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[Bi Ba (Long Pepper)]
Taste: Acrid, Hot. Meridian Tropism: Hand and Foot Yangming meridians. Actions: Specifically eliminates cold in the stomach, warms the middle jiao, directs rebellious qi downward, resolves food stagnation, and dispels phlegm. When taken with milk as a drop dose, it treats watery diarrhea and qi-type dysentery. Combined with Gan Jiang (Dried Ginger) and Xi Xin (Asarum), it treats toothache caused by cold and nasal discharge of clear fluid; blowing the powder into the nose is highly effective.

[Tian Ming Jing (Emilia sonchifolia)]
Taste: Acrid, Warm, Toxic. Meridian Tropism: Hand and Foot Taiyin meridians; circulates through the twelve meridians. Actions: Specifically removes stagnant qi and retained phlegm, and wards off mountain miasma and pestilential vapors. Alias: Xiang Si Cao (Love Grass).

[Jin Yin Hua (Honeysuckle Flower)]
Taste: Sweet. Meridian Tropism: Hand Taiyin and Foot Jueyin meridians. Actions: Specifically clears heat and detoxifies. Combined with Dang Gui (Angelica Sinensis), it treats bloody dysentery due to heat-toxin. Combined with Huang [character missing], it is named Liu Yi Tang (Six-One Decoction) and treats thirst after carbuncles and sores. The flowers are burned to retain their properties, ground into powder, mixed with rock sugar, and taken with water; this is extremely effective for abdominal pain and dysentery. The vine is named Ren Dong (Honeysuckle Vine).

[Pu Gong Ying (Dandelion)]
Taste: Sweet, Neutral, Bitter, Cold. Meridian Tropism: Foot Yangming, Jueyin, and Shaoyin meridians. Actions: Specifically transforms heat-toxin, resolves food toxicity, treats swollen nodules, and promotes urination. Combined with Ren Dong (Honeysuckle Vine) and decocted with wine, and the dregs applied topically, it is good for treating mastitis. Digging up its root, which is fist-sized and sometimes has a human-like shape surrounding it, taking the juice and administering it with wine is good for treating yige (dysphagia). For chronic malignant ulcers, applying the mashed herb is excellent. Alias: Huang Hua Di Ding (Yellow Flower Ground Dandelion).

[Zi Hua Di Ding (Viola Yedoensis)]
Taste: Acrid, Bitter. Meridian Tropism: Foot Yangming meridian. Actions: Specifically treats breast abscesses, acne, and carbuncles. Its actions are the same as Huang Hua Di Ding (Dandelion).

[Tu Niu Xi (Achyranthes Root)]
Taste: Sweet, Cold, Slightly Toxic. Meridian Tropism: Hand and Foot Yangming and Jueyin meridians. Actions: Specifically breaks blood stasis, treats sand strangury (lithuria) and bloody strangury. Combined with a small amount of She Xiang (Musk) and ground into powder, blown into the throat, it treats ru e (tonsillitis) and hou bi (sore throat). If children suffer from acute or chronic convulsions with locked jaws, squeezing the juice and forcing it down with good wine will wake them immediately. Applying the dregs mixed with vinegar to the neck is miraculous. The root is named Du Niu Xi. For hematemesis in men and women, dry and grind into powder, take two qian adjusted with Mao Hua Tang (Thrush Flower Decoction). For worm pain, take adjusted with fat meat juice. The seed is named He Shi (Nematode Herb). Intestinal worms that do not stop coming out, or regenerate after being cut, causing restlessness in walking and sitting, can be cured by taking half liang of the fried and ground powder adjusted with water. Decocting it to wash hemorrhoids, or applying the dregs to the affected area, or grinding and applying it for snake and insect bites is particularly good. It uses Di Huang (Rehmannia Root) as an assistant drug. Aliases: Di Song (Earth Pine), Huo Lu Cao (Living Deer Grass), Xia Ma Lan (Toad Indigo).