Medicine from hedgehog stomach

Usually people use porcupine stomach to make medicine to treat stomach pain called "Hedgehog stomach".

Porcupines also have many names such as Dim, Hao Chu, Cao Chu, Son Chu or Loan Chu, scientific name Hystrix hodgsoni. They live wild in the mountainous regions of our country. They are often hunted by indigenous people for meat and medicine. Porcupine meat is lean, delicious and nutritious, so it has been domesticated in many regions to provide a source of meat for cuisine.

According to Oriental medicine,hedgehog stomachhas a bitter-sweet taste, neutral properties; however, in Compendium of Materia Medica by Li Shizhen, it is said to have a sweet taste, cold properties, and is not toxic. It is used in the stomach and large intestine meridians. It has the effect of cooling the blood, relieving pain, and treating hemorrhoids. It is used to treat stomach pain, hemorrhoids, spermatorrhea, vomiting, detoxification, and bloody dysentery... The average dosage for decoction or powder is 6 - 16g/day.

In addition, people also use porcupine skin as medicine with the medicinal name "Thich vi bi", and porcupine meat has a sweet taste, cold properties, and has a nourishing and laxative effect.The pig likes it.Spicy, warm in nature, with the ability to circulate Qi, relieve pain, detoxify, and treat otitis media. Porcupine bile is used to treat back pain and massage injuries. Large intestine, liver, lungs, and porcupine droppings are also used to treat wind-heat...

Here are some medicinal dishes using porcupine stomach:

Treat stomach pain: keep the porcupine stomach intact with all the food inside (wild porcupine is best) dry, chop, roast until cooked, grind into powder, take 10g each time on an empty stomach and drink with rice water. You can mix porcupine stomach powder with honey and turmeric powder in equal amounts, drink before eating.

Treatment of bleeding hemorrhoids:Porcupine stomach is swollen, finely ground. Boil 10g of Sophora japonica flower to get water to drink with the ground porcupine stomach powder 3 times a day (divide the dose from 3 - 6g into 3 parts to drink). Avoid spicy, hot foods such as chili, pepper, ginger, garlic, onion, alcohol, do not drink strong tea, coffee, smoke... Need to eat laxative foods such as banana, papaya, sweet potato leaves, jute leaves, Malabar spinach...

Treatment of poisoning:1 dried porcupine stomach, ground into powder. 100g of purple sticky rice, roasted until golden brown, ground into powder. Mix the two powders well and drink twice a day, 10g each time.

Cure edema, jaundice(even when there is ascites): burn the remaining porcupine stomach, grind into powder, drink 8g each time mixed with alcohol.

According to Health & Life - NT