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Wang's Herbal Prescription: The leaves of Maoshe Xianqiao (Cat-tongue Fairy Bridge) have thorns on their surface; the herbaceous plant grows flat against the ground, bears blue-purple flowers, and is mostly produced beside water marshes.
Treats ding sores (carbuncles), jaundice, and all damp-heat fire syndromes (Wang).

Also known as Rouhundun Cao (Meat Wonton Grass) and Jin Suoshi (Golden Lock Key). It grows in the stone crevices of ancient temple garden steps, resembling Dilianqian (Ground Covering Coin) but with wrinkled leaves; its shape is like a waist bag, green and lovely.
*Baicaojing* (Mirror of Hundred Herbs) records: Sprouts emerge in February and October, growing in cracks of scattered stones; the stem is slender, leaves are as large as Euryale Seed (Qianshi), missing in the middle, shaped like hanging bags and wontons, hence the name. It spreads along the ground, rooting at each node, propagating easily; it is abundant in the steps and scattered stones of mountain dwellings, harvested in April and October, unavailable after the season.
The nature is slightly cold; treats Huangbai Huodan (Yellow and White Fire Dan), removes damp-heat fire, used together with Shenxian Duizuo Cao (Immortal Sitting Opposite Grass). Clears the five zang organs, drops for hot eyes, stops hematemesis, washes hemorrhoids, regulates early-stage edema.
*Baicaojing* records: Take one large live crucian carp, cut open with a porcelain shard, remove scales and intestines/blood, wipe dry with paper without letting it touch water, fill the belly completely with Hebao Cao (Pouch Grass), steam until cooked with sweet rice wine, remove the grass and eat the fish.
Promotes urination to clear damp-heat, treats Huangbai Dangu Zhang (Yellow/White Gall Bladder Distension), leukorrhea, and amenorrhea; crush for juice to drop for hot eyes, decoct for soup to wash painful and swollen hemorrhoids (*Baicaojing*).
Hernia: Zhou Family Treasure Recipe uses Hebao Cao crushed into juice, taken with wine. This grass resembles a pouch, with two seed pods on top; initially it has leaves but no pods, requiring June or July to develop pods.
Jaundice: Family Treasure Recipe: Hebao Cao and Snails (three he), crushed together for juice, clarified, heated gently before drinking.
Ding forming in the eye: *Yanke Yaolan* (Essential View of Ophthalmology): Use Rouhundun Cao including roots and leaves, mix with Jiuniangzao (fermented rice lees), crush for juice, drink two or three times, then cured. (Jiuniangzao refers to the dregs of fermented rice wine.)
Snake bite: Family Treasure Recipe: Heddinghong (Red Crown Top, i.e., ash), Rouhundun Cao, Yehongcaitou (Wild Red Vegetable Root), these three ingredients crushed together and applied externally.

Grows on high mountain rock walls, sprouting after Lixia (Start of Summer); leaves are fine as rice grains, spreading over rocks; its roots embed in stone fissures, white like rat teeth. *Baicaojing* records seventy-two types of Banzhilian (Half-bracelet Lotus), this being the first.
*Baicaojing*: Shuyabanzhi (Rat-tooth Half-bracelet) sprouts in February, stems are white, leaves cluster in threes, accumulating layers and spreading; withers after flowering, blooms yellow in April, resembling Sempervivum tectorum (Tile Moss).
Nature is cold; reduces carbuncles and swelling, treats edema due to dampness stagnation.
Treats various toxins, scalds, burns, ding carbuncles, etc., insect and snake bites. Jiang Yi's *Yaosheng Shi Yi Fu* states: Banzhilian is the immortal herb for resolving snake injuries.
Banzhilian Drink: *Baicaojing* records: Treats all major toxins, such as back carbuncles, neck carbuncles, winter melon carbuncles, horse-riding carbuncles, etc.; early stages dissipate, formed ones suppurate, pus discharge is minimal. Use Shuyabanzhi (one liang), crush for juice, mix with aged wine for oral administration, apply dregs to the head of the lesion, induce sweating for cure. Tested effective by Zhang Nanwen.