Shennong Bencao Jing · The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica

Fruits and Vegetables · Upper Grade

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Putao · Grapes Sweet, neutral. Listed for damp impediment of sinews and bones; benefiting qi, doubling strength, strengthening resolve, making the body robust, enduring hunger and resisting wind and cold. Prolonged eating is claimed to lighten the body, prevent aging and extend years. Can make wine. Grows in mountain valleys. Penglei Sour, neutral. Listed for settling five zang, benefiting essence and qi, enlarging and firming the genitals, strengthening resolve and strength, and producing offspring. Prolonged use is claimed to lighten the body and prevent aging. Also Fupen. Grows in level marshland. Dazao · Jujube Sweet, neutral. Listed for pathogenic qi of heart and abdomen, settling the center and nourishing Spleen, assisting twelve channels, balancing Stomach qi, freeing nine openings, supplementing scant qi and fluids and bodily insufficiency, great fright and heavy limbs; harmonizing the hundred medicines. Prolonged use is claimed to lighten the body and lengthen years. Leaves covering Mahuang are said to enable sweating. Grows in level marshland. Ou Seeds and Stem Sweet, neutral. Listed for supplementing the center, nourishing spirit, increasing qi and strength and removing the hundred illnesses. Prolonged use is claimed to lighten the body, resist aging, remove hunger and extend years. Also Shuizhi. Grows in ponds and marshes. Jitou Sweet, neutral. Listed for damp impediment, lumbar, spinal and knee pain, supplementing the center, removing illnesses, benefiting essence and qi, strengthening resolve and sharpening hearing and sight. Prolonged use is claimed to lighten the body, remove hunger, resist aging and confer immortality. Also Yanhui. Grows in ponds and marshes. Ganguazi · Sweet-Melon Seeds Seeds are sweet and neutral, listed for a moist, pleasing complexion, benefiting qi and removing hunger. Prolonged use is claimed to lighten the body and resist aging. The melon stalk is bitter and cold, listed for great water accumulation and swelling of body, face and limbs, draining water, countering gu poison, counterflow cough and upward qi. Undigested fruit or illness in chest and abdomen is assigned vomiting and purging in this source. Also Tuzhi. Grows in level marshland. Dongkuizi Sweet, cold. Listed for cold, heat and emaciation of five zang and six fu, breaking the five lin urinary disorders and promoting urine. Prolonged use is claimed to firm bones, increase flesh, lighten the body and extend years. Xianshi Sweet, cold. Listed for qingmang blindness, brightening eyes, removing malign influences, promoting stool and urine and removing cold and heat. Prolonged use is claimed to increase qi and strength, remove hunger and lighten the body. Also Maxian. Grows by waterways and marshes. Kucai · Bitter Greens Bitter, cold. Listed for pathogenic qi of five zang, aversion to grain and Stomach impediment. Prolonged use is claimed to settle the Heart, benefit qi, sharpen perception, reduce sleep, lighten the body and resist aging. Also Tucao and Xuan. Grows in river valleys.

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