[Variety Source]

This product is a mantis insect, the large knife mantis (Tenodera sinensi Saussure), the small knife mantis (Statilia maculata (Thunberg)), the thin-winged mantis (Mantis religiosa L.) or the ootheca of the giant ax mantis (Hierodula patellifera (Serville)). They are commonly known as "Tuan octopus", "Long octopus" and "Black snail" respectively. They are mainly produced in tropical areas, and there are also a few temperate varieties. Mainly found in southern China provinces and Taiwan. Harvest from late autumn to the following spring. Place in boiling water Kill the eggs, or steam them and dry them in the sun.

Tao Hong-jing said that the mantis is commonly known as the stone mantis. It lays eggs on trees. Li Shi-zhen said that the mantis has two arms like an ax and acts like a rut. It is not avoided, so it is named Danglang. The name of the ovary is that of a mango, which means that its shape is light and silky.

[Property]

sweet and salty, neutral. act on liver and kidney channels.

[Efficacy]

Securing essence and reducing urination, nourishing kidney and yang.

[Indications]

1. Used for seminal emission, enuresis and other certificates. This product is sweet and salty and enters the kidney, tonifying the kidney to constrain seminal emission and shrink urine. It is suitable for seminal emission, spontaneous seminal emission, enuresis, frequent urination, white turbidity and other symptoms caused by kidney deficiency. Kidney deficiency seminal emission and spontaneous seminal emission are often treated with Asiatic Cornelian Cherry Fruit, Dodder Seed, Flatstem Milkvetch Seed, palmleaf raspberry fruit can be used together to enhance the effect of toning the kidney to constrain seminal emission; for treating infantile enuresis, it can be used alone, with rice soup; for treating trance, frequent urination, enuresis, and white turbidity , can be combined with medicinals such as Milkwort Root, Fossil Bone, Acorus, such as Bencao Yanyi Mantis Egg-Case Powder.
2. For kidney deficiency impotence. This product also has the effect of nourishing the kidneys and supporting yang. Often used with Pilose Antler, Desertliving Cistanche, Dodder Seed.
3. Other applications: mantis egg-case removes impurities, stir-fries mild fire and grinds into powder. For external use, it can evacuating pus and expelling toxin. It can treat boils and ulcers in children. After clearing the pus, mantis egg-case is used as the final tune. Sesame Oil, applied to sores, can accelerate expelling pus and eliminate swelling and pain. Otitis media has fishy pus. Disinfect the affected area to remove the pus, then use mantis egg-case powder and add an appropriate amount of borneol and borax powder, and blow into the ear canal, three times a day.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Mainly used for injuries, hernias, impotence, beneficial to sperm and childbirth, female blood clots and lumbago, clearing the five stranguriae, and facilitating urinary waterways."
2. Bielu : "Cure men's weakness, five zang-organs, weak Qi, seminal emission in sleep, and drowning."
3. Benjing Fengyuan: "It is also a liver and kidney life gate medicine, specializing in the recovery of energy. It is astringent, so it is often used in men with white turbidity, renal failure impotence, seminal emission in dreams and fistula disease."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 6~10g.

[Precaution]

This product helps yang and solidifies astringency, so it should not be used by those with yin deficiency and frequent urination, or those with hot bladder and frequent urination.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains protein, fat, iron, calcium, and carotene pigments. The brown and yellow pigments of thin-winged mantises both contain biliverdin and similar substances, and both their skin and blood contain biliverdin.