This product is caused by infection of chinese caterpillar fungus (Beauveria bassiana) (Bals. ) Vaillant) and become fatal desiccated body. Mainly produced in sericulture areas such as Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Sichuan. Collect the dead Stiff Silkworm, pour it into lime, mix well, absorb the water, and dry or bake it. Use raw or fried.

[Property]

salty and acrid, neutral. act on liver and lung channels.

[Efficacy]

Dispelling wind to relieve pain, resolving phlegm and dissipating mass.

[Indications]

1. For fright epilepsy convulsion. This product relieves liver wind, relieves spasm and convulsion, and can also resolving phlegm. Therefore, it is especially suitable for those with infantile convulsion and epilepsy with phlegm and heat. It is used to treat phlegm-heat and panic in children. It is often used with scorpion, Cow-Bezoar, Bile Arisaema, etc. to clear heat and resolving phlegm, and relieve phlegm. Combination of medicinals, such as Thousand Gold Pieces Powder; used to treat lung deficiency chronic diarrhea and convulsion in children, and should be combined with Tangshen and White Atractylodes Rhizome , Gastrodia Tuber and other tonifying qi combination of medicinals, such as Xingpi powder; used to treat tetanus spasm, convulsion, opisthotonus, and scorpion, centipede, Uncaria and other combinations of medicinals, such as Shefengsan.
2. Used for apoplexy involving meridians, mouth and eyes. This flavored Xin Xing Powder can also dispel external wind and relieve spasm and convulsion. It is often used together with scorpion and giant typhonium rhizome to achieve the effects of dispelling wind and relieving convulsion. , such as Pull Aright Powder.
3. For wind-heat headache, red eye, pharyngeal swelling or rubella cutaneous pruitus. This product is a pungent powder, which has the effect of dispelling external wind, dissipating wind-heat, relieving pain and relieving itching. To treat symptoms such as headache, red eye swelling and pain, and tears due to wind-heat attack on the liver meridian, it is often used with Mulberry Leaf, Scouring Rush Herb, and Schizonepeta A combination of medicinals that dispersing wind and clearing heat, such as Stiff Silkworm powder; used to treat wind-heat attacks, sore throat, and hoarseness, can be combined with Platycodon Root, Schizonepeta and Liquorice Root can be used equally, such as Liuwei Decoction; to treat cutaneous pruitus, it can be powdered alone or mixed with Cicada Slough, Mentha and other dispelling wind antipruritic drugs can be used together.
4. For subcutaneous nodule, scrofula pestilent qi. It tastes salty, can soften hardness and dissipating mass, and can also resolving phlegm, so it is often combined with Thunberg Fritillary Bulb, Prunella, Forsythia Use the same heat-clearing, resolving phlegm, and dissipating phlegm medicines to achieve the desired effect.

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "It helps children fright epilepsy and night crying, removes three insects, eliminates black worms, complexion is good, and cures men's vaginal ulcer disease."
2. Bencao Gangmu: "Powdered wind phlegm subcutaneous node, scrofula, head wind, windworm toothache, skin sores, erysipelas for itching...all incised wound, boil and sore wind hemorrhoids."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 3g~10g. Grind into powder and swallow, 1~1.5g each time. It is suitable to be used raw to dispel wind and heat, and to be used in excess.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains protein, fat, ash, etc., and the white powder on the body surface contains ammonium oxalate.

Stiff silkworm: It is a product developed by the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and other units in recent years, using silkworm chrysalis as a substrate and fermented by Beauveria bassiana. According to pharmacological experiments and clinical observations, stiff silkworm and Stiff Silkworm have similar functions, while stiff silkworm has a milder effect. Therefore, stiff silkworm can replace Stiff Silkworm in medicinal uses. It has been made into tablets and used clinically to treat epilepsy, mumps, chronic bronchitis and other diseases, and has achieved satisfactory results.

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