豬苓，亦稱“野豬糞”、野豬食、豕零、狶苓、地烏桃、豬屎苓，為多孔菌科植物豬苓的干燥菌核。
      
    豬苓菌核呈長形塊狀或不規(guī)則塊狀，棕黑色或黑褐色，有皺紋及瘤狀突起，斷面呈白色或淡褐色，半木質(zhì)化，較輕。子實(shí)體從地下菌內(nèi)生出，常多數(shù)合生，菌柄基部相連或多分標(biāo)，形成一叢菌蓋，傘形或傘狀半圓形，直徑15厘米以上。
      
    豬苓是我省一種名貴的中藥材，多生長在山林中的柞樹、楓樹、樺樹、槭樹、橡樹的根上，性喜松軟凸起不易生草的土壤，雨季常在凸起處生有莖多頭蘑菇狀的子實(shí)體，主產(chǎn)河北、河南、安徽、青海、內(nèi)蒙古及東北等地。我省山區(qū)、丘陵均有生產(chǎn)，以豫西豬苓品質(zhì)為最佳。
      
    豬苓的藥用價(jià)值很高，中醫(yī)以菌核入藥，性平、味甘，功能有利水，消炎、滲濕。主治小便不利、淋瀝熱痛、腎炎、全身浮腫、淋蟲、帶下和夏天受暑水泄等癥，另外用豬苓醇提取液，對(duì)金黃色葡萄球菌、大腸桿菌有抑制作用。


   
    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.