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Miscellaneous Insect Medicines

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Cockroach
1. Moves the Blood, Clears Stasis:
-promotes Menstruation and abortion (Avicenna)
-Pain of the Uterus or Kidneys (Avicenna)
2. Promotes Urine:
-Dysuria, Edema (Unani, Europe, U.S.)
3. Resists Poison:
-useful against Poison Insects
-Shivering of Fevers (Avicenna)
Left: American Cockroach (Principal Household Insects of the United States, Howard, 1896)

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Praying Mantis Egg Case – Sang Piao Xiao
Neutral. Sweet, Salty
1. Strengthens the Kidneys
-Impotence; Kidney deficiency
2. Astringes the Kidneys:
-Enuresis, Bedwetting
-Urinary frequency, Nocturnal Emission, Spermatorrhea, Leukorrhea
DOSE: 4–9 grams in decoction
CAUTION: Yin deficient Heat; Damp-Heat in the bladder (UTI's)

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White Dead Silkworm – Bai Jiang Can
Neutral. Salty, Pungent.
1. Settles Wind, Stops Spasms:
-Childhood convulsions; Facial Paralysis
-Convulsions from Wind, or Wind-Phlegm-Heat
2. Clears Wind and Heat:
-Headache with red eyes; Sore Throat; Loss of Voice
-Itchy skin lesions
3. Clears Phlegm, Resolves Nodules:
-Scrofula and Nodes
DOSE: 3–9 grams in decoction; 1–1.5 grams in powder


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Cicada Cordyceps - Jin Chan Chong Cao

1. Clears Wind and Heat, Stops Spasms, Calms the Mind:
-childhood convulsions, Epilepsy from Fright
-Palpitations
2. Clears the Sight:
-good for superficial visual obstruction

NOTE: It is used similarly to Cicada Slough.

See also
Animal Materia Medica

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