Rat gall

Rat gall

(notes to the classic of Materia Medica)

[source] it is the gall of Rattus norvegicus and Rattus nigra. For animal morphology, please refer to "rat" section.

[nature and taste] yulao Yaojie: "bitter in taste, cold in nature. "

[Guijing] yuluo Yaojie: "start with Shaoyin heart, foot Shaoyang gallbladder, foot Jueyin liver meridian. "

[functions and indications] it is used to treat blindness, eyes and ears.

① "Ben Cao Jing Ji Zhu": "it is mainly for dark eyes. "

② "Compendium": "to point the eye, to cure the blind and the blind, to treat the deaf by dripping. "

③ "Yucatalpa medicine solution" says: "the arrow does not come out, the ear juice flows. "

[selected formula] 1. To treat the eye and not the beard: the point of rat's bile. (Sheng Hui Fang)

② Treatment of sudden deafness: take the rat gall and put it in the ear. (behind the elbow)

③ Cure deafness for many years: Sichuan Aconitum (gun), asarum each two money, gall alum half money, a rat gall. The first three flavors are fine powder, mixed with rat gall, then baked to dry, ground fine, but put musk into the ear, blowing with goose feather tube, containing tea when blowing, waiting for a little time. (Shengjin touguan powder in the health home treasure prescription)

④ Treatment of chronic deafness: bear gall one, mouse gall two (December recipient). With water and, spin as big as mung bean, drop into the ear, one or two degrees a day. (Sheng Hui Fang)