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The Earth Department of the Compendium of Materia Medica catalogues dozens of "earth" type medicinal materials sourced from nature and daily life—including chalk (white clay powder), loess, aged wall earth (east wall earth), swallow nest earth, wasp nest earth, stove-center earth (Fulonggan), soot from pot bottoms (Fumo black), black frost from stove doors (Baicao frost), and dust hanging from roof beams. Li Shizhen held that these seemingly ordinary earth substances each possess distinct medicinal properties, depending on the environments in which they form and the qi they carry.
Chalk (White clay powder 🌿): Bitter taste, warm nature, non-toxic. The ancients used it internally to stop nosebleeds, cure watery diarrhea, and treat nausea with cough; externally for eye washing, applying to heat rashes, dusting prickly heat, coating swellings and lesions, and rubbing on shank ulcers.
Loess: Clean loess taken from three feet below the surface. Sweet taste, neutral nature, non-toxic. The ancients boiled it in water to treat dysentery with blood and pus, as well as various drug and food poisonings (meat toxins, pepper toxins, wild mushroom toxins); used it hot as a compress for traumatic injuries from falls and blows, and externally for insect and scorpion stings.
East Wall Earth (earth from east-facing walls of old houses): Sweet taste, warm nature, non-toxic. The ancients used it to treat heart pain, drug poisoning, corneal opacities, rectal prolapse, prickly heat, ear sores, lip sores, scrofula, deep-rooted sores, and back carbuncles.
House Swallow Nest Earth (nest earth from beam-nesting swallows): The swallow nest earth is fine and sticky, containing swallow saliva—used externally for eczema with exudation, pustular sores, angular cheilitis, tinea capitis, and erysipelas.
Mud-Dauber Wasp Nest (nest of the solitary potter wasp): Sweet taste, neutral nature, non-toxic. The ancients soaked it in water for difficult childbirth; mixed it with vinegar for deep-rooted boils and furuncles; used it for swollen painful throat and neutralizing wasp and bee stings.
Dung Beetle Rolling Ball (soil nitrate): Salty-bitter taste, strongly cold nature, non-toxic. The ancients considered it effective for infectious febrile diseases, jaundice with restlessness and fever, goiter, and fistulas.
Ant Hill Earth, Termite Mud: Applied externally for malignant sores, swelling, and toxic lesions.
Earthworm Castings (dragon vermillion mud, also called Liuyi mud): Sour-sweet taste, cold nature, non-toxic. Broad range of use—orally for malarial fevers, delirious speech in typhoid fever, infant milk vomiting, hematemesis, nausea and vomiting, dysentery with blood and pus; externally for urinary retention, scrotal swelling, parotid swelling, erysipelas, shank ulcers, centipede bites, and snake or dog bites.
Urd Cement (Catechu): Bitter taste, neutral nature, non-toxic. The ancients used it as intranasal insufflation for sinusitis; topically for gum ulcers, oral sores, genital sores, hemorrhoids with swelling and pain, attributing it additionally thinning phlegm and producing body fluids, regenerating tissue and relieving pain, halting bleeding and drying dampness.
Fulonggan (Stove-Center Earth 🔥): Pungent taste, mildly warm nature, non-toxic. The most important item in the Earth Department. The ancients used it to stop bleeding (hematemesis, uterine hemorrhage, leukorrhea), treat nausea, infant nocturnal crying, postpartum blood upheaval attacking the heart, retained placenta, and to induce emesis in food poisoning—both internally and externally.
Cliinker Earth (lime-kiln residue): Mixed with vegetable oil and applied externally for abdominal masses, various scalp lesions, and tinea capitis.
White Porcelain: Ground to extremely fine powder and used externally or orally; stops nosebleeds and hematemesis, treats corneal opacities, herpetic dermatitis, scabies, and burns.
Ancient Black Roof Tiles, Old Bricks: Heated and applied to treat heatstroke, fractures from falls, and cold-damp beriberi.
Smoked Earth (soot from ox-leather smoking pits, black earth from tile kilns): Smeared with oil externally for psoriasis; taken internally for consumptive thirst and retained placenta.
Ink (Wujin, Chenxuan): Pungent taste, warm nature, non-toxic. Internally used to stop hemoptysis, epistaxis, bloody stools, uterine hemorrhage, dysentery with blood and pus; externally applied to back carbuncles, and to dot into eyes to remove floating dust.
Pot-Bottom Black (soot from pot bottoms): Pungent taste, warm nature, non-toxic. Used for heart pain, midsummer emergencies, vomiting and diarrhea, hematemesis and hemoptysis, postpartum dizziness, tongue swelling, nasal polyps, and more.
Hundred-Grass Frost (soot from stove-front openings): Pungent taste, warm nature, non-toxic. Extremely broad usage—stops epistaxis, hematemesis, bleeding from dental crevices, uterine flooding, leukorrhea, anorectal bleeding, diarrhea/dysentery, malaria; also used in emergencies for syncope with cramping, throat concretions, and miscellaneous infections.
Furnace Scale Ash: Used hot as an external compress for postpartum uterine and vaginal descent.
Beam Dust (black dragon tail): Pungent-bitter taste, slightly cold nature, non-toxic. Internally for nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, urinary retention, menorrhagia, and abnormal fetal presentation in labor; externally blown into the throat for tonsillar swelling, toothaches, and nasal polyps, smoked for anal prolapse, and dusted on sores, boils, and erysipelas.
The foundational medical reasoning for the Earth remedies is rooted in the Five Element theory, with*Earth positioned centrally, bearing and transforming all things. The Huangdi Neijing associates the spleen and stomach with Earth—the ever-present foundational, post-natal vitality and the source of qi and blood transformation. The Earth formulas therefore work through"earth-qi" ways in consciousness & effort *both accessing kites. Actually, repeat principles maybe as follows concise ones
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The Earth Category of the Compendium of Materia Medica records dozens of "earth" medicines derived from nature and daily life — including white chalk (white clay powder), loess, old wall earth (east wall earth), swallow nest earth, wasp nest earth, stove-center earth (Fulonggan), pot-bottom soot (Fumo), stove-door black frost (Baicaoshuang), and dust hanging from beams. Li Shizhen believed that these seemingly ordinary clays and soils, owing to the differing environments in which they are found and the qi they carry, each possess unique medicinal properties.
White Chalk (white clay powder 🌿): Bitter flavor, warm nature, non-toxic. The ancients used it internally to stop nosebleeds, treat watery diarrhea, and remedy nausea and cough. Externally, it was used to wash the eyes, apply to heat rashes, powder prickly heat, coat swellings and toxic lesions, and rub onto shank ulcers.
Loess: Choose clean loess taken from three feet below ground. Sweet flavor, neutral nature, non-toxic. In ancient times it was boiled in water to treat dysentery with red and white discharge, and to neutralize various poisonings (meat toxins, pepper toxins, wild mushroom toxins). Applied hot as a compress for injuries from falls and blows, and externally for insect and scorpion stings.
East Wall Earth (earth from the east wall of an old house): Sweet flavor, warm nature, non-toxic. The ancients used it for heart pain, opium overdoses/drug poisoning, clouding of vision with cataracts/eye membranes, rectal prolapse, prickly heat, ear sores, lip sores, scrofula, severe ulcerations, and back abscesses.
House-Swallow Nest Earth (swallow nest earth from roof beams): The nest earth is fine and sticky, mixed with swallow saliva. The ancients applied it externally for damp sores, weeping infected eczema/sores, oral/mouth-corner ulcerations, alopecia with white scale-like patches (tinea capitis), erysipelas, and related conditions.
Mud-Dauber Wasp Nest (nest of the potter wasp): Sweet flavor, neutral nature, non-toxic. In antiquity it was soaked in water and given for difficult labor. Mixed with vinegar it was applied to toxic swellings and boils (ding). It also treated sore swollen throat and bee sting–type swelling relief.
Dung Beetle Rolling Ball (clay ball/earth manure of round beetle): Salty and bitter flavor, greatly cold nature, non-toxic. The ancient formula knowledge held that it managed the seasonal contagions/grippe fevers, jaundice with vexation and heat, goiters, ulcerating gland swelling/fever.
Ant-Mound Earth, White-Ant Mud: Applied externally on evil sores/toxic swellings.
Earthworm Mud (the castings; a.k.a. Liùyīmǔ to various naming: sweet, sour, cold nature, nontoxic) — Extremely extensive uses: internally for heat malaria, confused delirious talk caused by febrile sãty/typhoid fever, for pediatric vomiting of milk, hematemesis, sick-stomach digestive blockage (fl. for vomiting “anti-nausea; pain relief mid-tend?? Adjust careful)), using modern:
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Interpretive Overview
The Earth Category of the Compendium of Materia Medica includes dozens of "earth" medicines drawn from nature and daily life—including chalk (white clay powder), loess, east wall earth, swallow-nest earth, wasp-nest earth, stove-center earth (Fulonggan), pot-bottom black (Fumo), stove-door black frost (Baicaoshuang), and dangling dust from beams. Li Shizhen held that these seemingly ordinary earths carry distinct medicinal qualities according to the environments in which they inhabit and the qi they embody.
Chalk (White clay powder 🌿): Bitter flavor, warm nature, non-toxic. The ancients used it internally to stop nosebleeds, check watery diarrhea, and treat stomach reflux with cough. Externally, it was used for eye washing, applying onto heat rashes, powdering for prickly heat, spreading over toxic swellings, and rubbing onto shank sores.
Loess: Choose clean loess taken from depths beyond three feet. Sweet flavor, neutral nature, non-toxic. Boiled in water to treat dysentery of both red and white kinds, and to antidote various intoxications—meat toxicities, tingling toxicity of Zanthoxylum seeds (“prickly ash”), gleaning to poisoning from wild fungi. Applied regionally as quick stirring fomentation for traumatic injuries, swelling from knocks or falls, furthermore topical soak covering bug stings, insect contact.
East Wall Earth (earth from east wall in a timeworn house): Sweet flavor, warm nature, nontoxic. The wise used in arthralgia of the heart/or heart colic. Water-soaked dosed cures opiate intoxication, prerygium/“oculari veiling. Meanwhile they also filled as protective poultice material for dew-lamp vitilig(o)… to whit, applicable shingles—areas includes rectocele, summer miliaria, auricle ulcers & labial/ weeping lesions additionally sores about neck, also described erysipeloid heat-effect, syphilitic nature abscess attached scapula.
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