Dung beetle

Dung beetle

(Ben Jing)

Different names: dung (Erya), tianshe (Guangya), Zhuanwan, Nongwan (Cui Bao's ancient and modern notes), tuiwan (Tao Hongjing), Hu dung beetle (Shu materia medica), pusher (Benshi Fang), tui dung beetle (Sun Tianren Jixiao Fang), heiniu'er, Tiejia general (Li Yanshou), Da Wuke hard beetle (Puji Fang), night tour general (compendium), dung beetle (Ben Cao Yuan), There are three kinds of insects: rolling excrement insect, Che excrement customer, Niu excrement insect, pushcart insect, general and antennae cattle, tie Jiao cattle, and fecal coccidia.

[source] it is the dried whole body of the scarabaeide, Eupatorium.

[animal morphology] Eupatorium mucronatum

All black with a little luster. The male is 3.3-3.8 cm in length and the female is slightly smaller. The male head is fan-shaped in front, with fish scale like wrinkles on the surface, a large and upward tapering angular process with a slightly square shape in the center, and a compound eye on both sides of the back, with a bright and wrinkle free narrow band between the compound eyes. The middle part of the ridge is slightly curved forward to form an obtuse angle, and there is a dentate process on both sides. There is a shallow concave under the front of the dentate process, and its bottom is smooth without a small round process. There is a deep concave outside the shallow concave, and the small round process at the bottom is very vague or absent. The scutellum is not visible. The forewing is a Coleoptera, which is quite uplifted and covered with dense wrinkles The posterior wing is membranous, yellow or yellowish brown. There are a lot of brownish red or brownish yellow cilia in the mouth and under the chest, and there are rows of brownish red burrs on both sides of the middle and hind tarsus. The shape of the female is similar to that of the male, except that there is no angular protrusion in the center of the head, but a flat protrusion at the back and a flat protrusion at the front, with a transverse ridge at the top; the transverse protrusion of the front chest and back is nearly straight, with no dentate protrusion at both ends, and only a deep concave at the outside.

They live in cow dung pile, human dung pile, or dig holes under dung pile. Ingestion of animal carcasses, feces and urine, etc. It has the habit of lighting at night. After spawning, the male and female push the manure together to wrap the eggs and turn them into pellets. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Yunnan and most other areas.

[collection] generally, in the evening of June to August, light is used to trap, boiling water is used to burn to death, and then charcoal fire is used to dry.

[medicinal materials] the dried body is dark brown, 3-4cm long and 1.8-3cm wide. The male is slightly larger than the female. Male head is fan-shaped, easy to fall off, with a central horn, about 6 mm long. The antero thoracolumbar plate is a broad half moon shape with a ridge at the top and a horn on each side. The posterior thorax is about 1 / 2 of the body length, covered by wings. There is no angular process in the center of the head and on both sides of the transverse protuberance of the anterior thoracolumbar. The forewings are leathery, dark brown, with 7 longitudinal parallel markings; the hindwings are membranous, yellow or yellowish brown. Three pairs. It's hard and stinky. It is better to be black, dry and complete.

Mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hebei, Hubei and other places. In addition, it is also produced in Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi.

Another species of dung beetle on sale is the dry male of the family Narcissus. All brown or tan. On the top of the head, there is a rising hornlike process, about 1.7-3 cm long, with two branches at the upper end of the horn. There is also a well-developed bifurcated spinous process in the center of the anterior thoracolumbar plate, about 1 cm long, with the tip slightly bent forward and downward. The quality is crisp. Produced in Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Shanxi and other places. They are generally produced and sold by themselves.

[chemical composition] it contains about 1% toxic components. The effective substance is soluble in water, ethanol and chloroform, but insoluble in ether.

[pharmacological action] dung beetle toxin. After injection into mice, they were restless and died of spasm dozens of minutes later; after intravenous injection into rabbits, blood pressure dropped for a while, then increased, respiratory amplitude increased and frequency accelerated; it had inhibitory effect on isolated heart of toad, perfused into hind limb blood vessels of toad, and had temporary dilation effect; it had inhibitory effect on intestine and uterus of rabbits, and had significant effect on neuromuscular specimens of toad Paralytic effect.

It is salty, cold and poisonous.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes salty and cold. "

② Bielu: "poisonous. "

③ "Tang Ye Ben Cao": "Qi is cold, sour and poisonous. "

[Guijing] "Gangmu": "hand and foot Yang Ming, foot Jueyin. "

Functions and indications: calming shock, breaking blood stasis, defecating and attacking poison. It is used to treat convulsion, epilepsy, mania, dysentery, choking, nausea, abdominal distension and constipation, gonorrhea, malnutrition, dysentery, hemorrhoids and hemorrhoids.

① Ben Jing: "it is mainly for children with convulsion and epilepsy, abdominal distension, cold and heat, and adults with epilepsy.". "

② Bielu: "the main hand and foot end cold, full limbs, running dolphin. "

③ "Treatment of infantile chancre and insect erosion" in the treatise on medicinal properties. "

④ "To cure bee fistula, burn dung beetle powder and apply it with vinegar. "

⑤ "Rihuazi materia medica:" can abortion, treatment of disobedience; and dry ginger application of sores, the arrow. "

⑥ "Ben Cao Quan Du": "removing wind heat from large intestine. "

⑦ "Seeking the source of Materia Medica" says: "to cure children's stagnation, it is necessary to burn food in soil. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-8 points; or into pills, powder. External use: grind the end to adjust to apply or pound to apply.

[should avoid] pregnant women should not take it.

① Ben Cao Jing Ji Zhu: "fear of sheep horn, gypsum. "

② "Yao Dui": afraid of mutton. "

③ "Pin Hui Jing Yao": "pregnancy is not available. "

[prescription selection] ① for infantile convulsion, no matter how fast or slow: one dung beetle. Pestle rotten, with a small cup of water, in boiling soup hot, to dross drink. (compendium)

② Cure diaphragmatic gas vomit food: ground cow son two, push excrement insect a male and a female. Put them in a jar together. When all the insects are eaten, wrap them in mud and simmer them. Use two pieces of dried tangerine peel and stir fry them with croton. Remove the beans. Use one or two pieces of dried tangerine peel and insects. Blow them into your throat and spit for three or four times. (Sun Tianren Jixiao Fang)

③ Cure big, urinate close, after month desire dead person: Cart guest 7, local dog 7. New tile baked, grind at the end, with tiger eye tree south to the skin, decoction mix service. (the original party)

④ Cure urination blood drench: dung beetle grind water to take. (Bao's formula for children)

⑤ Governance chancre: dung beetle wrapped cooked, and children eat. (Han Shi Yi Tong)

⑥ Treatment of red and white dysentery, silent dysentery and diarrhea: black cattle Shaoyan, take half money or one money each time, and take it with wine. Children were given yellow spray. (Li Yanshou)

⑦ For hemorrhoids and hemorrhoids: one dung beetle. Dry in the shade, add a little borneol as fine powder, twist the paper and dip the powder into the hole, gradually make the meat, and the medicine will withdraw. (compendium) another prescription: use dung beetle to bake, grind it to the end, wash it with alum soup first, and then add medicine to apply.

⑧ Cure all sores: new dung on the ground, big black shell hard insects in the mud pile, take them from the living, soak them in honey until they die, calcine them on new tiles, and apply them with wax. First with the needle fire burned, wait for cold, dial damage sore head. (Puji Fang)

⑨ Treatment of nasal polyps, not smell: dung beetles 10. In the bamboo tube, cut off the bamboo with a knife, use the oil bag to make it dense, and put it in the toilet pit. On the 49th day, take it out and dry it, add a little musk, grind it into powder, and apply it on the polyps. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑩ Treating children's heavy tongue: burn dung beetle powder and spit on the tongue. (secret records of son and mother)

(11) treatment of large intestine prolapse: dung beetle burning, for the end, into the borneol research evenly, mixed with anus, to the end. (medical integration)

(12) treatment of gangrene and fisheye sores: seven dung beetles. Mash and seal with barley flour. (Sheng Hui Fang)

Treatment options: dung beetles die first on the way, smash and apply them, and then wipe and heat seal them. (Qian Jin Fang)

(14) the treatment of acupuncture and moxibustion can not stop the bleeding of sores: the dead dung beetle powder is smeared with pig fat. (Qian Jin Fang)

⒂ defecation barrier: use a dung beetle collected in summer and dried in the shade, put it on a clean brick, dry it with ashes on all sides, and cut it off at the waist. If you can't pass your stool, you can't use it. If you cut down, two will not work. If you use all. Each research for the end, water delivery service.

(16) nameless sores: apply with the juice of dead dung beetles.

[clinical application] 1

The dung beetles were decapitated, baked on new tiles and ground into powder. Take 1.5-3 g orally, twice a day. Clinical observation of more than 20 cases, some cases can be seen stone discharge.

② Treatment of paralytic ileus

Take 7 dung beetles, black and white ugly 3 money, stone calamus 3 money. Fried in water, twice a day, morning and evening. Take until the stool is clear. 3 cases were cured.

[discussion by famous experts] 1. In the book of Materia Medica classics, dung beetle is used to treat children's convulsion and epilepsy, abdominal distension, cold and heat, and adult's mania, which are all caused by excessive wind and heat in liver, stomach and large intestine meridians. In bielu, the spleen and stomach are used to control the extremities and treat the middle Jiao when the extremities are cold and the branches are full. The stagnation of Lung Qi makes the blood unable to pass through and irrigate the extremities. If the stomach is hot and the large intestine is firm, the middle Jiao will not be treated and the branches of Qi will be full. The stagnation of the three jiao will relieve the pain. Salty soft hard into the kidney, so also the main Ben dolphin. "

② According to Changsha Yaojie, dung beetle is good at breaking through all kinds of diseases, and can open dry knot. Biejiajian Pill in golden chamber is used to treat malaria for a long time, and the knot is malarial fever, so it can break through all kinds of diseases and open knot. "

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