores; progresses rapidly and can be fatal.)
Steamed with wine, treats wind pathogens; steamed with vinegar, treats blood disorders. Contraindicated for those with deficient yang qi and chronic stubborn diseases of the waist and legs.
[You Tai Zi (Rapeseed)]
Pungent, warm. Promotes blood circulation and moves qi, reduces swelling and dissipates nodules. Stops spermatorrhea and enuresis, treats nocturnal emission with sexual dreams, and all types of chi dan re zhong (red carbuncles and hot swellings), xue zhi (hemorrhoids with bleeding), jin chuang (metal wounds/traumatic injuries), difficult labor, and various postpartum heart and abdominal disorders. Paired with Dang Gui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), Gui Xin (Cinnamomi Ramulus), and Chi Shao (Paeoniae Radix Rubra), taken in equal parts with wine, treats various postpartum heart and abdominal pains. Paired with Zhi Gan Cao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma Preparata), treats zang du (visceral toxin/dysentery). (Use raw seeds.) Paired with Sheng Di Huang (Rehmanniae Radix), ginger wine, and tong bian (child's urine), treats postpartum blood rebellion. Song for treating difficult labor: "When golden flowers form millet-like seeds, finely ground and taken with fifteen grains in wine, the efficacy of Lu Dan is miraculous, saving emergencies during difficult labor."
Alternatively, steam with child's urine, steam with wine, or stir-fry. Contraindicated for those with blood deficiency.
[Jie Cai (Mustard Green)]
Pungent, warm. Enters the Hand-Taiyin Lung Meridian. Benefits the diaphragm and opens the stomach, unblocks the lungs and resolves phlegm, can eliminate pathogenic factors from the Kidney meridian.
Excessive consumption causes blurred vision and induces sores. Eating together with Ji Yu (Crucian Carp) induces edema.
[Jie Cai Zi (Mustard Seed)]
Pungent, hot. Enters the Hand-Taiyin Lung Meridian. Benefits the nine orifices, unblocks meridians, warms the middle and dispels cold, descends qi and resolves phlegm. Treats vomiting and coughing, paralysis, carbuncles and swellings, and amenorrhea in women. Ground into powder, mixed with water and applied to the fontanelle (top of the head), stops epistaxis. Mixed with Zhu Dan (Porcine Bile), applied to treat carbuncle toxins with swelling and pain. Juice extracted by pounding, concentrated by sun-drying, rubbed on infants' tight lips (cheilitis/stomatitis). Pounded with Sheng Jiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens), applied to treat traumatic bruising and blood stasis.
Stir-fried for use. Excessive consumption generates fire, blurs vision, depletes qi, and damages essence. Contraindicated for those with yin deficiency and hyperactive fire, or qi deficiency with chronic coughing.
Strange Syndrome: Involuntary growth of hangnails on fingernails and toenails, unbearable pain. This is caused by dampness accumulating in the Spleen earth. Regular consumption of boiled Jie Cai cures it.