生用味辛，性平，能破血行瘀，治疗淋证及瘀结；炙用味辛，性温，能止血，治疗肠风便血。
味苦、辛，生用性寒，熟用性温，长于祛除风湿，治疗肢体麻痹，且能燥湿活血，但无补益作用，需用酒拌后蒸晒九次。
味辛，性温，能行气驱寒，治疗山岚瘴气。其气味入口后不循常道，顷刻间周流全身，令人感到通畅舒适，然而火气熏灼会耗伤血液，折损寿命。烟筒中的水可解蛇毒。
味苦、甘，性温而燥，能祛风除湿，解毒生肌，需放入葱管内煮至白色使用。松毛味苦，性温，治疗风湿各类疮疡，能促进毛发生长。松节味苦，性温而燥，治疗骨节间的风湿，能燥除血中之湿。
味辛，性温，能辟除邪恶，止血，治疗金刃刀枪创伤。
味甘，性温，走窜通窍，开郁散结，辟除一切不正之气，杀灭精怪。
治疗小儿惊痫及外敷鹅口疮有显著疗效，取东南方向生长的枝条，研汁使用。
味甘，性寒而利，能消水利尿，软化坚块，治疗骨鲠在喉。果皮味甘，性平，能行水利尿。叶片味甘，性凉，能祛湿热，治疗痢疾。
味苦，性平，能行气血，取枝叶煎汤外洗，治疗痘疮浆液停滞不起。
味甘、涩，性温，能散滞气，辟寒湿，治疗胃脘痛。因形状像睾丸，故也用于治疗疝气及睾丸肿胀，需去壳使用。荔枝味甘、酸，性热，能止呃逆，多食会导致发热、牙龈肿痛、鼻出血。果壳能诱发痘疮。
味酸、涩，性温，能涩肠止泻，治疗泄痢、崩漏、带下及脱肛，能杀虫，使头发变黑，但容易恋膈生痰，积滞未尽者勿服。石榴皮治疗泄痢，多食会损伤肺部，腐蚀牙齿。千叶榴花治疗心热导致的吐血、鼻出血。
Raw use: pungent and neutral, breaks blood stasis and treats stranguria with accumulation; roasted use: pungent and warm, stops bleeding and treats intestinal wind (bleeding from the intestines).
Bitter and pungent. Raw is cold, cooked is warm. It excels at dispelling wind-dampness to treat numbness and paralysis, dries blood, but does not tonify. It should be mixed with wine, steamed, and sun-dried nine times.
Bitter and warm. Regulates qi and invigorates blood, treats edema during pregnancy.
Bitter and warm. Treats bi-syndrome caused by wind-cold-dampness and pain from traumatic injuries.
Sweet and warm. Invigorates blood and reduces swelling.
Pungent and neutral. Promotes circulation of blood vessels, disperses blood stasis and stops bleeding.
Pungent and warm. Moves qi and expels cold, treats mountain miasma. Its aroma enters the mouth and circulates through the body instantly, bringing a feeling of comfort, but its fiery nature scorches and consumes blood, shortening lifespan. Water from flues can detoxify snake venom.
Bitter, sweet, warm, and drying. Dispels wind, removes dampness, resolves toxicity, and generates flesh. It is boiled in white onion tubes for use. Pine needles are bitter and warm, treat various sores due to wind-dampness, and promote hair growth. Pine joints are bitter, warm, and drying, treat wind-dampness between bones and joints, and dry dampness in the blood.
Salty and neutral. Enters the blood level, harmonizes blood, stops bleeding, and reduces toxic swelling.
Pungent and warm. Expels evil, stops bleeding, treats metal blade injuries.
Pungent and neutral. Regulates qi and blood, resolves toxicity, with effects similar to Frankincense (Ruxiang).
Sweet and warm. Penetrates orifices, opens depression, expels all abnormal qi, kills spirits.
Pungent, hot, and aromatic/piercing. Can generate fire in water, open orifices, remove dampness, and kill parasites.
Bitter and neutral. Dispels wind and promotes urination, treats wind-cold-dampness bi-syndrome of hands and feet.
Highly effective for treating pediatric convulsions and applying externally for thrush. Use branches growing towards the southeast, grind into juice for use.
Sweet, cold, and draining. Reduces fluid retention, softens hardness, treats bone stuck in throat. Peel is sweet and neutral, promotes urination. Leaves are sweet and cool, dispel damp-heat, treat dysentery.
Bitter and neutral. Moves qi and blood. Decoct branches and leaves for washing to treat chickenpox where pus fails to rise.
Sweet, salty, and neutral. Resolves carbuncles, dispels wind and resolves toxicity, also dissipates heat-toxin of sand-pox.
Pungent and warm. Resolves toxicity, treats dysentery and sore throat.
Sweet, astringent, and warm. Scatters stagnant qi, expels cold-dampness, treats epigastric pain. Due to its resemblance to testicles, it also treats hernia and testicular swelling. Use the shell. Lychee is sweet, sour, and hot, stops hiccups; excessive consumption causes fever, swollen gums, and epistaxis. Shell induces chickenpox.
Sour, astringent, and warm. Astringes intestines, stops diarrhea, treats dysentery, metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, and rectal prolapse. Kills parasites, darkens hair. However, it may cause phlegm retention in the chest; those with unresolved accumulation should not take it. Pomegranate treats diarrhea and dysentery; excessive consumption damages lungs and teeth. Thousand-petaled pomegranate flowers treat hematemesis and epistaxis due to heart heat.