Sweet and cold, clears Wind-Heat of the Lung and Liver, leaches out Damp-Heat of the Bladder, promotes urination and secures the essence orifices. Cheqiancao (Plantago Seed/Herb) is sweet and cold, cools blood and removes heat, unblocks painful urinary dysfunction (Lin syndrome) and brightens the eyes, can resolve Damp-Heat of the Liver and Small Intestine; one must use the leaves.

Sweet, bitter, and cold, enters the Bladder channel to remove Deficiency Heat, promotes urination and unblocks Lin syndrome, treats sores and scabies. Leaves decocted for bathing remove Wind-Heat and carbuncular swelling of the skin; washing the eyes removes night blindness (Que Mang).

Bitter, sweet, and slightly cold, clears Lung Heat to nourish the source of transformation, unblocks the Bladder and promotes urination and dampness, excels at unblocking Lin syndrome. Waye (Reed Catkins) is also excellent for treating Lin syndrome.

Bitter, cold, and slightly acrid, heavy and yin descending, drains Ministerial Fire of the Bladder, serves as a guiding herb for the Foot-Taiyang channel, removes dampness, clears heat, reduces fire, and consolidates the Kidney; treats paralysis, wasting-thirst with bone-steaming fever, dysentery, and various sores; only usable when the Chi pulse is forceful. Raw use lowers Excess Fire; stir-fried until black stops metrorrhagia and leukorrhea; processed with wine treats upper jiao; processed with honey treats middle jiao; processed with salt treats lower jiao.

(See preceding text regarding Cold of the Liver.)

Bland, cold, and slippery, the principal herb of the Bladder channel, also enters the Lung to clear its source of transformation, descends to the Bladder to promote urination, unblocks the six fu organs and nine orifices and their fluids, removes Damp-Heat of the Upper, Middle, and Lower Jiao, dispels summerheat, reduces fire, sweeps away heat, and leaches out dampness.

(See preceding text regarding Unblocking and Tonifying.)

(See preceding text regarding Lung Tonifying.)

Bitter in taste and qi descending, enters the Heart and Pericardium, removes stasis and generates new blood, regulates menstruation and tonifies blood, treats conditions of Blood Deficiency and Blood Stasis.

(See preceding text regarding Liver Tonifying.)

(See preceding text regarding Spleen Tonifying.)

(See preceding text regarding Kidney Tonifying.)

(See preceding text regarding Gallbladder Tonifying.)

(See preceding text regarding Unblocking and Tonifying.)

(See preceding text regarding Spleen Tonifying.)

Sweet, neutral, and astringent, can connect the Heart and Kidney, calm the Emperor and Ministerial Fire pathogens, astringes essence and qi, thickens the intestines and stomach, and concurrently treats all blood diseases in women. Lianxin (Lotus Plumule) is bitter and cold, clears Heart heat and removes heat.

(See preceding text regarding Kidney Tonifying.)

Using the heart to return to the heart, using blood to guide blood, used as a guiding agent for Heart-tonifying herbs; the principle lies herein.

(See preceding text regarding Kidney Tonifying.)

(See preceding text regarding Unblocking and Harmonizing.)

Bitter, acrid, and warm, enters the Heart, can unblock Kidney Qi ascending to the Heart to connect Heart and Kidney, drains heat, moves qi, disperses stagnation, benefits orifices, resolves phlegm, concurrently treats carbuncles and sores; use without the lotus heart.

(See preceding text regarding Lung Harmonizing.)

Bitter, slightly cold, and ascending in nature, enters the Heart and Pericardium to drain fire, concurrently removes Damp-Heat of the Sanjiao, Large Intestine, and Gallbladder channels, can disperse blood stasis and qi accumulation in all channels, promotes urination, kills parasites, serves as an essential herb for sores across the twelve channels; excessive consumption reduces appetite.

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