主温疾，伤寒大热烦狂，杀三虫疥疡，利小便水道。根∶微寒。疗蛔虫，利大肠。《
性论》云∶主人中大热，狂，失心躁闷。日华子云∶治游风，热毒风疹，恶疮疥癞，小儿
热。《经验方》∶治脏毒下血，丈夫本脏气伤，膀胱连小肠等气。《唐本》注云∶有两种
者，根赤无子，有毒，服之多使人吐泻，杀人。雌者，根白有子，微毒。用当取雌者。生∶
荆山。
味苦咸，寒、微寒，有小毒。主杀三虫，逐毒瓦斯，胃中热，利丈夫，不利女子，作摩
除小儿百病，逐邪气，恶风汗出，除皮中热，结积，蛊毒，白虫寸白自出不止。久服令人
痿，赤者杀人。《药性论》云∶君。味苦，有小毒。能逐风。芫花为使，主癫痫狂走，杀蛔
虫。今注云∶疏利男子元气，不疏利女子脏气。荔实、浓朴为之使。恶∶葛根、蓄根。生∶
石城及汉中。
味甘咸，平，无毒。主破血，产后血胀闷欲死者。陈藏器云∶寒。主霍乱呕逆及人
吐，用水煎服。破血，用酒煎为良。日华子云∶治妇人血气心腹痛，月水不调及蓐劳，
止痛，消痈肿，扑损瘀血，女人失音，血噤，赤白痢并后分急痛。《海药》云∶主虚劳，血
癖，气壅滞，产后恶露不安，怯起冲心，腹内搅痛及经络不通，男女中风口噤不语。宜
细研乳头香细末方寸匕，酒煎苏木去滓调服，立吐恶物瘥。生∶南海。
【楝实】主治温病，伤寒引起的高热、烦躁狂乱，杀灭三虫及疥疮疡肿，通利小便水道。根：性微寒。治疗蛔虫，通利大肠。《药性论》记载：主治人体中热邪炽盛，狂乱，心神失守，躁动烦闷。日华子记载：治疗游风，热毒风疹，恶疮疥癞，小儿热证。《经验方》记载：治疗脏毒下血，男子本脏气机损伤，膀胱连小肠等气机阻滞。《唐本草》注解说：有两种楝实，根部呈红色且无果实的，有毒，服用后多使人呕吐腹泻，甚至致死。雌性楝实，根部白色且有果实，毒性轻微。使用时应当选取雌性的。产地：荆山。
【雷丸】味苦咸，性寒或微寒，有小毒。主要杀灭三虫，驱逐毒瓦斯，清除胃中热邪，对男子有利，对女子不利。制成粉末外用可消除小儿百病，驱逐邪气，治疗因恶风导致的汗出，清除皮肤中的热邪，消散结积，解除蛊毒，治疗白虫（寸白虫）自行排出不止。长期服用会导致肢体痿弱，红色的雷丸会致人死亡。《药性论》记载：作为君药使用。味苦，有小毒。能驱逐风邪。以芫花为使药，主治癫痫狂走，杀灭蛔虫。现在的注释说：疏利男子的元气，不疏利女子的脏气。以荔实、厚朴为使药。畏忌：葛根、蓄根。产地：石城及汉中。
【苏枋木】味甘咸，性平，无毒。主要破血，治疗产后血胀闷欲死之症。陈藏器记载：性寒。主治霍乱呕吐逆气以及人吐，用水煎服。破血功效，用酒煎煮效果更佳。日华子记载：治疗妇人血气心腹痛，月经不调及产后劳损，止痛，消痈肿，跌打损伤瘀血，女人失音，血噤，赤白痢疾并肛门急痛。《海药本草》记载：主治虚劳，血癖，气机壅滞，产后恶露不安，怯气上冲于心，腹内搅痛及经络不通，男女中风口噤不语。宜将乳头香细研为末，取一方寸匕，用苏枋木酒煎去渣调服，立即吐出恶物而痊愈。产地：南海。
[Litsea cubeba fruit] Mainly treats warm diseases, high fever and irritability with mania caused by cold damage (Shanghan), kills three types of parasites and scabies/ulcers, and promotes urination through the water passages. Root: slightly cold in nature. Treats roundworms and promotes bowel movement. *Xing Lun* states: It treats excessive heat in the human body, mania, loss of mental control, restlessness and oppression. Ri Huazi states: It treats wandering wind, heat-toxin wind rashes, malignant sores and scabies, and childhood heat syndromes. *Jingyan Fang* states: It treats dysentery with blood from internal organs, injury to the qi of the original organ in men, and qi stagnation involving the bladder connecting to the small intestine. *Tang Bencao* annotation notes: There are two types; those with red roots and no fruit are toxic, causing vomiting and diarrhea upon ingestion, and can be fatal. The female type has white roots and bears fruit, with slight toxicity. One should select the female type for use. Habitat: Jingshan.
[Polyporus umbellatus / Leiwan] Taste is bitter and salty, nature is cold or slightly cold, with slight toxicity. It mainly kills three types of parasites, expels toxic vapors, clears stomach heat, benefits men but not women. Made into powder for external application, it eliminates a hundred ailments in children, expels pathogenic qi, treats sweating due to aversion to wind, clears heat in the skin, resolves accumulations, relieves gu poison, and stops the continuous spontaneous passage of white worms (Taenia saginata). Long-term consumption leads to flaccidity; the red variety is lethal. *Yao Xing Lun* states: It serves as the sovereign herb. Taste is bitter, with slight toxicity. It can expel wind. Genkwa Flos (Yuanhua) serves as the assistant herb; it treats epilepsy with manic running and kills roundworms. Current annotations state: It regulates the primordial qi of men, but does not regulate the visceral qi of women. Litsea cubeba fruit and Magnolia officinalis bark (Houpo) serve as assistant herbs. Incompatibilities: Puerariae Radix (Gegen) and Polygonum aviculare root (Qubai). Habitat: Shicheng and Hanzhong.
[Sappanwood / Sufangmu] Taste is sweet and salty, nature is neutral, non-toxic. It mainly invigorates blood circulation and resolves stasis, treating postpartum abdominal distension and oppression that feels like impending death. Chen Cangqi states: Nature is cold. It treats cholera with vomiting and regurgitation, as well as general vomiting; decoct with water for administration. For invigorating blood, decocting with wine is superior. Ri Huazi states: It treats blood-qi pain in the heart and abdomen in women, irregular menstruation, postpartum consumptive disease, alleviates pain, reduces carbuncles and swellings, resolves traumatic blood stasis, treats aphonia in women, blood obstruction, bloody and non-bloody dysentery, and tenesmus in the lower orifice. *Haiyao Bencao* states: It treats deficiency consumption, blood masses, qi stagnation, unstable lochia after childbirth, fearfulness rising to attack the heart, abdominal twisting pain, and blockage of meridians and collaterals; it also treats stroke with locked jaw and inability to speak in both men and women. It is advisable to finely grind乳香 (Olibanum/Ru Xiang) into powder, take one fangcun bi (a measure approx. 2.7g), decoct Sappanwood in wine, strain, and mix with the powder for oral administration. This will immediately induce vomiting of foul matter and lead to recovery. Habitat: South Sea.