一名茶
甘、苦、寒。入手足厥阴经。降火消痰，除烦止渴。去油腻，清头目。解酒食毒。得甘
菊，
治头痛。配干姜，疗霍乱。配白矾研，冷水下，解诸毒。入紫沙糖，通经秘。合生姜，治赤
白痢。调葱涎为丸，治产后秘塞。（如用大黄利药利者，百无一生。）房中烧烟熏，解痘疮作
痒。
嫩芽。味甘者良。苦者浓煎恣饮取吐，治痰厥头痛。虚寒血弱，酒后不寐，皆忌之。空
腹者
尤忌。服威灵仙、土茯苓者，忌饮茶。
怪症∶脑中声响，状如虫蛀，名曰大白蚁。用茗子研末吹入鼻中，至愈而止。
（瓜果类七种）
苦，寒。入手太阴、足阳明经。除烦止渴。通三焦，利小便。
多食发病作胀。（食盐花，饮酒水，服麝香，即化。）胃虚者忌食。瓜沉水者勿食。两鼻
两蒂
者杀人。
蒂
一名瓜丁，一名苦丁香。
苦，寒，有毒。入足阳明经。吐膈上风热痰涎，除周身湿热
蛊毒。得麝香、雄黄末塞鼻，治息肉。（一方用白矾末，一方用丁香末。）配井华水，治发狂
欲走。配香豉、赤小豆，吐膈上之邪。配丁香，同 研末吹鼻，治阴黄。（片时黄水流出，
隔日一用，瘥乃止。）
俗呼冷饭瓜。其蒂尤佳。去瓜皮用蒂，约半寸许，晒极干研用。凡取吐，须天气清明，
巳午以前行之，令病患隔夜
勿食，卒病者不拘。如吐多人困甚，即以麝香泡汤，饮之即止。
上焦无实邪者禁用。
Background Information:
Book: *Depei Bencao* (Compendium of Compatible Materia Medica)
Author: Yan Xiting
Dynasty: Qing
Chapter: Tea / Fruit Section / Sweet Melon
Category: Materia Medica
Tea, also known as Ming.
Sweet and bitter in flavor, cold in nature. Enters the Hand Jueyin Pericardium Meridian and Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian. It descends fire, eliminates phlegm, relieves irritability, and quenches thirst. It removes greasiness, clears the head and eyes, and resolves alcohol and food poisoning. When combined with Ganju (Chrysanthemum Flower), it treats headache. When paired with Ganjiang (Dried Ginger), it treats cholera-like syndrome. When mixed with Baifan (Alum) and ground, taken with cold water, it resolves various toxins. Added to Zishatang (Brown Sugar), it unblocks menstruation and relieves constipation. Combined with Shengjiang (Fresh Ginger), it treats bloody and white dysentery. Mixed with scallion juice and formed into pills, it treats postpartum constipation. (If laxatives such as Dahuang are used at this time, mortality is extremely high.) Burning its smoke for fumigation during sexual activity resolves itching caused by smallpox lesions.
The tender buds: those with a sweet taste are superior. Those with a bitter taste should be decocted strongly and drunk freely to induce vomiting, treating phlegm-Jue headache (sudden fainting accompanied by headache due to phlegm obstruction). Contraindicated for those with deficiency-cold constitution, blood deficiency, insomnia after drinking alcohol, and especially on an empty stomach. Those taking Weilingxian (Clematis Root and Rhizome) or Tufuling (Smilax Glabra Rhizome) must avoid drinking tea.
Strange Syndrome: A sound in the brain resembling insect burrowing, named "Big White Ant." Use Mengzi (Tea Seeds) ground into powder, insufflated into the nose until cured.
(Fruit Category, Seven Types)
Sweet Melon. Bitter in flavor, cold in nature. Enters the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian and Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian. Relieves irritability and quenches thirst. Unblocks the Sanjiao (Triple Burner) and promotes urination.
Excessive consumption causes disease and abdominal distension. (Toxicity can be resolved by eating salt flower, drinking wine/water, or taking Muxiang/Musk.) Contraindicated for those with weak stomachs. Do not eat melons that sink in water. Do not eat melons with two nostrils and two peduncles, as they are fatal.
Peduncle (Gadīng), also known as Guading or Kudingxiang.
Bitter, cold, toxic. Enters the Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian. Induces vomiting of wind-heat phlegm-saliva in the chest and diaphragm, and clears damp-heat and gu-poison from the whole body. Mixed with Muxiang (Musk) and Xionghuang (Realgar) powder and insufflated into the nose, it treats nasal polyps. (Another formula uses Baifan powder; another uses Dingxiang powder.) Paired with Jinghua Water (first-drawn well water in the morning), it treats mania with a desire to run. Paired with Jiangchi (Prepared Soybean) and Chixiaodou (Adzuki Bean), it induces vomiting of pathogenic factors in the chest and diaphragm. Paired with Dingxiang (Clove), ground together into powder and insufflated into the nose, it treats Yin Jaundice (dark yellow jaundice). (Yellow fluid flows out after a short while; use once every other day until recovery.)
Commonly called Lengfangua (Cold Rice Melon). Its peduncle is particularly effective. Remove the rind and use only the peduncle, about half cun long, sun-dry until extremely dry, then grind for use. Whenever inducing vomiting, it must be done on clear days, before Si-Wu hours (9 AM - 1 PM). The patient should fast overnight; acute cases are exempt from this rule. If many patients become severely exhausted after vomiting, administer Muxiang decoction to stop the reaction.
Contraindicated for those without excess pathogens in the Upper Jiao.