取东行者，去外皮，炙黄用。种类甚多。
大寒，无毒。入足厥阴肝经。下肝气之奔冲，清风木之郁热。止消渴而除烦逆，断痢疾
而收
奔豚汤 甘草 半夏 生姜 生葛 川芎 当归 白芍 李根白皮 黄芩
治奔豚上冲，胸腹痛，往来寒热。（诸方第一。）
汤浸去皮尖炒黄，用去双仁者。恶黄芩、黄 、葛根。治风寒亦有连皮尖用者，取
其发散。
甘，苦，温，有小毒。入手太阴肺。止嗽下气，清肺除热，润肠散结，杀虫疗疮。去头
面之
风邪，利胸膈之气逆。止心下之痛烦，平肺逆之喘急。奔豚惊痫悉疗，金疮香港脚亦治。
咳逆上气，炒研入蜜熬膏，食前含化。（验方第一。）
咳嗽寒热，脉弦紧，用童尿浸数日，研膏，再入童尿，煎膏服。（第二。）
头面风肿，捣膏同鸡子黄敷帛上，浓裹之，干再上，七次愈。（第三。）
小儿冬日寒嗽，杏仁、苏叶水煎。（第四。）
甘，平，无毒。止嗽下气。消心腹逆闷。
茯苓杏仁甘草汤 茯苓 杏仁 甘草
治胸痹塞短气。诸方第一。
去核炒用。
酸，涩，微寒，无毒。入足厥阴肝。下气退热，除呕杀蛔。止燥渴而泄烦满，平久嗽而
住渴
痢，清痰涎而消肿痛，蚀恶肉而点黑痣。收二便之下血，除偏风之不仁；松霍乱之转筋，开
痰厥之牙关。
生汉中川谷。五月采实。襄汉、川蜀、江湖、淮岭皆有之。树、叶皆似杏，采梅实半黄
者，
以烟熏之为乌梅。取青大者，以盐汁渍之，日晒夜渍，十日则成白梅，主治略同。
诸疮 肉，乌梅肉烧末敷之。（验方第一。）
渴痢，水煎代茶饮。（第二。）
痢脓血，净肉烧末，每米汤下二钱。（第三。）
久痢不止，净肉二十枚，水煎服。（第四。）
大便血，净肉三两，烧末醋煎，米汤丸服。（第五。）
小便尿血。同上。（第六。）
崩血不止，净肉烧末米饮下。（第七。）
蛔虫上行，退场门鼻，煎汤服且含之。（第八。）
心腹胀痛，短气欲绝，净肉二七枚煎沸，纳铜钱二七枚煎服。（第九。）
久嗽不已，净肉炒，蜜粟壳同炒末，蜜汤下。（第十。）
金疮折伤，烧末敷之，白者亦可。（十一。）
白梅同用。
乌梅丸 乌梅 人参 细辛 桂枝 附子 黄柏 当归 川椒 黄连 干姜
治厥阴病，气上冲胸，心痛热，消渴，食即烦生而吐蛔。（诸方第一。）
Select the roots growing towards the east, remove the outer bark, and roast until yellow. There are many varieties.
It is extremely cold in nature and non-toxic. It enters the Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian. It descends the rushing surge of Liver Qi and clears the stagnant heat of Wind-Wood. It stops thirst (Xiao Ke) and removes irritability and rebellion, halts dysentery.
Ben Tun Tang (Rushing Pig Decoction): Gancao (Licorice Root), Banxia (Pinellia Tuber), Shengjiang (Fresh Ginger), Shengge (Pueraria Root), Chuanxiong (Ligusticum Rhizome), Danggui (Angelica Sinensis), Baishao (White Peony Root), Ligenbaipi (Li Root Bark), Huangqin (Scutellaria Root).
Treats Ben Tun syndrome with Qi rushing upward, chest and abdominal pain, alternating chills and fever. (Ranked first among various formulas.)
Apricot seeds (Xingren) should be soaked in water, skin and tips removed, roasted until yellow, and those with double kernels discarded. They are incompatible with Huangqin (Scutellaria Root), [missing character, likely Huanglian or similar], and Gegen (Pueraria Root). When treating Wind-Cold, some use them with skin and tips to enhance dispersing action.
Sweet and bitter, warm in nature, slightly toxic. It enters the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian. It stops cough and directs Qi downward, clears the Lung and removes heat, moistens the intestines and dissipates nodules, kills parasites and treats sores. It removes Wind pathogenic factors from the head and face, benefits rebellious Qi in the chest and diaphragm. It stops pain and irritability below the heart, calms lung rebellion causing asthma. It treats Ben Tun syndrome, convulsions, and epilepsy; it also treats metal wounds (Jin Chuang) and Hong Kong foot (foot disease/jamming).
For coughing and rebellious Qi, roast and grind the seeds, add honey, and simmer into a paste. Suck and dissolve before meals. (Ranked first among verified formulas.)
For cough with chills and fever, and wiry-tight pulse, soak in child's urine for several days, grind into paste, add more child's urine, and decoct into a paste to take. (Second.)
For wind swelling of the head and face, crush into a paste, mix with egg yolk, apply on silk cloth, wrap thickly. Replace when dry; seven applications will cure. (Third.)
For winter cold cough in children, decoct Xingren (Apricot Seed) and Ziye (Perilla Leaf) in water. (Fourth.)
Sweet, neutral, non-toxic. Stops cough and directs Qi downward. Eliminates rebellious stuffiness in the heart and abdomen.
Fuling Xingren Gancao Tang (Poria, Apricot Seed, and Licorice Decoction): Fuling (Poria), Xingren (Apricot Seed), Gancao (Licorice Root).
Treats Xiong Bi (Chest Bi obstruction) with shortness of breath. Ranked first among various formulas.
Remove the pit, roast, and use.
Sour and astringent, slightly cold, non-toxic. Enters the Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian. Directs Qi downward and reduces fever, stops vomiting and kills roundworms. Stops dry thirst and drains fullness, calms chronic cough and stops thirst-dysentery, clears phlegm-saliva and reduces swelling-pain, corrodes foul flesh and moles black nevi. Astringes lower bleeding from both bowels and bladder, removes numbness from hemiplegic wind; relaxes muscle spasms from Huoluan (cholera-like disorder), opens the locked jaw from Phlegm-Jue syndrome.
Grows in rivers and valleys of Hanzhong. Fruits are harvested in May. Found in Xianghan, Chuanshu, Jianghu, and Huailing regions. The tree and leaves resemble apricot trees. Collect plums that are half-yellow, smoke them to make Wumei (Smoked Plum). Select large green plums, soak in salt juice, sun-dry by day and soak by night for ten days to make Baimei (White Plum); its therapeutic actions are roughly the same.
For various sores and polyps, burn Wumei flesh to ash and apply externally. (Ranked first among verified formulas.)
For thirst-dysentery, decoct in water and drink as tea. (Second.)
For dysenteric pus and blood, take clean flesh, burn to ash, take two qian with rice soup. (Third.)
For persistent chronic dysentery, take twenty pieces of clean flesh, decoct in water and take. (Fourth.)
For blood in stool, take three liang of clean flesh, burn to ash, decoct with vinegar, form pills with rice soup. (Fifth.)
For blood in urine. Same method as above. (Sixth.)
For unstoppable metrorrhagia, burn clean flesh to ash, take with rice drink. (Seventh.)
For roundworms moving upward, exiting anus or nose, decoct in water, take orally and gargle. (Eighth.)
For abdominal distension and pain, shortness of breath nearing death, take fourteen pieces of clean flesh, boil, add fourteen copper coins, decoct further and take. (Ninth.)
For chronic unrelenting cough, roast clean flesh, stir-fry together with Husuqiao (Poppy Shell) and honey, take with honey water. (Tenth.)
For metal wounds and fractures, burn to ash and apply externally; white plums may also be used. (Eleventh.)
Can be used together with Baimei (White Plum).
Wumei Wan (Mume Pill): Wumei (Mume Fruit), Renshen (Ginseng Root), Xixin (Asarum Root), Guizhi (Cinnamon Twig), Fuzi (Aconite Root), Huangbai (Phellodendron Bark), Danggui (Angelica Sinensis), Chuanjiao (Sichuan Pepper), Huanglian (Coptis Rhizome), Ganjiang (Dried Ginger).
Treats Jueyin disease with Qi rushing up to the chest, painful heart with heat sensation, thirst, irritability after eating, and vomiting of roundworms. (Ranked first among various formulas.)