Source: "Compendium of Materia Medica"

Pinyin name Yanɡ Rou

Origin: The meat of goat or sheep, a bovine animal.

Original form

1 Goat (Tao Hongjing)

Body length 1 to 1.2 meters. The head is long, the neck is short, the ears are big, and the muzzle is long and narrow. Both females and males have a pair of horns on their foreheads, and the male's horns are extra large; the base of the horns is slightly triangular, the tip is slightly bent backwards, the horns are hollow, and there are rings on the surface or a tumor-like shape on the front. Males have long racemose whiskers under their jaws. The limbs are thin. The tail is short and not very droopy. The whole body is covered with thick straight short hair, and the coat color can be white, black, gray or a mixture of black and white. It is one of the domestic animals with many varieties. Lively and happy to climb high. Good for feeding on short grass, shrubs and leaves. They mate mostly in autumn and winter, with a gestation period of 140 to 156 days and 1 to 4 babies per litter.

It is widely distributed throughout the country.

2 Sheep ("Outline")

The body is plump and wide. The head is short. The male's horn is large and curved in a spiral shape. Ewes are hornless or small. The lips are thin and flexible. The limbs are strong. Tail types vary, including long and thin tails, fat tails, short tails, and fat tails. The overall coat is dense, long, soft and curly, mostly white. It is one of the livestocks raised and has many varieties. Timid and gregarious. Mating occurs mostly in autumn and winter, with a gestation period of 145 to 152 days and a birth of 1 to 5 animals per litter.

It is widely distributed throughout the country, mostly in the northwest and north.

The skin (sheep skin), bone (sheep bone), marrow (sheep marrow), blood (sheep blood), brain (sheep brain), horn (sheep horn), thyroid body ( Sheep tine), hoof meat (sheep trotters), heart (sheep heart), liver (sheep liver), lungs (sheep lungs), kidneys (sheep kidneys), pancreas (sheep pancreas), stomach (sheep tripe), bladder (sheep tripe) gallbladder), testicles (sheep external kidney), gallbladder (sheep gallbladder), fat (sheep fat), milk (goat milk), fetus (sheep fetus), as well as goat beards (sheep beard), goat gallbladder stones (sheep gallstones) Yellow) and the grass knots in the stomach of goats (sheep bark) are also used for medicinal purposes, each has its own article.

Chemical composition

It varies depending on the type, age, nutritional status, body parts, etc. of the sheep. Taking lean meat as an example, it contains 68% moisture, 17.3% protein, 13.6% fat, 0.5% hydrate, 1% ash, 15 mg% calcium, 168 mg% phosphorus, and 3 mg% iron.

In addition, it also contains 0.07 mg% of thiamine, 0.13 mg% of riboflavin, 4.9 mg% of niacin, and 70 mg% of cholesterol.

Nature and flavor

Sweet, warm.

1. "Bielu": sweet, too hot, non-toxic.

2 "Qianjin·Food Treatment": Head meat: flat.

3 Meng Shen: Wen.

4 "Outline": Head meat: sweet, flat, non-toxic.

Return through the meridians

Enter the spleen and kidney meridians.

1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Start with the Yangming Jing of the Foot.

2. "Compendium of Materia Medica": enters the heart, spleen and kidney meridians.

Functions and Indications

Replenishing qi and replenishing deficiency, warming the middle and lower parts of the body. It can be used to treat fatigue and weight loss, soreness and weakness in waist and knees, postpartum deficiency and cold, abdominal pain, cold hernia, and nausea due to mid-deficiency.

1. "Bie Lu": Mainly used for relieving the middle part of the body, used for residual diseases of the breast, wind and sweating in the head, fatigue and coldness, nourishing the middle part and replenishing qi, peace of mind and stopping convulsions.

2. "Qianjin·Food Treatment": Mainly used to warm the body and relieve pain, and benefit pregnant women. Head meat: Mainly due to wind, dizziness, thinness and illness, epilepsy in children, and husband’s injuries due to fatigue.

3. "Rihuazi Materia Medica": appetizing, fattening and healthy. Head meat: cures bone steaming, brain heat, dizziness, and improves eyesight.

4. "Daily Materia Medica": Treat weak waist and knees, strengthen muscles and bones, and thicken the intestines and stomach.

Usage and dosage: Oral administration: boil or decoction.

Note

It should not be taken by those with external pathogenic factors or internal heat.

1. "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber": People with persistent fever should not eat it.

2 "Compendium of Materia Medica": Do not eat mutton if there are pinellia and calamus.

3. "Qianjin·Food Treatment": Do not eat mutton, marrow and bone juice after being exposed to the disease.

4. "Introduction to Medicine": Those who are known to have phlegm and fire will eat bones.

Attached Recipes

1. Replenish kidney qi and strengthen yang: half a pound of white mutton. Remove the fat film, cut it into pieces, cook it raw, and eat it with garlic and leeks, once every three days. ("Food Medicine Heart Mirror")

2. To treat five kinds of labor and seven injuries, asthenia and cold: one leg of fat mutton. Boil it tightly and eat the soup and meat. ("Compendium")

3. To treat postpartum abdominal pain, abdominal cold hernia, and deficiency due to fatigue: three liang of Angelica sinensis, five liang of ginger, and one pound of mutton. For the three flavors, boil three liters of water with eight liters of water and take it three times a day. ("Golden Chamber Synopsis" Danggui, Ginger and Mutton Soup)

4. To treat gastric reflux, vomiting after eating in the morning and vomiting in the morning after eating at night: mutton, remove the fat film, make it into preserved meat, eat it with garlic and leeks on an empty stomach in any amount. . (Meng Shen's "Bixiao Prescription")

5. Treat malaria caused by deficiency and cold: mutton, make pancakes, eat enough, drink more, and lie down warm to sweat. ("Yao Sengtan's Collection of Prescriptions")

6. Treat triple-yin malaria and chronic malaria: mutton and soft-shell turtle. Cold the mutton several times, heat the soft-shell turtle several times, add sugar and salt to stew, take a small bowl.

("Zhejiang Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine" (1): 1959)

7. To treat dysentery due to stomach cold: a piece of mutton, one or two pieces of hyacinth seed powder. And, wrap the lower part with cotton. ("Waitai")

8. To treat metrorrhagia and remove blood that persists: three pounds of fat mutton, three liang each of dried ginger and angelica, and two liters of raw rehmannia glutinosa. Take the four flavors and boil the mutton with two buckets of water. Take one bucket of three liters. Add the rehmannia glutinosa juice and various medicines. Boil three liters of it and divide it into four servings. It is especially suitable for thin people.

("A Thousand Gold Prescriptions")

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