What is the medicinal value of tiger bones?

Tiger bone, as the name suggests, is the bone of a tiger. This kind of medicinal material makes many people feel incredible, but it is a very traditional Chinese medicinal material. However, many people have never heard of it, let alone seen it. It cannot be made privately, because if the right medicine is not used, it will make your condition more serious, and even lead to a situation of desperately seeking medical treatment.

【Nature and flavor】

Pungent, warm.

① "Bielu": Ping.

② "Materia Medica": spicy, slightly hot, non-toxic.

③ "Yuzhuo Yaojie": tastes spicy and salty, and has a flat nature.

【Meridian】

Enters the liver and kidney meridians.

① "Leigong Paozhi Yaoxing Jie" says: it enters the kidney meridian.

② "Bencao Huiyan": enters the Shaoyin meridians of the hand and the Jueyin meridians of the foot.

【Function and indications】

Chase away wind and relieve pain, strengthen bones, and calm the nerves. It is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, cramps in the limbs, stiffness of the waist and legs, palpitations, epilepsy, hemorrhoids, fistulas and rectal prolapse.

① "Bielu": It can stop panic and palpitations, treat malignant sores and fistulas, especially for the skull.

② "Medicine Treatise": Kills dog bite poison. It is used to treat spasms of tendons and bones caused by toxic wind, inability to flex or stretch, pain in the muscles and bones, and febrile malaria. Treat cold and warm the qi.

③ "Qian Jin Food Therapy": The skull can treat wind evil.

④ "Compendium of Materia Medica for Food Therapy": It is used to treat acute pain in the waist and knees. It can be boiled into soup for bathing or soaked with vinegar. It is also good for treating acute pain in the tendons and bones, especially in the tibia.

⑤ "Bencao Shiyi" (Supplement to Materia Medica): Boil the juice and use it to bathe children to remove sores and scabies. (Treat) epilepsy.

⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Chases away wind and relieves pain, strengthens bones, stops chronic dysentery and prolapse of the anus, and relieves choking on animal bones.

⑦ "Yuzhuo Yaojie": Treats cold joints and swollen and painful knees and shins. It can dispel numbness, strengthen tendons and bones, relieve swelling and pain in joints, and cure weakness in waist and knees.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 3 to 5 qian; soak in wine or make into pills or powder.

This article will introduce to you in detail the medicinal value of tiger bones. Usually, tiger bones are soaked in wine for consumption, but there are also many traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions that grind tiger bones into powder and make them into pills, or apply them in powder form to the wound, or take them orally.