This is a mole cricket, also known as freshwater crayfish, also known as "earth dog" in the south, often nocturnal activities, screaming like "coo coo coo" sound, the ancients believe that mole crickets are the ghosts and gods of the messenger (referred to as "ghosts"), often assist the ghosts and gods for the harm, so when you see the activities outside at night, you have to trample to death without mercy, that is, for the people to get rid of the harm. "), often assist the ghosts and gods for the harm, so the night to see mole crickets outside the activities of the mayflies are to be a foot trampled to death, without mercy, that is for the people to get rid of the harm.

Gryllotalpa is a burrowing animal, often digging holes inside the crop field burrowing, to the crops of the rhizomes for food, the number of mole crickets too much, often gnawing on the roots of the crops, the burrowing underground is also prone to make the roots of the plants do not have access to water and soil and caused by the reduction of crops, so mole crickets belong to a kind of agricultural pests, the ancients see the mole crickets and trampled on the death of the mayflies, and nowadays people use a variety of ways to induce mole crickets come out! The same is true for the ancient and modern world.

Gryllotalpa mayflies fly, edge, swim, burrow, walk five kinds of skills, but the wings are too short, can fly fly not far, the forefoot has the strength, but can not dig the hard ground, can crawl but can not climb on the roof, will swim or can not swim across the shore, all kinds of skills are complete, can be used in a hundred, the only into the traditional Chinese medicine after the medicinal value of the people impressively.

In the fall, at night with lights to lure mole crickets out of their holes, and capture these small animals, scalded with boiling water and then cut off the mole crickets wings and feet to get rid of impurities after drying, it can be used in medicine. Gryllolaptaptidae has a salty taste, cold nature, and can enter the bladder, large intestine, small intestine and other meridians, and its main role in traditional Chinese medicine is to promote water retention and swelling, diuretic and detoxification of swelling.

The Shennong Ben Cao Jing (The Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica) first recorded the main medicinal value of mole crickets, that mole crickets are able to "Lord of difficult labor, out of the flesh in the thorns, ulceration of carbuncles and swellings, detoxification, and in addition to the evil sores", the "Rihuazi Materia Medica" also introduces the use of mole crickets to treat the evil sores of the records, which means that the mole crickets detoxifying and eliminating swelling is more powerful.

Gryllotalpa is a good sex downstream, salty and cold into the kidney meridian, bladder meridian, the main division of water metabolism, has a strong diuretic edema pharmacological effect, can treat edema appeared in the edema of the head and face edema is very strong, or abdominal edema stubbornly difficult to subside edema disease, a single taste of mayflies can be seen in a daily dose of mayloprima, can be combined with coriander, glycyrrhiza glabra and so on together to take, the treatment of persistent edema disease efficacy will be greatly enhanced. Because mole crickets salty cold into the bladder meridian, so for the stone disease and lead to stone shower pain and blood in the urine, with the green salt together with the service, the effect is also good.