The nutritional value and efficacy of Tulong

In our daily life, the earth dragon is mainly used for fishing. It lives in the soil and is the favorite food of fish. We humans rarely eat the creature called earth dragon, but it can be used as medicine. It can clear away heat, calm the liver and dredge the meridians. It is related to the treatment of high fever, irritability, lung heat, wheezing and coughing, and can also lower body temperature and reduce fever.

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The effects of earthworms: Earthworms are cold in nature and salty in taste. Functions: Clearing away heat, calming the liver, relieving asthma, and unblocking meridians. It enters the liver, stomach, lung and bladder meridians. Functions: clearing away heat and calming the liver, extinguishing wind and stopping convulsions, relieving asthma, promoting urination, unblocking meridians and removing numbness. It is mainly used to treat high fever and irritability, epilepsy and convulsions, lung heat, wheezing and coughing, heat-stagnation and urinary retention, pain and numbness of limbs, hemiplegia, as well as sores, swelling and infection. It is mainly used to treat high fever and mania, convulsions, wind-heat headache, red eyes, hemiplegia, etc. The liquid provided by earthworms has a good effect in relieving cough and asthma. Mixing earthworm ash with rose oil can treat baldness.

Clears away heat, calms wind, dredges meridians, relieves asthma and promotes urination.

It can calm wind and stop convulsions, but the effect is not strong. It has a good heat-clearing effect, can clear liver heat, and can also significantly reduce high fever and lower body temperature. It can be used for wind caused by excessive heat, febrile diseases, or convulsions in children with high fever. But it is not commonly used because its effect of calming wind and stopping spasms is weak, and the antipyretic and anti-spasmodic effects are more obvious when fresh, while the effect of dried decoction is not obvious. The most common use of dried product is to dredge meridians or relax muscles and tendons. Tonifying meridians means relaxing muscles and tendons, relieving joint contractures and difficulty in flexion and extension. It is often used to activate blood vessels, dredge blood vessels or meridians, and improve numbness, hemiplegia, and facial paralysis. The combination of hemiplegia and qi-tonifying and blood-nourishing, blood circulation-activating and blood stasis-removing herbs such as astragalus, safflower and chuanxiong for relieving asthma. It can be used for asthma caused by lung heat. Diuretic and detumescent. Used for edema caused by damp-heat. The most commonly used ones are to dredge meridians and relieve asthma. Antiasthmatic means relieving the spasm of bronchial smooth muscles.

1. Clears away heat and calms wind, used for high fever, epilepsy and mania. Earthworms are salty, cold, and have a dispersing nature. They can calm wind and stop convulsions, and are good at clearing away high fever. Therefore, they are suitable for mania, convulsions, epilepsy and other symptoms caused by high fever. For the treatment of extreme heat-induced wind-induced coma, delirium, convulsions and convulsions caused by febrile diseases, this product can be taken alone as a decoction, or it can be used together with other wind-calming and convulsion-relieving drugs such as Uncaria rhynchophylla, Bezoar, and Bombyx batryticatus. For the treatment of infantile convulsions, high fever, and convulsions, this product can be ground into powder and mixed with cinnabar to make pills for oral administration. For the treatment of high fever, mania or epilepsy, the fresh product is often used alone, dissolved in water with salt, and then drunk.

2. It can promote blood circulation and activate collaterals, and is used for arthralgia and hemiplegia. Earthworms are good at clearing the meridians and are used to treat meridian blockage, poor blood circulation, and joint discomfort caused by various reasons. Because of its cold nature and ability to clear away heat, it is suitable for treating hot arthralgia caused by red, swollen and painful joints, and difficulty in flexion and extension. It is often used in combination with drugs such as Stephania Tetrandra, Gentiana Macrophylla, and Lonicera japonica to remove dampness and heat and dredge the meridians. It is also used to treat wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, numbness, pain, and difficulty in flexion and extension of limb joints. It can be used in combination with Chuanwu, Arisaema, frankincense, etc., such as Xiaohuo Luo Dan. It is often used in combination with astragalus, angelica, Chuanxiong, etc., such as Buyang Huanwu Decoction, to treat qi deficiency and blood stasis, meridian dysfunction after stroke, hemiplegia, and facial paralysis.

3. Clear the lungs and relieve asthma, used for lung heat asthma. This product can also clear lung heat and relieve asthma. It is used to treat evil heat blocking the lungs, incessant wheezing due to the lungs' failure to clear and descend, and wheezing in the throat. It is effective when taken orally with the powder alone. It can also be used together with ephedra, gypsum, apricot kernel, etc.

4. Clears away heat and promotes diuresis. It is used for heat in the bladder, difficulty urinating or urinary retention. This product is salty and cold in nature, and goes down to the kidneys. It can clear away heat and promote urination. It is used to treat urinary problems or urinary retention. The fresh product can be mashed, soaked in water, and the concentrated juice can be filtered and taken. It can also be used together with diuretic and dampness-removing drugs such as Plantago seed, Akebia, and Alisma.

The role of earth dragon:

Earthworms contain earthworm antipyretic alkali, earthworm elements, earthworm toxins, xanthine, adenine, guanine, cholera, etc. It has antipyretic, sedative and anticonvulsant effects. It has a slow and lasting blood pressure lowering effect. It can significantly dilate the bronchi and relieve asthma. It has a significant effect in inhibiting thrombosis. A needle-shaped crystal was extracted from Dilong, which has a stimulating effect on the uterine and intestinal smooth muscles in vitro and in vivo. In addition, it also has anti-mutagenic, anti-fatigue and diuretic effects.

1. This product mainly contains a variety of amino acids, neutral lipids, complex lipids, dehydrogenation isozymes, esterification isozymes, etc.; it also contains earthworm antipyretic alkali, earthworm element, earthworm toxin; it also contains purines, bile alkali and nitrogen-containing substances. The water extract and earthworm alkaloids of earthworms have a good antipyretic effect; its hot extract and alcohol extract have sedative and anticonvulsant effects, and can lower blood pressure, resist arrhythmia, resist thrombosis, anticoagulation and fibrinolysis; earthworm decoction and extract have inhibitory effects on a variety of bacteria and viruses; earthworm liquid has an anti-asthmatic effect; earthworm extract has a strong anti-tumor activity and is related to the regulation of the body's immune function; its water decoction and alcohol extract have the effect of contracting uterine smooth muscle and killing sperm; earthworm also has a certain anti-ulcer effect. In addition, the succinic acid it contains has a diuretic effect; it contains a variety of free amino acids that have nutritional and beauty effects.

2. In recent years, there have been reports of using earthworms to effectively treat bronchial asthma, hypertension, epileptic seizures, mumps, peptic ulcers, etc.

3. It has been reported that earthworms mixed with vinegar and dried in an electric constant temperature drying oven can enhance their analgesic and detoxifying effects, correct the taste and odor, and make their bioalkali salts easier to decoct. Therefore, this product can be prepared with vinegar before use.

The above ones are typical cold-natured wind-calming and antispasmodic drugs, mainly used to treat fever. The following ones are hot or neutral in nature.