（一）补虚劳，治肺劳，止渴，去热风。可去皮心，入蜜煮之，食后服之。若曝干，入
蜜丸尤佳。〔证〕
（二）亦用洗面，甚佳。〔证〕
以少蜜煎，或浸食之，或煎汤，或入酒饮，并妙。生则寒，主齿痛，唾血，折伤。叶可
以羹。〔证〕
治头疼，利丈夫，助阴力。和面作 ，则微动气，为不能制面毒也。熟煮和蜜，
或为汤煎，或为粉，并佳。干之入药更妙也。〔证〕
（一）春初此蒿前诸草生。捣汁去热黄及心痛。其叶生 ，醋淹之为菹，甚益人。〔嘉
〕
（二）又，叶干为末，夏日暴水痢，以米饮和一匙，空腹服之。〔嘉〕
（三）子∶主鬼气，末和酒服之良。〔嘉〕
（四）又，烧淋灰煎，治淋沥疾。〔嘉〕
（一）叶∶主明目，利五脏，食之甚良。〔证〕
（二）子∶主肝家热毒瓦斯，风眼赤泪。每日取一匙， 去尘埃，空腹水吞之。百日后，
夜见物光也。〔证〕
（一）去痰下气。多食少心智。八九月食，伤神。〔嘉·证〕
（二）除壮热，治转筋，心满。食之除鼻塞，去胸中臭气，通神明。〔心·证〕
（三）又，冷痢∶取椒烙之为末，共干姜末等分，以醋和面，作小馄饨子，服二七枚。
先以水煮，更之饮中重煮。出，停冷吞之。以粥饮下，空腹，日一度作之良。〔嘉〕
（四）谨按∶止逆，散烦闷，开胃气。又姜屑末和酒服之，除偏风。汁作煎，下一切结
实冲胸膈恶气，神验。〔嘉〕
（五）又，胃气虚，风热，不能食∶姜汁半鸡子壳，生地黄汁少许，蜜一匙头，和水三
合，顿服立瘥。〔证〕
（六）又，皮寒，（姜）性温。〔证〕
（七）又，姜汁和杏仁汁煎成煎，酒调服，或水调下。善下一切结实冲胸膈。〔证〕
(1) Tonifies deficiency and exhaustion, treats lung consumption (pulmonary tuberculosis), stops thirst, and dispels wind-heat. The outer skin and core can be removed, boiled with honey, and taken after meals. If dried and made into honey pills, the effect is even better. [Zheng]
(2) It can also be used to wash the face, which is very effective. [Zheng]
Boil with a small amount of honey, or soak and eat, or decoct as a soup, or drink with wine; all are excellent. When raw, it is cold in nature, treating toothache, hemoptysis (blood in saliva), and traumatic injuries. The leaves can be used to make soup. [Zheng]
Treats headache, benefits men, and enhances sexual potency. Mixed with flour to make dough products, it slightly moves qi because it cannot control the toxicity of wheat/flour. Cooked and mixed with honey, or decocted as a soup, or made into powder, all are good. Dried for medicinal use is even more wonderful. [Zheng]
(1) In early spring, before other grasses grow, this mugwort appears. Crush to extract juice to treat jaundice and heart pain. Its leaves can be eaten raw, pickled in vinegar as 'zu' (fermented vegetable), which is very beneficial to people. [Jia]
(2) Additionally, dry the leaves and grind into powder. For summer acute watery dysentery, mix one spoonful with rice water and take on an empty stomach. [Jia]
(3) Seeds: Mainly treat 'gui qi' (spiritual afflictions or strange diseases). Grind into powder and take with wine for good results. [Jia]
(4) Additionally, burn to ash and decoct to treat strangury (painful/difficult urination). [Jia]
(1) Leaves: Mainly brighten the eyes, benefit the five zang organs, and are very good when eaten. [Zheng]
(2) Seeds: Mainly treat heat toxins in the liver and wind-eye conditions with redness and tearing. Take one spoonful daily, remove dust, and swallow with water on an empty stomach. After one hundred days, one can see light at night. [Zheng]
(1) Resolves phlegm and directs rebellious qi downward. Excessive consumption reduces mental acuity. Eating in August and September damages the spirit. [Jia, Zheng]
(2) Clears severe fever, treats muscle spasms (charley horse), and chest fullness. Eating it removes nasal congestion, eliminates foul odor from the chest, and clarifies the mind. [Xin, Zheng]
(3) Additionally, for cold dysentery: Roast Sichuan pepper until dry, grind into powder, mix in equal parts with dried ginger powder, combine with vinegar and flour to make small wontons. Take fourteen pieces. Boil in water first, then re-boil in the drinking liquid. Remove, let cool, and swallow. Take with porridge water on an empty stomach, once daily, which is beneficial. [Jia]
(4) Note: Stops hiccups, disperses irritability, opens the stomach qi. Additionally, taking ginger powder with wine expels lateral wind (hemiplegia). Decocting ginger juice into a paste effectively expels all stagnation and evil qi rushing to the chest and diaphragm, with miraculous efficacy. [Jia]
(5) Additionally, for weak stomach qi, wind-heat invasion, and inability to eat: Half an eggshell of ginger juice, a little fresh rehmannia juice, one spoonful of honey, mixed with three he (unit of volume) of water, taken in one dose leads to immediate recovery. [Zheng]
(6) Additionally, for cold skin, ginger is warm in nature. [Zheng]
(7) Additionally, decoct ginger juice with almond juice into a paste, take with wine or water. It is excellent at expelling all stagnation and evil qi rushing to the chest and diaphragm. [Zheng]