What are the effects and functions of dried earthworms?

Dried earthworm is a traditional Chinese medicine, but it should be noted that if the dosage of this traditional Chinese medicine is too large, it may cause dizziness and headache, or cause blood pressure to rise first and then fall, and may cause abdominal pain. In more serious cases, overdose may cause difficulty breathing or gastrointestinal bleeding. Therefore, the use of traditional Chinese medicine such as dried earthworm must be under the guidance of a doctor. Here is an introduction to the effects and functions of dried 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.

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.

Dried earthworm is a traditional Chinese medicine with certain toxicity and must not be used indiscriminately. In addition, a considerable number of friends may be allergic to this traditional Chinese medicine. Allergic reactions are often rashes or pale complexion, or difficulty breathing, and low blood pressure. Therefore, when using dried earthworms, once these reactions occur, you must stop taking the medicine immediately and seek medical attention and treatment immediately.