河南猪苓

    猪苓，亦称“野猪粪”、野猪食、豕零、狶苓、地乌桃、猪屎苓，为多孔菌科植物猪苓的干燥菌核。
      
    猪苓菌核呈长形块状或不规则块状，棕黑色或黑褐色，有皱纹及瘤状突起，断面呈白色或淡褐色，半木质化，较轻。子实体从地下菌内生出，常多数合生，菌柄基部相连或多分标，形成一丛菌盖，伞形或伞状半圆形，直径15厘米以上。
      
    猪苓是我省一种名贵的中药材，多生长在山林中的柞树、枫树、桦树、槭树、橡树的根上，性喜松软凸起不易生草的土壤，雨季常在凸起处生有茎多头蘑菇状的子实体，主产河北、河南、安徽、青海、内蒙古及东北等地。我省山区、丘陵均有生产，以豫西猪苓品质为最佳。
      
    猪苓的药用价值很高，中医以菌核入药，性平、味甘，功能有利水，消炎、渗湿。主治小便不利、淋沥热痛、肾炎、全身浮肿、淋虫、带下和夏天受暑水泄等症，另外用猪苓醇提取液，对金黄色葡萄球菌、大肠杆菌有抑制作用。


   
    Grifola, also called Wild Pig Shit, wild Boar Food and so on, is dried sclerotium of the plants belonging to polyporaceae. Grifola sclerotium is in rectangle or irregular lump and has brownish-black color, white or light brown sections, half lignification and light quality. Grifola contains much high medicinal values, whose sclerotium can be made into medicines. 
      
    Grifola is a rare and precious Chinese medical herb in our province which always grows on roots of oak trees, birches and maples. It likes soft, raised and grassless soils. Mountain and hill regions all produce grifola more or less, among which the ones produced in the western Henan are the best.