Can pig gallbladder cure liver disease?

Pig gallbladder is the gallbladder of a pig and is also a common Chinese medicine. It can play a certain role in the treatment of liver diseases such as cirrhosis and is often used as a folk remedy for treating liver diseases. For example, pig gallbladder and mung beans are added with rock sugar and honey to make pills. Patients with liver disease can eat some of them appropriately. It has certain health-care and auxiliary therapeutic effects, and can achieve a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect for patients with liver disease.

1. Pig gallbladder as a folk remedy for liver disease

Use one pound of raw mung beans to make powder, add three to four fresh pig gallbladders, one pound of honey, and one ounce of rock sugar (ground into powder), mix them into pills. Each pill weighs nine to ten grams. Take one pill three times a day. It can cure all liver diseases.

Liver disease refers to diseases that occur in the liver. Including hepatitis B, hepatitis A, hepatitis C, cirrhosis, fatty liver, liver cancer, alcoholic liver disease and many other liver diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that liver disease is caused by injury from the seven emotions, stagnation of liver qi, qi stagnation turning into fire, blood stasis in the liver meridians, hyperactivity of liver yang, internal movement of liver wind, dampness and heat in the liver meridians, and cold stagnation in the liver meridians.

2. Artemisia capillaris and forsythia suspensa for treating hepatitis

[Functions and indications] Clears away heat and detoxifies, purges fire and reduces jaundice, and is mainly used to treat acute viral icteric hepatitis.

[Composition of the folk remedy] 15-30 grams of Artemisia capillaris, 10-15 grams of Forsythia suspensa, 15-30 grams of Isatis root, 15-30 grams of Patrinia chinensis, 10 grams of dried tangerine peel, 15-30 grams of Plantain, 3-6 grams of raw rhubarb (added later), 15 grams of Salvia miltiorrhiza, and 10 grams of Safflower.

[Usage and Dosage] Take 1 dose daily, decocted in water and taken in 2 doses. After liver function returns to normal, change to one dose every other day and continue taking it for one month to consolidate the therapeutic effect.

2.2. Astragalus and Ligustrum lucidum for treating hepatitis

【Functions and indications】Invigorates Qi and activates blood circulation, strengthens the liver and detoxifies. Mainly used to treat chronic hepatitis B.

[Ingredients of the folk remedy] 15 grams each of raw astragalus, Ligustrum lucidum, Ganoderma lucidum, and Pseudostellaria baicalensis, 14 grams of tangerine peel, 40 grams of dandelion, 20 grams each of Hedyotis diffusa and Fleabane, 5 grams each of Salvia miltiorrhiza and raw licorice, and 30 grams of Poria cocos.

[Usage and Dosage] Take 1 dose per day, decocted in water.

3. Parasitic mulberry treats hepatitis

【Functions and indications】Nourishes the kidney and liver. Mainly used to treat hepatitis B.

[Ingredients of the folk remedy] 20 grams each of parasitic herb, mulberry seed, and leek seed, 15 grams each of raw rehmannia, cooked rehmannia, deer herb, chamomile, wax tree seed, and psoralea corylifolia, 10 grams each of northern wolfberry, cornus fruit, yam, oriental water plantain, poria, and moutan bark, and 30 grams of wolfberry.

[Usage and Dosage] Grind into powder and make into honey pills, 9 grams each, take with light salt water on an empty stomach 2 to 3 times a day. 3. Chinese medicine prescriptions for treating liver diseases

4. New Liver Recipe: 15 grams of verbena, 9 grams each of wolfberry, Alisma orientalis, red peony root, white peony root, 6 grams of costus root, 4.5 grams each of gentian and raw licorice. Take 1 dose per day, decocted in water and taken in 2 doses. Check liver function once every 2 weeks and observe continuously for at least 4 months. During the medication period, except for taking vitamins and temporary symptomatic medication, no other treatment methods were used.

5. Hegan Capsule: 130g of raw Panax notoginseng, 100g each of white peony root and powdered licorice, 60g of green forsythia, 30g of cinnamon bark (peeled), 25g each of mint and processed blister beetle, 20g of borneol, and 10g of cinnabar. Grind into fine powder and mix evenly, then divide into No. 0 capsules, with a net weight of 0.5g each, for a total of 100 capsules. Take 2 times a day, 3 to 4 capsules each time, after meals.