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Salty in flavor, cold in nature, non-toxic. Enters the Liver Meridian.
It reaches the East (Wood element), resolves heat toxins, and prevents dizziness and clouding of consciousness without worry. It specifically targets the Sea of Blood, disperses blood stasis and nodules, and supports True Yin. It clears the Heart and brightens the eyes, expels evil pathogens, and calms fright.
For damp-wind dysentery with blood, it should be added; for scrofula, carbuncles, and sores, it is indispensable.
Antelope Horn primarily pacifies the Liver and extinguishes wind, clearing and resolving heat toxins. It is suitable for cases of Liver deficiency with heat. Externally, it has twenty-four jointed marks; internally, it possesses a natural wooden core. This horn must be finely ground, protected from wind, pounded, and sifted for use.
It enters exclusively into the Jueyin (Liver/Pericardium) level, capable of suppressing the vital generating energy.

Salty in flavor, cold in nature, non-toxic. Enters the the Liver Meridian.
It clears Liver fire, resolves stagnation, treats infantile convulsive malnutrition (Jing Gan), and massive hematemesis. For exanthematous diseases in Cold Damage (Shanghan), macules, and sores in the mouth and tongue.
Internally taken, it is light and floating, ascending to clear fire and resolve toxins; externally applied, it has the function of absorbing moisture and drying dampness.
Indigo Naturalis is cool in nature; those with Middle Jiao cold should not take it.

Bitter in flavor, cold in nature, non-toxic. Enters the Heart, Liver, and Spleen meridians.
It is excellent for treating the Five Types of Malnutrition (Wu Gan) and killing three types of parasites. It primarily removes heat and brightens the eyes, regulating infantile convulsions. When Liver Fire flares upward, tinnitus or deafness may occur.
Endowed with Yin-cold qi, cold can eliminate heat, and bitterness can drain heat, thus eliminating heat, killing parasites, and brightening the eyes. Malnutrition is caused by damp-heat; when damp-heat is removed, recovery occurs.
This herb clears heat and cools the Liver, draining excess fire of the Liver meridian and directly subduing the pathogenic fire. If symptoms include dizziness, headache, tinnitus, deafness, restlessness, mania, and irritability, which are signs of Yang hyperactivity and excess heat, combining it with Indigo Naturalis, Gardenia, and Rhubarb can achieve rapid results. Aloe Vera is extremely bitter and cold; it is strictly contraindicated for those with Spleen deficiency and poor appetite.

Salty in flavor, neutral in nature, non-toxic. Enters the Liver and Kidney meridians. Boiled in salt water and processed by levigation (water flying).
Pacifies the Liver and submerges Yang, extinguishes wind and stops vertigo. Internally taken, it gradually dissipates cataracts/opacities; externally applied as drops, it completely disperses red membranes on the eye.
Those with seven or nine holes are good quality; those with ten holes are inferior. Long-term use causes coldness in the Middle Jiao.

Acrid in flavor, warm in nature, toxic. Enters the Liver Meridian. Averse to spiders, slugs, chicken droppings, mulberry bark, and salt.
Searches out and extinguishes wind, stops spasms and convulsions. Disperses swelling and moves blood stasis, penetrating to attack toxins. For facial paralysis (deviation of mouth and eyes), malignant sores, and alopecia. For tetanus and neonatal lockjaw. For accumulations and masses in the abdomen.
When using this substance, the medicine must match the disease precisely; do not overdose.