Shennong Bencao Jing · The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica

Creatures · Upper Grade

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Fabi · Hair Bitter, warm. Listed for five urinary obstructions and guan/ge blockage, promoting urine and waterways, children's xian seizures and adults' spasms, and restoring one's spirit and transformation. Note: The final spirit-transformation wording is compressed in the supplied text. Longgu · Dragon Bones Sweet, neutral. Listed for ghost infestation of heart and abdomen, uncanny beings and old spirits, counterflow cough, diarrhea with pus and blood, women's leaking discharge, hard masses, and children's heat, fright and seizures. Teeth treat fright seizures in children and adults, dian illness and frantic running, bound qi below the heart with inability to breathe, and spasms; they kill uncanny beings. Prolonged use is claimed to lighten the body, bring numinous understanding and extend years. Found in mountain valleys. Niuhuang Bitter, neutral. Listed for fright seizures with cold and heat, intense heat with frenzy and spasms, removing malign influences and expelling ghosts. Horn cores expel blocked blood, treat stagnant-blood pain and women's bloody lower discharge. Marrow supplements the center and fills bone marrow; prolonged use is claimed to add years. Bile may form medicine into pills. Found in level marshland. Shexiang · Musk Pungent, warm. Listed for warding off malign qi, killing ghosts and uncanny beings, warm-nue fever, gu poison, seizures and spasms, and removing the Three Worms. Prolonged use is claimed to remove malign influences and disturbing dreams or nightmare sleep. Found in river valleys. Xiongzhi · Bear Fat Sweet, slightly cold. Listed for wind impediment with numbness and tight sinews, accumulations in five zang and abdomen, cold and heat with emaciation, head sores and bald patches, facial dark spots and eruptions. Prolonged use is claimed to strengthen resolve, remove hunger and lighten the body. Found in mountain valleys. Baijiao · White Glue Sweet, neutral. Listed for internal injury and exhaustion, lumbar pain and emaciation, supplementing the center and qi, women's blocked blood and childlessness, stopping pain and settling the fetus. Prolonged use is claimed to lighten the body and extend years. Also Lujiaojiao, deer-antler glue. Ejiao Sweet, neutral. Listed for internal flooding in heart and abdomen, extreme exhaustion with shivering like nue, lumbar and abdominal pain, aching limbs and women's bleeding; settling the fetus. Prolonged use is claimed to lighten the body and benefit qi. Also Chuanzhijiao. Dan Xiongji · Red Cock Sweet, slightly warm. Listed for women's flooding and leaking, red and white discharge, supplementing deficiency, warming the center, stopping blood, communicating with spirits, countering poisons and warding off ill omens. Head kills ghosts; fat treats deafness; intestines involuntary urine; the yellow inner skin of the gizzard diarrhea; white droppings wasting-thirst and cold-damage cold and heat; flight feathers expel blocked blood. Eggs remove heat and fire sores and treat seizures and spasms, and are said to make hupo, an amber-like numinous substance. The source adds: “chicken white grubs fatten pigs.” Found in level marshland. Note: The final white-grub clause is unusual in this supplied text and is retained without inventing a preparation. Yanfang · Wild-Goose Fat Sweet, neutral; classified non-toxic. Listed for wind contractions and tightness, one-sided withering, and qi failing to circulate freely. Prolonged use is claimed to benefit qi, remove hunger, lighten the body and resist aging. Also Wufang, duck fat. Found in ponds and marshes. Shimi · Stone Honey Sweet, neutral. Listed for pathogenic qi of heart and abdomen, fright seizures and spasms, settling five zang and their insufficiencies, benefiting qi and the center, stopping pain, countering poisons, removing illnesses and harmonizing medicines. Prolonged use is claimed to strengthen resolve, lighten the body, remove hunger and prevent aging. Found in mountain valleys. Mila · Beeswax Sweet, slightly warm. Listed for diarrhea with pus and blood, supplementing the center, reconnecting injuries, metal wounds and benefiting qi, freedom from hunger and resistance to aging. Found in mountain valleys. Fengzi · Bee or Wasp Young Sweet, neutral. Listed for wind of the head, removing gu poison, supplementing deficiency and emaciation, and internal injury. Prolonged use is claimed to give radiance, a pleasing complexion and freedom from aging. Large yellow-wasp young treat fullness and pain in heart and abdomen, and are said to lighten the body and benefit qi. Ground-wasp young treat abscess swelling. Also Feiling. Found in mountain valleys. Muli · Oyster Salty, neutral. Listed for cold-damage cold and heat, warm-nue shivering, fright, anger and angry qi, removing contraction and laxness, rat fistulas and women's red or white lower discharge. Prolonged use is claimed to strengthen bones and joints, kill malign ghosts and extend years. Also Liha. Found in ponds and marshes. Liyudan · Carp Gall Bitter, cold. Listed for hot, red, painful eyes and qingmang blindness, brightening vision. Prolonged use is claimed to give vigor and increase resolve and qi. Found in ponds and marshes. Liyu · Li Fish Sweet, cold. Listed for damp impediment and swelling of face and eyes, draining great accumulations of water. Also Tongyu. Found in ponds and marshes. Note: This Li name is distinct from the carp name in the preceding entry; the source writes the two with different characters.

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