Silkworm excrement, a famous Chinese medicine, silkworm excrement
Alias silkworm excrement, late silkworm excrement, silkworm medium, raw silkworm excrement and late silkworm medium.
English name FaecesBombycis.
Dry feces of silkworms. Larvae of Bombyx mori, an insect of Bombycidae.
Both male and female adult animals are covered with white scales. Body length 1.6 ~ 2.3 cm. Wings spread 3.9 ~ 4.3 cm. The head is smaller. Compound eye 1 yes. Mouth degeneration, lower lip must be very small. The antenna is feathered. 2 pairs of wings, the front wing is located in the middle chest, which is triangular and large; The hind wings are born from the hind chest and are smaller; The wing surface has white scales. Female abdomen is obese, and the end is blunt and round; Male abdomen is narrow and the end is slightly pointed. The body color of the larvae is grayish white to white, and the second and third sections of the chest are slightly swollen and wrinkled. There is a tail horn on the back of the eighth abdominal segment.
The distribution of origin is artificial reproduction, which can reproduce for 3 generations a year. It is distributed all over the country, mainly south of the Yangtze River.
Collect and treat the feces discharged from the second sleep to the third sleep in summer, remove impurities and dry in the sun.
The medicinal materials are granular hexagonal, 2 ~ 5 mm long and 1.5 ~ 3 mm in diameter. The surface is grayish black or dark green, rough, with 6 obvious longitudinal grooves and horizontal shallow grooves. Light and crisp, easy to grind into powder by hand. A slight breath, a faint taste.
It tastes warm, sweet and spicy. Liver meridian, spleen meridian and stomach meridian.
Efficacy and function: expelling wind and removing dampness, regulating stomach and resolving turbidity. It belongs to the category of rheumatism-removing drugs, which can dispel wind and remove dampness and strengthen bones and muscles.
The clinical dosage is 10 ~ 15g, wrapped with gauze, or made into pills or powder. Appropriate amount for external use, decocted in water or ground into fine powder, and applied to the affected area. Can be used for treating rheumatic arthralgia, limb paralysis, rubella pruritus, vomiting and diarrhea, amenorrhea, metrorrhagia.
Pharmacological research experiments show that silkworm excrement has anticancer and photosensitive effects; Silkworm excrement can calcify chicken bones after being irradiated by sunlight; Its water extract has antithrombin effect and can significantly prolong the coagulation time of human blood fibrin.
Chemical components include chlorophyll derivatives, phytol, β-sitosterol, lupeol, ergosterol, silkworm chrysalis, organic matter, ash, free alcohol and hydrocarbons, as well as protein, 18 amino acid, vitamin A, vitamin B and vitamin E.
Contraindications: Use with caution for patients with gastrointestinal weakness, and not for those with blood failing to nourish tendons and hand and foot paralysis.
Compatibility prescription
① Treatment of rheumatic pain or numbness: 30 grams of silkworm excrement in the evening, decocted in water, and half a cup of hot yellow wine in bed. (Modern and Practical Chinese Medicine)
② Treatment of wind paralysis, joint paralysis and abdominal pain: fry silkworm excrement to yellow, fill it with a cloth bag, and soak it in wine for oral administration. ("Shoushiqing")
(3) Treatment of wind itching rash, itching all over the body and scratching into sores: one liter of silkworm excrement, two buckets of water, boiling one bucket and two liters, except me. It is too hot to wash, so it is better to take shelter from the wind. (Sheng Huifang)
④ Treatment of dry and wet tinea: silkworm excrement120g, mint15g. Top is bottom, oil adjustment; If it's wet, dry mix. ("Healthy Bao" dampness removing powder)
⑤ Treatment of herpes zoster: silkworm excrement 30g, realgar 12g. * * * After grinding, apply sesame oil to the affected area. (Guangxi medicinal animals)
⑥ Long-term incurable month: silkworm excrement 120g (fried slightly yellow) and a pot of ashless wine. The thick soup is ready, come to me. Have a hot drink. (silkworm excrement wine comes from the theory of prescription in Neijing)
⑦ Treatment of hematemesis, epistaxis and hematochezia: 30 grams of silkworm excrement, fried black to charcoal, and ground. 2 ~ 3 times a day. 3 grams each time, taken with boiling water. (Guangxi medicinal animals)
⑧ Treatment of bloody stranguria: grind silkworm excrement into powder at night, and give 6 grams of wine each time before eating. (Puji Fang)
Time of taking medicine
1, diuretics and dampness-removing drugs should be taken in the morning.
Drugs with nourishing effect, especially drugs for tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, should be taken on an empty stomach in the morning and before breakfast to facilitate the full absorption of nourishing drugs; Drugs for treating vascular diseases of limbs should also be taken on an empty stomach, so that drugs can quickly enter the gastrointestinal tract and maintain a high concentration to quickly exert their efficacy; Diuretics and emetics should also be taken on an empty stomach in the morning.
2, Yiqi Shengyang medicine before noon.
In the morning, it is advisable to take drugs for invigorating qi and yang, sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, and penetrating evil. Li Dongyuan believes: "Before noon, it is the point of yang, when sweating; In the afternoon, it is not advisable to sweat. " It is also emphasized that drugs for invigorating qi and yang should be taken before noon. The reason why Yiqi Shengyang medicine is taken before noon is "to make people's yang be easy to achieve."
3, sedative drugs before going to bed
Generally, it is taken 0/5 ~ 30 minutes before going to bed. Drugs for invigorating the heart and spleen, calming the mind, calming the heart and sleeping peacefully, as well as stagnation and thoracic diaphragm disease. You should lie on your back after taking the medicine; If you have head, mouth and ear diseases, you should lie on your pillow after taking the medicine; When the symptoms of left and right ribs appear, you should choose your sleeping position according to the ascending and descending function of medicinal properties after taking the medicine. Choose a healthy prescription when the medicinal properties rise, and choose a prescription when the medicinal properties subside.
4. Take insect repellent overnight.
Insect repellent, such as Wu Mei Pill, can be taken 1 time before going to bed and 1 time on an empty stomach the next morning, so that the drug can be fully absorbed and worms can be eliminated from the body.
5. Take laxatives before meals
Laxatives are usually taken 30 to 60 minutes before meals. To treat diseases located in the lower part of the body (intestinal tract, liver and kidney deficiency or below the waist), it should be taken before meals to release the medicinal properties of the medicine, because in the fasting state, the liquid medicine can directly contact with the mucosa of the digestive tract and quickly enter the intestinal tract through the stomach, so as to be absorbed more and play a role, and will not be diluted by food in the stomach to affect the efficacy.
6. Drugs for spleen and stomach are between meals.
That is, take medicine between meals to avoid the influence of food on drugs, and drugs for treating spleen and stomach diseases should be taken between meals.
7. Take traditional Chinese medicine for heart and lung after meals.
Traditional Chinese medicine for treating heart and lung is usually taken after meals 15 ~ 30 minutes. It is suitable for treating diseases located in the upper part of the body (such as heart, lung, chest, diaphragm and upper abdominal cavity) after meals, and can make the medicinal properties go up. Stomach-invigorating drugs and drugs that stimulate the gastrointestinal tract (such as Mannan Xiaodu Dan). It should be taken after meals, which can reduce the damage of drugs to gastrointestinal mucosa; Toxic drugs should also be taken after meals.