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Sweet and cold in nature, regulates Qi, resolves phlegm, and benefits the stomach and intestines.

Sweet and warm in nature, expands the middle jiao, directs rebellious Qi downward, promotes bowel movement, reduces edema, and treats acne carbuncles. Bean oil is pungent, sweet, and hot; applied externally to treat sores and scabies.

Sweet and neutral, associated with Earth, treats vomiting, regurgitation, diarrhea, dysentery, and abdominal distension.

Sweet and slightly bitter, warm in nature, tonifies Qi and warms the middle.

Sweet and cold in nature, descends Qi and promotes intestinal function, treating accumulation and stagnation in the stomach and intestines.

Sweet and neutral, lubricates the intestines and can be used as a famine relief food.

Sweet and slightly cold in nature, tonifies the middle and clears heat.

Sour, bitter, and warm in nature, disperses blood stasis, eliminates masses (zheng), consolidates Qi and Blood, reduces swelling and abscesses, but damages the Stomach.

Pungent and neutral, primarily treats fractures and sprains, reconnects sinews and bones, and disperses blood stasis; processed by quenching in fire, soaking in vinegar, and levigating with Licorice root decoction.

Pungent and neutral, treats visual obstructions, blood stasis, difficult labor, and five types of strangury (lin syndrome); can also be boiled for juice.

Pungent and neutral, calms fright, expels stubborn phlegm, stops bleeding, reduces accumulation, kills parasites, treats swellings and toxins, removes scars, and treats sores and hemorrhoids; originally from silver mines, now often replaced by the bottom ash of silver smelting furnaces.

Sour, salty, and cold in nature, astringent and收敛 (consolidating), dries dampness, induces vomiting of saliva, resolves phlegm, dispels wind, stops bleeding, unblocks urination and defecation, kills parasites, clears deep-seated heat in the bone marrow; raw use detoxifies, but excessive consumption damages the Heart and Lungs and injures bones.

Sour, cool, and astringent, dries dampness, reduces accumulation, resolves phlegm, promotes urination, detoxifies, and kills parasites; main indications are similar to Alum (Bai Fan).

Sweet, pungent, and warm in nature, treats Qi and Blood pain, phlegm-epilepsy, and sores; if poisoned, antidote with cold water.

Sweet and salty, harmonizes Blood, generates flesh, and treats sores.

Sweet and cool, unblocks orifices, moves damp-heat, treats strangury, leukorrhea, and visual obstructions.

Salty and cold, brightens the eyes, and detoxifies mineral medicines.

Sweet and neutral, suitable for decocting exterior-releasing and Middle-Jiao-tonifying Qi formulas; also, water stored during the Start of Spring and Qingming festivals is called "Divine Water," used to soak pills for wind diseases and Spleen-Stomach deficiency, remaining unspoiled for long periods.

All are toxic; when used for medicine or wine brewing, they spoil easily; ingestion causes Spleen-Stomach diseases.

Washes sores and scabies, removes scars; cooks easily when added to sauce.

Suitable for preparing pills for malaria, dysentery, sores, ulcers, and parasitic infestations.

On the Dragon Boat Festival at noon, if it rains, bamboo poles cut urgently will contain water named "Divine Water"; sweet and cold, clears heat, resolves phlegm, calms fright, anchors the Spirit, treats heart and abdominal accumulations, and parasitic diseases.

Suitable for soaking medicinal herbs for tonics and pills for phlegm-fire, accumulations, and insect toxins.

Same as Cold Dew, Winter Solstice, Major Cold, Minor Cold, and Rain Water.

Ten days after Start of Winter is the "Entry of Fluids" period, ending at Light Snow; capable of killing hundreds of insects, suitable for decocting drugs that kill parasites and reduce accumulation.