Pangolin

Pangolin

(Ben Cao Tu Jing)

[synonym] labeo carp beetle (bielu), Chanchu carp beetle (behind the elbow), labeo carp horn (Bencao Yanyi), Chuanshan beetle (sanyefang), bieli beetle (Bencao Jingshu), Shanjia (Bencao Qiuzhen), Jiapian (yangke Yibian), Qi scale, scale, suijian tablet (Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine records).

[source] it is the scaleba of dace carp. For animal morphology, please refer to "dace carp" section.

[collection] kill after catching, remove the bone and meat, and dry in the sun, which is called "carapace" (also known as "Jiazhang"). Put the crustacean in boiling water, the nail pieces will fall off and dry by themselves; or directly scald the crustacean with boiling water, take off the nail pieces, wash and dry.

[herbal medicine] the shape and size of a tablet vary with different growing parts. It is fan-shaped, rhombic or shield shaped, generally 1.5-5 cm long or wide, with thick center and thin edge. The back is bluish black, with many longitudinal lines, and the bottom edge has effective horizontal lines. The color of abdomen is light and smooth, and there is an arched horizontal edge line in the center. Horny, slightly transparent, tough and elastic, hard to break. It's slightly fishy and salty. It's better to have even slice, dark color, no fishy smell and no skin.

It is mainly produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou; it is also produced in Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan and Anhui.

Most of the goods are imported from Indonesia and Myanmar. It is generally divided into big nail piece and small nail piece. The big one is grayish yellow, commonly known as "tongjiapian", with inferior quality; the small one is brown, commonly known as "tiejiapian", with superior quality.

[processing] pangolin: separate the size of pangolin slices, stir fry the sand in the pot until it is easy, add pangolin slices, stir fry until golden, take out, sieve the sand and let cool. Vinegar pangolin: stir fry until golden brown, remove the sand, immediately pour the pangolin slices into the vinegar basin, stir and soak, take out, rinse with water and dry in the sun. (each pangolin tablet is 100kg, vinegar 20-25kg)

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "stir frying, processing. "

② "The compendium of Medical Sciences" says: "the prescription is prepared by firing, roasting, crispy frying, vinegar frying, children's stool frying, oil frying, earth frying and clam powder frying. It should be prepared according to the prescription, but it is not used. The tail beetle is still the best. "

[flavor] salty, cool.

① Bielu: "slightly cold. "

② "On medicinal properties": "there is great poison. "

③ "Diannan Materia Medica": "it is cold in nature and salty in taste. "

[channel tropism] into liver and stomach channels.

① "Gangmu": entering Jueyin and Yangming meridians. "

② "Ben Cao Hui Yan": "enter the Taiyin channel, Jueyin channel. "

[function indications] it can reduce swelling and carbuncle, search wind and activate collaterals, and dredge channels and lower breasts. The treatment of carbuncle, cold dampness, amenorrhea, milk barrier. External hemostasis.

① Bielu: "the five main evils cry and cry, burn them as ashes, and use wine or water and square inch dagger to cure ant fistula. "

② Tao Hongjing: "cure scabies. "

③ "Treatise on medicinal properties": treating malaria in mountain areas. Burn and compress the sores. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "it is used to treat children's constipation, hemorrhoids and hemorrhoids, Vickers and scabies. "

⑤ "Diannan Materia Medica": "treat scabies, scabies, carbuncle, blood circulation, chest diaphragm expansion, and bladder hernia pain. "

⑥ "Compendium": "eliminate phlegm, malaria, cold and heat, wind obstruction, rigidity and pain, dredge channels, lower milk, eliminate carbuncle, expel pus and blood, dredge orifices and kill insects. "

⑦ New materia medica: "search the wind to remove dampness, relieve heat and poison. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1.5-3 yuan; or powder. External use: grind the end to scatter or adjust to apply.

[should avoid] if the Qi and blood are insufficient and the carbuncle has broken, take it with caution.

The classic of materia medica: "carbuncle has been ulcerated, it is not suitable to take. Those who can't start acne due to insufficient vitality are not suitable to take. "

[prescription selection] ① for treating carbuncle and gangrene: pangolin, pig tooth Gleditsia (peeled, string) each one or two. It's the end of the cake. For every dollar spent, the hot wine was mixed. When the ulcer is broken, the wax gourd vine is used as the final application. When the ulcer is dry, water is used to adjust the application. (general discussion on pediatric health)

② At the beginning of the treatment of swelling and poison: pangolin is inserted into the hot ash of the valley awn, the cannon coke is the last two liang, and a little musk is added. Two and a half yuan per serving, warm wine. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

③ For carbuncle and gangrene, the five poisons are attached to the bones in the viscera, and the poisonous gas is carried out to relieve pain and eliminate internal pain: one or two beehives, one or two pangolins, one point snake slough, one point oily hair (and burning with survival). Last is the last. Two yuan for each serving, half for the end of frankincense and warm wine. (pangolin powder in Puji Fang)

④ Treatment of pain can not bear blowing milk: pangolin (Zhihuang), Akebia each one or two, natural copper half two . Sanwei daoluo powder. Two yuan for each serving, warm wine, regardless of time. (Ben Cao Tu Jing)

⑤ Cure milk impassability: pangolin gun, research end, wine service square inch dagger, two daily service. (Shan Yongquan powder)

⑥ Treatment of toxic stool carbuncle: pangolin half Liang, Polyporus two money. And stir fried with vinegar. Two bucks for wine and clothes. External use of pangolin powder and sesame oil, light powder coated. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

⑦ Treatment of ear abscess: pangolin burning, into the musk a little blow it. (Bao's formula for children)

⑧ Treatment of scrofula: 21 pieces of dace carp. Burn, grind and apply. (Yao Seng Tan's collected prescriptions)

⑨ To cure ant fistula sores: to burn snakehead and carp beetle. Pig ointment and dressing. (behind the elbow)

⑩ Treatment of Qi, hemorrhoids and abscess: one or two pangolins (burning), three meat beans. The same is the end. Rice drinks for two money. What's more, add one or two hedgehog skins and burn them in. If you have a moderate disease, you don't have to take all the medicine. (Ben Cao Yan Yi)

(11) treatment of tinea laryngis: a piece of five points (fried), a white frost plum (fried), realgar five points, a sum of alum. At the end of the study. Blow in the throat. (pangolin powder in yangke Yibian)

(12) for stroke, the hands and feet are not used: Sichuan mountain beetle, Red Sea clam (such as chess pieces), Sichuan Aconitum (large, raw) each two. Last is the last. Use half liang of each, mash the scallion juice, and make a thick cake, about an inch and a half in diameter. Stick it to the center of the affected foot. Wrap it with old silk and bind it tightly. Sit on a chair in a windless room. In front of the chair, use a basin of soup. Soak the sticking medicine foot in the soup and wait for the sweat to come out. Avoid the wind and lift hands and feet naturally. If the disease is not completely eliminated, wait for half a month and then use it again. They still take the medicine of wind and tonic. It is far from self-supporting to avoid food. (San Yin Fang Tang Tong Gao)

Treatment but not cold malaria: pangolin one or two, dried jujube ten. On the same ash retention, grinding for fine powder. Every service two money, when the day, when not out of the well water transfer. (Yang's collection)

(14) to cure dysentery, it's urgent and heavy: pangolin, good clam powder, etc. The upper part is fine. A good wine will be served for one yuan. (Puji Fang)

Treatment of hernia bladder pain: pangolin (fried) three money, fennel two money. It's fine. Two yuan for each service, and hot water wine. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

(16) cure women's Yin decadence, hard as eggs: pangolin five money. Stir fry in the sand until golden. Two bucks for each serving. Drink. (pick Yuan Fang)

Treatment of acne Black: pangolin, clam powder fried. It's the end. Take 5 points each time, add a little musk, take warm wine. It turns red. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

[clinical application] for hemostasis

Wash and dry the pangolin, fry it into yellow with plants (not over fire), remove the oil by sun or natural volatilization, grind it into fine powder (the finer the better the drying effect), pack it in bottles, sterilize it by high pressure, and then dry it in oven. When using, dry the bleeding place, quickly spread the hemostatic powder evenly on the bleeding part (including arterial bleeding), and gently press and bandage. It can stop bleeding completely in 1-5 minutes. If the wound needs to be sutured, the surplus hemostatic powder can be washed out gently with sterile saline and then sutured (animal experiments have proved that pangolin powder can be completely absorbed when sutured in the tissue). It was used in 37 cases of hernia repair, appendectomy, subtotal gastrectomy, osteoma, vertebral fracture plate fixation, amputation and so on. 36 cases achieved satisfactory hemostatic effect. Only one case of rectal polyp was not effective due to poor compression after removal.

According to the compendium, pangolin is fresh in ancient prescriptions, and it is used as an important medicine in modern times for the treatment of wind malaria. As the saying goes: pangolin, the king does not stay, the woman ate milk long flow, also said its fast also. Li Zhongnan said that it is a kind of special powder, which can not be taken too much. According to the experience prescription of deshengtang, for the syndrome of rheumatism and cold arthralgia, which is caused by water dampness, the whole body can't bend and stretch, and the pain can't be tolerated, add seven pieces of pangolin to Wuji powder, cook them well, fry 11 pieces with scorpion, fry them with Scallion and ginger, put a spoonful of ashless wine into them, and take hot sweat to avoid the wind. "

② "Pangolin is light in taste, flat in nature, and full of fishy smell. Its nature of channeling is meticulous, so it can dredge the viscera, carry out the meridians, and penetrate the orifices. It can open all blood clotting diseases. In order to treat carbuncle, boldly use it, stand to see the effect. It can also treat Baihuang accumulation, general paralysis, constipation and abdominal pain. If you know that it is good at treating sores, but forget other long, it is still shallow, depending on the mountain beetle. Yu Heng used four coins for each of Shanjia and Zaoci, six coins for each of pollen and Anemarrhena, three coins for each of frankincense and myrrh, and three coins for each of centipede. It is also very effective in the treatment of Henghe. If the patient has pus and redness, the redness and swelling will disappear and the pus will come out easily. To Baihuang accumulation, pain paralysis, obstruction of the two stools and other syndromes, the drug treatment is ineffective, can be used as a guide. "

Chinese PinYin : Chuan Shan Jia