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Horse meat, tastes pungent (Xin) and bitter (Ku), nature is cold. It is toxic. It treats internal injury, dispels damp-heat, directs rebellious Qi downward, strengthens sinews and bones, fortifies the waist and spine, enhances physical fitness, improves intelligence, lightens the body, increases resistance to hunger, and treats alternating chills and fever as well as Wei-Bi syndrome (flaccidity and obstruction). Horse mane, burned to ash and applied topically to sores, carbuncles, and furuncles, yields miraculous effects. Horse hooves, burned to ash and ground into powder, mixed with oil and applied to bald head sores, tinea, and scabies. Horse skin, burned to ash and mixed with oil, applied to ringworm (coin-shaped psoriasis), with immediate effect.
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Dog meat, tastes sour (Suan) and salty (Xian), nature is warm. It is non-toxic. It has a slight gamey odor. It calms the Five Zang organs, tonifies Pure Yang, lightens the body and benefits Qi, tonifies the Kidney and Stomach, strengthens sexual function, nourishes the waist and knees, benefits strength, treats the five labors and seven injuries, nourishes blood vessels and thickens the intestines and stomach, tonifies the Lower Jiao and fills essence. Boil it with the five flavors and eat it on an empty stomach. Dog hooves, taste sour, nature is neutral. Treats epilepsy and mania. Dog blood, taste salty, tonifies the Five Zang organs. Dog heart, treats sorrowful and indignant Qi, eliminates evil. Dog kidney, nature is neutral. Treats postpartum malaria in women. The nature of dog meat is contrary to Phytolacca acinosa root (Shanglu), garlic, and apricot kernel; users should remember this.
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(Attached: Bi Jun and other sixteen types)
Qixing Jun (Seven-Star Mushroom), grows in shady and damp places in mountains, shape resembles Bovista mushroom (Niu Gan Jun), with seven yellow spots on the back. Taste is sweet and delicious, pungent; nature is neutral. Non-toxic.
Mainly treats the five labors and seven injuries, various deficiencies and hundred damages, female corpse-labor (Shi Lao), and tuberculosis (Zhai Zheng); it can kill tubercle worms. People often neglect its efficacy.
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The above five-colored mushrooms are mostly unrecognized by people, who often fail to distinguish them carefully, mistaking toxic mushrooms for harmless ones, leading to fatal poisoning, which is deeply pitiable. Now, they are specifically distinguished and explained in detail so that people know how to select and gather them. For any unidentified ones, it is advisable to boil them with ginger rice or silver/gold utensils; if black color appears, they must absolutely not be eaten. Additionally, there is a type called Fanchang Jun, whose shape is indistinguishable from Jian Shou Qing (Blue-staining Mushroom). When picked and broken open, it also turns blue-black upon contact, but its taste is bitter and numbing. If mistakenly eaten, abdominal pain will definitely occur. Detoxification should also be preceded by identification using ginger rice and silver/gold utensils to avoid errors. Since mushroom species are numerous, they cannot all be described. Besides the five edible colors, there are mushrooms contrary to yellow, green, white, black, and red, which are inedible. It is said that "contrary" refers to those like green-faced and white-backed ones; the rest can be inferred up to twenty-three types, each with different natures, which are also separately stated for reference during collection.
Bi Jun, shape is short. Toxic.
Kunmu Jun, slightly sweet, nature is malicious.
Li Jun, bitter, cold. Eating too much causes goiter and Qi stagnation.
Sanghua Jun, taste is sweet and delicious. Rare for humans to eat; those who eat it become strong and live long.
Baimu Jun, bitter, cold. Slightly toxic.
Kuzhu Jun, highly toxic.
Feng Jun, cold, astringent. Toxic.
Ma Jun, bitter, cold. Causes sores in humans after consumption.
Liu Jun, disperses blood.
Renmian Jun, resembles chicken. Highly toxic. Fatal if eaten.
Fanchang Jun, highly toxic.
Fucao Jun, toxic.
Matiji Jun, shape resembles horse hoof, taste bitter and astringent.
Yanzhi Jun, can be used as external medicine.
Laitou Jun, taste pungent. Causes hair to turn gray.
Fanhua Jun, back black, face red. Mistaken eating damages teeth and causes hair loss.
In summary, mushrooms of the five colors—green, yellow, red, white, and black—are edible. Outside these five, their colors must necessarily be mixed/variegated; one must carefully examine every type before adoption. Even a slight error may cost a life; utmost caution is required!
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