Cattle are prone to wooden tongue disease in autumn.

Bovine wooden tongue disease is a kind of excess heat caused by heat accumulation in the heart meridian and swelling and stiffness of the tongue body. The symptoms of the disease are as follows: the tongue is swollen and hard, shaped like a stick, and cannot move freely. The disease often occurs in autumn, often due to dry climate in autumn, overwork, running too fast or thirsty for a long time, excessive feeding of grain, etc., resulting in heat evil accumulating in the heart and chest and attacking in the tongue.

Treatment: first of all, rub the mashed green onion leaves on the cow's tongue until the tongue is soft. Then select the following example for treatment: (1) 25 grams of Coptis chinensis, 50 grams of turmeric, 40 grams of forsythia, 50 grams of Radix scrophulariae, 50 grams of rhubarb, 40 grams of Scutellaria baicalensis, 50 grams of burdock, 25 grams of Platycodon grandiflorum, 25 grams of Radix Paeoniae Rubra, 50 grams of honeysuckle, 40 grams of mint, 25 grams of licorice. After rinsing and waiting with boiling water, add 200 grams of honey and 5 eggs, once a day for 3 days. (2) 40 grams of Phellodendron Phellodendri, 20 grams of Coptis chinensis, 50 grams of Bletilla striata, 50 grams of Bletilla, 20 grams of alum, together with boiling water into a paste into a cloth bag, contained in the mouth, both ends tied to the head with rope; (3) 50 grams of indigo, a little borneol, ground into fine noodles, a little on the tongue, three times a day, for several days. (4) puncturing several places at the bottom of the tongue with a sterilized needle and continuously flushing with clean well water after pricking out the blood can also achieve a good therapeutic effect.