What are animal medicinal materials?

In China, many plants and animals can be used as medicines to treat diseases, including many animal medicines, such as common toads, silkworm feces, leeches, etc. Many animals have many benefits to the human body. If it were not for Chinese medicine, it would be difficult for us who have not studied medicine to know what animals can be made into Chinese medicine. Many people don’t know what animal medicines are. What are the animal medicines? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. What are animal medicinal materials?

Tiger bones, musk, bear bile, antelope horns, buffalo horns, centipedes, earthworms, scorpions, pangolins, cicada shells, white-flowered snakes, black-banded snakes, silkworms, silkworm feces, night-shining sand, aconite, nine-scented insects, leeches, worms, earthworms, stone cassia, mother-of-pearl, hawksbill turtles, purple shell teeth, seal kidneys, geckos, placens, deer antlers, deer antler frost, tortoise shells, turtle shells, mulberry silkworm cocoons, cuttlefish bones, hedgehog skin blister beetles, toads, beehives, geckos, etc.

2. Animal feces as Chinese medicinal materials

1. Silkworm sand: dried feces of silkworms

Silkworm feces, also known as silkworm feces, is the dried feces of silkworms. It is sweet and warm in nature, and enters the liver, spleen, and stomach meridians. It has the functions of drying dampness, dispelling wind, harmonizing the stomach and clearing turbidity, and promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. It is often used for rheumatism, head wind, headache, skin itching, cold pain in the waist and legs, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea. The ancients fried silkworm sand and put it into bags, and applied it to the affected area while it was still hot to treat joint pain and hemiplegia. People use silkworm sand as pillow filling, which has the effect of clearing the liver and improving eyesight.

2. Night-shining sand: dried bat droppings

The dried feces of bats are effective in clearing away heat, improving eyesight, dispersing blood and eliminating accumulation. Bat droppings are brown in color, in the form of oblong particles with small bright spots. After picking it up, wash it with water to remove the dust and bad smell, take the fine sand, dry it in the sun, and then use a large roasting scoop to dry it. It can be used to treat internal and external obstructions, scrofula, malnutrition and other diseases. Most eye diseases require the use of night-shining sand.

3. Ambergris: Gastrointestinal secretion of sperm whales

Ambergris is a dried product of the intestinal secretions of the sperm whale, a member of the sperm whale family. It tastes sweet, has a fishy smell and is astringent in nature. It has the effects of promoting qi and blood circulation, dispersing stagnation and relieving pain, promoting diuresis and relieving stranguria, regulating qi and resolving phlegm. It is used as an auxiliary treatment for cough, asthma, shortness of breath, heart and abdominal pain, etc. This product is the most precious Chinese medicine among all kinds of animal excrement and is extremely rare.

4. White lilac: sparrow droppings

It is the feces of sparrows, also known as sparrow feces and green dan. It is warm in nature, bitter in taste, and slightly toxic; it enters the liver and kidney meridians. It can eliminate stagnation, treat hernia, remove cataracts and pterygium. For internal use, grind into powder to make pills or powder. For external use, grind into fine powder and apply on the eyes or use milk as eye drops.

5. Wulingzhi: dried feces of flying squirrels and flying squirrels

It is the dried feces of the orange-footed flying squirrel and flying squirrel of the family Sciuridae, and is a commonly used blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing medicine. The flying squirrel, also known as the cuckoo bird, can be used raw to promote blood circulation and relieve pain. It can treat various pains in the heart and abdomen, amenorrhea in women, and postpartum blood stasis pain. It can also be used to treat bites from poisonous insects such as snakes, scorpions, and centipedes. It can be fried and used to stop bleeding, and as an auxiliary treatment for women's uterine bleeding, menorrhagia, and continuous red discharge.

6. Moon-watching sand: hare droppings

It is the dried feces of wild rabbits. It is mild in nature and spicy in taste. It has the effect of improving eyesight and killing insects. It can treat cataracts, malnutrition, hemorrhoids and fistulas.

7. Chicken droppings: The white part of chicken droppings

That is the white part of chicken droppings. The flavor is sweet, salty and cool. It has the effects of diuresis, heat relief, wind dispelling and detoxification. It can cure distension, accumulation of mass, jaundice, rheumatism and other symptoms. For internal use: Dry in the sun, roast over low heat, add a little white wine while frying, grind into powder and make into pills or powder, 3-6 grams, or soak in wine.

8. Insect tea: excrement of insects such as Spodoptera exigua and rice blackworm

A special kind of "tea" grown in the mountainous area at the junction of Hunan, Guangxi and Guizhou in my country is not actually tea leaves, but is made from the excrement excreted by insects such as the Spodoptera excreta and the rice blackworm, which is dried in the sun. The local mountain people collect dry feces, process them in a special way, and drink them as tea. It tastes sweet and refreshing. Insect tea also has medicinal value. Drinking it in moderation can refresh the mind, relieve fever and detoxify, astringe and stop bleeding, lower blood pressure and remove fat, and strengthen the spleen and stomach. It has definite therapeutic effects on indigestion, epistaxis, hemorrhoidal bleeding, bleeding gums and furunculosis, and also plays a certain role in preventing hypertension, hyperlipidemia and coronary heart disease.

3. Notes

Chinese medicine must be taken under the doctor's advice and cannot be taken on your own.