Toad oil

Toad oil

(compilation of medicinal materials)

[synonyms] frog oil, Oviductus Ranae, leech oil (Bulletin of traditional Chinese medicine (5): 2051956), oil (records of traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the dry oviduct of Rana chensinensis or Rana Heilongjiang. For animal morphology, please refer to "toad".

[collection] the plump female frogs were picked up from the mouth with hemp rope and hung in the open air to dry. After drying, soak it with hot water, immediately pick it up and put it in a sack for a night. The next day, cut open the abdominal skin, gently take out the fallopian tube, remove the eggs and internal organs, and put it in a ventilated place to dry in the shade.

[medicinal materials] the dried products are irregular curved, overlapping thick blocks, slightly oval, about 1.5-2 cm long and 1.5-3 mm thick. The appearance is yellowish white, showing fat like luster, occasionally with grayish white film-like dry skin. It feels greasy by hand, and can expand to 10-15 times in water. Special Qi, slightly sweet taste, chewy and smooth. It is better to have large, thick, yellow white, glossy, no skin, no blood tendon and egg.

Produced in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Sichuan, Inner Mongolia and other places.

[chemical composition] most of them are protein, only about 4% fat, about 10% sugar, and others contain a small amount of phosphorus and ash. Also contains vitamin A, B, C and a variety of hormones.

[pharmacological action] it is used as a strengthening agent in folk medicine. It has a good effect on the development of mice and can prolong the excitation period of female mice. It may be estrus).

[flavor] sweet and salty, flat.

① Cao Bingzhang: "it's mild, nontoxic and slightly salty. "

② "Yinpianxinshen": sweet, cool. "

③ "Liaoning main medicinal materials": "sweet taste, cold nature, non-toxic. "

[meridian tropism] entering the lung and kidney meridians.

Functions and indications: tonifying kidney and essence, moistening lung and nourishing yin. After treatment, postpartum weakness, tuberculosis cough, vomiting blood, night sweats.

① Cao Bingzhang: "strengthening and benefiting kidney yang, transforming essence and adding marrow, moistening lung and increasing fat are essential medicines for deficiency cold of spleen and kidney and Qi not transforming essence. "

② "Yinpianxinshen": nourishing lung and kidney yin. Treatment of cough due to deficiency. "

③ "Liaoning main medicinal materials": "treatment of body deficiency, neurasthenia. "

④ Chinese medicine annals: "tonifying deficiency, reducing fever. To cure deficiency of body and lack of energy. "

⑤ "Manual of Chinese herbal medicine": "treat postpartum Qi deficiency. "

[usage and dosage] take orally: steamed soup, 1-3 yuan; or as pill.

[should avoid] take it with caution when exogenous infection starts and if you have a little loose stool.

[selection] 1. Treatment of tuberculosis and hematemesis: Oviductus Ranae and Auricularia auricula. Steam.

② Treatment of neurasthenia: toad oil, soil. Steam.

③ Maladjustment and night sweating after treatment: Oviductus Ranae. Take pills. (selected prescriptions from Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals)