What are the medicinal values ​​of hornets?

The hornet is actually the name of a kind of bee. This is because this kind of bee has tiger-like stripes on its body and a relatively ferocious appearance, so it is commonly called the hornet. This kind of bee is poisonous to a certain extent. If you are bitten by it accidentally, it can cause shock or even death. However, the hornet can be used as a medicine, mainly to play the role of fighting poison with poison.

Sweet, neutral, poisonous.

① "Ben Jing": "Tastes bitter, neutral."

② "Bie Lu": "Salty, poisonous."

③ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Sweet, neutral, poisonous."

Meridians

① "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Enters the Yangming meridian."

② "New Compendium of Materia Medica": "It enters the liver and lung meridians."

Function and indications

Dispel wind, attack poison, and kill insects. It is used to treat epilepsy, rheumatism, itching caused by urticaria, mastitis, furunculosis, scrofula, hemorrhoids, toothache caused by wind and fire, tinea capitis, and swelling and pain caused by bee stings.

① "Ben Jing": "It is used to treat epilepsy, convulsions, cold and heat evil spirits, epilepsy, and intestinal hemorrhoids."

② "Bie Lu": "Treats bee venom and swelling."

③ "Tang Materia Medica": "Glass, taken with wine, cures impotence; boiled in water to wash fox urine thorn sores; taken to treat upper qi, red and white dysentery, enuresis and incontinence, "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "It can be used to treat toothache, dysentery, breast abscess, bee sting, and malignant sore by decocting and washing."

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can dispel wind and attack poison, and disperse carbuncle, swelling and malignant poison."

⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It is used to treat chronic cough caused by phlegm accumulation, tremors due to wind shock, and coma and confusion."

The above article introduces in detail the medicinal value of hornets. When we feel toothache, we can use hornets to treat it, but most of them are not eaten directly, and this may be dangerous, so they must be taken under the guidance of professionals.