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[White Rice Grass] Also known as Glutinous Rice Grass. Its nature is sweet and neutral, capable of moistening the lungs and stopping cough, benefiting the stomach and harmonizing the middle jiao, and can treat labor injury. The flowers are particularly effective.

[Category: Sweet, Bland, Slightly Cold] Nature is sweet, bland, and slightly cold, promoting urination and removing irritability and heat. Pregnant women should avoid it.

[Category: Bitter, Sour, Neutral] Nature is bitter, sour, and neutral, boosting qi and relieving hunger; long-term use prevents starvation. Achyranthes leaf (Shi Ye): Pounded into a paste together with single garlic bulb, turtle shell plate, salt, and rice vinegar, applied to the mass (Pi). After two incense sticks' time, the mass transforms into blood and exits via stool.

[Category: Sweet, Warm] Nature is sweet and warm, benefiting lung qi and promoting urination. Aged herbs are superior.

[Category: Sweet, Great Cold] Nature is sweet and greatly cold, draining heat and detoxifying, relieving distension and eliminating abscesses. Use crushed juice.

[Category: Sweet, Cold] Nature is sweet and cold, breaking blood and detoxifying, stopping epidemic abdominal pain. Use crushed juice. Flaxseed (Zha Ma) can also be decocted. Rootless flax can substitute.

[Category: Sweet, Cool] Nature is sweet and cool, resolving damp-heat, refreshing the chest and pleasing the mind, making one joyful and carefree. Hence called Hehuan Cao (Albizia Herb), also known as Wuyou Cao (Carefree Herb). Roots: Treat strangury (Lin), moving downward water qi.

[Category: Bitter, Neutral] Nature is bitter and neutral, supplementing insufficient yin qi, making skin lustrous. Use seeds.

[Water Jin] Also known as Water Jin, commonly called Pepper Vegetable. Nature is sweet and cold, slightly bitter, pungent, and astringent, removing irritability and heat, expelling stasis blood, serving as a specialized herb for dissipating nodules and detoxifying.

[Guangming Cao] Also known as Guangming Cao. Nature is pungent and cold, treating ophthalmic conditions such as trichiasis (in-turned eyelashes) and everted eyelids; dipping three stems in water and scraping away bad blood is effective.

[Ku Cai] Also known as Ku Cai. Nature is bitter and cold, draining heat and detoxifying, breaking blood and discharging pus, serving as a specialized external medicine. Use roots and seedlings.

[Luxian] Also known as Luxian, referred to as Wu Feng Cao in the south. Flavor and nature are bitter and neutral, regulating dampness in blood, excellently treating alcohol-induced wind-damp bi syndrome and various pains in the joints.

[Lishi] Also known as Lishi. Nature is sweet and warm, treating cold hernia and various pains from cold accumulation.

[Longxu Cao] Is Longxu Cao. Flavor is bitter and slightly cold, promoting urination and relieving pain. Those from rotten mats with dirt have superior efficacy.

[Denglong Cao] Is Denglong Cao. Nature is bitter and cold, clearing lungs and stopping cough. Foer Cao treats cold-phlegm cough; this herb treats hot-phlegm cough, effectively resolving dampness, and also treats jaundice.

[Foer Cao] Is Foer Cao. Nature is sweet and neutral, resolving phlegm and stopping cough. Mixed with rice flour to make dry rations, it tastes sweet and can serve as food in famine years.

(Toxic Herb Category)