What do you think of when you correspond to the popular Internet term "turtle"? What would you think of if you described a person as very earthy? Turtles? It is estimated that no one likes to listen. However, the earth turtle is not a very earthy thing, and it is very useful.
Did you see this round bug in your childhood? For example, there will be traces of it in the wet and wet places and the loose soil in the corners of the wall, it is called the earth turtle insect, also known as the "Chinese turtle", also known as the turtle, the earth element, the ground turtle, the mantis. The body of this insect is flattened, covered, black with luster, hermaphroditic, males have wings, and females have wings. The worm has a gray-black substance in its abdomen and a fishy smell.
Earth turtles are afraid of the sun and come out day and night. Therefore, it is almost difficult to see it during the day, and the summer and autumn seasons reproduce the strongest and have the most opportunities to see it.
According to the "National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicine", the earth turtle insects are salty and cold. There is a small poison. It has the effect of activating blood and dispersing stasis, relieving menstrual pain and so on. It has a good effect on patients with bruises, bruising and pain, amenorrhea, and postpartum stasis and abdominal pain. It is not difficult to find its traces in the medical books of the past.
【Excerpts from Ancient Medical Texts】
1. Soil turtle insect treatment of fistula swelling: dried turtle powder, musk each studied a little. On the second taste grind well. Dry mixing or patching with dry and wet treatment. (General Records of Saint Francis)
2, soil turtle insects to treat broken wounds, bone: soil turtle roasting, for the end, each serving two, three dollars. (Medical Summary)
3, earth turtle insects to treat broken wounds, bone: oyster six dollars (separator paper, casserole baked in the casserole), natural copper two two (fire calcined vinegar quenched seven times). at the end. Two dollars per serving, warm wine down, sick on, after eating; sick in the next, before eating. (Pocket Side)
4, the earth turtle insect to cure the tongue swelling full of mouth can not speak: five pieces of insects, two cups of water, fry ten boiling to go to the heat and spit out to the degree of fistula. ("Miracle Cure" worm scatter)
5, soil turtle insect cure horse tooth chancre, tooth fall nose collapse, long-term incurable: soil turtle forty-nine (calcination), mountain bean root, human white (calcined), Tatsu sand (fly) 2 dollars each. Finely chopped on. First cut the rotten flesh and rinse it with sesame oil through the mouth, so that there is no oil and gas to spit it out six or seven times; the time it is poured with boiling soup into salt and vinegar three or four times; again it is dried with cotton rouge and then mixed. ("Surgical Dacheng" regeneration dispersion)
6, soil turtle insects cure bruises, bruises and attack the heart: earth turtle (to the foot of the birth of half a summer two with baked dry) - money, frankincense (to oil) a dollar, myrrh (to oil) a dollar, natural copper (calcined) a dollar, bone fragments (roasted to hair) a dollar, blood exhaustion a dollar, guiwei - money, borax a dollar. Co-study fine powder magnetic tank storage. Every eight percent good wine is sent down. (Shou Shi New Edition, 8 percent scatter)
7, soil turtle insects to cure fistula: fresh turtle insects, Chen wahua (in the house next year is better, the tile calcination). Same mashed. Paste it with plaster, it will disappear before it collapses, and it will collapse when it has collapsed. [Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine (21): 6, 1926]
【Contraindications】
Elderly and infirm and menstruating personnel should be cautious about taking earth turtle worms, and pregnant women are forbidden to take earth turtle worms.
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