Saltiness enters the kidney

Salty medicinals tend to act upon the kidney. Salty medicinals that enter the kidney notably include products from the sea such as abalone shell (Haliotidis Concha, 石决明 shí jué míng), clamshell (Meretricis seu Cyclinae Concha, 海蛤壳 hǎi gé ké), oyster shell (Ostreae Concha, 牡蛎 mǔ lì), costazia bone/pumice (Costaziae Os/Pumex, 海浮石 hǎi fú shí), sargassum (Sargassum, 海藻 hǎi zǎo), and seal’s genitals (Callorhini Testes et Penis, 海狗肾 hǎi gǒu shèn). Other animal products include gecko (Gecko, 蛤蚧 gé jiè), mantis egg-case (Mantidis Oötheca, 桑螵蛸 sāng piāo xiāo), placenta (Hominis Placenta, 紫河车 zǐ hé chē), tortoise shell (Testudinis Carapax et Plastrum, 龟版 guī bǎn), and velvet deerhorn (Cervi Cornu Pantotrichum, 鹿茸 lù róng). Other vegetable products include black swallowwort (Cynanchi Atrati Radix, 白薇 bái wēi), cistanche (Cistanches Herba, 肉苁蓉 ròu cōng róng), cuttlefish bone (Sepiae Endoconcha, 海螵蛸 hǎi piāo xiāo), dendrobium (Dendrobii Herba, 石斛 shí hú), and scrophularia (Scrophulariae Radix, 玄参 xuán shēn). Minerals include actinolite (Actinolitum, 阳起石 yáng qǐ shí) and loadstone (Magnetitum, 磁石 cí shí).