味苦咸，寒，大寒，无毒。主皮肤热，恶疮疽痔，湿痹，下乳汁，止遗溺，热气疮痒
。《药性论》云∶君。能治身上热毒风生恶疮，皮肌瘙痒瘾疹。日华子云∶连翘为使。治小
儿壮热，通小肠治泄精，尿血，风赤眼，乳痈，发背，瘰 ，肠风，排脓，补血，治扑损，
续筋骨，敷金疮，止血，长肉，通经脉。
味苦，寒，无毒。主寒湿风痹，黄胆，补中，止血，内崩下血，膀胱不足， 跌，蛊
毒，久服益精气。《药性论》云∶主治六极伤心肺，吐血，泻血。日华子云∶止鼻洪，带下
，产后血晕，乳结，月经不止，肠风痔 ，排脓，治疮疖，泄精，尿血，扑损瘀血，杀蛊毒。
畏∶鼠姑。
味甘辛，温，无毒。主大风头眩痛，恶风，风邪，目盲无所见，风行周身，骨节疼痹
，烦满胁痛，胁风头面去来，四肢挛急，字乳金疮，内痉。叶∶主中风热汗出。《药性论》
云∶臣。花主心腹痛，四肢拘急，行履不得，经脉虚羸，主骨节间疼痛。日华子云∶治三十
六般风，男子一切劳劣，补中益神，风赤眼，止泪及瘫缓，通利五脏关脉，五劳七伤，羸损
盗汗，心烦体重，能安神定思，匀气脉。杀∶附子毒。恶∶干姜、藜芦、白蔹、芫花。
味甘，平，无毒，主心腹膀胱寒热，利小便，止血，消瘀血，久服轻身益气力。《药性
论》云∶君。通经脉，止女子崩中不住，主痢血，止鼻衄，治尿血，利水道。日华子云∶治
妇人带下、妊孕人下血坠胎，血晕血症，儿枕急痛，小便不通，肠风泻血，游风肿毒，鼻洪
吐血，下乳，止泄精，血痢。生∶破血。炒∶补血。
【漏芦】味苦、咸，性寒，甚至大寒，无毒。主治皮肤发热，恶疮、疽、痔疾，湿痹，下乳汁，止遗尿，热气引起的疮疡瘙痒。《药性论》说：它作为君药使用。能治疗身上热毒风引发的恶疮，皮肤肌肉瘙痒、瘾疹。日华子说：连翘是它的使药。治疗小儿高热，通利小肠以治泄精、尿血、风赤眼、乳痈、发背、瘰疬、肠风，排脓，补血，治疗跌打损伤，接续筋骨，敷治金创，止血，促进肌肉生长，通利经脉。
【蒲黄】味苦，性寒，无毒。主治寒湿风痹，黄疸，补中气，止血，治疗内崩下血，膀胱功能不足，跌打损伤，蛊毒，久服可益精气。《药性论》说：主治六极（六种极度虚损）伤心肺，吐血，泻血。日华子说：止鼻出血，带下，产后血晕，乳结，月经不止，肠风痔疾，排脓，治疗疮疖，泄精，尿血，跌打瘀血，杀蛊毒。畏：鼠姑。
【防风】味甘、辛，性温，无毒。主治大风引起的头眩痛，恶风，风邪，目盲无所见，风行周身，骨节疼痛痹阻，烦闷胀满胁痛，胁风头面部位疼痛往来不定，四肢挛急，产后及金创引起的内痉。叶：主治中风热汗出。《药性论》说：它作为臣药使用。花主治心腹痛，四肢拘急，行走困难，经脉虚羸，主治骨节间疼痛。日华子说：治疗三十六般风病，男子一切劳劣，补中益神，风赤眼，止泪及瘫缓，通利五脏关脉，五劳七伤，羸损盗汗，心烦体重，能安神定思，匀气脉。杀：附子毒。恶：干姜、藜芦、白蔹、芫花。
【茜草】味甘，性平，无毒，主治心腹膀胱寒热，利小便，止血，消瘀血，久服可轻身益气力。《药性论》说：它作为君药使用。通经脉，止女子崩中不住，主治痢血，止鼻衄，治疗尿血，利水道。日华子说：治疗妇人带下、孕妇下血坠胎，血晕血症，儿枕急痛，小便不通，肠风泻血，游风肿毒，鼻洪吐血，下乳，止泄精，血痢。生用：破血。炒用：补血。
[Loulu (Rhizoma Euphorbiae Humifusae)] Bitter and salty, cold, very cold, non-toxic. It primarily treats skin heat, malignant sores, carbuncles, hemorrhoids, damp bi syndrome, promotes lactation, stops enuresis, and relieves itching of heat-induced sores. *Yao Xing Lun* states: It serves as the sovereign drug. It can treat malignant sores caused by heat-toxic wind on the body, and pruritus with urticaria on the skin and muscles. Ri Hua Zi states: Lianqiao (Forsythiae Fructus) is its minister drug. It treats high fever in children, unblocks the Small Intestine to treat seminal emission, hematuria, wind-red eyes, mastitis, back carbuncle, scrofula, intestinal wind, discharges pus, nourishes blood, treats traumatic injuries, reconnects bones and tendons, applies to metal wounds, stops bleeding, promotes flesh growth, and unblocks meridians.
[Puhuang (Pollen Typhae)] Bitter, cold, non-toxic. It primarily treats cold-damp wind-bi syndrome, jaundice, tonifies the middle, stops bleeding, treats internal collapse with lower bleeding, bladder insufficiency, falls/fractures, gu poison; long-term use benefits essence and qi. *Yao Xing Lun* states: It primarily treats the six extremities damaging the Heart and Lungs, hematemesis, and bloody diarrhea. Ri Hua Zi states: It stops epistaxis, leukorrhea, postpartum blood vertigo, breast lumps, menorrhagia, intestinal wind and hemorrhoids, discharges pus, treats sores and boils, seminal emission, hematuria, traumatic blood stasis, and kills gu poison. Aversion: Shugu (Peony Root).
[Fangfeng (Radix Saposhnikoviae)] Sweet and pungent, warm, non-toxic. It primarily treats severe wind causing dizziness and headache, aversion to wind, wind pathogens, blindness, wind circulating throughout the body, pain and obstruction of bone joints, irritability, fullness, and hypochondriac pain, migratory pain in the hypochondrium, head, and face, limb spasms, internal tetanus following childbirth or metal wounds. Leaves: Treat sweating due to wind-heat from stroke. *Yao Xing Lun* states: It serves as the minister drug. Flowers: Treat heart and abdominal pain, limb stiffness and spasm, difficulty walking, meridian deficiency and emaciation, and pain between bone joints. Ri Hua Zi states: It treats thirty-six types of wind diseases, all kinds of asthenia in men, tonifies the middle and benefits spirit, wind-red eyes, stops tearing and paralysis/flaccidity, unblocks the five zang organs' pulse gates, five labors and seven injuries, emaciation with night sweats, irritability and heavy body; it can calm the mind and stabilize thoughts, and regulate qi pulses. Neutralizes: Fuzi toxicity. Incompatibility: Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma), Lilu (Veratrum Nigrum Radix), Bailian (Lilii Bulbus), Yuanhua (Genkwa Flos).
[Qiancao (Radix Rubiae Cordifoliae)] Sweet, neutral, non-toxic. It primarily treats cold and heat in the heart, abdomen, and bladder, promotes urination, stops bleeding, resolves blood stasis; long-term use lightens the body and benefits qi and strength. *Yao Xing Lun* states: It serves as the sovereign drug. Unblocks meridians, stops persistent metrorrhagia in women, treats dysenteric blood, stops epistaxis, treats hematuria, promotes water passages. Ri Hua Zi states: It treats leukorrhea in women, lower bleeding and threatened abortion in pregnant women, blood vertigo syndromes, acute pain of the lochia mass (Erzhen), urinary retention, intestinal wind with bloody diarrhea, wandering wind with swelling and toxin, massive epistaxis and hematemesis, promotes lactation, stops seminal emission, and bloody dysentery. Raw: Breaks blood. Stir-fried: Nourishes blood.