Female adult mantis lays eggs in the egg sheath, which was called "grub" in ancient times, especially on mulberry branches. It's called "oodles".

Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in Ming Dynasty recorded the treatment of Cricket for infantile convulsion, impotence, nocturnal emission and enuresis.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that ootheca mantidis is flat in nature, sweet and salty in taste, and has the effects of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, consolidating semen and reducing urine. Indications include enuresis, nocturnal emission, white turbidity, premature ejaculation, frequent urination, lumbago due to kidney deficiency, neurasthenia, and irregular menstruation of women. In China, ootheca mantidis is often used to treat polyuria. Mantis is executed, dried or dried, and adults can also be used as medicine.

It is sweet in taste, mild in nature and slightly toxic, and has the effects of nourishing and strengthening, tonifying kidney and replenishing essence, and relieving convulsion and stopping fibrillation.

Indications: impotence, nocturnal emission, convulsion, sore throat, enuresis, hemorrhoids, neurasthenia, etc.

According to the determination, ootheca mantidis contains protein 58. 5%, fat 1 1. 65%, carbohydrate 1. 6% and crude fiber 20. 16%, calcium 0. 4%, iron and carotene, etc. In recent years, mantis extract can also be used to make new drugs for the treatment of liver cancer, which has obvious inhibitory effect on the proliferation of cancer cells.

In addition, mantis is a beneficial insect in agriculture. According to statistics, it can prey on about 60 kinds of pests, mainly aphids, flies, locusts, caterpillars, butterflies, beetles, midges, moths and so on. , larvae or adults, so the protection and artificial reproduction of mantis is directly or indirectly beneficial to human beings.