Mantis seed is actually a highly valued Chinese herb. It can fix semen and shrink urine, tonify the kidney and help yang, and is mainly used to treat spermatorrhea and slippery semen, frequent urination, and whitish urine.

The cuttlebone is often seen in the countryside on mulberry trees or on the branches of short shrubs, and is usually tawny in color, with cylindrical or elongated shapes.

The mantis is most common in the summer months, and is disliked because of its unhygienic and reproducing ability, so many people are unaware of the effects of mantis eggs, which are divided into three types depending on their shape: the massed cuttlebone, the long cuttlebone, and the black cuttlebone.

Cuttlebone in the countryside is also known as walking urinating dog, in the countryside there are a lot of children love to wet the bed, the adults will pick a few cuttlebone on the branches, back in the tile on the drying, and then ground into powder to the children mixed in the rice in the water, the children ate bedwetting will be better.

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The formation of cuttlebone and its main components

Female praying mantis will first secrete a kind of foamy mucus on the branches before laying eggs, and then fertilize the eggs by laying them in it, arranging them in rows, and then form a kind of oothecae after drying, that is, the so-called cuttlebone. In Chinese medicine, the cuttlebone produced on the mulberry tree is called sang cuttlebone, which is considered the best for medicine. The long cuttlebone is usually found in reeds, while the short cuttlebone tends to be found on shrubs such as acacia and willow trees.

The main cuttlebone contains phospholipids, such as lysophosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, etc.; free amino acids, proteins, fats, crude fibers, calcium citrate, iron, calcium, carotenoid pigments, glycoproteins, lipoproteins, etc.. It has the effect of astringency and improving immunity

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