味咸。入足太阳太阴经。功专利水通淋。得白术治支饮。得麋衔治酒风。盐水拌或
酒浸用。忌铁。畏文蛤。
味咸。入足少阴经。功专下行。得牛膝疏肝之性。导引利水。得菟丝子升清降浊。
能补虚明目。催生下胎。酒蒸或炒研用。阳气下陷者忌。肾虚气脱尤宜避。五子衍宗丸。枸
杞、菟丝各八两。五味覆盆各四两。车前二两。蜜丸。惯遗泄者。易车前用莲子。
味甘寒。入足少阴经。功专降心火。泻肺热。得辰砂治小儿夜啼。得红花治喉风喉
痹。扎成把擦癣良。烧灰止血。小便不禁及中寒者忌。
味苦。入手少阴太阳经。功专利水破血。得栝蒌、茯苓、山芋、鸡子治便闭。得山
栀
、甘草、葱白、灯心治溺血。然性利善下。故能消肿明目去翳。通经堕胎。虚者慎用。花名
洛阳蕊壳。丹皮为使。恶螵蛸。产后淋当去血。瞿麦蒲黄皆为要药。
味甘平。入足太阳经。功专利小便。消女子阴蚀。得醋治蛔攻心痛。得瞿麦通淋。
即扁竹也。
味苦温。入足太阴经。功专疏气活血。及风劳腹痛。妊娠水肿。治疝气作痛。以
藤一两。好酒一盏。煎半盏服神效。生磨消肿病。即青木香藤也。
味甘苦气寒。入足太阳经。功专益精强阴。入膀胱。除虚热。利小便而通淋。治
疝。散恶疮。叶作浴汤。去皮肤风热丹肿。洗眼除雀盲涩痛。恶螵蛸。胁下疼痛。地肤子
末酒服良。
[Alisma Rhizoma]
Salty in flavor. Enters the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian and Foot-Taiyin Spleen Meridian. Its function is specifically to promote urination and relieve strangury. Combined with Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma (Baizhu), it treats Zhi Yin (fluid retention in the chest and hypochondrium causing distension). Combined with Elsholtziae Herba (Mixian), it treats Jiu Feng (disease caused by wind pathogen after drinking alcohol). Use after mixing with salt water or soaking in wine. Avoid contact with iron. Incompatible with Arca Shell (Wen Ge).
[Moutan Cortex]
Salty in flavor. Enters the Foot-Shaoyin Kidney Meridian. Its function is specifically descending. Combined with Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix (Niuxi), it disperses Liver Qi stagnation, guiding and promoting diuresis. Combined with Cuscutae Semen (Tusizi), it raises the clear and descends the turbid, capable of tonifying deficiency, brightening the eyes, inducing labor, and expelling dead fetus. Use after steaming with wine or stir-frying and grinding. Contraindicated for those with sinking of Yang Qi. Especially to be avoided by those with Kidney deficiency and Qi collapse. Wuzi Yanzong Wan: Gouqi (Lycium Fruit) and Tusizi (Cuscuta Seed) each 8 liang; Wuweizi (Schisandra Fruit) and Fupenzi (Rubus Fruit) each 4 liang; Cheqianzi (Plantago Seed) 2 liang; made into pills with honey. For those prone to seminal emission, replace Cheqianzi with Lianzi (Lotus Seed).
[Coptidis Rhizoma]
Sweet and cold in flavor. Enters the Foot-Shaoyin Kidney Meridian. Its function is specifically to descend Heart Fire and drain Lung Heat. Combined with Cinnabar (Chensha), it treats night crying in infants. Combined with Carthami Flos (Honghua), it treats Hou Feng (wind affecting the throat) and Hou Bi (sore throat/swelling). Tied into a bundle and rubbed on the skin, it is effective for treating tinea. Burned to ash, it stops bleeding. Contraindicated for those with involuntary urination and interior cold.
[Dianthus Herb]
Bitter in flavor. Enters the Hand-Shaoyin Heart Meridian and Hand-Taiyang Small Intestine Meridian. Its function is specifically to promote urination and break blood stasis. Combined with Trichosanthis Fructus (Gualou), Poria (Fuling), Dioscoreae Rhizoma (Shanyu), and Chicken Egg (Jizi), it treats constipation. Combined with Gardeniae Fructus (Shanzhi), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gancao), Allii Fistulosi Bulbus (Congbai), and Junci Medulla (Dengxin), it treats hematuria. However, its nature is purgative and tends to descend, thus it can reduce swelling, brighten the eyes, remove nebula, unblock menstruation, and induce abortion. Use with caution in deficiency cases. The flower is named Luoyang Ruike. Moutan Cortex acts as an assistant herb. Incompatible with Sepia Endoconcha (Piaoxiao). For postpartum strangury, blood stasis should be removed; Dianthus Herb and Polygoni Multiflori Caulis (Qumai) are both essential herbs. [Note: Text implies Qumai is Dianthus, but traditionally Qumai is Dianthus and Dianpi is Moutan. Based on text "花名洛阳蕊壳... 恶螵蛸... 瞿麦蒲黄皆为要药", this section describes Dianthus/Moutan mix or specific Dianthus properties. Translating strictly per text entities].
[Xie Bai / Scallion White]
Sweet and neutral in flavor. Enters the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian. Its function is specifically to promote urination and eliminate female yin erosion (ulceration of the vulva). Combined with vinegar, it treats heart pain caused by roundworm attack. Combined with Dianthus Herb (Qumai), it relieves strangury. It is Bian Zhu (likely referring to Xie Bai/Allium macrostemon bulb, often called Chuan Bei or similar local names, here translated as Bian Zhu based on text "即扁竹也").
[Aucklandiae Radix / Qingmuxiang Vine]
Bitter and warm in flavor. Enters the Foot-Taiyin Spleen Meridian. Its function is specifically to regulate Qi and invigorate blood, treating wind-lao abdominal pain, pregnancy edema, and hernia pain. Take one liang of the vine and one cup of good wine, decoct until half a cup remains, take orally for miraculous effect. Raw ground paste applied externally reduces swelling and pain. It is Qingmuxiang Teng (Aucklandiae Vine).
[Kochiae Scopariae Herba]
Sweet and bitter in flavor, cold in qi. Enters the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian. Its function is specifically to benefit essence and strengthen Yin, enters the Bladder, clears deficiency heat, promotes urination and relieves strangury, treats hernia, dissipates malignant sores. Leaves boiled as a bath soup remove wind-heat danzhong from the skin; washing the eyes removes quermang (night blindness) and astringent pain. Incompatible with Sepia Endoconcha (Piaoxiao). For pain under the ribs, taking Kochiae Scopariae Herba powder with wine is beneficial.