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Baiyun Shen (Candida Root), commonly known as Huan Yang Shen, also named Bai Nai Shen. It has a single stem, green-black leaves, and fleshy roots containing milky sap; only the root is used. The taste is sweet and bitter. It is non-toxic. It enters the Lung, Liver, and Kidney meridians. When boiled with pork, it greatly tonifies Qi and Blood, and benefits the Kidneys while replenishing Essence.
Furthermore, for women suffering from Gan Xue Lao (Dry Blood Consumption, a deficiency syndrome characterized by depleted Yin blood due to chronic illness or hemorrhage), consuming this herb yields better results.
(Attached Prescription) For treating spontaneous sweating during sleep (Dao Han) in women with deficiency consumption.
Boil Baiyun Shen with pork and eat; it tonifies both Qi and Blood.
──Wuben Juan Yi Shang

Baiyun Shen has opposite leaves, resembling peach leaves, produces white flowers, and has fleshy roots. The taste is sweet, and the nature is neutral. It is non-toxic. This herb stops thirst, generates fluids, resolves phlegm, brightens the eyes, nourishes the Heart, guides Blood back to its origin to calm the Spirit (Shen).
──Moban Juan San

Bailong Shen grows in mountains, possessing vines with leaves; small yellow flowers appear beneath the leaves. The roots are large, fleshy, and white, resembling ginseng. The taste is sweet. It is non-toxic. Harvesting and consuming it extends life and promotes longevity.
Boiled with pork, it warms the Kidneys and replenishes Essence. Boiled with beef, it tonifies Qi. Boiled with mutton, it tonifies Qi and stops sweating. Boiled with chicken, it treats Tuberculosis (Lao Bing). Consumed raw, it makes the skin fair and the body plump. Women who consume it stop sweating during sleep and treat leukorrhea. It is effective for men with Kidney Deficiency.
──Wuben Juan Yi Shang

Duiye Shen tastes sweet and bitter, and is neutral in nature. It is non-toxic. It mainly treats nine types of Qi pain, coldness in tendons and bones, Zheng Jia (abdominal masses), accumulation of alcohol and food, and pain caused by Phlegm-Fire and Stasis. Using wine as a guiding agent makes it most efficacious.
──Moban Juan San

Ping Er Shen tastes sweet, is neutral in nature, and warm in temperature. It is non-toxic. It treats Spleen Qi weakness, insufficiency of Middle Qi, lack of taste in food, Wu Lao Qi Shang (Five Exhaustions and Seven Injuries, referring to various deficiency syndromes), soreness and weakness of limbs, deficiency heat with aversion to cold, sallow complexion, and emaciation. This herb regulates the Spirit, nourishes Ying and Wei Qi and Blood, and tonifies Middle Qi. However, if there is accumulated Phlegm in the Spleen and Stomach, or Cold-Dampness, taking it will cause edema. If swelling occurs all over the body after taking it, boil Bitter Vegetable Soup and drink it; urinating several times will cause the swelling to subside naturally.
(Attached Prescription) For treating Spleen and Stomach weakness, insufficiency of Middle Qi, and deficiency injuries from overwork.
Ping Er Shen (3 qian) with Spring Chicken (one whole chicken stuffed with the herb and braised). Generally, when using chicken for tonifying deficiency, use female chickens for men and male chickens for women.
(Attached Case) Previously, Shi Mingjiu used Ping Er Shen to treat smoke miasma poisoning at the Shiyang Factory furnace site. The symptoms included feeling cold and shivering in the afternoon, fever at night, and cooling down only after sweating at dawn.
To treat smoke miasma: Ping Er Shen (powdered, 3 qian) taken three times with wine as a vehicle, followed by eating one hen braised with Ping Er Shen.
(Additional Note) Ping Er Cao and Ping Er Shen must be distinguished. Ping Er Shen has short branches, square stems, similar flowers, but lacks hairy calyx on the back, identical leaves, smaller roots, and red stems.
Ping Er Cao has tall stems, round stems, similar flowers, but has hairy calyx after flowering, identical leaves, larger roots, and red stems.
──Congben Juan Shang