Elephant skin

Elephant skin

(Introduction to medicine)

[source] it is the skin of Asian elephant.

[animal form] Asian elephant, also known as Indian elephant.

The body is huge, up to 2.5 meters high and weighs 3.5-6 tons. Head long, forehead concave, neck short. The nose is long, can be dropped, can stretch freely, cylindrical, the lower part is thin, the nostril is at the end, the front edge has a meat process. Male elephant's maxillary incisors protrude out of the mouth, slightly upward, up to 1.5-1.8 meters long, known as "ivory". The eyes are very small. The ears are large and cover the sides of the neck backward. The limbs are stout and cylindrical, with 5 toes in front and 4 toes in back. The tail is short and thin with a round mane at the end. The skin is thick and wrinkled, with sparse coarse hair and pale or brownish gray skin. The color of wild is lighter.

Most of them live in tropical forests with high humidity and live in groups without fixed residence. The main food is Dongzong, yebajiao, leaves, the tip of tender thorn bamboo, sometimes also eat grains and melons. It is distributed in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia and southern Yunnan of China.

The meat (elephant meat), bone (elephant bone), tooth (Ivory) and the expanded part of the end of the hepatic duct (elephant gall) of this animal are also used for medicine.

[collection] after stripping the elephant skin, remove the fascia fat, wash it, cut it into long pieces and dry it in the sun.

[herbal medicine] most of the dried skin pieces are rectangular and square, and some are irregular in shape, with different sizes and thickness of 0.5-2 cm. The outer surface is light gray black, densely covered with fine granular protrusions, and sometimes brown black long hair and various wrinkles can be seen. The inner surface is grayish white to grayish brown with fibrous exposure and wrinkles. It's hard. The cut section is gray white to yellowish brown, and the thin section is translucent. The air is slightly fishy. It is better to be dry, large and thick.

In addition to the above varieties, the skin of African elephant is also used as medicine. Made in Africa.

[processing] soak the elephant skin for about 3 days, wash it, dry it until 80% dry, then wet it again until the humidity inside and outside is the same, cut it into 2 mm thick slices and dry it in the sun. Or cook over low heat and slice over high heat. Elephant skin powder: heat talc powder in a pot, pour into elephant skin slices, stir fry with high heat until it is slightly puffed, take out when it is dark yellow, sift off talc powder, cool, and grind into fine powder.

[flavor] sweet and salty, warm.

① New edition of materia medica: "it is sweet in taste, flat in Qi and non-toxic. "

② "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "salty, warm, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] 1. Yuluo Yaojie: "enter the Taiyang bladder meridian. "

② In Bencao Zaixin: "entering the spleen meridian. "

[function indications] hemostasis, convergence sore. Treatment of traumatic bleeding, and all wounds, ulcers for a long time.

① Introduction to medicine: "decocting plaster can remove decay and bring new life, and it is easy to close the mouth. "

② "Gangmu": "to treat chancre, burn ashes and apply oil. It's not suitable to treat golden sores. "

③ New edition of materia medica: "it can produce muscle, grow meat, calm madness and stop vomiting. "

④ Bencao Zaixin: "treating dampness arthralgia. "

[usage and dosage] external use: Boil cream or grind powder to adjust and apply.

[should be avoided] it should not be used if the wound and abscess are not complete.

[prescription selection] ① for the treatment of extremely rotten holes, and for the treatment of knife injury and falling damage, and bleeding: Twelve taels of pig's front hoof and fan bone (calcined charcoal powder), one or two taels of elephant skin (calcined charcoal powder). And even with storage, where rotten hole such as palm big, mixed with small, after Liuhe powder. (Xiangpi powder in surgery Quansheng Ji)

② For the treatment of small rotten hole: cuttlebone, water flying dragon tooth, elephant skin (calcined, studied very fine), dragon's blood, frankincense, light powder, etc. Research together, collect and store at the end, or mix it dry, or mix it with egg oil. (Liu He San, complete collection of surgical students)

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