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Xuan (Dispersing) Agents: Utilizing the reverse flow of water, decoctions used as emetics are effective. Yin-Yang water can surge to eliminate various stagnations; Tongqing (Chalcocite) is sour and neutral, inducing vomiting for wind-phlegm; Gancao Tou (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma head) guides toxins out, acting on the Liver and Stomach to clear turbid blood; Renshen Lu (Ginseng Radicis Caulis) is bitter and warm, promoting unblocking.

Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Baifei Tang (Boiling Water Decoction) unblocks Yang and moves meridians; Moxibustion with Ai Huo (Moxa Fire) unblocks Yang to treat hundred diseases; Deng Huo Cui (Lamp Oil Quenching) treats pediatric convulsions; Huoxiao (Saltpeter) is acrid, bitter, and warm, toxic, dissipating heat, moving knots, and breaking accumulations.

Bu (Tonifying) Agents: Gancao (Licorice Root) is sweet and warm, entering all twelve channels, moderating Zheng Qi (Upright Qi), tonifying the Spleen and Stomach, preferably roasted; Jingmi (Oryzae Fructus Glutinosa) varies in temperature by color and harvest time, warming the middle, boosting Qi, benefiting the intestines and stomach, and unblocking blood vessels.

Xie (Purging) Agents: Laxue Shui (Winter Snow Water) is sweet and cold, purging heat toxins; Jiliu Shui (Rapid Flowing Water) has a fierce downward nature, suitable for decocted purgatives; Dizhang (Earth Slurry) is sweet and cold, purging heat toxins; Jinlan Shui (Indigo-Soaked Water) is bitter and cold, detoxifying.

Qing (Light) Agents: Rainwater collected after Lichun (Start of Spring) possesses the ascending energy of spring, suitable for decocted diaphoretics; Fuqi Mo (Kettle Bottom Soot) is acrid and warm, stopping bleeding and treating throat and tongue ailments; Fenghua Xiao (Weathered Niter) is sweet and mild.

Xuan (Dispersing) Agents: Used to vomit phlegm-fluids. Tianmingjing (Nemopanthi Folium) is sweet and cold, slightly toxic, treating chest heat stagnation and blood stasis, vomiting phlegm, Liaobang (Severe Sore Throat), and mouth tightness when raw; Changshan (Dichroae Radix) is bitter and cold, toxic, expelling old phlegm.

Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Baiwei (Cynanchi Atrati Radix) is bitter, salty, and neutral, benefiting Yin Qi, regulating blood vessels, and treating wind; Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix) is acrid and warm, regulating Qi harmonizing the Stomach, moving Liver stagnation; Liuji Nu (Artemisiae Anomfolii Herba) is bitter and warm, reducing blood distension.

Bu (Tonifying) Agents: Lizhi (Litchi Fruit) is sweet and warm, strengthening Qi, calming the spirit, enhancing intelligence, and dispersing formless Qi stagnation; He (Nut) is astringent, treating hernia; Meishizi (Myrobalan) is bitter and warm, warming the middle, boosting Qi, harmonizing blood, generating essence, and benefiting the Chong Mai.

Xie (Purging) Agents: Zhezhe Gan Shui (Rice Washing Water) purges heat; Huangtu (Yellow Earth) resolves drug toxicity; Fenkeng Di Ni (Sewer Mud) purges heat toxins; Qiuyin Ni (Earthworm Soil) purges heat and moves dampness; Qianfen (Lead Powder) is acrid and cool, resolving accumulations.

Qing (Light) Agents: Difuzi (Kochiae Spinosus Fructus) is bitter and cold, treating wind-heat in the head, eyes, and skin; Ping (Floating Duckweed) treats sudden fever, itching, heat-toxin wind-heat sores and rashes, sweating more effectively than Mahuang (Ephedra); Mabao (Bofortia Spores) is acrid and neutral.

Xuan (Dispersing) Agents: Treat phlegm-fluids, wind-epilepsy, sore throat, etc. Cha Mo (Tea Powder), Laifuzi (Radish Seed) are acrid, sweet, and neutral, ascending and dispersing wind-phlegm when raw; Baimei (White Plum) is salty and sour, treating wind-phlegm obstruction.

Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Ququ Cao (Artemisiae Argyi Herba) is sweet and warm, treating cold cough, greatly raising Lung Qi; Yelangya (Sanguisorbae Radix) is bitter and cold, toxic, clearing pathogenic heat and killing parasites; Shijunzi (Quisqualis Fructus) is sweet and warm, killing parasites, primarily for pediatric five types of malnutrition.

Bu (Tonifying) Agents: Gu (Bone) strengthens waist and knees, brightens eyes; Fushen (Poria with Hostwood) tonifies Heart Qi, stops palpitations, treats wind-dizziness due to Heart deficiency; Ji Yu (Carassius Auratus) is sweet and warm, treating Stomach deficiency anorexia, warming the middle, directing Qi downward, stopping dysentery, best when crushed raw.

Xie (Purging) Agents: Xin (likely referring to a pungent herb, text unclear) is hot and highly toxic, treating depression and accumulations with strong digestive power; Hanshuishi (Halloysitum Rubrum) is acrid, salty, and cold, purging latent heat from the five Zang organs; Mangxiao (Mirabilitum) is salty and extremely cold, purging heat and removing accumulations.

Qing (Light) Agents: Qi (likely referring to aromatic herbs, text unclear) regulates the middle, treating headaches and seasonal fevers in spring and summer; Congbai (Allii Fistulosi Bulbus) is acrid and neutral, unblocking Yang to reach the exterior, inducing sweating; Huisu (Coriandri Fructus) is acrid and warm, erupting measles and smallpox that fail to emerge.

Xuan (Dispersing) Agents: Guiyu Dan (Mandarin Fish Gallbladder) is bitter and cold, vomiting bamboo or wood splinters lodged in the throat or viscera; Xie (Scorpion) is sweet, acrid, and warm, toxic, repelling wind-phlegm, treating wind-convulsions; Bi Ma (Ricini Semen) specifically ascends.

Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Ziwei (Bignoniae Caulis) is salty, bitter, and cold, entering the blood to scatter knot-heat, treating heat-toxin wind-masses, blood closure, blood obstruction, wandering wind, and postpartum disorders; Baibu (Stemonae Radix) is sweet and slightly warm, treating cough and rebellious Qi.

Bu (Tonifying) Agents: Touzhongshi (Stone Head Fish Head) treats stone strangury; Baixiang (Dried Hairtail) treats similarly; Yu (Fish) is sweet and very warm, tonifying the middle, benefiting Qi and Blood, treating deficiency consumptive diseases, driving out twelve types of wind pathogens, chronic dysentery, and intestinal fistulas.

Xie (Purging) Agents: Purge fire-heat when raw; Ji (Shepherd's Purse) is sweet and cold, purging heat and detoxifying; Guanzhong (Cyathullae Rhizoma) is bitter and slightly cold, slightly toxic, purging abdominal pathogenic heat and toxins, softening hardness, warding off epidemics; Zhuma (Ramie Stem) [Text incomplete].

Qing (Light) Agents: Re (Heat) regulates Ying and Blood, harmonizes the muscle surface, removes joint gout, scatters lower jiao blood stasis, and skin wind-damp; Chengliu (Celtis Sinensis Cortex) is sweet, salty, and warm, treating measles heat-toxin that fails to erupt.

Shen (Spirit) Agents: Promote urination. Shuang Sangye (Mulberry Leaf frosted) is bitter, sweet, and cold, eliminating chills and fever, harmonizing Qi, dispelling wind, and unblocking blood; Zhi (Branch) nourishes sinews; Danyezhu Ye (Lophatheri Folium) is acrid and neutral.

Xuan (Dispersing) Agents: For injuries, women with retained placenta or prolapsed uterus, mostly used externally.

Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Wen (Warmth) primarily treats wind-blood, removes bi-syndrome, drives out cold; Luoshiteng (Trachelospermi Caulis) is bitter and warm (or cold), treating acute throat swelling, benefiting joints, treating abscesses and throat blockage; Shichangpu (Acori Tatarinowii Rhizoma) [Text incomplete].

Bu (Tonifying) Agents: Treats corpse-wind bi, kills parasites; Gu (Bone) treats mosquito bites; Zhenzhu (Pearl) is sweet and cold, greatly benefiting the Liver, clearing the Heart, calming the soul, brightening eyes, removing kidney toxin, treating difficult labor; Wugu Ji (Black-bone Chicken) is sweet and neutral.

Xie (Purging) Agents: Daqing (Isatidis Radix) is sweet, slightly bitter, salty, and extremely cold, treating all epidemic heat-toxins; Shanglu Gen (Phytolaccae Radix) is acrid, bitter, and neutral, red ones are toxic, directly draining the five Zang organs, scattering water qi, treating edema and hernial masses.

Qing (Light) Agents: Cold cools the Heart and Lungs, treating mania, restlessness, headache, dissipating heat-toxin wind, promoting urination; Zhuru (Bambusae Caulis in Taenia) stops Stomach heat vomiting, clears Yang Qi, treats female post-coital relapse; Chan Tui (Cicadae Periostracum) treats [Text incomplete].

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Luo (Network) Di Jin (Spreading Groundsel) is acrid, bitter, and neutral, unblocking blood vessels, treating blood-breaking and blood-scattering; Juanbai (Serpylli Herba) is sweet and warm, treating pathogenic qi in the five Zang organs, female genital cold-heat pain, and masses.

Bu (Tonifying) Agents: Harmonize Zang-Fu and water passages; Chun (Quail) is sweet and neutral, tonifying the five Zang organs, benefiting middle accumulation depletion, solidifying sinews and bones, stopping dysentery, treating drum-distension, emaciation, and inability to eat; Que Lv (Sparrow Egg) is sour and warm, strengthening Yang and benefiting [Text incomplete].

Xie (Purging) Agents: Abdominal fullness and hernial masses; Daji (Euphorbiae Pekinensis Radix) is bitter and cold, toxic, treating twelve severe water conditions, abdominal fullness, accumulations, evil blood, and all phlegm-fluids and dampness diseases; Yuanhua (Genkwa Flos) is acrid and warm, toxic, resolving [Text incomplete].

Qing (Light) Agents: Shu Fen (Rat Droppings) is sweet and slightly cold, treating male/female post-coital relapse, yin-yi exchange, dead fetus, and breast abscesses.

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Sumi (Common Millet) is salty, bland, and slightly cold, clearing Stomach heat, promoting urination; Liang Mi (Foxtail Millet) is similar to Sumi; Chen Mi (Aged Rice) is salty and sour, widening the middle, digesting food, promoting urination, regulating the Stomach; Shen Qu (Medicated Leaven) is sweet, acrid, and warm.

Bu (Tonifying) Agents: Niu (Cow Meat) is sweet and warm, tonifying the middle, boosting Qi, nourishing the Spleen and Stomach; Yang (Mutton) is sweet and very hot, tonifying the middle, boosting Qi, treating all deficiency-cold conditions; Shen (Kidney) tonifies Kidney Qi; Shi Du (Pig Stomach) is sweet and slightly [Text incomplete].

Xie (Purging) Agents: Qianniu (Pharbitidis Semen), black ones are superior, sweet, acrid, and hot, treating three-jiao congestion of Qi, Blood, and damp-heat, opening Qi, driving out phlegm stagnation; Zeqi Ye (Euphorbiae Helioscopiae Folium) is bitter and slightly cold, treating large abdominal water qi, limbs, and face [Text incomplete].

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Break blood stagnation; Mai Ya (Hordei Fructus Germinatus) is salty and warm, digesting food, opening the appetite, harmonizing the middle, directing Qi downward; Guya (Setariae Fructus Germinatus) is sweet and warm, its digestion power is slightly inferior to Mai Ya; Jiu (Alcohol) is sweet, bitter, acrid, and very hot, toxic.

Bu (Tonifying) Agents: Han (Cold) treats Lung deficiency cough; Chang (Intestine) is sweet and slightly cold, moistening the intestines; Gou (Dog Meat) is sweet, salty, and acrid-warm, tonifying Stomach Qi, strengthening Yang and strength; Jing (Penis) treats impotence; Lv Yinxing (Donkey Penis) is sweet and warm, strengthening Yang.

Xie (Purging) Agents: Shandougen (Sophorae Tonkinensis Radix) is bitter, slightly sweet, and cold, resolving drug toxicity, treating throat swelling; Huangyaozi (Dioscoreae bulbiferae) is bitter and cool, clearing fire, treating all sores and swellings, eliminating goiters; Tugua Gen (Trichosanthes Radix) is bitter [Text incomplete].

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Warm and slippery, warm the middle, scatter knot-Qi, treat chest bi; Baijiezi (Sinapis Semen) is acrid and warm, treating chest-diaphragm cold-phlegm, benefiting Qi, phlegm under the ribs and within the fascia, without which it cannot reach; Lai [Text incomplete].

Bu (Tonifying) Agents: Mirong (Antler Velvet) is sweet and hot, tonifying Yang Qi, treating wind-cold; Mi Jiao (Antler Horn) treats similarly but slower; Sui (Marrow) nourishes sinews and fills marrow; Ren Fa (Human Hair) is bitter and slightly warm, tonifying Yin Blood and resolving [Text incomplete].

Xie (Purging) Agents: Taohua (Peach Blossom) purges the Large Intestine very quickly; Badou (Crotonis Fructus) is acrid and hot, toxic, guiding Qi, eliminating accumulations, removing organ stagnation, major accumulations and stagnations, all obstructive conditions, its nature is fierce and sharp [Text incomplete].

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Ku Hu (Bitter Bottle Gourd) is bitter and cold, treating massive edema and facial swelling, promoting urination for stone strangury, treating nasal congestion using pulp and seeds; Donggua (Winter Melon) is sweet and slightly cold, treating lower abdominal water distension, directing Qi downward, promoting urination, Zi (Seed) [Text incomplete].

Bu (Tonifying) Agents: Yuan Gen (Root) restores life, calms the five Zang organs, moistens the three jiao, treats bone-steaming; Ziheche (Placenta Humanum) is sweet, salty, and warm, treating all deficiency consumptive heat, calming the Heart, nourishing Blood, boosting Qi, tonifying Essence.

Xie (Purging) Agents: Toxic, treating all poison substances, breaking stone strangury, blood hernias; Shuizhi (Hirudo) is salty, bitter, and neutral, toxic, returning evil blood; Mengchong (Tabanidae Insect) is bitter and slightly cold, toxic, treating similarly to Shuizhi; Chong (Insect) salty [Text incomplete].

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Some say cool, treating wandering wind and erysipelas; Zi (Seed) moves stagnant blood, breaks cold Qi, reduces swelling, scatters knots, treats difficult labor; Shan Zha (Crataegi Fructus) is sour, sweet, and slightly warm, eliminating accumulation knot-Qi, moving all stagnations.

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Xie (Purging) Agents: Yi (Clothing/Covering) Loufu (Mole Cricket) is salty and cold, toxic, treating edema and retained placenta, nature is urgent; Wugong (Centipede) is acrid and warm, toxic, treating tetanus, convulsions, removing accumulations, evil blood, and gu-poison.

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Acrid and warm, directing Qi downward, digesting food, warming the Spleen and Stomach, stopping rebellion, treating all cold Qi and flaccidity syndromes; Oujie (Lotus Node) is astringent and neutral, resolving blood stasis, clearing heat-toxin; Songzhi (Pinus Resin) is bitter, sweet, and warm, eliminating pathogenic [Text incomplete].

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Xie (Purging) Agents: Heat unblocks meridians, dispels wind, those with hundred necks are good; Chan Chu (Toad Skin) is acrid, cool, and slightly toxic, treating pediatric malnutrition, all parasitic foul sores, breaking accumulations; Li Yu (Li Fish) is sweet and cold, treating underwater water retention with special efficacy; Dan (Gallbladder) treats fatal sore throat; Tianluo (River Snail) is sweet and extremely cold, descending abdominal accumulated water and qi.

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Blood gathers in metal wounds and fractures; Longnao Xiang (Borneolum Syntheticum) is bitter, acrid, and warm, entering ears, eyes, and crown above, Kidneys and bones below, benefiting knot-heat dissipation, treating throat obstruction; Anshixiang (Styrax) is acrid, bitter [Text incomplete].

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Xie (Purging) Agents: Edema, treating locked jaw dysentery and thirst; Jishi Bai (Chicken Droppings White) is slightly cold, directing Qi downward, promoting urination, treating drum-distension, stroke, wind-bi, tendon contraction entering abdomen; Yaxue (Duck Blood) is salty and cold, downing arsenic poison salt [Text incomplete].

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Epilepsy; Hutong Lei (Poplar Tear) is salty, bitter, and extremely cold, treating damp-heat toothache, wind-worm toothache, alveolar periostitis, throat lymphadenopathy; Baijiao Xiang (Dragon's Blood Resin) is acrid, sweet, and neutral, invigorating blood, stopping pain, treating sores [Text incomplete].

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Xie (Purging) Agents: Phlegm treats internal organs; Shidan (Pig Gallbladder) is bitter and cold, clearing the Heart, cooling the Liver, promoting bowel movement; Renzhonghuang (Indigo Naturalis Processed) is bitter and cold, purging epidemic high fever, resolving all foul sores toxins; Jinzhi (Human Excrement Juice) treats epidemic [Text incomplete].

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Wandering pain; Lian Genpi (Meliae Cortex) is bitter and slightly cold, treating wandering wind-heat-toxin, wind-rash, killing parasites, treating diabetes with worms, use white parts; Wuyi (Madras Leaf) is acrid, bitter, and warm, treating wind-skin and joints [Text incomplete].

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Xie (Purging) Agents: Tongzi Zhe (Boy's Best): Renzhongbai (Calcinant Human Excrement) treats epistaxis and tuberculosis fever; Baoyi Shui (Placental Water) is acrid and cool, treating pediatric erysipelas, all heat-toxins, epidemic fevers, mania, and hardness [Text incomplete].

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Baipi (White Bark) is sweet and neutral, treating abdominal edema; Zijing (Bauhiniae Flos) is bitter and neutral, breaking old blood, promoting five stranguries, reducing swelling, detoxifying, treating sore throat and menstrual blood stasis; Zuomu (Oak Wood) is bitter and neutral, nature is good [Text incomplete].

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Ghost poison, gu-poison, evil qi abdominal pain, postpartum blood-stasis abdominal pain; Shenmu (Divine Wood) treats mouth-eye deviation, toxic wind spasm, Hong Kong foot bi disease; Sangjisheng (Taxilli Fructus) is bitter and neutral, benefiting blood.

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Lufengfang (Vespa Nidus) is sweet and neutral, toxic, treating convulsions, chills and fever, pathogenic qi, epilepsy, ghost-gu diseases, and all evil toxins; Jiangcan (Bombyx Batryticatus) is salty, acrid, and slightly warm, treating acute wind sore throat, scattering [Text incomplete].

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Warm and resolve blood stagnation, treating evil blood under the hypochondrium; Qianglang (Scarabaeus) is salty and cold, toxic, treating convulsions, malnutrition, diaphragmatic qi, constipation, dysentery, etc.; Wa (Frog) is sweet and cold, detoxifying and promoting urination.

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Slight toxicity, treating stubborn wind-bi insensitivity, wind-heat-toxin; Ran She Dan (Python Gallbladder) is sweet, bitter, and cold, toxic, brightening eyes, removing nebula, treating bloody dysentery, gu-poison, pediatric five hemorrhoids; Liyu (Carp) [Text incomplete].

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Postpartum wind-twitching, tetanus, thin semen, etc.; Ha Fen (Concha Meretricis Pulveratum) is salty and neutral, resolving phlegm, treating asthma, softening hardness, resolving knots, reducing edema and swellings; Bang Fen (Concha Corbiculae Pulveratum) is salty and cold, treating similarly to Ha Fen.

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Accumulation is Walengzi (Arcaea Concha); Ji Neijin (Galli Gigerii Endothelium Corneum) treats dysentery, regurgitation, hematuria, seminal emission, metrorrhagia; Yeming Sha (Geomi Pulveratum) is acrid and cold, treating abdominal Qi and Blood, breaking accumulations, treating eye obstructions.

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Tong (Unblocking) Agents: Nebula; She Xiang (Moschus) is acrid and warm, unblocking orifices, opening meridians, penetrating muscles and bones, nature is good at moving everywhere; Pi (Skin) is bitter and neutral, slightly toxic, treating five hemorrhoids, yin erosion, intestinal wind, rebellion [Text incomplete].

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Zhong (Heavy) Agents: Jin Bo (Gold Foil) is acrid and neutral, raw ones are toxic, calming spirit, benefiting Lung, solidifying marrow; Yin Bo (Silver Foil) treats similarly to Jin Bo; Chi Tong Xie (Red Copper Scrapings) is bitter and neutral, continuing sinews and bones; Hua Jiang Xiang (Agarwood) is acrid and warm, treating fractures and metal wounds, stopping bleeding and pain; Modao Shui (Whetstone Water) promotes urination; Zhensha (Iron Filings) is salty and neutral, treating swelling and fullness, purging heat; Fushi (Pumice) is salty and extremely cold, resolving phlegm and descending; Gancao Shao (Licorice Root Tip) benefits small [Text incomplete].

Se (Astringent) Agents: Yuyuliang (Haematitum) is sweet, salty, and neutral, treating cough-reversal and pathogenic qi in the lower jiao yin; Bili (Ficus Pumila) is sweet, astringent, and neutral, strengthening Yang pathway, consolidating essence, also reducing swelling and stopping bleeding; Fumai (Triticum Aestivum Emendatio) is sweet and salty [Text incomplete].

Zao (Drying) Agents: Dongbi Tu (East Wall Earth) is sweet and warm, overcoming dampness; Pishi (Realgar) is acrid, bitter, and extremely hot, toxic, treating phlegm accumulations; Weilingxian (Syneilesidis Radix) is bitter, sweet, and warm, treating wind-damp, unblocking five Zang organs, treating all accumulation diseases.

Shi (Dampness) Agents: Jinghua Shui (Well Water First Drawn) is suitable for decocting Yin-nourishing agents; Tianhuafen (Trichosanthis Radix) is bitter and cold, benefiting fluids, stopping thirst, eliminating chronic heat and fullness in the stomach and intestines; Huma (Sesami Fructus) is sweet and neutral, moistening and nourishing the five Zang organs.

Zhong (Heavy) Agents: Qian (Lead) is sweet and cold, calming deficient Qi and dropping phlegm; Qianshuang (Basic Lead Carbonate) has same nature as Lead, specifically drops phlegm and clears heat; Qiandan (Basic Lead Carbonate Red) is acrid and slightly cold, calming rebellion and dropping phlegm; Mituoseng (Litharge) is salty, acrid, and neutral, dropping phlegm.

Hua (Slippery) Agents: Urine reaches the penis; Dongkui Zi (Malvae Semen) is sweet, cold, and slippery, treating five stranguries, benefiting two bowels, milk closure, reducing water, slipping fetus; Yingzisu (Millet) is sweet and neutral (or cold), mainly moving wind qi, driving out pathogens.

Se (Astringent) Agents: Cold收敛s spontaneous and night sweating, eliminates consumption heat and bone-steaming; Wumei (Mume Fructus) is sour, warm, and astringent, directing Qi downward, regulating the middle, collecting diaphragm Qi, astringent yet moving; Mugua (Chaenomelis Fructus) is sweet, sour, and warm, stopping vomiting and diarrhea.

Zao (Drying) Agents: Zhe (Those) Utou (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Preparata) removes cold-damp, dispels wind pathogens, breaks accumulations; Caoutou (Aconiti Kusnezoffii Radix) is bitter, acrid, extremely hot, and highly toxic, breaking cold-damp accumulations, cold-phlegm, stubborn wind, and evil dampness, nature is drying and fierce, suitable [Text incomplete].

Shi (Dampness) Agents: Fills essence and marrow, benefits two bowels, treats deficiency injuries, use black ones; Fengmi (Honey) is sweet and neutral, moistening Zang-Fu, unblocking large intestine constipation, benefiting blood vessels; Niunai (Cow Milk) is sweet and slightly cold, tonifying deficiency and emaciation, nourishing [Text incomplete].

Zhong (Heavy) Agents: Cold calms spirit, settles魂魄 (Soul), enters fire kills people, should be used raw; Shuiyin (Mercurius) is acrid and cold, toxic, heavy and sinking downward, suppressing rebellious phlegm, killing parasites; Lingsha (Cinnabar Processed) is sweet and warm, nourishing spirit and settling [Text incomplete].

Hua (Slippery) Agents: Zi (Seed) treats similarly to Shukui (Hollyhock); Bianzhu (Commelinae Rhizoma) is bitter and neutral, killing parasites, treating jaundice and stranguries; Gualou Shi (Trichosanthis Fructus) is sweet and cold, moistening Lung dryness, clearing heat, resolving phlegm, widening chest and intestines; Haizao (Sargassum) salty [Text incomplete].

Se (Astringent) Agents: Cough, shrinking urine, stopping white turbidity; Lianzi (Nelumbinis Semen) is sweet, neutral, and astringent, tonifying middle, connecting Heart and Kidney, consolidating essence and Qi; Xu (Thread) treats similarly to Lianzi; Chun Chu (Toona Sinensis) is bitter, slightly cool, astringent, and drying, treating red and white [Text incomplete].

Zao (Drying) Agents: Paojiang (Prepared Ginger) is bitter and extremely hot, guarding the middle, warming Spleen and Stomach, treating all lower jiao cold-damp, postpartum blood-deficiency high fever, deep-seated cold and chronic cold conditions; Shaojiu (Distilled Liquor) is sweet, acrid, extremely hot, and highly toxic.

Shi (Dampness) Agents: Yangru (Sheep Milk) tonifies deficiency-cold, moistens Heart and Lungs; Shizhi (Pork Fat) is sweet and slightly cold, moistening Lung and benefiting blood vessels; Ru Zhi (Breast Milk) is sweet, salty, and cool, nourishing five Zang organs, brightening eyes, calming spirit, benefiting joints, moisturizing skin.

Zhong (Heavy) Agents: Or said salty-warm, extreme yin substance, treating heart-abdominal accumulations, Laifu Zhengyang Dan uses it; Hupo (Amber) is sweet and neutral, calming five Zang organs, settling魂魄, resolving phlegm-blood, brightening eyes, grinding nebula.

Hua (Slippery) Agents: Water; Damai (Hordeum Vulgare) is flat, cool, and slippery, treating thirst, clearing heat, widening chest, directing Qi downward; Qiaomai (Fagopyri Esculenti Fructus) is sweet, neutral, and cold, descending Qi, widening chest, removing stagnation, violating it in deficiency-cold causes great loss of Yuan Qi.

Se (Astringent) Agents: Luo (Network) blood all return to righteousness, not ordinary hemostatic products; Jinyingzi (Rosa Laevigata Fructus) is sour, astringent, and neutral, astringing essence, stopping Spleen diarrhea; Miyala (Beeswax) is sweet, bland, and slightly warm, stopping dysentery with pus [Text incomplete].

Zao (Drying) Agents: Treats wet diseases in blood, long-standing wind in all joints, wind-deficiency; Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma) is acrid and warm (or extremely hot), warms the middle, treats chest fullness and cough-reversal.

Shi (Dampness) etc. symptoms: Yuejing Yi (Menstrual Cloth) treats heat disease and consumption relapse.

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Hua (Slippery) Agents: Jiju Zi (Desmodii Styraacis Fructus) is sweet and neutral, benefiting five Zang organs, resolving alcohol toxicity, warming-heat stopping thirst, removing upper diaphragm heat, same effect as honey; Zhegane (Sugarcane) is sweet and warm, benefiting Large Intestine, assisting Spleen Qi; Zhuli (Bamboo Sap) is sweet [Text incomplete].

Se (Astringent) Agents: Yuancan E (Silkworm Cocoon) is salty and warm, benefiting essence, strengthening Yin, stopping dribbling strangury, take males remove wings and feet; Lujiao Shuang (Deer Antler Glue Frost) treats frequent urination and defecation.

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Hua (Slippery) Agents: Niao (Urine) kills parasites, treats regurgitation; Mayou (Sesame Oil) is sweet and slightly cold, descending three jiao heat-toxin, resolving heat, slippery benefiting two bowels.

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