The medicinal value of the nine-headed insect

Speaking of the nine-headed insect, I believe everyone doesn’t know what it is? In fact, it is a traditional Chinese medicine, also called the foreign worm. It is one of the pests of grain, but because it is rich in protein and various amino acids and other substances that are beneficial to the human body, it has a high nutritional value and can be eaten and used as medicine. There are also many people who raise it artificially, but it needs to be fed with various precious Chinese herbal medicines, such as dates, Ganoderma lucidum slices, ginseng, walnuts, etc. So what is the medicinal value of the nine-headed insect? Let's find out below.

1. To treat the five kinds of fatigue and seven kinds of injuries: 3 grams of white Poria cocos and 7 foreign worms. Mash. Take it on an empty stomach with wine every day until you recover.

2. To treat fatigue cough: 3 grams of beef bone marrow and 3 grams of walnut meat. Grind them into powder, add seven sea worms, and make into pills, each pill containing three coins. Take a pill in your mouth at 5 a.m. every day.

3. To treat vomiting blood, wheezing and dryness and heat: grind ancient ink into a thick paste, three parts of Fritillaria (grind into powder), and seven foreign worms. Take seven times with aged wine.

4. Treatment for asthma: nine foreign worms. Mint soup is provided.

5. To treat stomachache and heartache: seven foreign worms. Take costus root powder with wine.

6. To treat gas pain: nine foreign worms. Betel nut soup is provided.

7. To treat gastric nausea and indigestion: put seven slices of ginger into a cloth bag, soak it in a manure pit for seven days, take it out, wash it with clean water, bury it in the soil, a layer of ginger and a layer of soil, take it out after seven days, and dry it with yin-yang tiles until it becomes powder. Take one fen each time, use seven foreign worms, and drink three times with wine.

8. To treat food poisoning: nine foreign worms. Served with ginger soup.

9. To treat bloating: 24 foreign worms. Served with mint and tangerine peel soup.

10. To treat dysentery: use brown sugar for white dysentery and white sugar for red dysentery. Take seven doses of foreign worms with aged wine.

11. To treat aphasia caused by stroke: 24 foreign worms. Served with mint and rush soup.

12. Treatment for paralysis: nine foreign worms. Send with costus root soup.

13. To treat acute and chronic convulsions: nine foreign worms. Served with mint and almond soup.

14. To treat urinary discomfort: seven pieces of rush, seven pieces of plantain, and seven worms. Take with aged wine.

15. To treat nocturnal emission, leucorrhea, hematuria and leucorrhea: 3 grams of Euryale ferox (slightly stir-fry and grind into powder), 5 ginkgo nuts (peel and core removed). First mash the medicine, then add two qian of Epimedium (remove the edges), two qian of Phellodendron chinense, and three qian of Allium leek seeds and decocted together. Use seven foreign worms and take them with wine.

16. To treat irregular menstruation: 8 parts each of Cyperus rotundus, dried tangerine peel, Leonurus japonicus, Chinese angelica, and Corydalis yanhusuo. Boil seven foreign worms in water and mix with wine and take it. For long-term use, take it several times in a row.

17. To treat chills and fever after malaria: seven foreign worms. Before the disease breaks out, take it three times with wine.

18. To treat unknown swelling and infection: 16 foreign worms. Serve with aged wine, take at 5 a.m.

19. To treat injuries: nine foreign worms. Served with black dates and mint soup.

20. To treat knife and axe wounds: mash the foreign worm and apply it on the affected area.