一名糯米饭草。性味甘平，润肺止嗽，益胃和中，可治劳伤。花，力尤胜。
苦酸性平，益气充饥，久服不饿。蓍叶∶同独蒜、甲片、食盐、米醋捣饼，贴癖两炷
癖可化血，从便出。
性味甘寒，破血解毒，止天行腹痛。捣汁用。轧麻，亦可煎汤。无根麻亦可代。
性味甘凉，解利湿热，快膈悦志，令人欢乐无忧。故令合欢草，又名无忧草。根∶治
淋，下水气。
性味苦平，补阴气不足，令人皮肤光泽。取子用。
一名水堇，俗呼胡椒菜。性味甘寒，微辛苦涩，除烦热，下瘀血，为散结解毒专药。
一名光明草。性味辛寒，眼科拳毛倒睫，翻转目睑；以三茎蘸水，戛去恶血，良。
一名苦菜。性味苦寒，泻热解毒，破血排脓，为外科专药。取根、苗用。
一名鹿衔，南人名吴风草。味性苦平，理血中之湿，善治酒风湿痹，历节诸痛。
即灯笼草。性味苦寒，清肺止咳。佛耳草，治寒痰咳嗽，此治热痰咳嗽，力能解利湿
亦治黄病。
即佛耳草。性味甘平，除痰止嗽。杂米粉作糗，食之甜美，荒年可以充饥。
（毒草类）
【白米饭草】又名糯米饭草。其性味甘平，能润肺止咳，益胃和中，可治疗劳伤。其花的作用尤为显著。
【苦酸性平类】性味苦酸性平，能益气充饥，久服不感饥饿。蓍叶：与独蒜、鳖甲片、食盐、米醋一同捣烂成饼，贴敷于癖块处，两炷香的时间后，癖块可化为血，从大便排出。
【甘寒类】性味甘寒，能破血解毒，止天行腹痛。需捣汁服用。轧麻，也可煎汤。无根麻也可以代替。
【甘凉类】性味甘凉，能解利湿热，快膈悦志，使人欢乐无忧。因此称为合欢草，又名无忧草。根：治疗淋证，下水气。
【苦平类】性味苦平，补阴气不足，使皮肤光泽。取子使用。
【水堇】一名水堇，俗称胡椒菜。性味甘寒，微辛苦涩，能除烦热，下瘀血，是散结解毒的专用药。
【光明草】一名光明草。性味辛寒，主治眼科拳毛倒睫，眼睑翻转；用三茎蘸水，刮去恶血，效果良好。
【苦菜】一名苦菜。性味苦寒，能泻热解毒，破血排脓，是外科专用药。取根、苗使用。
【鹿衔】一名鹿衔，南方人称为吴风草。味性苦平，理血中之湿，善于治疗酒风湿痹，历节诸痛。
【龙须草】即龙须草。味苦微寒，通淋止痛。败席有垢者功效更胜。
【灯笼草】即灯笼草。性味苦寒，清肺止咳。佛耳草，治疗寒痰咳嗽，此药治疗热痰咳嗽，力能解利湿，也治黄病。
【佛耳草】即佛耳草。性味甘平，除痰止咳。杂米粉做成干粮，食用甜美，荒年可以充饥。
（毒草类）
[White Rice Grass] Also known as Glutinous Rice Grass. Its nature is sweet and neutral, capable of moistening the lungs and stopping cough, benefiting the stomach and harmonizing the middle jiao, and can treat labor injury. The flowers are particularly effective.
[Category: Sweet, Bland, Slightly Cold] Nature is sweet, bland, and slightly cold, promoting urination and removing irritability and heat. Pregnant women should avoid it.
[Category: Bitter, Sour, Neutral] Nature is bitter, sour, and neutral, boosting qi and relieving hunger; long-term use prevents starvation. Achyranthes leaf (Shi Ye): Pounded into a paste together with single garlic bulb, turtle shell plate, salt, and rice vinegar, applied to the mass (Pi). After two incense sticks' time, the mass transforms into blood and exits via stool.
[Category: Sweet, Warm] Nature is sweet and warm, benefiting lung qi and promoting urination. Aged herbs are superior.
[Category: Sweet, Great Cold] Nature is sweet and greatly cold, draining heat and detoxifying, relieving distension and eliminating abscesses. Use crushed juice.
[Category: Sweet, Cold] Nature is sweet and cold, breaking blood and detoxifying, stopping epidemic abdominal pain. Use crushed juice. Flaxseed (Zha Ma) can also be decocted. Rootless flax can substitute.
[Category: Sweet, Cool] Nature is sweet and cool, resolving damp-heat, refreshing the chest and pleasing the mind, making one joyful and carefree. Hence called Hehuan Cao (Albizia Herb), also known as Wuyou Cao (Carefree Herb). Roots: Treat strangury (Lin), moving downward water qi.
[Category: Bitter, Neutral] Nature is bitter and neutral, supplementing insufficient yin qi, making skin lustrous. Use seeds.
[Water Jin] Also known as Water Jin, commonly called Pepper Vegetable. Nature is sweet and cold, slightly bitter, pungent, and astringent, removing irritability and heat, expelling stasis blood, serving as a specialized herb for dissipating nodules and detoxifying.
[Guangming Cao] Also known as Guangming Cao. Nature is pungent and cold, treating ophthalmic conditions such as trichiasis (in-turned eyelashes) and everted eyelids; dipping three stems in water and scraping away bad blood is effective.
[Ku Cai] Also known as Ku Cai. Nature is bitter and cold, draining heat and detoxifying, breaking blood and discharging pus, serving as a specialized external medicine. Use roots and seedlings.
[Luxian] Also known as Luxian, referred to as Wu Feng Cao in the south. Flavor and nature are bitter and neutral, regulating dampness in blood, excellently treating alcohol-induced wind-damp bi syndrome and various pains in the joints.
[Lishi] Also known as Lishi. Nature is sweet and warm, treating cold hernia and various pains from cold accumulation.
[Longxu Cao] Is Longxu Cao. Flavor is bitter and slightly cold, promoting urination and relieving pain. Those from rotten mats with dirt have superior efficacy.
[Denglong Cao] Is Denglong Cao. Nature is bitter and cold, clearing lungs and stopping cough. Foer Cao treats cold-phlegm cough; this herb treats hot-phlegm cough, effectively resolving dampness, and also treats jaundice.
[Foer Cao] Is Foer Cao. Nature is sweet and neutral, resolving phlegm and stopping cough. Mixed with rice flour to make dry rations, it tastes sweet and can serve as food in famine years.
(Toxic Herb Category)