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神农本草经

Shen Non Ben Cao Jin

 

上药一百二十种,为君,主养命以应天,无毒。多服、久服不伤人。欲轻身益气,不老延年者,本上经。
       
丹沙、云母、玉泉、石钟乳、涅石、消石、朴消、滑石、石胆、空青、曾青、禹余粮、太乙余粮、白石英、紫石英、五色石脂、白青、扁青(右玉石,上品一十八种,旧同)。
       
菖蒲、鞠华、人参、天门冬、甘草、干地黄、术、菟丝子牛膝、充蔚子、女萎、防葵、柴胡、麦门冬、独活车前子木香、署豫、薏苡仁泽泻远志龙胆细辛石斛巴戟天、白英、白蒿、赤箭、奄闾子、析蓂子、蓍实、赤、黑、青、白、黄、紫芝(六芝)、卷柏、蓝实、芎、蘼芜、黄连、络石、蒺藜子、黄耆、肉松容、防风蒲黄、香蒲、续断漏芦、营实、天名精、决明子丹参、茜根、飞廉、五味子、旋华、兰草、蛇床子地肤子、景天、茵陈、杜若、沙参、白兔藿、徐长卿、石龙刍、薇衔、云实、王不留行升麻、青蘘、姑活、别羁、屈草、淮木(右草上品七十三种,旧七十二种)。
       
牡桂、菌桂、松脂、槐实、枸杞、柏实、伏苓、榆皮、酸枣、蘖木、干漆、五加皮、蔓荆实、辛夷、桑上寄生、杜仲、女贞实、木兰、蕤核、橘柚、(右木上品二十种,旧一十九种)。
       
发皮(右人一种,旧同)。
       龙骨
麝香牛黄、熊脂、白胶、阿胶(右兽上品六种旧同)。
       
丹雄鸡、雁肪(右禽上品二种,旧同)。
       
石蜜、蜂子、蜜腊、牡蛎龟甲桑螵蛸、海蛤、文蛤、蠡鱼、鲤鱼胆(右蠡鱼上品一十种,旧同)。
       
藕实茎、大枣、葡萄、蓬蔂、鸡头实(右果上品五种,旧六种)
       
胡麻、麻贲(右米谷上品二种,旧三种)。
       冬葵子
、苋实、瓜蒂、瓜子、苦菜(右菜上品五种,旧同)。

 

 

神农本草经 上经(上品)

Shen Non Ben Cao (Top herbs)

 

丹沙

Dan Sha

味甘、微寒。主身体五藏百病,养精神,安魂魄,益气,明目,杀精魅邪恶鬼。久服,通神明不老。能化为汞.

 

云母

Yun Mu

味甘平。主身皮死肌,中风寒热,如在车船上,除邪气,安五脏,益子精,明目,久服轻身延年。一名云珠,一名云华,一名云英,一名云液,一名云沙,一名磷石.

 

玉泉

Yu Quan

味甘平。主五藏百病,柔筋强骨,安魂魄,长肌肉,益气,久服耐寒暑(《御览》引耐字多作能,古通),不饥渴,不老神仙。人临死服五斤,死三年色不变。一名玉札(《御览》引作玉浓,初学记引云,玉桃,服之长生不死,《御览》又引云,玉桃,服之长生不死,若不得早服之,临死日服之,其尸毕天地不朽,则朼疑当作桃),生山谷。

 

石钟乳

Shi Zhong Ru

味甘温。主咳逆上气,明目益精,安五藏,通百节,利九窍,下乳汁(《御览》引云,一名留公乳,《大观本》,作一名公乳,黑字)。生山谷。

 

涅石

Nie Shi

(旧作矾石,据郭璞注,《山海经》,引作涅石)
 
味酸寒。主寒热泄利,白沃阴蚀,恶创,目痛,坚筋骨齿。炼饵服之,轻身不老,增年。一名羽涅,生山谷。

 

消石

Xiao Shi (Mang Xiao – Glauber Salt)

味苦寒。主五藏积热,胃张闭,涤去蓄结饮食,推陈致新,除邪气。炼之如膏,久服轻身(《御览》引云一名芒硝,《大观本》作黑字)。生山谷。

Nature: It is bitter in taste and it is Cold in herbal nature. 

Function: to remove accumulated fire in all organs, to open stomach and conduct stomach material moving down from stomach, so as to empty stomach; to remove old stuff and create production of new material; to remove Xie Qi[1]. When prepared into paste form, it works lighting body after long term use.

 

朴消

Pu Xiao (also Glauber Salt)

味苦寒。主百病,除寒热邪气,逐六府积聚,结固,留癖,能化七十二种石。炼饵服之,轻身神仙。生山谷。
       

滑石

Hua Shi (Talcum)

味甘寒。主身热泄澼,女子乳难,癃闭。利小便,荡胃中积聚寒热,益精气。久服,轻身,耐饥,长年。生山谷。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to remove body hotness and fire; to ease breast milk secretion; to solve block in urination (improve urination); to remove Fire and Cold in the digestive system. It nourishes the Jing Qi[2] in the body. Long term intake of the talc is good to light body, to reduce craving (increase tolerance to hungry), and to improve longevity.

 

石胆

Shi Dan

 味酸寒。主明目,目痛,金创,诸癎痉,女子阴蚀,痛,石淋,寒热,崩中下血,诸邪毒气,令人有子。炼饵服之,不老,久服,增寿神仙。能化铁为铜,成金银(《御览》引作合成)。一名毕石,生山谷。
 

空青

Kong Qing

味甘寒。主眚盲,耳聋。明目,利九窍,通血脉,养精神。久服,轻身延年不老。能化铜铁铅锡作金。生山谷。
       

曾青

Zen Qing

味酸小寒。主目痛止泪,出风痹,利关节,通九窍,破症坚积聚。久服轻身不老。能化金铜,生山谷。
       

 

禹余粮

Yu Yu Liang (Limonitum)

味甘寒。主咳逆寒热,烦满下(《御览》有痢字),赤白,血闭,症瘕,大热。炼饵服之,不饥,轻身延年。生池泽及山岛中。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop cough, to stop up-reversing Qi, to ease Fire and Cold; to solve irrigation, bloating and diarrhea; to improve menstruation; to melt mass (such as tumor); to calm down fever. Taking it in paste form for a long time, it works to light body weight (lose body weight) and improve longevity.

 

太乙余粮

Tai Yi Yu Liang (similar to Limonitum)

味甘平。主咳逆上气,症瘕,血闭,漏下,余邪气。久服耐寒署,不饥,轻身,飞行千里,神仙(《御览》引作若神仙)。一名石脑,生山谷。
 

白石英

Bai Shi Ying (White crystobalite)

味甘,微温。主消渴,阴痿,不足,咳逆(《御览》引作呕),胸鬲间久寒,益气,除风湿痹(《御览》引作阴淫痹)。久服,轻身(《御览》引作身轻健),长年。生山谷。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is slight Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve heavy thirsty (such as in type I diabetes patient); to improve female sex and reproductive function; to make the body physically stronger; to ease cough due to up-reversed Qi or to stop nausea; to solve accumulated Cold in the chest and diagram part of the body. It improves body QI, to solve arthritis due to accumulation of Wind, Wetness and Cold. Long time intake of it can help to lose body weigh (to lighten body) and to help longevity.

 

紫石英

Zi Shi Ying (Purple Fluorite) 

味甘温。主心腹咳逆(《御览》引作呕逆),邪气,补不足,女子风寒在子宫,绝孕,十年无子。久服,温中,轻身延年。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: it is good to ease nausea and cough, or to bring the reversed Qi downwards; to remove Xie Qi from the body; to improve body deficiency condition; to remove accumulated Cold in women’s uterus, so as to improve fertility. Long term of intake of the Zi Shi Ying can help lose body weight and improve longevity.

 

青石脂、赤石脂、黄石脂、白石脂、黑石脂等

Blue Shi Zhi, Red Shi Zhi, Yellow Shi Zhi, White Shi Zhi, black Shi Zhi

味甘平。 主黄疸,泄利,肠癖,脓血,阴蚀,下血,赤白,邪气,痈肿,疽痔,恶创,头疡,疥搔。久服,补髓益气,肥健,不饥,轻身延年。五石脂,各随五色补五脏。

Nature: They are sweet in taste. They are not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.  

Function: The stones are good to solve jaundice, diarrhea, irritable bowel movement, body infection with pus and blood, ulcer and bleeding in sexual organs, carbuncle, subcutaneous ulcer, deep-rooted ulcer, heavy skin wound and infection, scalp ulcer, skin itch and scabies. Its long term intake helps to lose body weight and to improve longevity.

白青

Bai Qing

 味甘平。主明目,利九窍,耳聋,心下邪气,令人吐,杀诸毒,三虫。久服通神明,轻身,延年不老。

扁青

Bian Qing

味甘平。主目痛,明目,折跌,痈肿,金创不疗,破积聚,解毒气(《御览》引作辟毒),利精神。久服,轻身不老。

石菖蒲

Shi Chang Pu (Sweet Sedge, Acorus tatarinowii)

味辛温。主风寒湿痹,咳逆上气,开心孔,补五脏,通九窍,明耳目,出声音。久服轻身,不忘不迷或延年。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.  

Function: It works to solve arthritis (pain and swelling in joints) due to Wind, Cold and Wetness, to solve cough and to reverse down the up-rushing Qi in the body, to open the heart channels, to nourish all organs, to open the openings of the body (eye, nose, ear, throat, urine, and anus), to bright the vision, and to make the sound loud. Longer time intake of it helps to lose weight and improve longevity, and helps to keep memory ability and sharps mind (good to solve dementia) too.

 

鞠华

Ju Hua

味苦平。主风,头眩肿痛,目欲脱,泪出,皮肤死肌,恶风湿痹。久服,利血气,轻身,耐老延年。

 

人参

Ren Shen (Ginseng)

味甘微寒。主补五脏,安精神,定魂魄,止惊悸,除邪气,明目,开心益智。久服,轻身延年。一名人衔,一名鬼盖。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is slight Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to nourish all organs, ease emotion and spirit; stop anxiety, palpitation, and seizer; to remove Xie Qi from body; to brighten eyes, and improve intelligence and mentality. If taking it for long time, it is good to lose body weight and to improve longevity.  

天门冬

Tian Men Dong (Lucid asparagus)

味苦平。主诸暴风湿偏痹,强骨髓,杀三虫,去伏尸。久服轻身,益气延年。一名颠勒(《尔雅》注引云,门冬一名满冬,今无文)。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not too Warm or Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve arthritis (joint pain, stiffness or swelling) due to strong Wind, Wetness and Cold. It strengthens the function of bone marrow, kills various parasites; and to remove hidden disease in the body. Long term of intake of it is good to nourish Qi and to promote longevity.

 

甘草

Gan Cao (Liquorice, Glycyrrhiza uralensis)

味甘平。主五脏六府寒热邪气,坚筋骨,长肌肉,倍力,金创,解毒。久服轻身延年(《御览》引云一名美草,一名密甘,《大观本》,作黑字)。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not too Warm or Cold.

Function: It works to remove Cold and Hotness Xie Qi from all the organs. It works to strengthen bone and tendon, to help muscle growth, and to improve physical energy. It heals wound that is due to cut by metal, and has detoxifying effect. It also works to make body feel light and to improve longevity.

 

干地黄

Sheng Di (adhesive rehmannia dried root)

味甘寒。主折跌绝筋,伤中,逐血痹,填骨髓,长肌肉,作汤,除寒热积聚,除痹,生者尤良。久服,轻身不老。一名地髓。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to improve healing of bone fracture and tendon damage; to ease stomach; to remove Blood Bi syndrome; to nourish the bone marrow; to improve muscle growth. When cooked into water extract, it works to deplete accumulated Cold or Hotness in the stomach0intestine system. It works to solve Bi syndrome, especially when using its original form (not processed form). If take it for long time, it works to reduce body weight and to improve longevity.  

 

白术

Bai Zhu (white atractylodes rhizome, Atractylodes macrocephala)

味苦温。主风寒湿痹死肌,痉疸,止汗,除热,消食,作煎饵。久服,轻身延年,不饥。一名山蓟(艺文类聚引作山筋)。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.   

Function: It works to treat Bi syndrome (arthritis) and to remove dead tissue, to solve muscle spasm, jaundice. It works to stop sweat, remove fever, and to improve digestion. It is good to reduce craving for food. Taking for a long time, it works to lose body weight and improve longevity.

 

菟丝子

Tu Si Zi (the seed of Chinese dodder, Cuscuta chinensis)

味辛平。主续绝伤,补不足,益气力,肥健,汁,去面皯。久服明目,轻身延年。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is neither Cold or Warm in herbal nature..

Function: It works to improve healing of bone fracture, improving physical energy, making physically stronger. Its juice works to remove face freckles. Long time drinking of it helps to lose body weight and to gain longevity.

 

牛膝

Niu Xi (the root of bidentate achyranthes)

味苦酸(《御览》作辛)。主寒(《御览》作伤寒),湿痿痹,四肢拘挛,膝痛不可屈伸,逐血气伤,热,火烂,堕胎。久服轻身耐老(《御览》作能老)。

Nature: It is bitter and sour in taste.

Function: It works for Cold condition, Wetness Bi syndrome, paralysis, spasm in arm and legs. It works for painful knee so as the knee is hard and difficult to bend. It works to remove dead blood, fever and Fire ulcer. It helps for abortion and feticide. Its long time taking helps to lose body weight and improve longevity.

 

充蔚子

Chong Wei Zi (seeds of motherwort, Leonurus japonicus)

味辛微温。主明目益精,除水气。久服轻身,茎生瘾疹痒,可作浴汤。一名益母,一名益明,一名大札。生池泽。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is slight Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to brighten vision, nourish the Jing Qi, deplete extra water-wetness in the body, solve itch, skin rashes in the penis. It can be used for bath solution. Its another name is Yi Mu Cao (motherwort).

 

女萎 (玉竹)

Yu Zhu (radix polygonati officinalis, Polygonatum odoratum)

味甘平。主中风暴热,不能动摇,跌筋结肉,诸不足。久服,去面黑皯,好颜色,润泽,轻身不老。生山谷。

Nature: It is sweat in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: To ease Wind-attack and strong fever. To improve body motion. To solve knob in muscles and tendons. To nourish the body for various insufficiency condition. Its long time intake helps to remove black dots in face, to bright face skin, to nourish face. It helps to lose body weight and improve longevity.

 

防葵

Fang Kui

味辛寒。主疝瘕,肠泄,膀胱热结,溺不下,咳逆,温疟,癫,痫,惊邪,狂走。久服,坚骨髓,益气轻身。一名梨盖。

 

柴胡

Chai Hu (the root of Chinese thorowax, Bupleurum chinense)

味苦平。主心腹,去肠胃中结气,饮食积聚,寒热邪气,推陈致新。久服,轻身明目益精。一名地熏。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Hot or Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to remove accumulated and masses Qi in Stomach-intestine system; remove accumulated non-digested food in the Stomach-intestine system. Remove Cold and Hotness Xie Qi in the body. Work to remove old and dead stuff and improve production of new material in the body. Its long time intake helps brighten version and nourish Jing Qi.

 

麦门冬

Mai Men Dong (radices ophiopogonis, Ophiopogon japonicus)

味甘平。主心腹,结气伤中伤饱,胃络脉绝,羸瘦短气。久服轻身,不老不饥。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not too Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works mostly in the stomach-intestine system. It ease the stomach discomfort due to eating of too much or non-digestive food. It improves appetite and the digestive function of the stomach so as to solve chronic fatique, short of breath. It reduces hungry feeling and improves longevity.

Its another name is Yu Yu Liang.  

 

独活

Du Huo (doubleteeth pubescent angelica root, Angelica pubescens)

味苦平。主风寒所击,金疮止痛,贲豚,痫痓,女子疝瘕。久服,轻身耐老。一名羌活,一名羌青,一名护羌使者。生川谷。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not too Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It mostly works in body conditions that are due to attack by Wind and Cold. It works to cure metal cut wound, and to stop pain. It could reverse the up-rushing gas in the stomach-intestine. It is used for spasm, epilepsy, and for hernia and tumor in women. Taking it for a long time helps to lose weight and gain longevity.

 

车前子

Che Qian Zi (plantain seed, Plantago asiatica)

味甘寒无毒。主气癃,止痛,利水道小便,除湿痹。久服轻身耐老。一名当道(《御览》有云一名牛舌,《大观本》作牛遗,黑字),生平泽。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature. No toxic.

Function: It is mostly used for gas-inducing bloating in belly. It works to stop pain, to ease urine tract, to remove Wetness Bi Syndrome. Long term using of it helps to lose body weight and to have longevity.

 

木香

Mu Xiang (common aucklandia root, Aucklandia lappa)

味辛。主邪气,辟毒疫温鬼,强志,主淋露(《御览》引云,主气不足,《大观本》,作黑字)。久服,不梦寤魇寐(《御览》引云,一名密青,又云轻身,致神仙,《大观本》,俱作黑字)。生山谷。

Nature: It is spicy in taste.

Function: It is used to deplete Xie Qi from body, to expel the Xie Qi that causes infectious diseases. It enhance emotion ability. It works to solve inflammation in urine tract and bleeding from female organ. Taking it for longer time helps to stop nightmare.  

 

署豫

Shu Yu

(旧作薯蓣,《御览》作署豫是)
味甘温。 主伤中,补虚羸,除寒热邪气,补中益气力,长肌肉。久服耳目聪明,轻身不饥,延年。一名山芋。

 

薏苡仁

Yi Yi Ren (coix seed, Coix lacryma-jobi)

味甘微寒。主筋急,拘挛不可屈伸,风湿痹,下气。久服轻身益气。其根下三虫,一名解蠡。生平泽及田野。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is mild Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It is mostly used to relax muscle and tendon spasm. It is used for Wind-Wetness Bi syndrome (arthritis). It is able to conduct Qi downwards moving. Taking it for long time helps to lose body weight and gain longevity. Its roots help to deplete various parasites.  

 

泽泻

Ze Xie (rhizoma alismatis, Alisma orientalis)

味甘寒。主风寒湿痹,乳难消水,养五脏,益气力,肥健。久服耳目聪明,不饥,延年轻身,面生光,能行水上。一名水泻,一名芒芋,一名鹄泻。生池泽。

Nature: It is sweet in taste.  It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Bi syndrome due to Wind, Wetness and Cold. Improve breast secretion, nourish all organs, supply physical energy, and make body stronger. For a long time intake, it works to brighten version, and sharp hearing ability. It reduces appetite, induces weight loss, and brighten face skin.

 

远志

Yuan Zhi (polygala root, Polygala tenuifolia)

味苦温。主咳逆,伤中,补不足,除邪气,利九窍,益智慧,耳目聪明,不忘,强志倍力。久服,轻身不老。叶名小草,一名棘菀(陆德明《尔雅》音义引作苋),一名棘绕(《御览》作要绕),一名细草。生川谷。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve cough, to ease stomach discomfort, to nourish the insufficiency, to expel Xie Qi, to brighten and sharpen eyes, ears, throat, anus, and urination. It is to improve intellegence, and  memory ability. It is to strengthen emotion and spirit endurance. For a long time intake, it works to lose body weight and improve longevity.

 

龙胆

Long Dan Cao (radic gentianae, Gentiana manshurica)

味苦涩。主骨间寒热,惊痫,邪气续绝伤,定五脏,杀盅毒。久服,益智,不忘,轻身,耐老。一名陵游,生山谷。

Nature: It is bitter and puckery in taste.

Function: It most works to solve Cold and Fire in  bones. It works to ease spasm, epilepsy, to calm down all organs, to kill insects or toxic things that can cause poisoning diseases. Long term intake of it allows improve intelligence, memory ability, body weight loss, retarded age.  

 

细辛

Xi Xin (manchurian wildginger, Asarum heterotropoides)

味辛温。主咳逆,头痛,脑动,百节拘挛,风湿,痹痛,死肌。久服明目,利九窍,轻身长年。一名小辛,生山谷。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop cough, headache, brain moving feeling, spasm in arms, legs, joints. It works to solve pain in arthritis (Be syndrome) and to remove dead muscles. Long term intake of it enable to brighten eyes, ears, throat, anus, urine conduct, to lose weight and to yield longevity.

 

石斛

Shi Hu (the stem of noble dendrobium, Dendrobium loddigesii)

味甘平。主伤中,除痹,下气,补五脏虚劳,羸瘦,强阴。久服厚肠胃,轻身延年。一名林兰(《御览》引云,一名禁生,观本,作黑字),生山谷。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not too Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to ease stomach due to eating of indigestive food. It works to solve Bi syndrome (arthritis), to down-conducting are/Qi), to nourish organs, to improve muscle growth, to strengthen sexual ability. Long term intake of it could improve absorpasion ability of stomach-intestine system, to loss body weigh and to have longevity.

 

巴戟天

Ba Ji Tian (Morinda officinalis, Morinda officinalis)

味辛微温。主大风邪气,阴痿不起,强筋骨,安五脏,补中,增志,益气。生山谷。

Nature: It is spicy in taste and slightly Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Wind-attack to the body (such as stroke), to improve sexual ability (such as for impotancy), to strengthen bone and tendons, to ease organs, to nourish the stomach-intestine system, to solve depression and hopeless feeling, and  to nourish Qi.  

 

白英

Bai Ying

味甘寒。主寒热,八疽,消渴,补中益气。久服,轻身延年。一名谷菜(元本误作黑字)。

 

白蒿

Bai Hao

味甘平。主五脏邪气,风寒温痹,补中益气,长毛发,令黑,疗心悬,少食,常饥。久服,轻身,耳目聪明,不老。

 

赤箭

Chi Jiang

味辛温。主杀鬼,精物蛊毒恶气。久服益气力,长阴,肥健,轻身,增年。一名离母,一名鬼督邮。

 

奄闾子

Yan Li Zi

 (旧作庵闾,《御览》作奄闾,是)

味苦微寒。主五脏淤血,腹中水气,胪张留热,风寒湿痹,身体诸痛。久服,轻身延年不老。

 

析蓂子

Xi Ming Zi

味辛微湿。主明目,目痛泪出,除痹,补五脏,益精光。久服,轻易不老。一名蔑析,一名大蕺,一名马辛。

 

蓍实

Zhe Shi (alpine yarrow fruit)

味苦平。主益气,充肌肤,明目,聪慧先知。久服,不饥不老,轻身。生山谷。

Nature: It is bitter in taste and it is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to nourish Qi, to improve growth of muscle, to brighten eyes, and to improve intelligency and wisdom. Long term intake of it could reduce appetite, to loss body weight and to gain longevity.

 

六芝(赤芝、黑芝、青芝、白芝、黄芝、紫芝)

Ling Zhi (glossy ganoderma)

赤芝味苦平。主胸中结,益心气,补中,增慧智,不忘。久食,轻身不老,延年神仙。一名丹芝。

Nature of Red Ling Zhi: It is bitter in taste, and it is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature. It works to solve knobed Qi in the chest, to nourish Heart Qi, to nourish Stomach-intestine system, to improve intelligence and improve memory ability. Long term of intake helps to loss body weight and to improve longevity.


黑芝,味咸平。主癃,利水道,益肾气,通九窍,聪察。久食,轻身不老,延年神仙。一名元芝。

Nature of black Ling Zhi: It is salty in taste and it is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature. It works to smooth urine conduct, to nourish Kidney Qi, to open all openings in the body (such as eyes, nose, ears, throat, etc.), to improve intelligency, to lose body weight and to improve longevity.


青芝,味酸平。主明目,补肝气,安精魂,仁恕,久食,轻身不老延年神仙。一名龙芝。

Nature of Blue Ling Zhi: It is sour in taste, and it is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature. It works to brighten eyes, to calm spirit, to enhance emotional tolerance. Long term intake of it enables loss of body weight and gain longevity. 

白芝,味辛平。主咳逆上气,益肺气,通利口鼻,强志意,勇悍,安魄。久食,轻身不老延年神仙。一名玉芝。

Nature of White Ling Zhi: It is spicy in taste, and it is not Hot or Cold in herbal nature. It works to stop cough and to reverse up-rushing gas, to nourish Lung Qi, to open nose and mouth, to enhance spirit and will, brave, and to calm spirit. Its long term intake enables body weight loss and longevity.

黄芝,味甘平。主心腹五邪,益脾气,安神,忠信和乐。久食,轻身不老延年神仙。一名金芝。

Nature of Yellow Ling Zhi: It is sweet in taste and it is nor Hot of Cold in herbal nature. It works to remove Xie Qi in organs, to nourish Spleen Qi (Stomach and intestine system), to calm down spirit. Its long term intake enables weight loss and longevity.


紫芝,味甘温。主耳聋,利关节,保神,益精气,坚筋骨,好颜色。久服,轻身不老延年。一名木芝。生山谷(旧作六种,今并)。

Nature of Purple Ling Zhi: It is sweet in taste and it is warm in herbal nature. It works to solve deafness, to smooth joints, to protect spirit, to nourish Jing Qi, to stregthen bone and tendons, to bright skin. Its long term intake enables weight loss and longevity.

 

卷柏

Juan Bo (Selaginella tamariscina)

味辛温。主五脏邪气,女子阴中寒热,痛,症瘕,血闭,绝子。久服轻身,和颜色。一名万岁。生山谷石间。

Nature: It is spicy and it is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to remove Xie Qi from all organs, to solve Cold or Burning sensation, pain, tissue mass (such as cancer or benign tumor)  in female sexual organs. It works to solve cessation of menstruation and infertility. Its long term intake helps to lose weight, and to brighten skin color.

 

蓝实

Lan Shi

味苦寒。主解诸毒,杀蛊蚑,注鬼,螫毒。久服,头不白,轻身。生平泽。
 

 

(川芎)

Xiong Qiong ChuanXigong(Ligusticum wallichii)

味辛温。主中风入脑,头痛,寒痹,筋挛,缓急,金创,妇人血闭,无子。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Wind invasion in brain, to solve headache, Cold Bi syndrome, muscle spasm, metal wound, cessation of menstruation and infertility.


       

蘼芜

Mi Wu

味辛温。 主咳逆,定惊气,辟邪恶,除蛊毒鬼注,去三虫,久服通神。一名薇芜。生川泽。

 

黄连

Huang Lian (the rhizome of Chinese goldthread; Coptis chinensis)

味苦寒。主热气,目痛,眦伤,泣出,明目(《御览》引云,主茎伤,《大观本》,无),肠澼,腹痛,下利,妇人阴中肿痛。久服,令人不忘。一名王连。生川谷。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to cold down Fire in the body. It works to sole pain in eyes, and to stop tearing. It brightens the eyes. It works to stop diarrhea, to stop pain in the stomach-intestine, to solve swelling and pain in female sexual and reproductive organs. Its long term intake helps to improve memory ability. 

 

络石

Luo Shi

味苦温。主风热,死肌,痈伤,口干舌焦,痈肿不消,喉舌肿,水浆不下。久服,轻身明目,润泽,好颜色,不老延年。一名百鲮。

蒺藜子

Ji Li Zi (Tribulus terrestris)

味苦温。主恶血,破症结积聚,喉痹,乳难。久服,长肌肉,明目轻身。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to expel dead tissue/muscle, to break various accumulated mass or tumor-like knob, to solve throat Bi syndrome, and to ease breast milk secretion. Its long time intake helps to grow muscle, to brighten eyes and to lose body weight.

 

黄耆

Huang Qi (Astragalus hoangtchy, Astragalus membranaceus)

味甘微温。主痈疽久败创,排脓止痛,大风,痢疾,五痔,鼠瘘,补虚,小儿百病。一名戴糁。生山谷。

Nature: It tastes sweet. It is slightly Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to heal wound, carbuncle, deep-rooted ulcer , to clear pus,  and to stop pain. It works to stop Wind-attack, to stop diarrhea, to cure haemorrhoids, fistula, to improve deficient conditions, to heal various diseases in children.

 

肉松蓉

Rou Cong Rong (Herba Cistanches, Cistanche deserticola)

味甘微温。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。久服轻身。生山谷。

Nature: It tastes sweet. It is slight Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works for the recovery of organs from various damages or exhaust. It nourishes stomach-intestine system, to remove Cold pain or Fire pain in penis, to nourish sexual and reproductive organs, to nourish Jing Qi, to improve fertility, to heal various tumors or mass in female systems. Its long term intake helps to lose weigh.

 

防风

Fang Fen (radix sileris, Saposhnikovia divaricata)

味甘温,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(《御览》作痛),烦满。久服轻身。一名铜芸(《御览》作芒)。生川泽。

Nature: It tastes sweet. It has no toxic effect.

Function: It solves Wind-attack to the body. It eases headache and dizziness. It improves wind-fear feeling, and to solve conditions due to Wind attack. It improves eye viison, depletes Wind from body and solves pain in Bi syndrome (arthritis), and release bloating feeling. Its long term intake helps weight loss.  


 

蒲黄

Pu Huang (pollen typhae, Typha angustifolia)

味甘平。主心腹旁光寒热,利小便,止血,消淤血。久服,轻身益气力,延年神仙。生池泽。

Nature: It tastes sweet. It is not so Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It helps to remove Cold and Fire in the chest, the stomach, the intestine and urine bladder. It helps to dissolve dead or extravasated blood in the body. Its long term intake helps to lose weight and to improve physical energy.


 

香蒲

Xiang Pu

味甘平。主五脏,心下邪气,口中烂臭,坚齿明目聪耳。久服轻身耐老(《御览》作能老)。一名睢(《御览》云睢蒲)。

 

续断

Xu Duan (teasel root, Dipsacus asperoides)

味苦微温。主伤寒,补不足,金创痈伤,折跌,续筋骨,妇人乳难(《御览》作乳痈云崩中,漏血,《大观本》,作黑字)。久服益气力。一名龙豆,一名属折。生山谷。

Nature: It tastes bitter. It is slight Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Cold-attack to the body. It improves Qi in sufficiency condition, heal wound, bone fracture. It improves breast secretion. Its long term intake helps to improve physical ability.

 

漏芦

Lou Lu (uniflower swisscentaury root)

味苦咸寒。主皮肤热,恶创,疽痔,湿痹,下乳汁。久服轻身益气,耳目聪明,不老延年。一名野兰。

Nature: It tastes bitter. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve body Hotness or Fire. It works to heal heavy wound, carbundle, hemorrhoid, Wetness type Bi syndrome (a kind of arthritis), and to improve breast secretion. Its long term intake helps lose body weight, improve physical ability, brighten eyes and sharp ears, as well as to improve longevity.

 

营实

Ying Shi

味酸温。主痈疽恶创,结肉,跌筋,败创,热气,阴蚀不疗,利关节。一名墙薇,一名墙麻,一名牛棘。生川谷。
 

 

天名精

Tian Ming Jing

味甘寒。主淤血,血瘕欲死,下血,止血,利小便。久服轻身耐老。一名麦句姜,一名虾蟆蓝,一名豕首。

 

决明子

Jue Min Zi (cassia seed, Cassia obtusifolia)

味咸平。主青盲,目淫,肤赤,白膜,眼赤痛,泪出。久服益精光(太平《御览》引作理目珠精,理,即治字),轻身。

Nature: It tastes salty. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works for cataract, glaucoma, itch in eyes, red color and pain in eyes, and tearing. Its long term intake helps vision, and to lose weight.


       
《吴普》曰:决明子,一名草决明,一名羊明(《御览》)。

 

丹参

Dan Shen (the root of red-rooted salvia, Codonopsis pilosula)

味苦微寒。主心腹邪气,肠鸣幽幽如走水,寒热积聚,破症除瘕,止烦满,益气。一名却蝉草。生川谷。

Nature: It tastes bitter. It is slight Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It solves Xie Qi in the chest and in Stomach-intestine space. It works for a condition in which person feels noise in intestine as water flowing. It dissolves accumulated Cold and Hotness in the body, dissolves tumor or other different kinds of mass in the body, stops annoying bloating. It nourishes Qi.

 

茜根

Qian Gen (madder root, Rubia cordifolia)

味苦寒。主寒湿,风痹,黄疽,补中。生川谷。

Nature: It is bitter in tastes. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It mostly works to solve Cold or Fire attack to the body, to solve Bi syndrome (arthritis), to dissolve jaundice and to nourish the Stomach-intestine system.

 

飞廉

Fei Liang

味苦平。主骨节热,胫重酸疼。久服,令人身轻。一名飞轻(已上四字,原本黑字)。

五味子

Wu Wei Zi (the fruit of Chinese magnoliavine, Schisandra chinensis)

味酸温。主益气,咳逆上气,劳伤羸瘦,补不足,强阴,益男子精(《御览》引云,一名会及,《大观本》,作黑字)。生山谷。

Nature: It is sour in tastes. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It nourishes Qi. It stops cough and up-rushing gas feeling. It improves chronic fatique, overslim, weak muscle and organ functions, to improve Yin side of the body, improve sex and reproductive system, and to improve production of male Jing Qi (such as sperm).

 

旋华

Xuan Hua

 味甘温。主益气,去面皯(《御览》作),黑,色媚好(《御览》作令人色悦泽),其根,味辛,主腹中寒热邪气,利小便。久服不饥轻身。一名筋根华,一名金沸(《御览》引云一名美草,《大观本》,作黑字)。

 

兰草

Lan Cao

味辛平。主利水道,杀蛊毒,辟不祥。久服,益气轻身,不老,通神明。一名水香。

 

蛇床子

She Chuang Zi (Fructus Cnidii, Cnidium monnieri)

味苦平。主妇人阴中肿痛,男子阴痿,湿痒,除痹气,利关节,癫痫恶创。久服轻身。一名蛇米。生川谷及田野。

Nature: It is bitter in tastes. It is not cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop pain and swelling in female sex system, to improve male impotency, to dissolve itching ecnema, to remove Be syndrome, to ease joints, to stop epilepsy and to heal deep and severe ulcer or wound. Its long term intage helps weight loss.  

 

地肤子

Di Fu Zi (belvedere fruit, Kochia scoparia)

味苦寒。主旁光热,利小便,补中益精气。久服,耳目聪明,轻身耐老。一名地葵(《御览》引云,一名地华,一名地脉,《大观本》无一名地华四字,脉作麦,皆黑字)。生平泽及田野。

Nature: It is bitter in tastes. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Fire in urine bladder, to smooth urination, to nourish middle Qi. Its long term intake helps to brighten eyes and sharp hearing, to lose body weigh to retard age.

 

景天

Jing Tian (red-spotted stonecrop)

味苦平。主大热,火创,身热,烦邪恶气,华主女人漏下赤白,轻身明目。一名戒火,一名慎火(《御览》引云,一名水母,《大观本》,作黑字,水作火)。生川谷。

Nature: It is bitter in tastes. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It mostly works to calm down Fire, to heal burning, to solve annoying Xie Qi, to solve heaving bleeding in menstruation, to stop red or white color female discharge, to loss body weight and to brighten eyes.


 

茵陈

Yin Chen (oriental wormwood, Artemisia scoparia)

  (《御览》作茵蒿)
 
味苦平。主风湿寒热,邪气,热结黄疸。久服轻身,益气耐老(《御览》作能老)。生邱陵阪岸上。

Nature: It is bitter in tastes. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop Wind, Wetness, Cold and Hotness, the various Xie Qi, to dissolve hot-accumulated jaundice. Its long term intake helps to lose body weight, to nourish Qi and to retard age.

 

杜若

Du Ruo

味辛微温.  主胸胁下逆气,温中,风入脑户,头肿痛,多涕泪出。久服,益精(艺文类聚引作益气),明目轻身。一名杜衡(艺文类聚引作蘅,非)。生川泽。

 

沙参

Sha Shen (the root of straight ladybell, Morus alba)

味苦微寒。主血积惊气,除寒热,补中,益肺气。久服利人。一名知母。生川谷。

Nature: It is bitter in tastes. It is slight Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dissolve accumulated dead blood, to ease scare-disturbed Qi, to remove Cold or Fire from body, to nourish middle Qi and Lung Qi. Its long term intake helps health.

 

白兔藿

Bai Tu Huo

味苦平。主蛇虺,蜂虿,猘狗,菜肉蛊毒注。一名白葛。生山谷。
 

 

徐长卿

Xu Chong Qing (paniculate swallowwort root, Cynanchum paniculatum)

味辛温。主鬼物,百精,蛊毒,疫疾邪恶气,温疟。久服,强悍轻身。一名鬼督邮。

Nature: It is spicy in tastes. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It mostly works to expel uncommon disease-causing Qi (such as ghost), to expel various materials (such as virus, bacteria, fungus, or some chemical gases) that cause infectious diseases or epidemic diseases. Its long term intake helps build up physical body and improves weight loss.

 

石龙刍

Shi Long Chu

味苦微寒。主心腹邪气,小便不利,淋闭,风湿,鬼注,恶毒。久服,补虚羸,轻身,耳目聪明,延年。一名龙须,一名草续断,一名龙珠。生山谷。

 

薇衔

Wei Xian

味苦平。主风湿痹,历节痛,惊痫,吐舌,悸气,贼风,鼠瘘,痈肿。一名糜衔。

 

云实

Yun Shi

味辛温。主泄利(旧作痢,《御览》作泄利),肠澼,杀虫,蛊毒,去邪毒结气,止痛除热,平主见鬼精物,多食令人狂走。久服,轻身通神明。生川谷。

 

王不留行

Wang Bu Liu Xin (the seed of cowherb, Vaccaria segetalis)

味苦平。主金创,止血逐痛,出刺,除风痹内寒。久服,轻身耐老(《御览》作能老),增寿。生山谷。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It mostly works to heal wound due metal cut, to stop bleeding pain, to expel out thorn, to re move Wind Bi syndrome and inner Cold. Its long term intake helps to lose weight and retard age.

 

升麻

Shen Ma (rattletop, Cimicifuga heracleifolia)

味甘辛(《大观本》作甘平)。主解百毒,杀百老物殃鬼,辟温疾,障,邪毒蛊。久服不夭。

Nature: It is sweet and spicy in taste.

Function: It works to dissolve various toxic, or poison, to kill various material or stuff that can cause various strange diseases (such as attaching ghost syndrome, some kinds of psychosis, mental diseases), and to prevent malarial fever, biting by poisoning insects. Its long term intake helps longevity.

 

青蘘

Qing Rang

味甘寒。主五脏邪气,风寒湿痹,益气,补脑髓,坚筋骨。久服耳目聪明,不饥不老,增寿,巨胜苗也。生川谷(旧在米谷部,非)。
 

 

姑活

Gu Huo

味甘温。主大风邪气,湿痹寒痛。久服轻身益寿耐老。一名冬葵子(旧在《唐本草》中无毒,今增)。
 

 

别羁

Bie Ji

味苦微温。主风寒湿痹,身重,四肢疼酸,寒邪,历节痛。生川谷(旧在《唐本草》中无毒,今增)。
       

 

屈草

Qu Cao

味苦。主胸胁下痛,邪气,腹问寒热阴痹。久服,轻身益气,耐老(《御览》作补益能老)。生川泽(旧在《唐本草》中无毒,今增)。

 

淮木

Huai Mu

味苦平。主久咳上气,肠中虚羸,女子阴蚀,漏下赤白沃。一名百岁城中木。

 

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牡桂

Rou Gui (Chinese cassia tree, Cinnamomum cassia)

味辛温。主上气咳逆结气。喉痹吐吸。利关节。补中益气。久服通神。轻身不老。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to reverse up-rushing cough, to dissolve block in throat, to smooth joints. It works to nourish the middle Qi. Its long term intake helps to conduct with “God”, to lose body weight, and to result in longevity.

 

菌桂

Jun Gui

味辛温。主百病。养精神。和颜色。为诸药先聘通使。久服轻身不老。面生光华。媚好常如童子。

 

松脂

Song Zhi (pine resin)

味苦温。主疽恶创。头疡白秃疥搔风气。安五脏。除热。久服轻身。不老延年。一名松膏。一名松肪。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to cure carbundle and severe wound. It works for ulcer in scalp, hair loss, skin itch, and nettle rash. It calm down organs and remove Fire from body. Its long term intake helps to lose weight and to gain longevity.

 

槐实

Huai Shi (Fructus Sophorae)

味苦寒。主五内邪气热。止涎唾。补绝伤。五痔火创。妇人乳瘕。子藏急痛。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function:  It works to remove Xie Qi and Fire from body. It works to stop extra running saliva, to heal sever wound and hurt, to heal hemorrhoid and wound due to metal cut. It works for breast tumor and acute pain in uterus.

 

枸杞

Gou Qi (Matrimony vine, Cibotium barometz)

味苦寒。主五内邪气。热中消渴。周痹。久服坚筋骨。轻身不老。一名杞根。一名地骨。一名枸忌。一名地辅。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Xie Qi in the body. It works to reduce Fire and heavy thirsty feeling, to solve Bi syndrome (arthritis), to strengthen bone and tendons. It is good to lose body weight and improves longevity.

柏实

Bo Shi (Semen Platycladi)

味甘平。主惊悸。安五脏。益气。除湿痹。久服令人悦。泽美色。耳目聪明。不饥不老。轻身延年。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to calm down epilepsy and palpitation. It calms down organs in the body. It nourishes Qi, removes Wetness Be syndrome. Its long time intake helps to brighten face skin, to brighten eyes and sharpes ears, and to improves intelligence, to reduce appetite and to retard age.

 

茯苓

Fu Ling (Poria Cocos)

味甘平。主胸胁逆气。忧恚惊邪恐悸。心下结痛。寒热烦满。咳逆。口焦舌干。利小便。久服安魂养神。不饥延年。一名茯菟。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not too Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dissolve up-rushing gas in chest and in side of belly. It ease scare, fear, and palpitation. It works to dissolve bloating pain in the upper stomach, to dissolve Cold and Fire in the body. It stops cough, to stop dry mouth and throat, to improve urination. Its long term intake helps to calm spirit and nourish the spirit, to reduce appetite and to gain longevity.

 

榆皮

Yu Pi (Elm Bark)

味甘平。主大小便不通。利水道。除邪气。久服轻身。不饥。其实尤良。一名零榆。

Nature: It is sweet in taste and not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to improve urination and bowel movement, and to expel Xie Qi. Its long term intake helps to reduce appetite and to loss body weight.

 

柏木

Bo Mu (weeping cypress)

味苦寒。主五脏肠胃中结热黄胆。肠痔。止泄利。女子漏下赤白。阴阳蚀创。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dissolve accumulated Fire or Hotness in the boy (especially in the stomach-intestine system), to reduce jaundice, to heal hemorrhoid, to stop diarrhea, to heal female bleeding and discharge, and to heal ulcer in sexual organs.

 

干漆

Gan Qi (dried lacquer)

味辛温。无毒。主绝伤。补中续筋骨。填髓脑。安五脏。五缓六急。风寒湿痹。生漆去长虫。久服轻身耐老。

Nature: It is spicy in taste and Warm in herbal nature. It is not toxic.

Function: It works to heal severe wound and hurt, or bone fracture, to nourish the stomach-intestine system, to nourish the brain, to calm organs, to solve Bi syndrome (arthritis). The fresh lacquer also works to expel paracites from the body. Its long term intake helps to lose body weight and gain retard age.

 

五加皮

Wu Jia Pi (Cortex Acanthopanax Radicis)

味辛温。主心腹疝气腹痛。益气疗。小儿不能行。疽创阴蚀。一名豺漆。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to release pain from heart, stomach and intestine, to stop pain due to hernia, to nourish the Qi and to heal wound. It is good to improve child walking and to heal carbundle, wound, and to heal ulcer in sexual system.

 

蔓荆实

Man Jing Zi (shrub chastetree fruit)

味苦微寒。主筋骨间寒热痹拘挛。明目坚齿。利九窍。去白虫。久服轻身耐老。小荆实亦等。

Nature: It is bitter in taste and it is slight Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to expel Cold and Fire in bone and in tendons, to relax muscle and tendon spasm, to strengthen tooth and to brighten vision, to open all opening in the body (such as eye, ear, throat, anus, penis, and nose), and to dispel pinworm. Its long term intake helps to lose weight and retard age.

 

辛夷

Xin Yi (Flos Magnoliae, Magnolia biondii)

味辛温。主五脏,身体寒风,头脑痛。面。久服,下气,轻身,明目。增年耐老。一名辛矧。一名侯桃。一名房木。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dispel Cold Wind from body, to solve head pain and brain pain, to heal acne. Long term intake of it helps to down-conduct gas, to lose weight, to brighten eyes and to retard age.

 

桑寄生

Sang Ji Shen (loranthus parasiticus, Taxillus chinensis)

味苦平。主腰痛。小儿背强痈肿。安胎, 充肌肤。坚发齿。长须眉。其实明目轻身。通神。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve lower back pain, to solve stiffness of spine in children, to solve carbundle and deep-rooted ulcer, to calm fetus to protect the fetus, to nourish the skin and muscle, to strengthen tooth, and to improve growth of hair and eyebrow. It is good to brighten vision, to lose body weight and to help conduction with Spirit.

 

杜仲

Du Zhong (the bark of eucommia, Eucommia ulmoides)

味辛平。主腰脊痛。补中益精气。坚筋骨。强志。除阴下痒湿。小便余沥。久服轻身耐老。一名思仙。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is not Cold of Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve lower back pain or spine pain, to nourish middle Qi, to strengthen bone and tedons, to make stronger in will, to dispel itch and secretion in sexual organs, and to stop continuous urination. Its long term intake helps to lose body weight and to retard age.

 

女贞实

Nu Zhen Zi (glossy privet fruit, Ligustrum lucidum)

味苦平。主补中。安五脏。养精神。除百疾。久服肥健。轻身不老。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It nourishes stomach-intestine system and promotes functions of all organs. It nourishes spirit and dispel various illnesses. Its long term intake makes stronger in body physical condition, helps to lose body weight and to retard age. 

 

木兰

Mu Lan

味苦寒。主身大热在皮肤中。去面热赤。酒。恶风疾。阴下痒湿。明耳目。一名林兰。

 

蕤核

Rui He

味甘温。主心腹邪气。明目。目赤痛伤泪出。久服轻身。益气不饥。

 

橘柚皮

Ju Pi (Orange peel )

味辛温。主胸中瘕热。逆气。利水谷。久服去臭下气。通神。一名橘皮。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dispel accumulated Fire and gas-mass in the chest, to reverse the up-rushing gas, to promote down movement of digested food in intestine. It long term intake helps to move bad ordor from the body and to conduct with Spirit.

 

Fa (hair)

味苦温。主五癃。关格不通。利小便水道。疗小儿痫。大人。仍自还神化。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to clear all kinds of mass block to the openings of the body (such as in the eyes, ears, nose, throat, anus, penis and vagina), and to improve urination. It is used to solve child epilepsy, and adult spine spasm syndrome.  

 

龙骨

Long Gu (sil fragments, Os draconis)

味甘平。主心腹。鬼注精物老魅。咳逆泄利。脓血。女子漏下。症瘕坚结。小儿热气惊痫。齿。主小儿大人惊痫。疾狂走。心下结气。不能喘息。诸痉。杀精物。久服轻身。通神明延年。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not Hot or Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It mostly works in the heart and stomach area. It works to stop cough, diarrhea, and up-reversing air rushing feeling. It solves pus-blood accumulation, and bleeding from female reproductive organ. It works to stop growth, and to make it disappear, of tumor or mass in the body. It works for child fever and epilepsy, for growth of child tooth. It works to stop madness, to dissolve bloating feeling in stomach, and to stop various spasm, and to kill spiritual things. Its long term intake helps to lose body weight and gain longevity. It is good to conduct with spirit.  

 

麝香

She Xiang (musk)

味辛温。主辟恶气。杀鬼精物。温疟蛊毒。痫。去三虫。久服除邪。不梦寤厌寐。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dispel Xie Qi and evil Qi, to kill spiritual things, to kill the virus or bacteria or poisonous insects that couse death-causing infectious diseases. It works to stop spasm and epilepsy, to dispel parasites, and to improve sleeping and stop nightmare.

 

牛黄

Niu Huang (calculus bovis)

味苦平。主惊痫寒热。热盛狂。除邪逐鬼。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop spasm or epilepsy, to stop Cold or Fire invasion, to stop madness due to Fire, to dispel Xie Qi and ghost.

 

熊脂

Xiong Zhi

味甘微寒。主风痹不仁。筋急。五脏腹中积聚。寒热。羸瘦。头疡白秃。面。久服强志。不饥轻身。

 

白胶

Lu Jiao Jiao (antler glue)

味甘平。主伤中劳绝。, 羸瘦。补中益气。妇人血闭无子。止痛, 安胎。久服轻身延年。一名鹿角胶。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to improve severe exhausting condition, to solve pain and severe slim, to nourish Middle Qi, to improve infertility due to female blood deficiency, to stop stomach pain and to calm fetus. Its long term intake helps to lose body weigh and gain longevity.

 

阿胶

A Jiao (donkey-hide gelatin)

味甘平。主心腹内崩劳极。洒洒如疟状。腰腹痛。四肢酸疼。女子下血。安胎。久服轻身益气。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to improve severe exhausting conditions, to stop a feeling as fever-chilly shift feeling, to solve lower back pain and sour in arms and legs, to stop bleeding from uterus, and to calm fetus. Its long term intake helps to lose weight and nourish Qi.

 

丹雄鸡

Dan Xiong Ji ()

味甘微温。主女人崩中漏下,赤白沃,补虚,温中,止血,通神,杀毒辟不祥,头主杀鬼.
       
肪,主耳聋。
       
肠,主遗溺。
       
肶胵,裹黄皮,主泄利。
       
尿白,主消渴伤寒,寒热。
       
黑雌鸡,主风寒湿痹,五缓六急,安胎。
       
翮羽,主下血闭。
       
鸡子,主除热,火疮痫痉,可作虎魄,神物。
       
鸡白蠹,肥脂。 

 

雁肪

Yan Fang

味甘平。主风挛拘急。偏枯气不通利。久服益气不饥。轻身耐老。一名肪。生池泽北乡南翔。

 

石蜜

Shi Mi

味甘平。主心腹邪气。诸惊痫。安五脏诸不足。益气补中。止痛解毒。除众病。和百药。久服强志轻身。不饥不老。一名石饴。

 

蜂子

Feng Zi

味甘平。主头风。除蛊毒。补虚羸伤中。久服令人光泽好颜色不老。大黄蜂子。主心腹复满痛。轻身益气。土蜂子。主痈肿。一名蜚零。 

 

蜜蜡

Feng La (Bee wax)

味甘微温。主下利脓血。补中续绝伤金创。益气不饥耐老。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is slight Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop diarrhea with pus and blood, to nourish middle Qi, to solve severe wound due to metal cut and hurt. It reduces craving feeling and to retard age.

 

牡蛎

Mu Li (Ostrea gigas)

味咸平。主伤寒寒热。温疟洒洒。惊恚怒气。除拘缓鼠瘘。女子带下赤白。久服强骨节。杀邪气。延年。一名蛎蛤。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is not Cold of Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop Cold or Hot attack, to stop fever-chilling feelings in a infectious disease, to stop scare and spasm and angry feeling, to ease spasm or losen muscle, to heal fistula, and to solve female discharge. Its long term intake helps to strengthen bone and joints, to kill Xie Qin and to retard age.

 

龟甲

Gui Ban (tortoise shell)

味咸平。主漏下赤白。破症瘕疟。五痔阴蚀。湿痹。四肢重弱。小儿囟不合。久服轻身不饥。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop bleeding or discharge from female organ, to dissolve mass or tumor in the body, to solve piles or ulcer in sexual organ, to heal Wetness Bi syndrome, to stop heaviness feeling in the arms and legs, to improve sealing of child fontanel. Its long term intake helps to reduce appetite and to lose body weight.

 

桑螵蛸

Sang Piao Xiao (mantis egg-case)

味咸平。主伤中。疝瘕阴痿。益精生子。女子血闭。腰痛五淋。利小便水道。一名蚀。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve problem in Stomach-intestine system, to solve mass or tumor, to improve sexual desire and inability, to nourish sperms and to improve fertility, to solve stop of menstruation in female, to solve lower back pain and various infections in urine system, and to smooth urination.

 

海蛤

Hai He (sea clam)

味苦平。主咳逆上气。喘息烦满。胸痛寒热。一名魁蛤。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop cough, asthma, chest bloating feeling. It solves pain in chest, fever and chilly.

文蛤。主恶疮蚀五痔。

Clam: it works to heal deep ulcer and various hemorrhoid.

 

蠡鱼

Li Yu

味甘寒。主湿痹。面目浮肿。下大水。一名鱼。

 

鲤鱼胆

Li Yu Dan (gall bladder of carp)

味苦寒。主目热赤痛。青盲明目。久服强悍。益志气。

 Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve pain and burning session in eyes, to solve cataract and to brighten vision. Its long term intake helps to improve physical strengthening and to improve will ability.

 

藕实茎

Lian Ou (Lotus root)

味甘平。主补中养神。益气力。除百疾。久服轻身耐老。不饥延年。一名水芝丹。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: Nourish the stomach-intestine system, to nourish spirit, and to calm emotion, to improve physical ability, and to solve various illness. Its long term intake helps to reduce craving, to lose body weight and to gain longevity.

 

大枣

Da Zao (Chinese date, Ziziphus jujuba)

味甘平。主心腹邪气。安中。养脾肋十二经。平胃气。通九窍。补少气少津液。身中不足。大惊,四肢重。和百药。久服轻身长年。叶覆麻黄。能令出汗。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dispel Xie Qi in chest and in stomach-intestine, to calm stomach-intestine system, to nourish Spleen system and promote function of all 12 meridians, to calm Stomach Qi, to open and to sharp the functions of body openings (such as eyes, nose, ears, throat, mouth, anus, penis, vagina). It works to nourish Qi and Jing Ye (liquid part of the body), to calm down spasm or scare, to reduce heavy feelings on arm and legs, to balance the function of various herbs used. Its long term use helps to reduce body weight and gain retard age.

 

葡萄

Pu Tao (grapes)

味甘平。主筋骨湿痹。益气倍力。强志。令人肥健。耐饥忍风寒。久食轻身不老延年。可作酒。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It solve Bi syndrome that is caused by invasion of Wetness. It works to nourish physical ability, to strengthen will, to reduce hungry feeling, to increase endurance to wind or cold, and to make body stronger. Its long time use helps to lose weight and to retard age.

 

Fu Peng Zi (Rubus idaeus)

味酸平。主安五脏。益精气。长阴令坚强志倍力。有子。久服轻身不老。一名覆盆。

Nature: It is sour in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to calm all organs in the body, to nourish Jing Qi, to nourish Yin, to strengthen will and increase physical ability, and to improve fertility. Its long time use helps to lose body weight and retard age.

 

鸡头实

Qian Shi (Gorgon fruit)

味甘平。主湿痹。腰脊膝痛。补中除暴疾。益精气。强志。令耳目聪明。久服轻身。不饥耐老神仙。一名雁啄实。芡实。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It solves Wetness Bi syndrome, to ease pain in the lower back and knee. It nourishes Stomach-intestine system, to dispel acute and severe illness, to nourish Qi, to strengthen will, and to brighten eyes and sharp ears. Its long term use helps to reduce craving and appetite, to lose body weight and to gain longevity.

 

胡麻

Hu Ma (flax)

味甘平。主伤中虚羸。补五内。益气力。长肌肉。填髓脑。久服轻身不老。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It nourishes stomach-intestine system, to nourish Qi, to improve growth of muscle, to improve metabolism in nervous system. Its long time use helps to lose body weight and to retard age.

 

麻贲

Huo Ma Ren (hemp seed)

味辛平。主五劳七伤。利五脏。下血寒气。多食令人见鬼狂走。久服通神明。轻身。

一名麻勃。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It improves body condition due to long term hurt or exhausting. It works to improve functions of various body organs, to improve dispel dad blood and Cold Xie Qi from body. Over eating of it makes people running in madness as seeing a ghost. Its long term use helps to conduct spirit, and to lose body weight. 

麻子。味甘平。主补中益气。肥健不老神仙。

 

冬葵子

Dong Kui Zi (cluster mallow fruit, Malva verticillata)

味甘寒。主五脏六腑寒热。羸瘦五癃。利小便。久服坚骨。长肌肉。轻身。延年。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to remove Cold or Hot from the body organs. It works to improve over-slim and over-weakness condition, to improve urination, to improve strengthening of bone, and to improve growth of muscle. It works to lose body weight and gain longevity.

 

苋实

Bai Jian (wrinkledfruit amaranth herb)

味甘寒。主青盲明目。除邪。利大小便。去寒热。久服益气力。不饥轻身。 一名白苋

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve cataract, to brighten vision, to dispel Xie Qi, to improve bowel movement and urination, to expel Cold of Fire from body. Its long time intake helps to reduce craving feeling, to reduce appetite, to lose body weight, to increase physical energy.

 

瓜蒂

Gua Di (muskmelon pedicel)

味苦寒。主大水身面四肢浮肿。下水。杀蛊毒。咳逆上气。食诸果病在胸腹中。皆吐下之。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve swelling in the body, to dispel extra water, to kill poisoning insects, to stop cough or asthma. It solves stomach discomfort feeling due to eat various fruits, by causing vomiting of the eaten fruits.

 

瓜子

Gua Zi  (melon seeds)

味甘平。主令人悦泽。好颜色。益气不饥。久服轻身耐老。一名水芝。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It improves happiness feeling, brighten face skin, to nourish Qi, to reduce appetite. Its long term use helps to lose body weight and retard age.

 

苦菜

Ku Cai (common sowthistle herb)

味苦寒。主五脏邪气。厌谷。胃痹。久服安心。益气聪察。少卧。轻身耐老。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Xie Qi in various organs. It works to improve appetite, and to solve chronic stomach pain. Its long term use helps to calm emotion, to improve ear and eye function, to shorten sleep (to solve drowsiness), to reduce body weight and to retard age.

 

 

神农本草经 中经(中品)

Zhong Pin (Middle class herbs)

 

雄黄

Xiong Huang (realgar)

味苦平寒。主寒热,鼠瘘恶创,疽痔死肌,杀精物,恶鬼,邪气,百虫毒,胜五兵。炼食之,轻食神仙。一名黄食石。生山谷。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dispel Cold and Hot from the body, to heal deep ulcer or fistula, to heal severe wound,  carbuncle, dead muscle, to kill spiritual thing, to dispel Xie Qi, and to kill poisoning insects. 

 

石硫黄

Liu Huang (Sulfur)

味酸温。主妇人蚀阴。疽痔恶血。坚筋骨。除头秃。能化金银铜铁奇物。

Nature: It is sour in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to heal ulcer in female sexual organ, to heal carbuncle, hemorrhoid, and to remove dead blood from the body. It works to strengthen bone and tendons, to heal hair loss, and to dissolve metal material in the body.

 

雌黄

Ci Huang (orpiment)

味辛平。主恶疮。头秃痂疥。杀毒虫虱。身痒邪气诸毒。炼之久服轻身。增年不老。

Nature: It is spicy in state. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to heal severe ulcer, to treat hair loss, eczema, scabies, insects, worms, and louse. It stops itch, and dispels Xie Qi and various toxic things.

 

水银

Shui Yin (mercury)

味辛寒。主疥瘘痂疡白秃,杀皮肤中虱,堕胎,除热,杀金银铜锡毒。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to treat scabies, ulcer, fistula, hair loss, louse, to induce abortion, to reduce fever, and to dissolve poisoning effects from gold, silver, cupper, and tin.

 

石膏

Shi Gao (plaster stone. Gypsum fibrosum)

味辛微寒。主中风寒热。心下逆气。惊喘。口干苦焦。不能息。腹中坚痛。除邪鬼。

产乳、金创。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It s slight Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to expel Wind, Cold and Hot from body, to reduce reverse-up Qi, to calm down scare, spasm, convulsion, and asthma. It is to ease dry mouth and throat, short of breath, to stop hard pain in stomach, and to dispel Xie Qi and ghost. It promotes breast secretion, and to heal metal wound.

 

磁石

Ci Shi (magnetite)

味辛寒。主周痹, 风湿。肢节中痛。不可持物。洗洗酸消。除大热烦满。及耳聋。一名元石。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works for the treatment of Wind-Cold Bi syndrome, of pain in joints, for weakness in holding stuff. It also works to stop fever, annoying bloating feeling, and to cure deafness.

 

凝水石

Nin Shui Shi

味辛寒。主身热腹中积聚邪气。皮中如火烧。烦满水饮之。久服不饥。一名白水石。

 

阳起石

Yang Qi Shi (actinolite)

味咸微温。主崩中漏下。破���藏中血。症瘕结气。寒热腹痛。无子。阴痿不起。补不足。句挛。一名白石。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is slight Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop bleeding from uterus, to remove dead blood in uterus, to dissolve mass or tumor or blocked Qi in stomach-intestine system, to threat Cold and Fever, to stop stomach pain, to improve fertility, to improve sexual ability, to nourish the deficiency condition.

 

孔公孽

Kong Gong Nie

味辛温。主伤食不化。邪结气。恶创疽痔。利九窍。下乳汁。

 

殷孽

Yin Nie

味辛温。主烂伤淤血,泄利寒热,鼠寒瘘症瘕结气。一名姜石。生山谷(按此当与孔公孳为一条)。

 

铁精

Tie Jing

平。主明目。化铜。铁落。味辛平。主风热恶创。疡疽创痂疥气在皮肤中。铁主坚肌耐痛。

 

理石

Li Shi

味辛寒。主身热。利胃。解烦。益精明目。破积聚。去三虫。一名立制石。

 

长石

Chong Shi

味辛寒。主身热。四肢寒厥。利小便。通血脉。明目去翳眇。下三虫。杀蛊毒。久服不饥。一名方石。

 

肤青

Fu Qing

味辛平。主蛊毒。及蛇菜肉诸毒恶创。

干姜

Gan Jiang (Dried ginger, Zingiber officinale)

味辛温。主胸满咳逆上气。温中止血。出汗。逐风湿痹。肠下利。生者尤良。久服去臭气。通神明。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop cough, chest tight feeling, to stop bleeding from stomach, to warm stomach, to cause sweat, to remove Wind-Wetness Bi syndrome (arthritis), and to stop diarrhea. Its long term use helps to remove body odor and to conduct to Spirit. 

 

枲耳实

Xi Er Shi

味甘温。主风头寒痛。风湿周痹。四肢句挛痛。恶肉死肌。久服益气。耳目聪明。

强志轻身。一名胡。一名地葵。

 

葛根

Ge Gen (the root of kudzu vine, Pueraria lobata)

味甘平。主消渴, 身大热,  呕吐,  诸痹。起阴气。解诸毒。葛谷主下利十岁以上。一名鸡齐根。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop thirsty, fever, nausea, and vomiting, to solve various Bi syndrome, to improve Yin Qi, and to remove toxic effect from various material.

 

栝蒌根

Gua Lu Gen (radix trichosanthis, Trichosanthes kirilowii)

味苦寒。主消渴身热。烦满大热。补虚安中。续绝伤。一名地蒌。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve thirsty and to reduce body fever, to stop annoying bloating feeling, to nourish the stomach-intestine system, to solve severed wound or hurt to the body.

 

苦参

Ku Shen (radix sophorae flavescentis. Sophora flavescens)

味苦寒。 主心腹结气,症瘕积聚,黄疸,溺有余沥,逐水,除痈肿,补中,明目,止泪。一名水槐,一名苦识。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve blocked gas in chest and in belly, to dispel mass or tumor in the body, to solve jaundice, to improve continuous urine after urination, to expel extra water, to heal carbundle, swelling, to nourish middle, to brighten eyes, and to stop tearing.

 

当归

Dang Gui (Chinese angelica, Angelica sinensis)

味甘温。主咳逆上气。温疟寒热。癣在皮肤中。妇人漏下绝子。诸恶创疡金创。煮饮之。一名干归。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop cough, to stop Fever-chilly in malaria, to solve psoriasis in skin, to stop bleeding from uterus, to improve fertility, to solve various wound or ulcer due to metal cut or hurt.

 

麻黄

Ma Huang (Chinese ephedra, Ephedra sinica)

味苦温。主中风伤寒头痛。温疟发表出汗。去邪热气。止咳逆上气。除寒热, 破症坚积聚。一名龙沙。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve headache due to Wind and Cold, to loss the body surface, to cause sweat in malaria, to remove Xie Qi, to stop cough, to break mass and tumor and various accumulated stuff in the body.

 

通草

Tong Cao (ricepaper pith, Tetrapanax papyriferus)

味辛平。主去恶虫。除脾胃寒热。通利九窍血脉关节。令人不忘。一名附支。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to remove disease-inducing insects, to remove Cold or Hot in the stomach, to smooth body openings (such as eyes, ears, nose, throat, anus, penis, vagina), to ease joints, blood vessels, to improve memory.

 

芍药

Shao Yao (Chinese herbaceous peony, Paeonia lactiflora)

味苦平。主邪气腹痛。除血痹。破坚积寒热疝瘕。止痛利小便。益气。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dissolve Xie Qi in stomach-intestine system, to solve Blood Bi syndrome, to break mass, tumor, accumulated stuff in the body, to clear Hot or Cold in the body, to heal hernia, to stop pain, to ease urination, and to nourish Qi.

 

蠡实

Li Shi

味甘平。主皮肤寒热。胃中热气。风寒湿痹。坚筋骨。令人嗜食。久服轻身。花叶去白虫。一名剧草。一名三坚。一名豕首。

 

瞿麦

Ju Mai (dianthus superbus)

味苦寒。主关格,诸癃结,小便不通,出刺,决痈肿,明目去翳,破胎堕子,下闭血。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function:  It works to solve block in urination, to improve urination, to remove thorn out, to break carbuncle and pus swelling mass, to brighten vision, to remove cataract, to cause abortion, to remove dead blood from uterus.

 

元参

Yuan Shen (radix scrophulariae)

味苦微寒。主腹中寒热积聚。女子产乳余疾。补肾气。令人目明。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is slight Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Cold- or Hot-accumulation in the stomach-intestine system, to improve breast milk secretion and to solve illness in breast, to nourish Kidney Qi and to brighten eyes.

 

秦艽

Qin Jiu (large-leaved gentian)

味苦平。生寒热邪气。寒湿风痹。肢节痛。下水。利小便。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to expel Cold or Hot Xie Qi, to solve Wind-Wetness-Cold Bi syndrome (arthritis), to stop joint pain, to improve removal of extra water, to improve urination.

 

百合

Bai He (artichoke, Lilium lancifolium)

味甘平。主邪气腹胀。心痛。利大小便。补中益气。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It removes bloating feeling in stomach-intestine system, to solve heart pain, to improve urination and bowel movement, and to nourish middle Qi.

 

知母

Zhi Mu (rhizoma anemarrhenae, Anemarrhena asphodeloides)

味苦寒。主消渴热中。除邪气。肢体浮肿。下水, 补不足, 益气。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve sever thirsty feeling and hotness inside body, to dispel Xie Qi, to solve swelling in arms and legs, and to nourish middle Qi.

 

贝母

Bei Mu (the bulb of fritillary)

味辛平。主伤寒烦热。淋沥。邪气。疝瘕。喉痹。乳难。金创。风痉。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop Cold invasion, to stop annoying hotness feeling, to stop continuous urine drops after urination, to stop Xie Qi, to solve mass or tumor in the body, to solve throat Bi syndrome, to improve breast milk secretion, to heal wound due to metal hurt, and to sop spasm due to Wind invasion.

 

白芷

Bai Zhi (Radix Angelicae Dahuricae)

味辛温。主女人漏下赤白。血闭阴肿。寒热风头。侵目泪出。长肌肤润泽。可作面脂。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop contineous bleeding from uterus, to solve female discharge, to heal blood sweeling in sexual organ, to cure headache due to Cold, Hot, and Wind invasion, to stop tearing, to nourish skin and make skin smooth and soft.

 

淫羊藿

Yin Yang Huo (epimedium herb, Epimedium brevicornum)

味辛寒。主阴痿绝伤。茎中痛。利小便。益气力。强志。一名刚前。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to improve sexual organs, to solve severe hurt, to stop pain in penis, to smooth urination, to nourish physical energy and to strengthen will power.

 

黄芩

Huang Qin (Scutellaria baicalensis, Scutellaria baicalensis)

味苦平。主诸热黄胆。肠泄利。逐水下血闭。恶创疽蚀火疡。一名腐肠。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve various fever, to solve jaundice, to stop diarrhea, to expel extra water in the body, to expel accumulated dead blood in reproductive organs, and to heal severe wound, carbuncle, ulcer, burning.

 

狗脊

Gou Ji (rhizoma cibotii, Cibotium barometz)

味苦平。主腰背强关机缓急。周痹寒湿。膝痛。颇利老人。一名百枝。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to relax muscle in lower back and spine, to solve Bi syndrome due to Cold and Wetness invasion, to stop pain in the knee. It is good for ole person.

 

石龙芮

Shi Long Rui (Ranunculus sceleratus L.)

味苦平。主风寒湿痹。心腹邪气。利关节。止烦满。久服轻身。明目不老。

 

白茅根

Bai Mao Gen (Rhizoma Imperatae, Imperata cylindrica)

味甘寒。主劳伤虚羸。补中益气。除瘀血血闭。寒热。利小便。其苗主下水。一名兰根。一名茹根。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to improve severe weakness condition of the body, to nourish Qi, to remove accumulated dead blood, to dispel Cold and Fire, to smooth urination. Its sprout works to improve urination and to solve swelling.

 

紫菀

Zi Wan (tartarian aster)

味苦温。主咳逆上气。胸中寒热结气。去蛊毒, 痿蹶。安五脏。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop cough, to remove accumulated Cold-Fire in the chest, to dispel disease-inducing insects, to solve paralysis, and to calm and nourish organs.

 

紫草

Zi Cao (Alkanna tinctoria, Lithospermum erythrorhizon)

味苦寒。主心腹邪气。五疸。补中益气。利九窍。通水道。一名紫丹。一名紫芙。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dispel Xie Qi in chest and in stomach-intestine system, to dissolve jaundice, to nourish Qi, to clear body openings (such as eyes, ears, nose, throat, anus, penis), and to ease urine tract.

 

败酱草

Bai Jiang Cao (atrina glass, Patrinia scabiosaefolia)

味苦平。主暴热火创。赤气疥搔。疽痔。马鞍热气。一名鹿肠。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve acute Fire attack and burning would, and to solve Fire invasion, itch, scabies, carbuncle, hernia, skin illness inside of thigh.

 

白藓皮

Bai Xuan Pi (dictamni cortex, Dictamnus dasycarpus)

味苦寒。主头风。黄胆咳逆。淋沥。女子阴中肿痛。湿痹死肌。不可屈伸。起止行步。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dispel Wind in head, to dissolve jaundice and cough, to stop continuous urine after urination, to solve pain in vagina, to heal Wetness Bi syndrome and to remove dead skin and muscle, to improve joint stretch and bend, and to improve start and stop of walking motion.

 

酸酱

Suan Jiang (Chinese lantern plant)

味酸平。主热烦满。定志益气。利水道。产难吞其实立产。一名醋酱。

 

紫参

Zi Shen (salvia chinensis)

味苦辛寒。主心腹积聚。寒热邪气。通九窍。利大小便。一名牡蒙。

Nature: It is bitter and spicy in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dispel accumulated Xie Qi in the chest and stomach-intestine system, to clear body openings (such as eyes, ears, nose, throat, mouth, anus, penis and vagina), and to ease urination and bowel movement.

 

槁本

Gao Ben (Ligusticum. sinense)

味辛温。主妇人疝瘕。阴中寒肿痛。腹中急。除风头痛。长肌肤。说颜色。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve mass or tumor in female reproductive system, to stop pain, cold and swelling in penis, to stop acute pain in stomach, to remove Wind-attacking headache, to promote growth of muscle and to brighten skin.

 

石苇

Shi Wei (herba pyrrosiae, Pyrrosia lingua)

味苦平。主劳热邪气。五癃闭不通。利小便水道。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Hot or Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve exhausting Fever and Xie Qi, to open urine tract, to promote urination.

 

萆薢

Bi Xie (Rhizoma Dioscoreae Hypoglaucae)

味苦平。主腰背痛。强骨节。风寒湿周痹。恶创不瘳。热气。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function:  It works to solve pain in low back, to strengthen bone and joint, to solve Bi syndrome of Wind, Cold and Wetness style, to heal severe and hard-to-cure ulcer, and to dispel Fire from body.

 

白薇

Bai Wei (blackend swallowwort root)

味苦平。主暴中风。身热肢满。忽忽不知人。狂惑邪气。寒热酸痛。温疟洗洗。发作有时。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop acute and severe Wind attack to the body, to reduce fever and swelling feeling in arms and legs, to awaken mind so to solve cloudy mind (the person is hard to recognize relatives or friends), to calm down madness, to solve sour pain due to Cold or Hot, and to stop fever-chilly feeling in a disease such as in malaria (the fever-chilly comes in regular time schedule).

 

水萍

Shui Ping (duckweed)

味辛寒。主暴热身痒。下水气。胜酒。长须发。消渴。久服轻身。

 

王瓜

Wang Guo (Trichosanthes cucumeroides)

味苦寒。主消渴内痹。瘀血。月闭。寒热酸疼。益气愈聋。一名土瓜。

 

地榆

Di Yu (garden burnet)

味苦微寒。主妇人乳痛。七伤带下病。止痛。除恶肉。止汗。疗金创。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is slight Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop breast pain, to solve disorder in discharge, to stop various pain, to clear dead muscle from body, to stop sweat, and to heal metal wound.

 

海藻

Hai Zao (seaweed)

味苦寒。主瘿瘤气头下核。破散结气。痈肿症瘕坚气。腹中上下鸣。下十二水肿。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to cure mass or tumor in thyroid, or in lympha noid enlargement, to break blocked or accumulated Qi, to treat mass or tumor in the body, to calm down intestine noise, and to remove extra water due to various reasons.

 

泽兰

Ze Lan (herba lycopi, Lycopus lucidus)

味苦微温。主乳妇内衄。中风余疾。大腹水肿。身面四肢浮肿。骨节中水。金创。痈肿。创脓。一名虎兰。一名龙枣。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is slight Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve breast illness, bleeding in breast, to solve Wind attack (such as epilepsy, spasm, stroke), to solve edema, ascites, swelling in arms and legs, and in joints. It works to cure metal hurt or wound, to treat carbuncle and pus formation.

 

防己

Fang Ji (Stephania tetrandra)

味辛平。主风寒温疟。热气。诸痫。除邪。利大小便。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Wind- or Cold-malaria, to sole fever, to stop various epilepsy, to dispel Xie Qi, and to promote urination and bowel movement.

 

款冬花

Kuan Dong Hua (common coltsfoot flower, Tussilago farfara,)

味辛温。主咳逆上气。善喘。喉痹。诸惊痫。寒热邪气。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop cough and asthma, to cure throat Bi syndrome (chronic throat illness), to solve spasm, epilepsy, seizure, and to solve Cold and Fire Xie Qi.

 

牡丹

Mu Dan Pi (the root bark of the peony tree)

味辛寒。主寒热。中风。螈痉惊痫。邪气。除症坚。瘀血留舍肠胃。安五脏。疗痈创。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dispel Cold and Fire, to solve Wind attackk syndrome, to stop seizure, epilepsy, spasm, to dispel Xie Qi, to dissolve mass or tumor, to remove accumulated dead blood in stomach-intestine, to calm down organs and to heal carbuncle and wound.

 

马先蒿

Ma Xian Hao

味平。主寒热。鬼注。中风湿痹。女子带下病无子。一名马屎蒿。

 

积雪草

Ji Xue Cao

味苦寒。主大热恶创痈疽。浸淫赤。皮肤赤身热。

 

女菀

Nu Yuan

味辛温。主风洗洗霍乱。泄利。肠鸣。上下无常处。惊痫寒热百疾。

 

王孙

Wang Sun

味苦平。主五脏邪气。寒湿痹。四肢疼酸。膝冷痛。

 

蜀羊泉

Shu Yang Quan (dulcamara)

味苦微寒。主头秃。恶创热气。疥搔痂癣。虫疗龋齿。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is slight Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to treat hair loss, to heal severe wound and Fire attack, to treat scabies and psoriasis, to treat decayed tooth.

 

嚼床

Jue Chuang

微咸寒。主腰脊痛。不得着床。俯仰艰难。除热可作浴汤。

 

假苏

Jia Su

味辛温。主寒热鼠。瘰生创。破结聚气。下瘀血。除湿痹。一名鼠。

 

翘根

Qiao Gen

味甘。寒平。主下热气。益阴精。令人面悦好。明目。久服轻身耐老。

 

桑根白皮

Sang Gen Bai Pi (White part of mulberry roots)

味甘寒。主伤中。五劳六极。羸瘦崩中。脉绝。补虚益气。叶。主除寒热出汗。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve hurt or weakness in the stomach-intestine part of the body, to solve deficient condition of the body, to improve extremely slim condition, to improve no-pulse condition, to nourish Qi. Its leaves work to dispel Cold and Fire and improve sweat.

 

桑耳

Sang Er

桑耳黑者。主女子漏下赤白汁血病。症瘕积聚。阴补阴阳寒热。无子。五木耳名。益气不饥。轻身强志。

 

竹叶

Zhu Ye (bamboo leaves)

味苦平。主咳逆上气。溢筋急。恶疡。杀小虫。根。作汤益气止渴。补虚下气。汁。

主风。实。通神明。轻身益气。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop cough or asthma, to calm muscle spasm, to heal severe wound or ulcer, to kill insects. Its root works to nourish Qi and to stop thirsty feeling, and to improve energy down-movement. Its juice works to dispel Wind.

 

吴茱萸

Wu Zhu Yu (evodia rutaecarpa)

味辛温。主温中下气。止痛咳逆。寒热。除湿血痹。逐风邪。开腠理。根杀三虫。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to warm stomach-intestine part of the body, to stop pain, to stop cough and nausea, to dissolve Cold and Fire, to remove Wetness and to treat Blood Bi syndrome (such numb), to dispel Wind Xie Qi, to open and lose muscle. Its root works to kill parasites.

 

栀子

Zhi Zi (Cape jasmine, Gardenia jasminoides)

味苦寒。主五内邪气。胃中热气。面赤酒炮。鼻白赖。赤癞。创疡。一名木丹。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dispel Xie Qi in all organs, to reduce Hotness in stomach, to solve red face and ecne in face, to treat red nose rash, eczema, and wound.

 

芜荑

Wu Yi

味辛。主五内邪气。散皮肤骨节中淫淫温行毒。去三虫。化食。

 

枳实

Zhi Shi (immature orange fruit, Citrus aurantium)

味苦寒。主大风在皮肤中。如麻豆苦痒。除寒热结。止利。长肌肉。利五脏。益气轻身。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dispel Wind that is within skin. The skin feels very itchy. It works to dispel Cold and Fire, to stop diarrhea, to improve growth of muscle, to improve function of all organs, to nourish Qi and improve weight loss.

 

浓朴

Hou Pu (Mangnolia officinalis, Magnolia officinalis)

味苦温。主中风伤寒头痛。寒热惊悸。气血痹死肌。去三虫。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Wind or Cold attack that causes fever, chilly, and headache. It works to stop spasm and palpitation, to solve Qi Bi syndrome and Blood Bi syndrome, and to remove dead muscle, and to kill various parasites.

 

秦皮

Qin Pi (the bark of ash, Fraxinus rhynchophylla)

味苦微寒。主风寒湿痹。洗洗寒气。除热。目中青翳白膜。久服头不白。轻身。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is slight Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve various Bi syndrome, to remove chilly feeling, to remove fever too. It works to treat various cataract. Its long time use helps to keep black color in hair and to lose body weight.

 

秦菽

Qin Jiao ()

味辛温。主风邪气。温中。除寒痹。坚齿发。明目。久服轻身。好颜色。耐老增年。通神。

 

山茱萸

Shan Zhu Yu (asiatic cornelian cherry fruit, Cornus officinalis)

味酸平。主心下邪气。寒热温中。逐寒湿痹。去三虫。久服轻身。一名蜀枣。

Nature: It is sour in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Xie Qi that is accumulated in stomach area, to solve Cold or Fire, to warm stomach-intestine, to dispel Cold-Wetness Bi syndrome, and to kill various parasites. Its long time use helps to lose body weight.  

 

紫葳

Zi Wei

味酸微寒。主妇人产乳余疾。崩中症瘕。血闭寒热。羸瘦。养胎。

 

猪苓

Zhu Ling (Polyporus Umbellatus)

味甘平。主疟。解毒蛊蛀不祥。利水道。久服轻身耐老。一名猪屎。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal therapy.

Function: It works to cure malaria, to detoxify, to calm down emotion, and to improve urination. Its long time use helps to lose body weight.

 

白棘

Bai Jili (Tribulus terrestris)

味辛寒。主心腹痛。痈肿溃脓止痛。一名棘针。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve pain in chest and in stomach-intestine, to treat carbundle, pus swelling by breaking it open and stopping pain.

 

龙眼肉

Long Yan Rou (Arillus Longan)

味甘平。主五脏邪气。安志。厌食。久服强魂。聪明。轻身不老。通神明。一名益智。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Xie Qi in various organs, to calm willing and emotion, and to solve low appetite. Its long time use helps to strengthen will and spirit, to improve intelligence, to lose body weight and to conduct with spirit.

 

松萝

Song Luo

味苦平。主怒邪气。止虚汗头风。女子阴寒肿病。一名女萝。

 

卫矛

Wei Mao

味苦寒。主女子崩中下血。腹满汗出。除邪杀鬼毒。虫注。一名鬼箭。

 

合欢皮

He Huan Pi (silktree albizia bark, Albizia julibrissin)

味甘平。主安五脏。利心志令人欢乐无忧。久服轻身。明目得所欲。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to calm five major organs, and to make happy feeling. Its long time use helps to lose weight, to brighten eyes and to reach desire.

 

白马茎

Bai Ma Jing

味咸平。主伤中脉绝阴不起。强志益气。长肌肉肥健。生子。眼。主惊痫腹满疟疾。当杀用之悬。蹄。主惊邪螈。乳难。辟恶气。鬼毒。虫注。不祥。

 

鹿茸

Lu Rong (pilose deer horn)

味甘温。主漏下恶血。寒热惊痫。益气强志。生齿不老。角。主恶疮痈肿。逐邪恶气。留血在阴中。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to treat uterus bleeding and accumulated dead blood in uterus, to solve Cold and Fire typ spasm and epilepsy, to nourish Qi and strengthen will, to improve teeth and to retard age. The Deer horn works to cure severe wound, hurt and carbundle, to dispel Xie Qi, and to dissolve dead blood left in uterus.

 

牛角

Cow Horn

下闭血瘀血。疼痛。女人带下血。髓补中填骨髓。久服增年。胆可丸药。

It works to remove dead blood in uterus, to solve pain, to treat female discharge and bleeding from uterus. The marrow inside the horn works to nourish bone marrow. Its long time use helps to retard age.

 

羊角

Yi Yang Jiao (Yi sheep horn)

味咸温。主青盲明目。杀疥虫。止寒泄。辟恶鬼虎野狼。止惊悸。久服安心益气。轻身。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve various tacaract and to brigten vision, to kill scabies, to stop Cold diarrhea, to prevent bite from wild animals, to stop scare, spasm and palpitation. Its long term use helps to calm emotion, nourish energy and to lose body weight.

 

牡狗阴茎

Mu Gou Yin Jing (the penis of male dog)

味咸平。主伤中阴痿不起。令强热大生子。除女子带下十二疾。一名狗精胆。主明目。

 

羚羊角

Ling Yang Jiao (antelope horn)

味咸寒。主明目益气。起阴去恶血。注下辟蛊毒。恶鬼不祥。安心气。常不厌寐。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to brighten vision, to nourish energy, to remove dead blood in uterus, to calm spirit to prevent ghost feeling, to calm heart, and to improve sleeping.

 

犀角

Xi Jiao (rhinoceros horn)

味苦寒。主百毒虫注。邪鬼障气。杀钩吻鸩羽蛇毒。除邪不迷惑厌寐。久服轻身。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to kill various parasites or insects, to dispel Xie Qi and ghosts, to detoxify various poisons, to restore clear mind (waking up mind, emotion, spirit) and keep mind alurt. Its long time intake helps to lose body weight.

 

燕屎

Yan Shi (swallow faeces)

味辛平。主蛊毒鬼注。逐不祥邪气。破五癃。利小便。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is not too Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dispel vaious poisons and ghost (bad spiritual influence), to dispel unlucky factors or Xie Qi, to break blocks to the urination so to improve urination.

 

天鼠屎

Tian Shu Shi (Bian Fu Shi) (bat faeces)

味辛寒。主面痈肿。皮肤洗洗时痛。肠中血气。破寒热积聚。除惊悸。一名夜明砂。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve swelling and carbundle in face, to solve pain in skin from time to time, to solve Bood-Qi pain in intestine, to break Cold or Hot accumulated mass or tumor, and to calm down emotion so to solve scare and palpitation.

 

猬皮

Wei Pi (hedgehog skin and fur)

味苦平。主五痔阴蚀。下血赤白。五色血汁不止。阴肿痛引要背。酒煮杀之。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not too Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve various hermoroids and ulcer in sexual organs, to stop bleeding from uterus and to stop various discharges, and to solve pain that is in testis and expands to lower back of the body.

 

露蜂房

Lu Feng Fang (nidus vespae, the net of bee)

味苦平。主惊痫螈。寒热邪气。疾鬼精蛊毒。肠痔, 火熬之良。一名蜂肠。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not too Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve scared, epilepsy, to solve Cold and Fire Xie Qi, to dispel various poisons, ghosts and bad spiritual things, to solve hermroids.

 

鳖甲

Bie Jia (turtle shell)

味咸平。主心腹症瘕坚积。寒热。去痞、息肉、阴蚀、痔、恶肉。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is not too Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve mass or tumor in stomach-intestine area, to dispel Cold or Fire, to solve bloating feeling, polypus, ulcer in sexual organs, hermrrhoid, and cancer.

 

Xie (crab)

味咸寒。主胸中邪气热结痛。僻面肿。败漆烧之致鼠。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Xie Qi, Hotness, and knob pain in chest, to treat swelling in face.

 

柞蝉

Zha Can (cicada)

味咸寒。主小儿惊痫夜啼。病寒热。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve child epilepsy, and night crying. It works to solve Fire or Cold attack to the body.

 

蛴螬

Qi Cao

味咸微温。主恶血血瘀。痹气。破折血在胁下坚满痛。月闭。目中淫肤。青翳白膜。

一名蛴。

 

乌贼鱼骨

Wu Zai Gu (inkfish bone)

味咸微温。主女子漏下赤白经汁。血闭阴蚀肿痛。寒热症瘕。无子。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is slight warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve uterus bleeding and disorder in discharge, to solve cessation of menstruation, ulcer, swelling and pain in female sexual organ, to solve mass or tumor in belly, to solve Cold or Fire attack to the body, and to solve infertility.

 

白僵蚕

Bai Jiang Can (silkworm larva)

味咸。主小儿惊痫夜啼。去三虫。灭黑。令人面色好。男子阴疡病。

Nature: It is salty in taste.

Function: It works to solve child spasm, epilepsy and night crying, to kill various parasites, to whiten skin so to brighten face, to cure ulcer in male sexual organ (penis and testis).

 

蛇鱼甲

She Yu Jia (Alligator sinensis)

味辛微温。主心腹症瘕。伏坚积聚。寒热。女子崩中。下血五色。小腹阴中相引痛。创疥死肌。

 

樗鸡

Shu Ji (Hong Niang Zi) (Lycorma delicatula White)

味苦平。主心腹邪气。阴痿。益精强志。生子。好色。补中。轻身。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dispel Xie Qi in the chest and in stomach-intestine area, to treat inability in sexual activity, to nourish energy, to strengthen will, to promote fertility, to improve sexual desire, to improve energy movement and to lose body weight.

 

蛞蝓

Kuo Yu

味咸寒。主贼风僻。轶筋及脱肛。惊痫挛缩。一名陵蠡。

 

石龙子

Shi Long Zi (lizard)

味咸寒。主五癃邪结气破。石淋下血。利小便水道。一名蜥蜴。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to break and solve block to the urine tract, to solve urinary stone and bleeding, to improve urination.

 

木虻

Mu Meng ()

味苦平。主目赤痛。伤泪出。瘀血血闭。寒热酸。无子。

 

蜚虻

Fei Meng

味苦微寒。主逐瘀血。破下血。积坚。痞症瘕。寒热。通利血脉及九窍。

 

蜚廉

Fei Liang

味咸寒。主血瘀。症坚寒热。破积聚。喉咽痹。内寒。无子。

 

Zhe Chong (Chinese Polyphaga)

味咸寒。主心腹寒热洗洗。血积症瘕。破坚。下血闭。生子大良。一名地鳖。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Cold or Hot feeling in the chest and in stomach-intestine, to break and dissolve blood mass or accumulation, to break and soften the hard mass or tumor, to break dead blood in uterus, to improve fertility.

 

伏翼

Fu Yi (Bian Fu) (bat)

味咸平。主目瞑明目。夜视有精光。久服令人喜乐。媚好无忧。一名蝙蝠。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to improve sleeping, to brighten vision, to improve vision at dark or at night. Its long time use helps to feel happy, to have desire for sexual things.

 

梅实

Mei Shi (plum kernel)

味酸平。主下气。除热烦满。安心肢体痛。偏枯不仁。死肌。去青黑志。恶疾。

Nature: It is sour in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to move energy downwards, to reduce Fire, to remove annoying bloating feeling, to calm down pain in arms or legs, to solve paralysis, muscle shrinken, to remove dead muscle, to remove blue or black mole, and to remove severe and malignant illness.

 

大豆黄卷

Da Dou Huang Juan (semen sojae germinatum)

味甘平。主湿痹。筋挛膝痛。生大豆。涂痈肿。煮汁饮。杀鬼毒止痛。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Wetness Bi syndrome (a kind of arthritis), to lose muscle spasm or tendon spasm and to solve pain in the knee. The juice of the cooked, original, soy bean works to treat carbundle, when it is smeared on the carbundle. Its boiled juice works to kill ghost, poison, and to stop pain.

 

赤小豆

Chi Xiao Dou (red phaseolus bean)

主下水。排痈肿脓血。

Function: It works to promote urination and to solve swelling, and to expel pus in a carbundle or a pus mss.

 

粟米

Su Mi (maize; corn)

味咸微寒。主养肾气。去胃脾中热。益气。陈者味苦。主胃热消渴。利小便。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is slight Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to nourish Kidney Qi, to remove Fire in stomach-intestine. Long time stored corn tastes bitter and works to solve Fire in stomach, to solve thirsty and to improve urination.

 

黍米

Shu Mi (Huang Mi) (milled glutinous broomcorn)

味甘温。主益气补中。多热令人烦。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It nourishes Qi and improves meddle stomach-intestine system. Long term use of it may cause hotness feeling and annoyed feeling.

 

蓼实

Liao Shi

味辛温。主明目温中。耐风寒。下水气。面目浮肿。痈疡。马蓼。去肠中蛭虫。轻身。

 

葱实

Cong Shi

味辛温。主明目。补中不足。其茎可作汤。主伤寒寒热出汗中风面目肿。。味辛温。主金创。创败。轻身不饥耐老。

水苏

Shui Su

味辛微温。主下气。辟口臭。去毒辟恶。久服通神明。轻身耐老。

 

 

神农本草经下经(下品)

Xia Pin (Lower class herbs)

 

锻石

Duane Shi (Limestone)

味辛温。主疽疡。疥搔。热气恶创。癞疾。死肌堕眉。杀痔虫。去黑子息肉。一名垩灰。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to treat carbundle, ulcer, scabies, severe wound, leprosy, to solve burning or severe metle wound or hurt, to remove dead muscle, to improve eyebrown loss, to kill parasite in anus, to remove black mole and polypus.

 

礜石

Yu Shi ()

味辛。大热。主寒热。鼠。蚀创死肌。风痹腹中坚。一名青分石。一名立制石。一名固羊石。

 

铅丹

Qian Dan ()

味辛。微寒。主上逆胃反。惊痫疾。除热下气。炼化还成九光。久服通神明。

 

粉锡

Xi Feng ()

味辛寒。主伏尸毒螫。杀三虫。一名解锡。锡镜鼻。主女子血闭。症瘕伏肠绝孕。

 

代赭石

Dai Zhe Shi (red ocher)

味苦寒。主鬼注贼风。蛊毒。杀精物恶鬼。腹中毒邪气。女子赤沃漏下。一名须丸。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dispel ghost, Xie Qi, and poisonous Xie Qi, to kill spiritual thing, to dispel Xie Qi in the stomach-intestine, to solve female bleeding from uterus.

 

戎盐

Rong Yan (halite)

主明目。目痛。益气坚肌骨。去毒蛊。大盐令人吐。卤盐。味苦寒。主大热消渴狂烦。除邪及下蛊毒。柔肌肤。

It works to brighten vision, to solve pain in eyes, to nourish Qi (improve energy flow), to strengthen bone and muscle, to dissolve poisonous things. Heavy intake causes vomiting. Lu Yan is bitter in taste and is Cold in herbal nature. Lu Yan works to solve fever, thirsty, madness and annoyed, to dispel Xie Qi and poisonous thing, and to soften skin.

 

白垩

Bai E (chalk)

味苦温。主女子寒热。症瘕目闭。积聚。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Cold and Hot in female, to dissolve various mass or tumor in the body.

 

冬灰

Dong Hui

味辛。微温。主黑子去息肉。疽蚀疥搔。一名藜灰。

 

青琅

Qing Lang

味辛平。主身痒。火创痈伤。疥搔死肌。一名石珠。

 

附子

Fu Zi (monkshood, Aconitum carmichaeli)

味辛温。主风寒咳逆。邪气温中。金创。破症坚积聚血瘕。寒热痿。拘挛膝痛。不能行步。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Wind-Cold attack to the body, to stop cough, to warm stomach-intestine, to heal metal cut or wound, to break various mass, tumor or accumulations, to solve paralysis due to Cold or Fire, to ease spasm in knee that prevents walk.

 

乌头

Wu Tou (the rhizome of Chinese monkshood)

味辛温。主中风恶风。洗洗出汗。除寒湿痹。咳逆上气。破积聚寒热。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Wind attack, to stop the feeling of dislike in wind, sweat, to solve Cold-Wetness Bi syndrome (a kind of arthritis), to stop cough and to break various mass or tumor that is Cold or Fire nature.

 

天雄

Tian Xiong ()

味辛温。主大风寒湿痹。节痛。拘挛缓急。破积聚邪气。金创。强筋骨。轻身健行。一名白幕。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to remove strong Wind attack, to solve Wind-Cold-Wetness Bi syndrome (arthritis), to solve pain in joints, to ease spasm in muscle and tendons, to break accumulated mass or tumor or Xie Qi, to cure metal wound, to strengthen bone and tendons, to lose body weight and to improve walking.

 

半夏

Ban Xia (Pinellia ternata)

味辛平。主伤寒寒热。心下坚。下气。喉咽肿痛。头眩胸胀。咳逆肠鸣止汗。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve fever and chilly feeling due to Cold attack to the body, to solve hard mass feeling in stomach, to conduct energy flowing downwards, to stop swelling and pain in throat, to solve dizziness and bloating feeling in chest, to stop cough, bowel noise and to stop sweat.

 

虎掌草

Hu Zhang Cao (brook anemone)

味苦温。主心痛。寒热结气。积聚伏梁。伤筋痿拘缓。利水道。

 

鸢尾草

Yuan Wei Cao (orris)

味苦平。主蛊毒邪气。鬼注诸毒。破症瘕积聚。去水。下三虫。

 

大黄

Da Huang (rheum officinale, Rheum palmatum)

味苦寒。主下瘀血闭。寒热。破症瘕积聚。留饮宿食。荡涤肠胃。推陈致新。通利水谷道。调中化食。安利五脏。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dissolve and dispel dead and accumulated dead blood in the lower part of the stomach-intestine, to solve Cold and Fire attacks, to break various mass or accumulations (such as tumor) in the body, to dispel accumulated water or old and not digested food in stomach, to clear stomach-intestine, to remove old stuff and to create new and fresh tissue in the body, to ease urine tract and bowel movement, to balance the stomach and digestive system, to calm all organs.

 

葶苈

Ting Li Zi (Semen Lepidii)

味辛寒。主症瘕积聚, 结气,   饮食寒热, 破坚。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dissolve accumulated mass or tumor-like stuff in the body, to dissolve accumulated non-digested food.

 

桔梗

Jie Gen (Platycodon grandiflorum)

味辛微温。主胸胁痛如刀刺。腹满肠鸣幽幽。惊恐悸气。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is slight Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop pain in chest that feels as knife cut, to solve belly bloating feeling, to calm down intestine noise, and to calm down scare, palpitation feeling.  

莨荡子

Lang Dang Zi ()

味苦寒。主齿痛出虫。肉痹拘急。使人健行见鬼。多食令人狂走。久服轻身。走及奔马。强志益力通神。

 

草蒿

Cao Hao (Artemisia apiacea)

味苦寒。主疥搔痂痒。恶创。杀虱留热在骨间。明目。一名青蒿。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve scabies, crust, ichy, to cure severe metal wound, to kill louse, to solve Fire that is accumulated inbetween bones, and to brighten eyes.

 

旋复花

Xuan Fu Hua (inula flower, Inula japonica)

味咸温。主结气。胁下满。惊悸。除水。去五脏间寒热。补中下气。一名金沸草。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function; It works to dissolve accumulated Qi (bloating feeling), to solve swelling and bloating feeling beside chest, to calm down scare and palpitation, to dispel extra water from body, to dispel Cold and Fire in organs, and to nourish energy and conduct Qi move downwards. 

 

藜芦

Li Lu (black false hellebore)

味辛寒。主蛊毒。咳逆。泄利。肠。头疡。疥搔。恶创。杀诸蛊毒。去死肌。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dissolve poison, to stop cough and diarrhea, to solve scalp ulcer and scabies, to solve severe metal wound, to kill various parasites and to remove dead muscle.

 

钩吻

Gou Wen

味辛温。主金创乳。中恶风。咳逆上气。水肿。杀鬼注蛊毒。一名野葛。

 

射干

She Gan (blackberry lily, Belamcanda chinensis)

味苦平。主咳逆上气。喉痹咽痛。不得消息。散急气。腹中邪逆。食饮大热。一名乌扇。一名乌蒲。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not too Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop cough, to solve pain in throat, to release acute Qi block, and to stop stomach pain due to reversed or massed Qi in the belly.

 

蛇合

She He

味苦微寒。主惊痫。寒热邪气。除热。金创。疽痔鼠。恶疮头疡。一名蛇衔。

 

恒山

Hen Shan

味苦寒。主伤寒。寒热。热发温疟鬼毒。胸中痰结。吐逆。一名互草。

 

蜀漆

Shu Qi (antifebrile dichroa branchlet and leaf)

味辛平。主疟及咳逆寒热。腹中症坚痞结。积聚邪气。蛊毒鬼注。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop malaria, to stop cough, to solve Cold and Fire attack to the body, to dissolve various mass or tumor in the belly, to break blocked Qi and Xie Qi, and to kill various poisoning and ghost.

 

甘遂

Gan Shui (kanziol)

味甘寒。主大腹疝瘕腹满。面目浮肿。留饮宿食。破症坚积聚。利水谷道。一名主田。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve bloating, mass or tumor in belly, to solve swelling in face and eyes, to dissolve accumulated non-digested food in stomach, and to make easy for urination.

 

白蔹

Bai Lian (radix ampelopsis)

味苦平。主痈肿。疽疮。散结气。止痛除热。目中赤。小儿惊痫温疟。女子阴中肿痛。一名兔核。一名白草。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal therapy.

Function: It works to cure carbundle, scabies, ulcer, and wound, to stop pain and dissolve fever, to solve red eyes, to stop child scare, epilepsy, and malaria, and to solve pain and swelling in vagina and uterus.

 

青葙子

Qin Xiang Zi (feather cockscomb seed)

味苦微寒。主邪气。皮肤中热。风搔身痒。杀三虫。子名草决明。疗唇口青。一名草蒿。一名萋蒿。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is slight Cold in herbal therapy nature.

Function: It works to dispel Xie Qi, to solve hot feeling in skin, to stop ichy in skin, to kill various parasites. Its seeds is called Cao Jue Ming, which works to solve blue-purple color on mouth lips.

 

Huan Jun

味咸平。主心痛。温中。去长虫。白。蛲虫。蛇螫毒。症瘕诸虫。一名雚芦

 

白芨

Bai Ji (common bletilla tuber, Bletilla striata)

味苦平。主痈肿。恶创。败疽。疡阴。死肌。胃中邪气。贼风鬼击。痱缓不收。一名甘根。一名连芨草。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal therapy.

Function: It works to cure carbundle and swelling, severe wound and deep-rooted ulcer and dead muscle. It is to dispel Xie Qi in stomach, ghost attacks, to solve muscle weakness or paralysis.

 

大戟

Da Ji (root of Beijing euphorbia)

味苦寒。主蛊毒。十二水肿满。急痛。积聚中风。皮肤疼痛。吐逆。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal therapy nature.

Function: It works to dispel various poison things, to solve various kinds of swelling, to stop acute pain, to dissolve various accumulated mass, to stop Wind attack, to solve pain in skin, and to stop vomit and cough.

 

泽漆

Ze Qi (wartwort)

味苦微寒。主皮肤热。大腹水气。四肢面目浮肿。丈夫阴气不足。

 

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is slight Cold in herbal therapy.

Function: It works to solve fever in skin, to treat ascites and swelling in face, arms and legs, and to solve Yin deficient condition in male.

 

茵芋

Yin Yu

味苦温。主五脏邪气。心腹寒热。羸瘦如疟状。发作有时。诸关节风湿痹痛。

 

贯众

Guan Zhong (Cyrtomium fortunei)

味苦微寒。主腹中邪热气诸毒。杀三虫。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is slight Cold in herbal therapy.

Function: It works to solve Xie Qi (Fire type) in the belly and to kill various parasites.

 

荛花

Rao Hua (Laplacea canescens)

味苦平寒。主伤寒温疟。下十二水。破积聚大坚症瘕。荡涤肠胃中留癖饮食。寒热邪气。利水道。

 

牙子

Ya Zi

味苦寒。主邪气。热气。疥搔。恶疡。创痔。去白虫。一名野狼牙。

 

羊踯躅

Yang Zhi Shu (Rhododendron sinensis Sweet.)

味辛温。主贼风在皮肤中淫淫痛。温疟恶毒诸痹。一名闹羊花。

 

商陆

Shang Lu (pokeberry root)

味辛平。主水胀。疝瘕痹。熨除痈肿。杀鬼精物。一名根。一名夜呼。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal therapy.

Function: It works to solve swelling and ascites, to treat hernia and various accumulated mass or tumor, to solve carbundle and swelling, and to kill ghost and spiritual things.

 

羊蹄 (董草)

Yang Ti

味苦寒。主头秃疥搔除热女子阴蚀。一名东方宿。一名连虫陆。一名鬼目。

 

萹蓄

Bian Xu (Polygonum aviculare)

味辛平。主浸淫。疥搔疽痔。杀三虫。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve wet ulcer, itchy skin rash, scabies, deep-rooted ulcer and hermoroid, and to kill various parasites.

 

野狼毒

Ye Lang Du

味辛平。主咳逆上气。破积聚饮食。寒热。水气。恶创。鼠。疽蚀。鬼精。蛊毒。杀飞虫走兽。一名续毒。

 

白头翁

Bai Tou Wen (the root of Chinese pulsatilla)

味苦温。主温疟狂易。寒热症瘕。积聚瘿气。逐邪止痛。疗金创。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to treat malaria and madness, to solve Cold and Fire attack to the body, to solve various mass or tumor in the body, to dispel Xie Qi, to stop pain and to cure metal wound.

 

鬼臼

Gui Yao

味辛温。主杀蛊毒。鬼注精物。辟恶气不祥。逐邪。解百毒。

 

羊桃

Yang Tao

味苦寒。主热身暴赤色。风水。积聚。恶疡。除小儿热。

 

女青

Nui Qing

味辛平。主蛊毒。逐邪恶气。杀鬼温疟。辟不祥。

 

连翘

Liang Qiao (Fructus Forsythiae)

味苦平。主寒热,鼠瘘,瘰疬,痈肿,恶创,瘿瘤,结热,蛊毒。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Cold and Fire attack to the body, to treat fistula, lymphnoid enlargement, carbundle, severe wound or hurt, tumor in thyroid, blocked Fire knob, and poisoning things.

 

兰茹

Lan Ru

味辛寒。主蚀恶肉。败创死肌。杀疥虫。排脓恶血。除大风热气。善忘不乐。

 

乌韭

Wu Jiu

味甘寒。主皮肤。往来寒热。利小肠膀胱气。

 

鹿藿

Lu Huo

味苦平。主蛊毒。女子腰腹痛不乐。肠痈瘰疡气。

 

蚤休

Zao Xiu (bistortae,rhizoma)

味苦微寒。主惊痫。摇头弄舌。热气在腹中。疾痈创。阴蚀。下三虫。去蛇毒。一名蚩休。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is slight Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve scare and epilepsy, shanking head and moving tongue, to solve accumulated Fire in belly, to sove carbundle and wound, to cure ulcer in sexual organs, to kill various parasites and insects, and to neutralize snake venom.

 

石长生

Shi Chang Shen

味咸微寒。主寒热。恶创。火热。辟恶气。不祥鬼毒。一名丹草。 

 

荩草

Jin Cao

味苦平。主久咳。上气喘逆。久寒惊悸。痂疥。白秃。疡气。杀皮肤小虫。

今呼为鸱脚莎。诗云。绿竹猗猗是也。资暇集。绿竹王刍也。今为辞赋。皆引猗猗。入竹事大误。

 

牛扁

Niu Bian

味苦微寒。主身皮创热气。可作浴汤。杀牛虱小虫。又疗牛病。

 

夏枯草

Xia Ku Cao (selfheal, Prunella vulgaris)

味苦辛寒。主瘰。鼠。头疮。破症散瘿。结气脚肿。湿痹轻身。

Nature: It is bitter and spicy in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve lymphnoid or thyroid enlargement, fistula, scalp rash or ulcer, to break various mass to tumor tissue, to solve swelling in feet, to solve Wetness Bi syndrome (a kind of arthritis) and to lose body weight.

 

芫花

Yuan Hua

味辛温。主咳逆上气。喉鸣喘。咽肿短气。蛊毒鬼疟。疝瘕痈肿。杀虫鱼。

 

巴豆

Ba Dou (croton seed)

味辛温。主伤寒温疟寒热。破症瘕结聚坚积。留饮痰癖。大腹水胀。荡练五脏六腑。

开通闭塞。利水谷道。去恶内。除鬼毒蛊注邪物。杀虫鱼。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Cold attack to the body, that causes malaria, fever and chilly, to break various mass or tumor, to dispel accumulated extra water or phlegm in the body, to solve ascites, to clear all organs from toxic or blocks, to clear urine tract or intestine, to remove dead tissue from body, to kill ghost stuff or poison, or venom.  

 

蜀菽

Shu Shu

味辛温。主邪气咳逆温中。逐骨节皮肤死肌寒湿痹痛下气。久服之。头不白。身轻增年。

 

皂荚

Zao Jia (Chinese honey locust)

味辛咸温。主风痹死肌。邪气风头。泪出。利九窍。杀精物。

Nature: It is spicy and salty in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Wind Bi syndrome, to remove dead muscle or tissue, to dispel Xie Qi, to solve tearing, to open body openings (such as eyes, nose, ears, throat, anus, vagina, penis, urine tract) and to kill spiritual things.

 

柳华

Liu Hua

味苦寒。主风水黄胆面热黑。一名柳絮。叶主马疥痂创。实主溃痈逐脓血。子汁疗渴。

 

川楝子(金铃子)

Chuan Lian Zi (Fructus Meliae Toosendan)

味苦寒。主温疾伤寒。大热烦狂。杀三虫疥疡。利小便水道。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Cold attack to the body that causes malaria (fever and chilly), to solve fever, annoying feeling and madness, to kill various parasites or insects, and to clear urine tract.

 

郁李仁

Yu Li Ren (Semen Pruni, Prunus japonica)

味酸平。主大腹水肿。面目四肢浮肿。利小便水道。根主齿断肿。龋齿坚齿。一名爵李。

Nature: It is sour in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve ascites and various swelling, and to improve urination. Its root works to solve broken tooth and gum swelling, so as to strengthen tooth and solve decayed tooth.

 

莽草

Mang Cao

味辛温。主风头痈肿。乳痈疝瘕。除结气疥搔。杀虫鱼。

 

雷丸

Lei Wan

味苦寒。主杀三虫。逐毒瓦斯。胃中热。利丈夫。不利女子。作摩膏。除小儿百病。

 

桐叶

Tong Ye

味苦寒。主恶蚀创着阴皮。主五痔。杀三虫。华。主敷猪创。饲猪肥大三倍。

 

梓白皮

Zi Bai Pi (bark of Chinese catalpa)

味苦寒。主热去三虫。叶捣敷猪创。饲猪肥大三倍。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve fever and to kill various parasites and insects.

 

石南

Shi Nan

味辛苦。主养肾气。内伤阴衰。利筋骨皮毛。实。杀蛊毒。破积聚。逐风痹。一名鬼吕。

 

黄环

Huang Huan

味苦平。主蛊毒。鬼注。鬼魅。邪气在脏中。除咳逆寒热。

 

溲疏

Sou Shu

味辛寒。主身皮肤中热。除邪气。止遗溺。可作浴汤。 

 

鼠李

Shu Li

主寒热。瘰创。生田野。

 

药实根

Yao Shi Gen

味辛温。主邪气。诸痹疼酸。续绝伤。补骨髓。一名连木。

 

栾华

Luan Hua

味苦寒。主目痛。泪出伤。消目肿。

 

蔓椒 (两面针)

Man Jiao

味苦温。主风寒湿痹。节疼。除四肢厥气。膝痛。一名家椒。

 

豚卵

Tong Luan

味苦温。主惊痫癫疾。鬼注蛊毒。除寒热。贲豚。五癃。邪气挛缩。

 

麋脂

Mi Zhi

味辛温。主痈肿。恶创死肌。寒风湿痹。四肢拘缓不收。风头肿气。通腠理。

 

六畜毛蹄甲

Mao Ti Jia

味咸平。主鬼注蛊毒。寒热惊痫。狂走。骆驼毛尤良。

 

虾蟆

Xia Mo

味辛寒。主邪气。破症坚血痈肿。阴创。服之不患热病。

 

马刀

Ma Dao

味辛微寒。主漏下赤白。寒热。破石淋。杀禽兽贼鼠。

 

蛇蜕

She Tui (Snake slough)

味咸平。主小儿百二十种惊痫,葜疭、瘨疾,寒热,肠痔,虫毒,蛇痫。火熬之良。一名龙子衣,一名蛇符,一名龙子单衣,一名弓皮。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve various child scare or epilepsy, to solve fever and chilly feeling, to solve hermorrhoid, insect venom, and spasm due to snake bite.

 

蚯蚓

Qiu Yin (earthworm)

味咸寒。主蛇瘕。去三虫。伏尸。鬼注蛊毒。杀长虫。仍自化作水。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve Snake Jia disorder (Snake Jia is a condition, in which the patient feels a mass in the belly, which is movable by pushing and is painful. The person feels hungry but can not eat. If eat, the person feel block in throat so that it is difficult to swallow). It works to kill various parasites or insects, or ghost things. It solves Fu Shi condition (it is a condition, in which the illness is hidden in the body. When it does not break out, the person feels nothing wrong. When it breaks out, the person feels pain and bloating in belly and chest, and feels short of breath). 

 

土蜂

Tu Feng (bee, scoliid)

味辛平。主久聋,咳逆,毒气,出刺出汗。

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve long time deaf, cough, poisoning gas attck, to remove horn out of skin, and stimulate sweat.

 

蜈蚣

Wu Gong (centipede)

味辛温。主鬼注蛊毒,啖诸蛇虫鱼毒,杀鬼物老精,温虐,去三虫。

Nature: It is spicy in taste.

Function: It works to dispel ghost thing and poisoning thing out of body, to solve stomach problem due to eat or bitten by snake, insect, fish, to kill ghost thing, to solve malaria, and to kill various parasites and insects.

 

水蛭

Shui Zhi (leech)

味咸平。主逐恶血淤血,月闭(《御览》作水闭)。破血瘕积聚,无子,利水道。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to dispel dead blood or accumulated blood, to solve cessation of menstruation, to break blood mass or tumor, to improve fertility and to ease urine contract.

 

斑蝥

Ban Zhe (Chinese blister beetle)

味辛寒。  主寒热,鬼注,蛊毒,鼠瘘,恶创,疽蚀,死肌,破石癃

Nature: It is spicy in taste. It is Cold in herbal therapy.

Function: It works to solve Cold or Fire attack, to dispel ghost influence, to treat fistula, severe wound, deep-rooted ulcer, dead muscle, and to break block in urine tract due to urine stone.

 

贝子 (珍珠)

Bei Zi Zheng Zhu(pearl)

味咸平。主目翳。鬼注虫毒。腹痛下血。五癃利水道。烧用之。

Nature: It is salty in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal therapy.

Function: It works to clear eye, to solve cataract, to solve poisonous from insects, to stop pain and bleeding from belly, to ease urine tract.

 

石蚕

Shi Can ()

味咸寒。主五癃。破石淋。堕胎。内解结气。利水道除热。一名沙虱。

 

雀瓮

Que Wen

味甘平。主小儿惊痫。寒热结气。蛊毒鬼注。

 

蜣螂

Qiang Lang

味咸寒。主小儿惊痫螈。腹胀寒热。大人疾狂易。一名蜣。火熬之良。

 

蝼蛄

Lu Gu

味咸寒。主产难。出肉中刺。溃痈肿下哽噎。解毒除恶创。

 

马陆

Ma Lu

味辛温。主腹中大坚症。破积聚息肉。恶创白秃。一名百足。生川谷。(即马大蜈蚣也)

 

地胆

Di Dan

味辛寒。主鬼注。寒热鼠。恶疮死肌。破症瘕堕胎。

 

鼠妇

Shu Fu

味酸温。主气癃。不得小便。妇人月闭血症。痫寒热。利水道。

 

荧火

Ying Huo

味辛微温。主明目。小儿火创伤热气。蛊毒鬼注通神。一名夜光。 

 

衣鱼

Yi Yu

味咸温无毒。主妇人疝瘕。小便不利。小儿中风项强。背起摩之。一名白鱼。

 

彼子

Bi Zi

味甘温。主腹中邪气。去三虫。蛇螫蛊毒。鬼注伏尸。

 

桃核仁

Tao Ren (peach kernel)

味苦平。主瘀血。血闭。瘕邪。杀小虫。桃花杀注恶鬼。令人好颜色。桃凫。微温。主杀百鬼精物。桃毛。主下血瘕。寒热积寒。无子。桃蠹。杀鬼邪恶不祥。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is not Cold or Hot in herbal nature.

Function: It works to solve blood stagnation, to break blocked blood, to solve mass in belly, and to kill insects. Peach flower works to kill ghost influence, and to make people enjoy sex.

 

杏仁

Xing Ren (almond)

味甘温。主咳逆。上气雷鸣。喉痹下气。产乳金创。寒心贲豚。

Nature: It is sweet in taste. It is Warm in herbal nature.

Function: It works to stop cough, to stop intestine noise, to clear throat, to conduct energy moving downwards, to stimulate breast milk secretion, to cure metal wound, to calm down bowel moving.

 

腐婢

Fu Bi

味辛平。主疟。寒热邪气。泄利。阴不起。病酒。头痛。

 

苦瓠

Ku Gua (Bitter cucurbit)

味苦寒。主大水。面目四肢浮肿。下水令人吐。

Nature: It is bitter in taste. It is Cold in herbal nature.

Function: It works to cure various swelling or water accumulation disorders. It may cause vomit.

 

水靳

Shui Jin

味甘平。主女子赤沃。止血养精。保血脉益气。令人肥健嗜食。一名水英。

 


[1] Xie Qi: the factors or something that can cause diseases. It can be Fire, Water, Wind, Dryness, Humidity, etc.

[2] Jing Qi: life energy.