微苦温，软坚透骨通窍，治产难骨哽，消积块，最能损齿与玉簪根同。花甘温而滑
，活血消积治蛇伤。根叶苦甘辛，散血软坚，治杖扑肿痛鸡鱼骨哽及误吞铜钱。
辛甘热，能开通诸窍经络，出有形滞物，利水气拔毒，外用屡效，内服宜慎食，蓖
麻一生不得食炒豆，犯之胀死。
苦平下行，利窍催生，用旧凿柄上卷转者尤佳。
辛温，泻热毒除风湿，去垢腻疗疡毒。
辛温毒烈，功专行血杀虫，破年深积滞瘀血，炒至烟尽用，得蟹则成水。
辛温破气，生用能吐风痰散风寒，炒熟治喘嗽下痢消食止痛，其治痰有冲墙倒壁之
功。
辛寒阴毒性滑，重直入肉，功专杀虫解五金毒，堕胎绝孕，同枣肉人唾研则碎。
辛温毒烈，燥湿散血生肌，灭瘢疵杀疮虫，风化者良。古矿灰火毒已出，治顽疮敛疮
口。
辛苦酸，大热大毒，燥胸膈之痰，可作吐药，杀虫，出信州锡之苗也，炼者名砒霜尤
烈。
辛大热而毒，攻寒积，性气与砒石相近。
咸苦辛热，消食破瘀，热毒之性能烂五金、化人心为血。
辛苦微咸，大热毒烈，破积散坚。
辛苦涩温，消食磨积去垢，除痰点痣疣发面。
(Feng Xian Zi) Slightly bitter, warm in nature; softens hardness, penetrates bone, and opens orifices. Treats difficult labor and fish/bone stuck in the throat, dissipates accumulations and masses. Most notably damages teeth. Similar to Yuzan Gen (Hosta Divaricata Root). The flowers are sweet, warm, and slippery; invigorate blood, dissipate accumulations, and treat snakebites. The roots and leaves are bitter, sweet, and acrid; disperse blood, soften hardness, treat swelling and pain from beating/blows, fish/chicken bones stuck in the throat, and accidental swallowing of copper coins.
(Bi Ma Zi) Acrid, sweet, hot; opens various orifices and meridians, expels有形 (tangible) stagnant matter, promotes urination, draws out toxins. External use is frequently effective; internal use requires caution. Bi Ma Zi must never be consumed with fried beans throughout one's life, as doing so causes fatal abdominal distension.
(Ban Mao) Acrid, hot; treats scabies and sores, kills parasites, attacks and detoxifies.
(Da Feng Zi) Acrid, warm; washes toxic sores and lacquer dermatitis, removes heart and abdominal fullness, and swelling/pain of Hong Kong foot (Tinea Pedis).
(Wu Ling Zhi) Bitter, neutral, descending; benefits orifices and induces labor. Those curled from old chisel handles are especially good.
(Lang Du) Acrid, warm; drains heat toxins, dispels wind-damp, removes filth and greasiness, treats ulcer toxins.
(Chang Shan) Acrid, warm, highly toxic; specializes in moving blood and killing parasites, breaks up deep-seated stagnation and stasis over many years. Stir-fry until smoke ceases. Contact with crab turns it into water.
(Meng Chong) Bitter, acrid, warm, toxic; its qi is fierce. Treats paralysis, traumatic injuries, and blood stasis.
(San Leng) Acrid, warm, breaks Qi. Raw use induces vomiting of wind-phlegm and disperses wind-cold. Cooked use treats wheezing/cough, dysentery, aids digestion, relieves pain. Its ability to treat phlegm is like "breaking down walls."
(E Zhu) Acrid, warm, drying and fierce. Breaks stagnation, attacks phlegm-saliva, also treats sores/scabies, kills lice.
(Ba Dou) Acrid, cold, yin-toxic, slippery. Heavy, enters flesh directly. Specializes in killing parasites and resolving metal poisons. Induces abortion and sterilization. Crushes when ground with jujube meat and human saliva.
(Qing Fen / Mercury Compound) Acrid, warm, highly toxic. Dries dampness, disperses blood, generates flesh, eliminates scars, kills wound insects. Weathered form is best. Ancient mineral ash fire toxin has been expelled; treats stubborn sores, closes wound openings.
(Pi Shi / Arsenic Stone) Acrid, bitter, sour, extremely hot, highly toxic. Dries phlegm in chest/diaphragm, can be used as an emetic, kills parasites. Originates from the shoot of Xinzhou tin ore. Refined form is named Pi Shuang (Arsenic Trioxide), even more fierce.
(Xiong Huang / Realgar) Acrid, extremely hot, toxic. Attacks cold accumulation. Nature and qi are similar to Pi Shi.
(Ming Fan / Alum) Salty, bitter, acrid, hot. Digests food, breaks stasis. Heat-toxin property can rot metals and transform heart tissue into blood.
(Nao Sha) Acrid, bitter, slightly salty, extremely hot, highly toxic. Breaks accumulation, dissipates hardness.
(Peng Sha / Borax) Acrid, bitter, astringent, warm. Digests food, grinds accumulation, removes filth, resolves phlegm, cauterizes moles/warts, beautifies face.
(Zi Ran Tong / Natural Pyrite) Salty, cold, toxic. Searches and eliminates blood stasis, reconnects fractures, treats wooden tongue (stiff/swollen tongue), promotes lactation.