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Tossing medicinal materials with a certain amount of vinegar in a heated wok. Vinegar is sour, bitter, and slightly warm. It enters the liver channel and the blood aspect, and has the action of promoting astriction, resolving toxin, and dispersing stasis and relieving pain. Stir-frying with vinegar is therefore applied to medicinals used to course the liver and resolve depression, disperse stasis and relieve pain, and expel water. It is applied, for example, to frankincense (Olibanum, 乳香 rǔ xiāng), myrrh (Myrrha, 没药 mò yào), sparganium (Sparganii Rhizoma, 三棱 sān léng), and zedoary (Curcumae Rhizoma, 莪朮 é zhú) in order to conduct them into the liver and increase their blood-quickening pain-relieving action; to bupleurum (Bupleuri Radix, 柴胡 chái hú), cyperus (Cyperi Rhizoma, 香附子 xiāng fù zǐ), unripe tangerine peel (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium Viride, 青皮 qīng pí), and corydalis (Corydalis Rhizoma, 延胡索 yán hú suǒ) to increase their liver-coursing and pain-relieving properties; to euphorbia/knoxia (Euphorbiae seu Knoxiae Radix, 大戟 dà jǐ), kansui (Kansui Radix, 甘遂 gān suì), genkwa (Genkwa Flos, 芫花 yuán huā), and phytolacca (Phytolaccae Radix, 商陆 shāng lù), to reduce their toxicity and moderate their drastic precipitating action; and to flying squirrel’s droppings (Trogopteri Faeces, 五灵脂 wǔ líng zhī), frankincense (Olibanum, 乳香 rǔ xiāng), and myrrh (Myrrha, 没药 mò yào) to remove unpleasant smells as well as to increase their blood-quickening stasis-dispelling action.

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