Shennong Bencao Jing · The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica

Jades and Stones · Middle Grade

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Shidan Sour, slightly cold. Listed for brightening eyes and eye pain, metal wounds, seizures and spasms, women's genital erosion and pain, stone lin with cold and heat, uterine flooding, various malign toxic qi and producing offspring. Refining and ingesting it is claimed to prevent aging; prolonged use, longevity and immortality. Said to change iron into copper and make gold and silver. Also Bishi. Found in mountain valleys. Shizhongru Sweet, warm. Listed for counterflow cough and upward qi, brightening eyes and benefiting essence, settling five zang, freeing the hundred joints and nine openings, and bringing down breast milk. Found in mountain valleys. Cihuang Pungent, neutral. Listed for harmful sores, head baldness, crusts and scabies; killing poisonous insects and lice, bodily itching, pathogenic qi and poisons. Refining and prolonged ingestion are claimed to lighten the body, add years and prevent aging. Found in mountain valleys. Yinnie Pungent, warm. Listed for ulcerated injuries, stagnant blood, diarrhea with cold and heat, rat fistulas and bound qi in masses. Also Jiangshi. Found in mountain valleys. Konggongnie Pungent, warm. Listed for food injury and indigestion, pathogenic bound qi, harmful sores, deep abscesses, fistulas and hemorrhoids, freeing nine openings and bringing down breast milk. Found in mountain valleys. Shiliuhuang · Sulfur Stone Sour, warm; classified toxic. Listed for women's genital erosion, deep sores, hemorrhoids and harmful blood, firming sinews and bones and removing head baldness. Said to transform gold, silver, copper and iron into unusual things. Found in mountain valleys. Yangqishi Sour; classified non-toxic. Listed for flooding and leaking, breaking uterine blood, masses and bound qi, cold and heat with abdominal pain, childlessness and impotence with failure to rise; supplementing insufficiency. Also Baishi. Found in Qishan's mountain valleys. Ningshuishi Pungent, cold. Listed for bodily heat, abdominal accumulations and pathogenic qi, skin feeling burned by fire, vexation and fullness. The text says to drink it with water. Prolonged use is claimed to remove hunger. Also Baishuishi. Found in mountain valleys. Cishi Pungent, cold. Listed for pervasive wind-damp impediment, painful joints preventing holding objects, shivering aches, removing great heat, vexation and fullness, and deafness. Also Xuanshi. Found in mountain valleys. Lishi Pungent, cold. Listed for bodily heat, benefiting the Stomach and relieving vexation, increasing essence and brightening eyes, breaking accumulations and removing the Three Worms. Also Lizhishi. Found in mountain valleys. Changshi Pungent, cold. Listed for bodily heat with cold reversal in the limbs, promoting urine, connecting blood vessels, brightening eyes and removing films and impaired sight, expelling the Three Worms and countering gu poison. Prolonged use is claimed to remove hunger. Also Fangshi. Found in mountain valleys. Fuqing Pungent. Listed for gu poison, poisonous snakes, vegetable and meat poisons, and harmful wounds. Also Tuiqing. Found in mountain valleys. Tieluo · Iron Fallings Pungent, neutral. Listed for wind-heat harmful wounds, ulceration, deep sores, crusts and scabies, and qi lodged in skin. Iron is listed for firming flesh and enduring pain. Iron essence brightens eyes and transforms copper. Found in level marshland.

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