Chicken Bone Grass, Chinese medicine name. It is the dried whole plant of the legume Guangzhou Acacia. Sweet, slightly bitter, cool. It has the effect of inducing dampness, clearing heat and removing toxins, dredging the liver and relieving pain. Commonly used in damp-heat yellow gangrene, coercion and rib discomfort, stomach and epigastric distension and pain, breast carbuncle swelling and pain. Chicken bone grass can also be used to make soup in the spring and summer wet season for therapeutic purposes.

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Chicken Bone Grass

Alias Red Hen Grass, Shimenkan, Yellow Food Grass, Fine Leaf Dragon Scale Grass, Rhubarb Grass.

SourceThis product is the dried whole plant of Abrus cantoniensisHance, a leguminous plant. It can be dug throughout the year, removed the sediment and dried.

Taste and odor attribution sweet, bitter; cool; non-toxic. Attributes to heart, lung, liver, stomach and kidney meridians.

Functions and IndicationsClearing heat and inducing dampness, dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain. Jaundice hepatitis, stomach pain, rheumatism and bone pain, bruising and stasis pain, breast pain.

Use and dosage Internal use: decoction, 15-30g; or into pills, bulk. External use: Appropriate amount, freshly pounded compress.

Note: Caution should be exercised where the body is weak and cold.

Chicken Bone Herb Practice Guide

1. The seeds of this species are poisonous, the pods must be removed when used to avoid poisoning.

2. Treatment of jaundice: 60 grams of chicken bone grass, seven or eight red dates. Water decoction.

3. Treatment of exogenous wind-heat: 60 grams of chicken bone grass, water decoction, divided into 2 times a day.

4. Treatment of scrofula: chicken bone grass 3000 grams, 2000 grams of Siegesbeckia, powder, honey pill, each pill weighs 3 grams, each time 2 pills, 3 times a day, served 2 to 4 weeks.

5. Treatment of snakebite: chicken bone grass (bone) 30 grams, decoction and drink.

Discussions

1. "Nanning City Drugs": anti-inflammatory and detoxification, treatment of infectious hepatitis, bruises and bones. Leaves: pounding velvet compress breast sores.

2. The Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Medicinal Plants: treating rheumatism and bone pain, bruises and internal injuries; and as a coolant and antipyretic.

3. "Lingnan Herbal Medicine Journal": clearing heat, soothing the liver, harmonizing the spleen, and renewing fractures.

4. Guangzhou Army Manual of Commonly Used Chinese Herbs: Clearing heat and diuresis, soothing the liver and relieving pain. Treating acute and chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, ascites, stomachache, urinary pain, snakebite.

Medicinal Meal

Chicken Bone Grass Liver Relief Soup

Materials:

Chicken Bone Grass 15 grams, honey jujubes 1O grams, 1 Chenpi, 300 grams of lean pork, salt, chicken powder, each appropriate amount.

Making:

1. Wash the chicken bone grass, Chen Pi, honey jujube, wash the lean pork, cut into pieces.

2. Boil water in the pot, when the water boils, put the lean meat flying water, and then fish out and wash.

3. Honey dates, lean meat, Chen Pi together into the pot, add the right amount of water, with a fierce fire until the water rolled over to medium heat for 90 minutes, seasoning can be.

Effects: This soup has clearing dampness and heat, anti-inflammatory, liver therapeutic effect, acute hepatitis, dampness and heat.

Chicken Bone Herb Boiled Pork Hengli

Ingredients:

One fresh pork Hengli, one honey date, four minutes a cup of soybeans, one bundle of wild chicken bone herbs, and 1,250 milliliters of water (about 5 - to 6 bowls).

Making:

1. Rinse chicken bone grass with water.

2, soybeans cleaned and dry pan frying until the skin cracked smell of beans (the benefits of doing so are three: ① so that the beans are easier to cook soft; ② so that the soup flavor is more mellow; ③ so that the soup is more calm).

3, pig cross tongue cut into pieces can be rinsed with water.

4, honey dates can be rinsed slightly.

5, all the ingredients into a casserole dish add water on high heat boil on low heat simmering for one and a half hours, and finally put salt to taste.

Effects: Chicken bone grass can clear heat and detoxification, soothe the liver and relieve pain. It is used for jaundice, dystocia, gastric distension and pain, acute and chronic hepatitis, mastitis. Guangdong people like this soup, it can clear liver heat, good for the stomach and intestines and so on.

Egg chicken bone grass soup

Materials:

Egg 2, chicken bone grass 30 grams, 30 grams of gardenia root, lean pork 50 grams.

Making:

Several flavors **** boiled, after the egg is cooked, remove the shell and then boiled again, after 1 hour, take the soup and drink it, eat meat, egg.

Effects: Eggs, lean pork benefit qi and nourish yin, chicken bone grass soothe the liver and relieve pain, gardenia root to clear the liver and detoxification. Several flavors are used together. Nourish liver yin, clear liver heat, for the treatment of chronic hepatitis with pain in the liver area, irritable heat, yellow urine, fatigue.