drug name | Chicken's Gizzard-Skin |
alias | Chicken's Gizzard Membrane |
[Variety Source]
This product is the inner wall of the gizzard of the pheasant domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson). Produced all over the country. After killing the chicken, take out the chicken gizzards, immediately remove the inner wall, wash and dry them in the sun. Use raw or fried.
[Property]
sweet, neutral. act on spleen, stomach, small intestine and bladder channels.
[Efficacy]
It helps digestion and strengthens the stomach, astringing essence to stop seminal emission.
[Indications]
- It is used for drinking food accumulation, infantile malnutrition with accumulation. This product has a strong effect on digestion, resolving accumulation, and can strengthen the spleen and stomach. It is widely used in various syndrome/pattern of dyspepsia such as rice, flour, potato, taro and meat. For those with mild illness, it is effective to grind it into powder and take it alone. If the food accumulation is not resolved, and the abdominal distension and fullness are full, it can be equivalent to hawthorn fruit, Germinated Barley, green tangerine peel use. To treat spleen deficiency infantile malnutrition with accumulation in children, it can be used equally with White Atractylodes Rhizome, Chinese Yam and Quisqualis Fruit.
- Used for kidney deficiency seminal emission and enuresis. To treat seminal emission, it can be used with Gordon Euryale Seed, Dodder Seed, and lotus seeds. To treat enuresis, it is often used synonymously with mantis egg-case, palmleaf raspberry fruit, and Sharpleaf Galangal Fruit.
- In addition, this product can also treat urolithic stranguria syndrome and gallstones. It is often used together with Christina Loosestrife.
[Documentation]
- Benjing: "It is used to treat diarrhea and benefit."
- Bencao Gangmu: "It is used to treat food malaria in children, to treat diarrhea and nausea in adults, and to eliminate alcohol accumulation. Tonsillitis, all aphtha, ulcerative gingivitis."
[Usage and Dosage]
Decoct and take, 8-10g; grind into powder and take, 1.5-8g each time. Grinding it into powder is better than decoction.
[Modern Pharmacology]
This product contains gastric hormones, keratin, amino acids, trace amounts of pepsin, amylase, etc. After taking Chicken's Gizzard-Skin powder orally, gastric juice secretion, acidity and digestive power are increased, gastric motility is strengthened, and emptying is accelerated. Its acid extraction, or decoction, accelerates the elimination of radioactive strontium from the urine.
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