What are the functions and functions of sheep oil?

Mutton oil, also known as mutton fat, has the effects of replenishing deficiency, moisturizing, dispelling wind and detoxifying. It is good for fatigue, weight loss, chronic dysentery, dry mouth, constipation, chapped skin, impotence, redness and swelling. It has therapeutic effect on poisons, scabies sores, burns, frostbite, etc.

Suet oil is the fatty oil of goats or sheep of the genus Capra in the family Bovidae. It is sweet in taste and warm in nature. Modern research has found that sheep oil contains palmitic acid, stearic acid, myristic acid, oleic acid, and a small amount of linoleic acid, hexadecenoic acid, octadecadienoic acid and other ingredients, which have certain antioxidant effects. When in use, mutton oil can be melted and brewed, and the usual daily dosage is 30 to 60 grams; mutton oil can be cooked in porridge or decoction; for external use, mutton oil can be boiled into a paste and applied to the affected area.

However, you should not eat too much mutton oil to avoid causing phlegm and dampness; people with unclear external symptoms and excessive phlegm-fire should not take mutton oil.

This content is reviewed by Cai Yangping, deputy chief physician of the Emergency Department of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine Dongzhimen Hospital

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