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(Pumpkin) The flavor is sweet, and the nature is warm. It enters the Hand-Taiyin Lung Meridian. Its function is specifically to tonify the middle and replenish qi. Consuming it together with mutton causes qi stagnation. Take one melon stalk (Gua Di), burn it until carbonized but retaining its original properties, grind it into powder, mix it with fried rice flour, and eat it. Consume one per day for several times; it has miraculous effects in treating habitual abortion (Tai Hua).

(Winter Melon) The flavor is sweet, and the nature is cold. It enters the Hand-Yangming and Foot-Yangming Meridians. Its function is specifically to promote urination and unblock the intestines and stomach, dispel vexatious heat, and resolve alcohol toxicity.

(Cucumber) The flavor is sweet, and the nature is cold with slight toxicity. It enters the Hand-Taiyin and Foot-Taiyin Meridians. Its function is specifically to clear heat, relieve thirst, and promote water passages. Crushing its root and applying it externally is highly effective for fox-thorn swelling and sores. Also known as Cucumber.

(Luffa) The flavor is sweet, and the nature is cool. It enters the Foot-Jueyin Liver Meridian. Its function is specifically to cool blood, detoxify, eliminate wind, transform phlegm, unblock collaterals, and promote blood circulation. Combined with Sophora flower (Huai Hua), it treats bleeding from yang wind; combined with Reed rhizome (Lu Gen) and Peach kernel (Tao Ren), it treats slow eruption of carbuncles and pox. Burn it until carbonized, mix with Cinnabar (Zhu Sha), honey, and water, and take orally for good results. Also known as Tian Luo, or Man Gua.

(Imperata Rhizome/Dian Hu Rice) The flavor is sweet, and the nature is cool. It enters the Hand-Taiyin and Foot-Taiyin Meridians. Its function is specifically to benefit the five zang organs, dispel vexatious heat, remove yellow eyes, resolve alcohol toxicity, and promote urination and defecation. It treats red face, white leprosy, discharge ulcers, wind-heat red eyes caused by alcohol and wheat consumption. However, its nature is slippery and cold, which is very detrimental to health; it is advisable to consume sparingly. Patients should especially avoid it. Its real name is Dian Hu Mi, which can serve as grain during famines.

(Sargassum) The flavor is sweet, and the nature is cold and salty. It enters the Hand-Taiyin Meridian. Its function is specifically to dissipate goiters, tumors, and accumulations, and treat throat stuffiness due to excessive heat. Excessive consumption causes abdominal pain, flatulence, and vomiting of white foam; drinking a small amount of hot vinegar stops this.

(Kelp) The flavor is sweet, and the nature is cold and salty. It enters the Hand-Taiyin and Foot-Yangming Meridians. Its function is specifically to clear stubborn, hard heat-phlegm, dissipate goiters and accumulations, treat heat-induced vexation, and nourish yin qi.

(Halophyte/Sea Sand) The flavor is sweet and salty, with a nature that is greatly cold and slippery. It enters the Hand-Taiyin, Foot-Taiyin, Hand-Yangming, and Foot-Yangming Meridians. Its function is specifically to remove floating heat in the upper jiao and induce deficiency-cold in the lower jiao.

(Abalone Shell/Other Shellfish) The flavor is sweet and cold with slight salinity. It enters the Foot-Taiyang and Foot-Taiyin Meridians. Its function is specifically to clear heat, dissipate goiters, and promote urination.

(Ground Ear/Mushroom) The flavor is sweet and neutral, with slight toxicity. It enters the Hand-Yangming, Foot-Yangming, and Foot-Jueyin Meridians. Its function is specifically to benefit the five zang organs, ventilate the intestines and stomach, and treat five types of hemorrhoids and all kinds of blood disorders. Those growing on ancient locust trees or mulberry trees are superior; those on Zelkova trees are inferior. Ground ear is sweet and cold, benefiting vision; Stone ear is sweet and neutral, benefiting vision and essence.