Shennong Bencao Jing · The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica

Creatures · Lower Grade

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Liuchu Mao Ti Jia · Hair, Hooves and Claws of the Six Domestic Animals Salty, neutral. Listed for ghost infestation and gu poison, cold and heat, fright seizures, dian spasms and frenzied running. Camel hair is called especially good. Wushu Listed for causing fetal loss and making childbirth easier. Mizhi · Mi Deer Fat Pungent, warm. Listed for abscess swellings, harmful sores and the unclear “dead hunger” wording, cold-wind damp impediment, limbs that are contracted or slack and fail to draw in, wind headache with swelling qi, and opening the interstices of the flesh. Also Gongzhi. Found in mountain valleys. Note: After “harmful sores,” the supplied text writes the graph for hunger rather than the expected flesh graph. The irregularity is disclosed, not silently repaired. Tunluan · Pig Testicles Sweet, warm. Listed for fright seizures and dian disorders, ghost infestation and gu poison, removing cold and heat, running-piglet disorder, the five long urinary obstructions, pathogenic qi and contraction. The xuanti part is listed for the five hemorrhoidal disorders, heat hidden in the intestines, intestinal abscesses and internal erosion. Also Tundian. Yanshi · Swallow Droppings Pungent, neutral. Listed for gu poison and ghost infestation, expelling inauspicious and pathogenic qi, breaking the five long urinary obstructions and promoting urine. Found in level valleys of Gaogushan. Tianshu Shi Pungent, cold. Listed for abscess swellings of face and eyes, shivering sensations of the skin with intermittent pain, blood and qi in the abdomen, breaking cold-and-heat accumulations and removing fright palpitations. Also Shugu and Shigan. Found in the mountain valleys of Hepu. Lufengfang Bitter, neutral. Listed for fright seizures and clonic spasms, cold, heat and pathogenic qi, dian disorders, ghost essences and gu poison, and intestinal hemorrhoids. The source calls it good when heated over fire. Also Fengchang. Found in mountain valleys. Chuji Bitter, neutral. Listed for pathogenic qi of heart and abdomen and genital impotence, benefiting essence and strengthening resolve, producing children and improving appearance, supplementing the center and lightening the body. Found in river valleys. Zhechong Salty, cold. Listed for shivering cold and heat in heart and abdomen, blood accumulations and zheng/jia masses, breaking hardness and draining blocked blood. It is called particularly good for producing children. Also Dibie. Found by waterways and marshes. Shuizhi · Leech Salty, neutral. Listed for expelling harmful and stagnant blood with blocked menstruation, breaking blood jia masses and accumulations, childlessness and opening the waterways. Found in pools and marshes. Shican Sour; classified non-toxic. Listed for the five long urinary obstructions, breaking the five lin urinary disorders and causing fetal loss. The flesh is listed for loosening bound qi, opening the waterways and removing heat. Also Shashi. Found in pools and marshes. Shetui · Snake Slough Salty, neutral. Listed for children's 120 kinds of fright seizures, clonic spasms, dian disorders, cold and heat, intestinal hemorrhoids, worm poisons and snake seizures. The source calls it good when heated over fire. Also Longziyi, Shefu, Longzi Danyi and Gongpi. Found in mountain valleys. Wugong Pungent, warm. Listed for ghost infestation and gu poison, consuming the poisons of various snakes, worms and fish, killing ghost beings and old spirits, warm-nue fever and expelling the Three Worms. Found in river valleys. Malu Pungent, warm. Listed for great hardness and the source's “steaming” wording in the abdomen, breaking accumulations, fleshy growths and harmful sores, and white bald patches. Also Baizu. Found in river valleys. Note: The graph rendered “steaming” is supplied here in place of a clearly identified mass term; it has not been silently changed to another graph. Yiweng Pungent, neutral. Listed for longstanding deafness, counterflow cough, toxic qi, bringing out embedded splinters and bringing sweat. Found in river valleys. Queweng Sweet, neutral. Listed for children's fright seizures, cold and heat with bound qi, gu poison and ghost infestation. Also Zaoshe. Bizi Sweet, warm. Listed for pathogenic qi in the abdomen, expelling the Three Worms, snakebite, gu poison, ghost infestation and hidden-corpse influences. Shufu Sour, warm. Listed for qi-related long obstruction with inability to urinate, women's blocked menstruation and blood jia masses, seizures and spasms with cold and heat, and opening the waterways. Also Panzhen and Yixian. Found in level valleys. Yinghuo · Firefly Pungent, slightly warm. Listed for brightening eyes, children's burns and wounds, heat qi, gu poison and ghost infestation, and communicating with spiritual essences. Also Yeguang. Found in pools and marshes. Yiyu Salty, warm; classified non-toxic. Listed for women's shan/jia masses, difficult urination, and children's wind-strike with a stiff neck. The source describes rubbing applications as appropriate for all these. Also Baiyu. Found in level marshland. Baijing Qiuyin · White-Necked Earthworm Salty, cold. Listed for snake jia masses, expelling the Three Worms, hidden-corpse influences, ghost infestation and gu poison, and killing long worms. It is also said to turn into water of itself. Found in level ground. Lougu Salty, cold. Listed for difficult childbirth, bringing splinters out of flesh, breaking open abscess swellings, bringing down food stuck in the throat, countering poisons and removing harmful sores. Those coming out at night are called good. Also Huigu, Tianlou and Hu. Found in level marshland. Qianglang Salty, cold. Listed for children's fright seizures and clonic spasms, abdominal distention with cold and heat, and adults' dian disorders and frenzied changes. The source calls it good when heated over fire. Also Jiqiang, with the first character written in an insect-radical form. Found in pools and marshes. Banmao Pungent, cold. Listed for cold and heat, ghost infestation and gu poison, rat fistulas, harmful sores, eroding deep ulcers, deadened flesh and breaking stone-related long urinary obstruction. Also Longwei. Found in river valleys. Didan Pungent, cold. Listed for ghost infestation with cold and heat, rat fistulas and harmful sores, dead accumulations, breaking zheng/jia masses and causing fetal loss. Also Yuanqing. Found in river valleys. Note: “Dead accumulations” follows this entry's wording; it is not silently replaced with “deadened flesh.” Madao Pungent, slightly cold; classified toxic. Listed for red and white vaginal leakage, cold and heat, breaking stone-lin, and killing birds, beasts and thieving rats. Found in pools and marshes. Beizi Salty, neutral. Listed for eye obstructions, ghost infestation, gu poison, abdominal pain, downward blood discharge, the five long urinary obstructions and opening the waterways. The source calls it good when burned for use. Found in pools and marshes.

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