Taste and effect

Salty in flavor, flat in nature. It has a small toxicity. Effects: Nourishing the lungs to stabilize wheezing, benefiting the kidneys and assisting yang.

Traditional Applications

To treat kidney deficiency and asthma, lung deficiency and coughing; impotence.

This drug is often used in the following traditional formulas: ① ginseng and mealybugs scattered ("Health Baoguan"): ginseng, mealybugs, almonds, Zhimu, Beimu, Sangbai Pi, Poria, licorice, treatment of prolonged weakness, coughing, asthma and phlegm red; ② the only Sheng Cake ("General Records of the Shengji"): mealybugs, ginseng, for the cake, glutinous rice porridge, treating lung coughing, swelling of the face, floating limbs.

Main ingredients

Mealybugs mainly contain sex hormones and other ingredients.

1. Sex hormones mealybugs contain sex hormones, female mealybugs contain estrogen, male mealybugs contain androgen.

2. Amino acids contain l4 kinds of amino acids, such as glycine, proline, glutamic acid and so on.

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3. Trace elements contain 18 kinds of trace elements such as calcium, zinc, phosphorus, etc.; 5 kinds of phospholipids, such as phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidic acid.

4. Fatty acids Containing 9 kinds of fatty acids, such as linoleic acid, oleic acid, palmitic acid, arachidic acid, etc..

5. Others still contain carnosine, choline, carnitine, guanine, protein and so on.