炼之，主保中不饱，忍风寒。
味酸，多食令人有热，生太山川谷。
味甘、微酸，寒。多食令人寒中，金疮乳妇尤不可食。
味苦，寒。多食令人胪胀，病患尤甚。
疗蛔虫、寸白。
三十七味
味甘，平，寒，无毒。主令人悦泽，好颜色，益气不肌。久服轻身耐老，主除烦满不乐。
久服寒中。可作面脂，令面悦泽。一名水芝，一名白瓜（则绞切）子。生蒿高平泽，冬瓜仁
也，
八月采。
味苦，寒，有毒。主大水，身面四肢浮肿，下水杀蛊毒，咳逆上气，及食诸果，病在胸
腹中，皆吐下之。去鼻中息肉，疗黄胆。
主心痛咳逆。生嵩高平泽。七月七日采，阴干。
味甘，寒，无毒。主五脏六腑寒热，羸瘦，五癃，利小便。疗妇人乳难，内闭。久服坚
骨，长肌肉，轻身延年。生少室山，十二月采之。
为百菜主，其心伤人。
味甘，寒，大寒，无毒。主青盲白翳，明目除邪，利大小便，去寒热，杀蛔虫。久服益
气力，不饥轻身。一名马苋，一名莫实。细苋亦同，生淮阳川泽及田中，叶如蓝，十一月采。
[Background Information]
Book: Qianjin Yi Fang (Supplement to the Thousand Golden Formulas)
Author: Sun Simiao
Dynasty: Tang Dynasty, Kaiyao Year 2
Chapter: Tao Du / ... / Xian Shi (Total 22 sections)
Category: Formula
[Original Text Processing]
Kills demons, wards off evil and inauspicious influences. It is the insect that eats peach tree wood.
Taste: Bitter and acrid; Nature: Non-toxic. Eliminates evil spirits, treats sudden severe illness (Zhong E), abdominal pain, and clears heat from the stomach.
Taste: Bitter; Nature: Neutral, non-toxic. Primarily expels corpse worms (Shi Chong) and insects found in sores.
Processed by refining, it primarily maintains fullness in the middle jiao and enhances resistance to wind and cold.
Taste: Sour; excessive consumption causes heat. Grows in the mountains and valleys of Tai Mountain.
Taste: Bitter; Nature: Neutral, non-toxic. Primarily treats falls and sprains, blood stasis, and bone pain.
Nature: Very cold. Primarily treats thirst (Xiao Ke), stops irritability and rebellious qi, and calms rushing qi (Ben Qi).
Taste: Bitter. Clears entrenched heat and harmonizes the middle jiao.
Taste: Sweet and slightly sour; Nature: Cold. Excessive consumption causes cold in the middle jiao; especially contraindicated for patients with metal wounds or postpartum women.
Taste: Bitter; Nature: Cold. Excessive consumption causes abdominal distension, particularly worsening for patients.
Taste: Sweet and sour; Nature: Non-toxic. Primarily treats dry throat and thirst, damages the lungs, should not be consumed in excess.
Treats dysentery, stops seminal leakage.
Treats roundworms (Hui Chong) and tapeworms (Cun Bai).
Thirty-seven flavors [Note: Likely a section header or count reference in original context].
Taste: Sweet; Nature: Neutral, cold, non-toxic. Primarily makes the person radiant and beautiful, improves complexion, tonifies qi without causing fleshiness (or promotes muscle growth depending on interpretation of 'bu ji', here interpreted as maintaining healthy tissue). Long-term use lightens the body and delays aging, primarily eliminates vexation, fullness, and unhappiness. Long-term use may cause cold in the middle jiao. Can be made into facial grease to make the face radiant and beautiful. Also known as Shui Zhi (Water Lotus Seed) and Bai Gua Zi (White Melon Seed, pronounced ze-jiao). Grows in high plains and marshes of Hao Mountain; it is the seed of the winter melon (Dong Gua Ren). Harvested in August.
Taste: Sweet; Nature: Slightly cold. Primarily eliminates water distension in the lower abdomen, promotes urination, and stops thirst.
Taste: Bitter; Nature: Cold, toxic. Primarily treats severe edema (Da Shui), swelling of the body, face, and limbs, promotes water elimination, kills gu poison (蛊毒), treats coughing and rebellious qi. When fruits are eaten and disease resides in the chest and abdomen, induce vomiting or purgation to expel them. Removes nasal polyps, treats jaundice (Huang Dan).
Primarily treats heart pain and coughing with rebellious qi. Grows in high plains and marshes of Song Mountain. Harvested on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, dried in shade.
Taste: Sweet; Nature: Cold, non-toxic. Primarily treats cold and heat disorders of the five zang and six fu organs, emaciation, five types of strangury (Wu Long), promotes urination. Treats difficult lactation and internal obstruction in women. Long-term use strengthens bones, grows muscles, lightens the body, and prolongs life. Grows on Mount Shaoshi, harvested in December.
Taste: Sweet; Nature: Cold, non-toxic. Primarily treats malignant sores, treats strangury (Lin), promotes urination. Resolves toxicity of Sichuan pepper (Shu Jiao).
It is the chief among hundred vegetables, but its core harms people.
Taste: Sweet; Nature: Cold, very cold, non-toxic. Primarily treats blindness with white films (Qing Mang Bai Yi), brightens the eyes, eliminates evil, promotes bowel and urinary movement, removes cold and heat, kills roundworms. Long-term use increases qi and strength, prevents hunger, and lightens the body. Also known as Ma Xian and Mo Shi. Fine xian is similar. Grows in Huaiyang rivers, marshes, and fields, leaves resemble indigo. Harvested in November.