No. The Chinese medicine stiff silkworm is the dried body of the larvae of the domestic silkworm, which is infected with the white fungus and dies. It has the effect of restraining wind and stopping spasm, dispelling wind and relieving pain, and resolving phlegm and dispersing knots. It is used for treating liver wind with phlegm, convulsions of epilepsy, acute fright of children, tetanus, stroke, wind-heat headache, eye redness and sore throat, wind rash and itching, and hairy mumps.

The herb white silkworm.