What is a clam? Gecko, the name of traditional Chinese medicine, is the dried body of Gecko. It is distributed in Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places, and lives in rock slopes, cracks in caves or tree holes. Gecko has the effects of tonifying lung and kidney, relieving asthma, and nourishing yang and essence, and is often used for lung and kidney deficiency, deficiency of breath and shortness of breath, cough and hemoptysis, impotence and nocturnal emission.
Gecko can be decocted in water, made into pills or soaked in wine. The famous Gecko wine is often used to tonify kidney and strengthen yang, but it is irritating to people with asthma and cough, but it is not good. Try to bake it and bake it into honey pills, or grind it and take it with medicine. In addition, people suffering from exogenous wind, cold, asthma, cough and yang deficiency and excessive fire are forbidden to take it.
Second, the usage and dosage of traditional Chinese medicine gecko
Chinese medicine gecko is generally used with other medicinal materials, mainly in the following ways:
1, treating lung cough, floating face and limbs: a pair of geckos (male and female with complete head and tail, washed and cooked with wine and honey) and one ginseng (Radix Codonopsis). Add two flavors, pound Luo into powder, melt four ounces of wax, filter out me and the powder, and make six cakes. Every time, hollow, use glutinous rice as a thin porridge, add a cake, sip it while it is hot. -"Shengji Zonglu" unique holy bread
2. Treatment of fatigue cough and lung congestion: a pair of geckos (with full head and tail, crispy and fried to yellow), one or two Fritillaria (slightly yellow), one or two asters (removing seedlings and soil), one or two almonds (soaked in soup, peeled, pointed, Shuang Ren, slightly yellow with bran), and two turtle shells. Mulberry root white skin one or two (file). The medicine is smashed into powder, and the honey is refined and smashed for three or two hundred pestles. The pills are as big as buttonwood. Take twenty pills with jujube soup every time, three or four times a day. Avoid amaranth. -"Taiping Shenghuifang" clam pill
3, treatment of postpartum asthma, qi and blood loss: ginseng 22, Radix Rehmanniae 22, Ophiopogon japonicus San Qian, Cinnamon 1, Perilla 1, Gecko 2, Pinellia 3, decocted with water. -"Syndrome Differentiation Record" Gecko Jiuchuan Dan
4. Treating cough and floating face, cough and asthma caused by lung deficiency in the elderly: a pair of clams are coated with honey and wine, baked and crispy on fire, ground into fine powder, added with the same amount of Northeast Red Ginseng, and ground evenly. Honey is refined into pills as big as adzuki beans, 3 grams each time, twice a day.
5, treatment of chronic cough and tuberculosis: Gecko baked 10 g, Codonopsis pilosula, Dioscorea opposita, Ophiopogon japonicus, Lily each 30 g, * * * ground honey pills, 3 g each, twice a day, with warm water.
6. Ginseng Gecko Wine: A pair of geckos with even tails are roasted on fire, and ginseng (or red ginseng)10-20g is soaked in 2,000g rice wine, and it is started to be drunk after seven days, and 20-50ml is drunk as appropriate every day. Has effect in invigorating kidney, strengthen yang, invigorating qi and tranquilizing mind. Suitable for weak body, loss of appetite, insomnia, forgetfulness, impotence, premature ejaculation, cough and asthma due to lung deficiency, frequent urination at night, etc.
Gecko is generally used for oral administration, and there are three main ways to take it:
1, oral administration: 3 ~ 6g, mostly in pills or wine. -China Pharmacopoeia
2, oral: decoction,1~ 2 money; Or into the pill, scattered. -Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine
3. Oral administration: decoction, 3-6g; At the end of grinding,1-1.5g; Or into the pill, scattered. -"Chinese materia medica"
Note: the formula should be used under the guidance of a doctor.
Third, the eating method of clams.
Gecko lean broth
Ingredients: 200g lean meat, ginkgo 10, cordyceps 1 5g, gecko1pair.
Practice:
1, the head, feet and intestines of the gecko are removed, and the tail is left.
2, washed with wine, add lean meat, ginkgo (shelled) Cordyceps sinensis and put them in a tile, stew for 3 hours, remove the slag and drink soup, ginkgo can be eaten.
Efficacy: This prescription can tonify lung and kidney, benefit essence and qi, relieve cough and asthma, eliminate phlegm and treat lung carbuncle, go against qi, stop thirst, and it is suitable for patients with kidney deficiency and asthma for a long time.
Ginseng clam soup
Ingredients: ginseng 1 0g, gecko1pair, lean pork100g, 5 red dates and 3 slices of ginger.
Practice:
1, clean lean meat and cut into pieces; Wash ginseng, gecko, jujube and ginger with clear water respectively for later use.
2. Put the above spare materials into a stew pot together, add appropriate amount of boiling water, cover the stew pot, and simmer in the pot for 2-3 hours with slow fire, and season for use.
Efficacy: Warming spleen and tonifying kidney.
Scope of application: used for palpitation, pallor, fatigue and weakness, wheezing when moving, cold body and limbs, edema and oliguria, and fat tongue due to yang deficiency of spleen and kidney.
Stewed bamboo chicken with gecko
Ingredients: Gecko1000g, Chicken1000g, Ginger 5g, Onion 5g, Radix Astragali 5g, Cooking Wine 20g, Salt 3g and monosodium glutamate 3g.
Practice:
1, bamboo chicken is cut and washed, blanched with boiling water, washed, put into a casserole, put ham skin (tube bone) and onion knots, ginger, cooking wine and salt, and add clear water until the chicken doesn't pass.
2. The clams are soaked in cold water for 24 hours in advance, then soaked in clear water and steamed in a cage for 3 hours.
3. Put the clams and soup together on the chicken, wrap the astragalus with gauze and put it in the soup beside the chicken, steam it in the cage for an hour and serve.
Efficacy: It has the effects of tonifying lung, relieving asthma, benefiting qi and tonifying deficiency.
Gecko Ginseng glutinous rice porridge
Ingredients: 4 grams of gecko powder, 3 grams of ginseng powder, and 0/50 grams of glutinous rice/kloc.
Practice:
1 Wash the glutinous rice, put it in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, bring it to a boil with high fire, and slowly cook it over medium fire until the rice is cooked and rotten.
2. Stir the clam powder and ginseng powder with a spoon and sprinkle them into the pot, and serve every 5- 10 minutes. When eating, you can add appropriate amount of sugar or honey to taste.
Efficacy: It is suitable for treating chronic bronchitis in winter and summer.