\r黄花草\pc42.bmp\r,生田边。串枝,开黄花,结黑小子。味苦,性寒。主治热结火
症,日夜烧不退,五经血燥,煎服立愈。
──模板卷六
\r三叶草\pc43.bmp\r,味辛、微苦,性微温。治疮疡肿毒,发散疮痈,点水酒服。
──务本卷二
\r蓝花接骨草\pc44.bmp\r,气味酸、甘,性平。主治筋骨疼痛,风湿麻木,半身不遂,
跌打损伤。筋骨碎断者,包敷患处,可以接续,其效如神。
──模板卷十二
\r紫金皮\pc45.bmp\r,味辛、苦,性温。有毒。入肝脾二经,行十二经络。治筋骨疼
痛,风湿寒痹,麻木不仁,瘫痪痿软,湿气流痰,暖筋,止腰疼。治妇人血寒腹痛,吃之良
效。炙用烧酒炒。
(附方) 治男妇筋骨疼痛,痰火痿软,湿气流痰。
紫金皮(二钱酒炙) 秦归(五钱) 川牛膝(三钱) 羌活(三钱) 木瓜(三钱) 用
好酒(五斤)
重汤煎一炷香时取出,去火毒,露一宿方可用。
──丛本卷下
\r铁刺枝\pc46.bmp\r,一名刺枝。硬枝铁梗,开小白花,冬秋无花,似铁钉刺,多出
石旁。味苦,无毒。采取晒干为末,治酒毒冲心,胃中结疼,或成酒虫、酒龟,在腹内作痛
不能忍者,服之效。
取杨梅根同此刺枝根共为末,治瘫痪痰软。每服三钱,用无灰酒下,神效。忌萝卜。
──务本卷一上
Huanghua Cao (Yellow Flower Herb), grows by the fields. Its branches grow in clusters, it bears yellow flowers, and produces small black fruits. It tastes bitter and is cold in nature. It mainly treats heat accumulation and fire-toxin syndromes, characterized by fever that persists day and night without subsiding, as well as blood dryness of the five meridians; decocting and taking it orally leads to immediate recovery.
── Template Volume 6
Sanye Cao (Three-Leaf Herb), tastes pungent and slightly bitter, and is slightly warm in nature. It treats sores, ulcers, swelling, and toxins, disperses carbuncles and sores, and should be taken with water or wine.
── Wuben Volume 2
Lanhua Jiegu Cao (Blue Flower Bone-Knitting Herb), has a sour and sweet taste and is neutral in nature. It mainly treats pain in bones and tendons, numbness due to wind-dampness, hemiplegia, and traumatic injuries. For crushed or broken bones and tendons, applying the herb as a poultice to the affected area can reconnect them, with miraculous efficacy.
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Zijin Pi (Purple Gold Bark), tastes pungent and bitter, and is warm in nature. It is toxic. It enters the Liver and Spleen meridians and circulates through the twelve meridians. It treats pain in bones and tendons, wind-cold-dampness bi-syndrome, numbness and loss of sensation, paralysis and flaccidity, phlegm caused by dampness flow, warms the tendons, and stops lower back pain. It treats abdominal pain in women due to blood-cold, with good efficacy. It should be processed by roasting and stir-fried with distilled liquor.
(Attached Prescription) Treats bone and tendon pain in men and women, flaccidity due to phlegm-fire, and phlegm nodules due to dampness flow.
Prescription: Zijin Pi (2 qian, processed with wine), Qin Gui (5 qian), Chuan Niuxi (3 qian), Qianghuo (3 qian), Mugua (3 qian). Use good wine (5 jin).
Simmer over hot water for the time it takes to burn one incense stick, then remove. Eliminate the "fire toxin," expose to the air overnight before use.
── Congben Volume Lower
Tieci Zhi (Iron-Thorn Branch), also known as Cizhi. It has hard, iron-like stems, bears small white flowers, has no flowers in winter and autumn, resembles iron nail thorns, and mostly grows beside stones. It tastes bitter and is non-toxic. After harvesting and sun-drying, grind into powder. It treats alcohol toxicity rushing to the heart, knotting pain in the stomach, or the formation of "alcohol worms" or "alcohol turtles" causing unbearable abdominal pain; taking this medicine is effective.
Take roots of Yangmei (Bayberry) together with roots of Tieci Zhi, grind into powder, to treat paralysis and phlegmic flaccidity. Take 3 qian per dose, washed down with pure wine (without ash impurities); it is highly effective. Avoid eating radishes.
── Wuben Volume Upper 1