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Mian Daji (Euphorbia fischeriana), also known as Shan Luobo, has a pungent, bitter, and spicy taste, is slightly warm in nature, and possesses slight toxicity. It treats long-standing food stagnation and phlegm accumulation in the stomach, presenting as gelatinous masses. It attacks parasitic accumulation, promotes urination, directs Qi downward, reduces edema, and induces vomiting of phlegm-saliva.

(Single herb prescription) For treating edema: Take Mian Daji powder, administer 5 fen per dose, with boiling water. Avoid salt for 100 days; if the duration of avoidance is insufficient, the edema will recur. After taking the medicine, if yellow fluid is discharged and edema subsides, but diarrhea persists, consume cold congee to counteract it.

(Single herb prescription) For treating all types of stagnation, including food, phlegm, Qi, and parasites; pain from mass formations; distension in the chest and diaphragm; abdominal鼓胀 (drum-like distension); and indigestion.
Grind Mian Daji into powder, bind with rice paste to make pills the size of horse beans. Administer 7 pills per dose with boiling water. When using Daji, the skin and core must be removed. Consuming the skin causes severe diarrhea; consuming the core causes severe vomiting; consuming both causes vomiting and diarrhea. Single-rooted plants are superior; branched ones are ineffective.
── Congben Volume Middle

Bian Di Jin, has a bitter and astringent taste, and is cold in nature. It possesses astringent properties.
Attached Prescription For treating chronic watery diarrhea and chronic dysentery with red and white discharge.
Take Bian Di Jin, combine with one Wumei (Mume Fruit), a little brown sugar, decoct in water, and take orally.
── Congben Volume Middle

Jin Si Tao, has a bitter taste and is cold in nature. It moves Liver Qi, promotes urination, treats various Lin syndromes, benefits the Bladder, and stops pain in the urethra.
It travels through the meridians, stops bone and tendon pain, treats hernial Qi pain and Bladder hernia, with excellent efficacy.
(Single herb prescription) For treating Bladder hernia, unilateral or bilateral testicular descent/swelling. Use Jin Si Tao without specific quantity, simmer with a small amount of water and wine, and take orally. In powder form, it can treat leprosy sores.
── Congben Volume Lower

Ku Lian Qiao, has a bitter taste and is cold in nature. It clears excess heat from the Six Channels, drains fire, disperses various Wind-Heat pathogens, treats sore throat, swelling and redness of internal and external Ru E (tonsillar hypertrophy), mumps in children, swelling and pain of carious teeth due to Wind-Fire, clears heat, and brightens the eyes.
(Attached Prescription) For treating unbearable swelling and pain of the tooth roots.
Holding the root of Ku Lian Qiao in the affected area is effective. Use 2 qian of root and leaves with a little Huajiao (Sichuan Pepper), decoct in water for gargling, which is effective; or it can be roasted and eaten.
── Wuben Volume Three

Tu Lian Qiao, has hard branches, fragmented leaves, and yellow flowers. It has a bitter taste and is cold in nature. Its main indications include dispersing excess heat of the Five Viscera, relieving throat injury caused by excessive recitation, and treating sore throat accompanied by Shaoyin Fire, with miraculous efficacy after one dose. It treats breast lumps in women, fever in children, and painful mumps, bringing immediate recovery. Applying the collected flowers and leaves to hot-toxic fire sores yields the best results.
── Moban Volume Five