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Huai Shi (Sophorae Fructus)
Taste: bitter, sour, salty; Nature: cold; Toxicity: non-toxic. Indications: treats internal heat from pathogenic factors in the five zang organs, stops saliva and phlegm, tonifies severe injuries (extensive trauma or deficiency), treats five types of hemorrhoids, fire sores (burns or heat-toxin ulcers), breast masses (lumps in the mammary gland), and acute pain of the uterus. Harvest on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, crush to extract juice, store in a copper vessel, and simmer daily until it can be formed into pills, sized like rat feces. Insert into the anal orifice, change three times for cure. It also has the effect of aborting pregnancy. Long-term use brightens the eyes, benefits qi, prevents graying of hair, and prolongs life.

Branches: Treat washing sores, and dampness/itching under the scrotum.

Bark: Treats ulcerated sores.

Roots: Treats throat bi (swollen and painful throat with obstruction), chills and fever. Grows in the plains and marshes of Henan. Can be used to make divine candles. (Use Tongtiancao [Sedum aizoon] as an assistant herb.)

Tao Hongjing states: Huai Zi (Sophorae Semen), those connected in clusters are preferred. Harvest on the Si days of the tenth lunar month. Place in a new basin, seal with mud for one hundred days, until the skin rots into water and the kernels are the size of soybeans. Taking it fills the brain, keeps hair black, and promotes longevity. It is now found everywhere. The text mentions harvesting in the seventh month when the fruit is not yet hard, hence crushing and squeezing for juice. Tang Ben Zhu notes: *Bie Lu* records that in the eighth lunar month, cut large branches of the locust tree to encourage tender shoots; boil the juice to brew wine, which effectively treats wind-dampness with flaccidity. Huai Er (Fungus on Sophora Tree), taste: bitter, pungent; nature: neutral; toxicity: non-toxic. Indications: five types of hemorrhoids, heart pain, painful sores in the female vagina. It is a fungus on the locust tree; select those firm like mulberry fungus. Branches, after processing and warming, stop scorpion venom. Chen Yuxi et al. verify *Erya*: [Name], locust leaves are large and dark. Shou Gong Huai (Palmeria locust), leaves close by day and open by night. Explanation: [Name] is a type of locust. Large, dark leaves are called [Name]; otherwise, it is called Huai. Also: Locust leaves that close by day and open by night are named Shou Gong Huai. Nie means closing. Kang means opening. *Yao Xing Lun* states: Huai Zi, as a minister herb, treats severe heat and difficult labor. Bark boiled in water, washed over the scrotum for swelling and qi pain. Also, Huai Bai Pi (White Bark of Locust), taste: bitter; toxicity: non-toxic. Treats wind-gum disease with bleeding. Boil in grain wash water and gargle. Also decoct for bathing male yin hernia and testicular swelling. Chen Cangqi states: Besides its original functions, Huai Shi kills parasites and dispels wind. Process by breaking branches, drying in shade, and boiling; taste resembles tea. Brightens eyes, removes hot tears, relieves wind-heat restlessness in the head/chest, wind-dizziness, dizziness with salivation like drunkenness, and sensation of rocking like on a boat. Flowers can dye yellow; fruits harvested in front of houses in the seventh lunar month; soapwood ash promotes hair growth. Ri Hua Zi states: Huai Zi treats yin sores and damp itching in men and women, induces labor. Swallow seven grains. Also, Huai Pi Cao treats numbness of skin due to wind-stroke, throat bi, washes five hemorrhoids and all malignant sores, vulvar itching/pain, and scalds/burns. Decoct into ointment to stop pain, generate flesh, and reduce carbuncles.

*Tu Jing* states: Huai Shi grows in plains/marshes of Henan, now found everywhere. Trees can be very tall. According to *Erya*, there are several types of Huai: large dark leaves are called [Name]; leaves closing by day/opening by night are Shou Gong Huai; fine green leaves are simply called Huai; their functions are not distinguished. Flowers bloom in April/May, fruit sets in June/July. Harvest tender fruits on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, crush for juice/decoction. Harvest mature fruits in the tenth lunar month. Bark/roots can be harvested anytime. Doctors currently use Huai most frequently. Spring: harvest tender branches, burn to black ash for teeth cleaning. Burn green branches to collect distillate for tinea. Use aged flowers, sifted powder taken orally for hematochezia. Break tender pods, boil as tea for headache, brightening eyes, tonifying brain. Boil white bark for oral/dental issues and hematochezia; swallow black seeds with water to reverse graying. Fungus on wood, powdered, taken with rice drink (1 cun bi dose), treats hematochezia, five hemorrhoids, rectal prolapse. These are common and effective. Ge Hong’s Bian Que Formula for Bright Eyes and Hair Retention: On the Shangsi day of the tenth lunar month, remove skins from Huai Zi, place in a new jar, seal for 21 days. Start with 1 pill, increase to 2, up to 10 by day 10, then decrease back to 1. Very effective. Liu Yuxi’s *Chuan Xin Fang* records Wang Ji Langzhong’s Huai Tang Moxibustion for Hemorrhoids: Decoct thick Huai branch soup, wash hemorrhoids first, then apply moxibustion (7 moxa cones) until effective. Early career as Vice Prefect of Western Sichuan Relief Commissioner, riding a mule through Luogu Valley, old hemorrhoid disease flared severely, shaped like a cucumber, stuck at the rectal entrance, hot as embers, collapsed at a post station. Post clerk said: I had this, must moxa to heal. Ordered Huai soup wash on the "hot cucumber," applied moxa 3-5 cones. Suddenly felt heat enter intestines, massive diarrhea, blood then feces, extreme pain, then the "cucumber" disappeared, rode away swiftly.

Lei Gong states: After harvesting, discard single-seeded and five-seeded pods; keep only two- or three-seeded ones. For use, crush with copper hammer, soak in black ox milk overnight, steam before use. *Shi Liao Ben Cao* treats pathogenic factors, difficult labor, severe injuries. Tender spring leaves are edible. Treats urticaria, dental diseases, wind-pains.

*Wai Tai Mi Yao* treats roundworm heartache. Take fungus from locust tree, burn to ash, size of a date, take with water during attack. If uncontrolled, drink 1 sheng hot water; worms will exit. *Qian Jin Fang* treats neonatal red eye. Take locust branch like horse whip, 2 chi long, cut in two. Place 1 spoon sesame oil in copper bowl. Morning: have a boy grind wood until dizzy. Patient lies supine, apply oil to eyes, 3 times/day, cured. Another formula for hemorrhoids: Harvest Huai Zi on 7th day of 7th month, crush/squeeze juice, store in copper vessel, dry in high sun-exposed spot for 20+ days, simmer into pills size of rat feces, insert into anus, 3 times/day. Also treats [symptom], hundred sores. Ancient formula for bright eyes/black hair: Soak Huai Zi in ox gallbladder, dry in shade for 100 days. Swallow 1 pill after meals. 10 days: body light; 30 days: white hair turns black; 100 days: spiritual clarity. Another formula for nine types of heartache: At Taishui direction, take 1 handful fresh Huai branch, remove ends, boil in 3 sheng water to 1 sheng, take in one dose. Another for nasal congestion: Boil Huai leaves in 5 sheng water to 3 sheng, add scallion/fermented soybean, re-boil and drink. *Qian Jin Yi Fang* treats earwax/wet sores. Soak Huai Bai Pi in vinegar for half day, wash, and other malignant sores. *Zhou Hou Fang* treats internal [symptom]. Crush Huai Bai Pi into pills, wrap in silk, insert into lower orifice, effective. Another for intestinal hemorrhoids with frequent bloody stool: Powder fungus from locust tree, take 1 cun bi orally, 3 times/day. *Bai Yi Fang* treats wind-stroke with rigid body unable to bend/extend. Cut yellow-white Huai bark, boil in 6 sheng wine/water to 2 sheng, strain, take warm slowly. *Jing Yan Fang* treats pheasant hemorrhoids. Decoct Huai/Liu branches, wash hemorrhoids, then moxa 7 cones. Another for lower bleeding: Equal parts Huai Hua (Sophora Flower) and Jing Jie Sui (Schizonepeta Spike), powder, take 1 qian bi with wine. *Mei Shi Fang* treats metrorrhagia or leukorrhea, regardless of duration. Burn Huai branches to ash, take 1 cun bi with wine before meals. Another for hemorrhoids with worm-biting anal itch or purulent bloody discharge: Decoct thick Huai Bai Pi, sit in basin bath to empty rectum, keep warm, urge to defecate later, worms will exit, within 3 treatments cured. If using powder, wrap in silk, insert lower. *Shi Yi Xin Jing* treats pheasant hemorrhoids with bleeding/intestinal wind, brightening eyes: Steam 1 jin tender Huai leaves like roasting, powder, decoct like tea and sip. *Guang Li Fang* facilitates difficult labor in pregnancy: Swallow 7 Huai Zi with water, fetus exits. *Guang Ji Fang* treats toothache. Chop 1 handful Huai Bai Pi, boil in 1 sheng whey, strain, add little salt, gargle warm, change 3 times/day. *Bi Xiao Fang* treats yin sores/damp itch. Take 1 handful from north side of locust tree (no sun), boil in 2 sheng water to 1 sheng, wash 3-5 times, alternate cold/warm. If traveling fearing wind, dust with rice flour, effective. Zhang Wenzhong’s Intestinal Hemorrhoid Formula: Powder fungus from locust tree, take 1 cun bi with rice drink, 3 times/day. Also, 1 dan Huai Bai Pi, chopped, boiled thick, undress and sit in water, change when cool, within 3 uses, worms stop. *Shang Han Lei Yao* treats severe heat/restlessness: Burn Huai Zi to powder, take 1 cun bi with wine. *Zi Mu Mi Lu*: Premature labor desire. Hold eastern branch of locust tree, easy delivery. *Chan Bao* treats continuous metrorrhagia, regardless of duration: Burn Huai Er to ash, powder, take 1 cun bi with wine. *Tai Qing Cao Mu Fang*: Huai is essence of Xu Star. Harvest seeds on Shangsi day of 10th month. Removes hundred diseases, promotes longevity and spiritual connection.

*Yan Yi* states: Huai Shi refers only to the seed; now should be divided into two. The seed comes from the pod; if crushing pods for decoction, it should be called Jia (pod). Seeds inside the pod, large...