Lard is also known as meat oil, large oil. Sweet flavor, cool nature. Refined from pork, it is a slightly yellow translucent liquid cooking oil, low room temperature solidified into a white solid fat. The dishes fried in lard are more delicious.

Effects and functions

To nourish the deficiency

Lard can nourish the five organs, especially for the spleen, stomach and lungs. Lard has a sweet taste, which can make the spleen and stomach strong, help digestion and appetite. Therefore, those who have weak spleen and stomach, poor appetite and thin body can use lard to gain weight.

Detoxification

Lard can not only treat gynecological inflammation, but also detoxify the liver.

Moisturizing

Lard makes the skin smooth and delicate, elastic, and treats hair loss. Chinese medicine believes that the lung is the main skin and hair, that is, human skin, hair growth by the lung nourishment. Lard can nourish the lung yin, which indirectly promotes the skin and hair. Therefore, lard is inherent in the "happy skin, for hand cream, not cracked" ("Materia Medica"), "hair and happy face" ("famous doctors") said.

Laxative

Lard is slippery and greasy, and into the large intestine meridian, lard can just "lubricate" the intestines, so that the person defecate smoothly. So it has the function of laxative.

Complement the lungs to stop coughing

If the lungs are hot, dry cough, not only need to clear the heat, but also to complement the spleen. Therefore, Chinese medicine has a "lung deficiency, the spleen tonic" said.