Nutritional Value of Crickets

Cricket fighting should be a childhood memory for many people, because crickets are very common in the grass in the countryside, and crickets make a sound on summer nights, so they are also called crickets. What most people don’t know is that crickets can actually be used as a traditional Chinese medicine after being dried, and this medicine is often used by Chinese medicine practitioners. But what nutritional value do crickets have for the human body?

1. The benefits of crickets

Cricket, also known as cricket, is a common insect. It tastes spicy, salty, warm and poisonous. It can enter the bladder meridian and small intestine meridian. Its main effect is diuresis and blood-breaking. It can be used to treat many common diseases such as human edema, urinary obstruction, urinary tract stones, hepatic ascites, etc. The therapeutic effect is very obvious.

2. Crickets are a diuretic

Diuresis is one of the main effects of crickets. Usually, it can treat urinary retention in the elderly. During treatment, you can boil four crickets, one qian of raw licorice and four mole crickets together and drink the soup. After boiling, you can take it warm in three doses. In addition, crickets can also treat enuresis in children. During treatment, you can roast a cricket and grind it into powder, scald it with boiling water, take it out and take it according to the child's age. Take one each time, and take as many as the child's age.

3. Crickets can nourish the kidneys and strengthen yang

Crickets can nourish the kidneys and strengthen the yang. They have obvious therapeutic effects on male kidney deficiency and impotence. In normal treatment, you can put crickets, dragonflies, dog kidneys and other Chinese medicinal materials together and grind them into powder. Add white wine and mix well. Take it once a day. Use it for about a week to significantly alleviate the symptoms of kidney deficiency and impotence.

Medicinal recipes for crickets

1. To treat urinary incontinence and constant pain and swelling: use one herb: Cricket Aunt. The Yin-Yang tiles are baked dry and ground into powder. Take with boiling water, children should take half the dosage. (《Medical Prescription Collection》)

2. To treat abdominal injuries caused by falls and urinary retention: one cricket. Decoction. (《Yangsuyuan Prescription》)

3. To treat urinary retention in the elderly: four crickets, four mole crickets, and one qian of raw licorice. Decoction, drink warm in three doses. (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine)

4. To treat enuresis in children: one cricket. Roast, grind, and boil in water. Give according to the child's age. For example, if the child is eleven years old, give one pill each time, until the child is eleven years old. (The Book of Living People by Cihang)

5. Treatment of impotence due to kidney deficiency: crickets, dragonflies, and dog kidneys. Grind them into powder and take with wine. (Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Records)