What is the composition of silkworm excrement pillow?

Silkworm excrement pillow is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine for expelling wind and removing dampness, and its medicinal material is called silkworm excrement. Its aliases are silkworm excrement, silkworm excrement, late silkworm excrement, A?vagho?a liver, late silkworm excrement and second silkworm excrement. Textual research on its names includes original silkworm excrement (Compendium of Materia Medica), original silkworm excrement (Bielu), silkworm excrement (Tao Hongjing), late silkworm excrement (Doumen recipe), A?vagho?a liver (treasure of oriental medicine), late silkworm arrow (Compendium of Materia Medica) and second silkworm excrement (Records of Jiangsu Medicinal Materials). Its theme source is Bombycidae insects. Its medicinal part is the dry feces of silkworm moth larvae. The efficacy and function of silkworm excrement pillow are sweet, pungent and warm. Entering the liver, spleen and stomach meridians. Efficacy classification: the efficacy of rheumatism-removing drugs is mainly to dispel wind and remove dampness, and to regulate stomach turbidity. Indications: Vomiting, diarrhea and muscle rotation caused by rheumatism, paralysis of limbs, eczema and itching, and internal resistance of dampness and turbidity. Oral administration and dosage: decocted, 3 ~ 5 yuan; I still took the pills and dispersed them. External use: frying, scalding, frying, washing or grinding, dressing. Contraindications in the Classic of Materia Medica: those who are paralyzed by blood deficiency, unable to nourish meridians, and have not been attacked by rheumatism, should not take it. Distribution of resources: all silkworm areas are producing. Jiangsu and Zhejiang have the largest output. The dried silkworm excrement was identified as short cylindrical particles with a length of 2 ~ 5mm and a diameter of 65438 0.5 ~ 3 mm. The surface is gray-black, rough, with 6 obvious longitudinal edges and 3 ~ 4 transverse shallow lines. The two ends are slightly flat and hexagonal. Hard and brittle, easily broken when wet. Slightly grassy. It is best to be dry, dark, solid, uniform and free of impurities. Textual research of ancient books ① Outline: Silkworm is dry, which can dispel wind and remove dampness, so silkworm excrement is mainly used for rheumatism, and some people use it to iron wind and arthralgia. According to Chen's experience, treating broken string wind eye with light touch ointment can also dispel wind and remove dampness. Pour the juice with mulberry wood ash, and cook the nail fish into pills to cure the abdominal crux. ② Seeking this grassland: The original silkworm excrement is a specific medicine for rheumatism. If rheumatism paralysis is relieved, that is, blood deficiency cannot nourish meridians, tonics should also be added. The chemical composition of silkworm excrement contains 83.77 ~ 90.44% organic matter, 9.56 ~ 16.23% ash and 0.91~ 3.60% total nitrogen. It also contains chlorophyll which can be extracted with ethanol or acetone. According to reports, crude chlorophyll 1.6, 2.0 and 2.4% were found in silkworm excrement of the third, fourth and fifth instars, but only a small part of real chlorophyll was found. For example, the crude chlorophyll of the fifth instar silkworm excrement only contains pure chlorophyll 13. 19%, and the rest is saponified by 48.92% and unsaponifiable by 44.45%. Silkworm excrement contains 0.25 ~ 0.29% plant alcohol. It also contains unsaponifiable components β-sitosterol, cholesterol, ergosterol, tetracosanol and hops alcohol. β-sitosterol-β-glucoside was isolated from silkworm excrement. Silkworm excrement contains leucine, histidine and other 13 free amino acids. With the growth of silkworm larvae, the contents of leucine and histidine in feces are also increasing. Silkworm excrement contains a lot of carotene. The crude chlorophyll above contains vitamin A3644 international units per gram. Silkworm dung also contains a lot of vitamin B, and silkworm dung contains plant growth hormone-indoleacetic acid. Silkworm excrement contains copper, and the content reaches the highest value at the fifth instar. Copper is obtained from mulberry leaves, and each gram of fresh mulberry leaves contains copper 1.02 ~ 2.22 micrograms. Related prescriptions ① Treatment of wet weight, stagnation due to heat steaming, stagnation of meridians, chills and fever, pain in epiphysis, dull tongue color and sallow complexion. The names of wet arthralgia are: Ji Fang, almond and talc, five yuan each, forsythia suspensa, San Qian Shan Zhi, five yuan coix seed, San Qian Pinellia ternata (processed with vinegar), San Qian late silkworm excrement and San Qian red bean skin. Eight glasses of water, three cups of boiled water, three different temperatures, very painful. Add two slices of turmeric and San Qian. (Xu Anbi Decoction in Treatments of Epidemic Febrile Diseases) 2 Treating wind itching, itching all over the body, and scratching into sores: one liter of silkworm excrement. Take two buckets of water, boil a bucket of two liters, and wash it, because it is warm and sheltered from the wind. (Sheng Huifang) ③ Treatment of exogenous headache: silkworm excrement, angelica dahurica, rhubarb each San Qian. * * * Grind into fine powder, and mix with onion soup for external application. ("Quanzhou Materia Medica") 4 Treatment of rheumatic pain or numbness: one or two late silkworm droppings. Decoct soup, three times a day, and take it with half a cup of hot rice wine. ("Modern Practical Chinese Medicine") ⑤ Treatment of Hemiplegia: Silkworm faeces are two masters. Steam in two bags and iron the affected area with each other. Porridge is still cooked with mutton tripe and japonica rice, and there will be an eclipse on 10. (Outline) ⑥ Cure cholera, muscle twitching, cold pain in limbs, thirst and irritability, dull pulse and acute symptoms: five yuan for silkworm excrement in the evening, four yuan for raw coix seed and yellow bean roll, four yuan for aged papaya, one yuan for Chuanlian (fried with ginger juice), one yuan for processed Pinellia tuber and Scutellaria baicalensis (fried with wine) and one yuan and fifty cents for aged Evodia rutaecarpa. Decoct with ground pulp or yin and yang water, and take it slowly after cooling. (Wang Shixiong's "On Cholera" Silkworm Medium Soup) ⑦ Treatment of rotten string eyes: soak silkworm excrement in real sesame oil for two or three nights and apply it to the affected area. ("Chen's Experience" plus a touch of ointment) 8 Cure tears in the wind: silkworm excrement (fried) four or two, Morinda officinalis (peeled, cooked with meat) three or two, iris (pedicled) three or two. For fine powder. Two yuan per serving, no matter when it is mixed. ("Ophthalmology Long Mu Theory" silkworm excrement soup) 9 Treating men's and women's heartburn can't be a ninja: the late silkworm excrement is the end; Boil the soup, soak it, and strain the juice to take it, whenever. (Silkworm faeces powder) ⑩ Treating white turbid damp-heat nocturnal emission: Give birth to one or two silkworm faeces and give birth to a phellodendron amurense. At the end of the same study, San Qian was boiled in hollow water. The silkworm excrement has the effects of expelling wind and removing dampness, regulating stomach, lowering turbidity, improving eyesight and lowering blood pressure, and can be used for adjuvant treatment of eye diseases, conjunctivitis, palpitation, neurasthenia, insomnia, migraine, hypertension, hyperactivity of liver fire, dyspepsia and arthritis. The pillow made of silkworm excrement also has the function of cooling and reducing fire, and has strong sweat absorption and good air permeability, which is warm in winter and cool in summer. Four seasons sleep for infants can correct head shape and promote brain development. Using silkworm excrement pillow can refresh the mind, cool and stop sweating, and remove summer heat and anneal. It is beneficial for children to have a healthy head shape, improve hearing and vision, and prevent miliaria. Sun Simiao, a famous medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, said in A Thousand Daughters' Prescriptions: "It is common for saints to freeze their brains in winter and their feet in spring and autumn. "It can be seen that the temperature of the pillow should be lower than the temperature of the head, which is helpful for sleeping. Modern medicine also believes that the temperature of the head is lower, which helps to fall asleep as soon as possible. Bombyx batryticatus, also known as late silkworm excrement, is a negative Chinese herbal medicine. Slightly cool, sweet, pungent and warm, belonging to liver, spleen and stomach. According to herbal records, silkworm excrement has the effects of expelling wind and removing dampness, improving eyesight and lowering blood pressure, and has good curative effects on eye diseases, palpitations, neurasthenia, insomnia, migraine, hypertension, hyperactivity of liver fire and arthritis. The silkworm excrement pillow is made of high quality silkworm excrement to keep the head temperature constant. Really cool your head and feet and sleep healthily.