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Bitter in taste, non-toxic. Primarily treats jaundice (Huangdan), sudden heat causing yellow eyes and heaviness, promotes urination, and also stops dysentery due to heat. Decoct and take. Ash obtained by leaching can be used to wash the head to promote hair growth; this is the flower of the ancient Mu Jin tree. It grows on stones and tiles. It can be used to dye brown fabric and promotes urination. The *Guangji Fang* states: it promotes hair growth.

Non-toxic. Primarily treats pediculosis (lice disease). Take the juice internally. Pediculosis refers to illness caused by live lice entering the abdomen, presenting as masses similar to Zheng Jia (abdominal masses). Additionally, dirt from combs and hairpins primarily treats evil qi in children, cholera-like symptoms (Huoluan); mix with water and drink.

Bitter in taste, non-toxic. Primarily treats all types of old blood stasis and various postpartum diseases, including severe pain from blood accumulation and qi rebellion threatening death. Decoct the juice and take. Grows in deep mountains. Resembles Rubus (Xuan Gou) with reverse thorns, hanging upside down on leaf tips and growing long.

Also known as Bai Wei. Non-toxic. Primarily treats relapse after major illness due to dietary or labor overexertion. Take soil approximately the size of a coin from under the patient's feet at the time of illness; for male patients, take from the left side; for female patients, take from the right side. Mix with dirt from an anvil and one rat head (if unavailable, use three to seven rat feces), decoct and take; miraculous effect. Also treats sudden heart and abdominal pain. Take dirt from an anvil, apply to the sole of worn shoes, then take dust from tables, burn and apply to sores around the mouth.

Primarily treats demonic influences, transmission corpse (chronic wasting diseases like tuberculosis), epidemic fevers, monsters, and spirits. Select wood, and on the day and hour corresponding to the Tai Sui position, burn and fumigate facing the door. Also fumigate stick wounds with this wood to prevent cold wind from entering; smoke the wound directly. Toilet sticks (Chouchou) primarily treat difficult labor and cholera with cold body and muscle spasms; burn them under the bed to let the heat rise upwards; also treats sudden evil qi invasion. Though small, its efficacy is worthy of record.

Non-toxic. Primarily treats sudden heart and abdominal pain, ghostly fixation (Gui Zhu), breaking blood stasis, evil qi and distension; decoct and take. Three-year-old trees are best. Peach nature removes evil qi; digging peach roots further dispels evil; peach charms and peach root extraction have the same efficacy.

Primarily treats aphonia (loss of voice) and epilepsy (Chi Bing); prick the palm until painful, then speech returns. Left for males, right for females.

Primarily treats moon eclipse sores and ear conditions related to lunar phases. Burn to ash, mix with oil and apply. "Zhang" refers to the wood struck during a lunar eclipse to save the moon. People also crush moon laurel seeds and apply them behind the ears for eclipse-related ear sores. Now in Jiangdong regions, after the fourth and fifth months, on dark days, such fruits are often found on roadsides, sized like lynx beans, pungent and fragrant when broken. Ancient tradition holds they fall from the moon. Mountain laurel can still be used medicinally, let alone moon laurel? It is simply that people do not truly recognize its efficacy. Now found everywhere in Jiangdong. Why is it unique in lacking presence in the north? Is it because it is not on the "moon path"? It is due to lunar influence. A monk from Lingyin Temple in Yuhang said: he planted one; modern poets have discussed it extensively. The *Han Wu Dong Ming Ji* states: there is a distant-flying chicken that goes out in the morning and returns late at night, often carrying laurel seeds back to the southern lands; therefore, it is absent in the north but present in the south, where it is called the "moon path."