What is the medicinal value of wild earthworms?

Earthworms, also known as earthworms, are both wild and artificially cultivated. They are one of the more important insects used as medicine. They usually like to grow in dark and humid places and have extremely high requirements for soil quality. Generally, the soil must be rich in humus. Earthworms are afraid of sunlight and come out at night. So what is the medicinal value of wild earthworms? Let’s learn more about it through the following introduction.

Medicinal value of earthworms

Earthworm is a commonly used animal medicinal material. It is cold in nature, salty and spicy in taste, and enters the heart, liver, and spleen meridians. It has the effects of removing blood stasis and relieving pain, breaking up accumulations and dredging meridians, eliminating toxins and healing wounds, and setting bones and tendons. It is mainly used to treat injuries from falls, cold and heat in the heart and abdomen, irregular menstruation, postpartum blood stasis, blocked milk vessels, mad dog bites, abdominal pain due to blood stasis, and children's abdominal pain and night crying. Commonly used Dieda Pills, Zhishang Powder, Qili Powder, Xiaozhong Paste, Ginseng Biejia Pills, Zhuifeng Pills, Chushangxiao, and Chinese Earthworm Capsules all contain earthworm ingredients. In recent years, people have gained new insights into the medicinal value of earthworms, discovering that they have the effects of inhibiting tumors, resisting mutations, resistant to hypoxia, and lowering blood lipids. They have certain therapeutic and rehabilitative effects on cirrhosis, brain damage, vasculitis, osteomyelitis, blood diseases, etc., and are an indispensable and important medicinal material in traditional Chinese medicine.

Edible value of earthworms

The body of earthworm contains 73% water, 14.5% protein, 7.6% fat, 1.6% carbohydrates and a variety of trace elements beneficial to the human body. After processing, it is safe and non-toxic and has extremely high nourishing, health and beauty value. As a wild food with rich nutrition and unique taste, earthworms have now been served in many hotels and restaurants and are called "black food", such as "fried earthworms, spicy earthworms, crispy earthworms", "roasted earthworms", "silver turtles climbing snow-capped mountains", etc. Especially the earthworms that have just shed their skin, which are white and tender. After frying, they are crispy and have a great taste. Dozens of health and beauty products have been developed with earthworms as the main ingredient. Such as "Chinese Beetle Capsules" and "Golden Beast Wine". In particular, the "earthworm beauty essence" has been warmly welcomed by people after it was put on the market because of its significant wrinkle-eliminating function.

Through the above introduction, we know the medicinal value of wild earthworms. Generally, the medicinal value of wild earthworms is much higher than that of artificially cultivated ones. We can catch wild earthworms at night, or we can put food in bottles and place them in places where wild earthworms often appear to trap them.