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Carp Gallbladder: Bitter in flavor, cold in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats redness, heat, and pain of the eyes, Qingmang (blindness or blurred vision), brightens the eyes, and long-term consumption makes the body robust, strengthens the will, and benefits Qi and spirit. Carp Meat: Sweet in flavor. It primarily treats cough with rebellious Qi, jaundice, and relieves thirst. Raw meat treats edema, fullness in the legs, and directs Qi downward. Carp Bone: Treats leukorrhea (red and white vaginal discharge) in women. Carp Teeth: Treats Shi Lin (lithuria/urinary calculi). *Yaoxing Lun* states: The gallbladder can be used alone. It has a very bitter taste. Applied to the eyes, it treats redness, swelling, nebula, and pain, as well as heat-induced swelling in children. Ri Huazi states: Cool in nature, toxic. The meat treats cough, heals Hongxiangjiao (podagra/foot qi), and calms fetal unrest. Shuqi is its guiding herb.

Carp Head Bone: Sweet in flavor, greatly warm in nature, non-toxic. It primarily tonifies the Middle Jiao, nourishes blood, and treats dark lips. Taken on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, burned to ash, it stops dysentery. Chen Cangqi states: It treats Bi syndrome due to dampness and Qi stagnation, tonifies postpartum dripping in women, regulates Qi and blood, treats emaciation, stops bleeding, removes cold Qi from the abdomen, and stops intestinal borborygmus. Meng Shen states: Tonifies the five Zang organs, expels the twelve wind pathogens. *Shenghui Fang* states: Treats breast induration and pain in women.

Carp Scales: Bitter in flavor, neutral in nature, non-toxic. It primarily treats the five types of hemorrhoids, erosion of the yin, bloody stools (red and white), unceasing discharge of colored blood juices, yin swelling, pain radiating to the lower back, and also treats abdominal pain and hernia masses. *Yaoxing Lun* states: It acts as a minister herb. Sweet in flavor, slightly toxic. It treats Changfeng Xie Xue (hematochezia due to wind-heat in intestines), hemorrhoidal disease, epistaxis, and greatly resolves the toxicity/potency of all other herbs. Ri Huazi states: Opens stomach Qi, stops sweating, treats abdominal distension and pain, and hernia. Carp Fat: Treats Changfeng Xie Xue. Synergistic herb: Wine, which enhances efficacy. Incompatible herb: Jiegeng (Platycodon Root), Maimendong (Ophiopogon Tuber).

Honeycomb: Bitter and salty in flavor, neutral in nature, toxic. It treats fright epilepsy with convulsions, pathogenic factors of alternating chills and fever, manic-depressive psychosis, ghost essence and gu poison, and intestinal hemorrhoids. *Yaoxing Lun* states: Earth honeycomb can also be used alone. It treats persistent carbuncles and swellings; mix with vinegar and water to apply topically, changing when dry. Ri Huazi states: Dew honeycomb is slightly toxic. It treats toothache, dysentery, mastitis, and severe sores from bee stings. Decoct for washing or internal use, and apply after roasting. *Tujing* states: It also resolves gu poison, and primarily treats headache, irritability, and heat caused by the activation of mineral drugs, dry mouth, and scanty red urine. Take 12 fen, roast, decoct in two sheng of water to obtain eight ge, divide into two doses and take warm. It should promote urination, and various malignant sores will discharge spontaneously. It also treats toxin rushing to the eyes after febrile diseases, and scrofula that has formed ulcers. Antagonistic herbs: Ganjiang (Dried Ginger), Danshen (Salvia Root), Huangqin (Scutellaria Root), Shaoyao (Peony Root), Muli (Oyster Shell).