Efficacy: clearing heat and promoting diuresis, purging fire and detoxifying.
Indications: Damp-heat fullness, vomiting, acid swallowing, diarrhea, jaundice, high fever, coma, excessive heart fire, insomnia, palpitation, hematemesis, red eyes, toothache, thirst quenching and carbuncle swelling. Externally used to treat eczema, wet sores and pus in ear canal.
Dried ginger: pungent, hot. Enter spleen, stomach, kidney, heart and lung meridians.
Efficacy: Warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, invigorating yang and activating collaterals, warming lung and promoting fluid production.
Indications: It is used for cold pain in epigastric cavity, vomiting and diarrhea, cold limbs and slight pulse, cold drink, asthma and cough.
Atractylodes macrocephala: bitter, sweet and warm; Spleen and stomach meridian.
Efficacy: invigorating qi and spleen, eliminating dampness and promoting diuresis, stopping sweating and preventing miscarriage.
Indications: It is used for weakness of temper, loss of appetite, phlegm and edema, spontaneous sweating due to exterior deficiency, and restless fetal movement.
Psoralea corylifolia: warm in nature, pungent and bitter in taste. Kidney and spleen meridians.
Efficacy: Warming kidney, supporting yang, absorbing qi and stopping diarrhea. It belongs to Yang-tonifying drugs under the category of tonics.
Indications: Cold pain in waist and knees, impotence, nocturnal emission, frequent urination, diarrhea caused by deficiency of kidney yang, asthenia due to renal failure, vitiligo, etc.
Mume: sour, astringent and flat. Liver, spleen, lung and large intestine meridians entered.
Efficacy: astringing lung, astringing intestine, promoting fluid production and calming phlegm.
Indications: used for chronic cough due to lung deficiency, diarrhea and dysentery, thirst quenching due to deficiency heat, syncope, vomiting and abdominal pain.