Leeches knowledge introduction:

The product for the medical leech family animal leeches and leeches, such as the dry whole. Summer and fall capture, scalded to death with boiling water, sun-dried or low-temperature drying.

The leech is flat and long cylindrical, composed of most links, the body more curved and twisted, 2 to 5 centimeters long, 0.2 to 0.3 centimeters wide. Dorsal dark green or black-brown, ventral gray-green body is light and brittle, easy to break, section gelatinous, uneven, no luster, gas slightly fishy. The leech form is larger, flattened fusiform, 4 to 10 centimeters long, 0.5 to 2 centimeters wide. Dorsal black-brown or black-brown, slightly elevated, water immersion can be seen black spots in rows of 5 longitudinal stripes; ventral surface flat, brownish-yellow or brownish-yellow on both sides, slightly pointed at the front end, bluntly rounded at the back end, each with a sucker at both ends, after the sucker is large and obvious, brittle, easy to fracture, gelatinous cross-section, glossy. To body small, strip neat, black-brown is good.

Additional information on leeches:

According to the different methods of concocting leeches are divided into leeches, leeches, rice leeches, oil leeches, after concocting, stored in dry containers, sealed, placed in a ventilated and dry place, moth-proof.

Leeches are suitable for people:

It is forbidden to take leeches for those who are weak and weak in blood, pregnant women, women during menstruation and those who have bleeding tendency.

Leeches therapeutic effect:

Taste salty, bitter, flat, with a small poison. Attributed to the liver meridian. Fishy and good line, into the blood to break the dispersion.

Breaking the blood to expel blood stasis, through the menstruation elimination? This product has great power to break blood, and is suitable for menstrual closure caused by stagnation of blood stasis, tumor masses, as well as bruises and swelling pain and other conditions.

The product is bitter, salty, good at breaking blood stasis and swelling, as a strong effect of breaking blood stasis, the main treatment of blood stasis in serious diseases.

Leeches practice guide:

Where blood heat and stasis in the lower jiao, symptoms of abdominal hardness and fullness, madness of the blood, more with gadfly, rhubarb, peach kernel and so on. Where menstruation does not work, the accumulation of a long time into? It can be used together with gadfly, peach kernel and ripened dihuang; if a woman's menstrual period is closed, or the evil discharge after delivery is not exhausted, and is formed into a mass in the abdomen, and there is little food, labor and coughing, it can be used with gadfly. If a woman has no menstrual flow, or the evil discharge is not finished after delivery, and the obstruction is formed into a mass in the abdomen, or if she eats little and labors and coughs, and gradually becomes weak, it can be used with Curcuma longa, Trigonella foetidis, Astragalus, Angelica sinensis and so on as pills to dispel blood stasis and support the correctness. In addition to the live leeches will be used externally to suck blood, can eliminate carbuncle and swollen, Dan poison.