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Taste is sweet and bitter, nature is warm, with cold and purgative properties, and it is toxic. It primarily treats cough with qi rebellion (coughing with upward rushing of qi), borborygmus (rumbling in the intestines), bi syndrome of the throat (sore throat with obstruction), descending qi, postpartum and lactation disorders, metallic wounds, and cold affecting the heart.
It treats ben tun (wandering tumor/qi rushing from lower abdomen to chest), convulsions and epilepsy, irritability and heat in the epigastrium, fluctuating wind-pathogen, headache due to epidemic disease, releasing the muscle layer, eliminating urgency in the epigastrium, and killing dog poison. Also known as apricot fruit. Harvested in May. Two specific types can kill humans and can be used to poison dogs.
Flowers: Taste is bitter, non-toxic. Primarily treats deficiency supplementation, internal injury in women, cold-heat bi syndrome, and reversal cold (cold extremities).
Fruits: Taste is sour, should not be eaten in excess as it damages sinews and bones. Grows in the mountains and valleys of Jin. (Processing with fire is beneficial; incompatible with Phellodendri Cortex [Huangbai], Scutellariae Radix [Huangqin], and Puerariae Radix [Gegen]; resolves tin poison; fears [missing text]). Found everywhere, widely used in prescriptions. Soak in decoction to remove the red skin, stir-fry until yellow. (From *Xinxiu Bencao* p. 255, *Daguan Bencao* Vol. 23, *Zhenghe Bencao* p. 473)

Taste is bitter and sweet, nature is neutral, non-toxic. Primarily treats blood stasis, obstructing zha masses (fixed abdominal masses) and pathogenic factors, kills small insects. Treats cough with qi rebellion, eliminates hardness in the epigastrium, removes sudden bleeding from trauma, breaks down zheng and zha masses, regulates menstruation, and relieves pain. Harvested in July, dried in shade.
Peach flowers: Kill zhu evil ghosts, improve complexion. Taste is bitter, nature is neutral, non-toxic. Primarily eliminate water retention, break stone lin (urinary calculi), promote urination and defecation, expel three types of parasites, and beautify the face. Harvested on the third day of the third lunar month, dried in shade.
Tao xiao (peaches hanging on the tree without falling): Kill various ghost spirits. Taste is bitter, slightly warm. Primarily treat zhong e (sudden severe illness/abdominal pain), kill spirits and five poisons/unlucky entities. Also known as Tao nu or Xiao Jing, referring to fruits that remain on the tree or have internal rot, harvested in January.
Peach fuzz (hairs on the peach pit): Treat hematochezia and blood masses, cold-heat, accumulations, infertility, leukorrhea, break firm obstructions. Scrape the hairs from mature pits for use.
Tao du (worms eating peach trees): Kill ghosts, ward off evil and unluckiness; these are worms that feed on peach trees.
White bark of peach stems: Taste is bitter and pungent, non-toxic. Expel evil ghosts, treat zhong e and abdominal pain, clear heat from the stomach.
Peach leaves: Taste is bitter and pungent, nature is neutral, non-toxic. Treat expulsion of corpse parasites and worms from sores.
Peach gum: After refining, protects the middle jiao from hunger and resists wind-cold.
Peach fruits: Taste is sour, excessive consumption causes internal heat. Grows in the mountains and valleys of Tai Mountain. Now found everywhere; those from Jingkou are also good. It is best to select seeds for planting. There is also Shanlong tao, whose flesh is inedible. People say peach kernels are cold when made into curd. Peach gum is used by Daoist alchemists. Flowers are harvested on the third day of the third lunar month for alchemical formulas. Dialect says eating all flowers from three peach trees makes the complexion rosy like peach blossoms, but no one has tried it. Those taking Atractylodes macrocephala (Zhu) claim peaches are contraindicated. (From *Xinxiu Bencao* p. 256, *Daguan Bencao* Vol. 23, *Zhenghe...)