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Shidancao (Lithospermum), grows on rocky mountains, adhering to the stones. It bears blue flowers and resembles Plantago asiatica in shape. Its taste is sweet, and it is non-toxic. When collected and ground into powder together with Wenbei (Clam Shell), it can blacken beard and hair, preventing them from turning white again; its efficacy is miraculous.
The leaves are collected, pounded into a paste, and applied to sores, yielding miraculous effects.
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Mabiancao (Verbena officinalis), is now found everywhere. Its odor and taste are bitter, and its nature is cold. It is non-toxic. It mainly treats amenorrhea leading to consumptive disease in women; decocting this herb quickly and taking it will cure the condition. It also treats carbuncles and ulcers where toxic pathogens rush to the heart; taking this herb yields miraculous effects.

Tu Huoxiang (Pogostemon cablin), tastes pungent and is slightly warm. It treats stomach heat. It treats infantile gan disease (gum disease) with ulceration, pus and blood discharge, bad breath, and swollen lips. A small amount of Ku Fan (Alum) is added, ground into powder, and applied to the gum roots. For knife wounds with bleeding, remove the alum and add a small amount of Longgu (Fossilized Bones), apply it, and it will heal immediately.

Ye Bohe (Wild Mentha), tastes pungent, slightly bitter, and numbing, with a slightly warm nature. It clears wind from the head and eyes upwards, stops headache, dizziness, and fever, and expels wind-phlegm. It treats common cold cough, nasal drip (brain leak), foul-smelling nasal discharge, and reduces deficiency-fever in both men and women.
Ye Bohe (2 qian) Chenpi (Tangerine Peel, 2 qian) Xingren (Apricot Seed, 2 qian, skin and tips removed) Zhu Ye (Bamboo Leaf, 15 pieces) as guide. Decoct in water and take orally.
(Another Prescription)
Ye Bohe, any amount, decoct in water, and take mixed with rice wine.
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Nan Bohe (Southern Mint), also known as Shengyang Cai. It tastes pungent and is warm in nature. It is non-toxic. It treats all types of Shaohang headache, cholera with vomiting and diarrhea, and various sores such as carbuncles, ulcers, scabies, and leprosy. Its efficacy is miraculous.
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Jiangweicao (Houttuynia cordata or similar aromatic herb), tastes pungent and is strongly warm. It dries the spleen and warms the stomach, promotes appetite, regulates qi and directs it downward, and treats nine types of stomach-qi pain, facial cold-pain, chest and diaphragm distension, abdominal cold-pain, vomiting and nausea, dysphagia and regurgitation, five accumulations and six aggregations, palpable masses with pain, cold hernia and swelling in men, and mass-related pain in women.
Jiangweicao is ground into powder; take 1 qian each time, washed down with hot wine.
(Miraculous Prescription) Treats five accumulations and six aggregations, palpable masses with pain.
(Additional Note) Long-standing accumulation of five accumulations and masses is generally due to yin-yang disharmony and excess, weak zang-fu organs, and binding of wind-pathogens. The external pathogen cannot be expelled, leading to qi stagnation and phlegm condensation; or it may be caused by stagnant blood blocking and staying, forming accumulation syndromes.
Pain above the navel radiating up to the epigastrium, distending pain coming in waves, cold sweat over the whole body, causing mental restlessness. Pain moving from the epigastrium to the navel causes abdominal distension, urgent but incomplete defecation, qi-pain waves, cold sweat over the body, and cold hands and feet.
Jiangweicao (3 qian) Shichangpu (Acorus tatarinowii, 1 qian) Gancao (Licorice Root, 1 qian) Houpo (Magnolia Bark, 1 qian) Caodoukou (Black Cardamom, 2 qian). Grind together into powder. Take 1 qian each time, mixed with boiling water and wine. Pills are also acceptable.
Alternating chills and fever resembling malaria, pain, sour regurgitation, stiffness and soreness in the waist and back, difficulty bending and stretching, spontaneous sweating, and cold hands and feet.
Jiangweicao (3 qian) Qingpi (Green Tangerine Peel, 5 fen) Chuanxiong (Ligusticum, 2 qian) Chaihu (Bupleurum, 1 qian) Xiaohuixiang (Fennel, 2 qian) Caodoukou (Black Cardamom, 3 qian). Grind together into powder. Take 1 qian mixed with boiling water and wine, or make into pills.
If prolonged and unhealed, it leads to diarrhea, preference for hot drinks, and aversion to cold.
Jiangweicao (3 qian) Wuzhuyu (Evodia Fruit, 2 qian) Caodoukou (Black Cardamom, 3 qian) Wushenqu (Medicated Leaven, 2 qian) Gancao (Licorice Root, 5 fen). Grind together into powder. Take mixed with boiling water and wine, or make into pills.
Cough, wheezing, asthma, or formation of Lung Abscess, stiffness and soreness on the right side of the waist.
Jiangweicao (2 qian) Jianghuang (Turmeric, 2 qian) Baidoukou (White Cardamom, 2 qian) Muxiang (Costus Root, 5 fen). Grind together into powder or make into pills. Take 1 qian each time, mixed with boiling water and wine.
Qi disorder. Attacks cause pain, inability to bend and extend the waist, bone atrophy and emaciation, and sallow complexion.
Jiangweicao (3 qian) Jiangzhiren (likely a local variant or typo for another seed/herb, 2 qian) Chenxiang (Agarwood, 2 qian) Lizhihe (Lychee Seed, 7 pieces, roasted). Grind together into powder or make into pills. Take 1 qian each time, mixed with boiling water and wine.
Jiangweicao alone, ground into powder, taken mixed with boiling water and wine.
(Miraculous Prescription) Treats intestinal parasites in children, causing abdominal pain, vomiting, or diarrhea.
Jiangweicao (5 fen), taken with wine. After pain subsides, take Xiachong San (Parasite-expelling Powder) to expel worms.
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