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The root of *Biti Zhu* (Zhang's Rhizome), bitter and slightly sweet in taste, neutral to cool in nature. Non-toxic. Enters the Spleen and Bladder meridians. Promotes urination.
Treats painful heat strangury (restriction with pain due to damp-heat), hematuria, blood in urine, strangury with blood, and penile pain. Treats fetal descent, reduces edema.
(Single herb prescription) Treats bloody strangury.
*Biti Zhu* root (2 qian) Dandelion (1 qian) Pig palm grass (1 qian) Willow root (1 qian) Take with a small amount of water and wine.
── Cong Ben, Lower Volume

Sugarcane, sweet and sour in taste. Treats all kinds of poisoning and various sores, carbuncles and back abscesses; crush and apply externally. Juice treats mental restlessness, unsettled spirit, aphasia due to wind-stroke, blackening of hair; take with boiled water. Also, when boiled into maltose and eaten, it harmonizes the Stomach better.
── Wu Ben, Lower Volume 1
Sugarcane, sweet in odor and taste, slightly cool in nature, non-toxic. Mainly directs Qi downward, harmonizes the middle Jiao, assists Spleen Qi, promotes bowel and small intestine functions, relieves thirst, resolves alcohol toxicity.
Treats vomiting and regurgitation. Taken with ginger juice, it can resolve pufferfish poison. Taken with alcohol, it generates phlegm. Do not eat too much; excessive consumption induces deficiency-heat symptoms.
── Mo Ban, Volume 9

*Feng Wei Cao* (Pteris multifida), grows in mountains near water sources, has soft stems. This herb resembles Qing Ming Cao, but Sao Tian Qing Ming Cao has hard stems.
Pungent in taste. Non-toxic. Harvest leaves and branches, avoid contact with iron vessels. Mainly treats traumatic injuries, broken tendons and fractured bones; apply externally to the affected area. Also treats rectal prolapse; applying to the fontanelle causes reduction, followed by changing dressings, with miraculous effects. This herb can also suppurate large human sores.
── Wu Ben, Upper Volume 1
*Feng Wei Cao*, shape resembles fennel. Older plants have red stems and fine green leaves. Mainly treats traumatic injuries, disperses blood stasis and alleviates pain.
── Mo Ban, Volume 5

*Guo Shan Long* (Lysimachia clethroides or similar), bitter and pungent in taste, slightly cool in nature. Slightly toxic. Descending action. Directs Qi downward, eliminates fullness and diaphragmatic Qi stagnation in the chest, propels retained food in the stomach, removes long-standing hard accumulations in the abdomen, reduces edema. Its nature is mobile and unretentive, its action is sinking rather than floating. Effective when combined with Areca Seed. This herb is like a tiger general among medicinal herbs; use with caution!
*Guo Shan Long* (3 fen) Guang Areca Seed (1 qian) Lotus Seed (5 fen) As if eating Areca seed and Lu Zi, also uses calcined stone.
*Guo Shan Long* (5 fen, finely powdered) Bran gourd (1.5 qian, processed by fire, retain nature) Areca Seed (1 qian) Simmer Areca Seed and Bran gourd in soup, take *Guo Shan Long* powder, stop when diarrhea occurs.
*Chuan Shan Teng* (Gynostemma pentaphyllum or similar vine), grows in mountains, vines over one zhang long, covered with prickles, green in color, roots should be harvested when old. Bitter and pungent in taste, cold in nature. Slightly toxic. Descending action. Mainly directs Qi downward, eliminates abdominal痞 accumulation, propels retained food in the stomach, removes long-standing hard accumulations in the abdomen. Reduces edema and hematoma, also treats bone and tendon pain, numbness of limbs. Harvest roots, dry and powder, treat Five Accumulations and Six Gatherings. Blood stasis forming masses in the chest, commonly known as "Blood Rat", taken with liquor. Add Areca Seed and Albizia Bark, powder together, take with Ascaris tea to expel tapeworms, expelled in clumps. Boil water, wash wind-leprosy and carbuncles for immediate cure.