薇衔根有两股，大者名大吴风草。小者名小吴风草秦皮为使，主风淫湿痹，致历节
酸痛，疗吐泻惊痈，及鼠漏痈肿，却热除痿蹶，逐水消暴 。妇人服之，绝产无子，吐
舌悸气、癫狂等症并祛。
败酱，因似败豆酱气故名。除肿痈败脓散血，破痈结催产安胎，去蛆痔疥搔，却毒
气痿痹鼻红，吐血能止，腹痛凝血可推。
得土之烈气，微感天之阴气，味浓气薄，故味苦，微寒、微温、无毒。
子，消食明目，益气轻身，止女人经涩不通，扶男人阳痿不举，消水气作
胀，散瘀血成痈，打扑折伤，风寒湿痹，腰膝重痛，骨结酸痛。
禀天地清阴之气，故味甘、辛，气寒而无毒。
天名精，又名地菘，又名麦姜，又名蟾蜍兰，又名虾蟆兰，又名天蔓青，又名天门
精，又名活鹿草，又名刘烬草。专疗伤折金
疮，拔肿毒恶疔，下瘀血血瘕，利小便以逐积水，除热结而止渴烦，追小虫去湿痹，逐
痰涎，定吐衄，敷治蛇虫螫毒，噙疗缠喉风肿。根名土牛膝，功用相同。子名鹤虱，任
合丸散。大能杀虫追毒，蛔烧虫咬，心腹卒痛者，肥肉汁调下即安。砒霜毒吞，肠胃未
裂者，浓齑汁送下立吐。
禀火金之气，故味辛，温，有毒。气味俱浓，入手足厥阴经。辛温之气正补命门火
之不足，所以诸症自除，筋骨阳道自旺。且命门之系，上通于心，相火得补，则君火益
自振，能明耳目，但阳气衰弱者最宜，阴虚火盛者切忌。
仙茅有毒，主心腹冷气不能食，疗腰足挛痹不能行，丈夫虚损劳伤，老人失尿无
子，益肌肤，黑髭须，壮筋骨，填骨髓，明耳目助阳道，长精神，久久服之，通神强
记。
《圣济总录》∶仙茅丸壮筋骨，益精神，明耳目，黑髭须。仙茅二斤，糯米泔浸五日
去赤，水夏月浸三日，铜刀刮去皮，酒拌蒸，锉碎阴干，取一斤枸杞子，一斤车前
子，十二两白茯苓，去皮，茴香炒柏子仁去壳各八两，生地黄焙熟，地黄焙各四两，为
末，酒煮糊丸，如梧子大，每服五十丸，食前温酒下，日二服。凡味之毒者，必辛，气
之毒者，必热。仙茅味辛气大热，其为毒可知矣。虽能补命门，益阳道，助筋骨，除风
痹，然而病因不同，寒热迥别，施之一误，祸如反掌。况世之人火旺致病者，十居八
九，火衰成疾者百无二三，辛温大热之药，其可常御乎！凡一概阴虚发热，咳嗽吐血、
衄血、齿血、尿血、血淋，遗精白浊，梦与鬼交，肾虚腰痛，脚膝无力，虚火上炎，口
干咽痛，失志阳痿，水涸精竭，不能孕育，老人孤阳无阴，遗尿失精，血虚不能养筋，
以致偏枯痿痹，胃家邪热，不能杀谷，胃家虚火嘈杂易饥，三消五疸，阴虚内热，外寒
阳厥，火极似水等证法并禁用。
薇衔根分为两股，粗大的称为大吴风草。细小的称为小吴风草（以秦皮为引经药），主治风邪与湿邪交织导致的痹证，引起关节剧烈酸痛，治疗呕吐、腹泻、惊悸及痈肿，以及鼠瘘（淋巴结核）和痈肿，清除热邪并消除痿弱厥逆，驱逐水湿消除水肿。妇女服用后，可断绝生育能力导致无子，并能祛除吐舌、心悸气短、癫狂等症状。
败酱，因为气味像腐烂的豆酱而得名。能消除肿胀痈脓，散血化瘀，破除痈结，促进分娩并安胎，去除蛆虫、痔疮、疥疮及皮肤瘙痒，驱除毒气和痿痹引起的鼻出血，能止住吐血，推动腹痛中的瘀血排出。
败酱禀受大地猛烈之气，略微感应上天阴气，味道浓郁而气味淡薄，所以味苦，性微寒、微温，无毒。其种子，能消食明目，益气轻身，停止女性月经涩滞不通，扶持男性阳痿不举，消除水气引起的胀满，散除瘀血形成的痈肿，治疗跌打损伤骨折，风寒湿痹引起的腰膝沉重疼痛，骨骼关节酸痛。
败酱禀受天地清阴之气，所以味甘、辛，气寒且无毒。天名精，又名地菘，又名麦姜，又名蟾蜍兰，又名虾蟆兰，又名天蔓青，又名天门精，又名活鹿草，又名刘烬草。专门治疗跌打损伤和金创，拔除肿毒恶疔，下泄瘀血和血瘕，通利小便以驱逐积水，清除热结以止渴烦，驱除小虫去除湿痹，逐出痰涎，定止吐血衄血，外敷治疗蛇虫咬伤毒，含服治疗缠喉风引起的咽喉肿痛。根部名为土牛膝，功效相同。种子名为鹤虱，可用于制作丸散。具有强大的杀虫追毒作用，蛔虫或烧虫咬伤引起的心腹突然疼痛，用肥肉汁调服即可安宁。吞服砒霜毒，肠胃尚未破裂者，用浓韭菜汁送下立即吐出。
仙茅禀受火金之气，所以味辛，性温，有毒。气味都浓郁，归入手足厥阴经。辛温之气正好补充命门火的不足，所以各种病症自然消除，筋骨和阳道自然旺盛。而且命门的系连上通于心，相火得到补充，则君火更加振奋，能明亮耳目，但阳气衰弱者最适合，阴虚火盛者切忌服用。
仙茅有毒，主治心腹冷气不能进食，治疗腰足挛缩痹痛不能行走，男子虚损劳伤，老人遗尿无子，滋养肌肤，使胡须变黑，强壮筋骨，填充骨髓，明亮耳目，助长阳道，增长精神，长期服用，能通神强记。
《圣济总录》记载：仙茅丸能强壮筋骨，益养精神，明亮耳目，使胡须变黑。取仙茅二斤，用糯米泔水浸泡五日去掉红色外皮，夏季用水浸泡三日，用铜刀刮去表皮，用酒拌蒸，切碎阴干，取一斤枸杞子，一斤车前子，十二两白茯苓（去皮），茴香炒过的柏子仁（去壳）各八两，生地黄焙熟，熟地黄各四两，研为细末，用酒煮糊制成丸药，如梧桐子大小，每次服用五十丸，饭前用温酒送下，每日两次。凡是味道有毒的药物，必定味辛；气味有毒的药物，必定性热。仙茅味辛气大热，其毒性可知。虽然能补命门，益阳道，助筋骨，除风痹，然而病因不同，寒热截然不同，施用错误，祸患如在反掌之间。况且世上之人因火旺致病者，十有八九，因火衰成疾者百中不到二三，辛温大热的药物，怎么可以经常使用呢！凡是一概阴虚发热，咳嗽吐血、衄血、齿血、尿血、血淋，遗精白浊，梦中与鬼交合，肾虚腰痛，脚膝无力，虚火上炎，口干咽痛，失志阳痿，水涸精竭，不能孕育，老人孤阳无阴，遗尿失精，血虚不能养筋，以致偏枯痿痹，胃家邪热，不能消化食物，胃家虚火嘈杂易饥，三消五疸，阴虚内热，外寒阳厥，火极似水等证候，方法上都禁止使用。
The root of *Adenophora* (Wei Xian Gen) has two varieties; the larger one is called Da Wu Feng Cao (Large *Adenophora*), and the smaller one is called Xiao Wu Feng Cao (Small *Adenophora*). With Fraxini Cortex (Qin Pi, 秦皮) as a guiding herb, it primarily treats Bi syndrome (painful obstruction) caused by wind-dampness, leading to severe joint pain. It treats vomiting, diarrhea, palpitations, and abscesses, as well as scrofula (lymphatic tuberculosis) and swellings. It clears heat, eliminates flaccidity and cold extremities, expels water, and reduces acute edema. When taken by women, it can induce sterility. It also dispels symptoms such as protruding tongue, palpitations with shortness of breath, mania, and madness.
Patriniae Herba (Bai Jiang, 败酱) is named for its odor resembling spoiled bean paste. It resolves swelling and pus in carbuncles, disperses blood stasis, breaks up abscess formations, promotes labor while calming the fetus, removes maggots, hemorrhoids, scabies, and skin itching. It expels toxic qi and bi syndrome-related numbness, stops epistaxis (nosebleed), arrests hematemesis (vomiting blood), and drives out coagulated blood causing abdominal pain.
Acquiring the vigorous qi of the earth and slightly sensing the yin qi of heaven, its taste is strong but aroma light, hence bitter in flavor, slightly cold and slightly warm in nature, and non-toxic. Its seeds digest food, brighten the eyes, benefit qi, lighten the body, stop dysmenorrhea or amenorrhea in women, support impotence in men, resolve water retention causing distension, disperse blood stasis forming abscesses, treat traumatic injuries and fractures, wind-cold-damp bi syndrome causing heavy and painful loins and knees, and soreness/pain in bone joints.
Endowing itself with the clear yin qi of heaven and earth, it tastes sweet and pungent, is cold in nature, and non-toxic. Glehniae Radix (Tian Ming Jing, 天名精), also known as Di Song, Mai Jiang, Chan Chu Lan, Ha Ma Lan, Tian Man Qing, Tian Men Jing, Huo Lu Cao, and Liu Jin Cao, specializes in treating traumatic injuries and metal wounds, extracting toxins from malignant boils, descending blood stasis and blood masses, promoting urination to expel accumulated fluid, clearing heat accumulation to relieve thirst and irritability, driving out parasites, resolving damp-bi, expelling phlegm-saliva, stabilizing hematemesis and epistaxis, applying externally to treat snake and insect bites, and holding in the mouth to treat swollen throat due to strangling wind (acute laryngeal edema). The root is named Tu Niu Xi (Achyranthes Root), with identical functions. The seed is named He Shi (Nematode Worm Seed), suitable for pills and powders. It strongly kills parasites and expels toxins. For sudden heart/abdominal pain caused by roundworms or biting insects, mixing with fatty meat juice and taking it brings immediate relief. For arsenic poisoning where the gastrointestinal tract has not ruptured, sending it down with concentrated chive juice induces immediate vomiting.
Endowing itself with the qi of fire and metal, it tastes pungent, is warm in nature, and toxic. Both its flavor and aroma are strong, entering the Jueyin meridians of the hand and foot. The pungent-warm qi precisely supplements the insufficiency of Mingmen Fire (Gate of Life Fire), thereby eliminating various symptoms and strengthening tendons, bones, and yang function. Furthermore, the connection of Mingmen extends upward to the Heart; when Ministerial Fire is supplemented, Sovereign Fire becomes more vigorous, brightening the ears and eyes. Thus, it is most suitable for those with weak yang qi, but strictly contraindicated for those with yin deficiency and hyperactive fire.
Curculiginis Rhizoma (Xian Mao, 仙茅) is toxic. It primarily treats cold qi in the heart and abdomen preventing eating, cures spasmodic bi syndrome in the waist and feet preventing walking, addresses deficiency and exhaustion in men, urinary incontinence and sterility in the elderly, nourishes the skin, darkens beard and hair, strengthens tendons and bones, fills marrow, brightens ears and eyes, aids yang function, enhances spirit, and with long-term use, improves mental clarity and memory.
*Sheng Ji Zong Lu* records: Xian Mao Wan strengthens tendons and bones, benefits spirit, brightens ears and eyes, and darkens facial hair. Take two jin of Xian Mao, soak in rice washing water for five days to remove the red color, soak in water for three days in summer, scrape off the skin with a copper knife, mix with wine and steam, chop finely, and dry in shade. Take one jin of Goji Berries (Gou Qi Zi), one jin of Plantago Seeds (Che Qian Zi), twelve liang of Poria (Fu Ling, peeled), eight liang each of Fennel-fried Juniper Kernels (Bai Zi Ren, shelled), four liang each of dried Rehmannia Root (Sheng Di Huang) and prepared Rehmannia Root (Shu Di Huang). Grind into powder, make pills with wine paste, size of wu zi (loquat seeds). Take fifty pills per dose, before meals with warm wine, twice daily. Any substance with toxic flavor must be pungent; any substance with toxic qi must be hot. Xian Mao is pungent and extremely hot in qi, so its toxicity is evident. Although it can supplement Mingmen, aid yang function, strengthen tendons/bones, and dispel wind-bi, etiologies differ, and cold/heat are distinct. A single error in application leads to disaster instantly. Moreover, among people today, eight or nine out of ten suffer diseases due to excessive fire, while less than two or three out of a hundred suffer from deficient fire. How can pungent-warm, extremely hot medicines be used routinely! All cases of yin deficiency with fever, coughing/vomiting blood, epistaxis, gingival bleeding, hematuria, bloody strangury, spermatorrhea, white turbid discharge, nocturnal emissions involving "ghost intercourse," kidney-deficiency lower back pain, weak legs/knees, defying fire flaming upward, dry mouth/sore throat, loss of willpower/impotence, depletion of water/essence, inability to conceive, elderly isolated yang without yin, urinary incontinence/loss of essence, blood deficiency failing to nourish tendons leading to hemiplegia/flaccidity, stomach-heat failing to digest grains, stomach-deficient fire causing hunger pangs, San Xiao (Three Wasting-Thirst) and Wu Dan (Five Jaundices), yin deficiency with internal heat, exterior cold with interior yang collapse, and extreme heat mimicking water—all these patterns are strictly contraindicated for this method.