Where is the chicken's gizzard lining located on the chicken's body? How can children eat chicken's gizzard lining to treat indigestion?

Many of our daily foods are actually Chinese medicines, with certain pharmacological effects. For example, chicken gizzard lining is very useful for treating baby's indigestion. So where is chicken gizzard lining located on the chicken? How can eating chicken gizzard lining help digestion?

Where is the chicken's gizzard lining located on the chicken's body?

Chicken gizzard lining, also known as chicken gizzard, chicken belly, and chicken stomach skin, is a layer of skin inside the chicken gizzard, which is mainly made of ground sand and grains eaten by the chicken. It is mild in nature and sweet in taste, and can strengthen the spleen and stomach, help digestion, relieve pain, and eliminate stones.

The specific functions are as follows:

1. Treat food stagnation, indigestion, and abdominal distension. It is usually combined with scorched malt, scorched Shenqu, scorched hawthorn (the three traditional Chinese medicines are collectively called Jiao Sanxian), radish seeds, etc. These herbs can generally be found in rural areas, and they are very effective and inexpensive. If you vomit after drinking and hurt your stomach, and have abdominal distension and indigestion, you can add perilla and plantain to decoct water and take it, which is very effective.

2. Treat anorexia and malnutrition in children. Fry the clean chicken gizzard lining until it is charred, grind it into fine powder and take it alone, or mix it with roasted turtle shell, roasted pangolin, or processed tortoise shell and grind it into powder and take it with water. It can also be mixed with flour and baked into charred buns, which children like to eat and can also cure diseases.

3. Treat enuresis and spermatorrhea. It is usually used with golden cherry fruit, silkworm cocoon, Euryale ferox, dodder seed, cornus fruit, etc.

4. Treat urinary tract or hepatobiliary stones. Friends who have raised chickens know that chickens eat some sand and stones to grind and digest food. No matter whether they eat hard corn kernels or other grains, they will not see whole corn kernels or sand and stone particles in their feces. This shows how powerful the chicken stomach (chicken's gizzard lining) is in digesting food and dissolving stones. Since ancient times, chicken's gizzard lining has been a good medicine for dissolving stones, and modern pharmacological research has also confirmed this effect.

How to eat chicken gizzard lining to treat indigestion

There are three common ways of taking it:

① Decoction, you can use raw chicken gizzard lining, 6 grams at a time,

② You can first fry the chicken gizzard lining until golden brown, then grind it into powder, take 3 grams at a time, and drink with warm water.

③You can also use method ②, take 3 grams of chicken gizzard powder, add it to millet porridge, and feed it to the child.

It is best to buy chicken gizzard lining prepared at a pharmacy. It can be used for spleen deficiency, diarrhea and indigestion, but not for spleen deficiency without stagnation. It can be ground and taken by children 1 to 3 grams at a time, and do not boil in water.

Do not use it with foods rich in tannic acid, such as persimmon, coffee, apple, tea, etc.; Chinese medicinal materials such as Sanguisorba officinalis, Platycladus orientalis leaves, Gallnut, Agrimonia, Pomegranate peel, Elymus grandis, Polygonum cuspidatum, Cibotium barometz, Rhubarb, etc.

How to make chicken gizzard for baby

1. Anorexia and vomiting. When the baby vomits after eating, you can take 30 grams of chicken gizzard lining, burn it until the outside is burnt black and the inside is brown, grind it into fine powder, take it with warm water, 3 grams each time, 3 times a day.

2. Indigestion. When the baby has a bloated abdomen after a meal due to weak digestion, sometimes there are food residues in the stool, and smelly farts, it is mostly caused by indigestion. Take 1 chicken gizzard lining and 50 grams of hawthorn, boil them in water twice, take it in the morning and evening, one dose a day, and use it for three to five doses.

These are easy to make and the materials are easy to obtain. You can also go to the pharmacy to buy some Chinese patent medicine containing chicken gizzard lining as prescribed by your doctor.