典藏书目

[Background Information]
Book: *Depei Bencao* (Compendium of Compatible Materia Medica)
Author: Yan Xiting
Dynasty: Qing
Chapter: Yue Gua (Winter Melon) / ... / Mo Gu Xun (Mushrooms and Fungi) (Total 12 sections)
Category: Bencao (Materia Medica)

[Original Text to Process]
Also known as Shao Gua.
Sweet, cold. Resolves alcohol toxicity, removes vexing heat, promotes urination, and stops thirst.
It can induce cold dysentery; children are forbidden from eating it.

Sweet, neutral/cold. Enters the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian. Cools blood and resolves toxicity, transforms phlegm and reduces swelling. Treats Chang Feng (intestinal wind/bleeding), heals Beng Lou (metrorrhagia and metrorrhaxis), unblocks the meridians of the Zang-Fu organs, and relieves constipation of the large and small intestines. Combined with Deng Xin Cao (Juncus Effusus Rhizome) and Cong Bai (Allium Fistulosum Bulb), it treats infantile edema. Combined with Huai Hua (Sophorae Flos) calcined and ground into powder, it treats severe lower bleeding. Paired with Zong Lu Tan (Areca Palm Charcoal), it treats intractable metrorrhagia. Paired with Wu Bei Zi (Galla Chinensis), applied topically, it treats painful sores on the penis. Added to blood-cooling formulas, it treats persistent hematemesis and epistaxis.
Those exposed to frost and snow: Calcined while retaining its properties, it treats toxic vapors after smallpox and persistent hematemesis.
Seeds:
Unblock the meridians and collaterals, resolve heat toxicity. Crushed for juice, inserted into the rectum (Gu Dao), it rapidly guides the passage of stool in cases of fecal impaction, effective as an echo. Assisted by Lu Gen (Imperatae Rhizoma) and Tao Ren (Persicae Semen), it treats carbuncles and lung abscesses.
Forbidden for those with Spleen deficiency. (Feared to cause diarrhea.)
Vines and Roots: Resolve heat toxicity, stop chronic dysentery, treat nasal discharge (Nao Lou), kill three types of parasites. Paired with Chuan Jiao (Sichuan Pepper) and Deng Xin Cao, decocted as a mouthwash, it treats receding gums and tooth pain.
Those exposed to frost and snow are better.

(Water Vegetable Category: Five Types)

Refers to Jiao Bai (Zizania Latifolia Stem).
Resolves heat and removes vexation. Promotes urination, clears Stomach heat; take the juice orally. Burned to ash and mixed with Ji Zi Qing (Egg White), applied externally, it treats swollen toxins.

Sweet, cold. Dissolves phlegm and softens hardness. Treats heat qi causing vexation and obstruction in the throat.
Excessive consumption causes abdominal pain and salivation; drinking a little hot vinegar dispels it immediately.

Sweet, salty, very cold. Slippery in nature. Removes floating heat from the Upper Jiao.
Decocted into juice and allowed to congeal before taking. Excessive consumption induces deficiency-cold in the lower body.

Sweet, very cold, slippery in nature. Treats bone-steaming tidal fever, resolves facial heat.
Wash off mud and sand. Excessive or long-term consumption induces chronic diseases and damages the waist and Kidneys.

Salty, cold. Travels through the Liver and Kidney meridians. Scatters goiters and nodules, resolves heat toxicity.

(Fungus Category: Four Types)

Sweet, neutral. Slightly toxic. Combined with Fa Tan (Hair Charcoal), it treats central metrorrhagia. Combined with Mu Zei (Equiseti Herba), it treats cold tearing.
Stir-fried until smoke appears is the standard.

Sweet, neutral. Awakens the Spleen and benefits Qi, breaks blood stasis and expels wind.

Sweet, cold. Benefits the intestines and stomach, transforms phlegm and regulates Qi.