What are the effects and functions of red ants

Red ants do have certain medicinal value. Of course, if there are too many of this species, they can be very destructive to the ecosystem. Red ants have a very strong destructive effect on the nests of black ants. The main purpose of black ants is to decompose the corpses of insects and even animals in nature. If there are too many red ants, the number of black ants will undoubtedly be greatly reduced, which will cause the corpses of various animals to rot and deteriorate, thereby causing pathogenic bacteria to spread rapidly. Of course, red ants are not completely useless, their medicinal value is recognized.

Red ants are the only ants approved by the Ministry of Health to have both medicinal and edible value. They contain more than 70 kinds of nutrients, including 42-67% protein, 28 kinds of free amino acids (including 8 kinds of amino acids necessary for the human body); vitamins B1, B2, B12, C, D, E, etc.; more than 20 kinds of trace elements such as calcium, iron, phosphorus, manganese, selenium, zinc, etc., especially zinc, which is known as the "spark of life". The content of zinc is the richest, reaching 120-198 mg per kilogram; it contains triterpenoids, formic acid, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), herbaceous formic aldehyde that cannot be synthesized artificially, interleukin-2 and other biologically active substances, and its content ranks among the top among millions of animals and plants.

For people with rheumatic bone pain, it can prevent and treat rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, frozen shoulder, ankylosing spondylitis, hemiplegia, cervical spondylosis, sciatica, bone pain, and bone necrosis; it can protect the liver and prevent and treat hepatitis B, fatty liver, alcoholic liver, cholecystitis, etc.; it can relieve cough and asthma, and prevent and treat asthma, cough, acute and chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis, chronic pharyngitis, emphysema, cor pulmonale, tuberculosis, whooping cough, and other lung and spleen deficiency syndromes.

In fact, in addition to the medicinal value of red ants introduced above, red ants have many other uses. For example, patients with cough and asthma can use red ants to relieve cough and asthma. Red ants also have the effects of protecting the liver and relieving pain. People with respiratory diseases such as tracheitis or tuberculosis can be treated with red ants. In addition, nephritis and male impotence can be treated with red ants.