Spelling: Gu Lou
English name: mole cricket
Source: It's a dry whole insect of Gryllotapidae.
Efficacy: diuretic and laxative.
Indications: It can be used for the treatment of damp-heat in bladder, stranguria, urinary calculi, edema, scrofula and carbuncle.
Tropism of nature and taste: salty, cold and slightly toxic. ① Classic: "It tastes salty and cold." 2 "No recording": "Non-toxic." 3 "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Cold, toxic." Into the stomach, bladder, large intestine and small intestine.
Administration and dosage: oral: decoction, 1 ~ 1.5 yuan; Or turned into powder. External use: whether to grind or not? Nose.
Avoid medication: it is forbidden for people with qi deficiency and physical weakness and pregnant women.
Drug compatibility: with Euphorbia fischeriana: diuretic and detumescence; Use pangolin: dredge meridians; Using bitter gourd seeds: benefiting qi and strengthening yang.
Other names: Wu Shu (Xunzi), Qi Qi (Lv Chunqiu), Hub, Tianqi (Er Ya), Guli (Classic), Qi Qi, Gucci, Du Gou, Du Gou.
Prescription name: mole cricket and hyena.
Trade name: Crab: Also known as Southern Crab and African Crab. For a dry mole cricket. Great mole: also known as northern mole and northern mole. For a dry mole cricket. The above products are better if the worms are intact, dry and free of impurities.
Medicinal part: Gryllotalpa wnispina Saussure, the same animal, is also used for medicine. The appearance is similar to that of the former species, but it is larger, about 4 cm long, with a cylindrical abdomen and lighter body color.
Distribution of animal and plant resources: distributed in most parts of the country. Medicinal materials are mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Hebei, Anhui, Liaoning and other places.
Collection and storage of medicinal materials: pick them when plowing in summer and autumn, or light them at night to trap them. Blanch with boiling water, dry in the sun or dry after fishing.
Latin name: Gryllotalpa protozoa Gryllotalpa Africapal. Debova
Processing method: Wash impurities, remove wings and feet, or bake until brown.
Examination: from Compendium of Materia Medica; Outline: "Moles live in the soil, with short wings and four feet. Male birds are good at singing and flying, while female birds are not good at flying because of their big bellies and few feathers. Suck the phoenix and eat the soil, like the light, and people take medicine. "
Identification of raw medicinal materials: most of the dry worms have been broken and incomplete. A complete one is about 3 cm long, and the head and chest are dark brown with dark brown; Compound eyes are black and shiny; Wing membrane, broken and broken, foot broken and incomplete. The abdomen is dry, light yellow and some are dark brown. Sparsely pubescent, or glabrous, soft and fragile. There is a peculiar smell. It is best to be dry, complete and free of impurities and dirt.
Chemical composition of traditional Chinese medicine: There are 13 kinds of free amino acids in hemolymph, including alanine. The content of histidine and valine is high. The free amino acids in testis are alanine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glycine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, proline, serine, tyrosine and valine, among which proline has the highest concentration and aspartic acid, serine and tyrosine have the lowest. Amino acids in urine include cystine, lysine, arginine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glycine and unknown amino acids. These amino acids also belong to hemolymph. Arginine and lysine were not found in seminal vesicle.
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