Ants have the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, detoxicating, detumescence, tonifying kidney and invigorating qi, relieving soreness of waist and knees and weakness of limbs caused by kidney deficiency, and improving joint swelling and joint pain caused by rheumatism or rheumatoid diseases.
Ants themselves are not toxic, but people who are sensitive to the gastrointestinal tract will have vomiting symptoms after eating ants, which will not cause much harm under normal circumstances. They can promote human metabolism by drinking more warm water. After eating ants, they will enter the esophagus of the human body, then enter the stomach and be continuously digested and absorbed by gastric juice.