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Oriental weatherfish

泥鳅
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Name

Ni Qiu (Oriental weatherfish)

  1. 泥鳅
  2. Ni Qiu
  3. 泥鰍

The Effect of Oriental weatherfish

Property

Sweet, neutral; spleen, liver and kidney meridians entered.

Actions

Tonify the spleen and kidney, induce diuresis, remove toxicity.

Indications

Difficult urination, impotence, skin itch, diabetes, edema, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, haemorrhoids, deep-rooted boil, viral hepatitis, thrist due to fever.

Dosage and Administrations

Cook it for eating, or made into pills and powder. Proper dosage is for external application. Stir-bake it into charcoal and then pound into powder for applying.