薏苡人∶味甘、温、无毒。主筋拘挛，不可屈伸，久风湿痹下气。久服轻身益力。其生根，
下三虫。《名医》云∶“薏苡人除筋骨中邪气不仁，利肠胃，消水肿，令人能食。”一名HT ，一名感米，
蜀人多种食之。
胡麻，味甘、平、无毒。主伤中虚羸，补五内，益气
力，长肌肉，填髓脑，坚筋骨；疗金疮、止痛；及伤寒温疟，大吐下后虚热困乏。久服轻身不老，明
耳目，耐寒暑，延年。作油微寒，主利大肠，产妇胞衣不落生者；摩疮肿；生秃发、去头面游风。一名
巨胜，一名狗虱，一名方茎、一名鸿芷。叶∶名青 ，主伤暑热。花∶主生秃发。七日采最上
头者，阴干用之。
白麻子∶味甘、平、无毒。宜肝，解中益气，肥健不老。治中风汗出；逐水，利小便；破积
血，风毒肿，复血脉；产后乳余疾；能长发、可为沐药。久服神仙。
∶味甘、微温、无毒。补虚冷，益气力∶止肠鸣；咽痛；除唾血；却卒嗽。
大豆黄卷∶味甘、平、无毒。主久风湿痹筋挛，膝痛；除五脏，胃气结积，益气，止毒；
去黑痣、面 ，润泽皮毛。宜肾。生大豆∶味甘、平、冷、无毒。生捣淳酢和涂之，治一切
毒肿，并止痛。煮汁冷服之，杀鬼毒，
逐水胀、除胃中热，却风痹，伤中，淋露，下瘀血，散五脏结积内寒，杀乌头，三建，解百药毒；不
可久服，令人身重。其熬屑∶味甘、温、平、无毒。主胃中热，去身肿，除痹；消谷、止腹胀。
九月采。黄帝云∶“服大豆屑忌食猪肉，炒豆不得与一岁已上，十岁已下小儿食，食竟啖猪肉，必拥气
死。”
赤小豆∶味甘、咸、平、冷、无毒。下水肿，排脓血。一名赤豆。不可久服，令人枯燥。
青小豆∶味甘、咸、温、平、涩、无毒。主寒热，热中，消渴；止泄利，利小便；除吐逆，卒 ，
下腹胀满。一名麻累，一名胡豆。黄帝云∶“青小豆合鲤鱼 食之，令人肝
至五年成干， 病。
大豆豉∶味苦、甘、寒、涩、无毒。主伤寒头痛，寒热，辟瘴气恶毒，烦躁满闷，虚劳喘吸，
两脚疼冷，杀六畜胎子诸毒。
大麦∶味咸、微寒、滑、无毒。宜心。主消渴，除热。久食令人多力，健行。作 、温，消
食和中。熬末，令赤黑，捣作 ，止泄利；和清酢浆服之，日三，夜一服。
小麦∶味甘、微寒、无毒。养肝气；去客热，止烦渴
咽燥；利小便；止漏血，唾血；令女人孕必得。易作曲，六月作者温、无毒，主小儿痫食不消，下五痔
虫，平胃气，消谷，止利。作面∶温，无毒，不能消热止烦。不可多食，长宿癖，加客气，难治。
青粱米∶味甘、微寒、无毒。主胃痹，热中；除消渴，止泄利，利小便；益气力，补中，轻身长年。
黄粱米∶味甘、平、无毒。益气，和中，止泄利。人呼为竹根米，又却当风卧，湿寒中者。
白粱米∶味甘、微寒、无毒。除热，益气。
粟米∶味咸、微寒、无毒。养肾气，去骨痹，热中，益气。
陈粟米∶味苦。寒、无毒。主胃中热，消渴，利小便。
丹黍米∶味苦、微温、无毒。主咳逆上气，霍乱，止泄利，除热，去烦渴。
白黍米∶味甘、辛、温、无毒。宜肺、补中益气。不可久食，多热，令人烦。黄帝云∶“五种
黍米、合葵食之，令人成痼疾”。又以脯腊着五种黍米中藏储食之。云∶“令人闭气”。
陈廪米∶味咸，酸、微寒、无毒。除烦热，下气，调胃，止泄利。黄帝云∶“久芷脯腊安米中，
满三月，人不知，食之害人。”
米∶味苦、微温、无毒。主寒中，下气，除热。
秫米∶味甘、微寒、无毒。主寒热，利大肠，治漆疮。
酒∶味苦、甘、辛、大热、有毒。行药势，杀百邪，恶气。黄帝云∶“暴下后饮酒者，膈上变
为伏热；食生菜饮酒，莫灸腹，令人肠结。”扁鹊云∶“久饮酒者腐肠烂胃，溃髓蒸筋，伤神损寿；醉
当风卧，以扇自扇，成恶风；醉以冷水洗浴，成疼痹。大醉汗出，当以粉粉身，令其自干，发成风痹。
常日未没食讫，即莫饮酒，终身不干呕。饱食讫，多饮水及酒，成痞僻。”
豆∶味甘、微温、无毒。和中下气。其叶∶平，
主霍乱，吐下不止。
稷米∶味甘、平、无毒。益气安中，补虚、和胃、宜脾。
粳米，味辛、苦、平、无毒。主心烦、断下利，平胃气，长肌肉。温，又云∶生者冷，燔者热。
糯米∶味苦、温、无毒。温中，令人能食，多热，大便硬。
酢∶味酸、温、涩、无毒。消痈肿，散水气，杀邪毒，血运。扁鹊云∶多食酢，损人骨。能理诸药消毒。
乔麦∶味酸，微寒、无毒。食之难消，动大热风。其叶∶生食动刺风，令人身痒。黄帝云∶“作
面和猪、羊肉热食之，不过八、九顿，作热风，令人眉须落，又还生，仍希少。泾 已北，多患此疾”。
盐∶味咸、温、无毒。杀鬼蛊邪，注毒瓦斯，下部 疮；伤寒寒热，能吐胸中痰 ，止心腹卒
痛；坚肌骨。不可多食，伤肺喜咳，令人色肤黑，损筋力。扁鹊云∶“盐能除一切大风疾痛者，炒熨之”。
黄帝云∶“食甜粥竟，食盐即吐，或成霍乱”。
Coix Seed (Yiyiren): Sweet in taste, warm in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats tendon spasms and contractures, inability to flex or extend limbs, and symptoms of Qi descending due to chronic wind-damp bi syndrome. Long-term consumption lightens the body and enhances strength. Its root, when used raw, expels three types of parasites. *Mingyi Bielu* states: "Coix seed removes pathogenic factors causing numbness in bones and muscles, promotes gastrointestinal function, reduces edema, and improves appetite." Also known as "Fuyi" (Plantain), also known as "Ganmi". People in Shu region often cultivate and eat it.
Sesame (Huma): Sweet in taste, neutral in nature, non-toxic. It treats damage to the Middle Jiao with emaciation, tonifies the five Zang organs, benefits Qi and strength, promotes muscle growth, fills the marrow and brain, and strengthens bones and tendons; treats metal wounds, relieves pain; and addresses post-febrile disease, warm malaria, and deficiency-heat with fatigue after severe vomiting and purging. Long-term consumption lightens the body, delays aging, brightens eyes and ears, enhances resistance to cold and heat, and prolongs life. Sesame oil is slightly cool in nature, treats large intestine obstruction, and raw sesame treats retained placenta in postpartum women; applied externally for sores and swellings; promotes hair growth and removes wandering wind on the head and face. Also known as Jusheng, Goushi, Fangjing, Hongzhi. Leaves: named Qingzhima, treat summerheat injury. Flowers: promote hair growth. Harvest the top parts in the seventh lunar month, dry in shade for use.
White Sesame (Baimazi): Sweet in taste, neutral in nature, non-toxic. Benefits the Liver, resolves stagnation in the Middle Jiao, promotes robust health and longevity. Treats sweating in wind-stroke; drains water retention, promotes urination; breaks up blood stasis, treats wind-toxin swelling, restores blood vessels; treats postpartum lactation disorders; promotes hair growth and can be used for hair washing. Long-term consumption leads to immortality (metaphorically).
[Name Missing]: Sweet in taste, slightly warm in nature, non-toxic. Tonifies deficiency-cold, benefits Qi and strength; stops borborygmus; treats sore throat; eliminates hemoptysis; relieves sudden cough.
Soybean Sprouts (Dadou Huangjuan): Sweet in taste, neutral in nature, non-toxic. Treats chronic wind-damp bi syndrome with tendon spasms and knee pain; removes accumulation of Qi in the five Zang organs and Stomach, benefits Qi, detoxifies; removes black moles and facial pigmentation, moistens skin and hair. Benefits the Kidney.
Raw Soybeans (Sheng Dadou): Sweet in taste, neutral and cold in nature, non-toxic. Crushed raw and mixed with strong vinegar for topical application treats all toxic swellings and relieves pain. Boiled juice taken cold kills ghost toxins, drains water distension, clears heat in the Stomach, relieves wind-bi, treats Middle Jiao damage, strangury, discharges blood stasis, dissipates internal cold and accumulations in the five Zang organs, counteracts toxicity of Aconite and Sanjian, and resolves poison from various herbs; should not be consumed long-term as it causes heaviness in the body.
Roasted Soybean Powder (Ao Xie): Sweet in taste, warm and neutral in nature, non-toxic. Treats heat in the Stomach, reduces body swelling, removes bi syndrome; aids digestion, stops abdominal distension. Harvested in the ninth lunar month. The Yellow Emperor says: "When consuming soybean powder, avoid pork. Do not give roasted beans to children aged one to ten. If eaten followed by pork, it will cause fatal Qi obstruction."
Adzuki Bean (Chixiaodou): Sweet and salty, neutral and cold in nature, non-toxic. Drains edema, expels pus and blood. Also known as Chidou. Should not be consumed long-term as it causes dryness.
Green Mung Bean (Qing Xiaodou): Sweet and salty, warm and neutral, astringent in nature, non-toxic. Treats chills and fever, middle-jiao heat, thirst; stops diarrhea and dysentery, promotes urination; eliminates vomiting and regurgitation, sudden [symptom missing], lower abdominal fullness. Also known as Mallei, Hudou. The Yellow Emperor says: "Consuming green mung beans with carp damages the Liver, leading to atrophy over five years."
Fermented Soybeans (Dadou Chi): Bitter and sweet, cold and astringent in nature, non-toxic. Treats headache in febrile diseases, chills and fever, wards off miasma and toxic pathogens, irritability and chest oppression, deficiency-labor with wheezing, cold pain in both legs, and kills toxins from livestock fetuses.
Barley (Damai): Salty, slightly cool, slippery in nature, non-toxic. Benefits the Heart. Treats diabetes/thirst, clears heat. Long-term consumption increases strength and promotes vigorous walking. Made into flour/noodles, it is warm, aids digestion and harmonizes the Middle Jiao. Roasted to dark red/black, pounded into [missing item], stops diarrhea; taken with clear vinegar juice, three times daily and once at night.
Wheat (Xiaomai): Sweet, slightly cool in nature, non-toxic. Nourishes Liver Qi; clears external heat, stops irritability, thirst, and dry throat; promotes urination; stops bleeding and hemoptysis; ensures successful pregnancy in women. Easy to make into yeast/qu. Yeast made in the sixth lunar month is warm and non-toxic, treats pediatric epilepsy and indigestion, expels worms from five types of hemorrhoids, harmonizes Stomach Qi, aids digestion, stops diarrhea. Wheat flour: warm, non-toxic, cannot clear heat or stop irritability. Do not consume excessively as it forms chronic masses, invites external pathogens, and is difficult to treat.
Green Liang Rice (Qingliangmi): Sweet, slightly cool in nature, non-toxic. Treats stomach bi, middle-jiao heat; eliminates thirst, stops diarrhea, promotes urination; benefits Qi and strength, tonifies the Middle, lightens the body, and prolongs life.
Yellow Liang Rice (Huangliangmi): Sweet, neutral in nature, non-toxic. Benefits Qi, harmonizes the Middle, stops diarrhea. Called Zhugenmi by people; also protects against lying in drafts and damp-cold invasion.
White Liang Rice (Bailiangmi): Sweet, slightly cool in nature, non-toxic. Clears heat, benefits Qi.
Rice (Sumi): Salty, slightly cool in nature, non-toxic. Nourishes Kidney Qi, removes bone bi, clears middle-jiao heat, benefits Qi.
Aged Rice (Chen Sumi): Bitter, cold in nature, non-toxic. Treats heat in the Stomach, thirst, promotes urination.
Red Millet (Danshumii): Bitter, slightly warm in nature, non-toxic. Treats cough with rebellious Qi, cholera, stops diarrhea, clears heat, removes irritability and thirst.
White Millet (Baishumi): Sweet and pungent, warm in nature, non-toxic. Benefits the Lung, tonifies the Middle and benefits Qi. Do not consume long-term as it generates heat and causes irritability. The Yellow Emperor says: "Consuming five types of millet with okra causes chronic diseases." Storing cured meats within five types of millet for consumption is said to cause Qi obstruction.
Aged Granary Rice (Chen Linmi): Salty and sour, slightly cool in nature, non-toxic. Clears irritability and heat, directs Qi downward, harmonizes the Stomach, stops diarrhea. The Yellow Emperor says: "Storing cured meats in rice for three months without knowledge, then eating it, harms the human body."
[Name Missing] Rice: Bitter, slightly warm in nature, non-toxic. Treats middle-jiao cold, directs Qi downward, clears heat.
Glutinous Millet (Shumi): Sweet, slightly cool in nature, non-toxic. Treats chills and fever, benefits the large intestine, treats lacquer dermatitis.
Alcohol (Jiu): Bitter, sweet, and pungent, very hot in nature, toxic. Promotes the action of medicines, kills hundred evils and bad Qi. The Yellow Emperor says: "Drinking alcohol after acute diarrhea causes latent heat above the diaphragm; eating raw vegetables with alcohol and moxa-ing the abdomen causes intestinal binding." Bian Que says: "Long-term alcohol consumption rots the intestines and stomach, dissolves marrow, steams sinews, damages spirit and lifespan; sleeping in the wind while drunk and fanning oneself causes evil wind; bathing in cold water while drunk causes painful bi. Sweating heavily after heavy drinking requires dusting the body with powder to dry naturally, otherwise wind-bi develops. Eating dinner before sunset and then drinking alcohol prevents lifelong dry heaving. Drinking excessive water and alcohol after full meals causes痞 (pi) and deviation."
[Name Missing] Bean: Sweet, slightly warm in nature, non-toxic. Harmonizes the Middle and directs Qi downward. Leaves: neutral in nature, treat cholera with incessant vomiting and diarrhea.
Setaria Italica (Jimii): Sweet, neutral in nature, non-toxic. Benefits Qi, calms the Middle, tonifies deficiency, harmonizes the Stomach, benefits the Spleen.
Common Rice (Jingmi): Pungent and bitter, neutral in nature, non-toxic. Treats mental restlessness, stops diarrhea, harmonizes Stomach Qi, promotes muscle growth. Warm; some say raw is cold, roasted is hot.
Glutinous Rice (Nuomi): Bitter, warm in nature, non-toxic. Warms the Middle, promotes appetite, generates heat, causes hard stools.
Vinegar (Cu): Sour, warm, and astringent in nature, non-toxic. Reduces carbuncles and swellings, disperses water Qi, kills evil toxins, treats blood syncope. Bian Que says: "Excessive vinegar consumption damages bones. It can process herbs to reduce toxicity."
Buckwheat (Qiaomai): Sour, slightly cool in nature, non-toxic. Hard to digest, triggers wind-heat. Leaves: raw consumption triggers piercing wind, causing body itching. The Yellow Emperor says: "Eating buckwheat noodles with pork or mutton in hot dishes for eight or nine meals induces wind-heat, causing eyebrows and beard to fall out and regrow sparsely. North of Jing River, this disease is common."
Salt (Yan): Salty, warm in nature, non-toxic. Kills ghost charms, evil influences, toxic vapors, and lower part [symptom missing] sores; treats chills and fever in febrile diseases, vomits phlegm [missing character] from the chest, stops sudden heart and abdominal pain, strengthens muscles and bones. Do not consume excessively as it damages the Lungs causing cough, darkens skin, and weakens sinews and strength. Bian Que says: "Salt can remove all great wind diseases and pains when roasted and applied hot." The Yellow Emperor says: "Eating salt after sweet porridge may induce vomiting or cause cholera."