What are the insects in traditional Chinese medicine?

This product is the dried body of Bombyx mori, an insect of Bombycidae. Its 4th-5th instar larvae were infected (or artificially inoculated) with Beauveria bassiana and died. Silkworms infected with Beauveria bassiana will be dried in the spring and autumn. The product is micro-cylindrical, with many bends and contractions. 2 ~ 5 cm long and 0.5 ~ 0.7 cm in diameter. The surface is grayish yellow, covered with white powdery, frosty aerial hyphae and conidia. The head is round, with 8 pairs of feet, obvious body joints and slightly forked tail. Hard and brittle, easily broken, flat section, white outer layer, and four bright brown or bright black silk gland rings in the middle. The smell is slightly fishy. It tastes a little salty. Sexual taste and meridian tropism

Salty, pungent and flat. Liver, lung and stomach meridians entered.

Functions and instructions

Dispelling wind, calming convulsion, resolving phlegm and resolving stagnation. (calming wind, relieving spasm, expelling wind, relieving pain and resolving phlegm) Used for convulsion, sore throat, submandibular lymphadenitis, facial paralysis and itchy skin. (1) calming wind and relieving spasm: it is used for headache, dizziness and convulsion caused by internal movement of liver wind. It is often used with Gastrodia elata and Scorpio. It is also used for wind-heat headache and prurigo. (2) Eliminating phlegm and resolving hard mass: used for lymphadenitis, tonsillitis and parotitis. (3) Headwind, chuck wind and sideburns pain: Take a spoonful of silkworm powder and onion tea. (4) Sudden headache: Bombyx Batryticatus powder is two yuan a day, and boiled water is sent down.

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