Gou Bao

("Compendium")

Synonymous with dog stone ("Medicine"),

The origin is canine Animal Dog's stomach stones.

After collecting, kill the dog, cut its abdomen and open its stomach. If any dog ??treasure is found, cut it with a knife, remove the skin, meat, etc., wash it and dry it in the shade.

The medicinal materials are spherical in shape and vary in size; generally about 1.5 to 5 centimeters in diameter. The surface is gray-white or gray-black, slightly shiny, and has many round protrusions. It is heavy, solid and delicate, leaving traces when scratched by fingernails. The cross section has concentric ring-shaped layers and is looser near the center. The smell is slightly fishy and the taste is slightly bitter. It has a powdery texture but no gritty feeling when chewed. The ones that are white and delicate in color, with traces left when scratched by fingernails, and layered patterns on the cross-section are preferred.

Mainly produced in Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang and Hebei. In addition, it is also produced in Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Qinghai, Henan, Anhui and other places.

The chemical composition contains calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, magnesium phosphate, etc.

The nature and flavor are sweet and salty, flat.

① "Gangmu": "Sweet and salty, mild, slightly poisonous."

② "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "Sweet and bitter, warm, slightly poisonous."

Its main functions are to reduce adverse qi, relieve stagnation and detoxify. Treat choking, diaphragm, regurgitation and carbuncle. Boils.

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Usage and dosage Oral administration: Grind into powder, 3 to 5 minutes; or form into pills or powder.

Selection of prescriptions ① For those who have chronic food-choking disease that does not heal for several months: Take Goubao as the final dose, take one point each time, add two liang of Clematis, two qian of salt, pound into mud, and slurry for one hour. Stir well, remove the water and mix well, take it two days a day. ("Abstract of Xinglin")

② To treat carbuncle and ulcer: five points for dog treasure and one coin for hive. Decoct in water and take twice a day. ("Jilin Chinese Herbal Medicine")

③Treatment of red boils: eight fen of dog treasure, two qian of toad venom, two qian of borneol, and one qian of musk. At the end of the meal, take good wine and pills with big pockmarks. Take three pills each time. Take three inches of raw green onions and chew them finely. Use hot onion wine to drink them. Lie down in a warm position until sweating is enough. Afterwards, take the poison-removing medicine and apply the poison-injecting ointment. . ("Tongxuan Lun" Goubao Pills)

A famous expert commented in "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "Goubao specializes in treating the disease of choking, diaphragm and regurgitation. Taking bitterness can reduce the pain, and warming can open knots. I will try to promote it. It can be used for all kinds of ulcers and ulcers that are not healed, and for people with cold and phlegm accumulation. However, if the stagnation hurts the spleen and the qi and blood are withered, there is a risk of using it to put out the fire. "Remind you: Goubao's herbal medicine comes from the Internet. Please follow medical advice before use.