Effects and functions of nine-headed insect

Promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, and promote qi circulation in the middle part of the body. It is used to treat cough due to deficiency, vomiting blood, paralysis caused by stroke, bruises, pain in the heart and stomach, nausea and vomiting. The nine-headed worm is also called the ocean worm. It contains protein and various carbohydrates and other substances, and has high nutritional value, efficacy and function.

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Efficacy and function

Promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, and promote qi circulation in the middle part of the body. It is used to treat cough due to deficiency, vomiting blood, paralysis caused by stroke, bruises, pain in the heart and stomach, nausea and vomiting.

Oxalic acid "Medicinal Properties": Swallow a few pills alive to promote blood circulation and treat fatigue.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" says: It promotes blood circulation, warms the intestines and stomach, harmonizes the five internal organs, strengthens bones and tendons, removes dampness and wind, tonifies the kidneys and strengthens the yang, and treats cowardice.

For insomnia in the elderly, use Poria cocos; for night crying in children, use Cinnabar; for nocturnal urination in little girls, use Lycium barbarum; for vaginal cataract in beautiful young women, use Lu Te Technology; for carbuncle on the back, use Agarwood powder; for dry tongue and thirst, use Ophiopogon japonicus; for closed eyelid pain, use Licorice; for deafness and tinnitus, use Chuanxiong; for fever, cold and chills, use Saposhnikovia divaricata; for dampness and plague, use Red Peony Root; for bruises, use Quanchong; for death due to drunkenness, use Kudzu flower; for death due to anger, use Agarwood; for colic and sha pain, use Green Pagoda.

For all the above symptoms, use 14 worms and take them with aged wine.

Shape characteristics

The body is oblong, 6mm long, dark gray-black, shiny, with tentacles, mouthparts and feet reddish gray-black. There are densely scattered small dots on the head, a horizontal depression in the front and small houses on both sides. The eyes are quite big. Antennae are thick, with 4 to 10 segments being too wide and too long, the last segment being slightly narrower and longer, and basically round.

The chest is short, wider than the elytra, not narrower than the elytra, narrow at the front and slightly narrowed near the tip on both sides; the back is slightly concave, and there is sometimes a small room in the middle of the front; there are wide and shallow depressions on both sides of the margins; the posterior angle is obtuse and obtuse on the ulnar side. Scutellum obtuse-ovate, with scattered tiny puncta. The elytra are quite long and thin, with fine dots in the rows, and the dots are quite dense between the rows. The abdomen is densely dotted. The life span of nymphs is about 3 months.

Production Area

It is found in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, the South Pacific Islands of Figi and Hainan Province in my country. It is raised in Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province, Fujian Province, Guangdong Province and other places.

Usage method Dosage

Oral administration: swallow raw, grind into powder or make into pills. For external application: mash and apply.

A Chinese medicinal material, also known as foreign worm, is one of the insect pests of grains, but because it contains protein and various carbohydrates and other substances that are beneficial to the human body, it has high nutritional value and can be taken orally and has medicinal value.

1. To treat the five kinds of fatigue and seven kinds of injuries: 3 grams of white Poria cocos and 7 foreign worms. mashed. Take it on an empty stomach every day to recover.

2. To treat fatigue cough: 3 grams of ox bone marrow and 3 grams of fresh walnuts. Grind them into powder, add seven sea worms, and make into pills, each pill containing three coins. Take one pill in your mouth at 5 a.m. every day.

3. To treat vomiting blood, shortness of breath and fever: grind ancient ink into a thick paste, add three parts of Fritillaria flower (grind into powder), and seven foreign worms. Take the aged wine seven times.

4. Treatment for asthma: nine foreign worms. Savory soup is served.

5. To treat stomachache and heartache: seven foreign worms. Take the powdered nard with wine.

6. To treat gas pain: nine foreign worms. Betel nut soup is served.

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The whole body of the foreign worm is oblong, 4-6cm long and 1.5-1.9mm wide. The head and chest side plates are gray-black, and the elytra are black-brown.

Upper lip and tentacles dark brown. The ventral surface of the thorax, feet and abdomen are dark brown. The head is covered with small pits and has short milky white hairs. The compound eyes are very large, consisting of many small, bead-like protruding holes. The head is small. The tentacles are located in the middle of the forehead, just in front of the compound eyes, and are covered with many short milky white hairs. The side panels of the chest are rectangular frames, covered with small concave dots and short milky white hairs, and the scutellum is triangular and brown-red.