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Sweet in taste, slightly warm or slightly cold in nature, non-toxic. It treats metrorrhagia and metrostaxis (heavy or prolonged uterine bleeding) in women, leukorrhea of red and white discharge, tonifies deficiency, warms the middle jiao, and stops bleeding. For non-healing sores, it calms the spirit, detoxifies, and wards off misfortune. Chicken head: Treats demonic influences; those obtained from the east gate are superior. White rooster meat: Sour in taste, slightly warm in nature, directs qi downward, treats manic disorders, stabilizes the five zang organs, treats internal injury, and manages diabetes mellitus (Xiao Ke). Black rooster meat: Slightly warm in nature. Tonifies the middle jiao and relieves pain. Gallbladder: Slightly cold in nature, treats blurred vision and skin sores. Heart: Treats the "five evils" (pathogenic factors affecting the heart/spirit). Blood: Treats fractures, bone pain, and flaccidity with numbness (Wei Bi). Fat: Treats deafness. Intestines: Neutral in nature, treats enuresis and urinary frequency with incontinence. Liver and left wing feathers: Treats impotence. Comb blood: Treats difficulty in lactation. Neilei Huangpi (Chicken gizzard lining): Slightly cold in nature, treats diarrhea and dysentery, promotes urination, treats enuresis, clears heat, and relieves irritability. Chicken manure (white part): Slightly cold in nature. Treats diabetes mellitus, Shang Han (cold damage), alternating chills and fever, breaks stone lin (urinary calculi) and muscle spasms, promotes urination, stops enuresis, and eliminates scars. Black hen: Treats wind-cold-damp bi syndrome, the "five slacknesses and six tensions," and calms the fetus. Its blood: Non-toxic, neutral in nature. Treats sudden evil abdominal pain, fracture-related bone pain, and difficulty in lactation. Feathers from the wings: Treats lower bleeding due to obstruction. Yellow hen: Sour and sweet in taste, neutral in nature. Treats internal injury, diabetes mellitus, urinary frequency with incontinence, intestinal diarrhea, tonifies the five zang organs, repairs severe injuries, treats consumptive disease (Xu Lao), and benefits qi and strength. Ribs: Treats emaciation in children and failure to gain flesh after eating. Egg: Clears hot fire sores, treats epilepsy, and can be processed into a substance resembling amber (Hu Po). Albumen (Egg white): Slightly cold in nature, treats hot red eyes, clears latent heat under the heart, relieves fullness and irritability, cough and counterflow qi, pediatric diarrhea, difficult labor, and retained placenta. Soaked in vinegar overnight, it treats jaundice and breaks severe irritability and heat. Inner membrane of the eggshell: Treats chronic cough with qi stagnation; when taken together with Ephedrae Herba (Mahuang) and Asteris Radix (Ziwan), relief is immediate. Jibai Du (a parasite or specific part within the chicken): Can fatten fat. Produced in Pyeongtaek, Korea.

There are many more examples regarding the uses of chickens. It is said that eggs used to make amber are made by mixing yolk and white and boiling them together; they are very similar, except they do not attract mustard seeds. Another method involves boiling white substances with silver; holding it in the mouth for a moment turns it golden color. Eggs should not be eaten with scallions, garlic, or plums. Black chicken meat should not be eaten with dog liver and kidneys. Children who eat chicken meat are prone to developing roundworms. Additionally, chicken should not be steamed with mustard leaves. Korea is located in the Xuan Tu and La Lang regions, so it should not be the sole origin of all these types. The current mention of "Bai Du" is unknown; it is likely a different species or item. (From *Xinxiu Bencao* page 225, *Daguan Bencao* Volume 19, *Zhenghe Bencao* page 397)