\r龙胆草\pb98.bmp\r,味苦,性寒。泻肝经实火,止喉痛。煎点水酒服。
──丛本卷下
\r珠子参\pb99.bmp\r,味甘、微苦,性温、平。止血生肌,服之无甚功效。今人假充
鸡肾参,误矣。古土方∶用珠子参为末,捻刀伤疮,收口甚速。
肾参,叶如蛤蟆叶,绿色,初生无梗,叶铺地生,中发一秆,开白花,根下生果一对,一雌
一雄,果皮薄。
──务本卷二
\r野烟\pb100.bmp\r,一名烟草、小烟草。味辛、麻,性温。有大毒。治热毒疔疮,
痈疽搭背,无名肿毒,一切热毒恶疮;或吃牛、马、驴、骡死肉中此恶毒,惟用此药可救。
盖此药性之恶烈也,虚弱之人忌服。
授以此草,煎服,疮溃,调治痊愈。后人起名气死名医草。以单剂为末,酒和为丸,又名青
龙丸。
──务本卷二
\r黑阳参\pb101.bmp\r,又名黑元参。味苦、微甘,性微寒。滋养真阴、调血、除热。
退诸虚劳热、利小便、治血淋、膏淋。
\r紫草\pb102.bmp\r,气味甘、咸,大寒。主治凉血、活血、利九窍、通二便。治心
腹邪痛,消水肿,退黄胆及诸疮毒,服之可解。
\r曼陀罗\pb103.bmp\r,形绿茎碧叶,高三尺,开白花六瓣,状如牵牛花而朝开夜合,
结实圆而有丁拐,中有小子。花、子,气味辛,温。有毒。主治诸风寒湿、香港脚,煎汤洗之。
又治惊痫及脱肛,并入麻黄叶。
龙蛋草,俗名鬼核桃,入口伤人。生山中有水处。尖叶,叶上有刺,一本数枝,子黑色。
味苦。有毒。此草只可熬膏贴痈疽发背,其效如神。
Longdancao (Gentianae Radix), bitter in taste, cold in nature. It drains excess fire from the Liver channel and relieves sore throat. Decoct and take with water and wine.
── Congben, Volume Lower
Zhuzishen (Polystachyae Rhizoma), sweet and slightly bitter in taste, warm and neutral in nature. It stops bleeding and generates flesh, but its efficacy when taken alone is not significant. Nowadays, people falsely pass it off as Jishenshen, which is a mistake. Ancient folk prescriptions: Use Zhuzishen ground into powder, applied to knife wounds and sores, resulting in very rapid wound closure.
Jishenshen, leaves resemble those of a frog, green in color, initially growing without petioles, leaves spreading on the ground, with a single stalk emerging from the center, bearing white flowers, producing a pair of fruits at the root, one female and one male, with thin fruit skin.
── Wuben, Volume 2
Yeyan (Nicotiana Tabacum), also known as Yancao or Xiao Yancao. Pungent and numbing in taste, warm in nature. Highly toxic. Treats heat-toxin carbuncles, back abscesses, nameless swellings and toxins, and all kinds of heat-toxin malignant sores; or if poisoned by eating dead meat of cattle, horses, donkeys, or mules contaminated with this evil toxin, only this herb can save the patient. This is because the nature of this herb is extremely harsh and fierce, so it is contraindicated for people with deficiency weakness.
Decoct and take this herb, causing the sore to suppurate, then regulate and treat until recovery. Later generations named it "Qisimingyi Cao" (Herb that Astounds Famous Doctors). Used as a single ingredient ground into powder, mixed with wine to form pills, also named Qinglong Wan (Green Dragon Pill).
── Wuben, Volume 2
Heiyangshen, also known as Heiyuan Shen. Bitter and slightly sweet in taste, slightly cold in nature. Nourishes true Yin, regulates blood, and clears heat. Relieves various types of deficiency-heat from consumptive diseases, promotes urination, treats hematuria (blood strangury) and chyluria (milky strangury).
Zicao (Arnebiae Radix et Rhizoma / Lithospermi Radix), sweet and salty in taste, greatly cold. Mainly treats cooling blood, invigorating blood, unblocking the nine orifices, and promoting bowel movements. Treats evil pain in the heart and abdomen, reduces edema, resolves jaundice, and clears various sore toxins; taking it can resolve toxicity.
Mantuoluo (Datura Metel), has green stems and jade-green leaves, three chi tall, blooming with six-petaled white flowers, resembling Convolvulus flowers but opening in the morning and closing at night, bearing round fruits with nipple-like projections containing small seeds. The flowers and seeds are pungent in taste and warm in nature. Toxic. Mainly treats wind-cold-dampness and podagra (Hong Kong foot), decocted for washing. Also treats epilepsy and rectal prolapse, combined with Mahuang Ye (Ephedrae Herba Leaf).
Longdanc grass, commonly known as Gui Hetao (Ghost Walnut), injures upon entry into the mouth. Grows in mountainous areas near water. Pointed leaves, thorns on leaves, multiple branches per plant, black fruits. Bitter in taste. Toxic. This herb can only be boiled into an ointment and applied to back carbuncles and furuncles, with miraculous efficacy.