Shennong Bencao Jing · The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica

Jades and Stones · Upper Grade

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Yuquan · Jade Spring Sweet, neutral. Listed for the hundred diseases of the five zang; softening sinews, strengthening bones, settling hun and po souls, increasing flesh, and benefiting qi. Prolonged use is claimed to give endurance of cold and heat, freedom from hunger and thirst, agelessness and immortality. The source says five jin taken near death preserve complexion for three years after death. Also called Yuzha. Dansha · Cinnabar Sweet, slightly cold. Listed for the hundred diseases of the body and five zang; nourishing essence and spirit, settling hun and po, benefiting qi, brightening eyes, and killing spirits, uncanny beings, malign ghosts. Prolonged use is claimed to communicate with numinous powers and prevent aging. Said to transform into mercury. Grows in mountain valleys. Shuiyin · Mercury Pungent, cold. Listed for scabies, itching, crusted sores, and bald patches; killing skin worms and lice, causing fetal loss, and removing heat. Said to counter the poisons of gold, silver, copper, and tin and, after melting, return to cinnabar. Prolonged ingestion is claimed to confer deathless immortality. Found in level ground. Note: These are the source's historical assertions, including its ingestion claim and named effects. Kongqing Sweet, cold. Listed for qingmang blindness and deafness; brightening eyes, freeing the nine openings, connecting blood vessels, and nourishing essence and spirit. Prolonged use is claimed to lighten the body, extend life, and prevent aging. Said to turn copper, iron, lead, and tin into gold. Found in mountain valleys. Cengqing Sour, slightly cold. Listed for eye pain, stopping tears, wind impediment, freeing joints and nine openings, and breaking masses and accumulations. Prolonged use is claimed to lighten the body and prevent aging. Said to transform gold and copper. Found in mountain valleys. Baiqing Sweet, neutral. Listed for brightening eyes, freeing nine openings, deafness, and pathogenic qi below the heart; causing vomiting and killing various poisons and the Three Worms. Prolonged use is claimed to bring numinous understanding, bodily lightness, long life, and agelessness. Found in mountain valleys. Yunmu · Mica Sweet, neutral. Listed for dead or insensate skin and flesh, wind-strike with cold and heat as though riding a carriage or boat; removing pathogenic qi, settling the five zang, benefiting offspring essence, brightening eyes, lightening the body and extending life. Also Yunzhu, Yunhua, Yunying, Yunye, Yunsha, Linshi. Found in mountain valleys. Puxiao Bitter, cold; classified non-toxic. Listed for the hundred illnesses, removing cold, heat, and pathogenic qi and expelling accumulations, hardened bindings and retained disorders of the six fu. Said to transform seventy-two kinds of stone. Refining and ingesting it is claimed to confer bodily lightness and immortality. Found in mountain valleys. Xiaoshi Bitter, cold. Listed for accumulated heat in the five zang, stomach distention and blockage; washing away retained food, removing the old and bringing in the new, and expelling pathogenic qi. Refined to an ointment-like consistency, prolonged use is claimed to lighten the body. Also Mangxiao. Found in mountain valleys. Note: The historical xiao names and this source's alias are retained without assigning a single modern chemical identity. Fanshi · Alum Stone Sour, cold. Listed for cold and heat, diarrhea, white genital discharge and erosion, harmful sores and eye pain; firming bones and teeth. Refining and ingesting it is claimed to lighten the body, prevent aging and add years. Also Yunie. Found in mountain valleys. Huashi · Talc Sweet, cold. Listed for bodily heat, diarrhea and intestinal pi, women's ru difficulties and urinary blockage; promoting urine, clearing stomach accumulations and cold/heat, benefiting essence and qi. Prolonged use is claimed to lighten the body, withstand hunger and lengthen years. Found in Zheyang's mountain valleys. Note: The old ru term is retained for childbirth or lactation difficulties without imposing a single modern diagnosis. Zishi · Purple Stone Sweet, neutral. Listed for heart-and-abdominal pathogenic qi with counterflow cough, supplementing insufficiency, and women's uterine wind-cold with ten years' inability to conceive. Prolonged use is claimed to warm the center, lighten the body and extend life. Found in Taishan's mountain valleys. Baishiying · White Shiying Sweet, slightly warm. Listed for wasting-thirst, genital impotence and insufficiency, counterflow cough and longstanding cold between chest and diaphragm; benefiting qi and removing wind-damp impediment. Prolonged use is claimed to lighten the body and lengthen years. Found in mountain valleys. Blue-Green, Red, Yellow, White, and Black Stone Clays Sweet, neutral. Listed for jaundice, diarrhea, intestinal pi with pus and blood, genital erosion, red or white bloody discharge, pathogenic qi, abscesses, swellings, deep sores, hemorrhoidal sores, head sores, scabies and itching. Prolonged use is claimed to replenish marrow and qi, give robust flesh, freedom from hunger, bodily lightness and longevity. The five stone clays supplement the five zang according to their colors. Found in mountain valleys. Taiyi Yuyuliang Sweet, neutral. Listed for counterflow cough with upward qi, masses, blocked blood and leaking discharge; removing pathogenic qi. Prolonged use is claimed to confer endurance of cold and heat, freedom from hunger, bodily lightness, flight for a thousand li, and immortality. Also Shinao. Found in mountain valleys. Yuyuliang Sweet, cold. Listed for counterflow cough, cold and heat, vexation and fullness, red or white diarrhea, blocked blood, and great heat in those with masses. Refining and ingesting it is claimed to remove hunger, lighten the body and extend life. Found in ponds and marshes. Xionghuang · Realgar Bitter, neutral. Listed for cold and heat with rat fistulas, harmful sores, deep abscesses, hemorrhoids and dead flesh; killing uncanny beings, malign ghosts, pathogenic qi and the poisons of many creatures, and overcoming the five weapons. Refining and eating it is claimed to confer bodily lightness and immortality. Also Huangshishi. Found in mountain valleys.

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