Kowtow beetle

Kowtow beetle

(compendium)

[synonyms] Tiao Baizhang (compendium of Chinese Medicine), Tiao Bo Chong (Chinese Medical Dictionary), Tiao Mi Chong (zoology Dictionary), and Pei Pei Tiao (systematic zoology).

[source] it is the whole insect of koilonidae, koilonidae, etc.

[animal morphology] kowtowing beetle

Body slender and slightly flat, about 18 mm long, thick chestnut, shiny, densely covered with golden short hair. The head is flat, with triangular depression on the top of the head and a pair of compound eyes. Antennae: male 11, serrate; female 12, linear, reaching the end of Coleoptera. At the back of the chest, there are angular protrusions, chimeric with the middle chest. There are 2 pairs of wings with longitudinal grooves on the Coleoptera and gradually narrowed to the end. There are 3 pairs of feet with yellowish brown and 5 tarsals. The basal joints of the anterior and middle limbs are spherical, and the basal joints of the hind limbs are flat and plate-shaped. Abdominal 5, each energy-saving activities freely. The larva is thin, round and long, slightly flat, cuticle, golden yellow, hairy on both sides. If you press the back of it, the chest will move like a kowtow; if you put it on your back, you can move the joint of the front chest and the middle chest and jump up. The larvae live underground and eat the seeds, roots and stems of crops.

The common ones are kowtow beetle with thin chest and kowtow beetle with brown stripe.

[nature and taste] Quanzhou materia medica: "pungent, slightly warm, non-toxic. "

[function indications] Quanzhou materia medica: "strengthen the body, strengthen the muscles and bones, eliminate malaria. Treatment of malaria, aching muscles and bones, limb paralysis. "

[formula selection] ① Jue malaria: a kowtowing insect. Calm the eyebrow and cover it with plaster. (hundred grass mirror)

② Treatment of children learning to walk, lack of strength: 14 kowtow insects (vinegar), a stream frog, with stew service. (Quanzhou materia medica)

③ Treatment of limb flaccidity, mobility: kowtow insects, wine for the end, wine service. (Quanzhou materia medica)

Chinese PinYin : Kou Tou Chong