The Divine Comedy, also known as the Six Divine Comedies, is in the shape of a square or rectangular block, about 3 cm wide and 1 cm thick, with an earthy yellow and rough appearance; hard, brittle and easy to break, uneven cross-section, off-white , the brown residue that has not been crushed and the cavities after fermentation can be seen. It has a stale smell and tastes bitter. The best ones are those that have been aged for a long time and are free of insects. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, and regulating digestion. "Soup and Materia Medica": "Treat wind and gas in the viscera, adjust the middle and lower qi, appetizer and eliminate old food. It treats cholera, heart and diaphragm qi, phlegm inversion, relieves troubles, breaks the crux and replenishes deficiency, removes cold air, removes gastrointestinal congestion, and prevents food intake. . It can treat children with abdominal pain as big as a plate, fullness in the chest, restless fetal movement, or low back pain, and persistent bleeding. After quenching the wine and taking it warmly, it is effective. For women who want to regain breast milk after giving birth, stir-fry it and drink it with wine for 2 qian, 2 days a day. Swelling, year after month, loss of food, sleepiness, bitter taste in the mouth, weakness and lack of gas: 4 liang each of black plum (pitted and roasted), dried ginger (cannon), 3 liang wheat tiller (fried yellow), Shenqu (pounded into powder) Frying) sixty-two cents. The last part is the last one. Refined honey and sugar pills are made into pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take fifteen pills and increase to twenty pills. Drink rice and take two pills a day, regardless of time. ("Bureau Prescription" Xiaoshi Pills) To treat spleen deficiency, it cannot be ground to eat: 4 liang of Shenqu, 3 liang of Baizhao, 1 liang of ginseng (both stir-fried), 5 qian of Zhishi (stir-fried with bran), 4 qian of Amomum villosum (stir-fried). *** is the end. The malt sugar is made into pills, and the Wuzi is big. Take three qian each morning and evening with white soup. ("Fangmai Zhengzong") To treat diarrhea due to summer heat, injuries caused by diet, and tightness in the chest and diaphragm: Divide Shenqu (fried) and Atractylodes (rice soaked overnight and roasted) into equal portions. In the end, the batter becomes a pill, as big as a sycamore seed. Take thirty pills each time, at any time, swallow with rice drink. ("Prescription" Qushu Pills)

To treat restless dysentery, which does not stop day and night, and cold and pain in the abdomen: Divide Shenqu, Ruipun, and Evodia into equal parts. Boil, natural ginger juice and pills, as big as sycamore seeds. Take 30 pills with porridge before eating ("Puji Fang" Shenqu Pills) to treat postpartum cold dysentery and subumbilical pain: 30 ounces of Shenqu (Shenquhuang), 2 ounces of cooked dried rehmannia glutinosa, and 1 and a half of Atractylodes macrocephala. Pound the above medicine into powder. For each dose, add 2 qian with porridge or drink, and take it three or four times a day. ("Sheng Hui Fang" Shenqu Powder) To treat food accumulation and heartache: one piece of Chen Shenqu. Burn it red, quench the wine in two large bowls and drink it. ("Zhao Yuan Fang") Treats dystocia and dystocia: at the end of Shenqu, take Fang Cun Ding with water. ("Qianjin Prescription") To treat postpartum blood stasis and poor luck, abdominal distension and stuffiness, which gradually turns into bloating: one pound of Chenjiu Shenqu. Mash into pieces, lightly stir-fry and grind into powder. Take three qian each morning and evening, mixed with Amomum villosum soup before meals. It can also cure food bloating in children.

("Compendium of Materia Medica")