Toad oil has the effect of tonifying the kidney and benefiting the essence, nourishing yin and moistening the lungs. It is used for post-disease physical weakness, mental fatigue (mental exhaustion, physical weakness), palpitation and insomnia, night sweating (abnormal sweating after going to sleep, and sweating stops after waking up), consumptive coughing and hemoptysis.
1. Post-disease weakness, night sweating and god failure: toad oil is flat and sweet in nature, salty to blood, belonging to the lungs and kidneys two meridians, good tonic lungs and kidneys of the essence of the blood, have a strong body, make up for the deficiency to support the effect of leanness, can be used to treat the post-natal period, post-disease, blood depletion, weakness and leanness, night sweating and god failure and other diseases. For the treatment of neurasthenia, it can be steamed with earth bird’s nest; for the treatment of night sweating, it can be used with Codonopsis, Atractylodes macrocephala, Astragalus, Colla Corii Asini as pills.
2. Consumption, coughing and hemoptysis: Toad oil can tonify the lungs and benefit the kidneys, and can treat lung and kidney yin injury, consumption and hemoptysis. Toad oil and white fungus steaming service, with good results; or with mealybugs, cooked rhubarb, walnut meat, etc., into the pills, loose, in order to enhance the nourishing yin to stop coughing, the power of qi fixed cough.
Taking this medicine should be under the guidance of a doctor.