Tabanus

Tabanus

(notes to the classic of Materia Medica)

[synonyms] gadfly (Benjing), gadfly (Bencao Chongyuan), cattle mosquito (empirical identification method of traditional Chinese Medicine), green head fierce drill (Qinghai herbal medicine), fly (Zhejiang herbal medicine manual), blind gadfly, blind leech (Hebei herbal medicine), blind midge (Chinese herbal medicine records), Gadfly (Sichuan herbal medicine records).

[source] it is female of Tabanidae or other insects of the same genus.

[animal morphology] Tabanidae

The female flies are 13-17 mm long and yellow green. Compound eye large, without fine hair, with a thin black transverse band in the middle. Forehead yellow or grayish; head covered with short hairs. The antennae are yellow, the third segment is hypertrophic, and the base has a thick and blunt dorsal process. The base of lip and cheek are yellowish gray. The second segment of mandible is light yellow, covered with white and black short hairs. The back plate, side plate and web of the midrib are grayish yellow, covered with yellow short hairs and mixed with black and yellowish gray long hairs, the wings are transparent without spots, and the balance bar is yellow. There are 3 pairs of feet, 1 / 3 of the base of the femoral joint of the middle and hind feet are gray; the ends of the tarsi and tibia of the forefoot are black; the ends of the tarsi of the middle and hind feet are black brown. The abdomen is dark yellowish gray; there are large yellow spots on both sides of the 1-3 or 1-4 abdominal segments, and there are dark yellow longitudinal bands in the middle, which are about 1 / 4-1 / 3 of the width of the abdomen. Abdomen covered with dense yellow or yellowish gray short hairs, sometimes mixed with black short hairs. The ventral surface is gray, and both sides of the first to second or first to third webs are yellow. The male flies are similar in shape, but smaller in size. The compound eyes are covered with thin gray hairs.

The female sucks the blood of cattle, horses, donkeys and other domestic animals, while the male sucks the juice of plants instead of blood. They usually live in grass and woods. They are fond of sunshine and are active in the daytime. It is distributed in most parts of the country.

[collection] from June to August. Take it with a fly swatter, thread it up, and dry it in the sun or in the shade.

[medicinal materials] the dried body of the insect is long oval, 1.5-2 cm long and 5-10 mm wide. The head is dark brown, and most of the compound eyes have fallen off; the chest is dark brown, the back is shell like and bright, and the wings are longer than the tail; the chest is prominent below, dark brown, with three pairs of feet, mostly broken. The abdomen is brownish yellow with six somites. It is loose and brittle, and easy to break. The smell is bitter and salty. It is better to be large, complete and free of impurities.

Produced in Guangxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hunan, Hubei, Shanxi, Henan, Liaoning and other places.

[processing] picking up impurities, removing wings and feet; or stir frying with mild fire.

Bitter, cool and poisonous.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes bitter and slightly cold. "

② Bielu: "poisonous. "

③ Yilin zuanyao: "hard work, salty, cold.". "

[Guijing] into the liver meridian.

① "Gangmu": "liver meridian blood points. "

② Yaoyaofenji: "entering the liver meridian. "

Functions and indications: removing blood stasis, breaking accumulation and dredging meridians. It can be used to treat Baihuang, accumulation, less abdominal blood accumulation, blood stagnation, meridian closure and blood stasis.

① "Ben Jing" says: "it is mainly used to expel blood stasis, break down blood accumulation, stiff ruffian, Bai Huang, cold and heat. Tongli blood and nine orifices. "

② Bielu: "the main woman's moon water is blocked and accumulated, except the thief's blood in the chest and abdomen, and throat obstruction.". "

③ "Rihuazi's materia medica:" breaking all knots, eliminating pus, abortion. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5 ~ 1 yuan; grind 1 ~ 2 points; or into pills, powder.

[should avoid] pregnant women should not take it.

① "On medicinal properties": "Ephedra Sinica. "

② "Pin Hui Jing Yao" says: "pregnancy is not allowed, abortion is required. "

③ "Materia medica classic": "typhoid fever is yellow, pulse is deep and urgent, less abdomen? If the urination is unfavorable, it is no blood syndrome, not blood accumulation, not suitable for use; blood stasis is not examined, not suitable for use; women's moon water is blocked, because the spleen and stomach are weak, liver blood is exhausted, not blood knot occlusion, not suitable for use; pregnant women's abdomen has a hundred gallstones accumulation, not suitable for use. All diseases with deficiency of Qi and blood and thin and damaged appearance should be avoided. "

[prescription selection] ① for Taiyang disease, the body is yellow, the pulse is deep, the abdomen is few, the urine is self-interest, the person is as crazy as leech (boil), Tabanus (remove wings and feet) each 30, peach kernel 20 (remove skin and tip), rhubarb 32 (wash with wine). On the four flavors, five liters of water, boil three liters, to dross. Warm clothing - up, no less, more clothing. (diedang Decoction in Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

② No menstruation, or postpartum lochia umbilicus pain: cooked Rehmannia four Liang, Tabanus (to head, wings, fried), leech (glutinous rice with fried yellow, to glutinous rice), peach kernel (peeled, pointed) each 50. The top is the end, and the honey pill is big. Each take five or seven pills, hollow, warm wine. (Dihuang Tongjing pill, a good prescription for women)

③ Treatment of wrist fracture blood stasis: 20 Tabanus, one or two peonies. On the two flavors, governance under the sieve, wine service square inch dagger, blood into water. (Qian Jin Fang)

④ Treatment of swelling toxin: Tabanus, rosin, etc. For the end, put plaster in the affected part. (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine)

[famous treatise] 1. In the compendium of Medical Sciences, it is said that "it is hard to get rid of blood, but it is hard to get rid of it. Therefore, the treatment of Tabanus for storing blood is the separation of drugs in liver meridian and blood. The ancient prescriptions are widely used, but the modern ones are rare. "

② According to the classic of Materia Medica, the use of the fly fly is similar to that of the present insect, but the bitter is better than the present insect. The bitter can drain the knot, and the nature is good at biting the blood of cattle and horses. The taste of the fly fly should be salty, and the salty can walk the blood. Therefore, he accumulated all kinds of blood to become a disease, as the Scripture says. The bitter cold can also discharge the fire evil of triple energizer, force the blood to block up and block the throat, so it is also the main cause of throat obstruction. Nowadays, people don't use it because of its toxicity. However, Zhongjing Didang decoction and pill, and Dahuang Xianchong pill are salty. They are also effective in dispersing viscera and blood accumulation. "

③ "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" says: "the treatment of Baihuang cold and heat in Ben Jing is the same as that of dung beetle in abdominal distension. Zhongjing Didang soup, pill, leech, Tabanus, although when used together, the pure risk of the two is very different. For the treatment of amenorrhea, the pill of Siwu plus Feimao was used to break blood stasis without injuring blood. If you go through blood bitterly, you can't get blood. If you attack it bitterly, you can still have an abortion even though it's slow. "

④ According to the prescription of tabaniasis, it is said that the accumulation of blood, the lower blood, the animal blood, the long-term blood stasis, the blood stasis, the women's unfavorable water flow, the blood, the present blood, the blood stasis and heat in the interior, the mania and the forgetfulness are all the essence of blood syndrome. However, it does not mean blood stasis all over the body, but if there is blood stasis in the abdomen, it can be lowered. Therefore, whether there is blood stasis or not is the reason for the syndrome. "

Chinese PinYin : Meng Chong