The efficacy and function of ginger worm

Ginger worms are insects that grow inside ginger and can be used as medicine. Ginger worms have many functions and effects. For example, they can treat hemiplegia caused by stroke, treat infantile convulsions, treat children's pursed mouth, treat headaches, treat scrofula, treat intestinal bleeding, and also have a certain effect on increasing milk production. Of course, different purposes require different formulas. Below, we will introduce the effects and functions of ginger worm and the accompanying recipes in detail.

1. Usage and Dosage

For internal use: decoct in water, 3-10g; grind into powder, 1-3g; or make into pills or powder.

For external use: take appropriate amount, decoct in water for washing; grind into powder and sprinkle or apply on the affected area.

2. Precautions

1. Materia Medica: It is incompatible with silkworm cocoons, Platycodon grandiflorum, Poria cocos, Poria cocos, and Radix Dioscoreae.

2. "Bencao Jingshu": Those who suffer from lockjaw due to stroke, children with epilepsy and night crying are due to restlessness of the mind, blood deficiency and tight meridians, and those who do not have external evil as the cause of the disease should avoid this medicine. It is not suitable for women to use it for metrorrhagia or postpartum pain unless it is caused by wind or cold.

3. Additional prescription

1. Treat facial paralysis and hemiplegia caused by stroke: take equal parts of white aconite root, white silkworm and whole scorpion (all used raw). Grind into fine powder. Take one coin each time, mixed with hot wine, at any time. (Qianzheng San from Yang's Family Collection)

2. To treat infantile convulsions: take equal parts of Bombyx Batryticatus and Scorpion Tip, and one qian of Tianxiong Tip and Aconite Tip (slightly roasted). Grind into fine powder. Take one word or half a penny each time, mix with ginger and warm water, and drink it. ("Compendium of Materia Medica")

3. To treat children’s pursed mouth and lockjaw: 2 pieces of white silkworm. For the end. Mix with honey and apply on baby's lips and mouth. ("Pediatric Palace Qi Prescription")

4. To treat headache: white silkworm pupa (remove the silk and mouth) and galangal in equal parts. Grind into fine powder. Take half a penny each time, with clear white plum tea, and drink when the disease is about to break out. ("One Hundred and One Prescriptions")

5. For the treatment of sore throat, acute sore throat, swollen and painful throat: 1 liang of white silkworm (fried on new tile with charcoal fire until slightly yellow), 1 liang of Arisaema (cracked, scraped off the rough skin, and filed). Grind into fine powder. Each time you take one word, mix the powder with a little natural ginger juice, add it to boiled water, sip it, and spit out the saliva and phlegm, and you will feel better. Take it from time to time. (White Silkworm Powder from Wei's Family Collection)

6. To treat closed throat and unable to open teeth: stir-fry white silkworm and grind it into powder, add one qian of it with natural ginger juice. (Zhongzang Sutra)

7. To treat scrofula: Grind white silkworm into powder, take 5 fen of powder with water, three times a day. (Qianjin Fang)

8. To treat cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis: take Bombyx batryticatus and Bletilla striata in equal parts. Grind into fine powder; take 2 qian each time, twice a day. (Jilin Chinese Herbal Medicine)

9. Treat wind, rashes all over the body, painful sores: roast white silkworm until yellow, grind into powder, and take with wine. (Sheng Hui Fang)

10. To treat wild fire lesions on both sides of the back: mash 27 silkworm pupae and mix with fire grass to apply on the affected area. (Collection of proven recipes for lactation)

11. To treat women’s metrorrhagia and persistent bleeding: put white fish and silkworm in equal parts. For the end. Take it with well flower water, three times a day. (Qianjin Fang)

12. To treat intestinal wind and bleeding: 1 liang each of Bombyx batryticatus (fried, remove the mouth and feet) and black plum meat (roasted). Grind into powder and make into rice paste pills the size of walnuts. Take 100 pills each time, with white soup before meals, three times a day. (Miscellaneous Notes on Health)

13. To treat heavy tongue and wooden tongue: one qian of Bombyx Batryticatus and two qian of Coptis chinensis (fried with honey). Grind it into powder, mix it with other ingredients, and it will be best if it comes out right away. (Jidetang Experience Prescription)

14. To increase lactation: 2 qian of white silkworm powder. After mixing with wine, add one qian of hot hemp tea after a while. ("Experience Behind")

15. To treat throat paralysis and loss of voice, take 2 qian each of Trichosanthes root bark (fried), Licorice root bark (fried), and Licorice root bark (fried). Together for the end. Take three grams each time, with ginger soup. (Simple Prescriptions for Treating Difficult and Miscellaneous Diseases)