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(Crow meat) Sweet in flavor, warm in nature. Enters the Hand-Shaoyin (Heart), Foot-Shaoyin (Kidney), Hand-Taiyang (Small Intestine), and Foot-Taiyang (Bladder) meridians. Its function is specifically to strengthen yang and restore erectile function, enabling procreation, benefiting essence and marrow, warming the waist and knees, and reducing urination. It treats metrorrhagia (uterine bleeding) and leukorrhea. When decocted with Cnidium Fruit (Shechuangzi) into a paste and mixed with other medicines to form pills for tonifying the lower jiao, it is called "Yima Wan" (Post Horse Pill). When decocted with Aconite Root (Fuzi) into a paste and formed into pills, it treats deficiency-cold syndromes, named "Quefu Wan" (Sparrow-Aconite Pill). It is strictly contraindicated for those with yin deficiency and hyperactive fire, as well as those taking Atractylodes Rhizome (Baizhu) and Li Bing. Pregnant women must especially avoid it. Taking the blood from the crow's head and applying it to the eyes dozens of times cures nyctalopia (night blindness). Crow eggs are sour in flavor and warm in nature; they benefit essence and blood, treating male impotence, female leukorrhea, and difficult urination. Taken together with Heaven-Male Root (Tianxiong), they prevent penile atrophy.

(Dove meat) Salty in flavor, neutral in nature. Enters the Hand-Taiyang (Small Intestine) and Foot-Taiyang (Bladder) meridians. Its function is specifically to resolve various drug toxicities. It treats malignant sores, wind-xuan (wind-induced skin eruptions), vitiligo, and ulcerative wind diseases. Only white doves are used in medicine. Dove eggs resolve sores and smallpox toxins. Doves' feces are named "Zuo Panlong" (Left Coiling Dragon); they eliminate abdominal masses, scrofula, and various sores. They treat tetanus and critical cases of yin-toxin. For scabies in humans and horses, it is fried, ground, and applied externally. Donkeys and horses fed grass mixed with dove feces experience reduced swelling and insect elimination. Doves' feces ground into powder and applied externally treat head sores and tinea capitis (white baldness); the area should first be washed with vinegar water.

(Chicken meat) Sweet in flavor, warm in nature. Enters the Hand-Taiyin (Lung), Foot-Taiyin (Spleen), Hand-Yangming (Large Intestine), and Foot-Yangming (Stomach) meridians. Its function is specifically to tonify deficiency and warm the middle jiao. Applying chicken blood to the face, dripping it into the mouth, or blowing it into the nose treats sudden fright or evil qi invasion (Zhong'e Jingwu). Chicken eggs are sweet in flavor and neutral in nature; they boost qi and nourish blood. Gently crack an egg, soak it in a urine chamber for three days, boil it, and swallow it with Ginger Juice (Jiangzhi) and Bamboo Sap (Zhuli) soup to treat chronic asthma with wind-phlegm. Vinegar-boiled chicken eggs treat bloody and non-bloody dysentery. The shell of a hen that has recently hatched chicks mainly treats relapse of cold damage due to overexertion (Laofu). Ground and applied externally, it treats chancres. Mixed with sesame oil and applied, it effectively treats smallpox toxins. The inner membrane of the egg treats chronic cough with qi stagnation. Chicken gizzard lining, also known as "Ji Neijin" (Chicken Inner Gold) or [missing character], is sweet in flavor, neutral in nature, and astringent. It is the spleen/stomach of the chicken. It digests food and water, removes irritability and heat, and promotes the free flow of the Small Intestine and Bladder. It treats diarrhea, frequent urination, enuresis, metrorrhagia, hematuria, leukorrhea, intestinal wind, chest consumption, and regurgitation. For children's malaria caused by eating disorders, use female chickens for men and male chickens for women. Chicken manure (the white part) is cold in nature; it directs qi downward, eliminates accumulation, and promotes the free flow of both large and small bowels. It treats gu-distension (abdominal distension resembling a drum). Stir-fried with rice, it treats rice-eating syndrome (parasitic disease or malnutrition from raw rice consumption). Mixed with vinegar and applied, it treats venom from earthworm or centipede bites. Ground and applied externally, it treats tight lips in children; if saliva is present, it is easily removed. Burned into powder and wrapped in cotton to bite against painful teeth, it is effective. Chicken juice cooked into porridge and eaten stabilizes the fetus. However, since its nature is ascending and dispersing, those with chronic diseases should avoid eating it. Chicken manure is also known as "Ji Shi Li".