What are the medicinal values ​​of slugs?

I believe that in daily life many of our friends mistake slugs for snails. In fact, slugs are a kind of mollusk that looks like a snail without its shell. In fact, some experienced friends know that slugs are a very good healing medicine. Slugs can be used to reduce inflammation in some wounds caused by centipede bites, so it also has many medicinal values. So what are the medicinal values ​​of slugs? Let’s take a look at the following content.

1. Medicinal use: clears away heat and dispels wind, reduces swelling and detoxifies, breaks up phlegm and dredges menstruation. It is used to treat stroke, tendon spasm, epilepsy, wheezing, throat congestion, pharyngeal swelling, carbuncle, erysipelas, amenorrhea, abdominal masses, and centipede bites.

Indications

Centipede bites. Apply the slug by mashing it raw.

Hemorrhoidal heat, swelling and pain. Mash a large slug into a paste, add three parts of borneol and half a penny of rouge, and apply it to the affected area. Before applying the medicine. It is better to use water boiled with stone sedge for fumigation and washing.

Sores on the shins. Use ten slugs, dry them on a tile, grind them into powder, mix with oil and apply to the affected area, the effect will be immediate.

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Nutritional Value

The nutritional content of slugs is similar to that of edible snails. It has tender meat, contains more than 20 kinds of amino acids and more than 10 kinds of trace elements, as well as rich snail enzymes and SOD (this is the legendary anti-aging artifact!), etc. The protein content is 1, 10, 3 and 6 percentage points higher than that of soft-shelled turtle, pork, beef and eggs respectively, while the fat content is only 1/18, 1/272, 1/92 and 1/70 of that of soft-shelled turtle, pork, beef and eggs.

[Functions and indications] Clears away heat and dispels wind, reduces swelling and detoxifies, breaks up phlegm and dredges menstruation. It is used to treat stroke, tendon spasm, epilepsy, wheezing, throat congestion, pharyngeal swelling, carbuncle, erysipelas, amenorrhea, abdominal masses, and centipede bites.

1. "Depei Materia Medica": "eliminates phlegm nodules."

2. Ben Jing: "It is used to treat wind-induced crookedness, tendon dysfunction, rectal prolapse, epilepsy and spasm."

3. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can treat centipede and scorpion venom."

4. "Jilin Chinese Herbal Medicine": "It can dispel wind, calm nerves, and consolidate collaterals. It can treat swelling and pain caused by heat sores, bronchitis, and rectal prolapse."

5. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It is good at treating all wind-heat, fire and dryness as ailments, and all wind-heat, fire and phlegm as diseases."

6. "Compendium of Materia Medica Chongyuan": "It is used to calm the nerves, clear away heat, detoxify and relax the muscles. It can treat sore throat, wind-heat throat numbness, and put it into the throat and swallow it."

The above paragraphs have given us a good introduction to the medicinal value of slugs. I believe that after carefully reading the above content, those friends who are still relatively unfamiliar with them will have a better understanding of slugs. Only in this way can we make the best use of slugs in real life. Of course, we also need to know some precautions about slugs so that we can better play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.