What are the medicinal values ​​of bats?

Chinese herbal medicine is a treasure of wisdom passed down by our ancestors, and each Chinese herbal medicine has its own unique effects and functions. For example, spiders and bats are Chinese medicinal herbs that have the effect of relieving cough and reducing phlegm, and the actual effect will be better when combined with other Chinese medicinal herbs. As for how to eat spiders and the taboos of spiders, everyone needs to learn about them by following this special topic.

1. The efficacy and role of bats

Treat cough with excessive sputum, dengue fever, gonorrhea, convulsions, eye opacities, scrofula, and wounds.

1. "Ben Jing": "It is used to clear the eyes and brighten the eyes."

2. Li Dangzhi's "Medical Records": "It is used to treat the remaining diseases of women after childbirth, leucorrhea, and childlessness."

3. "Bielu": "(eye) pain and itching, treatment of stranguria, and facilitating urination."

4. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can treat cough, sputum, shortness of breath, chronic malaria, scrofula, wound leakage, children's phlegm, and convulsions."

5. "New Compendium of Materia Medica": "Remove the film of the eye."

2. The original shape of the spider

The upper arm is 46 to 54 mm long and the skull base is about 18 mm long. Small stature. The ears are short and wide, the tragus is also short, and the tip is relatively rounded and blunt. The eyes are very tiny. Nose is normal. No nose leaves or other compounds. The forelimbs are specialized with increased phalanges. There is a thin wing membrane from the tail end of the phalanges up to the shoulder bones, and then back to the hind limbs and tail on both sides of the body. There is no hair on the membrane, and blood vessels can be seen throughout. Scapula with keel. The tail is well developed and widens posteriorly to the edge of the interfemoral membrane. The back of the body is gray-brown with white spots; the belly is light brown. The female has a pair of nipples on her abdomen.

3. Spider's Choice

1. To treat epilepsy in children: take a stinging spider, put three qian of cinnabar into the abdominal cavity, cover it with new tiles and calcine it to preserve its properties. Grind it into powder after it cools down. Divide it into four doses when you have an empty stomach. Divide it into five doses for children. Take with broth. (Medical Integration)

2. To treat chronic convulsions and night crying caused by convulsions in children: one spider (remove the wings, fat and belly, and roast until it turns yellow), one fen of human philtrum (finely grind), one fen of dried scorpion (slightly stir-fry), one qian of Sanguisorba officinalis (finely grind). Apply the medicine, pound it into powder, add Ren Zhongbai and grind it evenly, make it into pills with refined honey, like mung bean dog food. Grind three pills with milk each time, measure the size of the child, and take it alternately. (Sheng Hui Fang, the Soul-Returning Pill)

3. To treat scrofula that has not been cured for many years: one spider and one cat's head. Burn the above into ashes: sprinkle with black beans, calcine the ashes into bones, grind into powder, mix with wet or dry materials, and apply with oil if dry. (Spider Powder from Miraculous Remedy)

4. Use of Spiders

1. It is beneficial for urination and swelling reduction, and is used to treat gonorrhea, urinary problems and other symptoms.

2. It benefits the liver and clears the eyes, and treats symptoms such as night cataracts and blurred vision.

3. Soften and disperse lumps, used for symptoms such as scrofula, wounds and leaking gas. For treating scrofula that has not been cured for many years, burn the cat's head into ash, sprinkle it with black beans, and grind the ash into fine powder for external use, such as spider powder. To treat air leakage from wounds, just use this product to burn until the smoke is gone and the foam is left, then sift it with silk, it will become a spider-like blood-dissolving powder.

4. It can dispel wind and calm nerves. It is best used for children with convulsions, chronic convulsions, and epilepsy at night. For treating children's fright and pain, use it with cinnabar. For treating children's slow convulsions and night crying, use it with Ren Zhong Bai, Quan Chong, and Xue Jie, such as Fan Hun Dan.