Description

Description:

somewhat cylindrical, usually curved and shrunken, 2~5cm long, 0.5~0.7Cm in diameter. The surface grayish-yellow, covered with white powdery aerial mycelia and conidia. The head relatively round, 8 pairs of legs, segments prominent, caudal portion somewhat dichotomic. Texture hard and fragile, easily broken. Fracture even, peripheral layer white, middle part with 4 bright brown or bright black rings of silk glands. Odor, slightly stinking; taste, slightly salty.

Action:

to dispel wind, to relieve convulsion, and to dissolve lumps.

Indications:

convulsions; sore throat, cutaneous itching; sub maxillary lymphadenitis; facial paralysis.

Referential advice

1.Relieving convulsion and spasm.

It is effective for convulsion and epilepsy induced by terror, marked by the syndromes of up-stirring of liver-wind and accumulation of phlegm and heat.

2.Dispelling wind and arresting pain.

It is effective for headache, conjunctival congestion, sore throat caused by wind-heat or liver-heat, and toothache due to pathogenic wind-fire.

3.Detoxicating and resolving mass.

It is often used to treat scrofula and subcutaneous nodule, furuncle and erysipelas, etc.

4.Dispelling wind and arresting itching.

This statement has not been evaluated by the food and drug administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Unless used under instructions by a licensed herbalist.