Epiphyllum refers to the drinking tablets of epiphyllum, which is forbidden to be taken in cases of yin deficiency or heat and pregnant women; it should not be used in the same way as half-summer, piper betel, smallpox pollen, and Chuanbeimu. Epiphyllum is the processed product of the cotyledon of aconite of the buttercup plant of the buttercup family. Taste pungent, sweet, hot; toxic. Attributed to the heart, kidney and spleen meridians. It can restore yang and save reversal (save fainting and unconsciousness by warming yang qi), tonify fire and help yang (replenish the body’s yang qi), and disperse cold and relieve pain (relieve pain by removing the body’s cold evil). Radix Scrophulariae can be used for death and yang deficiency, cold limbs and weak pulse, heart yang deficiency, chest paralysis (stuffy pain in the chest), heart pain, vomiting and diarrhea with deficiency of cold, cold pain in the epigastric region (feeling cold pain in the stomach and abdomen), kidney yang deficiency (deficiency of yang in the kidneys), impotence with cold uterus, cold and oedema of yin, yang deficiency with external sensation, and cold-dampness paralysis and pain.
The hot nature of epiphyllum is forbidden to be taken by pregnant women in cases of deficiency of yin or heat, and overdose may lead to poisoning. It should be decocted first and for a long time when taking into decoction.