Raw silkworm sand

Raw silkworm sand

(compendium)

[synonyms] original silkworm excrement (bielu), silkworm excrement (Tao Hongjing), late silkworm excrement (doumenfang), Ma minggan (dongyibaojian), late silkworm excrement (materia medica preparation), two silkworm excrement (Jiangsu medicinal materials records).

[source] it is the dry feces of silkworm moth larvae.

[collection] from June to August, the feces were mainly collected from the second to the third sleep. After collection, the feces were dried in the sun, and the soil was cleaned to remove the light particles and mulberry leaves.

[medicinal materials] the dried silkworm excrement is a short cylindrical particle, 2-5 mm in length and 1.5-3 mm in diameter. The surface is gray black, rough, with 6 obvious longitudinal ridges and 3-4 transverse shallow lines. The two ends are slightly flat and hexagonal. It is hard and brittle, and easy to break when it is wet. It's a little grassy. It is better to be dry, black, solid, uniform and free of impurities.

It is mainly produced in Zhejiang, Sichuan, Henan, Jiangsu, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Anhui, Gansu, Hubei, Shandong, Liaoning and other places.

[chemical composition] silkworm excrement contains 83.77-90.44% organic matter, 9.56-16.23% ash and 1.91-3.60% total nitrogen. It also contains chlorophyll, which can be extracted by ethanol or acetone. It is reported that the crude chlorophyll of the third, fourth and fifth instar silkworm excrement is 1.6%, 2.0% and 2.4%, but the real chlorophyll is only a small part. For example, the crude chlorophyll of the fifth instar silkworm excrement only contained 13.19% pure chlorophyll, and the rest contained 48.92% saponified matter and 44.45% unsaponifiable matter.

The content of phytoalcohol in silkworm excrement is 0.25-0.29%. In addition, it contains unsaponifiable components, such as β - sitosterol, cholesterol, ergosterol, eicosanol and Shema oleanol. β - sitosterol - β - glucoside was isolated from silkworm excrement.

13 kinds of free amino acids, such as leucine and histidine, were found in silkworm excrement. With the growth of silkworm, the contents of leucine and histidine in feces gradually increased.

Silkworm excrement contains a lot of carotene. The above crude chlorophyll contains vitamin A 3644 IU per gram. Silkworm excrement also contains a lot of vitamin B.

The silkworm excrement contains the plant growth hormone - auxin.

The content of copper in silkworm excrement reached the highest at the fifth age. Fresh mulberry leaves contain 1.02-2.22 micrograms of copper per gram.

[flavor] sweet and spicy, warm.

① Bielu: "warm, nontoxic. "

② "Gangmu": "Gan Xin, Wen, non-toxic. "

③ Yilin zuanyao: "Gan Xin Xian, Wen. "

[Guijing] into the liver, spleen.

① According to Bencao Huiyan, "start with Shaoyang and foot Taiyin scriptures. "

② "Seeking truth from Materia Medica": it enters the liver, spleen and stomach. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind and removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. It is used to treat rheumatic arthralgia, rubella, itching, head wind, headache, skin unkindness, joint failure, rapid vomiting and diarrhea, tendon transfer, waist and foot cold pain, rotten string eye.

① Bielu: "it is characterized by bowel sounds, heat, thirst, wind obstruction and rash. "

② "Materia medica anecdotes": "stir fried yellow, bags filled with wine, to wind slow, various sections do not follow, the skin stubborn arthralgia, abdominal cold, cold blood, blood stasis, waist and foot pain and cold; stir fried hot, bags filled with hot ironing, the main bias wind, muscle paralysis, hands and feet do not follow, and waist and foot soft, skin stubborn arthralgia. "

③ "Compendium": "to cure diabetes, Baijie, and women's blood collapse, head wind, wind red eye, to wind dehumidification. "

④ "Ben Cao Zai Xin" says: "it is also suitable for treating rheumatism. It can be used to treat spleen, muscle and bone pain, skin swelling, waist and leg pain, blood stasis and blood loss, and can't get acne plasma. "

⑤ "Quanzhou Materia Medica": "treatment of cold, migraine. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan; or into pills, powder. External use: frying and ironing, frying and washing, or grinding and dressing.

[taboo] "Bencao Jingshu" says: "it is not suitable for those who are paralyzed, the muscles and bones do not follow, the meridians can not be raised due to blood deficiency, and there is no invasion of rheumatism. "

[prescription selection] ① Zhishi jure steaming, accumulated in the meridians, chills and hot, bone pain, gray tongue, pale face, disease name: Shibi: Fangji, almond, talc each five money, forsythia, gardenia each three money, Yiren five money, pinellia three money (vinegar fried), late silkworm excrement three money, red bean skin three money. Eight cups of water, three cups of boiling, three minutes of temperature, pain is very, add a piece of turmeric two money, Haitongpi three money. (Xuanbi Decoction in differentiation of epidemic febrile diseases)

② Treatment of wind pruritus addiction rash, all over the body itching, itching into sores: a rise of silkworm excrement. Take two buckets of water and boil one bucket for two liters. Remove dross. It's too warm to wash. Avoid wind. (Sheng Hui Fang)

③ Treatment of headache: silkworm excrement, Angelica dahurica, rhubarb each three money. Research fine powder, tune onion soup external application. (Quanzhou materia medica)

④ Treatment of rheumatic pain or numbness: late silkworm excrement one or two. Decocting soup, three times a day, and half a cup of hot yellow rice wine. (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine)

⑤ Treatment of hemiplegia: two master silkworm excrement. Steam them in two bags and iron each other. Still with Morchella, japonica rice porridge, a solar eclipse, 10 days. (compendium)

⑥ The treatment of cholera, cold limbs, abdominal pain, thirst, irritability, eye depression, pulse Fu, sometimes acute syndrome: late silkworm excrement five money, raw Yiren, soybean yellow roll each four money, Chen papaya three money, Chuanlian (ginger juice fried) three money, system pinellia, Scutellaria (wine fried), Tongcao each one money, Jiaozhi one money five points, Chen Wuyu (bubble light) three points. Decoct with Dijiang or Yinyang water, cool slightly and take slowly. (canya Decoction in Wang Shixiong's treatise on cholera)

⑦ Cure rotten string eye: soak silkworm excrement in sesame oil for two or three nights, and apply to the affected area. (a plaster of Chen's empirical formula)

⑧ Rule of tears in the wind: silkworm excrement (fried) four Liang, Morinda officinalis (peeled, with meat), iris flower (stem) each three Liang. It's fine. Two yuan per serving, no ash wine, adjust at any time. (on Longmu of Ophthalmology, silkworm excrement soup)

⑨ To cure men and women's heartache, it's hard to bear: late silkworm excrement is the end; soak it in boiling soup and take it with filtered juice at any time. (silkworm excrement powder)

⑩ Treatment of white and turbid spermatorrhea, damp and hot: raw silkworm sand one or two, raw Phellodendron amurense one money. At the end of the same study. Hollow boiled underwater three money. (Fasha Huangbai decoction, medical records)

(11) treatment of menstruation for a long time: four pairs of silkworm excrement (fried half yellow), a pot of ashless wine. Cook the heavy soup, remove the sand and drink one warm. (silkworm wine in Neijing Shiyi Fanglun)

According to the compendium, silkworm is dry in nature, which can overcome wind and remove dampness. Therefore, silkworm sand is mainly used to treat rheumatic diseases, and it is effective for some people with rheumatic arthralgia. According to Chen's experience prescription, a plaster is used to treat rotten string wind eye, and its function is to remove wind and dampness. And with sangchai ash drench juice, boiled turtle meat for pills, treatment of abdominal knot. "

② "Yuancansha" is a special medicine for rheumatism. It is suitable for the patients with rheumatism and paralysis, that is, the patients with blood deficiency can not nourish the meridians and collaterals. "

Chinese PinYin : Yuan Can Sha