(2) Fire in bitter cold: bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, bracken, loofah, snail, eggplant, millet, buckwheat, rabbit meat, frog, etc. Its cold nature can clear away heat and reduce fire, and it is mostly used for real fire.
(3) Dampness-promoting and fire-purging: wax gourd, watermelon, coix seed, lentils, barley, amaranth, wax gourd, adzuki bean, snakehead, duck, carp, crucian carp, loach, lettuce, mung bean sprouts, chicken gizzard-membrane, etc. It is suitable for various symptoms of excess fire.
(4) Catch real fire: rhubarb, Anemarrhena rhizome, coptis root, scutellaria root, banana, celery, potato, sesame, peach kernel, jellyfish, white radish, etc. Suitable for short yellow urine, dry stool, dry mouth and bitter taste, abdominal distension and anorexia.
(5) Cooling blood and astringing blood: lotus root, pear, water chestnut, rehmannia root, fungus, eel, glutinous rice, lotus root powder, shepherd's purse, corn stigma, mango, eel, bamboo leaves, cogongrass rhizome, purslane, etc. It can be used for blood-heat rash cases such as epistaxis, hematochezia, hematuria and gingival bleeding.
(6) Sweet, warm and heat-clearing herbs: Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Chinese cabbage, litchi, chestnut, jujube, walnut kernel, lily, black sesame, bird's nest, bee milk, sorghum, fennel, sword bean, mustard, cherry, pomegranate, dark plum, etc. It is suitable for the situation of qi deficiency and excessive fire.
(7) Nourishing yin and reducing fire: soft-shelled turtle, kelp, laver, sea cucumber, spinach, pig blood, pig liver, red pond, silky fowl, pumpkin, clam, tremella, etc. It is mostly used for symptoms such as yin deficiency and excessive fire, five restlessness and fever, flushing and night sweats, and insomnia at night.
(8) Dyeing extinction: black beans, yam, peanuts, milk, coix seed, tremella, pigeon eggs, quail, sparrow meat, eel, mutton, dog meat, leeks, mulberries, etc. It is suitable for various symptoms of deficiency fire caused by weakness of viscera and yang deficiency.