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Pork Liver

猪肝
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Name

Zhu Gan (Pork Liver)

  1. 猪肝
  2. Zhu Gan
  3. 豬肝

The Effect of Pork Liver

Property

Sweet, bitter, warm; spleen, stomach and liver meridians entered.

Actions

Tonify the liver, improve eyesight, tonify qi and strengthen the spleen.

Indications

Dizziness caused by liver deficiency, infantile malnutrition, deficiency of the spleen and stomach, rectocele caused by chronic dysentery, edema, barbiers, night blindness, eye disorder due to malnutrition.

Dosage and Administrations

Cook it for eating, 60~150 g, or made into pills and powder. Proper dosage is for external application, pounded for applying.