Sweet and salty in taste, flat in nature, entering the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians;

To tonify the kidney and nourish blood, nourish yin and moisten dryness;

Mainly used in treating fever and injury to the body fluid, thirst and lethargy, weakness of the kidney, post-partum blood deficiency, dry cough and constipation, tonifying the deficiency, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, nourishing the liver yin and moistening the skin, facilitating the second bowel movement and quenching thirst.

Pork boiled in soup and drink can be an urgent remedy due to insufficient fluid caused by dryness, dry cough, constipation and difficult labor.