There is no uniform price for dried earthworms, which fluctuates every year, and the prices in different regions are different.
The fresh commercial earthworm is about 5 ~ 1 kg in 8 yuan and about 5 ~ 1 kg in 45 yuan. Generally, 7-8 kilograms of fresh commercial earthworm can dry one kilogram of dried earthworm, and the price of dried earthworm depends on the place of origin and whether it is cut open to remove sediment. The sediment in Hainan and Guangdong is about 70 yuan/kg, and that in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai is about 50-60 yuan/kg. The wholesale price of earthworms in Tianjin is around 30 yuan/kg.
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Dry earthworm, also known as earthworm, is one of the important Chinese herbal medicines in China. Earthworm is one of 67 kinds of animal medicines recorded in Shennong Materia Medica, the earliest monograph of traditional Chinese medicine in China. It is classified as inferior medicine in Shennong Materia Medica Classic, which has the functions of clearing away heat, relieving convulsion, dredging collaterals, relieving asthma and diuresis.
1. Clearing heat and calming wind
Used for high fever, epilepsy and madness. Pheretima is salty in taste, cold in nature, cathartic, can stop wind and spasm, and is good at clearing high fever, so it is suitable for mania, convulsion and epilepsy caused by high fever.
For fever caused by extreme heat, delirium, convulsion, convulsion, etc., this product can be decocted alone, or combined with wind-calming and spasmodic drugs such as Uncaria, Niuhuang and Bombyx Batryticatus.
It can be used to treat infantile convulsion and febrile convulsion. This product can be ground into powder and cinnabar can be taken as pills. To treat high fever, mania or epilepsy, fresh products are often used alone and salted in water.
2. dredge meridians
Used for joint pain and hemiplegia. Lumbricus is good at dredging channels and collaterals, and is used for diseases such as impassability of channels and collaterals, poor blood circulation and unfavorable limbs caused by various reasons.
Because of its cold nature, it can clear heat, so it is suitable for treating joint pain caused by redness, swelling and pain, and unfavorable flexion and extension. It is often combined with Ji Fang, Gentiana macrophylla and Lonicera japonica to clear damp-heat and dredge meridians.
It can also be used for treating arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness, numbness of limbs and joints, pain, and unfavorable flexion and extension. It can be combined with Radix Aconiti, Rhizoma Arisaematis and Olibanum, such as Xiaohuoluo Dan.
It can be used for the treatment of qi deficiency and blood stasis, adverse meridians after apoplexy, hemiplegia, and facial distortion. It is often combined with Radix Astragali, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Rhizoma Chuanxiong, such as Buyanghuanwu Decoction.
3. Clearing lung and relieving asthma
Used for asthma due to lung heat. This product can also clear lung-heat and relieve asthma. For patients with lung qi stagnation and throat wheezing, it can be effective only by grinding and taking orally. It can also be used with Herba Ephedrae, Gypsum Fibrosum and Almond.
4. Clearing heat and promoting diuresis
Used for thermal bladder obstruction, dysuria or dysuria. This product is salty and cold and enters the kidney, clearing heat and promoting diuresis. Can be used for treating dysuria or dysuria. It can be mashed with fresh products, soaked in water and filtered to get concentrated juice. It can also be used with herbs such as Plantago Seed, Akebia Akebia, Alisma orientalis, etc.
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