Morphological characteristics of medium-sized individuals, the shell is about 44.4 mm high and 27.5 mm wide. The shell is nearly wide and conical, with 6-7 spiral layers, and each spiral layer expands outward. The height of the spiral part is greater than the height of the shell opening, and the spiral layer of the body is obviously expanded. Shell tip. The suture is deep. The shell surface is smooth and ribbed, and it is yellow-brown. The shell mouth is nearly ovoid, with complete and thin edges and a black frame. A horny sheet, smaller than the shell opening, with concentric growth line, and the nucleus is located in the center of the inner lip.
Biological characteristics: Living in lakes, reservoirs, ditches, paddy fields and ponds with lush fresh water plants, it crawls with wide belly feet, and has great adaptability to dryness, cold and heat. When encountering dry environment, it retracts the soft part into the shell to seal the shell mouth or drill into the mud. Sneak into the mud to hibernate in winter, and then unearthed in the spring of the following year. Feeding on leaves of aquatic plants, lower algae, etc. Oviposition, fertilization and development in vivo, the number of eggs conceived by female snails varies from 1 to 1. After they develop into young snails, they are excreted one after another, and the young snails live freely in the water, and they reach sexual maturity after growing for about one year.
economic value meat is delicious and has high nutritional value. Frozen snail meat is also for export, and it can also be used as feed for livestock. It is also the natural bait for herring and carp, and the snail shell and meat can be used for medicine.
the taste is sweet and salty, and the nature is cold. With China round snail, etc.
it is mainly used for clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, removing dampness and detoxicating. It can be used for treating constipation, jaundice, beriberi, edema, thirst quenching, hemorrhoid, hematochezia, red eyes, swelling and pain, and furuncle.
Clinical application
1. Treatment of infectious icteric hepatitis, chronic hepatitis and early cirrhosis: 5g of snail is kept in water for 2-3 days, so that sludge and waste are completely discharged, then a little of snail tail is knocked off, and it is taken together with 5g of abrus cantonensis. Once a day.
2. Cure the unfavorable and turbid urine: wash 25g of snail, remove the tail, put it in a hot oil pan, stir-fry for a while, add a little garlic, season with salt, add water and cook, and pick out the snail meat with a needle.
3. treatment of jaundice: 1g of snail meat, 12g of wormwood, 3g of rabdosia, 3g of Hypericum japonicum, decocted in water, 1-2 doses per day.
4. treatment of bacillary dysentery: 5g of snail, picking out snail meat, drying in the sun, parching and decocting in water, 1g each time, 3 times a day.
5. Treatment of damp-heat jaundice, dysuria and diabetes: 15 snails were raised in clear water to remove mud, and the snail meat was taken out and mixed in a half cup of rice wine, then stewed in clear water to drink soup once a day.
6. Treatment of urinary tract infection, prostatitis and urinary calculi: 3g of plantain seeds, 1 red dates and 1g of snail (with shell). First, the snail is kept in clear water for 1-2 days, and the water is often changed to remove the sludge and cut off the snail; Wash the red dates (core removed). Wrap plantain seeds in gauze, put them in a pot with red dates and snails, add appropriate amount of water, boil them with strong fire, simmer for 2 hours, and drink soup to eat snail meat.
usage and dosage: take the soup stew, depending on the condition.
people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should avoid eating.
ingredients and medicinal products contain protein, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid and vitamin a .. Has diuretic and repercussive effect. ..