Otter Liver

水獭肝

Name

Shui Ta Gan (Otter Liver)

Property

Sweet, warm, slightly toxic; liver and kidney meridians entered.

Actions

Tonify yin and eliminate heat, relieve cough and stop bleeding.

Indications

Cough, asthma, night sweat, hemoptysis, night blindness, consumptive disease, hectic fever due to yin-deficiency, hemorrhoidal bleeding.

Dosage and administration

Decoct 3~6 g, or made into pills or powder.