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Use after stir-frying. It is incompatible with Radix Dryangiae (Ganjiang), Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae (Danshen), Radix Scutellariae (Huangqin), Radix Paeoniae Alba (Shaoyao), and Concha Ostreae (Muli). The large honeycomb found on trees is of superior quality.

Sweet in taste, neutral in nature, and toxic. It enters the Hand-Yangming Large Intestine Meridian and Foot-Yangming Stomach Meridian. It treats convulsions and epilepsy (spasms caused by fright or excessive heat), resolves mania and gu poison, expels evil spirits and malevolent influences, and dispels bee venom-induced intestinal hemorrhoids.

Attach the honeycomb to the bone, decoct it with lard, grind into a paste, and apply to scrofula (tuberculous lymphadenitis of the neck) ulcers. Burn to ash, take with wine, to treat penile impotence and wind-worm toothache; also wash for mastitis (acute mastitis). It treats fox-thorn and malignant sores, but is contraindicated in cases of dysentery and urinary incontinence.

For wind-itch urticaria (urticaria), decoct the juice, add Natrii Sulfas (Mangxiao), and apply externally five times daily. Alternatively, stir-fry together with Ophichthidis Corium (Shetui) into powder, take one qian with wine. (Verified Formula 1.)

For tooth swelling extending to the head, burn to ash, mix with wine, and gargle. (Formula 2.)

For wind-worm toothache, decoct with vinegar, heat, and gargle. (Formula 3.)

For metrorrhagia and leukorrhea of five colors, take the stir-fried powder with wine; highly effective. (Formula 4.)

For erectile dysfunction, burn to ash, take two qian with fresh water; highly effective. (Formula 5.)

For impotence due to yin-cold, burn to ash, apply topically; heat will arise immediately, leading to erection. (Formula 6.)

For swollen and painful double tongue in children, burn to ash, mix with wine, and apply. (Formula 7.)

Sweet in taste, warm in nature, non-toxic. It promotes tissue regeneration, stops bleeding, alleviates pain, tonifies deficiency, reconnects tendons, and knits bones. It is an essential herb for external medicine.

It is not the white beeswax; rather, it is a white fat transformed from small insects潜伏 on wax trees, feeding on tree sap, leaves, and saliva. It is scraped off in autumn, boiled in water until melted and filtered, then poured into cold water where it solidifies into blocks.

For bald scalp sores, frequently apply candle wax. Avoid sun exposure; hair will naturally grow back over time. (Verified Formula 1.)

Also known as Chuan Wen Ge. Should be ground before use.

Sour, astringent, salty, cold in nature, non-toxic. Enters the Hand-Taiyin Lung Meridian and Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian. It astringes the lung, descends fire, generates fluids, transforms phlegm, relieves cough, stops bleeding, quenches thirst, and arrests sweating.

For uterine prolapse, it收敛s various damp-rotting lesions, purulent discharge, receding gums with bleeding, and hemorrhoidal bleeding. It stops diarrhea and vomiting, darkens beard and hair, and stops swelling and toxicity. It is most suitable for red eyes and throat obstruction, and also effective for mouth canker and nasal erosion.

It is found everywhere, but those from Shu region are superior. It is formed by small insects潜伏 on Rhus chinensis (Yan Fuzi Mu), feeding on sap to form nests that gradually harden. Mountain people harvest them after Frost's Descent, steam them, and process them.

For consumptive disease with turbid discharge, combine with Poria (Fuling) and Os Draconis (Longgu) into pills, take with salt water. (Verified Formula 1.)

For night sweats, make cakes with buckwheat flour, roast thoroughly, eat dry at bedtime without drinking water. Alternatively, grind into powder, mix with saliva, apply to the umbilicus, and bind securely. (Formula 2.)

For persistent diarrhea and dysentery, make pills using half raw and half processed material. Take red dysentery with distilled liquor, white dysentery with water and wine, watery diarrhea with rice soup. Alternatively, take one qian of powder each time. (Formula 3.)

For intestinal wind with bloody stool, combine with Alum (Baifan) into pills, avoid alcohol. (Formula 4.)

For painful and swollen ear sores, grind into powder, mix with water for topical application. If wet, sprinkle dry powder. (Formula 5.)

For pus in the ear, grind into powder and insufflate. (Formula 6.)

For bleeding from gum spaces, grind into powder and apply. (Formula 7.)

For non-healing sores, bake and grind into powder. Mix with vinegar, apply around the periphery. (Formula 8.)

For all initial swellings and toxicities, stir-fry into powder, mix with honey, and apply. (Formula 9.)

For all types of sores, apply together with Phellodendri Cortex (Huangbai) powder. (Formula 10.)

For genital cankerous rot, rub with calcined alum (Kufan). (Eleven.)

For epidemic mouth sores, insufflate powder to induce salivation and expectoration. (Twelve.)

For vulvar cankerous rot, bake Hong He Zi, Huang Jian, and Huang Kou Xian, grind into powder, and apply. (Thirteen.)

For pediatric rectal prolapse, decoct with Sophorae Flavescentis Radix (Kushen) and wall soil, wash, then rub with Equiseti Herba (Muzei) powder, or use Ostreae Concha (Limei) powder. (Fourteen.)

Wenge San: Grind Wenge into powder, take with boiling water. Treats cases where one desires to drink but feels no thirst, with millet-grain-like skin eruptions and irritability. Also treats cases with thirst and desire to drink. (All Formulas 1.)

Chongyi San: Galla Chinensis (Wubeizi, 5 qian), Sophorae Flavescentis Radix (Kushen, 4 qian), Cimicifugae Rhizoma (Shengma, 2 qian), Cassiae Semen (Jueming, 2 qian), Menthae Haplocalycis Herba (Bohe, 1 qian), Saposhnikoviae Radix (Fangfeng, 1 qian), Schizonepetae Spica (Jingjie, 1 qian), Angelicae Dahuricae Radix (Baizhi, 1 qian), Ligustici Chuanxiong Rhizoma (Chuanxiong, 1 qian), Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix (Qianghuo, 1 qian).

Decoct in water. In autumn and winter, place in a large bowl indoors during evening; in spring and summer, place in the courtyard. Face west-southwest and insufflate the powder into the eye to remove dense pterygium.

Insufflate daily, one dose per day, or seven to eight doses, or ten-plus doses, or twenty, thirty, forty doses. Use a reed tube. (Second.)