The "Zao Xin Tu" (Furnace Heart Earth) is the soil from the center of a stove that has been used for many years, specifically the part facing the fire hole under the pot. Its nature is acrid and warm, its function specializes in dispelling dampness, and it can also harmonize the middle jiao, stop bleeding, reduce swelling, and induce labor.
It is acrid and warm, stops bleeding, eliminates accumulation, treats blood disorders, gu poison, yang toxicity of cold damage, and when applied externally, treats metal wounds.
The soot on the chimney flue is acrid and warm, stops bleeding, eliminates accumulation, treats blood disorders, and various sores of the mouth and tongue caused by yang toxicity of cold damage.
[Gui Yu] (Siniperca chuatsi, Mandarin Fish) is acrid, bitter, and slightly cold, stops bleeding, eliminates accumulation, treats dysphagia (Yi Ge), sudden evil attack, and soft sores in children; it should be burned until smoke ceases, sifted, and the powder used.
[Parts of Gui Yu] are acrid and warm, stop bleeding, generate flesh, and are applied externally to treat carbuncles and swellings.
[Gallbladder of Gui Yu] is sweet, warm, and toxic, induces sores, stirs up wind, especially if smoked over fire. [Blood of Gui Yu] treats regurgitation and dysphagia. [Eggs of Gui Yu] are sweet and warm, tonify the middle and boost qi.
[Feces of Gui Yu] is salty and neutral, resolves drug toxicity, treats sores, tinea, and chronic scabies in humans and horses; the white variety is used in medicine. [Eggs of Gui Yu] resolve sore and smallpox toxins. The feces is named "Zuo Pan Long" (Left Coiling Dragon), treats abdominal masses, yin toxicity, and sores/scabies in humans and horses; those from wild pigeons are particularly effective.
[Brain/Eyes of Gui Yu] is bitter, warm, and slightly toxic, eliminates accumulation, treats hernia, mass accumulation, abdominal distension, carbuncles, throat lock, and diseases of the teeth and eyes.
[Skin/Collagen of Gui Yu] treats metal wounds, promotes muscle growth, used externally.
[Meat of Gui Yu] is sweet, sour, and warm, treats regurgitation and vomiting. It also treats lao zhu (consumptive disease), shu gu (scrofula), and gu poison.
[Internal Organs of Gui Yu] is sweet, sour, and neutral, promotes muscle growth, treats consumptive fever and water swelling.
[Meat of Gui Yu] is sweet, sour, and neutral, tonifies the middle and boosts qi; suitable for children with infantile malnutrition (gan syndrome) and emaciation.
[Bile/Oil of Gui Yu] is sweet, salty, and warm, kills parasites, treats chuan shi lao (tuberculosis), and treats fish bone impaction. [Meat of Gui Yu] is sweet, salty, and cold, treats bone-steaming fever, blood heat, and constipation, dissipates yang qi.
[Head/Brain of Gui Yu] is sweet, slightly cold, treats relapse after cold damage, yin-yang exchange disease, and abdominal pain; the ones with two pointed ends are considered male mouse feces (Note: Textual anomaly likely referring to specific fish parts or misprint). [Gallbladder of Gui Yu] brightens the eyes and treats deafness. [Meat of Gui Yu] treats infantile malnutrition and scrofula.
[Bones/Tendons of Gui Yu] is sweet and warm, stops bleeding, generates flesh, tonifies deficiency, and reconnects sinews and bones.
[Can Sha] (Silkwax Feces) is acrid, sweet, and warm, dispels wind, dries dampness, treats various wind-dampness diseases; stir-fried and hot-compressed on the affected area is also beneficial.
[Egg Nests of Gui Yu] treats throat obstruction, toothache caused by worms, and non-healing sores.
[Bladder/Collagen of Gui Yu] treats malignant sores and swollen toxins, made into ointment, also applied to swollen/painful umbilicus before the cord falls off in infants. Five-colored silk cloth treats horse-fall injuries and all kinds of sinew-bone damage, wipes away night sweats.
[Specific Parts of Gui Yu] is sweet, warm, and non-toxic, induces scabies, aids fire, and stirs up phlegm.
[Specific Parts of Gui Yu] is sweet, neutral, slightly toxic, harmonizes the stomach and intestines, treats water qi inducing sores/swelling, calms the fetus.
[Specific Parts of Gui Yu] is sweet, neutral, non-toxic, boosts qi and strength, tonifies deficiency, removes evil blood and small insects from the abdomen, treats intestinal wind and bloody diarrhea.