grasshopper

grasshopper

(compendium)

Another name: Zhizhi (the book of songs) and Jue (Erya).

[source] it is the dry whole insect of Acrididae, such as the rice locust.

[animal morphology] Rice locust

Body oblong, yellow green. The length from head to wing of female is 3.6-4.4 cm, and that of male is 3-3.3 cm. The head is slightly square, with a brown longitudinal band behind the compound eye, extending from the side of the head to the side of the back plate. The compound eye is oval, located on both sides of the head, 3 monocular, in the middle of the compound eye. Antennae filiform, consisting of many segments; mouthparts chewy. The anterolateral plate is larger, and the middle and posterior plates are smaller. Wings 2 pairs, front wing narrow, grayish brown, hind wing broad, translucent, wing longer than the end of abdomen. Foot 3 pairs, gray brown, tarsi 8, with 2 claws, hind legs of the leg is very big, good at jumping. There are 11 segments in the abdomen. The first segment has hearing organs on both sides. The female has oviposition tube at the end of abdomen.

Most of them live in rice, corn, sorghum, sugarcane and other fields, as well as wet and near water grassland and ridge, eating rice, corn and other gramineous crops. It's distributed across the country several times.

[collection] harvest in autumn, sun dry or air dry.

Sweet and warm.

① Materia medica: poisonous. "

② Compendium: "Xin is poisonous. "

③ "Suixiju diet spectrum": "Xin Gan, Wen. "

[function indications] it is used to treat children's acute and slow convulsions and pertussis.

① "Gangmu Shiyi": "treatment of cough, convulsion, tetanus (wind), treatment of damage, frostbite, rash not out. "

② According to the Diet Manual of suixiju: "warm the stomach and help Yang, strengthen the spleen and transport food. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 5-10 pieces; or calcined powder. External use: grind the end to scatter or adjust to apply.

[selection] 1. Treatment of infantile convulsion: no matter how many grasshoppers there are, the nature of calcination, sugar and kimono. (collection of compendium)

② Cure acute and slow convulsions: after frost, take grasshoppers to air dry, use ten or seven, add a pinch of Uncaria and mint leaves, fry soup, dregs and then fry. (hundred grass mirror)

③ Treatment of tetanus: after frost, grasshoppers, dried in the sun, with more than ten, calcined on the tile, under the wine. (save the bitter sea)

④ Cure cormorant plague (its symptom cough unceasingly, continuously for dozens of sound, kind of wheezing not wheezing, like wheezing not wheezing, children often suffer from this): Ten grasshoppers. Fried soup. (collection of compendium)

⑤ Treatment of cormorant depression (children have it, its symptoms such as choking, want to spit out of the shape, long time a little sputum, long time will die): dry grasshopper decoction. (hundred grass mirror)

⑥ Cure chilblain: grasshopper, air dry, calcine grind, sesame oil and rub, sprinkle also. (Yang Su Yuan Chuan Xin Fang)

⑦ Five or six grasshoppers for the treatment of Sha distension. Warm soup. (Yang Su Yuan Chuan Xin Fang)

⑧ Treatment of malaria on the third day: plate katydid, Yin dry for the end, near the day, in the five o'clock wine service square inch dagger. (food materia medica by Yao Kecheng)

Chinese PinYin : Zha Meng