Grasshopper pronounced zhà měng.
Grasshopper, Chinese medicine. It is the adult of various insects such as Locusta migratoria?Linnaeus of the locust family, Oxya chinensis?Thunberg of the rice locust genus, and Acrida lata?Motsch of the rice leaf locust genus.
Animal flying locusts and rice leaf locusts, the whole country are distributed; Chinese rice locusts, most parts of China are distributed. It has the effect of expelling wind and spasm, relieving cough and asthma. The main treatment for pediatric convulsions, tetanus, whooping cough, asthma.
The katydid "Shijing", cyrtophyllum "Erya", katydid "Shuowen", python, eupolyphon python, 蚮 "dialect", a hundred curls of the "Huainanzi", 蛨 Ch'ernan "Yuzhuan", Ch'ernan (Dialect" Guo Pu note), bumpy heel (Han Shu "Yan Shigu note).
To treat children's panic attacks, grasshoppers are not limited to how much, calcined and stored sex (research), sugar and take. ("Compendium of Gleanings") treatment of acute and slow convulsions, take grasshoppers after the frost, air-dried, with ten or seven, plus hooker, mint leaves, a handful of each, decoction of the soup, the dregs of the decoction, and then decocted to serve. (Hundred Herbs Mirror).
The treatment of tetanus, grasshoppers dried after the frost, with ten or more, calcined on a tile, under the wine. ("Life Saving Sea of Bitterness") treatment of postpartum wind, dozens of dried grasshoppers, calcined on a tile, good wine to mix the service. (The Compendium of Gleanings cited Wang Liangsheng rescue emergency formula).
The treatment of cormorant plague (the disease of coughing, even dozens of sounds, like croup, like asthma, like wheezing, children suffer from this), grasshopper ten. Decoction soup service. (Hundred Herb Mirror) treatment of three-day malaria, katydid dry for the end, the day of the hair, at five o'clock in the wine service square inch dagger. (Yao Kecheng, "Food Materia Medica") For the treatment of frostbite, grasshoppers are dried and calcined. Apply it with sesame oil or sprinkle it. (Yangsuyuan Chuanxinfang).
Flying locusts, also known as locusts (Zoological Records of China), East Asian flying locusts (Natural Herbarium). The body length is about 5.4 centimeters, yellowish brown. The top of the head is pale, compound eyes brown, ovoid. Single eye 3, arranged as tripod feet. Antennae filiform, brown. Chewing mouthparts. Prothorax large, green, with a central raised longitudinal alignment.
The forewings are papery, narrow and long, grayish yellow with irregular markings. The fore and mid legs are yellowish brown, the hind leg segments are green with 3 bands of blackish green spots on the inner side. Abdomen consists of 11 segments, with hearers on the 1st abdominal segment, 8 pairs of valves on the 2nd-8th abdominal segments, and terminal caudal hairs.