Shennong Bencao Jing · The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica

Creatures · Middle Grade

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Xijiao · Rhinoceros Horn Bitter, cold. Listed for the hundred poisons, gu infestation, malign ghosts and miasmatic qi; countering Gouwen, dove-feather and snake poisons, removing pathogenic influences, and preventing delusion and oppressive dreams in sleep. Prolonged use is claimed to lighten the body. Found in river valleys. Note: The supplied bird name says “dove”; it is not silently replaced with a different poisonous-bird name. Lingyangjiao · Lingyang Horn Salty, cold. Listed for brightening eyes, benefiting qi and raising yin; removing harmful blood and incessant downward discharge, warding off gu poison, malign ghosts and ill omens, settling heart qi and keeping sleep free of oppressive dreams. Prolonged use is claimed to strengthen sinews and bones and lighten the body. Found in river valleys. Guyangjiao · He-Goat Horn Salty, warm. Listed for blindness without visible eye obstruction, brightening eyes, killing scabies worms, stopping cold diarrhea, warding off malign ghosts, tigers and wolves, and stopping fright and palpitations. Prolonged use is claimed to settle the heart, benefit qi and lighten the body. Found in river valleys. Baima Jing · White Horse Penis Salty, neutral. Listed for internal injury with interrupted vessels and failure of erection; strengthening resolve, benefiting qi, growing flesh, making the body full and robust, and producing children. The eyes are listed for fright seizures, abdominal fullness and nue fever. The xuanti part is listed for fright pathogens and clonic spasms, ru difficulties, and warding off malign qi, ghost poison, gu infestation and ill omens. Found in level marshland. Gou Yinjing · Dog Penis Salty, neutral. Listed for internal injury and genital impotence with failure of erection; making the organ strong, warm and large, producing children, and removing women's twelve vaginal discharge disorders. The gall is listed for brightening eyes. Also Goujing. Found in level marshland. Lurong · Deer Antler Velvet Sweet, warm. Listed for downward leakage of harmful blood, cold and heat with fright seizures, benefiting qi and strengthening resolve, growing teeth and preventing aging. The horn is listed for harmful sores and abscess swellings, expelling pathogenic and malign qi, and blood retained in the genitals. Fuyi · Bat Salty, neutral. Listed for dim vision, brightening eyes and giving clear, luminous sight at night. Prolonged use is claimed to bring joy, an attractive appearance and freedom from worry. Also Bianfu. Found in the river valleys of Taishan. Weipi · Hedgehog Skin Bitter, neutral. Listed for the five hemorrhoidal disorders, genital erosion, red and white bloody discharge, incessant discharge of blood and fluid of five colors, and genital swelling and pain drawing into the lumbar region and back. The source says it is boiled in wine to kill it. Found in river valleys. Shilongzi Salty, cold. Listed for the five long urinary obstruction disorders, pathogenic bound qi, breaking stone-lin, downward blood discharge and promoting urine and the waterways. Also Xiyi. Found in river valleys. Sangpiaoxiao Salty, neutral. Listed for internal injury, shan/jia masses and genital impotence, benefiting essence and producing children, women's blocked blood and lumbar pain, freeing the five lin urinary disorders and promoting urine and the waterways. Found on mulberry branches; the source describes collecting and steaming it. Also Shiyou. Zha Chan · Cicada Salty, cold. Listed for children's fright seizures, nighttime crying, dian disorders, and cold and heat. Found on poplar and willow trees. Baijiangcan · White Stiff Silkworm Salty. Listed for children's fright seizures and nighttime crying, expelling the Three Worms, removing dark facial marks, improving complexion, and men's genital ulcer disorders. Found in level marshland. Mumeng Bitter, neutral. Listed for red and painful eyes, injured eye corners with tearing, stagnant and blocked blood, cold and heat with aching and the source's uncertain “lightness” wording, and childlessness. Also Hunchang. Found by waterways and marshes. Note: The source's pair after cold and heat reads “aching/sour” and “light”; it has not been silently changed to the more familiar word for pain. Feimeng Bitter, slightly cold. Listed for expelling stagnant blood, breaking and draining blood accumulations, hard pi and zheng/jia masses with cold and heat, and freeing the blood vessels and nine openings. Found in river valleys. Feilian Salty. Listed for blood stasis, hard masses with cold and heat, breaking accumulations, throat impediment, and internal cold with childlessness. Found by waterways and marshes. Qicao Salty, slightly warm. Listed for harmful and stagnant blood, impediment qi, fractures with blood beneath the ribs causing hardness, fullness and pain, blocked menstruation, encroaching tissue in the eyes, and blue-green obstructions and white films. Also Fenqi, with fen written in an insect-radical form. Found in level marshland. Kuoyu · Slug Salty, cold. Listed for harmful wind with facial deviation, displaced sinews and prolapse of the anus, and fright seizures with contraction. Also Lingli. Found in pools and marshes. Haige Bitter, neutral. Listed for counterflow cough and upward qi, panting with vexation and fullness, and chest pain with cold and heat. Also Kuige. Found in pools and marshes. Wenge is listed for harmful sores and eroding the five hemorrhoidal disorders. Guijia · Turtle Shell Salty, neutral. Listed for red and white vaginal leakage, breaking zheng/jia masses, jie-nue periodic fever, the five hemorrhoidal disorders and genital erosion, damp impediment, heavy and weak limbs, and children's unclosed fontanelles. Prolonged use is claimed to lighten the body and remove hunger. Also Shenwu. Found in pools and marshes. Biejia · Bie Turtle Shell Salty, neutral. Listed for zheng/jia masses of heart and abdomen, hard accumulations with cold and heat, removing pi obstructions and fleshy growths, genital erosion, hemorrhoids and harmful flesh. Found in pools and marshes. Tuoyu Jia · Tuoyu Armor Pungent, slightly warm. Listed for zheng/jia masses of heart and abdomen, hidden hard accumulations, cold and heat, women's uterine flooding with blood of five colors, pain drawing between the lower abdomen and genitals, scabies sores and deadened flesh. Found in pools and marshes. Wuzeiyu Gu · Cuttlefish Bone Salty, slightly warm. Listed for women's red and white menstrual leakage, blocked blood, genital erosion with swelling and pain, cold and heat, zheng/jia masses and childlessness. Found in pools and marshes. Xie · Crab Salty, cold. Listed for pathogenic qi in the chest, painful heat binding, facial deviation and swelling. It is said to counter lacquer; burning it is claimed to attract rats. Found in pools and marshes. Hama Pungent, cold. Listed for pathogenic qi, breaking hard masses and blood, abscess swellings and genital sores. Taking it is claimed to prevent heat disorders. Found in pools and marshes.

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