Silkworm excrement, also known as original silkworm excrement and late silkworm excrement, is the excrement of silkworm larvae of Bombycidae. Sweet, pungent and warm in nature, it enters the liver, spleen and stomach meridians, and has the effects of expelling wind and dampness, relaxing tendons and collaterals, harmonizing dampness, expelling wind and relieving itching.
Silkworm excrement was widely used in ancient times, but in recent years, with the change of people's living habits, fewer and fewer people used it as silkworm feces. In fact, this product is unique in eliminating dampness, relieving addiction and stopping metrorrhagia. Don't let it lose its application value because it is filthy. Moreover, this product is a product discharged by young mulberry leaves, not a filthy one. The author often uses it in clinic, which is generally used in the following six aspects.
rheumatic arthralgia
silkworm excrement is pungent and warm, which can disperse and dredge, dispel wind and damp, relax tendons and veins and relieve pain, and has a good effect on rheumatic arthralgia. For treating arthralgia due to heat, it can be used with Fangji, Coix Seed and Gentiana macrophylla, for example, Xuanbi Decoction in Treatise on Warm Diseases; For arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness, arthralgia, unfavorable flexion and extension, and cold pain in waist and knees, decoction can be used alone and hot wine can be taken. According to modern clinical reports, 36 cases of gout were treated with this product combined with Simiao Decoction, Lumbricus, Rhizoma Dioscoreae Septemlobae and Radix Clematidis, 24 cases were cured, 12 cases were improved, and the effective rate was 1%. Teacher Liu Duzhou treated rheumatic arthralgia more than adding this product to Fangji Decoction in Treatise on Epidemic Febrile Diseases. Fangji, Ramulus Cinnamomi, Gypsum Fibrosum, Almond, Talc, Caulis Akebiae, Coicis Semen, Bombyx Batryticatus and Papaya were used, and the effect was amazing. If the heat is strong, increase the dosage of gypsum to 3~6 grams; For wet weight, add this product and papaya to more than 3 grams.
Rubella pruritus
Silkworm dung has been recorded as a cure for "addiction rash" as early as "Bielu of Famous Doctors", especially for wind-heat and blood-heat accumulated in the skin, which can't be vented, and pruritus caused by lewdness on the skin is difficult to endure, and the effect is better. Clinically, it is often combined with heat-clearing and blood-cooling drugs to enhance the curative effect. For mild wind mass, simply wash it with this product in decoction. For example, Taiping Shenghui Fang records: "One liter of silkworm excrement, two buckets of water, one bucket of two liters of boiling water, and slag removal, so wash it if it is warm, so it should be sheltered from the wind." According to modern reports, 19 cases of urticaria were treated by decocting 6 grams of silkworm excrement in water every day and taking it in the morning and evening, and fumigating and washing the affected area with 12 grams of silkworm excrement twice a day for about 2 minutes each time. The curative effect was satisfactory.
The author got a prescription for allergic dermatitis, intractable eczema and chronic urticaria from an old Chinese doctor, which is used for those who have been ill for a long time due to excessive heat and dampness. Prescription: Ramulus Cinnamomi, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, Cortex Moutan, Sedum Sedum, Gypsum Fibrosum, Talc, Caulis Sinomenii, Caulis Piperis, Flos Lonicerae, Herba Artemisiae Annuae, and Bombyx Batryticatus. The dosage of Artemisia annua, Bombyx Batryticatus, and Gypsum Fibrosum in the prescription should be more than 3g, and it should be combined with Angong Niuhuang Pill once a day, and the effect is amazing. This prescription seems complicated, but it has profound meaning. The author has used this prescription to treat many cases of severe patients with the above diseases and achieved good results.
amenorrhea and metrorrhagia
Silkworm excrement has the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and can be used to treat amenorrhea caused by blood stasis. It is effective only by frying yellow and cooking it with ash-free wine, such as the silkworm excrement wine in the theory of internal medicine. For women with persistent metrorrhagia, this product is used to stop metrorrhagia by removing blood stasis. It is combined with Fu Long Gan, for example, it is as holy as incomparable powder in Women's Complete Prescription. In modern clinical practice, 8 cases of functional bleeding were treated with silkworm excrement fried and swallowed in black, combined with antler cream, donkey-hide gelatin, astragalus root and cuttlebone, and the total effective rate was 97.5%. It is also reported that it is effective to fry this product and grind it into powder, 6 grams each time, 3 times a day, and send it with yellow wine to cure metrorrhagia and leakage.
Head wind disease
Silkworm excrement can dispel wind and remove dampness, and lead damp heat to descend. For patients with rheumatic headache and head swelling, 3 grams of this product can be decocted with 3 grams of Ligusticum Chuanxiong, 15 grams of Radix Angelicae Dahuricae and 1 grams of Notopterygium, and the effect is good. Silkworm dung is also a rare medicine for eye swelling and pain caused by rheumatism, shame and tears, blurred vision. For example, silkworm excrement soup from Ophthalmology Longmu Lun is used to treat tears in the wind, and this product is combined with Morinda officinalis and Iris officinalis to disperse and drink. "Compendium of Materia Medica" treats rotten string wind eye, quotes one of "Chen's Experience Prescription" to apply ointment, soaks silkworm excrement with real sesame oil for two or three nights, and applies it to the affected area.
Anemia aplastic anemia
Chlorophyll derivatives isolated from silkworm excrement have anti-tumor, light-sensitive and liver-protecting effects, and also have hematopoietic and radiation-resistant effects, so this product is often used to treat leukopenia or anemia. For example, Ganxuebao, which is made of silkworm excrement extract, treats 265 cases of leukopenia, with a total effective rate of 88.7%; Xuezhangping, made from silkworm excrement extract, has been used to treat 12 cases of aplastic anemia, with an effective rate of 8%. Another preparation, Shengxuening, was used to treat iron deficiency anemia. There were 12 cases in adult group, with a cure rate of 9% and an effective rate of 1%. 6 cases in children group, the cure rate was 86.67%, and the effective rate was 1%. Therefore, silkworm excrement can be added to the prescription for the above diseases.
Limb paralysis
For the patients with hemiplegia caused by deficiency of true qi and deficiency of qi and blood, the ancients often treated them with silkworm excrement combined with other drugs for promoting blood circulation, promoting qi circulation and dispelling wind. Alternatively, the product can be put into a bag and steamed and ironed on the affected part. "Compendium of Materia Medica" specially introduces that silkworm excrement is fried yellow, soaked in wine in bags, and the wind is removed to slow down the knots, so the skin is stubborn, the abdomen is cold, cold-blooded, blood stasis, and the waist is cold; Stir-frying makes it hot, and the bag is hot and ironed. The main wind is weak, the hands and feet are not followed, and the waist and feet are soft and the skin is stubborn. "
The usual dosage of silkworm excrement in decoction is 1-15g, and a large amount can be up to 5g. Appropriate amount for external use, wash with decoction or stir-fry and iron the affected area, or grind and apply. This product is not suitable for hand and foot paralysis caused by blood failing to nourish tendons.