At present, the research and utilization of Periplaneta americana is not comprehensive, but it is known that it has anti-inflammatory and immune enhancement effects, can treat enteritis, burns and so on, and its extract can be used in cosmetics to play a bactericidal role. With the use value of Periplaneta americana recognized, its purchase price has also increased year by year.
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The world's largest breeding base for Periplaneta americana;
In Xichang City, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, there is the world's largest Periplaneta americana breeding base, and as many as 6 billion Periplaneta americana, that is, cockroaches, live here. According to statistics, these 6 billion cockroaches eat about 10 tons of food and excrete 3 tons of feces every day.
The cockroaches here are used as medicine, and it is also the first medicinal insect breeding base in China that has passed the GAP certification of the National Pharmaceutical Products Administration. Cockroaches are small, but they create great energy. While solving the employment problem of poor residents, it has created an annual output value of more than 654.38 billion yuan.
Although cockroaches look terrible, they have high medicinal value. As early as in ancient China, Chinese medicine has discovered the medicinal value of cockroaches, calling them "expelling wind and reducing fever and dredging blood vessels". Modern medicine has found that Periplaneta americana contains many elements, such as amino acids, ascorbic acid, trehalase, glycoprotein, inositol, peptides, mucin, mucin and so on.
At the same time, its extract also has growth inhibition effect on tumor cell lines such as chronic myeloid leukemia, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, lung cancer and ovarian cancer. In addition, it can obviously promote the healing of wounds such as trauma, burns and ulcers.
He Xun. Farmers with high value of medicinal cockroaches expect support.
He Xun. Com- There are 6 billion cockroaches in this place in Sichuan! Medicine, toothpaste, facial mask? The annual output value exceeds 1 100 million yuan.