【雀梅叶】性味酸、寒,具有泻热解毒的功效,能够治疗乳痈(乳房急性化脓性疾病)和便毒(肛周脓肿)。
【椿皮】性味苦、微甘,用于治疗泄泻、痢疾及疮毒,能促进肌肉生长、消除瘢痕,专门用于外科疾病。番木鳖用于治疗喉痹(咽喉肿痛闭塞)及消除痞块(腹部结块)。
【某药】性味甘、苦、寒,用于治疗咽喉急闭(咽喉突然肿胀闭塞),将药材捣碎取汁后加入醋使用。其种子可用于催生。
【某药】性味苦、大寒,捣碎取汁用于治疗咽喉急闭。
【某药】性味甘、淡、寒,能通利小便、清除烦热,药性走而不守(行散迅速而无固摄作用),其茎叶形状像竹子但不是竹叶。
【蜀葵】性味甘、寒、淡、滑,能润燥、通利大小便,调和营卫、消除水肿、导致流产(滑胎)。根和叶功效相同。蜀葵花性寒、润滑利,用于治疗淋证(小便频数短涩)、带下病以及气血燥热之证。
【某药】性味甘、凉,用于治疗痔疮漏管、便血、痢疾、崩漏(非经期大量出血)及带下病。其种子用于治疗肠风(便前出血),功效大致相同,其嫩苗用于治疗疮疡、痔疮及血证。
【某药】性味苦、酸、寒,属于纯阴性质的药物,独入离宫(心经/火位),专门清清热毒、治疗火丹(丹毒)和游风(风疹)。
【某药】性味咸、寒,能软坚散结、消除瘿瘤(甲状腺肿大)及结气(气滞结聚)。
【某药】性味苦、咸、寒,能软坚散结、泻热,消除瘿瘤、结核(淋巴结结核等)以及痰水、湿热。
【某药】具有下水(利水消肿)和消除瘿瘤的功效,与海藻相同。
【某药】功效与海藻相同,但性质较燥且滑,用于治疗瘿瘤、噎膈(吞咽困难)、顽痰积聚。
【黄柏】性味苦、寒、燥、涩,最能清除血分中的湿热,治疗各种血症、风湿、各类痹证、历节风痛(类风湿性关节炎等)。柏皮用于治疗火烧烫伤溃烂的疮疡,并能促进毛发生长。
【某药】性味甘、寒、微辛,能凉血,用于治疗吐血、衄血(鼻出血),需选用红色的品种。
【某药】性味苦、咸、大寒,入骨分以泻热,软坚散结、杀虫,治疗咽喉及口齿各类疾病。
【某药】性味苦、涩,能泄热、收敛固脱,烧成黑炭后能止住多年的慢性下血。
【某药】性味苦、寒,能除热、去除三虫(寄生虫),治疗眼疾。
【某药】性味大寒,治疗心烦、消渴(糖尿病症状)、气逆及奔豚(气从少腹上冲心胸)。
【某药】性味苦、凉,能泻热、活血、润燥,治疗虫癣,煎汤服用可使人入睡。
【某药】性味苦、辛、微寒,能清除肠胃大热,通利窍道、通利大小便、益精,消除心腹积聚及肠中瘀血,治疗疮肿及痢疾。
【某药】性味苦、寒,能燥湿、清热、涩肠,入血分而收敛血液,兼能去除肺胃的陈旧痰液,治疗湿热引起的各种疾病,具有截断下痢的功效。
【某药】功用与樗树白皮相似但效力稍弱,适合制作丸剂、散剂,不适合入汤剂煎煮。
[Que Mei Ye] The flavor is sour and the nature is cold. It clears heat and resolves toxicity, capable of treating breast abscess (Ru Yong) and perianal abscess (Bian Du).
[Chun Pi] The flavor is bitter with a slight sweetness. It treats diarrhea, dysentery, and sores/toxins; it promotes tissue regeneration and removes scars, specializing in external medicine applications. Strychnos nux-vomica (Fan Mu Bie) treats laryngeal obstruction (Hou Bi) and dissipates palpable masses (Pi Kuai).
[Unnamed Herb A] The flavor is sweet and bitter, and the nature is cold. It treats acute throat closure (Yan Hou Ji Bi); crush the herb to extract juice and mix with vinegar for use. The seeds can induce labor.
[Unnamed Herb B] The flavor is bitter and the nature is extremely cold. Crush to extract juice for treating acute throat closure.
[Unnamed Herb C] The flavor is sweet and bland, and the nature is cold. It promotes urination and relieves irritability and heat. Its action is dispersing without retaining (Zou Wu Shou), resembling bamboo but not bamboo leaves.
[Shu Kui Hua / Hollyhock Flower] The flavor is sweet, cold, bland, and slippery. It moistens dryness, promotes bowel and bladder movements, harmonizes Ying and Wei, reduces edema, and induces abortion (Hua Tai). The roots and leaves share the same efficacy. Hollyhock flowers are cold, lubricating, and promoting, treating strangury (Lin), leukorrhea (Dai), and conditions of Qi and Blood dryness.
[Unnamed Herb D] The flavor is sweet and cool. It treats hemorrhoidal fistulas, hematochezia, dysentery, metrorrhagia (Beng Dai). The seeds treat intestinal wind (Chang Feng) with similar efficacy; the young shoots treat sores, hemorrhoids, and blood disorders.
[Unnamed Herb E] The flavor is sweet, cold, and slightly pungent. It clears heat, dissipates nodules, and resolves toxicity.
[Unnamed Herb F] The flavor is bitter and sour, and the nature is cold. As a purely Yin substance, it enters exclusively into the Li Palace (Heart/Fire aspect), specializing in clearing heat-toxin and treating erysipelas (Huo Dan) and wandering wind (You Feng).
[Unnamed Herb G] The flavor is salty and cold. It softens hardness and dissipates goiter (Ying Liu) and qi stagnation knots.
[Unnamed Herb H] The flavor is bitter and salty, and the nature is cold. It softens hardness, drains heat, and dissipates goiters, tubercles, phlegm-fluids, damp-heat.
[Unnamed Herb I] Promotes water metabolism and dissipates goiters; its efficacy is identical to Sargassum (Hai Zao).
[Unnamed Herb J] Efficacy is identical to Sargassum (Hai Zao), but the nature is drier and slippery. It treats goiters, dysphagia (Ye Ge), stubborn phlegm accumulations.
[Phellodendri Cortex (Huang Bo)] The flavor is bitter and cold, drying and astringent. It most effectively clears damp-heat from the Blood level, treating all types of blood disorders, wind-dampness, various Bi syndromes, and joint pain (Li Jie Feng). Phellodendri Cortex also treats burns and ulcerated sores, promoting hair growth.
[Unnamed Herb K] The flavor is sweet, cold, and slightly pungent. It cools the blood, treating hematemesis and epistaxis; red varieties should be used.
[Unnamed Herb L] The flavor is bitter and salty, and the nature is extremely cold. It enters the bones to drain heat, softens hardness, kills parasites, and treats various diseases of the throat and teeth.
[Unnamed Herb M] The flavor is bitter and astringent. It drains heat and consolidates collapse. Charred to black, it stops chronic long-standing lower bleeding.
[Unnamed Herb N] The flavor is bitter and cold. It removes heat, eliminates three types of parasites, and treats eye diseases.
[Unnamed Herb O] The nature is extremely cold. It treats mental restlessness, thirst (Xiao Ke), rebellious Qi, and Ben Tun syndrome (gas rushing from hypochondrium/chest).
[Unnamed Herb P] The flavor is bitter and cool. It drains heat, invigorates blood, and moistens dryness. It treats insect-related tinea; taken as a decoction, it induces sleep.
[Unnamed Herb Q] The flavor is bitter, pungent, and slightly cold. It removes excessive heat in the stomach and intestines, opens orifices, promotes bowel and bladder movements, benefits essence, removes abdominal accumulations and intestinal stasis, treats carbuncles and swellings, and cures dysentery.
[Unnamed Herb R] The flavor is bitter and cold. It dries dampness, clears heat, and astringes the intestines. Entering the Blood level, it astringes blood. It also eliminates old phlegm in the lungs and stomach, treating various damp-heat diseases with the function of arresting diarrhea.
[Unnamed Herb S] Its efficacy is similar to that of Toosendan Fructus (Chu Pi) but slightly weaker. It is suitable for pills and powders but not for decoctions.