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Sweet, astringent, neutral in nature, non-toxic. It binds the intestines to stop diarrhea, opens the stomach to promote appetite, resolves phlegm, relieves thirst, stops bleeding, kills parasites, reduces fever, and detoxifies. It eliminates stagnant blood in the abdomen, treats hematemesis (vomiting blood) and hemoptysis (coughing up blood), moistens the lungs and heart to treat lung abscess/fibrosis (Fei Wei), treats regurgitation (Fan Wei), and alleviates cough.

Generates body fluids, relieves thirst, transforms phlegm, and calms cough. Clears pathogenic heat from the Upper Jiao (Upper Burner) affecting the lungs and heart, and treats sores and pain in the throat, mouth, and tongue.

For hiccups and thirst caused by heat, with a rapid pulse: use Banxia (Pinellia Rhizome), Maidong (Ophiopogon Tuber), Huangqin (Scutellaria Root), Chao Zhizi (Fried Gardenia Fruit), Chaihu (Bupleurum Root), Xiaohui (Fennel Seed), Shidi (Persimmon Calyx), Muxiang (Aucklandia Root), Zhuru (Bamboo Shavings), Jian Sha (Selected Amomum Fruit), Gancao (Licorice Root); if heart heat is severe, add Huanglian (Coptis Rhizome). (Verified Formula 1.)

For hiccups caused by cold, with long-standing illness and cold limbs: use Shidi (Persimmon Calyx), Gongding (Clove Bud), Banxia (Pinellia Rhizome), Xiaohui (Fennel Seed), Chenpi (Tangerine Peel), Liangjiang (Galangal Rhizome), Lihé (Lychee Seed). This condition is critical, with only one chance of survival out of a hundred. (Formula 2.)

For intestinal wind with bloody stool: Persimmon cake (Shi Bing) can be taken as powder or pills. (Formula 3.)

For bloody strangury (Xue Lin): Persimmon cake burned to ash, taken with water. (Formula 4.)

For hot strangury with painful difficulty in urination: Same as above, add Dengxin (Juncus Effusus Pith). (Formula 5.)

For pediatric autumn dysentery: Cook rice porridge; when ripe, add fine persimmon cake powder, boil three more times, and eat. (Formula 6.)

For regurgitation and vomiting food: Take three dried persimmons, mash them, and take with wine. Do not mix with other herbs. (Formula 7.)

For phlegm-wheezing with blood in sputum: Steam a large persimmon cake on rice until cooked, slice it open, insert one qian (approx. 3-5g) of real Qingdai (Indigo Naturalis) into each piece, eat at bedtime, and wash down with Bohe Tang (Mint Decoction). (Formula 8.)

For postpartum hiccups, chaotic qi, and restlessness: Slice persimmon cake, decoct in water, and sip slowly. (Formula 9.)

For nasal obstruction (Bi Zhi): Cook together with rice as porridge, eat daily. (Formula 10.)

For deafness and nasal congestion: Same as above. (Formula 11.)

For leg ulcers: Apply Shi Shuang (Persimmon Frost) and Shidi (Persimmon Calyx) burned to ash and powdered. Very effective. (Formula 12.)

To detoxify tung oil poisoning: Eat persimmon cake. (Formula 13.)

For persistent hiccups: Decoct Shidi (Persimmon Calyx), Dingxiang (Clove), and Shengjiang (Fresh Ginger) in water and take. (Formula 14.)

Sour, warm in nature, non-toxic. Stops dysentery and bloody stools, eliminates metrorrhagia (Bang Lou) and leukorrhea (Dai Xia). Dispels wind-dampness in bones and joints, removes flaccidity and numbness in the waist and legs. Astringes essence leakage and stops tearing, expels roundworms, and relieves muscle spasms.

For red and white dysentery with abdominal pain and indigestion: Roast the material, powder it, form pills with jujube flesh, and take. Burning to ash and taking with rice water is also good. (Verified Formula 1.)

For blood appearing before feces: Powder the roasted material, take two qian per dose. (Formula 2.)

For chronic dysentery due to intestinal slipping: Take one whole pomegranate, burn to ash; separately decoct one segment of pomegranate in water to take with the ash. (Formula 3.)

For pediatric wind epilepsy: Take one large pomegranate, remove the top, hollow it out, insert five whole Quanxie (Scorpion), seal tightly with yellow mud, burn to ash, powder it, take half a qian per dose with milk, or with Fangfeng Tang (Saposhnikovia Decoction). (Formula 4.)

For sores on the calf with itching, pain, and yellow discharge: Decoct the peel in water and apply/sweep onto the area daily. (Formula 5.)

For roundworms: Decoct the root growing eastward in water and take. (Formula 6.)

For amenorrhea: Same as above; if menstruation does not resume, continue taking. Contraindicated if there is cough with a very rapid pulse. (Formula 7.)

For red and white dysentery: Same as above. (Formula 8.)

For Jin Can Gu Du (Golden Silkworm Gu Poison): Characterized by sweet taste when sucking alum and lack of fishy smell when eating black beans. Formula same as above. (Formula 9.)

For traumatic bleeding: Mix Liu Hua (Pomegranate Flower) and Duan Shi (Calcined Iron Ore) in equal parts, pound, mix, dry in shade, powder, and apply to the wound. (Formula 10.)