Functions：Supplements the blood, invigorates the blood, regulates menstruation, relieves pain, moistens the intestines, frees the stool. Apply to chlorosis due to hemopenia, vertigo and palpitation, irregular menstrual periods, amenorrhea and painful menstruation, deficiency cold abdominalgia, constipation induced by dryness of the intestine, rheumatic arthralgia, injuries from falls, superficial infection and burns and scalds.

Functions：Relieves stagnation, clears dampn-heat, reduces fire, cools blood, eliminates stasis, relieves toxin. Apply to constipation induced by sthenic fever, heat and distention and full of chest, damp-heat diarrhea, jaundice, strangury, edema and sbdominal fullness, difficulty of urination, conjunctival congestion, swelling pain of throat, sor of mouth and tongue, vomiting due to heat stomach, apostaxis, cough with blood, epistaxis, hematochezia, hematuria, blood stasis, amenorrhea, postpartum stasis and pain, abdominal mass accumulation, trsumatic injury, carbuncle and ulcer due to heat toxin, erysipelas, empyrosis.

Functions：Boosts qi, fortifies the spleen, supplements the kidney, strengthens the muscles and bones; invigorates blood and veins. Apply to wind-cold and damp impediment, pain of waist and knees, muscle and bone flaccidity, slow movement, body deficiency, traumatic injury, fracture, edema, beriberi, vaginal damp and itch.

Functions：Invigorates the blood, eliminates stasis, moves qi, opens stagnation, dispels wind, relieves pain. Apply to chest impediment and heartache, chest pain, swollen pain of falls wound, irregular menses, amenorrhea, dysmenorrheal, abdominal mass and pain, headache, wind-damp impediment.

Functions：Dispels wind, eliminates dampness, warms channels, disperses cold, stops pain. Apply to anemofrigid-damp arthralgia, arthralgia, limb numbness, hemiplegia, head wind and headache, cold hernia and pain, traumatic and swelling pain, yin carbuncle and swollen toxin, analgesia.

Functions：Expels stasis, frees menstruation, benefits the joints, promotes moist urination, frees strangury. Apply to amenorrhea and abdominal mass, lacenta retension, joint impediment, foot paralysis and tendon spasms, hematuria and bloody stranguria, falls wounds.

Functions：Moves qi and relieves pain. apply to abdominal pain, rugitus and diarrhea, rectal tenesmus, bilateral hypochondria, pain in the liver and gall.

Functions：Clears heat, moistens the lung, transforms phlegm, relieves cough. Apply to dry cough due to lung heat, cough with rare phlegm, coughing with asthma due to consumptive disease and yin deficiency, cough phlegm with blood.

Functions：Clears heat, resolves toxin, disperses swelling, relieves pain, cools the live, settles fright. Apply to swelling furuncle and carbuncle, throat swelling and pain, toxic snake bites, pain due to falling wound, convulsion.

Functions：Clears heat, cools the blood, disperses stasis, relieves pain. Unprocessed Chi shao is advanced on clearing heat and cooling the blood. Apply to body heat and bleeding due to warm-heat disease of heat into blood, red eye and swelling with pain, swollen carbuncles and sore toxin.

Functions：Clears heat and interrupts malaria, relieves toxin. Apply to malaria, vomiting and phlegm drool.

Functions：Harmonizes the interior and exterior, courses the liver, resolves depression, outthrust the exterior, discharge heat, upbears yang, and raises the sunken. Apply to cold and pyrexia, spell of fever and chills, malaria, stagnation f liver and qi, gastric and costal swelling pain, anal prolapsed, uterine prolapse, irregular menses.

Functions：Dispels wind, eliminates dampness, warms the channels, relieves pain. Apply to wind cold and moisture impediment, pain joints, chest and abdominal cold pain, cold abdominal colic and pain, stops pain.

Functions：Dries dampness, fortifies the spleen, dispels wind, disperses cold, and brightens the eyes. Chest congestion and abdominal distention, diarrhea and edema, beriberi and paralysis, wind and dampness impediment, wind-cold, caecitas nocturna.

Functions：Nourishes yin, clears the lung, boosts the stomach, and engenders fluid. Apply to lung heat and dry-cough, pulmondeficiency due to long term cough with blood, hydrodipsia due to heat and fluid-damage.

Functions：Clears heat, resolves toxin, dispels swollen, promotes throat. Apply to pent-up heat toxin, swelling pain of throat, swollen and pain of tooth and gums.

Functions：Dispels wind, disinhibits dampness, resolves toxin, disperses stasis. Apply to arthralgia due to wind-dampness, muddy strangury, vaginal discharge, diarrhea, dysentery, abscess carbuncle swollen pain, ringworm, scald; important material for resolves toxin, dispels wind and sore; curing strangury, cancer, diabetes, mash to leaves to cure sore.

Functions：Dries dampness, transforms phlegm, downbears counterflow, relieves vomiting, disperses focal distention, dissipates binds. Apply to damp-phlegm and cold-phlegm, cough with much phlegm, phlegm-fluid retention, palpitations, wind-phlegm and dizziness, phlegm syncope and headache, vomiting and stomach reflux, gastric stuffiness, plum-pit-qi; externally used for painful and swollen phlegm nodes.

Functions：Clears hear, resolves toxin, cools the blood, benefits the throat. Apply to eruptions due to epidemic heat syndrome, headaches caused by chronic fever, epidemic disease characterized by swelling and redness of face, dark purple crimson tongue, scarlet fever, erysipelas, mumps, pharyngitis, swelling sores, chicken pox, measles, hepatitis, influenza, epidemic meningitis, Japanese B encephalitis, pneumonia, coma, hematemesis and non-traumatic hemorrhage, swelling throat, acute scleritis, sore and eruption.

Functions：Supplements the kidney, invigorates yang, strengthens the sinews and bones, dispels wind-dampness. Impotence due to deficiency of kidney, seminal emission and premature ejaculation, cold pain of lower abdomen, spontaneously urination, infertility due to cold uterus, wind cold and dampness arthritis, sourness and weakness of waist and knees, wind and dampness of legs.