What are the medicinal values ​​of earthworms?

Earthworms actually refer to earthworms. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, earthworms have the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, and activating meridians. Earthworms can be used to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. However, please note that if Dilong is used in large doses, it may easily cause headaches, dizziness, or a decrease in blood pressure and height, and may also cause breathing difficulties and gastrointestinal bleeding. In addition, some people are allergic to earthworms, especially after intramuscular injection, they have allergic reactions. Let’s take a look at the medicinal value of the underground palace.

The effects and functions of earthworms: clearing the qi and stopping convulsions; calming the liver and extinguishing wind; unblocking the meridians and activating the collaterals; relieving asthma and promoting diuresis. It is used to treat fever, drowsiness and mania caused by febrile diseases; epilepsy and convulsions; liver-yang headache; hemiplegia caused by stroke; rheumatic pain; cough and wheezing caused by lung heat; and urinary obstruction. It is used for high fever and coma, epilepsy and convulsions, joint pain, limb numbness, hemiplegia, lung heat, cough and wheezing, oliguria and edema, and hypertension.

Diuretic and diuretic: Suitable for damp-heat invasion, hot and painful stranguria. Clear the meridians: It can be used to treat hot arthralgia, swelling, redness and pain in the joints; it can also be used to treat cold arthralgia with appropriate combination; it is often used with Qi-invigorating and blood-activating drugs for patients with Qi deficiency, blood stasis, poor meridian function, hemiplegia and aphasia. Clear the lungs and calm asthma: It can cure lung heat, cough, phlegm and asthma, and has a better effect on lung heat type bronchial asthma. Clears away heat and calms wind: Mainly used to treat high fever, epilepsy, and convulsions caused by wind. For treating chronic convulsions in children, depression, restlessness, stiffness of tendons and veins, weak stomach and parasite movement, crying with backache: half a coin of frankincense (ground), one coin of Hu powder. Grind the above two ingredients into a fine powder, crush white-necked earthworms to remove the dirt, grind them into powder and make them into pills as big as sesame seeds. Take seven to ten pills each time, boiled in scallion soup, and adjust the dosage according to the size of the child.

The above introduces the medicinal value of earthworms. Although it is of great value, there are many taboos when using earthworms. For example, people with poor stomach and poor appetite should not use earthworms. When taking medicines containing earthworm ingredients, you should avoid eating onions and eat less salt. People with deficient Yang Qi or weak spleen and stomach should not use earthworms. People with kidney deficiency and shortness of breath should not use earthworms. People with blood deficiency should not use earthworms.