(Lingchi Jia / Pangolin Scales) Taste: sour; Nature: neutral. Main indications: tonifies healthy qi (Zheng Qi), strengthens willpower. Grows in the ponds and marshes of the East Sea; can be harvested at any time.
(Chan Su / Toad Venom) Taste: salty; Nature: cold; Toxicity: toxic. Main indications: eliminates pathogenic factors in the chest, treats pain caused by heat accumulation, unilateral facial swelling, and conditions resembling rat plague induced by burning lacquer waste. Resolves stagnation, disperses blood stasis, heals lacquer dermatitis, nourishes sinews, and tonifies healthy qi.
(Pangolin Scales) Main indications: ruptures the uterus and induces abortion. Grows in the waters of Yi River, Luo River, and other pools/marshes; can be harvested at any time.
(Male specimen/part) Slightly toxic. Main indications: benefits essence and qi, strengthens sexual function, prevents fatigue during intercourse, and stops seminal emission.
(Warm-natured herb) Nature: warm; Toxicity: non-toxic. Main indications: treats intestinal borborygmus, heat in the middle jiao, xiao ke (wasting-thirst syndrome), wind-bi with urticaria.
(Sweet-natured herb) Taste: sweet; Toxicity: toxic. Main indications: treats five types of hemorrhoids, kills various parasites.
(Fish Skin) Main indications: treats gu qi (gu poisoning). Used in formulas for gu zhu (pestilential disease); this refers to the fish skin used for scabbards.
(Eye-benefiting herb) Main indications: brightens the eyes, clears heat toxicity.
(Toad / Chan Chu) Taste: pungent; Nature: cold; Toxicity: toxic. Main indications: expels pathogenic factors, breaks up masses (zheng jian) and blood stasis, treats carbuncles, sores, and yin ulcers. Consumption does not induce heat diseases. Treats genital erosion, malignant ulcers, leprosy, dog bite wounds; its secretion can bond with jade. Also known as Chan Chu, [missing character], Qu Fu, Ku [missing character]. Grows in rivers, lakes, ponds, and marshes; collected on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month and dried in shade. Those moving eastward are considered superior.
(Chang Gu / Otter) Taste: sweet; Nature: cold; Toxicity: non-toxic. Main indications: treats childhood red heat, skin sores, umbilical injury, relieves pain, and addresses qi deficiency. Also known as Chang Gu. Grows in water; can be harvested at any time.
(Bone-healing herb) Nature: slightly warm; Toxicity: non-toxic. Treats fractures, reconnects bones and sinews; apply externally as a paste. Change every three days. The four limbs and tail mainly treat post-abortal anxiety and fever in women.
(Cold-natured herb) Nature: hot/warm (context implies warming or specific property, text says "Re" but context is pediatric); Toxicity: non-toxic. Main indications: treats children's night crying with exposed abdomen and distension; roast and consume.
(Childhood epilepsy herb) Nature: slightly cold; Toxicity: non-toxic. Main indications: treats childhood epilepsy, abdominal distension, and recurrence of illness after convalescence from epidemic fevers.
(Bitter-sweet herb) Taste: sweet and bitter; Nature: cold; Toxicity: slightly toxic. Main indications: treats heart and abdominal pain, lower body sores, eye swelling and pain.
(Skin herb) Nature: neutral; Toxicity: slightly toxic. Main indications: treats wind-toxin on the skin, postpartum abdominal pain, and other residual ailments in women.
(Ulcer herb) Taste: bitter; Nature: slightly cold; Toxicity: toxic. Main indications: treats [missing character] sores.
(Leech Wine) Brewed into wine, treats leprosy, various [missing characters], heart and abdominal pain, moves stagnant qi downward, removes gu poison. Its ingested prey (rat): slightly toxic, treats rat [missing character].
(Anxiety herb) Nature: slightly cold. Main indications: treats fright, crying, and sorrow caused by five pathogens; burn to ash, mix with wine or water, administer one cun cube, treats ant [missing character] bites/stings.