去挺用头，醋浸焙用。
辛，大温，无毒，性浮。入手足阳明经。温中下气，消食除冷。解虚冷之肠鸣，退逆冷
之口
酸，止风虫之牙痛，驱冷痰之恶心。水泻虚之疾，头痛鼻渊之 。定霍乱而暖阴疝，补腰脚
而杀腥气。多用令人上气。
生波斯国。根名毕勃没，似柴胡而黑硬。今岭南亦有之。多生竹林中，正月发苗作丛，
高三
四尺。三月开花，白色在表。七月结子，如小指，长二寸许。九月采实，味辛烈如胡椒。
风虫牙痛，为末揩之，煎苍耳漱之。（验方第一。）
鼻流清涕，为末吹之。（第二。）
偏头风痛，为末，口含温水，随左右痛以左右鼻吸一字。（第三。）
冷痰恶心，米汤下末。（第四。）
暴泻身冷，自汗、尿清、脉弱，同肉桂、良姜、干姜丸服。（第五。）
煨熟，去粉用。忌铁。
辛，温，无毒。入手足阳明经。温中消食，下气止泻，开胃醒酒，暖脾固肠。利老人之
虚泻
，驻小儿之乳霍。疗心腹之胀痛，兼疗虫痛，调赤白之下痢，兼调气痢。霍乱中恶之疾，痰
饮吐沫之 。
生胡国，今岭南人家亦种之。春生苗，夏抽茎、开花。结实似草豆蔻，六七月采。最易
生蛀
，惟烘干密封，则稍可留。
霍乱吐利，煨末姜汤下。（验方第一。）
久泻不止，虚寒者，稍佐木香末，枣肉丸服。（第二。）
小儿泻，稍佐乳香，姜水丸服。（第三。）
冷痢腹痛，煨末服。（第四。）
Remove the stem and use only the head; soak in vinegar and bake before use.
Pungent, greatly warm, non-toxic, with a floating nature. Enters the Hand-Yangming and Foot-Yangming meridians. Warms the middle jiao (middle burner), directs rebellious qi downward, eliminates food stagnation, and dispels cold. Resolves intestinal borborygmus caused by deficiency-cold, alleviates sour taste in the mouth due to rebellious cold, stops toothache caused by wind-worms, and drives away nausea from cold-phlegm. Treats watery diarrhea and other deficiency conditions, relieves headache and bi yuan (nasal sinusitis). Stabilizes huoluan (cholera-like syndrome) and warms yin hernia, tonifies the waist and legs, and neutralizes fishy odors. Excessive use causes upward rushing of qi.
Native to Persia. The root is named Bibomei, resembling Chaihu (Bupleuri Radix) but black and hard. It is now also grown in Lingnan. It mostly grows in bamboo forests, sprouting in clumps in the first lunar month, reaching three to four chi in height. Flowers appear in the third lunar month, white on the surface. Fruits form in the seventh lunar month, about the size of a little finger, approximately two cun long. Harvested in the ninth lunar month, the flavor is pungent and intense like Hu Jiao (Piperis Fructus).
[Verified Formula 1]
For toothache caused by wind-worms: Grind into powder and apply directly; rinse mouth with decoction of Cang Er Zi (Xanthii Fructus).
[Formula 2]
For runny nose with clear mucus: Grind into powder and insufflate into the nasal cavity.
[Formula 3]
For hemicephalic pain (one-sided headache): Grind into powder, hold warm water in the mouth, and inhale one zi amount of powder into the left or right nostril depending on which side hurts.
[Formula 4]
For cold-phlegm and nausea: Take the powder with rice soup.
[Formula 5]
For sudden diarrhea with cold body, spontaneous sweating, clear urine, and weak pulse: Combine with Rou Gui (Cinnamomi Cortex), Liang Jiang (Galangal Rhizome), and Gan Jiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma) to make pills.
Bake until cooked, remove the oily/powdery part. Avoid iron.
Pungent, warm, non-toxic. Enters the Hand-Yangming and Foot-Yangming meridians. Warms the middle jiao, promotes digestion, directs qi downward, stops diarrhea, opens the appetite, resolves alcohol toxicity, warms the spleen, and secures the intestines. Treats deficiency-cold diarrhea in the elderly, stabilizes ru huo (infantile cholera-like syndrome) in children. Treats distension and pain in the heart and abdomen, also treats worm pain, harmonizes red-and-white dysentery, and harmonizes qi-type dysentery. Treats huoluan (cholera-like syndrome) and zhong e (sudden illness from evil qi), as well as symptoms such as vomiting foam from phlegm-fluid retention.
Native to Hu countries; now also cultivated by households in Lingnan. Sprouts in spring, sends up stems and flowers in summer. The fruit resembles Cao Dou Kou (Tsaoko Fructus), harvested in the sixth and seventh lunar months. It is prone to insect damage; only by drying thoroughly and sealing tightly can it be preserved for a while.
[Verified Formula 1]
For huoluan with vomiting and diarrhea: Bake, grind into powder, and take with ginger soup.
[Formula 2]
For chronic diarrhea that does not stop, of deficiency-cold type: Add a small amount of Mu Xiang (Aucklandiae Radix) powder, make pills with jujube flesh.
[Formula 3]
For infantile diarrhea: Add a small amount of Ru Xiang (Olibanum), make pills with ginger water.
[Formula 4]
For cold dysentery with abdominal pain: Bake, grind into powder, and take.