What are the effects and functions of bat feces?
Bat feces, also known as "heavenly rat droppings", "rat method", "black sand star" and so on, is the excrement of bats of the Vespertilionidae family, including the bat, the great tube-nosed bat, the common pipistrelle, the big-eared bat, and the South China large brown bat. When used as medicine, it has the effects of clearing the liver and improving vision, dissipating blood stasis and reducing accumulation. It has therapeutic effects on green blindness, night blindness, red and swollen eyes with pain, subconjunctival hemorrhage, internal and external eye opacities, infantile malnutrition, scrofula, malaria and so on. Let us take a look at the effects and functions of bat feces below!
Medicinal Effects of Bat Feces
[Nature and Flavor] Pungent in flavor, cold in nature.
[Meridian Entry] Liver meridian.
[Effects] Clears the liver and improves vision, dissipates blood stasis and reduces accumulation. Mainly treats green blindness, night blindness, red and swollen eyes with pain, subconjunctival hemorrhage, internal and external eye opacities, infantile malnutrition, scrofula, and malaria.
Contraindications for the Use of Bat Feces
1. Those with eye diseases without blood stasis should take bat feces with caution.
2. Those with deficiency-cold constitution and pregnant women should take bat feces with caution.
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3. "Bencao Gangmu": Treats blindness, eye opacities, improves vision, and eliminates malaria.
Medicinal Prescriptions of Bat Feces
1. To treat green blindness: 1 liang of cypress leaves (lightly roasted), 1 liang of bat feces (fried with glutinous rice until yellow). Grind the above medicines into powder, mix with ox bile, and form pills the size of phoenix tree seeds. Every night at bedtime, take 20 pills with bamboo leaf decoction; at the beginning of the fifth watch, take 20 pills with congee.
2. To treat malaria with attacks at irregular times that does not heal for a long time: 50 grains of bat feces, half a liang of cinnabar, 1 fen of musk. Grind all the above medicines finely, mix with soft glutinous rice to form pills the size of mung beans. Before the attack, take 10 pills with warm water.
3. To treat accumulations in the abdomen with cold and heat: 3 qian of bat feces, 4 qian of asafoetida, 5 qian of Sichuan pepper, 6 qian of red yeast rice. Grind all into fine powder. Take 2 qian each time, mixed with plain warm water in the early morning.
4. To treat eye problems developing into internal cataract: 1 liang each of bat feces (washed clean), angelica, cicada slough, and horsetail (nodes removed). Grind into powder. Take 4 liang of black sheep liver, boil until soft, and mix to form pills the size of phoenix tree seeds. Take 50 pills with cooked water after meals.
5. To treat lingering scrofula: 3 qian of bat feces, 5 qian of white clam shell (calcined by fire). Grind together into fine powder, form pills with rice the size of mung beans. Take 2 qian every night with plain warm water.
Consumption Methods of Bat Feces
1. Bat Feces with Pork Liver and Brain
[Materials] 9 g of bat feces, 50 g of pork liver, 1 egg, 10 g of rock sugar syrup.
[Method] ① Dry the bat feces and grind into fine powder; wash the pork liver and mince into a paste; boil the rock sugar into syrup. ② Crack the egg into a bowl; wrap the pork liver in gauze and squeeze the pork liver juice into the egg bowl; add the rock sugar syrup and bat feces powder, add 20 mL of clean water, and mix well. ③ Place the bowl with the egg and pork liver in a steamer and steam over high heat for 15 minutes. ④ Once daily, 1 bowl each time, eat it all.
[Effects] Nourishes blood and tonifies the liver, clears heat and improves vision. Suitable for those with chronic hepatitis, liver blood deficiency, and blurred vision.
2. Steamed Pork Liver with Bat Feces
[Materials] 90 g of pork liver, 6 g of bat feces.
[Method] ① Rinse the bat feces with clean water to remove sand and mud. ② Cut the pork liver into pieces with a bamboo slice. ③ Mix the bat feces and pork liver well in a bowl, and steam until cooked. ④ Do not add seasonings; eat while hot, once a day or every other day.
[Effects] Nourishes liver blood and improves vision. Suitable for blurred vision and night blindness due to insufficient liver blood and depletion of liver yin. Not suitable for the elderly with high cholesterol.
3. Steamed Sheep Liver with Bat Feces
[Materials] 60 g of sheep liver, 10 g of Rangoon creeper fruit, 10 g of bat feces, 3 g of ginger, 3 g of soy sauce, 2 g of salt.
[Method] ① Wash the sheep liver and chop it, place it on a plate, add the Rangoon creeper fruit and bat feces, and steam until cooked. ② After steaming, add ginger, soy sauce, salt, and MSG. You may add an appropriate amount of water when steaming, and feed the juice in the bowl to children.
[Effects] Has the effects of clearing the liver and improving vision, dissipating blood and relieving accumulation, and nourishing blood and strengthening the body. Suitable for night blindness, decreased vision, poor physical development, indigestion and other conditions.
4. Musk and Bat Feces Wine
[Materials] 0.9 g of musk, 60 g of bat feces, 3 g of cow bezoar, 500 mL of white liquor.
[Method] Place the above medicines into the liquor, seal and soak for 7 days, shaking frequently during this period, then take the clear supernatant liquor to drink. Drink an appropriate amount without restriction of time.
[Effects] Reduces swelling and detoxifies, invigorates blood and unblocks collaterals. Suitable for pain from esophageal cancer.