阳也，味甘。无毒。
《珍》云∶治风眩心虚，非此不能安。
《药性论》云∶君，主惊痫，安神定志，补虚乏。主心下急痛坚满，人虚而小便不利者
。
气温，味辛。无毒。
入足阳明经、少阴经。
《本草》云∶主中恶心腹痛，蛊毒，疰忤鬼气，宿食不消，天行疫瘴，膀胱、肾间冷气
，攻冲背膂。妇人血气，小儿腹中诸虫。又云∶去猫涎极妙。乌药叶及根，嫩时采，作茶
片炙碾煎服，能补中益气，偏止小便滑数。
气温、平，味辛。无毒。有毒。《本草》云∶主绝伤，补中，续筋骨，填髓脑，
安五脏。治五缓六急，风寒湿痹。疗咳嗽，消瘀血痞结腰痛，女子疝瘕，利小肠，去蛔虫。
生漆，去长虫，半夏为之使。畏鸡子。忌油脂。
气温，味辛、咸。有小毒。
引入厥阴经药。
《本草》云∶主风痹死肌邪气，风头泪出，利九窍，疗腹胀满，消谷，除咳嗽。治囊缩
，妇人胞不落，明目，益精，可为沐药，不入汤。
《日华子》云∶通关节，除头风，消痰，杀劳虫，治骨蒸，开胃，破坚瘕，腹中痛，能
堕胎。柏实为之使。恶麦门冬。畏空青、人参、苦参。
仲景治咳逆上气，唾浊，但坐不得卧，皂荚丸主之。杵末，一物蜜丸桐子大，用枣汤服
一丸，日三夜一。
《活人书》云∶治阴毒，正阳散内用皂荚，引入厥阴也。用之有蜜炙、酥炙、烧灰之异，
等分依方。
(Fushen): Belongs to Yang, sweet in taste. Non-toxic.
*Zhen Ben Cao* states: It treats heart deficiency caused by wind-dizziness; without this herb, calmness cannot be achieved.
*Yao Xing Lun* states: As the sovereign drug, it primarily treats fright and epilepsy, calms the spirit and stabilizes the will, and tonifies deficiency and exhaustion. It treats urgent pain and hardness/fullness below the heart, and cases of bodily weakness with difficult urination.
(Wuyao): Warm in temperature, pungent in taste. Non-toxic.
Enters the Foot-Yangming and Shaoyin meridians.
*Ben Cao* states: It primarily treats evil qi invasion causing nausea and abdominal pain, gu poison, zhu-wu ghost qi, retained food not digesting, epidemic pestilence, cold qi between the bladder and kidney attacking the back and spine. It treats blood and qi disorders in women, and various parasites in children's abdomens. It also states: It is extremely effective in removing cat saliva. The leaves and roots of Wuyao, when harvested while tender, are made into tea slices, roasted, ground, and decocted for administration; they can tonify the middle and augment qi, specifically stopping frequent and slippery urination.
(Xuduan): Warm and neutral in temperature, pungent in taste. Non-toxic. Toxic. *Ben Cao* states: It primarily treats severed injuries, tonifies the middle, reconnects sinews and bones, fills the marrow and brain, and calms the five zang organs. It treats the five slackness and six urgency conditions, wind-cold-damp bi obstruction. It heals cough, resolves blood stasis and palpable masses with lower back pain, treats female hernia jia, promotes small intestine function, and expels roundworms. Raw lacquer is used as a guiding drug; Banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma) is its assistant. It fears chicken eggs. Avoid greasy foods.
(Shechuangzi): Warm in temperature, pungent and salty in taste. Slightly toxic.
It guides drugs into the Jueyin meridian.
*Ben Cao* states: It primarily treats wind-bi with dead muscle tissue and pathogenic qi, headaches with tearing, unblocks the nine orifices, treats abdominal distension and fullness, aids digestion, eliminates cough. It treats scrotal retraction, retained placenta in women, brightens the eyes, benefits essence, can be used for bathing preparations, but is not included in decoctions.
*Ri Hua Zi* states: It unblocks joints, eliminates head wind, resolves phlegm, kills labor worms, treats bone-steaming fever, opens the appetite, breaks hard accumulations and jia masses, treats abdominal pain, and can induce abortion. Baishi (Platycladi Semen) is its assistant. It detests Maidong (Ophiopogonis Radix). It fears Kongqing (Azurite), Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma), and Kushen (Sophorae Flavescentis Radix).
Zhang Zhongjing treated cough with reverse flow of qi, expectoration of turbid sputum, where the patient could only sit and not lie down, using Zaojiao Wan (Gleditsiae Sinensis Pill). It was pounded into powder, made into single-ingredient honey pills the size of tung tree seeds, taken one pill at a time with date water decoction, three times during the day and once at night.
*Huo Ren Shu* states: To treat yin toxicity, Zaojiao (Gleditsiae Fructus) is used in Zhengyang San to guide into the Jueyin meridian. Its use varies by honey-roasting, butter-roasting, or burning to ash, in equal proportions according to the prescription.