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Xinyi (Flos Magnoliae), No. 180, also known as Mubi and Yingchun. Its flavor is acrid and warm; it acts on the Hand-Taiyin Lung Meridian and Foot-Yangming Stomach Meridian. It can resolve alternating chills and fever, aversion to cold with rigidity, disperse wind-heat, unblock the nine orifices, eliminate headache and brain pain due to wind, dizziness, itching, and treat facial swelling radiating toothache. For treating nasal congestion with discharge, Bi Yuan (sinusitis), Bi Qiu (allergic rhinitis), nasal sores, and post-varicella nasal sores, it is best ground into powder, mixed with a small amount of Moschus (She Xiang, Musk), dipped with scallion white, and applied into the nostrils several times, which is very effective.

Zao Jiao (Fructus Gleditsiae Sinensis), No. 181. Flavor acrid and salty, nature warm, slightly toxic. It excels at expelling wind-phlegm, unblocking the nine orifices, connecting joints, treating headaches caused by wind, killing various parasites, promoting digestion and guiding out phlegm, removing coughs, qi stagnation in the chest and abdomen, pain and distension, opening mouth lockjaw due to stroke, treating throat obstruction with swelling and pain, moving lung qi stagnation, unblocking constipation, inducing abortion, breaking hard accumulations, reducing swelling and toxicity, and treating wind-xian, scabies, and leprosy. Burning it to smoke treats prolapsed rectum with swelling and pain. It can be made into pills or powders but is not suitable for decoction.

Ba Dou (Semen Crotonis), No. 182. Flavor acrid, nature hot, highly toxic, capable of ascending and descending. It excels at opening blocked orifices, breaking hard accumulations, expelling phlegm-fluids, killing various poisonous insects and gu-poison, unblocking constipation, eliminating retained food, attacking cold retention in the zang-fu organs and cold/raw food stagnation, treating abdominal pain, diarrhea-dysentery, convulsions, various water-gas syndromes, expelling living or dead fetuses, driving out blood stasis and blood accumulations, eliminating carbuncles, sores, ding-toxins, and malignant ulcers, removing polyps, foul flesh, and necrotic tissue, draining pus and reducing swelling, and treating throat obstruction and toothache. However, its nature is rigid and fierce, reaching everywhere; thus it is called the "General who breaches gates." Misuse leads to disaster like pushing down walls; skillful use brings the wonder of pacifying chaos and harmonizing the middle. Users must exercise caution.

Mi Meng Hua (Flos Buddlejae Officinalis), No. 183. Flavor sweet and neutral, nature slightly cold. Enters the Liver Meridian, moistens liver dryness, and specifically treats eye diseases. It treats blindness (Qing Mang), reduces redness and swelling with excessive tearing, eliminates red vessels and corneal opacities, photophobia, and childhood malnutrition affecting the eyes, wind-heat erosion, and cataracts obscuring vision. Preparation: steam three times with honey and wine, then sun-dry.

Lei Wan (Sclerotium Polypori), No. 184. Flavor bitter, nature cold, slightly toxic. Kills three types of parasites, expels gu-poison and various toxins, clears excess heat in the stomach, treats mania due to phlegm-fire, removes evil qi, and addresses all blood stasis and qi accumulation.

Da Feng Zi (Semen Jatrophae), No. 185. Flavor acrid, nature hot, toxic. Treats wind-xian, scabies, and leprosy; attacks toxins and kills insects; also treats ymea chancres and other sores.

Wu Yi (Herba Chrysanthemi Indici), No. 186. Flavor acrid and neutral, nature warm. Mainly treats cold qi in the chest and abdomen, mass pains, disperses wind-dampness causing crawling sensations on the skin, kills three types of parasites, removes tapeworms and various poisonous insects, treats intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, fistulas, and malignant sores. Pounded with lard for hot sores; mixed with honey for damp tinea.

Fu Ling (Poria), No. 187. Flavor sweet and bland, nature neutral. Nature descends and promotes diuresis, belonging to yin within yang. Divided into red and white varieties. Although Ben Cao states red purges Bing-Ding fire and white enters Ren-Gui water, both are ultimately excretory, thus able to unblock orifices and remove dampness. Unblocking orifices opens the heart and benefits intelligence, guiding turbid qi to generate fluids; removing dampness drives out water, dries the spleen, tonifies the middle, and strengthens the stomach. Dispels convulsions, thickens intestines and viscera, treats the root of phlegm, assists drugs in descending. Due to slight sweetness, it is said to tonify yang, but since tonification is minor and drainage major, excessive use damages eyesight and is unsuitable for the chronically weak. If processed with human milk and sun-dried, the increased milk powder makes it excellent for tonifying yin.

Fu Shen (Poria with Hostwood), No. 188. Grows near the roots, thus entering the Heart Meridian, unblocking heart qi, treating forgetfulness, and stopping palpitations and fright. Although Ben Cao records this, it is essentially a draining and descending substance, similar to Fu Ling.

Zhu Ling (Polyporus), No. 189. Flavor slightly bitter and sweet, nature neutral, belonging to yin within yang. Nature favors descending and draining, entering the Bladder and Kidney meridians. Unblocks strangury, reduces edema, removes dampness, and promotes urination. Due to bitterness, it drains stagnation; due to blandness, it unblocks orifices. Also resolves damp-heat from Taiyang disease, podagra, leukorrhea, and treats gestational strangury and fetal edema.

Sang Ji Sheng (Ramulus Taxilli), No. 190. Flavor bitter, nature cool. Mainly treats uterine bleeding and threatened miscarriage due to blood heat, secures blood and calms the fetus, treats postpartum blood heat disorders, dispels wind-heat-damp bi syndrome, knee and back pain, promotes growth of beard and eyebrows, strengthens hair and teeth, clears pediatric heat toxins, and treats carbuncles, malnutrition sores, and leprosy.

Hu Po (Amber), No. 191. Flavor sweet and bland, nature neutral. Calms the five zang organs, clears heart and lungs, stabilizes hun and po, anchors epilepsy, expels evil spirits, dissipates blood stasis and phlegm-saliva, resolves gu-poison, breaks clumps, unblocks five stranguries, promotes urination, brightens eyes and grinds away opacities, stops bleeding and generates flesh, and aids healing of metal wounds and injuries.

Song Xiang (Resina Pini), No. 192. Flavor bitter and acrid, warm. Treats carbuncles, malignant sores, scalp ringworm, wind-damp tinea. Boiled in wine into paste for pills treats migratory joint pain and female leukorrhea. Decocted into ointment invigorates blood, generates flesh, drains pus, and relieves pain. Plugged into tooth holes to kill insects. Applied to splinters to extract them. Mixed with copper powder for severe metal wounds and fractures.

Ru Xiang (Olibanum), No. 193. Flavor bitter and acrid, nature warm, slightly hot. Expels evil qi, treats cholera, invigorates blood vessels, stops bloody dysentery pain, treats female qi reversal and blood stagnation causing abdominal pain, dissipates carbuncles and toxins, supports the interior and protects the heart, invigorates blood, relieves pain, relaxes sinews, and treats fractures. Ointments relieve pain and promote tissue regeneration.

Mo Yao (Myrrha), No. 194. Flavor bitter, nature neutral. Breaks and disperses blood, reduces swelling, and relieves pain. Treats metal wounds, whip marks, malignant sores, hemorrhoid fistulas, and carbuncles. Breaks old blood stasis and masses, and treats post-abortion/postpartum qi-blood pain. For metal cuts, falls, tendon/bone injuries, and abdominal blood stasis pain, grind into paste and take with hot wine to push out the old and generate the new, ensuring recovery.

A Wei (Resina Ferulae), No. 195. Flavor bitter and acrid, nature hot, toxic. Its pungent odor repels foul smells, expels epidemic miasma, malaria, corpse-transmission ghost qi, and evil qi. Treats cholera, dysphagia, hernia, abdominal pain, kills small insects and dental worms. Breaks accumulations, dissolves masses, removes gu-poison, and detoxifies mushrooms, vegetables, beef, mutton, fish, and meat poisons. Taken as powder or pill as desired.

Zhang Nao (Borneolum Syntheticum), No. 196. Flavor acrid and slightly bitter, nature hot. Excels at unblocking orifices and breaking qi stagnation. Repels sudden evil qi, treats tinea, kills insects and moths. Placed in shoes to treat podagra. Smoke fumigates clothes and mats to remove fleas and bedbugs. For kittens with many fleas, mix with flour and rub on; fleas fall off completely. An excellent prescription.

Long Nao (Borneolum Naturalis / Borneol), No. 197. Also known as Bing Pian. Flavor slightly sweet, highly acrid. Topical application feels icy cold; qi is potent and forceful. Nature is not hot but contains yin within yang. Excels at dispersing qi and blood, clearing fire and stagnation, unblocking orifices and repelling evil, driving out heart/abdominal evil qi, treating throat obstruction, brain pain, nasal discharge/toothache, protruding tongue in typhoid, pediatric wind-phlegm, acute convulsions due to evil heat, and blackening of varicella lesions. Suitable for any condition where qi is obstructed and cannot open. Also unblocks ear orifices, clears eye heat, removes red corneal membranes, drives out parasites, eliminates five types of hemorrhoids, treats malignant sores and toxin aggregation, and painful genital ulcers/hemorrhoid fistulas. Treats female qi reversal and difficult labor; a small amount of powder taken with fresh water induces delivery. Taken with hot wine, it can be fatal. Use sparingly and briefly; excessive use scatters true qi and harms greatly.

Xue Jie (Dragon's Blood), No. 198. Flavor sweet, salty, and slightly astringent, nature neutral. Excels at breaking blood stasis, relieving pain, and generating flesh. Treats metal wounds, fractures, contusions, blood stasis pain, internal injury with reversed blood, female blood qi stagnation. Can also generate blood and tonify deficiency. All can be powdered and taken with wine. Treats all malignant sores, tinea, and non-healing ulcers. However, it draws out pus, so do not use excessively.

Lu Hui (Aloe), No. 199. Flavor highly bitter, nature highly cold. Qi and flavor are concentrated, capable of ascending and descending. Removes wind-heat irritability, clears lung/stomach stagnant fire, cools blood, clears liver, brightens eyes, treats pediatric wind-heat acute convulsions/epilepsy, five types of malnutrition heat toxins, kills parasites, and treats hemorrhoid fistulas and hot sores. Military use kills malnutrition roundworms. Snuffed into nose for brain malnutrition, nasal heat/itching, nasal polyps. Powder applied to toothache. Mixed with Licorice for damp tinea to kill insects and drain yellow fluid, which is excellent.

Gan Qi (Lacuca Austro-Sinensis Resina), No. 200. Flavor acrid, nature warm, toxic. Treats severe trauma, reconnects bones and tendons, kills parasites, removes roundworms,削 (reduces) long-standing hard accumulations, and breaks long-term凝聚 (coagulated) blood stasis. Must be stir-fried before use to avoid damaging the gastrointestinal tract. For contact dermatitis from raw lacquer, bathing in Fir soup, Perilla soup, or Crab soup resolves it; or apply iron rust mixed with sesame oil.

Su He You (Styrax Oil), No. 201. Flavor sweet and acrid, nature warm. Expels evil qi, kills ghosts/gu-poison/insects, treats epilepsy and warm malaria, stops qi-reversal pain. Also clarifies the spirit and removes night terrors.

Hai Er Cha (Child's Tea / Catechu), No. 202. Flavor bitter and slightly astringent, nature cool. Descends fire, generates fluids, clears phlegm-saliva and cough, treats mouth sores, throat obstruction, and irritability, stops thirst, hematemesis, epistaxis, hematochezia, hematuria, damp-heat bloody dysentery, female metrorrhagia, menorrhagia, pediatric malnutrition heat, oral herpes/hot sores, and weeping ulcers. Astringes muscle and promotes tissue regeneration; also kills various insects.