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Sheep fat

Name

Yang Zhi (Goat or sheep fat)

  1. 羊脂
  2. Yang Zhi
  3. Goat fat

The Effect of Sheep fat

Property

Sweet, warm; heart, spleen and kidney meridians entered.

Actions

Tonify deficiency, moisten dryness, dispel wind and remove toxicity.

Indications

Lingering dysentery, sores and boils, scalds and burns, frostbite, tinea, constipation, flaccid paralysis, pachulosis, weakness and thinness caused by consumptive disease, erysipelas.

Dosage and Administrations

Decoct in water or smash into powder after being melted, or made porridge. Proper dosage is for external application, made into paste for applying.

Cautions

It is contraindicated in case of interior phlegm-heat and exogenous disease.