The efficacy and function of flower frog

The Chinese medicinal flower frog is a relatively good medicinal material, but many people don’t know much about it. So let’s take a detailed look at the Chinese medicinal flower frog below.

【English name】 Microhyla

[Other names] Plowshare (insect), triangular ant (insect), plowshare frog

[Source] Medicinal material source: the whole body of the flower frog of the family Mylophoridae.

[Original morphology] Flower frog, body length 26-30mm, head width slightly larger than head length; snout tip pointed and round, snout ridge not obvious; nostrils close to the tip of the snout, distance between eyes equal to eye diameter but larger than eyelid width; tympanic membrane not obvious; tongue oval without notch; no vomerine teeth. The forelimbs are extremely thin and weak, with rounded tips of fingers and toes, the first finger is short, and the finger length order is 3, 4, 2, 1; the subarticular tumor and palmar process are extremely developed. The hind limbs are short and thick, with the tibiotarsal joint reaching between the eyes and the shoulders, and the left and right heels overlapping; the toes are slender and webbed, with small and obvious tubercles under the joints; the inner and outer metatarsal processes are well developed, with free edges, and are far apart. The skin is relatively smooth with a few scattered small warts; there is a transverse skin groove behind the eyelids on the occipital part, which extends obliquely backwards on both sides to the shoulders and around the ventral pharynx to form the pharyngeal folds; the ventral skin is smooth. When alive, the skin on the back is pink-brown with several overlapping ∧-shaped dark-brown and light brown lines. The most obvious one starts between the shoulders, with three dark ∧ lines. Sometimes the lines at the rear end are discontinuous and irregular, extending obliquely to the crotch and base of the thigh. In addition, parallel to this dark ∧-shaped line, there are several light brown ∧ lines of varying widths; there are black horizontal lines in the skin groove of the occipital region, and there are discontinuous oblique black-brown lines on the sides of the body from behind the eyes to the crotch, and the area from the crotch to the front of the thigh is light yellow. The male frog is slightly smaller, with a single external vocal sac under the throat and a dark pharynx.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: It lives by rivers, fields, vegetable fields, haystacks, drying piles and houses. It is active at night and in the early morning to feed, and hides in the soil and cracks in the earth during the day to feed on small insects.

【Nature and flavor】 Pungent; bitter; warm

【Meridian】 Lung; Liver; Spleen; Kidney

【Functions and indications】 Dispel wind and dredge meridians; activate blood circulation and dispel wind. Mainly used to relieve rheumatic pain, lumbar sprain, traumatic injury, and fracture

[Usage and Dosage] Oral administration: Soak and sprinkle, 20-30ml, twice a day. For external use: take appropriate amount and mash with wine for application.

[Discussions by various scholars] "Chinese Medicinal Animals": It has the functions of dispelling wind, promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, promoting new blood, and strengthening tendons and bones. It is mainly used to treat rheumatic bone pain, lumbar sprain, fractures and other symptoms.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

The above is the introduction to the flower frog. I believe you will be able to understand it after reading it. After knowing the effects and functions of the flower frog, you can adjust it according to your own physical condition.