Ox gall

Ox gall

(Ben Jing)

[animal morphology] the gall bladder or bile of cattle or buffalo. Please refer to "beef" for animal morphology.

[collection] collect from the cattle slaughtering farm, hang it in the shade or cut it from the bile duct, pour the bile into the container and store it in a sealed way. Or heat to dry.

[herbal medicine] fresh bovine gall bladder is kidney shaped, about 18-20 cm long, about 5-6 cm wide at the widest part. It is cystic and wrinkled after drying. Fresh bile is green brown or dark brown, slightly transparent liquid, slightly sticky, slightly dry, then thick. Completely dry, it is green brown solid, knead into powder. It's smelly and bitter. The bile with thick juice and green brown color is the best; the bile without moth is the best.

It is produced in most parts of the country.

[chemical composition] in addition to water, bovine bile mainly contains sodium cholate, bile pigment, mucosome, a small amount of fat, soap, cholesterol, lecithin, choline, urea, sodium chloride, calcium phosphate, iron phosphate and other inorganic salts.

Sodium cholate has a strong emulsifying effect on fat, which plays an important role in the hydrolysis of oil; the bitterness of bile is mainly based on bile.

Bile pigment gives bile a dirty green color. There are two important bile pigments, bilirubin and biliverdin, which are metabolites of hemoglobin in the blood and are produced in the liver. Bilirubin can also be extracted from calculus bovis.

[Xing Wei] bielu: "bitter taste, cold. "

[Guijing] records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine: "entering the liver, gallbladder and lung three meridians. "

[function indications] Qinggan Mingmu, Lidan Tongchang, Jiedu detumescence, treatment of wind heat, eye disease, jaundice, constipation, thirst, infantile convulsion, carbuncle, swelling and hemorrhoids.

① Bielu: "in addition to the heart and abdomen heat, thirst, benefit, mouth Jiaozao, benefit eyes.". "Black ox gall is used to improve eyesight and cure malnutrition. It is used to brew Sophora seed and serve as a God. "

② "On medicinal properties": "qingniudan is the master of thirst, benefiting the large intestine and small intestine. "

③ "Daily use Materia Medica": "treating infantile convulsion and phlegm heat. "

④ "Gangmu": "in addition to yellow, insecticidal, treatment of carbuncle swelling. "

⑤ Modern Chinese medicine for invigorating the stomach and reducing pain. Treatment of dyspepsia, chronic gastritis, chronic constipation of stool, hepatobiliary jaundice, stomach fullness. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: dry powder, 1-3 minutes; or into pill or powder. External use: take juice to mix and spread or dot eyes.

[taboo] "in the classic of Materia Medica," it should be avoided when the spleen and stomach are deficient and cold. It should not be used when eye disease is not wind heat. "

[formula selection] 1. Zhengan Mingmu: the dried ox gall of the twelfth lunar month contains 100 black beans, which are taken 100 days later and swallowed 27 at night. (on medicinal properties)

② Clear eyes, clear heart, black hair, nourish the lower yuan, generate marrow, remove rheumatism, strengthen the spirit: Radix Polygoni Multiflori, white Poria cocos, Sophora seed each two, radix rehmanniae, angelica each one or two. On the end of the total, into the black ox gall, even juice hanging in the back of Yin, to nine days out, research for the end, warm wine to take two money or three money, 100 days effective. (Niu Dan San, the wonderful prescription for taking life)

⑧ In the treatment of grain jaundice, the head is dizzy after eating, the heart is depressed and restless, and turns yellow. It is caused by eating after starvation, and the stomach qi is flushed and smoked: three Liang Sophora flavescens, one or two gentians, and one ox gall (dry). For the end, honey and pills are like big Wutong. Take ten pills of crude Ophiopogon juice every time, three or four times a day. (Sheng Hui Fang)

④ Treatment of hepatobiliary jaundice and chronic constipation: dry powder of bovine bile, as pills, or into capsules, three times a day, three minutes each time, boiled water delivery service. (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine)

⑤ Treatment of hemorrhoids and hemorrhoids: qianniu'er gallbladder, hedgehog gallbladder each, with greasy powder 50 Wen, musk 20 Wen. Put the hedgehog bile, greasy powder and musk into the ox gall, hang it in front of the eaves for four or nineteen days, cook it, spin it into a pill like barley, and use paper to twist it into the sore, then chase out the evil things. (empirical formula)

⑥ Cure golden sores: ox gall, sodium lime in, hanging ventilation place for a hundred days, apply. (compendium of Materia Medica)

[clinical application] treatment of pertussis

Take the fresh ox bile to dry the powder, then mix 240g ox bile powder, 240g starch and 520g sugar to make the powder. Take 0.5-1g per day under 2 years old, 1-1.5g per day under 2-5 years old and 1.5-2g per day above 5 years old in 2-3 times. At the same time with symptomatic treatment. According to the observation of 250 cases, 52 cases were basically cured, 130 cases were relieved, and the effective rate was 72.8%. It has a good effect on early stage, if combined with Tiandong mixture, the curative effect can be improved.

Chinese PinYin : Niu Dan