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Indications: Clears heat and eliminates toxins; removes various types of bloody dysentery, watery diarrhea, and other heat-toxins, swelling-toxins, carbuncles, sores, fish-mouth ulcers, yaws, and other malignant sores from the intestines and stomach.

Pills: *Jin Yin Hua* (Honeysuckle) in any quantity; flowers, stems, roots, and leaves are all usable. Soak in wine without ash, roast overnight over chaff fire, take out and dry in the sun. Add a small amount of *Gan Cao* (Licorice), grind into powder. Use the soaking wine to boil rice paste to form pills the size of wutong seeds. Take 50-60 to 100 pills each time, with warm wine. Treats recurrence prevention of carbuncles and sores after recovery from thirst disease (diabetes), as well as five types of hemorrhoids, goiter, and fistulas.

*Jin Yin Hua* Dew and Steamed Dew: Treats warm-heat diseases, sand-pox, carbuncles, syphilis, bloody dysentery, pediatric fetal toxin, heat-toxin-induced sores and pox, and can counteract mercury toxicity.

*Jin Yin Tang* (Honeysuckle Decoction): *Jin Yin Hua* (Honeysuckle Flower) 1 liang, *Hei Liao Dou* (Black Soybean) 2 liang, *Tu Fu Ling* (Smilax Glabra Rhizome) 4 liang, *Gan Cao* (Licorice Root) 2 qian. Decoct in water and take orally. Treats syphilis. Drinking alcohol enhances the medicinal efficacy. Note: This herb is a supreme remedy for enteritis and colitis; it is also effective for chronic appendicitis. Exclusively use *Jin Yin Hua*; however, when treating yaws, both *Jin Yin Hua* and *Yin Hua* can be used together.

*Ze Xie* (Alisma Rhizome) Indications: Promotes urination and drains dampness; clears bladder fire; expels water from the Triple Burner. Used for vertigo, tinnitus, xiao ke (wasting-thirst syndrome), phlegm-fluid retention, vomiting, epigastric fullness, wind-cold bi-syndrome, subcardiac stiffness and swelling, joint and bone contracture with hernia pain, hong zhang jiao (foot qi/podagra), difficult labor, and insufficient lactation in women.

*Ze Xie San* (Alisma Powder): *Ze Xie* (Alisma Rhizome), *Chi Fu Ling* (Red Poria), *Zhi Ke* (Aurantium Fruit) each 7 qian 5 fen; *Mu Tong* (Akebia Stem), *Zhu Ling* (Polyporus), *Bing Lang* (Areca Seed) each 1 liang; *Qian Niu* (Pharbitis Seed) 2 liang 5 qian. Grind into powder. Take 2 qian each time, decocted with fresh ginger and scallion white, twice or three times daily. Treats foot qi, constipation and urinary difficulty, bladder qi stagnation, and epigastric oppression; stop when bowel/bladder movement is restored.

Another prescription: *Ze Xie* (Alisma Rhizome), *Zi Su* (Perilla Leaf), *Shi Wei* (Pyrrosia Leaf) (dehired and roasted), *Pu Huang* (Typha Pollen), *Chi Fu Ling* (Red Poria), *Dang Gui* (Angelica Sinensis), *Hu Po* (Amber) (separately ground), *Bing Lang* (Areca Seed) each 1 liang; *Zhi Ke* (Aurantium Fruit) (bran-fried), *Sang Piao Xiao* (Mantis Egg-case) (roasted) each 5 qian; *Guan Gui* (Cinnamon Bark) 7 qian 5 fen. Grind into powder. Take 2 qian-bi each time, mixed with decoction of *Dong Kui Zi* (Malva Seed) or *Mu Tong* (Akebia Stem). Treats cold lin (dysuria).

*Ze Xie Tang* (Alisma Decoction): *Ze Xie* (Alisma Rhizome), *Ban Xia* (Pinellia Tuber), *Chai Hu* (Bupleurum Root), *Sheng Jiang* (Fresh Ginger) each 3 qian; *Gui Xin* (Cinnamon Heart), *Zhi Gan Cao* (Honey-fried Licorice Root) each 1 qian; *Fu Ling* (Poria), *Ren Shen* (Ginseng Root) each 2 qian; *Di Gu Pi* (Lycium Bark), *Dan Xin* (Salvia Root Heart) each 5 qian; *Shi Gao* (Gypsum Fibrosum) 8 qian; *Zhu Ye* (Bamboo Leaf) one handful. Decoct in water, take warm, three times daily. Treats lou qi (leaking qi syndrome).