【Nature and flavor】Pungent, warm.
 [return through meridians] Returns to spleen meridian, stomach meridian, lung meridian and kidney meridian.
 [Efficacy] This product is the dried flower buds of the Myrtaceae plant clove. It is mainly used to treat hiccups, cold pain in the abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea due to loss of appetite, impotence due to kidney deficiency, soreness and coldness of the waist and knees, and genital carbuncle.
 [Indications] Warming the middle and lowering adverse reactions, warming the kidney and supporting yang. It is used for hiccups, cold pain in the abdomen, poor appetite, vomiting and diarrhea, impotence due to kidney deficiency, soreness and coldness in the waist and knees, and yin carbuncle.
 【Medical records】
 ① "Medicinal Properties": "Treats abdominal pain caused by cold air."

 ② "Haiyao Bencao": "It can cure wind malnutrition, bone odor caused by fatigue. It can cure qi, blacken the beard and hair, kill insects, cure five types of hemorrhoids, ward off evil and remove evil. It can cure nipple ulcers, stop five-color toxic dysentery, tonify qi, and stop heart and stomach pain."

 ③ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "It can treat bad breath, nausea, kidney qi, running pig qi, yin pain, strengthen yang, warm the waist and knees, kill alcohol poisoning, eliminate phlegm and cold fatigue."

 ④ "Kaibao Materia Medica": "Warms the spleen and stomach, stops cholera. (Treats) congestion, wind-toxic swelling, and tooth decay."

 ⑤ "Bencao Mengquan": "It can stop Qi stagnation and Qi reversal."

 ⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can treat hypochondriasis, vomiting and diarrhea in children, and gray and white acne caused by weak stomach."

 ⑦ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Warms the middle and relieves qi. Treats hiccups in the upper part of the body, eliminates stomach cold, diarrhea, and seven emotions and five depressions."

 ⑧ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can treat chest pain, vaginal pain, and warm the vagina."

 ⑨ "Medical Collection": "It nourishes the liver, moistens the gate of life, warms the stomach, removes the cold in the middle, drains the lungs, and dispels rheumatism."

 ⑩ "New Materia Medica": "Open the nine orifices, relieve depression, remove wind, and promote water circulation."
 【Predecessors release medicine】
 1 "Leigong Paozhi Lun": All cloves are used. There are male and female cloves. The male ones are small, while the female ones are large and resemble jujube pits. Female ones are often used in prescriptions because they are powerful, and male ones are used in ointments .
 2 Kaibao Materia Medica: Cloves are harvested in February and August. According to the map of cloves sent by Guangzhou, the tree is more than ten feet tall, with leaves like oak leaves, round and thin flowers, yellow, and they do not wither in winter. Doctors only use the roots. The seeds are like nails, three or four centimeters long, purple, and there are some thick ones like cornus officinalis, which are commonly called mother cloves. They can be used as medicine for the heart and stomach. ...Warms the spleen and stomach, stops cholera. (Treats) congestion, wind-toxic swelling, tooth ulcers.
 3 "Ben Cao Jing Shu": Cloves are mainly used to warm the spleen and stomach and stop cholera and swelling. The spleen and stomach are the organs of the granary. Eating raw and cold food will hurt the spleen and stomach. If they stay and do not go away, it will cause obstruction and distension. If they rise and flow down, it will cause profligacy and disorder. The pungent and warming properties of cloves warm the spleen and stomach and move the stagnant qi, then cholera will stop and the swelling will disappear. Tooth scurvy is also caused by the upward attack of damp heat in the Yangming meridian. If the evil of the Yangming meridian is dispersed, the scurvy will be eliminated. It is used to treat wind-toxic swellings. It is pungent and warm to disperse the stagnation, and the fragrance can also move the body to remove the filth.
 4 "Compendium of Materia Medica": Clove warms the middle and strengthens the stomach, and it is best to use it together with the medicine in pills. If used alone or frequently, it is easy to overdo it, damage the lungs and hurt the eyes.
 5 "New Compendium of Materia Medica": Cloves are divided into male and female varieties, but in fact they can be used to treat the same disease. It is most suitable for diseases that directly affect the yin meridians, but it should not be used for colds that spread through the meridians.
 6 Depei Materia Medica: Cloves and Schisandrae Chinensis can treat running pigs, and sugar cane and ginger juice can treat dry retching. Cinnamon can warm the exterior, and cloves can warm the stomach.