泻，行气，破血，消积
苦平。色白属金（皮黑肉白），入肺金血分，破血中之气（亦通肝经聚血），兼入脾经。
散一切血瘀、气结，疮硬食停，老块坚积（乃坚者削之。从血药则治血，从气药则治气。须
辅以健脾补气药良。昔有人患症瘕死，遗言开腹取之，得病块如石。文理五色，削成刀柄。
因砍三棱，柄消成水，乃知此药可疗症瘕），消肿止痛，通乳堕胎。功近香附而力峻，虚者
慎用。
色黄体重，若鲫鱼而小者良。醋浸、炒，或面裹、煨。
泻火，补中，止血，止哕
甘寒。入手少阴（心），足太阴、阳明（脾胃）。补中益气，除伏热，消瘀血，利小便，
解酒毒。
治吐、衄诸血（心肝火旺，逼血上行，则吐血；肺火盛，则衄血。茅根甘和血，寒凉血
，引火下降，故治之。扑损瘀血，捣汁服。名茅花汤。亦治鼻衄产淋），血闭寒热（血瘀则
闭，闭则寒热作矣），淋沥崩中（血热则崩），伤寒哕逆（即呃逆。《说文》曰∶哕，气牾也。
东垣作干呕之甚者，未是），肺热喘急，内热烦渴，黄胆水肿（清火行水。时珍曰∶良药也，
世人以微而忽之，惟事苦寒之剂，伤冲和之气，乌足知此哉）。
茅针，溃痈疖（酒煮服。一针溃一孔，二针溃二孔），口疮之神药。角蒿。
[Jing San Leng (Sparganii Rhizoma)]
It has the effects of purging, promoting Qi circulation, breaking blood stasis, and resolving accumulations.
Bitter in taste and neutral in nature. Its white color corresponds to Metal (black skin with white flesh). It enters the Lung Metal blood level, breaks Qi stagnation within blood (also unblocks stagnant blood in the Liver channel), and concurrently enters the Spleen channel.
It disperses all types of blood stasis and Qi knotting, treats hard sores, food retention, and old, firm accumulations (this is the method of reducing hardness by削之 [scraping/reducing]. When combined with blood-invigorating herbs, it treats blood disorders; when combined with Qi-regulating herbs, it treats Qi disorders. It must be assisted by spleen-fortifying and Qi-tonifying herbs for good results. In the past, a person died from zheng jia [abdominal masses], leaving instructions to open the abdomen to remove the lesion. The extracted mass was as hard as stone, with five-colored textures, and was carved into a knife handle. Because chopping Jing San Leng caused the handle to dissolve into water, it was known that this herb can treat zheng jia). It reduces swelling, stops pain, promotes lactation, and induces abortion. Its efficacy is similar to Xiang Fu (Cyperi Rhizoma) but its force is more severe; those with deficiency should use it with caution.
Those with yellow color and heavy weight, resembling a crucian carp but smaller, are considered superior. They can be soaked in vinegar, stir-fried, or wrapped in flour and baked.
[Bai Mao Gen (Imperatae Rhizoma)]
It has the effects of purging fire, tonifying the middle, stopping bleeding, and stopping hiccups.
Sweet in taste and cold in nature. It enters the Hand Shaoyin Heart channel, Foot Taiyin Spleen channel, and Foot Yangming Stomach channel. It tonifies the middle and benefits Qi, eliminates latent heat, resolves blood stasis, promotes urination, and detoxifies alcohol.
It treats hematemesis, epistaxis, and various other bleedings (when Heart and Liver fire are hyperactive, forcing blood upward, hematemesis occurs; when Lung fire is excessive, epistaxis occurs. Mao Gen is sweet and harmonizes blood, cold and cools blood, guiding fire downward, thus treating these conditions. For traumatic blood stasis, crush and take the juice. Named Mao Hua Tang. It also treats epistaxis and postpartum strangury). It treats blood obstruction with chills and fever (blood stasis causes obstruction, and obstruction leads to chills and fever), dribbling strangury and metrorrhagia (blood heat causes metrorrhagia), and hiccups caused by Shanghan (i.e., hiccup. Shuowen says: Hui refers to rebellious Qi. Li Dongyuan considered it severe dry heaving, which is inaccurate). It treats lung-heat-induced wheezing and urgency, internal heat with irritability and thirst, jaundice, and edema (clears fire and moves water. Li Shizhen said: This is a good medicine. People ignore it because it is mild, only using bitter-cold agents, damaging the harmonious Qi. How could they know this?).
Mao Zhen (flower buds of Imperata cylindrica) can suppurate carbuncles and furuncles (boiled in wine and taken orally. One bud suppurates one pore, two buds suppurate two pores). It is a miraculous herb for treating mouth ulcers. Jiao Hao (Artemisia capillaris? Note: Text says Jiao Hao, likely referring to a specific local usage or variant, but literally "Horn Wormwood").