Mole crickets are the general name for insects of the order Insecta, order Orthoptera, superfamily Cricketidae, and family Molecidae. They are commonly known as lala crickets, soil dogs, sky crickets, ground crickets, etc. They can be used as medicine. Ancient Chinese medicine books record the following: "Lu Shi Chun Qiu" calls it "molecular cricket". "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" records: "Mole crickets are salty in taste and cold in nature. They are mainly responsible for difficult childbirth, flesh thorns, ulcers and swelling, and choking. They can detoxify and remove malignant sores." "Ben Cao Tu Jing" records: "It facilitates urination and defecation, and has immediate effect in treating aphthous ulcers." "Qianjin Prescription" records: "Ear plugging cures deafness". "Shengji Zonglu" records: "It is effective in treating tooth pain." The clinical applications are as follows:

1. Treatment of urinary and fecal obstruction. The medicinal parts of the mole cricket are the dried adults and large nymphs as a whole, which have diuretic and detoxifying effects. Internal use can eliminate edema and diuresis, and can treat bruises. External use can treat abscesses and sores.

2. Treat edema and cirrhosis ascites. Take about 6g of mole cricket powder and take it three times with boiled water or rice soup. It has obvious curative effect and is suitable for all types of edema, such as anemia, nutritional, cardiac, renal, bladder, athlete's foot, and other edema. Edema caused by diseases all have different effects, but the length of treatment is different.

3. Treat constipation. The homemade cricket decoction is used to treat constipation caused by prostatic hypertrophy.

4. Treat nephritis. Yang, a 70-year-old Miao doctor from Zhouxi Township, Kaili District, has a recipe: mole cricket duck cake, which has a remarkable clinical effect in treating nephritis. Most patients' urine output gradually increased 1 hour after taking the medicine, and the diuretic effect was significant in 3 to 7 days. As the swelling subsides, the test results also tend to improve.

5. Treat tuberculosis. Make a small hole in one end of the egg, put the mole cricket into the egg, cover the hole with paper, cook the egg over a slow fire, peel it and take it to treat lymph node tuberculosis. The same method can also treat malnutrition caused by damage to the spleen and stomach. .

6. Treat urinary retention. The treatment of urinary retention with mole crickets comes from the "New Prescriptions" edited by Wang Ao, Prime Minister of the Qing Dynasty. Use 6g of dried mole crickets, grind them into powder, and drink them with warm water. You can urinate unobstructed within 2 hours after taking the medicine. Use a single prescription of mole cricket to treat postpartum urinary retention. Grind 5g of dried mole cricket into powder and take it with warm water. Urination will be restored to more than 60% within 1 to 2 hours.

7. Treatment of urinary system stones. The mole cricket mixture is mainly composed of mole crickets. It treats urinary system stones according to syndrome differentiation, and the stone expulsion rate can reach 79.5.