鸭 〔甘寒，入肺，肾二经。〕补虚劳而除骨蒸，〔宜用乌骨白鸭，取金水清肃之象也。〕
治水肿而利小便。〔宜用青头雄鸭，煮汁饮之，取水木生发之象也。〕
野鸭 〔甘凉〕补中，大益病患。
乌骨鸡 〔甘平，入肝、肾二经。〕补劳虚羸弱，治崩中带下。〔益阴则冲、任、带三脉俱
旺矣。〕鸡为阳禽，属木应风，惟白毛乌骨者，性属阴，而为补血益阴之品。
鸡子 〔蛋〕〔白寒黄温，全甘平。宜生用。〕除烦热而
清咽喉，〔指暴失音言。〕定咳逆而止久痢。〔皆补阴血，解热毒之功也。〕
鸡裹金 〔炙研〕消积滞。
鸡肠 〔炙研〕止遗尿。
鸡肝取其引药入肝，疗疳积目昏，雄鸡冠血用以涂面灌口，治中恶卒死。
雀卵 〔酸温，五月取之。〕强阴茎而壮热，益精髓而多男。〔雀属阳，而气温性淫，
故强壮阳事。《内经》用治血枯症，以其益精血耳。〕
肉 〔甘温不可合李食，服白术人忌之。〕功用相同。〔同蛇床子熬膏，和药丸服，补下甚效
，唐明皇服之有验。〕
阴虚火盛者忌之。孕妇食之，生子多淫。
五灵脂 〔寒号禽粪也，甘温入肝经。研细酒飞去砂，晒。解蛇蝎蜈蚣伤毒。〕治周身与心腹
胁肋诸痛，疗疝气及产后儿枕作痛。〔皆取其散血和血之功。〕长于破血行血，一切瘀滞作痛者，
用之如神。
性极膻恶，脾胃虚弱者不能胜也。
Duck: Sweet and cold in nature, enters the Lung and Kidney meridians. It tonifies deficiency and consumptive diseases and clears bone-steaming fever (fever due to yin deficiency). It is advisable to use black-boned white ducks, taking the image of clear and肃 (solemn) metal and water. It treats edema and promotes urination. It is advisable to use male ducks with green heads, boiling them to drink the juice, taking the image of the generation of water and wood.
Wild Duck: Sweet and cool in nature. Tonifies the Middle Jiao and greatly benefits patients.
Black-boned Chicken: Sweet and neutral in nature, enters the Liver and Kidney meridians. It tonifies exhaustion, deficiency, emaciation, and weakness; treats metrorrhagia and leukorrhea. By benefiting yin, the Chong, Ren, and Dai vessels all become prosperous. Chickens are yang birds, belonging to Wood and corresponding to Wind. Only those with white feathers and black bones have a yin nature and serve as substances for nourishing blood and benefiting yin.
Chicken Egg: The white is cold, the yolk is warm, and the whole egg is sweet and neutral. It is advisable to use it raw. It removes irritability and heat, clears the throat (referring to sudden loss of voice), calms cough and counterflow qi, and stops chronic dysentery. These are all effects of nourishing yin and blood and resolving heat toxicity.
Jineijin (Chicken Gizzard Lining): Roasted and ground. Eliminates food stagnation.
Chicken Intestine: Roasted and ground. Stops urinary incontinence.
Chicken Liver: Used to guide medicines into the Liver meridian; treats ganying (childhood malnutrition syndrome) causing blurred vision. Blood from the comb of a rooster is applied to the face or administered orally to treat sudden death due to evil invasion.
Sparrow Egg: Sour and warm, collected in May. Strengthens the penis and boosts body heat; benefits essence and marrow and favors the birth of males. Sparrows belong to Yang, and their temperature and nature are lustful, thus strengthening sexual function. The *Neijing* uses it to treat Xueku (blood depletion syndrome) because it benefits essence and blood.
Sparrow Meat: Sweet and warm. Should not be eaten with plums; contraindicated for those taking Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma (Baizhu). Its functions are the same. (Boiled into a paste with Cnidium Fruit (Shechuangzi) and taken as pills, it effectively tonifies the Lower Jiao; Emperor Minghuang of Tang found it effective.) Contraindicated in cases of yin deficiency with vigorous fire. If pregnant women eat it, their children may be prone to licentiousness.
Wulingzhi (Trogopterus Dung): Also known as the feces of the Hanhao bird (Alectura lathami). Sweet and warm, enters the Liver meridian. Ground finely, washed with wine to remove sand, and dried. Resolves toxicity from snake, scorpion, and centipede bites. Treats pain throughout the body and in the heart, abdomen, and hypochondrium; treats hernia and postpartum epigastric pain (abdominal pain caused by postpartum blood stasis). All these utilize its ability to disperse and harmonize blood. It excels at breaking and moving blood; for all pains caused by blood stasis, it acts like magic.
Its odor is extremely fishy and foul; those with weak Spleen and Stomach cannot tolerate it.