1. Aliases

Chicken gizzard skin, chicken belly, chicken yellow skin, chicken food skin, chicken zygote, chicken golden, fossil bile, and bone transforming bile.
2. Animal morphology
Poultry. The mouth is short and firm, slightly conical in shape, with a slightly curved upper mouth. The nostrils are cracked and covered with scaly flaps. The eyes have a blinking membrane. There is a fleshy crown on the head and drooping flesh on both sides of the throat, usually brownish red in color; The male is tall with a fleshy crown, while the female is low and small; Meatballs are also larger in males. Wing short; The feather color is different between females and males, while males have more beautiful feathers with long and bright tail feathers; The female tail feathers are very short. Strong feet, with scales covering the tarsals, metatarsals, and toes; Toe 4, front 3, back 1, back toe short and slightly higher. There is a distance behind the male tarsometatarsus. Domestic chickens have a wide variety of breeds due to crossbreeding, with varying body sizes and fur colors.
3. Origin distribution
He is good at walking and likes to scratch his feet to search for food. His food is often plant seeds, fruits, and insects. The rooster crows well. Breeding is available throughout the country.
4. Harvesting and processing
After killing the chicken, take out the chicken gizzard, cut it open, immediately remove the inner wall of the chicken gizzard, wash it, and dry it.
5. Characteristics of medicinal herbs
Irregular roll, approximately 2 millimeters thick. The surface is yellow, yellow green or yellow brown, semi transparent, with obvious linear wrinkles. Crisp, fragile, with a keratin like cross-section and a glossy appearance. The air is slightly fishy and the taste is slightly bitter.
6. Nature, taste, and meridian tropism
Mild in nature and sweet in taste. Guipi Meridian, Stomach Meridian, Small Intestine Meridian, and Bladder Meridian.
7. Effect and function
Nourishing the stomach, reducing food intake, astringent essence, and relieving diarrhea. It belongs to the category of disinfectant.
8. Clinical applications
Dosage of 3-9 grams, decoct or grind into powder, or put into powder. Used to treat indigestion, vomiting, diarrhea, infantile malnutrition, enuresis, and nocturnal emissions.
9. Pharmacological research
After oral administration of chicken inner gold powder, the secretion of gastric juice, acidity, and digestibility all increased, and the gastric motility period was prolonged, with an increase in peristaltic waves. In addition, the decoction of chicken internal gold has a certain effect on accelerating the discharge of radioactive strontium.
10. Chemical composition
Chicken inner gold contains gastric hormone, keratin, trace amounts of pepsin, amylase, and various vitamins. Chickens born 4-8 weeks old also contain yellow derivatives of biliotriene and biliverdin, as well as 18 amino acids such as lysine, histidine, arginine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, leucine, threonine, serine, glycine, alanine, cysteine, valine, methionine, isoleucine, tyrosine, phenylalanine, proline, tryptophan, as well as trace elements such as aluminum, calcium, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, lead, zinc, etc.
11. Taboos for use
Those with spleen deficiency and no accumulation should take medication with caution.
12. Compatibility prescription
① Treatment for food accumulation and abdominal fullness: Grind the golden powder inside the chicken and take it with milk. (Bencao Qiuyuan)
② To treat nausea, spit out immediately after eating, and expel qi: chicken meat is roasted with ashes, and taken with alcohol. (Qian Jin Fang)
③ Treatment of infantile chancre: Twenty chicken gizzard skins (not submerged, baked on tiles, ground), four liang of Plantago seed (stir fried, ground). Mix the two ingredients well, dissolve in rice soup, mix and eat. Avoid greasiness, noodles, and frying. (New Compilation of Shoushi)
④ Xiao Dao Jiu Ji: Divide chicken inner gold and dried kudzu (as the end) into equal parts. Noodle batter balls, big as wuzi. Take fifty pills per serving, under the influence of alcohol. (Pocket Office)
⑤ Treating nocturnal nocturnal emissions: Seven rooster gizzard skins. Bake it to the end, take one coin per serving, and pour it into the hollow wine. (Shen's Experience Formula)
⑥ Treating kidney problems, slippery and cloudy urine, making people lose weight: one or two chicken balls (slightly roasted), half a liang of astragalus, and half a liang of schisandra. Apply the medicine, mash it roughly, and boil it in three large cups of water until one and a half cups are cooked. Remove the dross and take three doses of warm water before eating. (Shenghui Fang)
⑦ Treat throat and breast moths: Do not wash chicken gizzards with yellow skin, dry them in the shade and burn them until fine. Blow them with a bamboo tube. (Qing Nang Za Bian)
⑧ Treat all mouth sores: Burn the chicken's golden ash and apply it. (New Book of Living Children)
⑨ Treatment of horse tooth chancre: Five chicken gizzards with yellow skin (those that do not fall into the water) and five coins of dried alum. Yanlin. (Experience Formula)
The content of the article is for clinical reference only. Non professionals in traditional Chinese medicine are not allowed to try medication.