Pinyin name hüI máyǐ
The source is the whole insect of ant family, black ant.
Original shape
Black ant (five elements)
Worker ants are about 1s mm long. The body is painted black, smooth and shiny. The head is round, triangular, compound eye 1 right, oval; 3 in one eye, arranged according to personality. Antenna 1 pair, bent knee, *** 12 nodes, and the stem node is the longest. Developed mouthparts; Chew. The front chest backboard is developed and the middle chest backboard is small. No wings. Three feet, equal development. The thoracoabdominal junction narrows into a slender handle, 1 scales upward; Five segments of abdomen. The palate, antennae and feet are brown; There are brown bristles on the head, chest, feet and the posterior margin of each abdomen, with dense hairs on the posterior margin of abdomen and sparse others. Soldiers are similar to workers. The mother ant is very big. Male ants are slightly smaller than female ants, all have wings, and their antennae are slender and not bent. Larvae has small head and chest, wide abdomen, yellow-white body and no feet; Pupa white. Living in groups, they often nest underground.
Habitat distribution is distributed in most parts of the country.
chemical composition
There are many kinds of fatty hydrocarbons in the volatile substances in the stomach. The venom sac of the ant genus contains venom, and the most striking component is formic acid (formic acid); It also contains ammonia and seventeen kinds of free amino acids.
Female and worker ants belonging to sanguine ants contain volatile substances: n-decanol, n-undecanol, n-dodecanol and its acetate, and isomers of Arabic gum. Red ants such as red ants also contain isoflavones, riboflavin, 2- amino -6- hydroxypterin and biopterin.
Pharmacological action concentrated formic acid is corrosive. If it is infringed, it can be diluted locally with water, or it can be alleviated by weak alkaline substances such as egg white, milk, soap and magnesium salt. Dilute formic acid (5 ~ 10%) can be used as an irritant or astringent to reduce foot sweat.
Sexual taste is salty, flat and toxic.
Function is mainly used to treat snake bite and furuncle swelling and pain.
Additional prescription
① Treatment of snake bite: black ant spring velvet coating.
② Treatment of furuncle pain: Black ants and Xanthium sibiricum are coated with spring velvet. (Sex and taste are listed in Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Records)
Excerpted from the aliases of ants, Xuanju, Kun Mi and Ma Yi in * Dictionary.
source
Source of medicinal materials: all kinds of non-toxic ants, such as Formicidae, brown ants, multi-winged ants, etc.
Latin plant and animal mineral name: 1 .brown ant 2. Polyrhachis vicina.
Harvest and storage: the harvest time should be carried out before the wedding flight. Try to choose rainy days when most ant colonies return to their nests and the number is concentrated. Even ants have to carry the soil into a cloth bag and take it away. Then sieving to obtain adult ants, and putting them into water at 60 DEG C; C, and quickly put them to death, air drying.
Original shape
1. Mercerized brown forest ant, the worker ant is about 13mm long. All of them are black, smooth and shiny, with round triangular heads. Compound eye 1 pair, oval, 3 monocular, arranged in characters. Antenna knees bent, 12 knots. Thoracic dorsal plate is developed and mesoderm dorsal analysis is small. There are three pairs of feet, and the junction between chest and abdomen narrows into a slender handle. The upward scale is1; Five segments of abdomen. Soldiers are similar to workers. Female ants are similar to male ants, both have wings, slender antennae, and their knees are not bent. Larvae has small head and chest, wide abdomen, yellow-white body, no feet and white pupa.
2. The black-winged ant is smaller than the mercerized brown forest ant, the worker ant is 6 mm long, the male ant is 6-7 mm long and the female ant is 7-9 mm long.
Habitat distribution
Ecological environment: They live in groups and often nest underground.
Resource distribution: 1. Widely distributed all over the country.
2. Distributed in Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.
Character; Role; letter
Characterization (1) Mercerized brown forest ant, about 13mm long, black, smooth and shiny. The base of the anterior thoracic backboard is developed, the middle thoracic backboard is smaller, and there are 1 upward scales on the umbilicus. Crispy, fragile, often with head and foot defects, 5 sour to lick.
(2) Black-winged ants, 4-5 mm long, black, with thorns on both sides of the chest. Crisp and crisp, often with head and foot defects, it tastes sour.
chemical composition
1. Mercerized brown forest ants all contain a variety of saturated straight-chain and branched-chain alkanes with 9- 19 carbon atoms, unsaturated alkanes with 13 carbon atoms, farnesene, high farnesene, formic acid, a variety of mobile amino acids, R, S-3, 4- dihydro -8- hydroxyl.
2. Pyrethroid contains many amino acids, mainly proline, alanine, glutamic acid and serine; Inorganic elements such as selenium and germanium; Vitamin B 1, B2, E, B 12, crude protein, fat, etc. In addition, it also contains oleic acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid, linolenic acid, linoleic acid and other fatty acids.
3. Red ants all contain saturated and unsaturated non-even alkanes, mainly undecane. Hexadecyl formate is the most common formate, and it also contains 3- ethyl -4- methyl valerate, 3- isopropyl valerate and 3,4- dihydro -8- hydroxyl. In addition, there are free and combined components such as norepinephrine and protein.
4. The yellow ant contains many volatile components, mainly undecane, tridecane, pentadecane, 1- octanol (1- octanol), borneol, nerol and 6544. 3- decanol (3- decanol), 3- decanone (3- decanone), 3- dodecanone (3- dodecanone), hexyl hexanoate, octyl hexanoate. There are still some fatty acids, and eggs contain glycoproteins. After hydrolysis, D- mannose, D- galactose, D- glucose and 2- acetylamino -2- deoxy -D- glucose can be obtained.
In addition, different kinds of ants generally contain α-doradexanthin.
Salty in nature; Acid; gender equality
Meridian-entering liver; Kidney meridian
Indications: tonifying kidney and replenishing essence; Activating menstruation; Detoxification and swelling reduction. Treat kidney deficiency, dizziness and tinnitus; Insomnia and dreaminess; Impotence and nocturnal emission; Rheumatalgia; Stroke hemiplegia 6; Numbness of hands and feet; Lupus erythematosus; Scleroderma; Dermatomyositis; Carbuncle, swelling and furuncle; venomous snake bite
Oral administration and dosage: grind into powder, 2-5g; Or take medicine; Or soak in wine. External use: appropriate amount, mashed and coated.
Traditional Chinese medicine ant wine extract (2)
Formula: 60 grams of yellow ants collected in summer, liquor 1500 ml.
Production method: remove impurities from ants, rinse them with water, dry them, put them in a container filled with wine, seal and soak them for 60 days, filter to remove residues, and take sake for drinking.
Efficacy and indications: tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, removing blood stasis and dredging collaterals, improving immunity and resisting aging. For rheumatism, neurasthenia, etc.
Dosage: 1~2 times, daily 1 time, each time 15 ~ 20ml.
Description: In recent years, nutritionists and medical experts have done a lot of research on ants. Through experimental analysis, ants contain 18 amino acids, vitamin B 1 and B2, as well as sex hormones and adrenocortical hormones, which can enhance immunity and sexual function, promote metabolism and resist aging. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that ants are salty and warm, and entering the kidney meridian can warm the kidney and unblock the collaterals. Many pharmaceutical factories in many areas use ants as the main medicine to make medicinal liquor, which is used to treat rheumatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, neurasthenia, insomnia, alopecia and so on, and has certain curative effects. In addition, pharmacological experiments show that ants have sedative, anti-inflammatory, liver-protecting, antiasthmatic and analgesic effects. When selecting drug ants, you should identify them, which can generally be bought in professional stores. Most ants are nontoxic,