Bovine liver

Bovine liver

(bielu)

[source] the liver of cattle or buffaloes. The animal morphology is shown in the "beef" strip.

Sweet and smooth.

① Daily use materia medica: "it tastes sweet and cool. "

② Ben Cao Jing Shu: "it tastes bitter and sweet, and its Qi is peaceful. "

Functions and indications: nourishing blood, tonifying liver and improving eyesight. It can cure blood deficiency, withering, fatigue, emaciation, blindness and freckles.

① Bielu: "master the eye.". "

② Meng Shen: "vinegar cooking, treatment of thin, dysentery. "

③ According to the collection of Materia Medica, "the liver and the Venetian blinds in the abdomen (i.e. the double omasum) are used as raw materials. Ginger and vinegar are used for food. They are mainly used for heat, water, erysipelas, and detoxification. "

④ "Daily use Materia Medica": "bright eyes, calm liver qi. "

⑤ "Help the liver and blood, improve eyesight. "

⑥ The classic of materia medica: "invigorating the liver, treating bird blindness. "

⑦ Modern practical Chinese medicine: "it is suitable for wilt and yellow disease, women's postpartum anemia, pulmonary tuberculosis, infantile malnutrition, night blindness. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: boiled or put into pill or powder.

[prescription selection] it is good for treating cyanocera for many years: one piece of Yellow Cattle Liver (carefully cut and dried), three liang of native melon root, one or two pieces of antelope horn, one or two pieces of Prinsepia (soaked in soup and peeled), one or two pieces of asarum, two or two pieces of Plantago. On the medicine, pound fine Luo for powder, hollow, to warm wine under two money. (Sheng Hui Fang Niu Gan SAN)

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