一名天丁，气味辛温，无毒。米醋熬嫩刺作煎，涂疮癣，有奇效。（《图经本
草》）治痈肿，妒乳，风疠恶疮，胎衣不下，杀虫。（《本草纲目》）小儿重舌，小便淋闭，
肠
风痢血，大风疠痒，痈疽不溃，疮肿无头。（诸方。）去风，化痰，败毒攻毒，定小儿惊风发
搐，攻痘疮起发，化毒成浆。（隐庵增附。）
气味辛温，无毒。炒舂去赤皮，以水浸软，煮熟糖渍食之，疏道五脏风热壅。
（《本草衍义》）核中白肉，入治肺药，核中黄心嚼食，治膈痰吞酸。（《图经本草》）仁
和血
，润肠，（《用药法象》）治风热，大肠虚秘，瘰 肿毒，疮癣。（《本草纲目》）治疔肿便痈
，风虫牙疼，妇人难产，里急后重，肠风下血，腰脚风痛。（《诸方》）治疝气，并睾丸肿痛
。（隐庵增附。）
气味辛温，微毒。主治去风湿，下痢便血，疮癣肿毒。（《本草纲目》附）
（肥皂荚种类与皂荚相同，以其浓而多肉，故名肥皂荚，内有黑子数颗，大如指头而不
甚圆
，色如黑漆而甚坚，中有白仁如栗，煨熟可食，外科用之消肿毒、瘰 。《相感志》云∶肥
皂荚水能死金鱼，辟蚂蚁，麸见之则不就。）
近时疡医用肥皂肉，捣 无名肿毒。用核仁，治鼠 疽痔。方上游医，用为吐药，治症
瘕
Saponariae Spina (Attached): Also known as Tianding, it has a pungent and warm flavor, and is non-toxic. Boil the tender spines in rice vinegar to make a paste; apply topically to sores and tinea for miraculous effects. (*Tujing Bencao*) Treats carbuncles and swellings, acute mastitis (Duru), malignant sores caused by wind-leprosy, retained placenta, and parasites. (*Bencao Gangmu*) Treats infantile double tongue (swelling of the sublingual area resembling a small tongue), stranguria with urinary retention, intestinal wind with bloody dysentery, severe leprosy with itching, unruptured carbuncles and ulcers, and headless abscesses. (Various Formulas) Dispels wind, resolves phlegm, defeats toxins and attacks toxicity, calms infantile convulsions due to fright, promotes the eruption of smallpox, and transforms toxins into pus. (Yin'an's Additions)
Gleditsiae Sinensis Semen (Attached): It has a pungent and warm flavor, and is non-toxic. Stir-fry, pound off the red skin, soak in water until soft, boil thoroughly, and preserve with sugar for consumption. It can unblock the accumulation of wind-heat in the five zang organs. (*Bencao Yan yi*) The white flesh inside the seed kernel is used in formulas treating lung diseases; chewing the yellow heart inside the kernel treats phlegm in the diaphragm and acid regurgitation. (*Tujing Bencao*) The kernel harmonizes blood and moistens the intestines. (*Yongfa Faxiang*) Treats wind-heat, deficiency-type constipation of the large intestine, scrofula and toxic swellings, and sores/tinea. (*Bencao Gangmu*) Treats carbuncles, perianal abscesses, toothache due to wind-worms, difficult labor in women, tenesmus, intestinal wind with lower bleeding, and wind-pain in the waist and legs. (Various Formulas) Treats hernia and swelling/pain of the testicles. (Yin'an's Additions)
Soap Pod (Attached): It has a pungent and warm flavor, and is slightly toxic. Its main indications are dispelling wind-dampness, treating dysentery with bloody stools, and sores/tinea with toxic swellings. (*Bencao Gangmu* Attached) The soap pod belongs to the same species as Gleditsia sinensis but is named "soap pod" because its juice is thick and fleshy. It contains several black seeds, about the size of a finger, not perfectly round, black like lacquer, very hard, with white kernels inside resembling chestnuts, which can be eaten after roasting. In surgery, it is used to reduce toxic swellings and scrofula. *Xianggan Zhi* states: Water from soap pods can kill goldfish, repel ants, and bran will not approach it. Recently, surgeons use the flesh of the soap pod, pounded externally, to treat nameless swellings and toxins. The kernels are used to treat scrofulous abscesses, carbuncles, and hemorrhoids. Physicians from Fangshang use it as an emetic to treat mass accumulations (Zhengjia).