What are the medicinal effects of silkworm?

Bombyx mori is rich in carbohydrates and trace elements needed by the body. Bombyx mori is a dead silkworm that has been frozen. It has a good effect on regulating the kidneys and nourishing the body. The silkworm itself can treat physical weakness and fatigue. In addition to treating these diseases, it can also be used as medicine. Bombyx mori has a wide range of medicinal value and has a good effect on supplementing a large amount of trace elements and promoting defecation and urination.

[Other names] Dead silkworm (Qianjin Fang), Heavenly insect (Compilation of Medicinal Materials), Dead insect (Hebei Medicinal Materials).

[Medicinal part] The dried whole insect of the silkworm moth, an insect of the Bombyx mori family, that was infected with Beauveria bassiana and died. The animal morphology is detailed in the entry for "Proto-bacteria moth". [Ingredients] The white powder on the surface of Bombyx batryticatus contains ammonium oxalate.

The white powder on the surface of Bombyx batryticatus contains ammonium oxalate

The cultivation of Beauveria bassiana can synthesize a large amount of oxalic acid, pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid, and a large amount of fat. The fatty acid composition of fat is mainly palmitic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid, a small amount of stearic acid, palmitic acid and α-linolenic acid.

Beauveria bassiana can secrete at least three kinds of hydrolytic enzymes, namely lipase, protease and chitinase, which promote penetration of the infected larvae's epidermis. It can utilize glutamic acid, aspartic acid, ammonium oxalate, ammonium citrate, and ammonium tartrate as nitrogen sources, but cannot effectively utilize inorganic nitrogen compounds.

Beauveria bassiana also contains Beauveria yellow, which accumulates rapidly when the nitrogen source in the culture is depleted; it can also synthesize fibrinolytic enzymes. In addition to infecting silkworms, Beauveria bassiana also attacks corn borers.

wax moth larvae; and isolate high molecular weight insect toxins and cyclic peptide insect toxins beauvericin from them. Beauveria also contains steroidal 11α-hydroxylase system, which is used to synthesize corticosteroids.

【Functions and indications】Dispel wind and relieve spasms, resolve phlegm and disperse stagnation. Treat aphonia caused by stroke, epilepsy, headache and throat wind. Laryngeal congestion, scrofula and tuberculosis. Rash, erysipelas, mastitis.

① "Ben Jing": "It is used to treat children's epilepsy, night crying, three kinds of worms, blackheads, and male genital ulcers."

② "Bie Lu": "It can treat red and white bleeding in women, residual pain after childbirth, and eliminate various sores and scars." "It can seal boils and swellings, and the roots will come out by themselves."

③ "Medicinal Properties": "It is used to treat lockjaw, sweating, and metrorrhagia in women."

④ "Rihuazi Bencao": "It can treat aphonia caused by stroke, all kinds of wind diseases, children's genitals, itching and pain in men's genitals, and leucorrhea in women."

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "For the treatment of stroke and acute throat paralysis, pound and sieve fine powder, mix with ginger juice and drink it."

⑥ "Medical Origin": "Remove all kinds of wind from the skin."

⑦ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can be used to treat wind-phlegm tuberculosis, scrofula, head wind, windworm toothache, skin wind sores, erysipelas itching, phlegm malaria syndrome, women's milk obstruction, metrorrhagia, children's malnutrition and scaly body erosion, all kinds of wounds, carbuncle, wind hemorrhoids."

⑧ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can treat infantile malnutrition, gum ulcers, heavy tongue and wooden tongue."

⑨ "Yuzhou Yaojie": "It activates the meridians and dredges the menstruation, dispels wind and relieves numbness. It can treat headaches, chest pain, lockjaw, toothache, urticaria and wind itching; burn and grind it and drink it with wine, it can break the carbuncle and the top of the head, and also treat hemorrhage and metrorrhagia."

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 1.5 to 3 qian; or made into pills or powder. For external use: grind into powder and sprinkle or apply on affected area.

What is the value of silkworm pupae? In addition to its preventive and therapeutic effects on various diseases, many young people today are too busy with work to take care of their bodies. Regular consumption of the Chinese medicine silkworm can have a very good effect on irregular menstruation and gynecological diseases. Silkworm can also strengthen the body and enhance yang, and has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on physical weakness and lack of strength.