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Remove the heart, stir-fry with glutinous rice for use. Baiwei (Radix Glehniae) is used as a guiding herb; it is incompatible with Qinjiao (Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae), Mangcao (Herba Isidis), and opposes Wutou (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata).
Bitter, pungent, slightly cold, non-toxic. Disperses nodules and drains heat, moistens the lungs and clears the heart. Treats phlegm cough and heat cough, stops hematemesis and hemoptysis. It is excellent for milk stasis and difficult labor, and also effective for throat obstruction (Hou Bi) and dizziness. It dissipates qi stagnation causing fullness under the heart, treats solid masses in the abdomen, flattens goiter and tumors, and contracts wound openings; eliminates dribbling dysuria and treats red eyes. It is a miraculous agent for resolving phlegm and stopping cough, and a fine medicine for clearing heat and resolving phlegm. Do not use for deficiency cough without fire.
Grows in Jin region. Leaves resemble garlic; harvested when garlic ripens in April. Those from Runzhou, Jingzhou, and Xiangzhou are best; also found in various prefectures south of the Yangtze. Now available in Hezhong, Jiangling Prefecture, Ying, Shou, Sui, Zheng, Cai, Run, and Chuzhou, with Sichuan origin considered superior. Among Beimu (Fritillariae Bulbus), those that are single round bulbs without two lobes or wrinkles are called "Danlongjing" and should not be used medicinally.
For difficulty urinating during pregnancy with normal diet, combine with Kushen (Cortex Phellodendri) and Danggui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis), make honey pills and take. (Verified Formula 1.)
For lack of lactation, combine with Zhi Mu (Rhizoma Anemarrhenae) and Limu (Concha Ostreae), powder form, taken with pig trotter soup. (2.)
For eye polyps, combine with Dingxiang (Flos Caryophylli) powder, apply with breast milk. (3.)
For persistent hematemesis, process by roasting, grind to powder, take with rice water decoction. (4.)
For infant thrush, grind to powder, decoct with honey water and apply. (5.)
For painful engorged breasts (Chunai), grind to powder and insufflate into nose for great effect. (6.)
For early-stage mastitis, grind to powder, take with wine, and have someone suck the affected area. (7.)
For swollen and painful inguinal abscess (Biandu), decoct with Baizhi (Radix Angelicae Dahuricae) powder, take internally, and apply residue externally. (8.)
For purple and white wind vitiligo, combine with Tiannanxing (Rhizoma Arisaematis), grind to powder, wipe with ginger juice. (9.)
For spider bite, bind the bitten area tightly, drink wine until drunk, and take five qian of Beimu powder. The wine transforms into water and discharges from the wound. (10.)
For snake or scorpion bite. Same method as above. (11.)

Remove the hairy shell.
Sweet, slightly pungent, slightly toxic. Dissolves carbuncles, sores, and ding toxins; treats scrofula and lymph node tuberculosis; resolves various poisons, gu poison, and venomous snake bites; also treats dog bites. Possesses the ability to peel human skin and the power to remove facial spots.
Found everywhere. Leaves emerge in winter, narrow like narcissus. In mid-February, a stem like an arrow shaft emerges, blooming at the tip with white, red, or yellow flowers. Yellow flowers have black spots and consist of clusters forming one bloom. Seeds form in March, three-angled. Seedlings wither in early April; roots are dug up then, resembling small garlic, wrapped in a hairy shell.
For facial darkening due to flour dregs, pound into powder, apply at night, wash off in morning. (Verified Formula 1.)
For swollen and painful gums, decoct, rinse mouth, and spit out. (2.)
For wind-phlegm epilepsy, grind with clear tea into a paste, mix with tea and take at noon, lie in the sun, expectorant after a while; if no expectoration, give hot tea to induce vomiting. (3.)
Zijin Ding formula: Jing Cigu (Shan Cigu Rhizome, 2 liang, dried), Wubeizi (Fructus Myrobalani Chebulae, 2 liang, dried), Qianjinzi (Semen Crotonis, oil removed, 1 liang), Shexiang (Moschus, 1 qian).
On Duanwu, Qixi, Chongyang, or auspicious days of Tiande/Yuede, observe fasting and wear formal clothes, burn incense and pray. Mix with thick glutinous rice drink, pound in wooden mortar a thousand times. Each pill weighs one qian. For severe cases, take continuously until purgation occurs, replenish with warm congee. For all food/drug poison, gu poison, miasma, pufferfish, earth fungus, dead cattle/horse poison, grind one tablet with cold water and take; vomiting or purgation leads to cure. For carbuncle back, ding swelling, yansha, all malignant sores, wind rash chiyou, hemorrhoids, grind with cold water and apply several times daily until cured. For Yin-Yang Er Du typhoid, mania plague, throat obstruction, dissolve with cold water and mint juice. For heart qi pain and other qi pains, take with light wine. For diarrhea cholera intestinal colic, take with mint tea. For wind stroke, qi blockage, locked jaw, slanted eyes, five epilepsies, ghost fetus, muscle spasms, bone pain, take with wine. For hanging, drowning, spirit possession, if chest is still warm,灌 with cold water grind. For consumption tuberculosis, dissolve with cold water; expelling foul matter and parasites is ideal. For long-standing malaria at onset, take with peach branch decoction boiled in east-flowing water. For amenorrhea, take with Honghua decoction. For children's five malnourishments and five dysenteries, take with mint tea. For wind-worm toothache, grind with wine and apply. For trauma, take with pine joint wine decoction. For burns, snake/dog bites, grind with cold water, apply externally, and take internally.