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Also known as *Wo Luo*. Its nature is sweet and cold; it clears heat, brightens the eyes, promotes urination to reduce edema. Snail Shell (*Luosi Ke*): Resolves phlegm and dissipates accumulation; treats epigastric pain. Its nature is salty and cold; clears heat and dissipates nodules, soothes depression and reduces goiter; decoct with salt water for use.

Also known as *Mai Luo*, also known as *Mei Luo*. Its nature is sweet, sour, salty, and cold; clears heat and nourishes Yin, improves hearing and vision; decoct with salt water for use.

Its nature is sweet, salty, and slightly warm; regulates the middle jiao and aids digestion, induces hunger; decoct with salt water for use.

Its nature is sweet, salty, and neutral; nourishes Yin and moistens dryness, relieves thirst and removes irritability; decoct with salt water for use.

Its taste is salty and its nature is extremely cold. Decocted soup for external washing treats *He Xi Feng* (Crane's Knee Wind, a form of knee arthritis). Powder applied topically for weeping ulcers.

Refers to human hair. Its nature is bitter and neutral; enters the Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian and Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian; generates new tissue and dispels stasis, stops bleeding and stabilizes metrorrhagia. Use as ash. Fetal hair is especially effective.

Its nature is salty, hot, and toxic; used for inverted smallpox lesions [text corrupted]. Clears fire toxicity; grind finely and use after levigation with water.

Refers to Bamboo Juice (*Zhuli*). Its nature is sweet, salty, and cold; enters the Stomach to moderate the middle and clear heat; detoxifies and repels warmth, treats epidemic feverish mania and warm-toxin-induced mania. Made by soaking Licorice Root (*Gancao*) in a bamboo tube.

Refers to Urine Water (*Fenqing*). Its nature is bitter and cold; powerfully resolves heat toxicity; treats epidemic warm diseases with severe drowsiness and high fever, administered via gavage. It is urine water buried in soil to liquefy; aged material is superior.

Also known as *Niao Bai*. Its nature is salty and cool; enters the Liver, Kidney, and Bladder meridians. Descends fire and disperses stasis, allowing heat to exit via urination. Must be processed by levigation with water, used raw. Best scraped from the urine bucket of a young boy.

Its nature is salty and cold; descends fire and disperses stasis, clears the Lungs and nourishes Yin; drink while hot. If cold, the vital qi is incomplete, retaining only the salty-cold nature.

Its nature is salty and neutral; nourishes water and benefits the Kidneys, reduces fever and eliminates tidal fever; it is a specific drug for nourishing Yin and descending fire. Collected from young boys' urine in autumn, refined through yin-processing to become Autumn Stone (*Qiushi*); further refined with autumn dew to become Autumn Water (*Qiushui*). For descending fire, raw and bland are preferred; for nourishing Yin, hot and salty are preferred.

Its nature is sweet and salty; nourishes Yin and blood, moistens dryness and tonifies deficiency; can open blood-depletion dysphagia; suitable for excess Yang and deficient Yin. Contraindicated for those with loose bowels and weak stomachs.

Refers to Menstrual Blood (*Yue Shui*). Its nature is salty, hot, and toxic; antidotes arrow poison, treats female relapse due to sexual activity after illness. Virgin's first menstruation is best. Menstrual Cloth: Hot compress for traumatic wounds with profuse bleeding. Arrowheads embedded in the abdomen or injuries from tigers/wolves: all burned to ash and taken with wine.