This product is the fat oil of the pig (Sus scrofa domestica Brisson), an animal of the Suidae family, which is raised in various regions. After slaughter, the pig hair is scraped off, the abdomen is opened, and the fat is extracted, which can be used fresh or rendered into lard.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

Sweet, cool.

1. Bielu: "Slightly cold."
2. "Qian Jin. Food Treatment": "neutral, nontoxic."
3. Diannan Bencao: " sweet."

bubble_chart Efficacy

Moistening dryness, clearing heat and removing toxins.

bubble_chart Indications

The zang-fu organs are dry and astringent, leading to difficulty in bowel movements, dry cough, and skin rhagades.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Bielu: "Lard is mainly used for frying various plasters, to counteract the poison of blister beetles and mylabris."
2. Tao Hong-jing: "It can beautify the skin, used in hand creams, prevents rhagades."
3. Rihuazi Bencao: "Treats skin wind, kills worms, applied to malignant sores."
4. Bencao Tujing: "Benefits the blood vessels, dispels wind-heat, moistens the lungs."
5. Gangmu: "Counters the poison of cantharides, long beetles, wild kudzu, sulfur, various liver toxins, benefits the stomach and intestines, promotes urination, eliminates five types of jaundice and edema."

bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

For internal use: decoct in water or prepare into a paste, use in appropriate amounts; or take in pill form. For external use: prepare into a paste and apply topically.

bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications

Those with efflux diarrhea should use with caution.

1. Jingui Yaolue: "Pork fat should not be consumed with plums."
2. 《隨息居飲食譜》: "For all diseases caused by external contraction, those with efflux diarrhea should avoid."

bubble_chart Selected Prescriptions

1. To treat emaciated and withered body: In the twelfth lunar month, mix lard with soybean yellow powder and pound them together, forming pills the size of phoenix tree seeds. Take thirty to fifty pills each time on an empty stomach with warm wine or rice water. Five liters make one dose, and two doses will show effects. ("Simple Health Prescriptions")
2. To treat liver fatigue with cold deficiency, anuria and vomiting, difficulty in urination, dry hair and lusterless skin: Take four liters each of lard and ginger juice. Simmer these two ingredients over low heat until reduced to three liters, then add five ge of wine and simmer together. Divide into three doses and take. ("Qianjin Essential Prescriptions Pig Cream Wine")
3. To treat sudden constipation: Mix one liang of lard with one and a half liang of sunflower seed powder. Form into pills the size of phoenix tree seeds. Take thirty pills with warm water at any time until relief is achieved.
4. To treat jaundice, yellowing of the eyes and ears, indigestion, and stomach bloating due to dry stool in the intestines: Simmer five liang of lard and take a large spoonful each time, mixed with Fistular Onion Stalk soup. Take frequently until relief is achieved. (Prescriptions 3 and 4 from "Shenghui Prescriptions")
5. To treat chronic cough in the elderly who cannot lie down, persisting for many years without cure: Take four liang each of pork fat, honey, and rice sugar. Simmer these three ingredients into a paste. Take a spoonful at any time, letting it melt in the mouth, and the cough will stop within three to five days. ("Shoushi Baoyuan")