(Temperature) Slightly cold. It mainly treats polydipsia (Xiao Ke), chills and fever caused by Shanghan (Cold Damage), breaks shi lin (lithuria) and muscle spasms, promotes urination, stops enuresis, and eliminates scars.
It mainly treats bi syndrome caused by wind-cold-dampness, the five slackness and six urgency conditions, and calms the fetus.
Non-toxic. It mainly treats abdominal pain due to Zhong E (sudden evil invasion) and fractures, joint pain, and difficulty in lactation.
It mainly treats blood stasis with obstruction.
(Taste) Sour and sweet, neutral temperature. It mainly treats internal injury, polydipsia, frequent urination with incontinence, intestinal borborygmus and diarrhea, and has tonifying effects.
It reconnects severed injuries, treats consumptive disease (Lao Qi), and benefits Qi.
It mainly treats emaciation in children and failure of muscles to grow after eating.
It mainly clears fire-heat sores, epilepsy, and spasms; it can be processed into a divine substance resembling amber.
(Temperature) Slightly cold. It treats redness, swelling, and heat pain in the eyes, clears latent heat under the heart, stops irritability, fullness, coughing, and counterflow qi, pediatric diarrhea, difficult labor in women, and retained placenta. Soaked in vinegar for one night, it treats jaundice and breaks severe irritability and heat.
It mainly treats chronic cough with qi stagnation; when taken together with Mahuang (Ephedrae Herba) and Ziwan (Asteris Radix), it is cured immediately. The fat of Ji Bai Du (chicken white worm/borer), produced in Pyeongteok, Korea.
It mainly treats sudden deafness; used for ear irrigation.
It treats She Gong (arrow bug) venom and water toxicity.
(Temperature) Neutral. It benefits the five zang organs.
(Taste) Sweet, non-toxic. It treats wind-deficiency and alternating chills and fever.
Named Tong. It kills stone-drug poison, resolves knotting and binding, and disperses accumulated heat.
Tonifies deficiency and clears heat, harmonizes the zang-fu organs, and promotes the flow of water passages.
(Taste) Sweet, neutral, non-toxic. It treats wind-induced spasms, stiffness, hemiplegia, and obstructed qi flow. Long-term consumption promotes the growth of hair, eyebrows, and beard, benefits Qi, prevents hunger, lightens the body, and enhances longevity. Also known as Fang, produced in the ponds and marshes of Jiangnan, available at any time.
(Taste) Sweet, warm, non-toxic. It treats Ye Ge Jun Du (wild gecko mushroom poison), Sheng Jin Du (raw metal poison), and Wen Zhang (warm miasma) where the patient is near death and cannot recover. Mixed with wool, roasted, soaked in wine, and taken orally; taking fresh juice by crushing raw is best. Produced in Jiangnan, resembling a hen, with a cry like "gou ge zhe zhe" is this one.
(Taste) Sour, slightly cold, non-toxic. It tonifies the middle, benefits strength, stops dysentery and diarrhea, and removes ant-related ailments.
(Taste) Sour, warm, non-toxic. It directs qi downward, treats male impotence, strengthens sexual function to increase semen, and aids conception.
It treats deafness.
It treats nyctalopia (night blindness).
It treats eye pain, resolves carbuncles and boils, treats leukorrhea in women, difficult urination, and removes hernia and masses. Harvested in May for best results.
(Taste) Sweet, non-toxic. It treats Gui Gu (ghostly蛊) and various Zhu Du (infectious/toxic diseases), and Wu Shi (five corpses) heart and abdominal disorders.