Supplement to the Compendium of Materia Medica

Volume 9	Volume 10
Section on Utensils and Tools original: "Qiyong Bu" (器用部). In traditional Chinese medicine, even man-made items like charcoal, old hemp cloth, or ink were used as remedies for specific ailments.	Section on Scaled Creatures original: "Lin Bu" (鱗部). This category encompasses fish as well as legendary scaled creatures like dragons.
Section on Birds original: "Qin Bu" (禽部). Includes domestic poultry and wild birds used for their meat, eggs, or feathers.	Section on Shelled Creatures original: "Jie Bu" (介部). Refers to animals with protective shells, such as turtles, tortoises, crabs, and various mollusks.
Section on Beasts original: "Shou Bu" (獸部). Focuses on mammals, including livestock and forest-dwelling animals.	Section on Insects and Creeping Things original: "Chong Bu" (蟲部). This is a broad traditional category that includes not just insects, but also spiders, worms, and sometimes reptiles or amphibians.

This concluding section of the table of contents highlights the "animal" and "artifact" categories of the pharmacopeia. By including "Utensils," Zhao Xuemin follows the tradition of Li Shizhen, acknowledging that the human world and the natural world are interconnected in the search for healing substances.