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[Bai Fu Zi (Typhonii Rhizoma)] Nature: Yang, slightly warm.
*Zhen Ben* states: It treats blood bi (obstruction of blood flow causing numbness and pain) and promotes the action of medicinal ingredients.
*Ben Cao* states: It treats heart pain, blood bi, and various diseases of the face. It promotes the action of medicinal ingredients.

[Fu Zi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata)] Nature: Bitter, purely Yin.
*Zhen Ben* states: It treats deficiency-cold of Yuan Qi (original qi) and kidney deficiency-cold.
*Ben Cao* states: When combined with Muxiangzi (Aquilariae Semen) and Taoren (Persicae Semen), it is highly effective for treating bladder qi stagnation. Abdominal and hypochondriac fullness, with a bluish-black complexion, are signs of kidney deficiency.

[Kuan Dong Hua (Farfarae Flos)] Nature: Bitter, slightly Yang within Yin; Flavor: Bitter, Cold. Non-toxic.
*Zhen Ben* states: It clears lung heat, calms lung qi, and tonifies the lungs.
*Ben Cao* states: It treats cough with phlegm accumulation.
*Yao Xing Lun* states: Nature is neutral. It treats upward reversal of lung qi with urgency, dyspnea preventing lying flat, and continuous retching/coughing.
*Ri Hua Zi Ben Cao* states: It treats hemorrhoids by burning the herb in a bottle and fumigating the affected area. For internal use, it should be processed by stir-frying. This refers to the solitary root of Tu Qing Mu Xiang.
*Sheng Hui Fang* states: It treats five types of gu poison.
*Tu Jing Ben Cao* states: Also known as Tu Qing Mu Xiang. The fruit treats lung diseases. The root treats qi stagnation, sub-diaphragmatic issues, and stops stabbing pain.

[Bai Lian (Ampelopsis Radix)] Nature: Bitter, Sweet, Yin within Yang. Flavor: Pungent, Bitter, Neutral, slightly Cold. Non-toxic.
*Zhen Ben* states: It astringes lung qi. Bai Lian treats conditions identical to this description.
*Ben Cao* states: It treats carbuncles, malignant sores, gangrenous ulcers, damage to yin causing necrotic muscle, evil qi in the stomach, thief wind and ghost strikes (sudden severe pain or stroke-like symptoms), flaccid paralysis with inability to control limbs, white tinea, and scabies mites.
*Yao Xing Lun* states: Acts as an envoy herb. It treats unresolved heat accumulation, treats genital flaccidity, and treats facial diseases.

[Ban Xia (Pinelliae Tuber)] Flavor: Bitter, Pungent. Toxic.
*Zhen Ben* states: Its therapeutic indications are the same as Ban Xia itself. (Note: Text implies comparison or redundancy).
Chen Cangqi states: It treats traumatic injuries from metal weapons with fracture and blood stasis. Take the root, crush it, and apply it to the wound.
*Ri Hua Zi Ben Cao* states: Flavor is pungent and acrid. It treats bruises and blood stasis from falls/injuries, snake and insect bites, and applies to tinea and toxic sores.

[Yu Jin (Curcumae Radix)] Flavor: Bitter, Pungent, purely Yin.
*Zhen Ben* states: It cools the heart.
*Ju Fang Ben Cao* states: Yu Jin, flavor Pungent, Bitter, nature Cold, non-toxic. It treats blood accumulation, descends qi, generates flesh, stops bleeding, breaks down bad blood, treats bloody strangury (painful urination with blood), hematuria, and traumatic injuries.
*Yao Xing Lun* states: Can be used alone. It treats accumulated old blood in women; grind with warm vinegar and take orally.
*Jing Yan Fang* states: For persistent hematuria, decoct with scallion white; effective.
*Ben Cao* states: Those produced in Shu are superior. Hu people call it Ma Yu, which horses also eat. Medicinally, it treats distension and pain, breaks blood stasis while providing tonic effects.