其根丛须数百条。长者二尺许。补时黄黑色。干则深黑。俗称铁脚威灵仙。别有数种。
根须
其走
根
味甘而苦。微辛微咸。气温。可升可降。阴中阳也。缪氏云。升也。阳也。入足太阳经
。忌茶及面汤。病愈止药后。方可犯之。治诸风走而不守。宣通五脏十二经脉。去腹内冷滞
。心膈痰水。久积症瘕。 癖气块。膀胱宿脓恶水。腰膝冷疼。疗折伤。去大肠之风。腰
脚膝积聚。肠内诸冷病。积年不瘥者。服之立效。（恭）性秉风火。风得之而作。夏脉得之
而
风在上
气壮者
元阳委顿。
（之颐）肾脏风
青脓胶。即是风
麻痹。时发疼痛
为末。醋糊丸梧
焙半夏姜汁浸焙
为验。忌茶面。
〔论〕威灵仙生先于众草。秉风升之化而气温。丹溪谓其属木是矣。但萌芽于春木。蕴
酿于
始尝
水火
勃然若草木之怒生。为急方中宣剂通剂也。人身气凝液泣为病强半。此味顿通气血之凝滞。
卢氏谓主久
邪气之留连
此风行之性
此也。丹溪
热皆有。一
言腰肾脚膝
金水之用。
水腑之结邪
须于滋阴益
缪氏。凡病非风湿。及阳盛火升。血虚有热。表虚有汗。 疟口渴身热者。并忌用之。
〔修治〕去芦酒洗。
味甘。微酸微咸。气温。阴中之阴。入手足厥阴血分。及手足少阴经。主寒湿风痹
疸。通经脉。补中。疗热中伤。治六极伤心肺。吐血泻血。止鼻洪尿血。并扑损瘀血。
痢心神烦热。及虫注下血如鸡肝。女子虚热崩漏。经滞不行。痔 疮疖排脓。酒煎服。
治舌衄。痹属血脉之病。而伤中则由血之病于经脉者。更入于脏腑以伤其中之守也。虽
浅深。然经脉者内外之合。故此味俱得治之。专于入营行滞。俗治女子经水不通。以一
酒服之。一日即效。（濒湖）禀土与水之气。而兼得天令少阳之气以生。故能凉无病之血
行已伤之血。同地黄麦冬归身阿胶茅根童便。主血热吐衄。同地黄牛膝黄 地榆芍药荆芥
治肠风下血。佐地榆。治横 鱼口神效。吐血燥渴及解毒。用茜根雄黑豆去皮炙甘草等
为末。井水丸弹子大。每温水化服一丸。五十后经水不止者。作败血论。用茜根（一名
龙姜）一两。阿胶侧柏叶炙黄芩各五钱。生地一两。胎发一枚烧灰。分六帖。每帖水一
煎七分。入发灰服之。
〔论〕茜根味甘而微酸咸。色赤气温。专于行血活血。本经治寒湿风痹。固以其温而行
之矣
通
或
则
不
徒
金匮
可从
则难
惟闭
得以
畅而
而伤
必以
茜根汤治吐咯呕血。（四物加童便浸香附钱半。茜草根二钱半。水煎服。）乃阳虚而阴不
能化
气上
化醇。第有足三阴（肝脾肾）手三阴（心肺心包）之殊。即有阴血阳血之宜审
先导。第有足三阳（胆胃膀胱）手三阳（大肠小肠三焦）之别。即有阴气阳气之宜
天地。分于身半之上下。可遂滚同而无精微之分辨乎哉。故审必于血之化原。或属
（肝脾肾）或属在天之阴。（心肺心胞）然后明于气之驭血。或属在地之阳。（胆胃
或属在天之阳。（大肠小肠三焦）。盖血于在地之阴资始。而于在天之阴资生。气于在地之阳
资生。而于在天之阳资化也。夫阳本先阴而动。血乃于在地之阴。资始者。因血之质属阴也。
阴未舒时。不能驭阳以为气。惟值阳正位。而阴乃合于阳以有生
阳本先阴而升。气乃于在地
惟及阳司令。而液乃合于气
阴资生者。则宜究在天之气
者以为治。此分天地而审阴阳之大义。虽然病有标本。若血上逆。则又急宜治标。故
资始者。亦必从在天之资化者以疗之。而后治其资始之本。缘在天之资化者。不能化
其急在标。不能舍在天之资化而迂图其资始也。（在天之资化者不能化阴数句。是治血
要领。乃阳中阴虚也。至于阳虚不能化阴以致血瘀上逆者。是症不多见。正宜于茜根之
盖前治责其本在阴。后治责其本在阳也。）若病由在天之资生。更不必言矣。
缪氏。虽见血证。若加泄泻饮食不进者。勿服。
〔修治〕铜刀锉。勿犯铁铅器。入药焙用。
威灵仙：
它的根由数百条丛生的须根组成。长的约有二尺左右。新鲜时呈黄黑色，干燥后变为深黑色。俗称“铁脚威灵仙”。此外还有几种不同的品种。
【根须】
其药性走窜，入根。
味甘而苦，微辛微咸。药气温性，既能升散又能降泄，属于阴中寓阳之品。缪氏认为它主升，属阳，归入足太阳膀胱经。
服用期间忌食茶及面汤。病愈停药后，才可以食用这些食物。
主治各种风邪游走不定、不守常位的病症；宣通五脏及十二经脉；去除腹内的冷积停滞；消除心膈部的痰饮积水；治疗久积形成的症瘕（腹部结块）；癖气块（胁下痞块）；膀胱内蓄积的脓液和恶水；腰膝冷痛；治疗跌打折伤；祛除大肠的风邪；治疗腰脚膝部的积聚；肠内各种冷性疾病，若是多年不愈者，服用此药可立见成效。（引自《新修本草》苏恭）
其性秉受风火之气，风邪得此药则易动。夏季脉象若见此药所对应的气化特征，多与风有关。
若风邪在上部，气壮实者……元阳委顿……
（引自李杲/东垣）肾脏风……
出现青色的脓胶状物，即是风邪所致……
麻痹，时常发作疼痛……
研成粉末，用醋糊制成梧桐子大小的丸剂……
配合半夏，用姜汁浸泡后焙干……
以此作为验证。忌食茶和面食。
【论】
威灵仙生于众草之前，禀受风木升发之气，故药气温性。丹溪认为它属木，这是正确的。但它萌芽于春季木气之时，酝酿……
起初尝试……
水火……
蓬勃生长如同草木之怒生，是急方中的宣通剂。
人体气血凝滞、津液涩少导致的疾病占一半以上。此药能迅速通达气血的凝滞。
卢氏认为主治久……
邪气的留连……
这是风行的特性……
此处。丹溪……
热证皆有。一……
言腰肾脚膝……
金水之用。
水腑之结邪……
须于滋阴益……
缪氏指出：凡非风湿引起的疾病，以及阳盛火升、血虚有热、表虚自汗、疟疾口渴身热者，均忌用此药。
茜草根：
味甘，微酸微咸。药气温性，属于阴中之阴，归入手足厥阴肝心包血分，以及手足少阴心肾经。
主治寒湿风痹……黄疸；通利经脉；补益中焦；治疗热中伤……；治疗六极损伤心肺；吐血、便血；止鼻出血、尿血；并治疗跌扑损伤瘀血……痢疾、心神烦热；以及虫注（寄生虫病）下血如鸡肝状；女子虚热崩漏；月经阻滞不行；痔疮疮疖排脓。用酒煎服。
治疗舌衄（舌出血）。痹症属于血脉的疾病，而伤中则是由于血在经脉中病变进而深入脏腑，损伤其中的守御功能。虽然病情有浅深之分，但经脉是内外相合的，所以此药都能治疗。专于入营分、行滞血。俗法治疗女子经水不通，用一味茜草酒服，一天即见效。（引自李时珍/濒湖）
茜草禀受土与水之气，兼得天令少阳之气以生，故能凉无病之血，行已伤之血。
同地黄、麦冬、当归身、阿胶、茅根、童便一起使用，主治血热吐衄。
同地黄、牛膝、黄芩、地榆、芍药、荆芥一起使用，治疗肠风下血。
佐用地榆，治疗横痃、鱼口（性病淋巴结炎），神效。
治疗吐血、燥渴及解毒，用茜根、雄黑豆（去皮炙）、甘草等分为末，井水泛丸如弹子大，每用温水化服一丸。
五十岁后经血不止者，作败血论治。用茜根（一名龙姜）一两，阿胶、侧柏叶、炙黄芩各五钱，生地一两，胎发一枚烧灰，分六帖。每帖用水一升，煎至七分，加入发灰服用。
【论】
茜根味甘而微酸咸，色赤气温，专于行血活血。《本经》主治寒湿风痹，固然是因其温而行血之故……
通……
或……
则……
不……
徒……
《金匮》……
可从……
则难……
惟闭……
得以……
畅而……
而伤……
必以……
茜根汤治疗吐咯呕血。（四物汤加童便浸香附半钱，茜草根二钱半，水煎服。）这是阳虚而阴不能化……
气上……
化醇。
仅有足三阴（肝、脾、肾）和手三阴（心、肺、心包）的区别，即有阴血、阳血之宜审察……
先导。
仅有足三阳（胆、胃、膀胱）和手三阳（大肠、小肠、三焦）的区别，即有阴气、阳气之宜……
天地。
分于身半之上下，可以混同而无精微之分辨吗？
所以要审察血的化源，或属在地之阴（肝、脾、肾），或属在天之阴（心、肺、心胞）。然后明了气对血的驾驭，或属在地之阳（胆、胃……），或属在天之阳（大肠、小肠、三焦）。
盖血在地之阴资始，而在天之阴资生；气在地之阳资生，而在天之阳资化也。
夫阳本先阴而动，血乃在地之阴资始者，因血之质属阴也。
阴未舒时，不能驭阳以为气，惟值阳正位，而阴乃合于阳以有生……
阳本先阴而升，气乃在地……
惟及阳司令，而液乃合于气……
阴资生者，则宜究在天之气……
者以为治。此分天地而审阴阳之大义。
虽然病有标本，若血上逆，则又急宜治标。故……
资始者，亦必从在天之资化者以疗之。而后治其资始之本。缘在天之资化者，不能化……
其急在标，不能舍在天之资化而迂图其资始也。（“在天之资化者不能化”数句，是治血要领，乃阳中阴虚也。至于阳虚不能化阴以致血瘀上逆者，是症不多见，正宜于茜根之……
盖前治责其本在阴，后治责其本在阳也。）若病由在天之资生，更不必言矣。
Weilingxian (Clematis Root):
Its root consists of hundreds of clustered fibrous roots. The longer ones are approximately two chi in length. When fresh, they are yellowish-black; when dried, they become deep black. Commonly known as "Tieji Weilingxian" (Iron-foot Clematis). There are several other varieties.
[Root Fibers]
Its action is penetrating and wandering, entering the root.
The taste is sweet and bitter, slightly pungent and salty. The nature is warm; it can ascend and descend, belonging to Yin containing Yang. Mr. Miu states that it ascends and belongs to Yang, entering the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian.
Tea and noodle soup are contraindicated during use. These foods may only be consumed after the illness is cured and medication stopped.
It treats various wind pathogens that wander without staying in one place; it promotes the free flow of the Five Zang organs and the Twelve Primary Meridians; it removes cold stagnation in the abdomen; it eliminates phlegm-fluid retention in the heart and diaphragm; it treats chronic accumulations forming masses (Zhengjia); hypochondriac masses (Piqi); pus and foul fluids retained in the bladder; cold pain in the lower back and knees; it heals fractures; it expels wind from the Large Intestine; it treats accumulations in the waist, legs, and knees; it treats various cold diseases in the intestines, especially those lasting for years without healing, where taking this herb yields immediate results. (From Su Gong)
Its nature embodies Wind and Fire; wind becomes active with it. In summer, if the pulse reflects its qi transformation, it relates to wind.
If wind is in the upper part, and Qi is robust... Yuan Yang is depleted...
(From Li Gao/Dongyuan) Kidney Wind...
Presence of green purulent mucus indicates wind pathogen...
Numbness, with intermittent pain...
Grind into powder, make pills the size of wutong seeds using vinegar paste...
Combine with Banxia (Pinellia Rhizome), soak in Shengjiang Jiang (Fresh Ginger Juice) and dry by baking...
Use this as verification. Contraindicated: tea and wheat products.
[Discussion]
Weilingxian grows before other herbs, embodying the ascending transformation of Wind-Wood, hence its warm nature. Danxi correctly stated that it belongs to Wood. It sprouts in spring when Wood Qi is dominant...
Initially attempted...
Water and Fire...
Vigorously growing like angry vegetation, it serves as a rapid-decoction agent for promoting circulation and unblocking obstruction.
Half of the diseases caused by stagnation of Qi and sluggishness of Body Fluids in the human body can be rapidly resolved by this herb's ability to unblock Qi and Blood stagnation.
Mr. Lu states it mainly treats long-standing...
Lingering of Evil Qi...
This is the nature of Wind movement...
Here. Danxi...
Both heat and cold exist. One...
Speaking of lower back, kidney, waist, and knee...
Function of Metal and Water.
Pathogenic accumulation in the Water Fu Organ...
Must combine with nourishing Yin and benefiting...
Mr. Miu points out: For conditions not caused by Wind-Dampness, and for cases of Excess Yang with rising Fire, Blood Deficiency with Heat, Exterior Deficiency with spontaneous sweating, malaria with thirst and fever, this herb is strictly contraindicated.
[Processing]
Remove the rhizome head (Lu), wash with wine.
Qiancao Gen (Rubia Root):
The taste is sweet, slightly sour and salty. The nature is warm, belonging to Yin within Yin. It enters the Blood aspect of the Hand and Foot-Jueyin Liver and Pericardium meridians, as well as the Hand and Foot-Shaoyin Heart and Kidney meridians.
It treats Cold-Dampness Bi syndrome... Jaundice; unblocks meridians; tonifies the Middle Jiao; treats Heat injuring the Middle; treats Liu Ji (Six Extremes) damaging Heart and Lung; stops hematemesis and hematochezia; stops epistaxis and hematuria; and treats traumatic blood stasis... Dysentery, mental restlessness and heat; and bleeding like chicken liver due to parasitic infection (Chongzhu); deficiency-heat metrorrhagia in women; menstrual stagnation and amenorrhea; draining pus from hemorrhoids, sores, and boils. Decoct with wine and take.
Treats tongue bleeding (Shenu). Bi syndrome is a disease of the vessels and collaterals, while injury to the Middle arises from blood pathology in the meridians progressing to the Zang-Fu organs, damaging their guarding function. Although there are differences in depth, since meridians connect interior and exterior, this herb can treat both. It specializes in entering the Ying (Nutritive) level and moving stagnation. Folk methods for treating amenorrhea in women use a single dose of Qiancao taken with wine, effective within one day. (From Li Shizhen/Binhu)
Qiancao embodies Earth and Water Qi, combined with the Shaoyang Qi of Heaven to generate life. Thus, it can cool healthy blood and invigorate injured blood.
Combined with Dihuang (Rehmannia Root), Maidong (Ophiopogon Tuber), Danggui Shen (Angelica Sinensis Root Stem), Ejiao (Donkey-hide Gelatin), Maogen (Imperata Rhizome), and Tongbian (Child's Urine), it treats hematemesis and epistaxis due to Blood Heat.
Combined with Dihuang, Niuxi (Achyranthes Root), Huangqin (Scutellaria Root), Diyü (Sanguisorba Root), Shaoyao (Peony Root), and Jingjie (Schizonepeta Spike), it treats intestinal wind bleeding.
With Diyü as an assistant, it is highly effective for treating Hengxuan and Yukou (venereal lymphadenitis).
For treating hematemesis, dry thirst, and detoxification, use Qiangen (Rubia Root), Xiongheidou (Black Soybean, peeled and roasted), and Gancao (Licorice Root) in equal parts, grind into powder, make pills the size of bullet seeds using well water. Take one pill dissolved in warm water per dose.
For women over fifty with persistent menorrhagia, consider it as defeated blood. Use Qiangen (also named Longjiang) 1 liang, Ejiao, Cebaiye (Platycladi Leaf), Zhì Huángqín (Scutellaria Root processed with honey) each 5 qian, Shengdi (Rehmannia Root prepared with wine) 1 liang, and one piece of fetal hair burned to ash. Divide into six doses. Each dose is decocted with one sheng of water until reduced to seven-tenths, then add the hair ash and take.
[Discussion]
Qiangen tastes sweet with slight sourness and saltiness, is red in color and warm in nature, specializing in moving and activating blood. The *Shennong Benjing* treats Cold-Dampness Bi syndrome, precisely because its warmth promotes blood flow...
Unblocks...
Or...
Then...
Not...
Merely...
*Jingui Yaolüe*...
Can follow...
Then difficult...
Only closure...
Can obtain...
Smooth and...
And injure...
Must use...
Qiangen Tang treats hematemesis and spitting of blood. (Siwu Tang plus Xiangfu soaked in child's urine, half qian; Qiancaogen 2.5 qian, decoct in water.) This is due to Yang Deficiency where Yin cannot transform...
Qi moves upward...
Transformation becomes pure.
There is merely a distinction between the Foot-Sanyin (Liver, Spleen, Kidney) and Hand-Sanyin (Heart, Lung, Pericardium) meridians, requiring careful examination of Yin Blood and Yang Blood...
Lead the way.
There is merely a distinction between the Foot-Sanyang (Gallbladder, Stomach, Bladder) and Hand-Sanyang (Large Intestine, Small Intestine, Sanjiao) meridians, requiring careful examination of Yin Qi and Yang Qi...
Heaven and Earth.
Divided above and below the midpoint of the body, can they be mixed together without subtle differentiation?
Therefore, one must examine the origin of Blood transformation. Whether it belongs to Earth-Yin (Liver, Spleen, Kidney) or Heaven-Yin (Heart, Lung, Pericardium). Then clarify how Qi controls Blood. Whether it belongs to Earth-Yang (Gallbladder, Stomach...) or Heaven-Yang (Large Intestine, Small Intestine, Sanjiao).
Blood originates from Earth-Yin and is generated by Heaven-Yin; Qi is generated by Earth-Yang and transformed by Heaven-Yang.
Yang naturally precedes Yin and moves; Blood, originating from Earth-Yin, does so because its substance is Yin.
When Yin is not yet舒展 (expanding/unfolding), it cannot control Yang to form Qi. Only when Yang is in its proper position does Yin combine with Yang to generate life...
Yang naturally precedes Yin and ascends; Qi...
Only when Yang commands does fluid combine with Qi...
Those generated by Yin should investigate the Qi of Heaven...
To serve as treatment. This is the great principle of dividing Heaven and Earth and examining Yin and Yang.
Although diseases have root and branch aspects, if Blood rebels upward, treating the branch urgently is required. Therefore...
Those originating from Earth-Yin must also be treated via the transforming agents of Heaven-Yin. Only then treat the root of Earth-Yin origin. Because the transforming agents of Heaven-Yin cannot transform...
The urgency lies in the branch; one cannot abandon the transforming agents of Heaven-Yin to indirectly plan for Earth-Yin origin. ("The transforming agents of Heaven-Yin cannot transform..." sentences are the key to treating blood, representing Yang Deficiency with Yin excess. Cases of Yang Deficiency failing to transform Yin leading to Blood stasis and rebellion are rare and suit Qiangen...
Previously, treatment blamed the root in Yin; subsequently, treatment blames the root in Yang.) If the disease arises from generation by Heaven, no further words are needed.
Mr. Miu points out: Even if blood disorders are present, if accompanied by diarrhea and loss of appetite, do not administer.
[Processing]
Slice with a copper knife. Avoid iron and lead utensils. Bake before use in decoctions.