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Mugwort Leaf (Ai Ye): The qi is warm, the flavor is bitter, belonging to yang within yin. It is non-toxic.
*Bencao* states: It stops dysentery and hematemesis, treats sores in the lower jiao, repels wind-cold, and enables conception. Moxibustion with it can treat a hundred diseases. Harvest on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, before sunrise, without speaking.
*Xin* states: It warms the stomach.

Scrophularia Root (Xuan Shen): The qi is cold, the flavors are acrid and bitter, non-toxic [Note: Original text contains "toxic", likely an error or referring to its potent nature, but preceded by "non-toxic"].
*Bencao* states: It primarily treats warm malaria, mania (pronounced 'yang'), alternating chills and fever, fixed masses (Zheng Jia), accumulations, goiter, expels blood stasis and relieves pain, and treats traumatic injuries and epistaxis.
*Xin* states: For deficiency of kidney yin in the lower jiao, use purely bitter substances to consolidate yin. Also known as Ye Zhang Ren, also known as Hu Wang Shi Zhe.

Lily Bulb (Bai He): The qi is neutral, the flavor is sweet. Non-toxic.
*Bencao* states: It primarily treats abdominal distension and heart pain caused by pathogenic factors, promotes urination and defecation, tonifies the middle and benefits qi, eliminates edema and abdominal fullness, stuffiness with alternating chills and fever, generalized body pain, as well as difficult lactation and throat obstruction, stops runny nose and tearing.
Zhang Zhongjing treated Baihe Disease using Baihe Zhi Mu Tang, Baihe Huashi Daizheshi Tang, as well as Baihe Jizi Tang and Baihe Dihuang Tang. If the Baihe Disease has already been treated with sweating, or has not undergone sweating, purging, or vomiting therapies, or if the disease presentation remains unchanged, or if complications involve alternating chills and fever, these are seen in *Huo Ren Shu*. To treat abdominal pain due to cold damage, use one liang of Baihe, stir-fried until yellow and powdered, taken mixed with rice water.
Sun Simiao said: To treat Baihe Yin Du, boil concentrated juice of Baihe and take one sheng.

Schisandra Berry (Wu Wei Zi): The qi is warm, the flavors are sweet, salty, and sour. Non-toxic.
*Bencao* states: It primarily treats five exhaustion and seven injuries, tonifies the middle, eliminates cold-heat pain in the penis, nourishes the five zang organs, strengthens yin, benefits essence and qi, increases fertility, treats fixed masses in women, clears pathogenic factors from the bladder, treats lower back pain, and stops dysentery. Long-term use makes the body light.
*Ye* states: For insufficiency of Mingmen Minister Fire, use this to tonify it.

Scrophularia Root (Xuan Shen) [Continued]: The qi is slightly cold, the flavors are bitter and salty. Non-toxic.
*Xiang* states: It is the sovereign herb of the Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian and must be used for treating diseases of this meridian.
*Bencao* states: It primarily treats cold-heat accumulations in the abdomen, residual disorders after childbirth in women, tonifies kidney qi, and improves vision. It primarily treats sudden wind-stroke and cold damage, fever with chest fullness and distension, manic delirium, confusion and loss of consciousness, warm malaria with aversion to cold, blood masses, expels cold blood, removes qi stagnation in the chest, promotes water metabolism, and stops irritability and thirst.
Li Dongyuan said: Xuan Shen is a pivot-regulating formula, managing all qi, ensuring orderliness above and below without turbidity, and is frequently used in wind-dispelling formulas. Therefore, *Huo Ren Shu* uses Xuanshen Shengma Tang to treat Yang Du in cold damage, and to treat lingering toxicity after sweating, purging, or vomiting, indicating it is a formula that regulates the pivot. Based on this, to treat misty vapors in the void and rootless fire, Xuan Shen is considered the supreme herb.