《别录》曰∶味苦，无毒。主小儿痫，除邪养胎，风痹洗洗寒热，目中青翳，女子带下。
生腐木积草处。天雨生盖，如朝生，黄白色。四月采之。
时珍曰∶此即鬼盖之色黄白者，其功亦相近。
鬼笔（《拾遗》）
藏器曰∶鬼笔生粪秽处。头如笔，紫色。朝生暮死，名朝生暮落花。
小儿呼为狗溺苔。主治疮疽 疥痈 。并晒干研末，和油涂之。
凡菌从地出者，皆主疮疥，牛粪上黑菌尤佳。
时珍曰∶此亦鬼盖之类而无伞者。红紫松虚，如花之状，故得花名。研末，敷下疳疮。
（《食疗》）
【校正】并入《拾遗》竹肉。
【释名】竹肉（《拾遗》）、竹菰（《纲目》）、竹蕈。
时珍曰∶草更生曰蓐，得溽湿之气而成也。陈藏器《本草》作竹肉，因其味也。
【集解】诜曰∶慈竹林夏月逢雨，滴汁着地生蓐。似鹿角，白色，可食。
藏器曰∶竹肉生苦竹枝上。如鸡子，似肉脔，有大毒。以灰汁煮三度炼讫，然后依常菜
茹食之。炼不熟者，戟人喉出血，手爪尽脱。应别有功，人未尽识之。
时珍曰∶此即竹菰也。生朽竹根节上。状如木耳，红色。段成式《酉阳杂俎》云∶江淮
有竹肉，大如弹丸，味如白树鸡。即此物也。惟苦竹生者有毒耳。
【气味】甘、咸，寒，无毒。
藏器曰∶苦竹肉∶有大毒。
【主治】一切赤白痢，和姜、酱食之（孟诜）。苦竹肉∶灰汁炼过食，杀三虫毒邪气，
破老血（藏器）。
*Benming Bie Lu* (Additional Records of Famous Physicians) records: The taste is bitter, and it is non-toxic. It primarily treats epilepsy in children, expels pathogenic factors, nourishes the fetus, treats wind-bi syndrome characterized by alternating chills and fever, greenish cataracts in the eyes, and leukorrhea in women.
It grows in places with rotting wood and accumulated grass. When rain falls, caps emerge, resembling *Chaosheng* mushrooms that live only a day, with a yellowish-white color. It is harvested in April.
Li Shizhen states: This is the variety of *Guigai* (Ghost Cover) that is yellowish-white in color, and its efficacy is also similar.
*Guibi* (Ghost Pen) (from *Bencao Shiyi*)
Chen Cangqi states: *Guibi* grows in places contaminated with feces and filth. The head resembles a pen, purple in color. It emerges in the morning and dies by night, named *Chaosheng Mudieluo Hua* (Morning-Born Evening-Falling Flower).
Children call it *Gouniao Tai* (Dog Urine Moss). It treats sores, carbuncles, scabies, and abscesses. Dry it, grind it into powder, mix with oil, and apply topically.
All fungi emerging from the ground primarily treat sores and scabies; those growing on cow dung are especially effective.
Li Shizhen states: This is also a type of *Guigai* but without an umbrella-like cap. It is red-purple and spongy, resembling flowers, hence the name "Flower." Grind into powder and apply to treat chancres.
[Correction] Merged into the entry for *Zhurou* in *Bencao Shiyi*.
[Names] *Zhurou* (from *Bencao Shiyi*), *Zhugu* (from *Bencao Gangmu*), *Zhuxun*.
Li Shizhen states: Grass regrowing is called *Ru*, formed by obtaining damp and humid qi. Chen Cangqi's *Bencao* writes it as *Zhurou* because of its taste.
[Collected Explanations] Meng Shen states: In summer, when rain falls in *Ci* bamboo forests, dripping juice lands on the ground and generates *Ru*. It resembles deer antlers, is white, and is edible.
Chen Cangqi states: *Zhurou* grows on branches of bitter bamboo. It resembles an egg or chunks of meat and is highly toxic. Boil it three times in ash lye, refine it completely, and then consume it like ordinary vegetables. If not sufficiently refined, it will pierce the throat causing bleeding and cause fingernails to fall off entirely. It likely possesses other efficacies that people have not yet fully recognized.
Li Shizhen states: This is indeed *Zhugu*. It grows on the nodes of rotten bamboo roots. It resembles wood ear fungus and is red. Duan Chengshi in *Youyang Zazu* states: In the Jianghuai region, there is *Zhurou*, as large as a pellet, with a taste like *Baishu Ji* (White Tree Chicken). This is that substance. Only the variety growing on bitter bamboo is toxic.
[Flavor and Properties] Sweet, salty, cold nature, non-toxic.
Chen Cangqi states: Bitter bamboo flesh (*Kuzhuru*): Highly toxic.
[Main Indications] Treats all types of dysentery (red and white); consume with ginger and soy sauce (Meng Shen). Bitter bamboo flesh: After refining with ash lye, consumption kills toxins from intestinal parasites and pathogenic evil qi, and breaks down old blood stasis (Chen Cangqi).