1. The tripe is the omasum part of the stomach of cattle. Cows are ruminants with multiple stomachs and have four stomach chambers: rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum. 111. The inner folds of the stomach wall of the omasum form hundreds of leaves, which are arranged like louvers, so the omasum is also called louvered tripe, and the tripe is also called cow louver. The gastric wall of the omasum consists of the mucosa layer, submucosal tissue layer, sarcolemma layer and serosal layer from the inside to the outside. Among them, the sarcolemma layer is the most developed and consists of two layers of smooth muscle, the inner circular muscle and the outer longitudinal muscle. This layer is The main edible part of tripe.

2. Hairy tripe is rich in protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and other nutrients. It has a sweet and mild taste, white color, crisp taste, and is easy to digest; it has the effects of nourishing the spleen and stomach, nourishing qi and blood, replenishing deficiency and replenishing essence, quenching thirst, and dizziness; it is suitable for patients with post-illness deficiencies, insufficient qi and blood, and nutritional deficiencies. It is not suitable for people with poor spleen and stomach. There are records of eating hairy tripe in my country during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. The "Spleen Analysis" in the "Wu Zhi" of the palace royal meal is a kind of sauce using hairy tripe as raw material.