What are the effects and functions of pig bile powder?

Pig bile powder can actually effectively help us treat liver fire inflammation and whooping cough in children. At the same time, when combined with other medicinal materials, the therapeutic and medicinal value are also different. Boiling pig bile powder and honey can effectively treat the symptoms of dry stool.

1. For the treatment of liver fire inflammation, red and swollen eyes, and whooping cough in children, this product can be used alone and steamed in water for drinking; for the treatment of chronic bronchitis in the elderly, it can also be used together with Houttuynia cordata, Pinellia ternata, etc. In addition, it is reported to have a certain effect on jaundice infectious hepatitis.

2. To treat typhoid fever that has lasted for five or six days and has caused spots to appear: 3 grams of pig gallbladder, 3 grams of bitter wine, and an egg. Boil the three ingredients together for three times. A strong person can take it all. A weak person needs to boil it for six or seven times, divided into two doses. You will recover when you sweat. (Pig Bile Soup from Qianjin Fang)

3. To treat dry mouth with no saliva and thirst: five male pig gallbladders, one liang of Ding powder (cited as Trichosanthes powder in "Compendium of Materia Medica"). Take the above two ingredients, boil the bile with wine, wait until the skin is rotten, then add the powder and grind it into fine powder, boil them together into pills as big as a chicken head. Take two pills each time, dissolve in your mouth and swallow the saliva. (Decoction of pig gallbladder from Shengji Zonglu)

4. To treat Yangming disease with depletion of body fluids, hard stools, and inability to attack: take the bile of a large pig, mix the bile with a little French vinegar, and pour it into the anus. After a meal, the old food and bad things will be discharged from the stool. (The pig bile induction method in Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

5. To treat dry and hard stool: decoct pig bile and honey. (Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Records)

6. To treat Shaoyin disease, with diarrhea and weak pulse, give Bai Tong Tang. For diarrhea that does not stop, syncope and no pulse, dry retching and restlessness: four stalks of green onion, one liang of dried ginger, one piece of aconite (raw, peeled, broken into eight pieces), five he of human urine and one he of pig bile. Take the above five ingredients, add three liters of water, boil and take one liter, remove the dregs, add bile and human urine, mix well, divide into portions and take warm. (Bai Tong plus pig bile soup from Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

7. Treatment for jaundice: one pig gallbladder and one egg. Mix well and take at any time. If you find it too bitter to swallow, make it into a cake and swallow it, take it three times in a row. (Pig gallbladder egg from Mei's New Prescriptions)

8. Treatment for cough caused by thinness: pig bile and urine, ginger, tangerine peel, terminalia chebula, and peach peel. Cook and serve. (Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica)

9. To treat red eyes and fetal redness: take 5 fen of pig bile and green salt and apply to the canthus of the eyes. (Guangji Fang)

10. To treat cataracts: take a pig's gallbladder and mix borax (finely ground) into a paste. Tie it up and hang it in a windy place. Wait for white spots to appear like frost. Sweep it down and put it in a porcelain box. Use a stick to apply it to the center of the canthus. Stop when you feel itching. The cataract will disappear. If it is not completely gone, apply it again. (Pig Bile Paste from Jifeng Pujifang)

11. Treatment for sore throat: pig bile, scutellaria baicalensis, Xuanming powder, white licorice, and Anemarrhena asphodeloides. Decoction. (Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Records)

12. Treatment of hemorrhoids: Take 7 pig gallbladders, extract the juice, boil it into a paste over charcoal fire, spread it on a piece of paper and apply it. First, use the white bark of Sophora japonica root to boil the water and wash it with warm water. Then apply the medicine. (Pig Bile Paste from Renzhai Zhizhi Fang)