\r紫背草\pc65.bmp\r，一名山苦菜。味苦，性寒。解发表汗，退诸经客热，劳烧发热，
攻疮疥、脓窠疮，凉血，解热毒。又子午发热，面黄，形体消瘦，午刻后怕冷作寒，手足冷
麻，头疼，饮食无味，不思饮食；申刻五心烦热，烦渴，饮茶水，遍身热如火灼，咳嗽吐痰，
三更以后，微汗方凉。头晕耳鸣，心慌怔忡，先吃此药，身有大汗，热止后，吃健脾滋阴之
药，痊愈。
（附方） 紫背草（三钱） 煎汤点水酒、童便服。
（又方） 攻毒疮、脓窠、疥癞。
紫背草煎汤点酒服。
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\r紫背天葵草\pc66.bmp\r，俗呼紫背鹿含草。味辛，有小毒。形似蒲公英，绿叶紫背。
采取晒干，捣烂为末，敷大恶疮，神效。若误服之，汗出不止，不知人事，速用绿豆、甘草
解之。
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天葵，味苦、辛，性寒。散诸疮肿毒，攻痈疽，排脓，定痛。治瘰 ，消散结核。治妇
人奶结，乳汁不通，红肿疼痛，乳痈、乳岩，坚硬如石。服之，或溃或散。
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\r蒲公英\pc67.bmp\r，又名婆婆丁。味苦、平，性微寒。治妇人乳结、乳痈，红肿疼
痛，乳筋梗硬作肿胀，服之立效。敷诸疮肿毒、疥癞癣疮，利小便，祛风，消诸疮毒，散瘰
结核，止小便血，治五淋癃闭，利膀胱。
（附奇方） 治瘰 结核，痰核绕项而生，立效。
蒲公英（三钱） 香附（一钱） 羊蹄根（一钱五分） 山慈姑（一钱） 大蓟（独根
二钱） 虎掌草（二钱） 小一支箭（二钱） 小九牯牛（一钱） 水煎，点水酒服。
（单方） 治乳汁不通
蒲公英（三钱不效用五钱） 水酒煎服。
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蒲公英，一名黄花绿叶草。得水之冲气，故味甘、平。无毒。入肝、胃二经，解毒。形
似车前草之叶，微瘦小细长，独苗，开黄花，叶上微有白毛。
主治小儿痘疹后感疔毒，痈疽锁喉，偏肿或杨梅等症，服之立效。
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Zi Bei Cao (Houttuynia cordata), also known as Shan Ku Cai (Mountain Bitter Vegetable). It tastes bitter and is cold in nature. It has the effects of releasing the exterior and inducing sweating, clearing pathogenic heat from various meridians, treating fever caused by consumptive disease, attacking sores, scabies, and pustular ulcers, cooling the blood, and resolving heat toxins. Furthermore, it addresses fever occurring at Zi (11 PM–1 AM) and Wu (11 AM–1 PM) hours, sallow complexion, emaciation, aversion to cold and chills after noon, cold and numbness of the hands and feet, headache, lack of taste in food, and anorexia; at Shen hour (3–5 PM), there is five-palm heat, irritability, and thirst for drinking tea; the whole body feels hot as if burning; cough with expectoration; slight sweating after the third watch brings relief. Accompanied by dizziness, tinnitus, palpitations, and anxiety. Initially take this herb, resulting in profuse sweating; after the heat subsides, take herbs that strengthen the spleen and nourish yin for a complete recovery.
(Attached Formula) Zi Bei Cao (3 qian), decocted in water, taken with Shui Jiu (water wine) and Tong Bian (child's urine).
(Another Formula) For toxic sores, pustules, and scabies.
Decoct Zi Bei Cao in water and take with wine.
── Wuben Juan San
Zi Bei Tian Kui Cao (Semiaquilegia adoxoides), commonly called Zi Bei Lu Han Cao. It tastes pungent and is slightly toxic. Its shape resembles Dandelion, with green leaves and purple undersides. After harvesting and sun-drying, pound into powder and apply externally to severe malignant sores with miraculous effect. If ingested accidentally, it causes incessant sweating and loss of consciousness; immediately use Mung Bean (Vigna radiata) and Licorice Root (Glycyrrhiza uralensis) to detoxify.
── Wuben Juan Yi Shang
Tian Kui, tastes bitter and pungent, cold in nature. It dissipates various sores, swellings, and toxins, attacks carbuncles and furuncles, discharges pus, and relieves pain. It treats scrofula and dissipates tubercles. It treats women's milk stasis, blocked lactation, breast redness, swelling, and pain, mastitis, and breast cancer (hard as stone). After ingestion, the masses either suppurate or dissipate.
── Wuben Juan San
Pu Gong Ying (Taraxacum mongolicum), also known as Po Po Ding. It tastes bitter and neutral, and is slightly cold in nature. It treats women's milk stasis and mastitis, relieving breast redness, swelling, pain, and induration of the milk ducts with immediate effect. Applied externally to various sores, swellings, toxins, scabies, and tinea; promotes urination, dispels wind, eliminates various sore toxins, dissipates scrofulous tubercles, stops hematuria, treats the five stranguries and urinary retention, and benefits the bladder.
(Attached Extraordinary Formula) For scrofulous tubercles and phlegm nodules growing around the neck, with immediate effect.
Pu Gong Ying (3 qian) Xiang Fu (1 qian) Yang Ti Gen (1.5 qian) Shan Ci Gu (1 qian) Da Ji (2 qian, single root) Hu Zhang Cao (2 qian) Xiao Yi Zhi Jian (2 qian) Xiao Jiu Gu Niu (1 qian). Decoct in water and take with Shui Jiu.
(Single Herb Formula) For blocked lactation.
Pu Gong Ying (3 qian, increase to 5 qian if ineffective). Decoct in water and wine and take.
── Wuben Juan San
Pu Gong Ying, also known as Huang Hua Lv Ye Cao. It absorbs the qi of water, thus tasting sweet and neutral. It is non-toxic. It enters the Liver and Stomach meridians and resolves toxicity. Its shape resembles the leaves of Plantago asiatica, slightly slender and long, with a single stem, yellow flowers, and fine white hairs on the leaves.
It mainly treats children who, after chickenpox or smallpox, contract ding toxin, carbuncles affecting the throat, unilateral swelling, or syphilis-like eruptions, with immediate effect upon ingestion.
── Moban Juan Jiu