Functions：Clears heat, resolves toxin, cools blood, eliminates swelling. Apply to epidemic heat syndrome with eruptions, high fever with head pain, epidemic disease characterized by swelling and redness of face, erysipelas, mumps, virus hepatitis, flu; pneumonia, swelling sore, herpes.

Functions：Disperse wind heat, abates eye screens. Apply to conjunctival congestion due to wind-heat, dacryorrhea due to head wind, cloudy nebula in eyes.

Functions：Moves qi, stops pain, adjusts middle, resolves stasis, warms middle, digests food.

Functions：Clears heat, promotes urination, invigorates blood, frees channels. Apply to dark urine, edema, vexation and heat in chest, throat pain, mouth and tongue sore, wind-damp impediment, insufficient milk, amenorrhea, dysmenorrheal.

Functions：Calms spirit by heavily settling, subdues yang, supplements yin, softens hardness and disperses binds. Apply to palpitation and insomnia, dizziness and tinnitus, scrofula, abdominal mass and fullness binds. Duan mu li astringes and secures with astringency. Apply to sweating and night sweating, spermatorrhea, metrorrhagia and vaginal discharge, stomach pain and regurgitation.

Functions：Resolves exterior, eliminates dampness, dispels phlegm, calms panting, resolves toxin, dispels wind, kills worm, stops pain. Apply to common cold, cough and asthma, stomach pain, abdominal pain, diarrhea due to summerheat and dampness, beriberi and swelling, rashes and itching, foot tinea, acute mastitis with swelling pain, snake and insect bites.

Functions：Clears heat, promotes throat, soothes liver, harmonizes stomach. Apply to cough due to lung heat, throat impediment, duck voice, pain of liver and stomach qi.

Functions：Calms liver, soothes the sinews, harmonizes stomach, transforms dampness. Apply to damp arthralgia and contractions, heavy feeling and pain in the waist and knee joints, vomiting and diarrhea, muscle spasms, beriberi and edema.

Functions：Clears heat, cools blood, invigorates blood, disperses stasis. Apply to Heat entering into blood circulation, eruptions, non-traumatic hemorrhage and hemafecia, fever due to heat hidden in yin of later stage of febrile diseases, yin deficiency and bone steaming and hot flash, blood stagnation and abdominal mass, dysmenorrheal, abscess and sore swelling pain, injuries due to falls and toil, wind-damp heat impediment.

Functions：Disperses bind, reduces swelling, attacks toxin, treats sores. Apply to sore and swelling toxin, acute mastitis, scrofula, anal fistula, psoriasis, and favas of the scalp.

Functions：Breaks blood, eliminates stasis, disperses swelling, stops pain.

Functions：Moistens lung, resolves phlegm, nourishes yin, harmonizes stomach, calms liver, resolves toxin. Apply to cough due to lung heat, gastrofrigid vomiting, anorexia and dry mouth, conjunctival congestion and vertigo, furunculosis and pathopyretic ulcer.

Functions：Clears heat, resolves toxin, expels worms, stops blood. Apply to preventing flu, worm stagnation and abdominal pain, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis(use its charcoal form).

Functions：Promotes urination, removes turbidity, dispels wind, frees impediment. Apply to strangury and gonorrhea, leukorrhagia, damp-heat sore toxin, waist and knees impediment.

Functions：Moves qi, resolves constraint, harmonizes blood, stops pain. Apply to stagnation of liver-qi and stomach-qi, poor appetite, vomiting and nausea, irregular menstrual periods, swelling pains from falls.

Functions：Frees channels, stops pain, disperses binds, reduces swelling. Apply to wind-damp impediment, numbness and paralysis, injury from falls, abscess swelling pain, sequelae of infantile paralysis, rheumatoid arthritis.

Functions：Dispels wind heat, clears and promotes head and eyes. Apply to wind heat common cold and headache, swelling pain in the gums, conjunctival congestion and delacrimation, dark and blurred vision, lightheadedness and dizziness.

Functions：Breaks distention, warms middle, digests food, drains water, moderates diarrhea. Apply to abdominal fullness, food retention, indigestion, edema, mammary swelling, amenorrhea, constipation.

Functions：Moves qi, digest food, promotes spleen, opens appetite, returns milk, eliminates swelling. Apply to food accumulation and indigestion, abdominal swelling and pain, deficiency of spleen and little food intake, stagnation of milk and sweat, distention and pain of the breast, ablactation. Unprocessed mai ya can promote spleen and harmonizes stomach and frees mammary. Apply to deficiency of spleen and little food intake, stagnation of mammary and sweat.

Functions：Nourishes yin, engenders fluid, moistens lung, stops cough, clear heart, eliminates vexation. Apply to damage of body fluid due to heat disease, vexation, thirst, dry throat due to lung heat, cough, and tuberculosis.