[Que Mei Ye] The flavor is sour and the nature is cold. It clears heat and resolves toxicity, capable of treating breast abscess (Ru Yong) and perianal abscess (Bian Du).
[Chun Pi] The flavor is bitter with a slight sweetness. It treats diarrhea, dysentery, and sores/toxins; it promotes tissue regeneration and removes scars, specializing in external medicine applications. Strychnos nux-vomica (Fan Mu Bie) treats laryngeal obstruction (Hou Bi) and dissipates palpable masses (Pi Kuai).
[Unnamed Herb A] The flavor is sweet and bitter, and the nature is cold. It treats acute throat closure (Yan Hou Ji Bi); crush the herb to extract juice and mix with vinegar for use. The seeds can induce labor.
[Unnamed Herb B] The flavor is bitter and the nature is extremely cold. Crush to extract juice for treating acute throat closure.
[Unnamed Herb C] The flavor is sweet and bland, and the nature is cold. It promotes urination and relieves irritability and heat. Its action is dispersing without retaining (Zou Wu Shou), resembling bamboo but not bamboo leaves.
[Shu Kui Hua / Hollyhock Flower] The flavor is sweet, cold, bland, and slippery. It moistens dryness, promotes bowel and bladder movements, harmonizes Ying and Wei, reduces edema, and induces abortion (Hua Tai). The roots and leaves share the same efficacy. Hollyhock flowers are cold, lubricating, and promoting, treating strangury (Lin), leukorrhea (Dai), and conditions of Qi and Blood dryness.
[Unnamed Herb D] The flavor is sweet and cool. It treats hemorrhoidal fistulas, hematochezia, dysentery, metrorrhagia (Beng Dai). The seeds treat intestinal wind (Chang Feng) with similar efficacy; the young shoots treat sores, hemorrhoids, and blood disorders.
[Unnamed Herb E] The flavor is sweet, cold, and slightly pungent. It clears heat, dissipates nodules, and resolves toxicity.
[Unnamed Herb F] The flavor is bitter and sour, and the nature is cold. As a purely Yin substance, it enters exclusively into the Li Palace (Heart/Fire aspect), specializing in clearing heat-toxin and treating erysipelas (Huo Dan) and wandering wind (You Feng).
[Unnamed Herb G] The flavor is salty and cold. It softens hardness and dissipates goiter (Ying Liu) and qi stagnation knots.
[Unnamed Herb H] The flavor is bitter and salty, and the nature is cold. It softens hardness, drains heat, and dissipates goiters, tubercles, phlegm-fluids, damp-heat.
[Unnamed Herb I] Promotes water metabolism and dissipates goiters; its efficacy is identical to Sargassum (Hai Zao).
[Unnamed Herb J] Efficacy is identical to Sargassum (Hai Zao), but the nature is drier and slippery. It treats goiters, dysphagia (Ye Ge), stubborn phlegm accumulations.
[Phellodendri Cortex (Huang Bo)] The flavor is bitter and cold, drying and astringent. It most effectively clears damp-heat from the Blood level, treating all types of blood disorders, wind-dampness, various Bi syndromes, and joint pain (Li Jie Feng). Phellodendri Cortex also treats burns and ulcerated sores, promoting hair growth.
[Unnamed Herb K] The flavor is sweet, cold, and slightly pungent. It cools the blood, treating hematemesis and epistaxis; red varieties should be used.
[Unnamed Herb L] The flavor is bitter and salty, and the nature is extremely cold. It enters the bones to drain heat, softens hardness, kills parasites, and treats various diseases of the throat and teeth.
[Unnamed Herb M] The flavor is bitter and astringent. It drains heat and consolidates collapse. Charred to black, it stops chronic long-standing lower bleeding.
[Unnamed Herb N] The flavor is bitter and cold. It removes heat, eliminates three types of parasites, and treats eye diseases.
[Unnamed Herb O] The nature is extremely cold. It treats mental restlessness, thirst (Xiao Ke), rebellious Qi, and Ben Tun syndrome (gas rushing from hypochondrium/chest).
[Unnamed Herb P] The flavor is bitter and cool. It drains heat, invigorates blood, and moistens dryness. It treats insect-related tinea; taken as a decoction, it induces sleep.
[Unnamed Herb Q] The flavor is bitter, pungent, and slightly cold. It removes excessive heat in the stomach and intestines, opens orifices, promotes bowel and bladder movements, benefits essence, removes abdominal accumulations and intestinal stasis, treats carbuncles and swellings, and cures dysentery.
[Unnamed Herb R] The flavor is bitter and cold. It dries dampness, clears heat, and astringes the intestines. Entering the Blood level, it astringes blood. It also eliminates old phlegm in the lungs and stomach, treating various damp-heat diseases with the function of arresting diarrhea.
[Unnamed Herb S] Its efficacy is similar to that of Toosendan Fructus (Chu Pi) but slightly weaker. It is suitable for pills and powders but not for decoctions.