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(Songzhi / Pine Resin) Bitter and sweet in taste, warm in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats carbuncles, malignant sores, head ulcers, white alopecia capillitii (white baldness), scabies, pruritus, and diseases caused by wind pathogen. It calms the five Zang organs, clears heat, treats dryness of the throat and stomach, thirst (Xiao Ke), and dead muscle tissue due to wind-bi syndrome. When refined until white, the red variety primarily treats severe bi syndrome. Long-term consumption lightens the body, prevents aging, and prolongs life. Also known as Songgao (Pine Paste) or Songfang (Pine Fat). Grows in the valleys of Mount Tai, harvested in June.

(Baizi / Cypress Seeds) Bitter in taste, warm in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats wind-bi cold pathogen, emaciation with shortness of breath, and tonifies deficiencies. Harvested in September, dried in the shade.

(Cebaiye / Leaf of Oriental Arborvitae) Bitter in taste, warm in nature. It primarily treats wind-damp sores, promotes hair growth, calms the five Zang organs, stabilizes the Middle Jiao, resists hunger, and prolongs life.

(Baizhi / Branch of Oriental Arborvitae) Warm in nature. It primarily treats chronic wind affecting the joints, wind-deficiency syndromes, and painful bi syndrome in the feet.

(Bamoxie / Sawdust of Cypress) Primarily treats hunger during grain avoidance (Bigu).

(Baoye / Leaf of Oriental Arborvitae) Sweet in taste, neutral in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats palpitations and fright, calms the five Zang organs, benefits Qi, expels wind-damp bi, treats恍惚 (mental confusion) and deficiency damage, improves respiration, nourishes blood, and stops sweating. Long-term consumption makes the skin lustrous and complexion beautiful, sharpens hearing and vision, resists hunger and aging, lightens the body, and prolongs life. Grows in the valleys of Mount Tai; the leaves are particularly effective.

(Baoren / Seed of Oriental Arborvitae) Bitter in taste, slightly warm in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats hematemesis (vomiting blood) and epistaxis (nosebleed), regulates metrorrhagia and leukorrhea (red and white discharge). It lightens the body, benefits Qi, enables resistance to cold and heat, expels damp-bi, and stops hunger. Harvested according to directions in each of the four seasons, dried in the shade.

(Baimu / Wood of Oriental Arborvitae) Primarily treats burns causing ulcerated sores and promotes hair growth.

(Rougui / Bark of Cinnamon Tree) Pungent in taste, warm in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats various diseases, nourishes the spirit, harmonizes the complexion, and acts as a guiding agent for other herbs. Long-term consumption lightens the body, prevents aging, gives the face a radiant glow, and maintains a youthful appearance. Grows in the rocky cliffs and valleys of Jiaozhi and Guilin, boneless, perfectly round like bamboo, harvested at Start of Autumn.

(Guizhi / Twig of Cinnamon Tree) Pungent in taste, warm in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats rebellious Qi with cough and wheezing, qi stagnation causing throat obstruction, pain from inhalation/exhalation issues and heart pain, wind-pain in the hypochondrium, warms the tendons and unblocks collaterals, stops irritability and sweating, benefits the joints, and tonifies the Middle and benefits Qi. Long-term consumption enhances spiritual clarity, lightens the body, and prevents aging. Grows in the valleys of the South Sea.

(Houpo / Bark of Magnolia Officinalis) Sweet and pungent in taste, very hot in nature, slightly toxic. It primarily warms the Middle, benefits Liver and Lung Qi, treats alternating cold and heat in the heart and abdomen, cold diseases, cholera with muscle cramps, headache and back pain, sweating, stops irritability and salivation, treats cough and epistaxis, can induce abortion, strengthens bones and joints, unblocks blood vessels, and regulates insufficiency of dispersion. It guides all herbs without fear. Long-term consumption leads to immortality. Grows in Guiyang, bark harvested in February, August, and October, dried in the shade.