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Suanjiao Cao (Acerola Fruit), sour and astringent in taste, cold in nature. It stops chronic diarrhea with intestinal sliding and incontinence, red dysentery, white dysentery, or intermittent dysentery (Xiusu Li). It is taken by decocting together with rock sugar.
── Congben Volume Middle

Shuijinfeng (Lysimachia christinae), pungent in taste, cold in nature. It is used for washing to treat pain in muscles and bones caused by damp-heat, as well as scabies, leprosy, and tinea corporis.
── Congben Volume Middle

Ziwei Hua (Crape Myrtle Flower), sour in taste, cold in nature. It treats postpartum metrorrhagia that does not stop, irregular menstruation, blood stasis forming masses (Zhengxia), menorrhagia with leukorrhea, and dripping discharge. It can also be used for washing to treat scabies, leprosy, and tinea corporis.
── Congben Volume Middle

Shiliupi (Pomegranate Peel), sour and astringent in taste, cold in nature. It treats chronic watery diarrhea; it can be roasted and eaten with rock sugar. It treats chronic dysentery with pus and blood, and bleeding from the large intestine. The root promotes circulation through the meridians.
Case Record: A woman suffered from postpartum dysentery which did not respond to various medicines and had persisted for a long time. Later, she was treated with equal parts of vinegar-fried Shiliupi (Pomegranate Peel) and Xiangfu (Cyperi Rhizoma), decocted and taken orally, resulting in immediate recovery.
── Congben Volume Middle
Tian Shiliu (Sweet Pomegranate), sour and astringent in taste. It treats pain in muscles and bones, weakness in the four limbs, expels parasites, stops dysentery, sore throat with swelling, and gingival bleeding. It effectively eliminates gallbladder worm poison. It can also be used to wash the bladder.
── Wuben Volume 1 Lower
Shiliu (Pomegranate), sweet, sour, and astringent in taste, slightly warm in nature, non-toxic. The seeds that are white and large are called Shuijingliu (Crystal Pomegranate), with a sweet and delicious taste. They suppress erysipelas (Danshu), kill Sanshi worms (parasites residing in the body), and treat dryness and thirst in the throat. Excessive consumption damages the lungs and teeth and generates phlegm. Sour pomegranates stop dysentery; another indication is treating seminal emission. If taking other medicines, one should not consume pomegranates.
The peel is harvested and decocted with Shuijinfeng (Lysimachia christinae); the water is used to wash the entire body and arms, strengthening tendons and bones, enhancing strength to surpass that of a hundred men. This prescription is recorded in "Xisui Jing" (Classic of Marrow Washing).
The leaves are harvested and decocted for washing; this is most effective for treating pox wind sores and all types of wind-induced leprosy.
── Moban Volume 9

Lingjiao (Water Caltrop), sweet in taste. It treats all kinds of pain in the waist, legs, muscles, and bones; numbness and insensitivity in the whole body and four limbs; and conditions where wind-dampness invades the joints. Healing occurs upon boiling and eating. The skin is burned to ash, ground into powder, mixed with rapeseed oil, and applied topically to hemorrhoids with miraculous effect.
The leaves are sun-dried, ground into powder, and applied topically to infant gan gangrene (Zouma Gan, a severe necrotic ulcer of the mouth) with miraculous effect.
── Wuben Volume 1 Lower
Lingjiao (Water Caltrop), sweet and bland in aroma, slightly bitter and astringent in taste, neutral in nature. Its main indications include awakening the spleen, resolving alcohol intoxication, and moderating urgency.
── Moban Volume 9