Functions：Clears heat; moves stagnation, frees stools, promotes urination. Apply to heat stagnation and accumulations, abdominal pain due to constipation, edema.

Functions：Promotes urination, reduces swelling, dispels wind, relieves pain. apply to edema and beriberi, difficulty in micturition, wind-damp impediment, rheumatic arthralgia, hypertension. According to common views, Han fang ji has stronger effect of promotes urination and reduces swelling; Mu fang ji has stronger effect of dispels wind and relieves pain.

Functions：Dispels wind to release the exterior pattern, dispels dampness and relieve pain, arrests convulsions. Apply to exterior syndrome due to wind-cold, headache, dizziness, rigid neck, rheumatic arthralgia with wind-cold, joint pain and sour, convulsion of limbs, tetanus.

Functions：Breaks blood, disperses accumulations, moves qi, relieves pain.

Functions：Astringes moisture, engenders flesh, closes sore. Apply to disclosed sore, eczema, aphtha, traumatic injury, trauma bleeding.

Functions：Supplements blood, stops blood, enriches yin, moistens dryness.

Functions：Supplements the liver and kidney, strengthens sinew and bone. Apply to deficiency of liver and kidney, dizziness, lumbar and back pain, weakness of sinew and bone.

Functions：Supplements the live and kidney, strengthens sinew and bone, calms the fetus. Apply to aching pain in the loins and knees, weakness of legs and knees, drenching and unsmooth urination, vaginal dampness and itch, fetal leakage and abortion, restless fetal movement, hypertension.

Functions：Dispels wind, eliminates dampness, frees cold, stops pain. apply to wind-cold and damp impediment, pain of waist and knees, subside wind of Shao Yin and headache, headache and toothache.

Functions：Transforms dampness, disperses of local distention, moves qi, warms the center, opens stomach, disperses food. Apply to retention of damp leading to blockage of middle, anorexia, onset of damp thermosis, and fullness due to chest distress, gastrofrigid vomiting, chest and abdominal swelling pain, indigestion.

Functions：Moves water, moistens intestines, frees milk, clears heat, relieves purulence.

Functions：Supplements the lung, boosts the kidney, stops bleeding, transforms phlegm.

Functions：Cools blood, stops bleeding, relieves toxin, astringes sore, eliminates heat of lower-jiao. Apply to hematuria and hematochezia.

Functions：Warms stomach, warms kidney. Apply to cold stomach and swelling pain, hiccup, vomiting and diarrhea, impediment, colic, ozostomia, toothache.

Functions：Clears heat, settles fright, frees the network vessels, calms panting, promotes urination. Apply to coma due to high fever, frightening epilepsy and convulsion, joint impediment, numbing limbs, hemiplegia, dyspnea due to lung heat, oliguria and edema, hypertension.

Functions：Xian di huang: Clears heat, engenders fluids, cools blood, stops bleeding. Sheng di haung: clears heat, cools blood, nourishes yin, and engenders fluids. Shu di huang: nourishes yin, supplements bloods, boosts essence, and fills the marrow. Apply to yin deficiency and hectic fever, diabetes, hematemesis, non-traumatic hemorrhage, metrorrhagia, irregular menstruation, threatened miscarriage, diarrhea due to yin damage.

Functions：Cools blood, eliminates steaming, clear the lung, downbears fire. Apply to yin deficiency and hectic fever, hectic fever and night sweat, dyspnea and coughing due to lung-heat, hematemesis, and non-traumatic hemorrhage.

Functions：Clears heat, disinhibits dampness, dispels wind and relieves itching. Apply to astringent pain when urinating, vaginal discharge and itch, wind rash, eczema, skin itching.

Functions：Disinhibiting diuresis and relieving strangury, clearing heart fire. Apply to strangury, edema, difficulty of urination, oliguria and pain, damp-heat jaundice, insomnia due to vexation, nocturnal fretfulness in infants, throat impediment, sore of mouth and tongue, trauma.

Functions：Supplements the center, boosts qi, nourishes blood, calms spirit. Apply to spleen deficiency patterns of poor appetite and sloppy stool, visceral agitation in women.