气温，味苦，阴中之阳。无毒。
《本草》云∶止下痢吐血，下部 疮，辟风寒，令人有子。灸百病。重午日，日未出时
，不语采。
《心》云∶温胃。
气寒，味辛、苦，无毒。有毒。
《本草》云∶主温疟狂易（音羊）、寒热，症瘕，积聚，瘿气，逐血止痛，疗金疮鼻衄。
《心》云∶下焦肾虚，纯苦以坚之。一名野丈人，一名胡王使者。
气平，味甘。无毒。
《本草》云∶主邪气腹胀心痛，利大小便，补中益气，除浮肿胪胀，痞满寒热，遍身疼
痛，及乳难喉痹，止涕泪。
仲景治百合病，百合知母汤、百合滑石代赭石汤，有百合鸡子汤、百合地黄汤。或百合
病已经汗者，或未经汗下吐者，或病形如初，或病变寒热。并见《活人书》，治伤寒腹中
疼，百合一两，炒黄为末。米饮调服。
孙真人云∶治百合阴毒，煮百合浓汁，服一升。
气温，味甘、咸、酸。无毒。
《本草》云∶主五劳七伤，补中，除茎中寒热痛，养五脏，强阴，益精气，多子，妇人症瘕，
除膀胱邪气，腰痛，
止痢。久服轻身。
《液》云∶命门相火不足，以此补之。
气微寒，味苦、咸。无毒。
《象》云∶足少阴肾经之君药也，治本经须用。
《本草》云∶主腹中寒热积聚，女子产乳余疾，补肾气，令人目明。主暴中风伤寒，身
热支满，狂邪，忽忽不知人，温疟洒洒，血瘕，下寒血，除胸中气，下水，止烦渴。
易老云∶玄参乃枢机之剂，管领诸气，上下整肃而不浊，风药中多用之。故《活人书》
治伤寒阳毒，玄参升麻汤，治汗下吐后毒不散，则知为整肃枢机之剂。以此论之，治空中氤
氲之气，无根之火，以玄参为圣药。
艾叶：气温，味苦，属于阴中的阳。无毒。
《本草》记载：能止住下痢和吐血，治疗下部疮疡，驱避风寒，使人能够生育。艾灸可治百病。端午日，太阳未出时采集，且不可说话。
《心》记载：温暖胃腑。
玄参：气寒，味辛、苦，无毒（注：原文此处有“有毒”二字，疑为衍文或指其性峻烈，但前文已言无毒，此处依原文保留）。
《本草》记载：主治温疟、狂易（音羊）、寒热往来，症瘕积聚，瘿气，逐血止痛，治疗金创鼻衄。
《心》记载：针对下焦肾虚，用纯苦之品以坚阴。又名野丈人，又名胡王使者。
百合：气平，味甘。无毒。
《本草》记载：主治邪气引起的腹胀心痛，通利大小便，补中益气，消除浮肿胪胀，痞满寒热，遍身疼痛，以及乳汁不下喉痹，止涕泪。
张仲景治疗百合病，使用百合知母汤、百合滑石代赭石汤，还有百合鸡子汤、百合地黄汤。如果是百合病已经发过汗的，或者未经过汗、下、吐治疗的，或者病形如初，或者病变出现寒热的，都可见于《活人书》。治疗伤寒腹中疼，用百合一两，炒黄研末，米饮调服。
孙思邈说：治疗百合阴毒，煮百合浓汁，服用一升。
五味子：气温，味甘、咸、酸。无毒。
《本草》记载：主治五劳七伤，补中，消除茎中寒热痛，滋养五脏，强阴，益精气，多子，妇人症瘕，清除膀胱邪气，腰痛，止痢。久服可使身体轻健。
《液》记载：命门相火不足，以此药补之。
玄参（再次论述）：气微寒，味苦、咸。无毒。
《象》记载：是足少阴肾经的君药，治疗本经疾病必须使用。
《本草》记载：主治腹中寒热积聚，女子产后余疾，补肾气，使人目明。主治暴中风伤寒，身热支满，狂邪，恍惚不知人，温疟洒洒恶寒，血瘕，下寒血，除胸中气，下水，止烦渴。
李东垣说：玄参是枢机之剂，统领诸气，上下整肃而不浊，风药中多用之。所以《活人书》治疗伤寒阳毒用玄参升麻汤，治疗汗下吐后毒不散，可知其为整肃枢机之剂。据此论之，治疗空中氤氲之气，无根之火，以玄参为圣药。
Mugwort Leaf (Ai Ye): The qi is warm, the flavor is bitter, belonging to yang within yin. It is non-toxic.
*Bencao* states: It stops dysentery and hematemesis, treats sores in the lower jiao, repels wind-cold, and enables conception. Moxibustion with it can treat a hundred diseases. Harvest on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, before sunrise, without speaking.
*Xin* states: It warms the stomach.
Scrophularia Root (Xuan Shen): The qi is cold, the flavors are acrid and bitter, non-toxic [Note: Original text contains "toxic", likely an error or referring to its potent nature, but preceded by "non-toxic"].
*Bencao* states: It primarily treats warm malaria, mania (pronounced 'yang'), alternating chills and fever, fixed masses (Zheng Jia), accumulations, goiter, expels blood stasis and relieves pain, and treats traumatic injuries and epistaxis.
*Xin* states: For deficiency of kidney yin in the lower jiao, use purely bitter substances to consolidate yin. Also known as Ye Zhang Ren, also known as Hu Wang Shi Zhe.
Lily Bulb (Bai He): The qi is neutral, the flavor is sweet. Non-toxic.
*Bencao* states: It primarily treats abdominal distension and heart pain caused by pathogenic factors, promotes urination and defecation, tonifies the middle and benefits qi, eliminates edema and abdominal fullness, stuffiness with alternating chills and fever, generalized body pain, as well as difficult lactation and throat obstruction, stops runny nose and tearing.
Zhang Zhongjing treated Baihe Disease using Baihe Zhi Mu Tang, Baihe Huashi Daizheshi Tang, as well as Baihe Jizi Tang and Baihe Dihuang Tang. If the Baihe Disease has already been treated with sweating, or has not undergone sweating, purging, or vomiting therapies, or if the disease presentation remains unchanged, or if complications involve alternating chills and fever, these are seen in *Huo Ren Shu*. To treat abdominal pain due to cold damage, use one liang of Baihe, stir-fried until yellow and powdered, taken mixed with rice water.
Sun Simiao said: To treat Baihe Yin Du, boil concentrated juice of Baihe and take one sheng.
Schisandra Berry (Wu Wei Zi): The qi is warm, the flavors are sweet, salty, and sour. Non-toxic.
*Bencao* states: It primarily treats five exhaustion and seven injuries, tonifies the middle, eliminates cold-heat pain in the penis, nourishes the five zang organs, strengthens yin, benefits essence and qi, increases fertility, treats fixed masses in women, clears pathogenic factors from the bladder, treats lower back pain, and stops dysentery. Long-term use makes the body light.
*Ye* states: For insufficiency of Mingmen Minister Fire, use this to tonify it.
Scrophularia Root (Xuan Shen) [Continued]: The qi is slightly cold, the flavors are bitter and salty. Non-toxic.
*Xiang* states: It is the sovereign herb of the Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian and must be used for treating diseases of this meridian.
*Bencao* states: It primarily treats cold-heat accumulations in the abdomen, residual disorders after childbirth in women, tonifies kidney qi, and improves vision. It primarily treats sudden wind-stroke and cold damage, fever with chest fullness and distension, manic delirium, confusion and loss of consciousness, warm malaria with aversion to cold, blood masses, expels cold blood, removes qi stagnation in the chest, promotes water metabolism, and stops irritability and thirst.
Li Dongyuan said: Xuan Shen is a pivot-regulating formula, managing all qi, ensuring orderliness above and below without turbidity, and is frequently used in wind-dispelling formulas. Therefore, *Huo Ren Shu* uses Xuanshen Shengma Tang to treat Yang Du in cold damage, and to treat lingering toxicity after sweating, purging, or vomiting, indicating it is a formula that regulates the pivot. Based on this, to treat misty vapors in the void and rootless fire, Xuan Shen is considered the supreme herb.