Raw use: pungent and neutral, breaks blood stasis and treats stranguria with accumulation; roasted use: pungent and warm, stops bleeding and treats intestinal wind (bleeding from the intestines).
Bitter and pungent. Raw is cold, cooked is warm. It excels at dispelling wind-dampness to treat numbness and paralysis, dries blood, but does not tonify. It should be mixed with wine, steamed, and sun-dried nine times.
Bitter and warm. Regulates qi and invigorates blood, treats edema during pregnancy.
Bitter and warm. Treats bi-syndrome caused by wind-cold-dampness and pain from traumatic injuries.
Sweet and warm. Invigorates blood and reduces swelling.
Pungent and neutral. Promotes circulation of blood vessels, disperses blood stasis and stops bleeding.
Pungent and warm. Moves qi and expels cold, treats mountain miasma. Its aroma enters the mouth and circulates through the body instantly, bringing a feeling of comfort, but its fiery nature scorches and consumes blood, shortening lifespan. Water from flues can detoxify snake venom.
Bitter, sweet, warm, and drying. Dispels wind, removes dampness, resolves toxicity, and generates flesh. It is boiled in white onion tubes for use. Pine needles are bitter and warm, treat various sores due to wind-dampness, and promote hair growth. Pine joints are bitter, warm, and drying, treat wind-dampness between bones and joints, and dry dampness in the blood.
Salty and neutral. Enters the blood level, harmonizes blood, stops bleeding, and reduces toxic swelling.
Pungent and warm. Expels evil, stops bleeding, treats metal blade injuries.
Pungent and neutral. Regulates qi and blood, resolves toxicity, with effects similar to Frankincense (Ruxiang).
Sweet and warm. Penetrates orifices, opens depression, expels all abnormal qi, kills spirits.
Pungent, hot, and aromatic/piercing. Can generate fire in water, open orifices, remove dampness, and kill parasites.
Bitter and neutral. Dispels wind and promotes urination, treats wind-cold-dampness bi-syndrome of hands and feet.
Highly effective for treating pediatric convulsions and applying externally for thrush. Use branches growing towards the southeast, grind into juice for use.
Sweet, cold, and draining. Reduces fluid retention, softens hardness, treats bone stuck in throat. Peel is sweet and neutral, promotes urination. Leaves are sweet and cool, dispel damp-heat, treat dysentery.
Bitter and neutral. Moves qi and blood. Decoct branches and leaves for washing to treat chickenpox where pus fails to rise.
Sweet, salty, and neutral. Resolves carbuncles, dispels wind and resolves toxicity, also dissipates heat-toxin of sand-pox.
Pungent and warm. Resolves toxicity, treats dysentery and sore throat.
Sweet, astringent, and warm. Scatters stagnant qi, expels cold-dampness, treats epigastric pain. Due to its resemblance to testicles, it also treats hernia and testicular swelling. Use the shell. Lychee is sweet, sour, and hot, stops hiccups; excessive consumption causes fever, swollen gums, and epistaxis. Shell induces chickenpox.
Sour, astringent, and warm. Astringes intestines, stops diarrhea, treats dysentery, metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, and rectal prolapse. Kills parasites, darkens hair. However, it may cause phlegm retention in the chest; those with unresolved accumulation should not take it. Pomegranate treats diarrhea and dysentery; excessive consumption damages lungs and teeth. Thousand-petaled pomegranate flowers treat hematemesis and epistaxis due to heart heat.