What is Tianchong Chinese medicine?

Tianchong is also called dead silkworm and ginger silkworm. It is a relatively famous Chinese medicinal material with high medicinal value. It is mainly used to treat symptoms such as sudden fright in children, tetanus, stroke, wind-heat headache, and urticaria itching. When treating diseases, Tianchong can be used together with platycodon, mint, ginseng, mulberry leaves and other medicines to treat various diseases. Although Tianchong is very good, it may cause allergies when taken internally.

Effect 1

The powder of Tianchong is gray-brown or gray-brown. The mycelium is nearly colorless, slender, curled and entangled in the body wall. Tracheal wall fragments are slightly curved or arc-shaped, with brown or dark brown spiral filaments. The surface of the epidermal tissue has a grid-like wrinkled texture and small spikes formed by the texture protrusions. There are round hair pits with yellow edges; the bristles are yellow or yellow-brown, with a smooth surface and slightly thick walls. Undigested mulberry leaf tissue mostly contains clusters or prismatic crystals of calcium oxalate.

Effect 2

It should contain protein and fat. Bombyx batryticatus also contains a variety of amino acids and trace elements such as iron, zinc, copper, manganese, and chromium. The white powder on the surface of the silkworm contains ammonium oxalate.

Bombyx batryticatus is salty, pungent and neutral in nature. It enters the liver and lung meridians. It can not only calm wind and stop convulsions, but also resolve phlegm and calm convulsions. Therefore, it is particularly suitable for those with convulsions, epilepsy and phlegm-heat.

Effect three

Oral administration of Bombyx batryticatus may cause allergic reactions, resulting in acne-like rashes and allergic rashes, which will disappear after stopping the medication. A small number of patients experience reactions such as dry mouth and throat, nausea, decreased appetite, and drowsiness. Because Bombyx batryticatus has an anticoagulant effect, it should be used with caution in patients with thrombocytopenia, coagulation mechanism disorders and bleeding tendency. Both silkworm pupa and dead silkworm pupa contain ammonium oxalate, which can be decomposed into ammonia after entering the body. It should be used with caution in patients with hepatic coma.

Effect 4

Pharmacological studies on the silkworm moth: The toxicity of the silkworm moth is very low. It promotes the weight gain of immature male mice and can significantly increase the weight of the prostate, seminal vesicle and preputial gland of castrated mice and rats, indicating that it has an androgen-like effect.

Effect 5

According to the function of silkworm to dispel external wind, disperse wind-heat, relieve pain and relieve itching, it is also used for wind-heat headache, red eyes, sore throat and urticaria itching, and headache caused by wind-heat attacking the liver meridian, etc.

Precautions

Oral administration of Bombyx batryticatus may cause allergic reactions, resulting in acne-like rashes and allergic rashes, which will disappear after stopping the medication. A small number of patients experience reactions such as dry mouth and throat, nausea, decreased appetite, and drowsiness. Because Bombyx batryticatus has an anticoagulant effect, it should be used with caution in patients with thrombocytopenia, coagulation mechanism disorders and bleeding tendency. Both silkworm pupa and dead silkworm pupa contain ammonium oxalate, which can be decomposed into ammonia after entering the body. It should be used with caution in patients with hepatic coma.