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Persimmon (Shi)
Resolves lung heat to generate fluids. Sweet and cold, palatable. Moistens intestinal dryness and cools blood; its red color nourishes Ying (nutritive) blood. Its nature is clear, purifying, light, and ascending. Persimmon frost (Shi Shuang) is required to resolve phlegm and calm coughing. The calyx of the persimmon (Shi Di) is bitter and warm, descending and grasping; it is suitable for calming hiccups and dispelling cold. (The persimmon is sweet, cold, and slightly astringent. It must be placed in an ash vessel until it turns red and fully ripe, and only when the astringency is completely gone can it be eaten. It enters the Blood aspect of the Lung, Stomach, and Large Intestine, clearing vexatious heat in the chest, stopping thirst, generating fluids, moistening the Lung and Heart, treating hemoptysis and hematemesis, and greatly cooling the Large Intestine. All conditions such as hemorrhoids with fistulas and bloody stools due to Heat in the Blood aspect are suitable. ○ Persimmon frost is the frost formed on the surface of dried persimmons. It is a sweet, cold, light, and clear substance that ascends to the Heart and Lung, clears heat, resolves phlegm, and treats various conditions of the throat, mouth, and tongue. ○ The persimmon calyx is bitter and warm, with a descending nature, entering the Stomach organ, treating hiccups caused by Cold, possessing a meaning of gathering and binding. Thus, the properties of one substance differ so much in cold and heat.)

Water Chestnut (Bi Qi)
Sweet and cold, reduces fever, resolves phlegm, and digests food. Cold and draining, dispels wind and destroys stubborn copper. It can remove erysipelas (Dan Du) of the Lung and Stomach, and resolve stagnant pathogens in the chest and diaphragm. It can circulate in the Blood aspect and effectively reaches the intestines. (Water chestnut is sweet, cold, slippery, and draining. It enters the Blood aspect of the Lung, Stomach, and Large Intestine, removes hot phlegm from the chest, dispels wind and food stagnation, treats jaundice, stops polydipsia, resolves Dan Shi toxicity, and can treat bloody dysentery and other conditions. If eaten while holding a copper coin, the coin dissolves, demonstrating its ability to transform substances through its cold and slippery nature.)

Loquat Leaf (Pi Pa Ye)
Bitter and descending, harmonizes Yin; clears the Lung, resolves phlegm, and stabilizes wheezing and coughing. Sweet and neutral, disperses rebellious Qi, eliminates vexation, directs Qi downward, and expels Yang pathogens. (Loquat leaf is bitter and neutral, entering the Lung meridian. Its nature is good at descending. When Qi descends, phlegm goes down; when phlegm goes down, rebellious Qi is no longer rebellious, vomiting ceases, thirst ceases, and coughing stops. As for eliminating vexation and moistening dryness, it is because it has the command of clearing, purifying, and descending. When Qi descends, Fire also descends.)

Sugarcane (Gan Zhe)
Moistens the upper part to clear Metal (Lung), stops thirst, resolves hangovers, and guides downward. Enters the Middle Jiao to harmonize the Stomach, resolves phlegm, moistens dryness, and is sweet and cold. Red rock sugar is made by boiling sugarcane juice; it can harmonize blood but has a slightly warm nature, which differs [from sugarcane]. (Sugarcane is sweet and neutral, entering the Spleen and Stomach meridians, slightly cold. It clears the Lung, moistens dryness, resolves phlegm, harmonizes the middle, disperses rebellion, and is a product for relieving thirst and curing hangovers. However, excessive consumption can slide the Large Intestine; if sugarcane juice is consumed cold, heat is removed and cold arises. ○ Red rock sugar is refined from sugarcane syrup, turning red in color and warm in nature. Although its main indications are the same as sugarcane, it enters the Blood aspect and harmonizes blood vessels. However, excessive consumption most easily aids damp-heat, damages teeth, and causes worms.)