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[Processing] Song said: This substance often contains sand and stones, making it extremely difficult to process. Whenever used, it should be ground into a fine powder, washed with wine to remove the sand and stones, dried in the sun, and stored for use.

[Flavor and Toxicity] Sweet, warm, non-toxic. Incompatible with Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma (Renshen), damages the body's healthy qi.

[Indications] Cold qi in the heart and abdomen, five types of pediatric malnutrition (Wu Gang) in children, warding off epidemics, treating intestinal wind (hematochezia), promoting the free flow of qi and blood vessels, treating amenorrhea in women (Kai Bao Ben Cao). Treating cold-induced accumulation (Su Song). For those with excessive uterine bleeding, half-roasted and half-raw material ground into powder, taken with wine, can promote blood circulation and stop bleeding. Treats stabbing pain due to blood and qi stagnation, various abdominal pains, hernia pain, bloody dysentery, intestinal wind abdominal pain, stabbing pain due to blood bi syndrome in the body, chills and fever during liver malaria attacks, regurgitation and thirst, phlegm-fluid mixed with blood forming nests, blood filling the pupil, toothache caused by blood stasis, double tongue (swelling of the sublingual area), pediatric convulsions, five types of epilepsy, killing parasites, detoxifying medicines, and injuries from snakes, scorpions, and centipedes (Shizhen).

[Elucidation] Zong said: Wulingzhi has merit in guiding drugs to specific meridians but cannot generate blood; this substance enters the Liver Meridian of Foot-Jueyin most rapidly. Once, someone suffered from eye nebulae that moved around unpredictably; this is a disorder of the blood. The Liver receives blood to enable vision; treating eye diseases without addressing the blood contradicts medical principles. Using medicine containing Wulingzhi cured him. Another person was bitten by a venomous snake and became unconscious after a long time. An old monk administered two qian of medicine mixed with wine, and the patient regained consciousness. The dregs were still applied to the bite site, and another two qian were administered shortly after, eliminating all suffering. Upon inquiry, it was revealed to be one liang of Wulingzhi and half a liang of Realgar (Xionghuang), ground together into powder. Later, those bitten by snakes found it effective. Shizhen said: Wulingzhi is a drug for the Liver Meridian of Foot-Jueyin. Its flavor and aroma are dense, belonging to yin within yin, thus entering the blood level. The Liver governs blood; all pains are related to Wood (Liver); all parasites arise from Wind. Therefore, this drug can treat blood disorders, dissipate and harmonize blood to stop various pains. It treats convulsions and epilepsy, eliminates malaria and dysentery, resolves accumulations and transforms phlegm, treats malnutrition and kills parasites, and treats blood bi and blood-eye disorders, all belonging to the Liver Meridian. Shixiao San (Disappointment Powder) not only treats heart pain and blood pain in women; for men, women, the elderly, and children, it addresses all heart, abdomen, hypochondriac, and lower abdominal pains, hernias, as well as pain due to blood and qi before and after childbirth, and metrorrhagia or prolonged menstruation unresponsive to other drugs. It has proven effective repeatedly, truly a miraculous formula of recent times. Furthermore, Li Zhongnan stated: Wulingzhi treats metrorrhagia; it is not merely a blood-regulating drug but a wind-dispelling agent. Wind is dynamic; when the Chong and Ren meridians are deficient, they are attacked by wind pathogen injuring Ying blood, leading to sudden heavy bleeding, similar to the principle of using Schizonepetae Herba (Jingjie) and Saposhnikoviae Radix (Fangfeng) to treat metrorrhagia. Only then did I realize the profound insight of the ancients. This is another perspective, though it does not address the idea that deficiency and stagnation of Liver blood can generate internal wind.

[Attached Formulas] Six old formulas, thirty-one new formulas.

Shixiao San (Disappointment Powder): Treats heart pain, abdominal pain, lower abdominal pain, and small intestine hernia in men, women, the elderly, and children, unresponsive to other drugs; promotes blood circulation and stops bleeding. For pregnant women, boil into a paste, add one cup of water, decoct to seven-tenths, and take hot with the dregs. If bleeding continues, take again. One formula uses wine instead of vinegar. Another formula mixes with vinegar paste into pills, taken with child's urine and wine. (Tai Ping Hui Min He Ji Ju Fang)

Zijin Wan (Purple Gold Pill): Treats sluggish lochia postpartum, lower back pain, stabbing sensation in the lower abdomen, alternating chills and fever, headache, and loss of appetite; also treats chronic blood stasis, irregular menstruation, sallow complexion, emaciation, and anorexia; also treats heart pain, with effects similar to Shixiao San. Take one liang of Wulingzhi, wash clean, roast, and grind into powder. Mix with good rice vinegar to a thin consistency, slow-fire boil into a paste, mix with true Puhuang (Pollen Typhae), and form pills the size of dragon eyes. Take one pill each time, decoct with half a cup of water and half a cup of child's urine to seven-tenths, take warm, and take again shortly after; lochia will discharge. For blood clots causing amenorrhea, dissolve in wine and take. (Yang Shi Chan Ru)

Wulingzhi San (Five Spirits Fat Powder): Treats spleen accumulation qi pain in men and various pains from metrorrhagia in women. Pass Wulingzhi through water, roast until smoke ceases, and grind into powder. Take one qian each time, mixed with warm wine. This drug has an unpleasant odor and taste; burning to retain its nature is better. Alternatively, decoct with wine, water, or child's urine, named Choudao San, treating postpartum heart, abdomen, hypochondriac, waist, and hip pain. It disperses evil blood. If there is mental restlessness and thirst, add roasted Puhuang in half dosage, taken with Pili Jiu (Thunderbolt Wine). For intestinal wind with hematochezia, decoct with... (Text incomplete here)

Postpartum Blood Syncope: Treats postpartum syncope due to blood loss, characterized by loss of consciousness. Use two liang of Wulingzhi (half raw, half roasted), grind into powder. Take one qian each time, mixed with plain water.

Postpartum Abdominal Pain: Equal parts Wulingzhi, Cyperi Rhizoma (Xiangfu), and Persicae Semen (Taoren), ground into powder, formed into pills with vinegar paste, take one hundred pills. Or use Wulingzhi powder, formed into pills with Shenqu paste, taken with Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma) and Chenpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium) decoction. (Danxi Formula)

Childhood Pillow Pain (Uterine Lochia Retention Pain): Slowly roast Wulingzhi, grind into powder. Take two qian with wine. (Wei Shi)

Blood and Qi Stabbing Pain: Three qian of raw-ground Wulingzhi, decoct in one cup of wine until boiling, take hot. (Ling Yuan Fang)

Sudden Severe Heart Pain: One and a half qian of roasted Wulingzhi, three fen of roasted Dry Ginger (Ganjiang), ground into powder. Take with hot wine, immediate cure. (Shi Lin Guang Ji)

Heart-Spleen Parasite Pain (Regardless of Gender): Equal parts Wulingzhi and Arecae Semen (Binglang), ground into powder. Decoct Acori Tatarinowii Rhizoma (Shichangpu) in water to mix and take three qian. Chew one or two slices of pork first. (Source missing)

Pediatric Ascariasis Pain: Two qian of Wulingzhi powder, half a qian of calcined Alum (Baifan). Take one qian each time, decoct in one cup of water to five-tenths, take warm. Worms should be vomited out, curing the condition. (Yan Xiaozhong, Ji Xiao Fang)

Unceasing Menstrual Bleeding: Roast Wulingzhi until smoke ceases, grind. Take two qian each time, with two slices of Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix), decoct in one cup of wine to six-tenths, take hot, effective after three to five doses. (Jing Xiao Fang)

Unceasing Metrorrhagia: Song said: Use ten liang of Wulingzhi, grind into powder, decoct in five cups of water to three cups, filter and clarify, decoct again into a paste, mix with two liang of Shenqu (Medicated Leaven) powder, form pills the size of sophora seeds. Take twenty pills each time on an empty stomach with warm wine, stops immediately, extremely effective. Ji Yao: Roast and grind Wulingzhi, quench a red-hot iron scale weight in wine, mix and take. Stop when effective.

Retained Placenta, Evil Blood Rushing to Heart: Grind Wulingzhi (half raw, half roasted) into powder. Take two qian each time with warm wine. (Chan Bao)

Prolapsed Uterus: Smoke with roasted Wulingzhi. First wash clean with salt water. (Wei Shi)

Hematemesis and Hemoptysis: Zong Lu: One liang of Wulingzhi, two qian of Aloe (Lvhui), grind into powder, drop water to form pills the size of euryale seeds, shape into cakes. Dissolve two cakes in Dragon Brain (Borneolum Syntheticum) water and take. Also treats reckless blood entering the stomach, unceasing hematemesis. One liang of Wulingzhi, half a liang of Scutellariae Radix (Huangqin), grind into powder. Take two qian with fresh well water.

Incessant Vomiting: Regardless of gender, effective even if food and medicine cannot be retained for days. Purify Wulingzhi, grind into powder, mix with dog bile, form pills the size of euryale seeds. Take one pill each time, dissolve in decocted ginger wine, swallow hot forcefully, do not rinse mouth, quickly take a little warm porridge... (Text incomplete here)

Resolve Food Stagnation and Qi: One liang of Wulingzhi, half a liang of Aucklandiae Radix (Muxiang), forty seeds of Crotonis Fructus (Badou) (roasted熟, oil removed), grind into powder, form pills the size of mung beans with paste. Take five pills each time with plain boiled water. (Pu Ji Fang)

Chronic Malaria Unceasing or Occurring Daily, Twice or Thrice Daily, or Every Two to Three Days: One qian each of Wulingzhi and human fecal mass (Tou Gou), two qian of ancient city calcined stone (Gu Cheng Duan Shi). Grind into powder, form pills the size of soap nuts with rice paste. Take one pill each time at dawn with "rootless water" (rainwater/snowmelt), stops immediately, a miraculous formula. (Hai Shang Xian Fang)

Thirst from Xiao Ke (Wasting-Thirst): Zhu Long San: Equal parts Wulingzhi and black soybeans (skin and hilum removed), grind into powder. Take three qian each time with winter melon peel decoction (leaves can be used if no peel), twice daily. Do not take hot drugs again; prefer Si Wei Wan (Eight Flavor Pill) minus Fu Zi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata), add Wu Wei Zi (Schisandrae Fructus). For slight thirst, stops after two or three doses. (Bao Ming Ji)

Stroke Paralysis: Zhui Hun San: Crush three liang of Wulingzhi, wash with water to remove black turbidity on top and sand/stones below, drain dry, and grind into powder. Take two qian each time with hot wine, once daily. Follow with Xiao Xu Ming Tang. (Qi Xiao Fang)

Cold and Numbness of Hands and Feet: Kou said: Wind-cold causes closure of qi and blood, resulting in painful, cold, and numb hands, feet, and body. Two liang of Wulingzhi, one liang of Myrrha (Moyao), half a liang of Olibanum (Ruxiang)... (Text incomplete here)

Fracture Swelling and Pain: One liang each of Wulingzhi and Bletillae Rhizoma (Baiji), three qian each of Olibanum (Ruxiang) and Myrrha (Moyao). Grind into powder, mix with cooked water and sesame oil, apply to affected area. (Qian Kun Mi Yun)

Trauma and Bone Setting: One liang of Wulingzhi, one qian of Foeniculi Fructus (Huixiang). Grind into powder. First apply Olibanum powder to the most painful spot, cover with yellow millet porridge, sprinkle the two powders on the porridge, wrap with cloth, clamp with wooden pieces, effective in three to five days. (Ru Men Shi Qin)

Five Gangs Tide Fever and Abdominal Distension with Scorched Sensation: Do not use Da Huang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma) or Huang Qin (Scutellariae Radix) as they damage stomach qi and may cause other conditions. One liang of Wulingzhi (water-washed), Hu Huang Lian... (Text incomplete here)

Cough and Lung Distension: Zhou Fei Wan: Two liang of Wulingzhi, eight walnut kernels, half a liang of Platycladi Semen (Baizi Ren), grind evenly, add water dropwise to form pills the size of adzuki beans. Take twenty pills each time with licorice decoction. (Pu Ji Fang)

Phlegm-Blood Coagulation: Zi Zhi Wan: Equal parts Wulingzhi (water-washed) and Pinelliae Rhizoma (Banxia) (soaked in hot water), grind into powder, soak steamed wheat cake in ginger juice, form pills the size of sophora seeds.

Alcohol Accumulation with Sallow Swelling: One liang of Wulingzhi powder, add a small amount of Moschus (Shexiang). Form pills the size of adzuki beans with rice paste. Take one pill each time with rice drink. (Pu Ji Fang)

Floating Nebula on Eye: Equal parts Wulingzhi and Sepiae Endoconcha (Haipiaoxiao), grind into fine powder. Dip cooked pig liver in powder and eat daily. (Ming Mu Jing Yan Fang)

Double Tongue Swelling and Pain: One liang of Wulingzhi, wash clean, grind into powder, decoct rice vinegar and gargle. (Jing Yan Liang Fang)

Evil Blood Toothache: Wulingzhi powder, decoct rice vinegar and hold/swallow. (Zhi Zi Fang)

Blood Mole Ulceration: A person had an old mole, accidentally scratched, bleeding continuously for seven days, near death. Applying Wulingzhi powder stopped the bleeding immediately. (Yang Gong, Yi Fang Miao Ya)

Strange Blood Ulcer Disease: When the white part of the eye becomes dark/black while vision remains normal, hair stands stiff like iron rods, able to eat and drink but unable to speak as if drunk, named Blood Ulcer. Grind Wulingzhi into powder, take two qian with water, cures immediately. (Xia Zi Yi, Qi Ji Fang)

Severe Leprosy/Sores: Mix Wulingzhi powder with oil and apply. (Zhai Xuan Fang)

Insect/Bite Injuries: For injuries from centipedes, snakes, scorpions, and other venomous insects, apply Wulingzhi powder, cures immediately. (Jin Gui Gou Xuan)

Venomous Snake Bite: Grind Wulingzhi into powder, mix with wine, take two qian. Also sprinkle a small amount of powder into the wound, excellent. (Pu Ji Fang).